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Planet 8.1
Planet is an application in which your Macintosh computes the coordinates of the planets visible to the naked eye (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn), the sun and the moon more>> Planet is an application in which your Macintosh computes the coordinates of the planets visible to the naked eye (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn), the sun and the moon. The coordinates are given in different coordinate systems: the geocentric ecliptic and also the equatorial and horizontal systems of the observer. Further you will see the magnitude of the planets and the phase of the moon and also sidereal time, mean solar time and the equation of time. When a solar or lunar eclipse is possible you can also investigate the eclipse from any place on earth. You can study heliacal risings and settings of planets and stars and also conjunctions, planetary stations and occultations. A special option in the program allows you to check the visibility of the new and old moon crescent.Finally you can study the transits of Mercury and Venus.
System 7.0 or later.
Planets 2.0
Free Yahoo! widget that helps you see the solar system more>> Free Yahoo! widget that helps you see the solar system
Planets is a free Yahoo! widget that lets you see the whole solar system on your desktop, complete with the earths moon.
System requirements:
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Enhancements
- Added more planets, changed the engine to load an XML file (so now you can modify it), and improved performance.
RSS-Planet 1.3
RSS-Planet - Custom marker file generator for xplanet and OSXplanet more>>
By default, BBC News, Yahoo! News, CNN.com and the Washington Post are supported, but other feeds that point to articles with place names might work as well.
Note: The Python Imaging Library needs to be installed for favicon display to work. Circles are used by default if PIL is not found. To use the GUI, wxPython must be installed.
RSS-Planet implementation by Martin C. Doege after an idea by Nathan Eckenrode. Various tips/hints are available at the developers website.
Enhancements:
- RSS-Planet can now alternatively output HTML with popup captions.
- If the command line option --web is used, a page called rssplanet.html is generated in the web_path directory.
- Rendering of the background image no longer requires xplanet or OSXplanet in this mode, only the day and night images specified in renderplanet.py.
- Normally, these will be earth.jpg and night.jpg, which are available from from the xplanet/OSxplanet distribtution.
Planetary 1.0
Planetary is a collection of icons showing the 9 planets of our solar system. Theyre useful for buttons more>> Planetary is a collection of icons showing the 9 planets of our solar system. Theyre useful for buttons.
Mac OS X 10.0 or later
Conic Planet 1.2
Free and open source Earth image renderer more>> Free and open source Earth image renderer
Conic Planet is a CGI application which renders a photo-realistic real-time image of the Earth and other planets.
Conic Planet has support for Mercator, Mollweide, Azimuthal, Orthographic, and Rectangular projections. It also shows the current cloud covering.
System requirements:
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Enhancements:
- Added code for enhancment of contrast of the SSEC cloud image and smoothening of seam at 180 deg. longitude line in the SSEC cloud image.
- Added brightness and gamma-correction controls.
- Added support for greyscale (R=G=B) output.
Planet Discordia 1.0
Planet Discordia, a prodedurally generated planet more>>
Finally, the mesh is colored based on altitude relative to sea level.
C++ source code using OpenGL / GLUT is included.
The 4-World Planet 1.0.1
The 4-World Planet is a text-adventure game more>>
The storyline: You are an astronaut. You go on a solo mission to a planet that was recently discovered. But the planets gravity is stronger than you expected, so you are forced to perform a crash landing, damaging certain parts of your ship. You must explore the planet and find replacement parts, helping people and finding treasures along the way. You will periodically need to deal with things like getting hungry or thirsty. The game will warn you when you need to do something like eat or drink.
Enhancements:
- Added fancier characters (curly quotes, em-dashes, etc.)
- Fixed grammar issues involving plural nouns
- The 4-World Planet is now a Universal Binary.
TriVectus Planets 1.0b2
TriVectus Planets - Screensaver animates various planetary systems more>>
TriVectus Planets is a chaotic world. If you only let it run for 5 minutes, you wont see half of whats in there. Because its world is random, even we cant predict when youll see what. If you want to see a swarm of asteroids devastate a planetary system, it may take a minute or a half hour, but thats part of the fun!
Enhancements:
- Improved code to handle low video memory
- Optimized images to lower disk size.
ConverTable Planets 1.7
ConverTable Planets - Teaching tool for unit conversions and gravity more>>
Main features:
- Find out how much you would weigh on the Moon, Mars, and 24 other places in the solar system.
- View the planets and included moons in their true relative sizes!
- Learn how many Venusian (or Martian, Saturnian, etc.) years old you are!
- Planets included (the whole solar system, of course!): Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.
- Moons included: Earths Moon, Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Titan, Iapetus, Miranda, Umbriel, Titania, Oberon, Triton, and Charon.
- Several mass and weight units are available: kilograms, pounds, grams, milligrams, stones, troy ounces, slugs, newtons, metric tons, and metric carats.
- Brief discussion of the common "mass or weight" language confusion, and what exactly is a "year."
- French localized version available.
Enhancements:
- added "Year Conversions" function to compare year (orbital period) lengths on the planets.
- improved some planet and moon descriptions
- added planet and moon datasets which appear in the "Year Conversions" section
- changed to a primarily single-window interface.
Planets Screen Saver 1.2
Planets Screen Saver is such an impressive and pleasant screensaver in which many planets wander around screen, merge, explode. more>>
Planets Screen Saver 1.2 is such an impressive and pleasant screensaver in which many 'planets' wander around screen, merge, explode.
Requirments: Mac OS X 10.0 or higher
ConverTable Planets X 1.7
ConverTable Planets X is such a program which works great and has a friendly interface. more>>
Enhancements:
- Adds "Year Conversions" to compare lengths of years on various planets
- New planetary dataset display
- Expanded planet and moon descriptions
- Now primarily uses a single-window interface.
Planet Attacker 2009 20091014
Planet Attacker provides you a fascinating and attractive 3D flight action game whose purpose is to destroy all the enemy fighters and ground objects by flying your fighter. more>>
Planet Attacker 2009 20091014 provides you a fascinating and attractive 3D flight action game whose purpose is to destroy all the enemy fighters and ground objects by flying your fighter.
The objects in the game are imaginary space fighter (sort of), but there is an additional configuration called "USAF version" in which the fighters and ground objects look similar to the those actually used in military.
This game has originally been developed in 1991 for a Japanese PC called FM-TOWNS, manufactured by Fujitsu, which had 80386, 16MHz, and 2MB RAM. Not 2GB, 2MB. It even didn't have a floating-point processor. Therefore, the publisher had to cut down polygon count as much as possible, and the low polygon count gives a retro-game like appearance of this game.
Daily Planet Interactive Screensaver 1.0
DC Comics news delivered to your desktop. more>>
Features:
- Animated, "Times Square" view of Metropolis
- with rotating Daily Planet globe
- news copter
- day-to-night transitions

X-Plane 9.40b8
X-Plane is an interesting game that attracts a large number of gamers with its hardware-accelerated texture-mapped graphics, dynamic speech synthesis, full-planet terrain-mapped scenery, helicopters, and the widest range of airplanes available in flight simulation. more>> <<less
graphics, dynamic speech synthesis, full-planet terrain-mapped scenery, helicopters, and the widest range of airplanes available in flight simulation, X-Plane will keep your eyes poppingLicense:update/patch
