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Questions about computer programs that assist modeling and observing the dynamics of astronomy.

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Is there an online planetarium where the observer is on another celestial body?

I know about in-the-sky.org and its online planetarium feature, but that's from the Earth's perspective. Is there a planetarium (preferably online but if not, that's fine) where the observer is on another celestial body, like the Moon or Mars?
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What are the most popular computer programming languages in observational astronomy?

I would like to work in the field of observational astronomy (not so much theoretical astronomy). I currently know two computer programming languages: C# and MATLAB. I have read that computer programming is absolutely essential to every astronomer,…
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SPH simulations

Are there any simulations that can be obtained that use smooth particle hydrodynamics and can be configured to include different initial conditions? I wish to simulate planetary collisions and their impact. I wish to exactly replicate the following…
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How to configure Celestia to work with a spherical mirror projection on a dome

I find hints around the web, e.g. http://www.cosmodome.net/mirrordome.php that Celestia can be projected on a dome using a spherical mirror projection configuration. The problem is that I can't find any documentation on how to configure Celestia to…
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Convert Stellarium video capture to 360 for youtube

I am wanting to capture video of Stellarium (I can already do this with CamStodio) and somehow convert this into a video usable for the YouTube 360 (or VR!) capability. Even if it can be converted into 180 and I need to add an image of the ground…
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Installing IRAF

Recently I asked this question on IRAF like software that can be run in a window but it seems it is not possible. So I installed window subsystem for linux. I followed these steps to install IRAF. Everything works very well till the step ./install.…
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Tools for simulation of theoretical astronomical problems?

I tried looking around for open source tools that would allow me to run simulations and build on top of the code with my own need(mainly mathematical simulations, but 3D visuals would be a bonus.), unfortunately I haven't really found many open…
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GPU-based astronomical software for MacOS/AMD/OpenCL environment

I notice that most astronomical software that uses GPUs to accelerate computation makes use of Nvidia's CUDA toolkit. Are there established software packages that, instead, can be used on a modern Mac with an AMD GPU and the OpenCL GPGPU…
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"Real time" Stellarium Scripting?

I'm getting into scripting in Stellarium, and it's fairly similar to the scripting language used in a real Planetarium I used to work in, which used DigitalSky2, if memory serves. In the Planetarium I was able to write code "in real time" as such -…
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Stellarium script for sunrise times affected by topography

I customised my own landscape with stellarium, created my own horizon with the polyline setting like horizon_Geneve.txt file. Manually, I can increase/decrease time to see when the sun's upper limb touches the horizon, so my question is: Is there a…
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Is there a MATLAB equivalent of PyEphem?

Many people on the Astronomy stack exchange use the PyEphem package for the Python programmimg language to perform astronomical computations. Are the underlying numerical routines (from XEphem) also available for MATLAB?
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Graphics packages for publishing

What are the most popular packages used to create graphs for astronomy journal papers? Looking at various journals, the styles of the graphs appear to be quite uniform but I can't identify the package(s) that create them.
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Astronomy as a profession for moderately good software engineer

I'm a software engineer (a moderately good one). I like programming, mathematics and I love everything about astronomy. What would be best way to go ahead?
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