Welcome to Astronomy Morsels!

Explore a collection of astronomy-related spreadsheets (called "morsels").

Access a variety of handy morsels covering topics such as Spacetime (special relativity), Lagrange points (points of equilibrium), telescope equations, moon phases, planetary positions, including satellites and Jupiter's Great Red Spot, Messier/Nebula/Caldwell/Herschel and star observations, eclipse cycles and the Sarox-Inex Panorama, some sundial designs, etc. Also, models of gear trains of astronomical clocks are analysed (e.g., Antikythera). 

All morsels are standalone spreadsheets, without any macros, there are no security issues. All morsels have been carefully reviewed, and calculation results have been compared with other applications. But, Astronomy Morsels expresses no warranty: use is at your own risk.

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Astronomy (Object Databases, updated!)

Deep Sky 500 Objects V1.2

Excel – 5.9 MB 889 downloads

Caldwell 109 Objects V1.2

Excel – 5.0 MB 743 downloads

Herschel 400 Objects V1.2

Excel – 1.6 MB 759 downloads

Messier 110 Objects V1.2

Excel – 2.0 MB 787 downloads

Nebulae 100 Objects V1.2

Excel – 1.9 MB 740 downloads

Monthly Highlights (CH, BE) V1.2

Excel – 1.9 MB 723 downloads

Dark Nebula V1.2

Excel – 3.7 MB 754 downloads

NEW! Top 100 Astrophotography Objects V1.0

Excel – 21.5 MB 660 downloads

Combined Database V1.0

Excel – 2.8 MB 680 downloads

Astronomy (Star Databases, updated!)

Multiple Star Systems V1.2

Excel – 1.8 MB 643 downloads

Triple Stars V1.2

Excel – 3.1 MB 624 downloads

Binary Stars V1.2

Excel – 1.6 MB 652 downloads

Visual Binary Stars V1.1

Excel – 2.2 MB 796 downloads

Brightest, Nearest Stars V1.2

Excel – 1.4 MB 649 downloads

Star Magnitudes V1.0

Excel – 669.0 KB 616 downloads

Star Data V1.0

Excel – 5.5 MB 680 downloads

Moon, Sun, Planets

Mercury Transits V1.0

Excel – 786.8 KB 685 downloads

Tides (Springs, Neads) V1.0

Excel – 1.1 MB 645 downloads

Venus Transits V1.0

Excel – 1.4 MB 624 downloads

Jupiter's Moons V1.1

Excel – 2.8 MB 689 downloads

Jupiter Great Red Spot V1.0

Excel – 1.1 MB 707 downloads

Time On Mars V1.0

Excel – 3.5 MB 613 downloads

Sun-Earth-Moon Model V1.0

Excel – 1.8 MB 821 downloads

Sun, Moon Position (full day) V1.1

Excel – 2.0 MB 720 downloads

Sun-Earth-Moon Distance V1.0

Excel – 2.5 MB 660 downloads

Sun Position V1.1

Excel – 963.5 KB 737 downloads

Moon Phase-Node Model V1.0

Excel – 1.8 MB 727 downloads

Moon Nodes V1.0

Excel – 980.6 KB 667 downloads

Moon Phases V1.1

Excel – 2.0 MB 861 downloads

Moon Position V1.0

Excel – 831.2 KB 684 downloads

Moon Illuminated Fraction V1.1

Excel – 1.6 MB 795 downloads

Satellite Orbit V1.0

Excel – 3.3 MB 718 downloads

Planet Orbits V1.1

Excel – 1.5 MB 798 downloads

Planet Fact Sheet V1.0

Excel – 461.9 KB 690 downloads

Ring of Saturn V1.0

Excel – 1.3 MB 735 downloads

NEW! Rise, Transit, Set Times V1.0

Excel – 1.2 MB 548 downloads

Astronomy (General)

Telescope Equations V1.0

Excel – 3.7 MB 781 downloads

Spacetime V1.0

Excel – 400.1 KB 641 downloads

Kepler's Laws V1.1

Excel – 1.2 MB 677 downloads

Equation of Time V1.0

Excel – 1.7 MB 647 downloads

H-R Diagram V1.0

Excel – 2.4 MB 738 downloads

Eastern Dates V1.0

Excel – 1.6 MB 615 downloads

Equinoxes, Solstices V1.1

Excel – 1.5 MB 543 downloads

Lagrange Points V1.0

Excel – 961.1 KB 619 downloads

Perihelion, Aphelion V1.0

Excel – 654.6 KB 624 downloads

Astronomical Clocks/Buildings

NEW! Antikythera Gear Train V1.1

Excel – 5.1 MB 534 downloads

Antikythera Pin-and-Slot V1.0

Excel – 1.7 MB 694 downloads

Eclipses Abacus V1.0

Excel – 6.1 MB 690 downloads

E. Eisinga Planetarium Gear Train V1.0

Excel – 2.3 MB 597 downloads

Astronomical Clock Prague V1.0

Excel – 820.7 KB 626 downloads

Gear Ratios V1.0

Excel – 11.3 MB 629 downloads

Eclipses

Eclipse Cycles V1.0

Excel – 4.7 MB 643 downloads

Eclipse Data V1.0

Excel – 8.2 MB 668 downloads

Saros-Inex Panorama V1.0

Excel – 1.9 MB 681 downloads

Sundials, Maya Solar System

Analemmatic Sundial V1.0

Excel – 3.3 MB 699 downloads

A Combined Sundial V1.0

Excel – 1.9 MB 610 downloads

Solar System Maya V1.0

Excel – 9.3 MB 603 downloads

Supporting Morsels

Coordinate Transformations V1.0

Excel – 1.0 MB 628 downloads

Utilities V1.1

Excel – 1.2 MB 756 downloads

Sun phases, Daylength V1.1

Excel – 750.7 KB 627 downloads

Prototypes, Experiments

Proto: Black Holes V0.1

Excel – 4.0 MB 595 downloads

Template V0.2

Excel – 1.1 MB 593 downloads

Proto: ΛCDM Model V0.1

Excel – 1.6 MB 584 downloads

Leftovers V1.0

Excel – 130.2 KB 640 downloads

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