This is an excellent program for anyone wanting
to learn more about how stars change as they age.
StarClock is now a staple in my astronomy
software list.
Dave Bruning, Astronomy
This short movie, based on StarClock 2.0, shows the evolution of a
five-solar-mass star.
StarClock 2.0 (precisely the file sclock20.zip, about 120k) is currently
available at the following sites:
This WWW page (Masaryk University,
Brno, Czech Republic).
SEDS
(Students for the Exploration and Development of Space, Arizona, USA)
SimTel,
the Coast to Coast Software Repository (tm) and its
numerous
mirror sites.
Short reviews of StarClock appeared in Sky & Telescope(Ver. 1.0, April 1996, p. 55) and Astronomy(Ver. 2.0, June 1996,
p. 94).
StarClock could have never been created if it were not for
the grid of
stellar
models computed by G. Schaller,D.
Schaerer,G. Meynet and A. Maeder
(Geneva Observatory) and published in
a form which called for writting the program. I am grateful to Nancy
R. Evans (York
University) and Mirek J. Plavec
(University of California, Los
Angeles) for providing me with the real stars data. My thanks go to
all users (mainly teachers of astronomy or physics) who shared their
experience with StarClock 1.0. Their responses
encouraged me to finish this second, much extended and hopefully
better version. I acknowledge help of Rudolf Novak, Jenik Hollan and
Jan Janca with the code. The online services of
CDS (Strasbourg,
France) proved to be quite useful. StarClock 2.0
was developed on computers of the
Department of
Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics (DTPA) of the Masaryk
University Brno, and the Nicholas Copernicus Observatory and
Planetarium Brno. I thank both the institutions and especially Jarek
Kucera (formerly DTPA) for hospitality.
This short movie, based on StarClock 2.0, shows the evolution of a
five-solar-mass star.
This WWW page (Masaryk University,
Brno, Czech Republic).
