Astronomy Calculators V1

[george7378]

Hello everyone,

I thought I'd make an official release thread for my calculator project. The current release includes the following calculators:

- Magnification

- Max/min useful magnifications

- F/Number

- Limiting magnitude (approximation)

- True field of view

- Dawes limit

- Exit pupil

- Light grasp

- Lunar feature resolution

- Absolute magnitude

- Distance converter (lightyears/parsecs)

- Orbital period

The release is downloaded as a setup installer, but the installer will not edit your system's inner workings at all - it just extracts the files and creates a few shortcuts. If you find any errors or have any suggestions, I would like to hear!

They are available for download at:

http://gkastro.a60.us/Astrocalcsetup.exe

Thanks. Here are some screens:

[mark7331]

What a brilliant toolset George. I think this will be invaluable to both new and old members.

Great work.

Mark

[george7378]

Thanks Mark - I would also say the same about the great RA/DEC converter you sent to me!

Also, the Sky at Night will include it on the February 2011 coverdisc next year - I am really pleased about that. Thanks to the editors, and Talitha and Pete Lawrence for pointing me in the right direction.

[Guest]

good job for this toolset george, it works on windows seven, i'll try the soft on my windows xp soon.

with wich programmation langage do you make this software(pascal, C,python)?

Arnaud

[george7378]

good job for this toolset george, it works on windows seven, i'll try the soft on my windows xp soon.

with wich programmation langage do you make this software(pascal, C,python)?

Arnaud

Thankyou Arnaud, and thanks for testing it. I used the C++ language to make them, and when everything was put together, it was about 700 lines of code (but each individual feature was only about 50).

[Trull]

have you tried xephem?

XEphem 3.7.4

[george7378]

No, I've never seen it. That looks a lot more complicated than mine!

[george7378]

Important: The URL has now changed to:

http://gkastro.0sites.org/Astrocalcsetup.exe