Aphelion (disambiguation)

Aphelion is a common noun in astronomy and a proper noun.

Astronomy

• The aphelion is the farthest point from the sun in an heliocentric orbit of a celestial body. The opposite of aphelion is perihelion.

Companies

• Aphelion Consulting, Canadian company of consulting and help to company growning since 2004
• Aphelion Capital, American investment company founded in 2005 in the field of health
• Aphelion 31.46, electronic equipment company of high frequency trading founded in 2006
• Aphelion Software Pvt. Ltd., company founded in 2006 with headquarters in India that develops ERP for non-banking financial company
• Aphelion Productions, company that stores and distributes disks since 2009
• Aphelion Precision Technologies, American manufacturer of precision engineering for optical, aerospace, and military since 2009
• Aphelion Inc., Canadian company founded in 2010 which develop a property management software
• Aphelion Limited, Mauritian technology and service company since 2013 specialized in cloud computing and management or recovery of critical data
• Aphelion Info Systems, a 2014 Indian website development company
• Aphelion Energy Limited, a 2014 company that develops access to energy with renewable and hybrid energy projects
• Aphelion BI, South Africa consulting and enterprise information management company since 2016

Groups and schools

• Aphelion Consortium, school in Thailand since 2000
• Aphelion Global Correspondence, which helps students to study in higher education abroad since 2008
• APHELION, a WTEC research group in the field of oncology that was active between 2012 and 2014

Objects

• Aphelion, English television of 1970's of Stephen Foster re-marketed in 2006 as a limited edition with a modern screen
• Aphelion dome, small observatory marketed by a Canadian company since 2004
• Aphelion, a wake-sounding concept throwing a ball marketed in 2010
• Aphelion harmonic overdrive, a distortion pedal for electric guitar of the brand Spaceman Effects marketed in 2012
• Aphelion, third turntable cell generation of brand Rega Research marketed in 2016

Computer sciences

• Aphelion (or Aphelion Imaging Software Suite), a software suite for image processing and analyses with a first release in 1996
• Aphelion, a spacecraft in the saga of video games Ratchet and Clank which was in the 2007 and 2009 opuses
• Aphelion: Phoenix Rising, 2009 strategy video game
• Aphelion Episode One: Graves of Earth and Aphelion Episode Two: Wings of Omega two 2010 role-playing video games
• Aphelion, 2014 2D open source massively multiplayer online video game
• Aphelion, 2015 sound bank for the virtual sampler Kontakt

Music

Groups

• Aphelion, Thai group of progressive metal founded in 1995
• Aphelion Aphrodites, Portuguese group of gothic metal founded in 1997
• Aphelion, Turkish group of power metal active between 1999 and 2000
• The Aphelion, American group of melodic black metal founded in 1999
• Aphelion, German group of death metal founded in 2000
• Aphelion, Italian progressive metal group founded in 2003
• Aphelion, French group of death metal founded in 2005
• Aeon Aphelion, Greek group of doom metal founded in 2005
• Aphelion, Egyptian group of death metal founded in 2005
• Aphelion, American group of death metal active between 2006 and 2007
• The Seven Fields of Aphelion, American group of ambient folk founded in 2009

Albums

• Aphelion I-VI, 2001 electronic music album of Stuart Anstis which is a former guitarist of the British black metal band Cradle of Filth
• Aphelion, 2003 album of Austrian band Edenbridge
• Aphelion, 2003 album of Norvegian music project Amethystium
• Aphelion, 2012 electronic music single by Patrick Santamaria
• Suspended at Aphelion, 2014 album of the American band While Heaven Wept
• Aphelion, 2014 techno compilation of Belgian label Token
• Aphelion, 2014 jazz album of Dave Rempis, Josh Abrams, and Avreeayl Ra
• Aphelion, 2014 electronic music single of the American group Scandroid
• Aphelion, 2014 electronic music single by the English musician Paul Lawler

Literature and magazines

• Aphelion, Australian science fiction magazine of five numbers for 1986 and 1987
• Aphelion, science fiction webzine of fantasy and horror published since 1997
• Aphelion, 2007 novel of Australian writer Emily Ballou
• The rage of the Aphelion, 2011 collection of poems by Canadian writer Jeffrey B. Holl
• Aphelion Arc, science fiction and fantasy webzine since 2013
• Aphelion Metal Magazine, music webzine since 2013
• Aphelion: Tales from the Dark Recesses, 2014 book by the English writer Andy Frankham-Allen

Other uses

• Aphelion Art, Belgian online photo galery active between 2008 and 2011
• Studio Aphelion, French blog of game figures active between 2009 and 2014