Astrotour Toolset

Packages in this section include:

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• Solar: Solar System Simulator
• Celestia: Advanced Solar System Simulator
• Eros: 3D Model of the Eros asteroid
• Asteroids: The locations of asteroids and asteroid groups within the Solar System. This is a snapshot taken in February 2002.
• Earth & Moon
• Mars
• Terrestrials/Jovians: Relative sizes and orientations of the planets of the Solar System.
• Space Probes: 3D images of space probes

• SOHO Sun: Real stereo image of the Sun showing active regions
• Magnetic Field: The magnetic field of the Earth. Note how the magnetic poles are offset from the rotation axis
• Eclipse: Eclipse is used to explain solar and lunar eclipses. This package can demonstrate the difference between Total, Annular and Partial eclipses, with many configurable options.
• Orbits: Orbits of Earth & Moon around the Sun. It also shows the rotation axes of each object.
• Phases: Phases of the Moon

• Sojourner: 3D images from Mars Sojourner
• Elysium7: The Elysium7 movie
• Terraform: 3D images of terraformed Mars
• Spirit Panoramic: Panoramic images from the Mars Spirit Rover
• Spirit Images: Assorted 3D images from the Mars Spirit Rover

• Scale: A collection of 3D images to explain the scale terminology of objects in space.
• Spectrum: Emission/Absorption spectra and Doppler shifts
• System: The three known planets orbiting Upsilon Andromeda
• Discoveries: Key events in extra-solar planet discoveries
• Surface: Animated rendering of the surface of an extra-solar planet
• Masses: Different views of Equal Mass, Gas Giant & Low Mass binary star systems

• Pulsars
• Hipparcos: This plot shows the approximate location of the Hipparcos dataset within the context of a spiral galaxy similar to our Milky Way.
• Globulars: The location of globular clusters in a mock-up of the Milky Way.
• Accretion Disk: This animation is from a simulation of the accretion disk in Hercules X-1.
• Spectra: The spectra of 5 different types of stars:
• Pano: A panoramic view of the night sky

• Pulsar Interactive: This animation shows a simple model of basic pulsar components
• Companion: This animation represents the binary pulsar PSR J0437-4715 and its white dwarf companion
• Eclipsing: This animation shows the famous binary pulsar PSR J2051-0827
• Binary Pulsar: This animation shows two pulsars orbiting each other. It represents the famous "double pulsar" system PSR J0737-3039A/B
• Position (Swinburne): The locations of pulsars discovered on the Swinburne supercomputer, placed onto a mock-up of the Milky Way.
• Position (Galaxy): The location of known pulsars in Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds
• Pulsar Animation: This is a short animated movie of a pulsar.

• Globulars: The location of globular clusters in a mock-up of the Milky Way.
• Disrupting Dwarf: A minor merger between a spiral galaxy and a dwarf galaxy
• Interacting: SPH simulation of an interaction between spiral galaxies of similar size
• Local Group: The distribution of the Local Group of galaxies within 1 and 10 million light years of the Milky Way.
• LMC/SMC: SPH simulation of the formation of the Magellanic Stream.
• Spectra: Spectra of spiral and elliptical galaxies
• Galaxy Model: OpenGL model of a spiral galaxy showing arm structure
• Formation: High resolution Smooth Particle Hydrodynamic (SPH) simulation of spiral galaxy formation.
• Groups: 2D images of galaxy groups (NASA/HST/AAO)
• Types: 2D images of galaxies (NASA/HST/AAO).
• Mergers: 2D images of galaxy mergers (NASA/HST).

• Static: The final result of an N-body simulation to grow large-scale structures from an initially homogeneous universe laced with density perturbations
• Dynamic: N-body simulation of large-scale structure formation within a 100 megaparsec box
• Interacting: SPH simulation of an interaction between spiral galaxies of similar size
• 2dF: The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey dataset
• Tully1: Tully dataset of galaxy positions in the local Universe
• Tully2: A volume rendered version of the Tully dataset, showing the positions of galaxies in the local Universe
• 6dF: An animation of the early results from the 6dF galaxy survey
• 3dF: A fly-through of the 2dF dataset

• Lofar: Fly into Earth and over LOFAR
• SKA: Luneberg Lens SKA concept
• Parkes1: 3D photographs of Parkes Observatory (John Sarkissian)
• Parkes2: 3D photographs of Parkes Observatory (Swinburne)
• Space Probes: 3D images of space probes