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Package Name Pro. Am. Interface Connects to Online (e.g. VO) Data Displays or Manip. FITS Images Tiled Multi-Resolution All-Sky image Handling Displays
Telescope: instrument that makes distant objects appear magnified; Torquetum: medieval astronomical instrument; Triquetrum: ancient astronomical instrument; Volvelle: paper construct with rotating parts, may be considered a subclass of slide chart or movable book; Zenith telescope: type of telescope that points straight up
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Stellarium is a free and open-source planetarium, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version, available for Linux, Windows, and macOS. A port of Stellarium called Stellarium Mobile is available for Android and iOS. These have a limited functionality, lacking some features of the desktop version.
Astronomy Visualization Metadata (AVM) is a standard for tagging digital astronomical images stored in formats such as JPEG, GIF, PNG and TIFF. [1] The AVM standard extends the concept of Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) headers to include useful astronomical information about the subject of the image as well as the telescope used to take the image.
He left there in 1977 to become a freelance illustrator and author; to date he has nearly sixty book titles to his credit, and his illustrations have appeared on hundreds of book jackets, book interiors and in magazines such as National Geographic, Reader's Digest, Scientific American, [3] Smithsonian, Analog, Starlog, Air & Space, Astronomy ...
Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE, observatory code C51, Explorer 92 and MIDEX-6) was a NASA infrared astronomy space telescope in the Explorers Program launched in December 2009. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] WISE discovered thousands of minor planets and numerous star clusters .