Software
SalsaJ
SalsaJ is a free, student-friendly software developed specifically for the EU-HOU project. It allows students to display, analyze, and explore real astronomical images and other data in the same way that professional astronomers do, making the same kind of discoveries that lead to true excitement about science.
SalsaJ is multi-platform and multi-lingual. It has been translated into many languages: English, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Greek, Portuguese, Swedish, Northern Sami, Arabic, Chinese.
SalsaJ is based on the Java Virtual Machine software. Java is usually installed by default in all modern computers. If you are not sure if Java is installed, please follow these instructions from the Java developers.
SalsaJ version 2.3 (2012)
2018 patch
Download this patch to open .fz compressed fits files (fixed by Mark Bowman at LCO). Unzip it and copy the SalsaJ.jar file to to the folder where SalsaJ is installed on your machine, overwriting the original SalsaJ.jar file.
Image sets: download sample image sets here.
Trouble running SalsaJ after downloading it?
Read this troubleshooting guide.
SalsaJ by Anne-Laure Melchior – Univ. Pierre & Marie Curie, France is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Developed within the framework of the EU-HOU project and based on ImageJ source code.
Astrometrica
Astrometrica is an interactive software tool for scientific grade astrometric data reduction of CCD images.
The current version for the Windows 32-bit operating system family is the successor of a DOS based software that was used for astrometric data reduction of photographic films (1990), and later CCDs (1993).
Written by Herbert Raab of Austria and deployed by Patrick Miller around the world in the Asteroid Search Campaigns of The International Astronomical Search Collaboration (IASC).
Astrometrica is particularly effective at spotting, tracking and reporting moving objects in our solar system such as comets and asteroids.