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Solar Viewer 1.0
Free Yahoo! NASA widget for your Mac more>> Free Yahoo! NASA widget for your Mac
Solar Viewer is a free Yahoo! widget that features NASAs Solar Viewer that allows you to see todays images of the Sun on your desktop. These near realtime images come from NASA/ESAs SOHO mission, NASA TRACE mission, and the Big Bear Observatory.
System requirements:
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Enhancements
- The Solar Viewer is version 1.0. It has been tested on both the Mac and PC platform.
License:Freeware
Solar Winds 10.2
Solar Winds is a port of the Windows OpenGL screensaver made by Terence M. Welsh more>>
Solar Winds 10.2 is free and useful software that you can redistribute and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
Solar Winds is a port of the Windows OpenGL screensaver made by Terence M. Welsh.
Enhancements:
- Support for Mac OS X 10.6. If you need to run this screen saver on Mac OS X 10.3 or earlier use the 10.1.1 version.

Solar System Icons 1
13 solar system icons inspired by objects in the Milky Way. more>>
13 solar system icons inspired by objects in the Milky Way. Contains the Sun, Moon, 8 planets, and 3 dwarf planets. Sized 512x512 for Leopard and above.
Exploring the Solar System 5.1
Use the science instruments from the Hubble Space Telescope to explore our solar system! more>>
This core curriculum topic is enhanced with space science math exercises. It has been reviewed and recommended by Sky & Telescope and Astronomy Now as a tutorial for young astronomers.

Solar Eclipse Calculator 1.0.6
This is used to compute the local circumstances of any solar eclipse from 1970 to 2099. more>>
Solar Eclipse Calculator 1.0.6 is an excellent widget designed for Mac OS users. It is actually used to compute the local circumstances of any solar eclipse from 1970 to 2099. It is localized in English, French and Chinese.
In order to use it first select an eclipse from the top popup menu, then enter the latitude and longitude coordinates and altitude of your observation location before clicking on the "Calculate Eclipse Circumstances" button. Times are given in Universal Time (UT), but you can select the time zone to have the local time.
The world map at the bottom right will show your location as a red cross and the links at the bottom left will let you access interactive Google Maps or Google Earth files of the eclipse.
Enhancements:
- Automatic check for update.
Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or later
Solar System Simulator Educational 1.5
Solar System Simulator Educational - Simulate astronomical phenomena more>>
While traveling across time between the past, present, and future, you can move freely to any cosmic location in space or any celestial body in the solar system and experience the various astronomical phenomena that take place in the solar system.
The menu list will allow easy selection of various astronomical phenomena. The operation panel will allow you to perform operations and settings freely so that you can enjoy your own special voyage through the solar system.
Enhancements:
- High resolution textures for Mid/High quality settings
- Some small bugs fixed.
Solar Eclipse Circumstances Calculator 1.0.2
Solar Eclipse Circumstances Calculator - Computes the local circumstances of all solar eclipses from 1970 to 2039 more>>
Plus give access to Interactive Google Maps and Google Earth files for those eclipses.
Localized in English and French.
Enhancements:
- Minor corrections.

Solscape 1.2.1
Solscape brings you a useful Solar Data Browser application that grabs real time, up to the minute images of the Sun in multiple light wavelengths. more>>
Solscape 1.2.1 brings you a useful "Solar Data Browser" application that grabs real time, up to the minute images of the Sun in multiple light wavelengths. Solscape also monitors current solar flare, geomagnetic, and Aurora activity, providing current Aurora Borealis information and warnings for your location, along with real time Aurora images when available. Solscape gets all of its information via the Internet and compiles it in a single, easy to use application. You can save and archive the data that Solscape collects for later use, and you can tell Solscape to automatically grab the data when you want.
Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.4.x or higher, internet connection.
Solscape X 2.4.2
Solscape X - Find Solar and Geomagnetic Data on websites more>>
Solscape also monitors current Solar flare activity, Earth view satellite images, Solar geomagnetic activity, and Aurora activity.
Solscape gets all of its information via the Internet and compiles it in a single, easy to use application. You can save and archive the data that Solscape collects for later use, and you can tell Solscape to automatically grab the data when you want.
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
Tri Peaks Solitaire 1.0
A great card game that can be played from your dashboard. more>>
AstroGrav is an astronomy software program that allows you to simulate how astronomical objects move and interact under the force of gravity. It features superb interactive 3D graphics which allow you to move around within a many-body astronomical system, while watching how it evolves with the passage of time. A wide variety of sample files are provided, including Solar System, space mission, and abstract systems, and these enable you to experiment with the astronomy software without having to enter your own data. The comprehensive editing facilities allow you to either create your own astronomical systems, or to modify existing ones, and provide you with an almost endless scope for experimentation and investigation. AstroGrav calculates how astronomical objects move according to Newtons Law of Gravitation, and displays the results as they are calculated so that you can watch the system evolve as in a movie. AstroGrav is very accurate, dynamically calculates orbits as a system evolves, deals correctly with object collisions, and can cope simultaneously with objects on many different timescales. AstroGrav is available for both Mac and Windows, comes complete with a tutorial and full documentation, and you can download a fully functional 15 day trial version for evaluation.
System Requirements: 500 MHz PowerPC G3 processor, Mac OS X 10.2 minimum, 128 MB RAM, 50 MB disk space
System Requirements: Improved the Edit / Find... command. Added the View / Show / Data command. Corrected a fault that could cause valid .ast files to be rejected. Added recent updates to the Solar System sample simulations and changed their start date to 01/01/2009. Various minor bug fixes and improvements.
<<lessSkyORB VR 1.8.2
SkyORB VR is created to be a versatile tool which works as a 3D planetarium, star gazing and epheremis on the base of V3X.net engine. more>>
SkyORB VR 1.8.2 is created to be a versatile tool which works as a 3D planetarium, star gazing and epheremis on the base of V3X.net engine. It features a modern 3D interface, search engine, a large catalog of stars, planets, moons and updatable comets and asteroids database, and let you choose see the actual sky from any point on Earth or from any planet from the solar system.
see the actual sky from any point on Earth or from any planet from the solar system. Enhancements: HDR configuration. Graphical compass in local view. Improvements in the OpenGL renderer. RequirementsSWAN 1.0
SWAN - Displays images, plots, etc. of both observational data as well as model simulation data more>> SWAN - Displays images, plots, etc. of both observational data as well as model simulation data
The NASA Space Weather Laboratory SWAN (Space Weather Awareness at NASA) Widget displays images, plots, etc. of both observational data as well as model simulation data.
Model Simulation Data is derived from real time simulations at the Community Coordinated Modeling Center at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. The models are provided by the research community.
The NASA Space Weather Laboratory SWAN Widget can display real time plots for the following regions by selecting the corresponding button:
- Solar
- Heliosphere
- Magnetosphere
- Ionosphere
There is also a "Media" button that will display content for a selected event or other relevant Space Weather news.
The loop button allows the user to switch between cycling through the available plots or displaying a single plot. A green indicator light activates whenever the cycle/loop mode is on.
The Backside of the Widget allows the user to select the loop interval - either 5,10, or 30 seconds.
System requirements:
- Internet Connection
Sun Spotter 2.3
Sun Spotter is a simple tool for grabbing the latest white-light image of the Sun, taken from the SOHO web site more>>
The image corresponds to the sort of view you would see using a telescope equipped with a standard solar filter.
Some brief notes are included to explain what it is youre looking at.
Intended for amateur astronomers and teachers/students interested in the Sun.
ColourWorks 1.0
This download is a collection of 20 free plug-in filters for use with Adobe Photoshop and other compatible applications such as PaintShop Pro more>>
ColourWorks 1.0 brings you an effective editor tool which is a collection of 20 free plug-in filters for use with Adobe Photoshop and other compatible applications such as PaintShop Pro. Use these plug-ins to extend the abilities of your image editor beyond the standard functions. The effects in this pack provide various methods for modifying colors in your photographic images. Add bleaching effects, thematic coloration (such as 'heat' or 'solar'), and invert the color palette.