Well, that can be quite complicated depending on type of osc. you use.
For example crystal oscialators depend largely (but not only) on used crystal. If you want to know how to determine resonant frequency of
crystal, that would be a long topic.
Astable multivibrators can be made using variety of components such as
TTL, CMOS, discrete (transistors), discrete complementary, OpAmps, vacuum tubes and many more...
So what is it you really want? Good question is half an answer...
And yes, you can also use one of the 555 chip flavours.
If that's what you have, just use google and search for
"555 calculator".