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# 3. Online Tools

I know we said we would not start listing Web sites, but here are a few links to sites which offer fully operational tools running online that we feel are especially useful or interesting, from a browser on any platform.

## 3.1. Traditional Form Based Programs

- Sun and Moon Rise and Set calculator

- Web version of MICA

- JPL Ephemeris Generator

- Solar System Simulator

- Clear Sky Clock will show at a glance when we might expect clear and dark skies for one particular observing site.

- The Simbad astronomical database provides basic data, cross-identifications and bibliography for astronomical objects outside the solar system.

## 3.2. Java Applets

- GeoAstro Applet Collection by Juergen Giesen

- Aladin Interactive Sky Atlas

- Cluster simulator NEWS 2007 - WE CANNOT VERIFY THIS PROGRAM - DELETION SCHEDULED

- Sky Image Processor an astronomical image processing program which runs over the Web. Hosted at Virginia Tech.

- J-Track 3D - Satellite Tracking

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