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 867 downloads

Caldwell 109 Objects V1.2

Excel – 5.0 MB 722 downloads

Herschel 400 Objects V1.2

Excel – 1.6 MB 735 downloads

Messier 110 Objects V1.2

Excel – 2.0 MB 770 downloads

Nebulae 100 Objects V1.2

Excel – 1.9 MB 717 downloads

Monthly Highlights (CH, BE) V1.2

Excel – 1.9 MB 703 downloads

Dark Nebula V1.2

Excel – 3.7 MB 736 downloads

NEW! Top 100 Astrophotography Objects V1.0

Excel – 21.5 MB 639 downloads

Combined Database V1.0

Excel – 2.8 MB 665 downloads

Astronomy (Star Databases, updated!)

Multiple Star Systems V1.2

Excel – 1.8 MB 618 downloads

Triple Stars V1.2

Excel – 3.1 MB 608 downloads

Binary Stars V1.2

Excel – 1.6 MB 641 downloads

Visual Binary Stars V1.1

Excel – 2.2 MB 780 downloads

Brightest, Nearest Stars V1.2

Excel – 1.4 MB 631 downloads

Star Magnitudes V1.0

Excel – 669.0 KB 599 downloads

Star Data V1.0

Excel – 5.5 MB 660 downloads

Moon, Sun, Planets

Mercury Transits V1.0

Excel – 786.8 KB 668 downloads

Tides (Springs, Neads) V1.0

Excel – 1.1 MB 626 downloads

Venus Transits V1.0

Excel – 1.4 MB 607 downloads

Jupiter's Moons V1.1

Excel – 2.8 MB 670 downloads

Jupiter Great Red Spot V1.0

Excel – 1.1 MB 691 downloads

Time On Mars V1.0

Excel – 3.5 MB 593 downloads

Sun-Earth-Moon Model V1.0

Excel – 1.8 MB 804 downloads

Sun, Moon Position (full day) V1.1

Excel – 2.0 MB 697 downloads

Sun-Earth-Moon Distance V1.0

Excel – 2.5 MB 644 downloads

Sun Position V1.1

Excel – 963.5 KB 717 downloads

Moon Phase-Node Model V1.0

Excel – 1.8 MB 707 downloads

Moon Nodes V1.0

Excel – 980.6 KB 650 downloads

Moon Phases V1.1

Excel – 2.0 MB 834 downloads

Moon Position V1.0

Excel – 831.2 KB 662 downloads

Moon Illuminated Fraction V1.1

Excel – 1.6 MB 770 downloads

Satellite Orbit V1.0

Excel – 3.3 MB 705 downloads

Planet Orbits V1.1

Excel – 1.5 MB 778 downloads

Planet Fact Sheet V1.0

Excel – 461.9 KB 669 downloads

Ring of Saturn V1.0

Excel – 1.3 MB 714 downloads

NEW! Rise, Transit, Set Times V1.0

Excel – 1.2 MB 533 downloads

Astronomy (General)

Telescope Equations V1.0

Excel – 3.7 MB 765 downloads

Spacetime V1.0

Excel – 400.1 KB 626 downloads

Kepler's Laws V1.1

Excel – 1.2 MB 652 downloads

Equation of Time V1.0

Excel – 1.7 MB 632 downloads

H-R Diagram V1.0

Excel – 2.4 MB 719 downloads

Eastern Dates V1.0

Excel – 1.6 MB 593 downloads

Equinoxes, Solstices V1.1

Excel – 1.5 MB 522 downloads

Lagrange Points V1.0

Excel – 961.1 KB 602 downloads

Perihelion, Aphelion V1.0

Excel – 654.6 KB 604 downloads

Astronomical Clocks/Buildings

NEW! Antikythera Gear Train V1.1

Excel – 5.1 MB 508 downloads

Antikythera Pin-and-Slot V1.0

Excel – 1.7 MB 675 downloads

Eclipses Abacus V1.0

Excel – 6.1 MB 673 downloads

E. Eisinga Planetarium Gear Train V1.0

Excel – 2.3 MB 580 downloads

Astronomical Clock Prague V1.0

Excel – 820.7 KB 603 downloads

Gear Ratios V1.0

Excel – 11.3 MB 606 downloads

Eclipses

Eclipse Cycles V1.0

Excel – 4.7 MB 620 downloads

Eclipse Data V1.0

Excel – 8.2 MB 649 downloads

Saros-Inex Panorama V1.0

Excel – 1.9 MB 662 downloads

Sundials, Maya Solar System

Analemmatic Sundial V1.0

Excel – 3.3 MB 676 downloads

A Combined Sundial V1.0

Excel – 1.9 MB 591 downloads

Solar System Maya V1.0

Excel – 9.3 MB 586 downloads

Supporting Morsels

Coordinate Transformations V1.0

Excel – 1.0 MB 611 downloads

Utilities V1.1

Excel – 1.2 MB 729 downloads

Sun phases, Daylength V1.1

Excel – 750.7 KB 610 downloads

Prototypes, Experiments

Proto: Black Holes V0.1

Excel – 4.0 MB 580 downloads

Template V0.2

Excel – 1.1 MB 574 downloads

Proto: ΛCDM Model V0.1

Excel – 1.6 MB 564 downloads

Leftovers V1.0

Excel – 130.2 KB 620 downloads

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