Nightfall Nightfall is an interactive astronomy application for generating animated views of eclipsing binary stars, computing synthetic lightcurves and determining best-fit parameters for observational data. Comes with a user manual and some sample observational data.

Current Version:   0.17 License Type:   GPL

Home Site: http://www.lsw.uni-heidelberg.de/~rwichman/Nightfall.html Source Code Availability:   Yes Available Binary Packages: Debian Package:   No RedHat RPM Package:   No Other Packages:   No Targeted Platforms: Linux/ix86, Unix Software/Hardware Requirements: Gtk+, either Gnuplot or PGPLOT

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