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 894 downloads

Caldwell 109 Objects V1.2

Excel – 5.0 MB 748 downloads

Herschel 400 Objects V1.2

Excel – 1.6 MB 763 downloads

Messier 110 Objects V1.2

Excel – 2.0 MB 789 downloads

Nebulae 100 Objects V1.2

Excel – 1.9 MB 741 downloads

Monthly Highlights (CH, BE) V1.2

Excel – 1.9 MB 726 downloads

Dark Nebula V1.2

Excel – 3.7 MB 758 downloads

NEW! Top 100 Astrophotography Objects V1.0

Excel – 21.5 MB 661 downloads

Combined Database V1.0

Excel – 2.8 MB 682 downloads

Astronomy (Star Databases, updated!)

Multiple Star Systems V1.2

Excel – 1.8 MB 646 downloads

Triple Stars V1.2

Excel – 3.1 MB 629 downloads

Binary Stars V1.2

Excel – 1.6 MB 656 downloads

Visual Binary Stars V1.1

Excel – 2.2 MB 799 downloads

Brightest, Nearest Stars V1.2

Excel – 1.4 MB 652 downloads

Star Magnitudes V1.0

Excel – 669.0 KB 619 downloads

Star Data V1.0

Excel – 5.5 MB 683 downloads

Moon, Sun, Planets

Mercury Transits V1.0

Excel – 786.8 KB 688 downloads

Tides (Springs, Neads) V1.0

Excel – 1.1 MB 651 downloads

Venus Transits V1.0

Excel – 1.4 MB 628 downloads

Jupiter's Moons V1.1

Excel – 2.8 MB 691 downloads

Jupiter Great Red Spot V1.0

Excel – 1.1 MB 712 downloads

Time On Mars V1.0

Excel – 3.5 MB 616 downloads

Sun-Earth-Moon Model V1.0

Excel – 1.8 MB 825 downloads

Sun, Moon Position (full day) V1.1

Excel – 2.0 MB 724 downloads

Sun-Earth-Moon Distance V1.0

Excel – 2.5 MB 663 downloads

Sun Position V1.1

Excel – 963.5 KB 740 downloads

Moon Phase-Node Model V1.0

Excel – 1.8 MB 730 downloads

Moon Nodes V1.0

Excel – 980.6 KB 672 downloads

Moon Phases V1.1

Excel – 2.0 MB 864 downloads

Moon Position V1.0

Excel – 831.2 KB 687 downloads

Moon Illuminated Fraction V1.1

Excel – 1.6 MB 802 downloads

Satellite Orbit V1.0

Excel – 3.3 MB 726 downloads

Planet Orbits V1.1

Excel – 1.5 MB 801 downloads

Planet Fact Sheet V1.0

Excel – 461.9 KB 693 downloads

Ring of Saturn V1.0

Excel – 1.3 MB 739 downloads

NEW! Rise, Transit, Set Times V1.0

Excel – 1.2 MB 554 downloads

Astronomy (General)

Telescope Equations V1.0

Excel – 3.7 MB 786 downloads

Spacetime V1.0

Excel – 400.1 KB 646 downloads

Kepler's Laws V1.1

Excel – 1.2 MB 682 downloads

Equation of Time V1.0

Excel – 1.7 MB 654 downloads

H-R Diagram V1.0

Excel – 2.4 MB 742 downloads

Eastern Dates V1.0

Excel – 1.6 MB 621 downloads

Equinoxes, Solstices V1.1

Excel – 1.5 MB 550 downloads

Lagrange Points V1.0

Excel – 961.1 KB 624 downloads

Perihelion, Aphelion V1.0

Excel – 654.6 KB 630 downloads

Astronomical Clocks/Buildings

NEW! Antikythera Gear Train V1.1

Excel – 5.1 MB 539 downloads

Antikythera Pin-and-Slot V1.0

Excel – 1.7 MB 697 downloads

Eclipses Abacus V1.0

Excel – 6.1 MB 698 downloads

E. Eisinga Planetarium Gear Train V1.0

Excel – 2.3 MB 602 downloads

Astronomical Clock Prague V1.0

Excel – 820.7 KB 630 downloads

Gear Ratios V1.0

Excel – 11.3 MB 633 downloads

Eclipses

Eclipse Cycles V1.0

Excel – 4.7 MB 651 downloads

Eclipse Data V1.0

Excel – 8.2 MB 671 downloads

Saros-Inex Panorama V1.0

Excel – 1.9 MB 686 downloads

Sundials, Maya Solar System

Analemmatic Sundial V1.0

Excel – 3.3 MB 703 downloads

A Combined Sundial V1.0

Excel – 1.9 MB 616 downloads

Solar System Maya V1.0

Excel – 9.3 MB 609 downloads

Supporting Morsels

Coordinate Transformations V1.0

Excel – 1.0 MB 629 downloads

Utilities V1.1

Excel – 1.2 MB 762 downloads

Sun phases, Daylength V1.1

Excel – 750.7 KB 630 downloads

Prototypes, Experiments

Proto: Black Holes V0.1

Excel – 4.0 MB 600 downloads

Template V0.2

Excel – 1.1 MB 599 downloads

Proto: ΛCDM Model V0.1

Excel – 1.6 MB 588 downloads

Leftovers V1.0

Excel – 130.2 KB 644 downloads

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