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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is libnexstar-dev. This library implements the serial commands supported by the Celestron NexStar hand control (HC) and SkyWatcher/Orion SynScan HC. This applies to the Celestron: NexStar GPS, NexStar GPS-SA, NexStar iSeries, NexStar SE Series, NexStar GT, CPC, SLT, Advanced-VX, Advanced-GT, CGE, CGEM etc. SkyWatcher: EQ5, HEQ5, EQ6 (Pro), AZ-EQ5 GT, AZ-EQ6 GT, EQ8 etc.
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is libhealpix-cxx-dev. HEALPix is an acronym for Hierarchical Equal Area isoLatitude Pixelization of a sphere. As suggested in the name, this pixelization produces a subdivision of a spherical surface in which each pixel covers the same surface area as every other pixel. It is commonly used to store all-sky astronomical images, most famously maps of the cosmic microwave background.
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is libastro-fits-cfitsio-perl. Astro::Fits::Cfitsio is a Perl interface to William Pence's cfitsio subroutine library. For more information on cfitsio, see http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/fitsio.

This module attempts to provide a wrapper for nearly every cfitsio routine, while retaining as much cfitsio behavior as possible. As such, one should be aware that it is still somewhat
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is libccfits-dev. CCfits is an object oriented interface to the cfitsio library. It is designed to make the capabilities of cfitsio available to programmers working in C++. It is written in ANSI C++ and implemented using the C++ Standard Library with namespaces, exception handling, and member template functions.

This package contains what you need for compiling sources that use
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is casacore-dev. The casacore package contains the core libraries of the old AIPS++/CASA (Common Astronomy Software Applications) package. This split was made to get a better separation of core libraries and applications.

This package contains the files for application development.

https://casacore.github.io/casacore

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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is libgsl-dev. The GNU Scientific Library (GSL) is a collection of routines for numerical analysis. The routines are written from scratch by the GSL team in C, and present a modern API for C programmers, while allowing wrappers to be written for very high level languages.

This package contains the header files, static libraries and symbolic links that developers using GNU GSL will
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is libccfits-dev. CCfits is an object oriented interface to the cfitsio library. It is designed to make the capabilities of cfitsio available to programmers working in C++. It is written in ANSI C++ and implemented using the C++ Standard Library with namespaces, exception handling, and member template functions.

This package contains what you need for compiling sources that use
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is libstarlink-pal-dev. This library is a collection of code designed to aid in replacing the SLA library with code from NOVAS and ERFA.

Where possible the API is similar to the C SLA API except for the use of a "pal" prefix.

This package contains the development files.

https://starlink.eao.hawaii.edu/starlink

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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is libstarlink-ast-dev. AST implements an object oriented model for describing physical coordinate systems, and the transformations that exist between them.

It provides a comprehensive range of facilities for attaching world coordinate systems (WCS) to astronomical data and for retrieving and manipulating that information.

It has built-in intelligence for identifying types of
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is liblorene-dev. LORENE is a set of C++ classes to solve various problems arising in numerical relativity, and more generally in computational astrophysics. It provides tools to solve partial differential equations by means of multi-domain spectral methods.

This package contains the static libraries and include files necessary to build LORENE codes or applications using LORENE.
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is libcfitsio-dev. FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) is a data format most used in astronomy. cfitsio is a library of ANSI C routines for reading and writing FITS format data files. A set of Fortran-callable wrapper routines are also included for the convenience of Fortran programmers.

This package contains what you need for compiling sources that use this library in your own
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is libpluto-lunar-dev. This package provides a static library and header files to reuse the routines of the Lunar tools to interpret data on asteroids/comments or prepare the same for submission to the Minor Planet Center.

http://www.projectpluto.com/source.htm#astrocalc

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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is libsep-dev. SEP makes the core algorithms of Source Extractor available as a library of stand-alone functions and classes. These operate directly on in-memory arrays (no FITS files or configuration files). The code is derived from the Source Extractor code base (written in C) and aims to produce results compatible with Source Extractor whenever possible.
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is wsclean-dev. WSClean (w-stacking clean) is a fast generic widefield imager. It uses the w-stacking algorithm and can make use of the w-snapshot algorithm. As of Feb 2014, it is 2-12 times faster than CASA's w-projection, depending on the array configuration. It supports full-sky imaging and proper beam correction for homogeneous dipole arrays such as the MWA.
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is postgresql-17-pgsphere. PgSphere, an extension for PostgreSQL, aims at providing uniform access to spherical data. It allows for a fast search and analysis for objects with spherical attributes in geographical, astronomical, or other applications using PostgreSQL.

By using an SQL interface, PgSphere's users can conveniently manage data of geographical objects around the world
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is libpluto-jpl-eph-dev. Header files and a static library that are the basis of tools in the pluto-jpl-eph package.

The package is a build requirement of the pluto-lunar tools.

https://github.com/bill-gray/jpl_eph

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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is libsopt-dev. SOPT is a C package to perform Sparse OPTimisation. It solves a variety of sparse regularisation problems, including the SARA algorithm.

SOPT is largely provided to support the PURIFY package, a companion open-source code to perform radio interferometric imaging, also written by the authors of SOPT.

This package contains the development files.
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is liberfa-dev. ERFA is a C library containing key algorithms for astronomy, and is based on the SOFA library published by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).

It is intended to replicate the functionality of SOFA (aside from possible bugfixes in ERFA that have not yet been included in SOFA), but is licensed under a three-clause BSD license to enable its
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Very nice talk on LOFAR rebuilding of their control system, all based on open source components, including PyTANGO as SCADA.

Lots of emphasis on observability!

#ATRASC2024 #URSI #LOFAR #LOFAR2 #SCADA #PyTANGO #SoftwareDevelopment #AstroSoftwareDevelopment

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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is libplplot-dev. PLplot is relatively small, portable, freely distributable, and is rich enough to satisfy most users. It has a wide range of plot types including line (linear, log), contour, 3D, fill, and almost 1000 characters (including Greek and mathematical) in its extended font set. The package is designed to make it easy to quickly get graphical output;
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is libopenvlbi-dev. OpenVLBI is an open source library for astronomical interferometers. with OpenVLBI astronomers can join together more telescopes to observe celestial objects at great resolution. OpenVLBI can be used with radio antennas or optical sensors. A test and multi-contextual client/server applications are included into openvlbi-bin, and libopenvlbi
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is libastrometry-dev. The astrometry engine will take any image and return the astrometry world coordinate system (WCS), a standards-based description of the transformation between image coordinates and sky coordinates.

This package contains the development files (header files).

http://astrometry.net

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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is postgresql-16-q3c. Q3C, an extension for PostgreSQL, is designed for the work with large astronomical catalogues or any catalogs of objects on the sphere.

This extension allows a user to perform fast circular, elliptical or polygonal searches on the sky as well as fast cross-matches.

http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/wiki/SkyPixelization

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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is libgsl-dev. The GNU Scientific Library (GSL) is a collection of routines for numerical analysis. The routines are written from scratch by the GSL team in C, and present a modern API for C programmers, while allowing wrappers to be written for very high level languages.
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volume, centroid, number of faces) can be used to analyze a system of particles.

This package contains the static library and header file to compile programs against the library.

http://math.lbl.gov/voro++/

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Compiling LORENE codes (including some that are shipped in the lorene-codes-src package) often requires a Fortran compiler. LORENE is configured to use gfortran.

http://www.lorene.obspm.fr/

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