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Paolo Amoroso on Nostr: When I bought the XEphem ephemeris and planetarium program in the 1990s it was the ...

When I bought the XEphem ephemeris and planetarium program in the 1990s it was the first astronomy software I used on Linux.

Now available as open source, it is still as advanced as back in the day with features few similar programs have. With its Motif user interface frozen in time and now turned retro, here is XEphem on my Linux Mint box where it still builds and runs fine. Almost permacomputing.

https://xephem.github.io/XEphem/Site/xephem.html

#astronomy #planetarium #linux