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

If you have any corrections, additions or updates, please email them to MrEclipse .

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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