Astronomy

Reviews and links to astronomy simulations and their implementation

• Review of many packages by Lee Sproats as part of an LTSN Departmental Visit
• CLEA - Use of "planetary motion" and "stellar spectra" in first year course at St Andrews.  1997 review in CPE of four CLEA packages (pdf). 1999 review in CPE (zipped) of radio astronomy and astrometry of asteroids.   CLEA website.
• CUPS - Astrophysics review from CPE.
• Nightfall - a Linux-based  interactive program which simulates properties of interacting binary stars.  Review by Robert Smith, Sussex, via LTSN.
  

Note: CPE is Computers in Physics Education

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