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Almanac 1.0
Abecedarical Systems
Almanac calculates the equatorial coordinates of the sun, the moon, and the planets. From these it calculates the times of rise, set, and meridian transit for each of these celestial bodies. Additionally, it can calculate the times for twilight

Astro-Mania 2.0
Sheppard Software
Astro-Mania is an educational game covering the Universe. It has eight levels and let's you choose what subject area you want to cover. Its great pictures and ease of use makes it not only educational but also fun.

C88 1.2
alcyone software
C88 is an informational tool for amateur astronomers. It provides detailed informations about the celestial sphere objects, visible with naked eyes and for the use of an eyepiece of a modest amateur telescope to observe deep sky objects.

Chinese Calendrics 6.77
Hermetic Systems
A program to convert between dates in various Chinese calendars and dates in the Gregorian and Julian calendars, and to find lunar new year's day and leap months for any year in the Chinese Calendar.

Click Clock 2.0.0
Michael Robinson
Animated weather radar & satellite, local temperature in tray, local weather, internet time sync, sun/moon rise, map, animated moon phase, planets, eclipse, equinox/solstice, meteors, dictionary, thesaurus, calculator, full year calendar, 27 holidays

CyberSky 3.3.1
Stephen Michael Schimpf
CyberSky is an exciting, entertaining, and educational astronomy program that transforms your personal computer into your personal planetarium. CyberSky provides an excellent way to learn about astronomy and to explore the wonders of the sky.

EarthWatch 4.01
ElanWare, Inc.
EarthWatch displays a graphical world clock with a dynamic map image of the world showing the day and night areas, a sundial, and an information panel featuring sunrise/sunset times and much more -- all in real-time or time-lapse animation.

euphOrbit 1.0
Marek Jablonski
euphOrbit version 1.0 is a simple tool designed to simulate the motions of planetary bodies in space. The primary design philosophy of this program was that it had to simulate asteroids speeding through our Solar System close to " true life " .

GrandTour 4.1
John D. Callahan
Accurate, flexible wireframe simulator for the Voyager and Giotto space missions, with animation capability. Developed at JPL for science/navigation, and filmed by the BBC/NOVA. Conveniently runs from any Windows/DOS.

Gravitorium Pro 1.0.15
Rightword Enterprises
The prime purpose of Gravitorium is to let you play with ideas about gravity and gravitational systems. Create an entirely new solar system from scratch!

Lunar Calendars and Eclipse Finder 5.67
Hermetic Systems
A program to search for eclipses (lunar, solar, total, annual and umbral), to calculate the phase of the Moon at any given date and time and to convert between dates in the Gregorian and Julian calendars and dates in various lunar calendars.

Orbit Xplorer 2.0
ottisoft.com
Educational orbit and gravitation simulator for high school, college and beginning university physics and astronomy. Easily create, run, print and save a simulation. Includes 29 premade simulations with activities page in html-format.

Planet's Orbits 1.7.0
alcyone software
Planet's Orbits (for Windows 98/ME/2000/XP) is an accurate digital orrery with a wealth of functionality. The program uses the DE404 ephemeris (accurate for dates between 2000 B.C. and 6000 AD) for the calculation of planetary (except Pluto).

StarStrider 2.7
FMJ-Software
StarStrider is a software planetarium that utilizes the latest in 3D-technology in order to show you not only the planets and satellites of our solar system, but also galaxies, nebulas, and hundreds of thousand of stars - in real-time 3D.

World Almanac 4.2.0
Douglas Software
The World Almanac displays solar and lunar data for every 30 minutes throughout the day in addition to the times of rise, set and twilight as well the lunar phase. Includes database of towns for Australasia(Aus/NZ), Canada. UK and USA.