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 883 downloads

Caldwell 109 Objects V1.2

Excel – 5.0 MB 739 downloads

Herschel 400 Objects V1.2

Excel – 1.6 MB 755 downloads

Messier 110 Objects V1.2

Excel – 2.0 MB 782 downloads

Nebulae 100 Objects V1.2

Excel – 1.9 MB 734 downloads

Monthly Highlights (CH, BE) V1.2

Excel – 1.9 MB 718 downloads

Dark Nebula V1.2

Excel – 3.7 MB 747 downloads

NEW! Top 100 Astrophotography Objects V1.0

Excel – 21.5 MB 657 downloads

Combined Database V1.0

Excel – 2.8 MB 677 downloads

Astronomy (Star Databases, updated!)

Multiple Star Systems V1.2

Excel – 1.8 MB 637 downloads

Triple Stars V1.2

Excel – 3.1 MB 620 downloads

Binary Stars V1.2

Excel – 1.6 MB 650 downloads

Visual Binary Stars V1.1

Excel – 2.2 MB 791 downloads

Brightest, Nearest Stars V1.2

Excel – 1.4 MB 644 downloads

Star Magnitudes V1.0

Excel – 669.0 KB 608 downloads

Star Data V1.0

Excel – 5.5 MB 674 downloads

Moon, Sun, Planets

Mercury Transits V1.0

Excel – 786.8 KB 681 downloads

Tides (Springs, Neads) V1.0

Excel – 1.1 MB 639 downloads

Venus Transits V1.0

Excel – 1.4 MB 617 downloads

Jupiter's Moons V1.1

Excel – 2.8 MB 685 downloads

Jupiter Great Red Spot V1.0

Excel – 1.1 MB 703 downloads

Time On Mars V1.0

Excel – 3.5 MB 606 downloads

Sun-Earth-Moon Model V1.0

Excel – 1.8 MB 812 downloads

Sun, Moon Position (full day) V1.1

Excel – 2.0 MB 713 downloads

Sun-Earth-Moon Distance V1.0

Excel – 2.5 MB 655 downloads

Sun Position V1.1

Excel – 963.5 KB 733 downloads

Moon Phase-Node Model V1.0

Excel – 1.8 MB 722 downloads

Moon Nodes V1.0

Excel – 980.6 KB 662 downloads

Moon Phases V1.1

Excel – 2.0 MB 853 downloads

Moon Position V1.0

Excel – 831.2 KB 677 downloads

Moon Illuminated Fraction V1.1

Excel – 1.6 MB 793 downloads

Satellite Orbit V1.0

Excel – 3.3 MB 713 downloads

Planet Orbits V1.1

Excel – 1.5 MB 793 downloads

Planet Fact Sheet V1.0

Excel – 461.9 KB 685 downloads

Ring of Saturn V1.0

Excel – 1.3 MB 734 downloads

NEW! Rise, Transit, Set Times V1.0

Excel – 1.2 MB 541 downloads

Astronomy (General)

Telescope Equations V1.0

Excel – 3.7 MB 776 downloads

Spacetime V1.0

Excel – 400.1 KB 637 downloads

Kepler's Laws V1.1

Excel – 1.2 MB 667 downloads

Equation of Time V1.0

Excel – 1.7 MB 642 downloads

H-R Diagram V1.0

Excel – 2.4 MB 735 downloads

Eastern Dates V1.0

Excel – 1.6 MB 606 downloads

Equinoxes, Solstices V1.1

Excel – 1.5 MB 538 downloads

Lagrange Points V1.0

Excel – 961.1 KB 610 downloads

Perihelion, Aphelion V1.0

Excel – 654.6 KB 617 downloads

Astronomical Clocks/Buildings

NEW! Antikythera Gear Train V1.1

Excel – 5.1 MB 531 downloads

Antikythera Pin-and-Slot V1.0

Excel – 1.7 MB 691 downloads

Eclipses Abacus V1.0

Excel – 6.1 MB 685 downloads

E. Eisinga Planetarium Gear Train V1.0

Excel – 2.3 MB 593 downloads

Astronomical Clock Prague V1.0

Excel – 820.7 KB 616 downloads

Gear Ratios V1.0

Excel – 11.3 MB 625 downloads

Eclipses

Eclipse Cycles V1.0

Excel – 4.7 MB 635 downloads

Eclipse Data V1.0

Excel – 8.2 MB 664 downloads

Saros-Inex Panorama V1.0

Excel – 1.9 MB 677 downloads

Sundials, Maya Solar System

Analemmatic Sundial V1.0

Excel – 3.3 MB 691 downloads

A Combined Sundial V1.0

Excel – 1.9 MB 603 downloads

Solar System Maya V1.0

Excel – 9.3 MB 599 downloads

Supporting Morsels

Coordinate Transformations V1.0

Excel – 1.0 MB 623 downloads

Utilities V1.1

Excel – 1.2 MB 749 downloads

Sun phases, Daylength V1.1

Excel – 750.7 KB 620 downloads

Prototypes, Experiments

Proto: Black Holes V0.1

Excel – 4.0 MB 593 downloads

Template V0.2

Excel – 1.1 MB 587 downloads

Proto: ΛCDM Model V0.1

Excel – 1.6 MB 579 downloads

Leftovers V1.0

Excel – 130.2 KB 634 downloads

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