When I was in senior high school, I was vert interested in Astronomy, especially calculating and visualizing the Planets. I devoted in programming of the location of the Nine Planets. In those day I used PC-9801F2(NEC) and N88-DISK BASIC(86). Now is the time to remake those programs into Windows application.

I am planning to make programs such as follows:

• Calculate the nine planets' location and show how they are seen from space.
• Planisphere

These are sample outputs. This program is a 3D-MapViewer with KWlib-3D.

Planetary Images

The Venus	The Earth	The Moon
The Mars	The Jupiter

The orbit of the planets.
Calculate positions of planet of the Solar System and map stars of "Yale Bright Star Catalogue"

• Data Center
  • NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Astronomical Data Center (ADC)
  • National Astronomical Observatory of JAPAN, Astronomical Data Analysis Center (NAO/ADAC)
• Star Catalogs
  • Yale Bright Star Catalogue, 5th Revised Ed. (Hoffleit, Warren 1991) (ADC-5050)
    
  • 5th Fundamental Cat.,Part I. Basic Fundamental Stars FK5 Fricke+,1988 (ADC-1149A)
    
  • 5th Fundamental Catalogue, Part II. FK5 Extension FK5 Fricke,Schwan+,1991 (ADC-1175)
    
  • Third Reference Cat. of Bright Galaxies (RC3) (de Vaucouleurs+ 1991) (ADC-7155)
    
• Calculation of the position of the planets.
  
  • How to compute planetary positions by Paul Schlyter, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Planetary Orbital Elements by Solar System Dynamics Group of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
    
  • Precession & mean orbital elements
  • ELP2000-82 (orbital theory of Moon)
  • VSOP87 (orbital theories of planets)
  • Astronomy and numerical software source codes
• Space-related images and programs: A Space Library
• Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS)
• The Nine planets
• The Nine planets(Japanese)