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Asteroid orbital elements
This is a searchable online database of asteroid orbital elements. The data are from the Lowell Observatory database of asteroid orbital elements.

Mean-motion resonance locations
This page contains a calculator that determines the semimajor axis of an orbit that is in a specified mean-motion resonance with a given planet of the Solar System. Also available are images showing various resonance locations overlayed on semimajor axis distributions of the minor planets.

Sunrise, Transit, Sunset, and Times of Twilight
This is a calculator to create a table of sunrise, sunset, and twilight times for any location.

Altitude and Azimuth of Sun
This is a calculator to generate plots of the altitude above the horizon and azimuth East of North of the Sun throughout the day for a given day at any location. It also calculates sunrise, sunset, and twilight times for that day and location.

Analemma of the Sun at Noon
This calculator produces a plot of the analemma for the Sun for a given location at noon. This particular analemma plot is somewhat unusual because the horizontal axis represents the offset of the Sun at noon at your location in minutes of time.

Julian Date Converter
This utility converts from calendar date and time to Julian date, and vice versa.