When I first started college I studied Astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin. I ended up changing my major to radio and television at Arkansas State University but I still enjoy reading Sky and Telescope and Astronomy magazines. I still have a lot of astronomy books in my library and several of them have computer programs in them. Most of those programs were written in BASIC and I used them back in the 70s and 80s when I worked with AtariBASIC and GWBASIC. I recently decided to create Flutter Web applications out of those programs and updated them to more recent algorithms. I also tried to maintain the original functionality while improving the user interface. The listings below are what I have completed so far. I hope you are able to make use of them and enjoy using them as much as I enjoyed working with them.
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AstroLog -- 9/12/2026
A combined astronomy session planner and observation logbook. A combination of the Astronomy Logbook and the Astroplanner.
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Astronomy Logbook -- 9/3/2026
Astronomy Logbook allows you to record your Astronomical observations and save them to a database for future study.
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Astroplanner -- 7/30/2026
Astroplanner allows you to plan your Astronomical observations and save them for future use.
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Flutter port of Astropy -- 7/5/2026
Converts RA and Dec to Galactic coordiantes.
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Easter dates
Calculates the date of Easter for any year from 1900 to 2099.
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Flutter port of ECLIPS: A Lunar Eclipse Calculator - 7/26/2026
Calculates the timing and visibility of lunar eclipses.
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Julian Day Calculator
Calculates the Julian Day for any date.
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Julian Day Converter
Converts between Julian Day and Gregorian Calendar dates.
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Lunar Phases
Calculates the phases of the moon for any date.
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The Mars Program
Calculates Mars' angular diameter and predicts its next opposition.
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Flutter combination of the MERVE and MVENC Basic applications
Calculates Elongations, Phases, Angular Diameters, and Distances of Mercury and Venus, and Next Elongations.
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Flutter port of MERVE
Calculates Elongations, Phases, Angular Diameters, and Distances of Mercury and Venus, and Next Elongations.
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Flutter port of MVENC
Calculates Elongations, Phases, Angular Diameters, and Distances of Mercury and Venus, and Next Elongations.
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Orbit Calculator
Calculates ephemerides for comets and other objects.
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PRISE - Planitary Rise & Set
Find Mercury or Venus near the Sun.
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Perpetual Calendar
Calculates the day of the week for any date from 1900 to 2099.
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Precession Calculator -- 6/27/2026
Calculates the precession of the equinoxes for any date.
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Flutter port of PStar -- 7/6/2026
A port of the BASIC program Polaris Position calculator PStar
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Flutter port of RADEC -- 8/20/2026
A port of RADEC: A Planetary RA/DEC Position Calculator
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Flutter port of RADEM -- 7/23/2026
A port of RADEM: A Lunar RA/DEC Position Calculator
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SATLOC - Geosychronous Satellite Locator -- 9/14/2026
Locate satellites from any earth location.
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Star Search -- 8/16/2026
Search for stars and other celestial objects in the night sky
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Flutter port of Star Track -- 8/11/2026
A Flutter port of Star Track
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Flutter port of Sunfinder -- 7/27/2026
A Flutter port of Sunfinder
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Flutter port of TCalc -- 7/6/2026
A port of the Python Telescope calculator TCalc