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World Time 6.X
Program entirely devoted to time counting. Displays a configurable number of clocks with current time in selected locations worldwide (database including thousands of cities and respective time zones and daylight saving time rules); plots a world map (allowing to zoom in and out and to choose among three types of projection) with the progression of the sunlit face of the Earth and other utilities; permits automatic synchronisation of the computer's internal clock with atomic clock servers, through internet; shows a table of astronomical ephemerides (Sun, Moon, day length etc...); includes several tools to make time calculations easy (days, hours and seconds since or until a particular event, time zone discrepancies etc...); offers a chronograph; sounds chimes on the hour and enables alarms.
Useful, educational and fun to use.
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Freeware; Windows 95 and above; 2.3 MB.
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Astronomer's Digital Clock (ADC)
Great tool, geared to time counting, with a great set of features: «Date is displayed in scientific format for local date
UTC date and Julian Date for those AAVSO observations. Time is displayed in local, UTC, Greenwich Sidereal (GST)
and Local Sidereal (LST) formats. ADC also includes three alarm clocks: LST, local time and UTC;
a SPLENDID stop watch function available for timing events such as an eclipse or astrophotography.
Finally an Elapsed Time Calculator is available; copy times to the clipboard and they will be available to paste into your favorite word processor or
publishing software for your observers log.»
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Freeware; Windows 95 and above 2.8 MB.
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Soho screensaver
Places almost real time images of the Sun in your desktop by self-updating on line. As most screensavers, it allows you to choose among several transition styles.
It creates background images as well. See a screenshot.
Freeware; Windows 95 and above; 1.3 MB.
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Xearth 1
Places a shaded image of the Earth on your desktop (notice that this is not a screensaver - it acts as a background) and signals the location of most recent earthquakes according to their magnitude - to do so the program self-updates on line.
Allows several configuration options; for instance, choosing between orthographic and mercator projections; choosing the location where to centre the animation etc...
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Freeware; Windows 95 and above; 170 KB.
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Craters screensaver
Screensaver which simulates cratering of initially flat terrain, obeying the same principles observed, for instance, on the surface of the Moon. Suggestive subject for amateur astronomer's desktops. Very small file too.
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Freeware; Windows 95 and above; 27 KB.
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MoonIcon 2
Places up to tree icons representing the status of the Moon, Mars and the Earth on the toolbar of Windows. Clicking one of them gives you access to a box with detailed ephemeris of the Moon, Sun, Mars, Earth (including the current year in 12 calendars) and Solar System (orrey). Also provided are large graphics with the phases of the Moon and Mars and the current sunlit side of the Earth.
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Shareware, without restrictions; Windows 95 and above; 477 KB.
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Heavens Above / GSOC
Get here the geographical coordinates for your location; required to accurately configure the programs.
Very extensive database; until the very small village level.
Heavens Above - geographical coordinates
BraZip
The best program ever to deal with compressed files (ZIP extension and all others). If you are still using WinZip you have no idea of what your are missing. Available both in English and Portuguese.
Shareware; Windows 95 and above.
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Star Downloader
Essential program to manage downloads. Multiple language support.
Freeware, Windows 95 and above.
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