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Free Limewire Pro for Astronomy
Free Limewire Pro is a quality tool for downloading and sharing files online. It has accurate searches, very fast file transfers, and is safe. It won't install extras such as tool bars, and it helps protect your identity when you're online. In addition to its file sharing capabilities free Limewire Pro is also an excellent chat program. But not many people know it's a tool that can be used for astronomy too.
How can free Limewire Pro be used for astronomy? It's a file transfer client, and there are dozens, perhaps hundreds, of programs and files related to the stars, planets, galaxies and all the other subjects that have something to do with astronomy. So it's not trick. It's not a lie. Free Limewire Pro is like a P2P astronomy tool, as long as it's being used to distribute these astronomy related files.
One main type of astronomy related file that can be distributed on free Limewire Pro is a FITS data file. FITS stands for `Flexible Image Transport System'. It's a standard astronomy data format endorsed by both NASA and the IAU, which includes multidimensional array data such as 3D schematics for a space body. FITS files not only include the data needed to generate an image, but also the data required to define that body such as temperature, atmosphere, and thousands of other variables. In essence a properly populated FITS file can be used to re-create a plant or sun, just as the data stored in a JPG can be used to re-create the image. Imagine transferring an entire planetary system via free Limewire Pro. That's a lot of power.
Hand in hand with the FITS data are the applications that read FITS files. These are the tools that turn the data into a representation of the astrological object. Of course, these applications can also be transferred via free Limewire Pro. There are free programs such as the AVIS FITS Viewer and FITSview for Windows and Mac, as well as expensive retail programs and even software designed specifically for agencies such as NASA for their own use. Who knows, maybe a NASA scientist will share a slick tool on free Limewire Pro. Then everyone could use the same tool as is used during official space missions.
Little did people know when they first began using free Limewire Pro that it could be a powerful tool for astronomy. But so far we've only touched the surface. Part 2 will explain even more.