Software Applications

Astronomy Applications

The Solar Ephemeris application calculates and displays information such as central meridian latitude and longitude, P-Angle, right ascension, declination, semi-diameter, ecliptic longitude, and geocentric distance. It utilizes Sun MicroSystems Java Web Start technology to simply installation and use. Information on how to use the application is available. The application currently is free for use without charge during development.

Micellaneous Applications

The XSLT Editor is a tool to open, display, and edit XML and XSLT files from the local file system or from the web. The tool may used to make quick changes and quickly check output to text, html, or xml file. The application currently is in Alpha release and is available without charge, under BSD-style license. Download the standalone "jar" file by moving your cursor over one of the following links and then clicking the right mouse button.

Download XsltEditor.jar (41 K-bytes)
Download xslteditor-src-1.1.zip (34.2 K-bytes)

Java Version 1.4 must be installed on your platform (available from Sun Microsystems). The XsltEditor may be executed as follows:
java -jar XsltEditor.jar
(assuming that you are in the same directory as the downloaded jar file and java is in your command path).

A tutorial and examples of how to use the tool is available under the articles tab.