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	JPL Planetary and Lunar Ephemerides - http://www.willbell.com/software/jpl.htm [commercial - multiplatform] This CD contains three Jet Propulsion Laboratory Planetary and Lunar Ephemerides along with a toolbox of FORTRAN subroutines that allow the user to obtain the coordinates of the Sun, Moon, and nine major planets.
	Multiyear Interactive Computer Almanac - http://www.willbell.com/almanacs/almanac_mica.htm [commercial - DOS, Macintosh] A software system that provides high-precision astronomical data in tabular form for a wide variety of objects; it calculates much of the information tabulated in the benchmark annual publication, The Astronomical Almanac, but it goes beyond traditional almanacs by enabling you to calculate data for specified locations at specified times within a fifteen year interval (1990-2005).
	STD Aurora Monitor Software - http://solar.spacew.com/aurora/ [commercial - Win95/98/NT/2000] Advanced auroral activity monitoring software.
	Deepsky 99 - Software for Observers - http://www.deepsky2000.com/ [shareware - Win95/98/NT] Deepsky 99 solves an important need for amateur and professional observers. The software allows the user to plan a productive observing session and record what was observed quickly and easily.
	GeoAstro Applet Collection - http://www.jgiesen.de/GeoAstro/GeoAstro.htm [commercial and freeware - multiplatform] Interactive Java applets display the position, daily and annual path of the sun and the moon, for any time and location.

	http://www.rhodesmill.org/pyephem/ - http://www.rhodesmill.org/pyephem/ [open source - multiplatform] A module for performing astronomical computations using the Python scripting language.
	Calendar software - http://www.blibbleblobble.co.uk/Downloads/Calendar/ Windows program which creates sundials and calendars, see the dates and names of the year's moons, and calculate Easter.
	StarTrak - http://www.startrak.co.uk/ Freeware for handheld computers to help find and track objects of the night sky.
	Epoch_2000 Temporal Epoch Calculator - http://www.jqjacobs.net/astro/epoch_2000.html Excel spreadsheet calculates temporal variation in astronomic constants, obliquity of the ecliptic, and illumination angles at any specified latitude. You need only input a date or the latitude.
	http://www.rainman-soft.com/ - http://www.rainman-soft.com/ [commercial, demo available - Win95/98/NT] Astronomical Observation Suite - Astronomical observation and logging software.

	SkySight - http://www.southernstars.com/skysight/index.html [commercial, Win/Mac] CCD camera control and image processing, includes SkyChart III.
	LunarPhase - http://indigo.ie/~gnugent/LunarPhase [commercial, demo available - Win95/98/NT] A tool for displaying a variety of information on the Moon and aspects of its behaviour.
	Starchart - Star mapping software - http://starchart.sourceforge.net/ [opensource - POSIX] There is a sky. There are things in the sky. This program draws maps of things in the sky.
	Automated Variable Star Observing - http://astro.corlan.net/avsomat [freeware - Linux] Command-line program to automate reduction of variable star CCD images.
	SBIG Linux Kernel/Library Module - http://www.geocities.com/jan_soldan/ This page contains Linux Kernel/Library Module for SBIG CCD Cameras

	Moon Tool - http://www.fourmilab.ch/moontoolw/ [Windows] A desktop application that displays the times of the various phases of the moon and a picture of the current phase of the moon.
	Moonclock - http://balder.prohosting.com/stouch/MOONCLOCK.html [shareware - MacOS] Real-time graphical representation of the lunar visual aspect for any time/date/location. Elongation, PA bright limb, RA, DEC, percent illuminated, alt/az, heliocentric lat/long, distance, and radius.

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