Eclipse and Astronomy Software

Adapted from Appendix D - Totality - Eclipses of the Sun

Below is a brief list of astronomical software publishers offering programs which can perform some level of eclipse prediction. All programs are DOS compatible unless otherwise noted.

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Commercial Software

Dance of the Planets (Macintosh & DOS)
ARC Science Simulations, P.O. Box 1955, Loveland, CO 80539
phone: 970-663-3223; e-mail: arcmail@arcinc.com
internet: www.arcscience.com
Voyager II (Macintosh & Windows95)
Carina Software, 12919 Alcosta Blvd., Suite 7, San Ramon, CA 94583
phone: 510-355-1266; fax: 510-355-1268; e-mail: support@carinasoft.com
internet: www.carinasoft.com
CEB Metasystems Inc.
1200 Lawrence Dr., #175, Newbury Park, CA 91320
phone: 800-232-7830; fax: 805-498-5987
internet: www.cebs.com
Expert Software, 800 Douglas Rd., North Tower, Suite 750, Coral Gables, FL 33134
phone: 305-567-9990; fax: 305-443-0786
internet: www.expertsoftware.com
Red Shift 3 (Macintosh & Windows95)
Piranha Interactive Publishing, Inc., 1839 W. Drake, Suite B, Tempe, AZ 85283
e-mail: redshift@maris.com
internet: www.piranhainteractive.com
Personal MicroCosms, 8547 E. Arapahoe Road, Suite J-147, Greenwood Village, CO 80112
phone: 303-753-3268
internet: www.PersonalMicroCosms.com/
Pickering Anomalies IBM, PO Box 1214, Belmont, CA 94002;
e-mail: jim@anomalies.com
internet: www.anomalies.com
The Guide 6.0 (Windows95)
Project Pluto, 168 Ridge Rd., Bowdoinham, ME 04008
phone: 207-666-5750; e-mail: b.gray2@genie.geis.com
Starry Night Deluxe 2 (Macintosh & Windows95)
Sienna Software, Suite 303, 411 Richmond St. E., Toronto, ON M5A 3S5, CANADA
phone: 416-410-0259; fax: 416-410-0359; e-mail: contact@siennasoft.com
internet: www.siennasoft.com
The Sky (Macintosh & Windows95)
Software Bisque, 912 12th Street, Suite A, Golden, CO 80401
phone: 303-278-4478; fax: 303-279-1180; e-mail: smb@bisque.com
internet: bisque.com/thesky
Sun Tracker Plus, Total Eclipse, Eclipse Complete (DOS & Windows95)
Zephyr Services, 1900 Murray Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15217
phone: 800-533-6666; fax: 412-422-9930; e-mail: mail@zephyrs.com
internet: www.zephyrs.com

Shareware & Freeware

Solar & Lunar Eclipse Simulator (DOS)
internet: www.astronomy.ch/
Solar 1.4 (DOS)
Matthew M. Merrill, 8927 Virginia Ave. Apt. B, South Gate, CA 90280
phone: 213-567-1088
Eclipse v5.01 (DOS)
Don Nicholson, 2124 Linda Flora Dr., Los Angeles, CA 90077
phone: 310-476-4413
Planetarium with Lunar Eclipse Simulator (DOS)
Christian Nuesch, 18048 W Annes Cir # 203, Canyon Country, CA 91387
e-mail: info@astronomy.ch
Astro Lab 2 (32-bit DOS shareware)
Bob Denton, GE Capital IT Solutions, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
phone: +61-3-9541-5751; fax: +61-3-9544-6295; e-mail: Bob.Denton@computer.org
Emapwin (Windows95)
Shinobu Takesako, JAPAN (Solar Eclipse maps from 3000BC to 4000AD)
e-mail: takesako@mrj.biglobe.ne.jp
internet: www2c.biglobe.ne.jp/~takesako/cal/emapwineng.htm

Software Reviews

John Mosley's Astro Software Revue
internet: www.skypub.com/software/mosley.html

Book for Writing Eclipse Software

Jean Meeus: Elements of Solar Eclipses: 1951-2200 (1989) Detailed explanation, equations, and examples of how to predict solar eclipses. Published by Willmann-Bell, Inc., P.O. Box 35025, Richmond, VA 23235
phone: 804-320-7016; fax: 804-272-5920
internet: www.willbell.com

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