Abstract:
An assortment of astronomy-related tool applications and supporting libraries has been developed for the Solar Journey project. Tools are for both scientific and educational purposes; Libraries that can be utilized to develop astronomy visualization applications.Selected demos and companion documentations can be downloaded from this site. We also provide source code and compilation scripts or VC project files for cross-platform porting and customization.
This version (30 May, 2006) of the Solar Journey software is a beta-release version. Some documentation may be incomplete. The Solar Journey software is not intended to be used for navigational or telescope guiding purposes.
Software Packages Include: 1. Earthday: Earth-centered visualization tool for real-time satellite data and planetary trajectories. 2. Starview: Utility for visualizing very large-scale astronomical data from solar system to local galaxy groups 3. SkyAlign: Accurate interactive alignment of images, photographs and 3D gas cloud models against sky coordinates 4. DistEdTool: Tool for the construction and verification of models representing spectrally absorbing and emitting gas cloud between the Earth and nearby stars. [DistEdTool software is not included in the 053006 release.]
The Solar Journey software is not intended to be used for navigation or telescope guiding purposes.
The INDEX file for the Solar Journey software package is named "software-list.html".
Executable files are provided for WindowsXP, Linux, SGI, MacOSX, and SUN/Solaris platforms. However, limited testing of the software on MacOSX and SUN/Solaris platforms has been performed.