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- Deepsky 99 - Software for Observers - [shareware - Win95/98/NT] Deepsky 99 solves an important need for amateur and professional observers. The software allows the user to plan a productive observing session and record what was observed quickly and easily.
- NGCView - [commercial, demo available - Win95/98/NT] Astronomical Observation Suite - Astronomical observation and logging software.
- C88 - an informational tool for amateur astronomers - C88 provides detailed information about the celestial sphere objects, visible with naked eyes and for the use of an eyepiece of a modest amateur telescope to observe deep sky objects.
- Automated Variable Star Observing - [freeware - Linux] Command-line program to automate reduction of variable star CCD images.
- Moon Tool - [Windows] A desktop application that displays the times of the various phases of the moon and a picture of the current phase of the moon.
- Starchart - Star mapping software - [opensource - POSIX] There is a sky. There are things in the sky. This program draws maps of things in the sky.
- LunarPhase - [commercial, demo available - Win95/98/NT] A comprehensive tool for displaying a variety of information on the Moon and aspects of its behaviour.
- Multiyear Interactive Computer Almanac - [commercial - DOS, Macintosh] A software system that provides high-precision astronomical data in tabular form for a wide variety of objects; it calculates much of the information tabulated in the benchmark annual publication, The Astronomical Almanac, but it goes beyond traditional almanacs by enabling you to calculate data for specified locations at specified times within a fifteen year interval (1990-2005).
- Calendar software - Windows program which creates sundials and calendars, see the dates and names of the year's moons, and calculate Easter.
- SkySight - [commercial, Win/Mac] CCD camera control and image processing, includes SkyChart III.
Wikipedia Articles
- California Public Utilities Commission - The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC; also often commonly referred to as simply the PUC) is a state Public Utilities Commission] which regulates privately-owned [[Public utility|utilities in the state of California, including electric power, telecommunications, natural gas, water and transportation companies. In addition, the commission regulates household goods movers and rail crossing safety.
- Expectation utilities - A qualification introduced by Bentham, to distinguish between two different types of utilities, or, rather, sources of utility (for utility, being identical to pleasure, remains always qualitatively the same). Expectation utilities are future-regarding, and thus imply desires and beliefs; "natural" utilities are not.
- Norton Utilities - The Norton Utilities releases were collections of software utilities. Peter Norton published the first version for DOS, The Norton Utilities, Release 1, ca 1981.
- British Columbia Utilities Commission - The British Columbia Utilities Commission (BCUC) is an agency of the government of the Province of British Columbia responsible for regulating rates and standards of service quality of various energy utilities and of the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC), a crown corporation responsible for insuring vehicles and operators in the province.
- Toolkits for User Innovation - Toolkits for user innovation (the process) is an innovation process in which the user itself does part of the innovation within a set environment. The process was formalized by Eric von Hippel in the article PERSPECTIVE: User toolkits for innovation and it is based on his belief in innovation made by lead users.