Nightfall

Version: 0.4
Entered-date: 1998-12-23
Description: Nightfall is an interactive astronomy application for fun, education, and science. It can produce animated views and synthetic light curves of eclipsing binary stars, and determine the best-fit parameters for a given set of observational data. Comes with a user manual and a set of sample observational data.
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/science/astronomy/
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/science/astronomy//nightfall.lsm (2kB)
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/science/astronomy//nightfall-0.4.tar.gz (339kB)
Keywords: astronomy eclipsing binary stars lightcurves
Author: Rainer Wichmann (rwichman@lsw.uni-heidelberg.de)
http://www.lsw.uni-heidelberg.de/~rwichman/Nightfall.html
Platforms: Linux/Unix, (optional: GNUPLOT or PGPLOT, GTK+)
Copying-policy: GPL 2.0

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