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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-pymeeus. PyMeeus is a Python implementation of the astronomical algorithms described in the classical book "Astronomical Algorithms, 2nd Edition, Willmann-Bell Inc. (1998)" by Jean Meeus.

There are great astronomical libraries out there. For instance, if you're looking for high precision and speed you should take a look at libnova. For a set of Python modules aimed at professional
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#AstroPython #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-pymeeus. PyMeeus is a Python implementation of the astronomical algorithms described in the classical book "Astronomical Algorithms, 2nd Edition, Willmann-Bell Inc. (1998)" by Jean Meeus.

There are great astronomical libraries out there. For instance, if you're looking for high precision and speed you should take a look at libnova. For a set of Python modules aimed at professional
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#AstroSoftwareDevelopment #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is libhdf5-dev. Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) is a file format and library for storing scientific data. HDF5 was designed and implemented to address the deficiencies of HDF4.x. It has a more powerful and flexible data model, supports files larger than 2 GB, and supports parallel I/O.

This package contains development files for serial platforms.

http://hdfgroup.org/HDF5/

#AstroSoftwareDevelopment #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is libhdf5-dev. Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) is a file format and library for storing scientific data. HDF5 was designed and implemented to address the deficiencies of HDF4.x. It has a more powerful and flexible data model, supports files larger than 2 GB, and supports parallel I/O.

This package contains development files for serial platforms.

http://hdfgroup.org/HDF5/

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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is alfa. ALFA measures fluxes in emission line spectra, such as those of planetary nebulae and HII regions, using a genetic algorithm to rapidly optimise fits to large numbers of lines simultaneously. It can subtract night sky emission lines before fitting the nebular lines if necessary. It can read plain text files containing 1D spectral data, or FITS files containing 1D, 2D or 3D datasets.
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is alfa. ALFA measures fluxes in emission line spectra, such as those of planetary nebulae and HII regions, using a genetic algorithm to rapidly optimise fits to large numbers of lines simultaneously. It can subtract night sky emission lines before fitting the nebular lines if necessary. It can read plain text files containing 1D spectral data, or FITS files containing 1D, 2D or 3D datasets.
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#telescopecontrol #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is lynkeos.app. Lynkeos is an application dedicated to the processing of astronomical (mainly planetary) images taken with a webcam through a telescope. By stacking the best images, the signal to noise ratio is increased and details lost in the noise of individual images become visible in the resulting image.

http://lynkeos.sourceforge.net/

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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is lynkeos.app. Lynkeos is an application dedicated to the processing of astronomical (mainly planetary) images taken with a webcam through a telescope. By stacking the best images, the signal to noise ratio is increased and details lost in the noise of individual images become visible in the resulting image.

http://lynkeos.sourceforge.net/

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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is voro++. Voro++ is a software library for carrying out three-dimensional computations of the Voronoi tessellation. A distinguishing feature of the Voro++ library is that it carries out cell-based calculations, computing the Voronoi cell for each particle individually. It is particularly well-suited for applications that rely on cell-based statistics, where features of Voronoi cells (eg.
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is voro++. Voro++ is a software library for carrying out three-dimensional computations of the Voronoi tessellation. A distinguishing feature of the Voro++ library is that it carries out cell-based calculations, computing the Voronoi cell for each particle individually. It is particularly well-suited for applications that rely on cell-based statistics, where features of Voronoi cells (eg.
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#AstroTools #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is fitscut. fitscut is designed to extract cutouts from FITS image format files. FITS, PNG, and JPEG output types are supported. When multiple input files are specified and the output type is PNG or JPEG the resulting image is an RGB color image.

http://acs.pha.jhu.edu/general/software/fitscut/

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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is fitscut. fitscut is designed to extract cutouts from FITS image format files. FITS, PNG, and JPEG output types are supported. When multiple input files are specified and the output type is PNG or JPEG the resulting image is an RGB color image.

http://acs.pha.jhu.edu/general/software/fitscut/

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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is qfits-tools. qfits is a stand-alone library written in C to interact with files complying with the FITS format, which is a data format most used in astronomy.

This package includes tools for simple manipulations of FITS files.

http://www.eso.org/sci/software/eclipse/qfits/

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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is qfits-tools. qfits is a stand-alone library written in C to interact with files complying with the FITS format, which is a data format most used in astronomy.

This package includes tools for simple manipulations of FITS files.

http://www.eso.org/sci/software/eclipse/qfits/

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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is missfits. MissFITS is a program that performs basic maintenance and packaging tasks on FITS files using an optimised FITS library. MissFITS can:

* add/edit/remove FITS header keywords
* split/join Multi-Extension-FITS (MEF) files
* unpile/pile FITS data-cubes
* create/check/update FITS checksums, using R. Seaman’s protocol.

https://www.astromatic.net/software/missfits

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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is missfits. MissFITS is a program that performs basic maintenance and packaging tasks on FITS files using an optimised FITS library. MissFITS can:

* add/edit/remove FITS header keywords
* split/join Multi-Extension-FITS (MEF) files
* unpile/pile FITS data-cubes
* create/check/update FITS checksums, using R. Seaman’s protocol.

https://www.astromatic.net/software/missfits

#AstroDatareduction #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is munipack. Munipack is a general astronomical photometry software package. Currently implements functions for standard photometry processing (photometry reductions - dark, flat), aperture photometry, astrometry and photometry calibration, accessing Virtual observatory, etc.

This is a dependency package providing recommended complete installation.

https://munipack.physics.muni.cz/

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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is munipack. Munipack is a general astronomical photometry software package. Currently implements functions for standard photometry processing (photometry reductions - dark, flat), aperture photometry, astrometry and photometry calibration, accessing Virtual observatory, etc.

This is a dependency package providing recommended complete installation.

https://munipack.physics.muni.cz/

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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 python3-gyoto. Gyoto aims at providing a framework for computing orbits and ray-traced images in General relativity.

This package also includes a Gyoto plug-in allowing to write new Gyoto objects in the Python 3 language.

This package provides an extension for the Python 3 programming language exposing the Gyoto facilities. It allows using Gyoto interactively from the Python 3 prompt or
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-gyoto. Gyoto aims at providing a framework for computing orbits and ray-traced images in General relativity.

This package also includes a Gyoto plug-in allowing to write new Gyoto objects in the Python 3 language.

This package provides an extension for the Python 3 programming language exposing the Gyoto facilities. It allows using Gyoto interactively from the Python 3 prompt or
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#IRAF #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is iraf-st4gem. The Space Telescope Science Data Analysis System (STSDAS) is software for calibrating and analyzing data from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). STSDAS includes the same calibration routines as are used in the routine data processing pipeline, as well as general-purpose tools and enhancements to the Image Analysis and Reduction Facility (IRAF).

The original STSDAS package contained
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is iraf-st4gem. The Space Telescope Science Data Analysis System (STSDAS) is software for calibrating and analyzing data from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). STSDAS includes the same calibration routines as are used in the routine data processing pipeline, as well as general-purpose tools and enhancements to the Image Analysis and Reduction Facility (IRAF).

The original STSDAS package contained
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is psfex. Extract models of the Point Spread Function (PSF) from FITS images processed with SExtractor, and measures the quality of images. The generated PSF models can be used for model-fitting photometry or morphological analyses.

https://www.astromatic.net/software/psfex

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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is psfex. Extract models of the Point Spread Function (PSF) from FITS images processed with SExtractor, and measures the quality of images. The generated PSF models can be used for model-fitting photometry or morphological analyses.

https://www.astromatic.net/software/psfex

#AstroJava #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is skyview-java. SkyView is a "virtual" observatory dynamically generating images of the sky in different wavelength regimes from a static image database. SkyView is intended as a quick look facility to see the heavens.

This package includes the Java library.

https://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/

#AstroJava #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is skyview-java. SkyView is a "virtual" observatory dynamically generating images of the sky in different wavelength regimes from a static image database. SkyView is intended as a quick look facility to see the heavens.

This package includes the Java library.

https://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/

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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-reproject. This is a package to reproject astronomical images using various techniques via a uniform interface. Reprojection means the re-gridding of images from one world coordinate system to another (for example changing the pixel resolution, orientation, coordinate system). Currently implemented are reprojection of celestial images by interpolation, as well as by finding the exact
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-reproject. This is a package to reproject astronomical images using various techniques via a uniform interface. Reprojection means the re-gridding of images from one world coordinate system to another (for example changing the pixel resolution, orientation, coordinate system). Currently implemented are reprojection of celestial images by interpolation, as well as by finding the exact
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#DataViewer #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is imagej. It can display, edit, analyze, process, save and print 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit images. It can read many image formats including TIFF, GIF, JPEG, BMP, DICOM, FITS and "raw". It supports "stacks", a series of images that share a single window.

It can calculate area and pixel value statistics of user-defined selections. It can measure distances and angles.
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#DataViewer #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is imagej. It can display, edit, analyze, process, save and print 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit images. It can read many image formats including TIFF, GIF, JPEG, BMP, DICOM, FITS and "raw". It supports "stacks", a series of images that share a single window.

It can calculate area and pixel value statistics of user-defined selections. It can measure distances and angles.
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-pyavm. PyAVM is a module to represent, read, and write metadata following the Astronomy Visualization Metadata (AVM) standard. With pyavm you can:

* Parse AVM meta-data from an existing image.
* Access and Set the metadata.
* Create an AVM object from scratch.
* Convert to a WCS object.
* Initialize from a FITS header.
* Initialize from a WCS object.
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#AstroPython #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-pyavm. PyAVM is a module to represent, read, and write metadata following the Astronomy Visualization Metadata (AVM) standard. With pyavm you can:

* Parse AVM meta-data from an existing image.
* Access and Set the metadata.
* Create an AVM object from scratch.
* Convert to a WCS object.
* Initialize from a FITS header.
* Initialize from a WCS object.
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🚀 ¡Nuevo proyecto en GitHub!
🔗 https://github.com/RubenFS777/Trayector
Trayector es un programa en #Python para visualizar trayectorias de sondas y misiones espaciales usando datos del sistema Horizons del JPL de la NASA.
Incluye ejemplo con la misión #ArtemisII: descarga los vectores efemérides directamente desde https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons y visualiza el viaje lunar paso a paso.

🚀 New open-source project on GitHub! Trayector is a #Python tool to visualize trajectories of space probes and missions using ephemeris data from NASA's JPL Horizons system.
Comes with a ready-to-use example for the #ArtemisII mission — just download the vector table from JPL and plot the lunar journey in minutes.
🔗 https://github.com/RubenFS777/Trayector

🚀 Proiect nou pe GitHub! Trayector este un program în #Python pentru vizualizarea traiectoriilor sondelor spațiale și misiunilor, folosind date efemeride din sistemul Horizons al JPL/NASA.
Include un exemplu complet pentru misiunea #ArtemisII — descarcă vectorii din JPL și trasează călătoria lunară în câteva minute.
🔗 https://github.com/RubenFS777/Trayector

#AstroPython #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware #NASA #JPL #OpenSource

🚀 ¡Nuevo proyecto en GitHub!
🔗 https://github.com/RubenFS777/Trayector
Trayector es un programa en #Python para visualizar trayectorias de sondas y misiones espaciales usando datos del sistema Horizons del JPL de la NASA.
Incluye ejemplo con la misión #ArtemisII: descarga los vectores efemérides directamente desde https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons y visualiza el viaje lunar paso a paso.

🚀 New open-source project on GitHub! Trayector is a #Python tool to visualize trajectories of space probes and missions using ephemeris data from NASA's JPL Horizons system.
Comes with a ready-to-use example for the #ArtemisII mission — just download the vector table from JPL and plot the lunar journey in minutes.
🔗 https://github.com/RubenFS777/Trayector

🚀 Proiect nou pe GitHub! Trayector este un program în #Python pentru vizualizarea traiectoriilor sondelor spațiale și misiunilor, folosind date efemeride din sistemul Horizons al JPL/NASA.
Include un exemplu complet pentru misiunea #ArtemisII — descarcă vectorii din JPL și trasează călătoria lunară în câteva minute.
🔗 https://github.com/RubenFS777/Trayector

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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-ephem. PyEphem provides an ephem Python package for performing high-precision astronomy computations. The underlying numeric routines are coded in C and are the same ones that drive the popular XEphem astronomy application, whose author, Elwood Charles Downey, generously gave permission for their use in PyEphem.

The name ephem is short for the word ephemeris, which is the traditional
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-ephem. PyEphem provides an ephem Python package for performing high-precision astronomy computations. The underlying numeric routines are coded in C and are the same ones that drive the popular XEphem astronomy application, whose author, Elwood Charles Downey, generously gave permission for their use in PyEphem.

The name ephem is short for the word ephemeris, which is the traditional
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#GnuDataLanguage #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is gdl-astrolib. The IDL Astronomy Users Library is a central repository for low-level astronomy software written in the GNU Data Language (GDL). The library is not meant to be an integrated package, but rather is a collection of procedures from which users can pick and choose (and possibly modify) for their own use. Submitted procedures are given a cursory testing, but are basically stored
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is gdl-astrolib. The IDL Astronomy Users Library is a central repository for low-level astronomy software written in the GNU Data Language (GDL). The library is not meant to be an integrated package, but rather is a collection of procedures from which users can pick and choose (and possibly modify) for their own use. Submitted procedures are given a cursory testing, but are basically stored
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-vispy. Vispy is a high-performance interactive 2D/3D data visualization library.

Vispy leverages the computational power of modern Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) through the OpenGL library to display very large datasets.

This package provides VisPy for the Python 3 interpreter.

https://vispy.org/

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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-vispy. Vispy is a high-performance interactive 2D/3D data visualization library.

Vispy leverages the computational power of modern Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) through the OpenGL library to display very large datasets.

This package provides VisPy for the Python 3 interpreter.

https://vispy.org/

#IRAF #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is iraf. IRAF is the "Image Reduction and Analysis Facility". The main IRAF distribution includes a good selection of programs for general image processing and graphics.

Other external or layered packages are available for applications such as data acquisition or handling data from other observatories and wavelength regimes such as the Hubble Space Telescope (optical), EUVE (extreme ultra-violet), or
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#IRAF #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is iraf. IRAF is the "Image Reduction and Analysis Facility". The main IRAF distribution includes a good selection of programs for general image processing and graphics.

Other external or layered packages are available for applications such as data acquisition or handling data from other observatories and wavelength regimes such as the Hubble Space Telescope (optical), EUVE (extreme ultra-violet), or
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is scamp. SCAMP reads SExtractor catalogs and computes astrometric and photometric solutions for any arbitrary sequence of FITS images in a completely automatic way.

https://www.astromatic.net/software/scamp

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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is scamp. SCAMP reads SExtractor catalogs and computes astrometric and photometric solutions for any arbitrary sequence of FITS images in a completely automatic way.

https://www.astromatic.net/software/scamp

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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-pyraf. PyRAF is a command language for running IRAF tasks in a Python like environment. It works very similar to IRAF CL, but has been updated to allow such things as importing Python modules, GUI parameter editing and help. It can be imported into Python allowing you to run IRAF commands from within a larger script.

https://iraf-community.github.io/pyraf.html

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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-pyraf. PyRAF is a command language for running IRAF tasks in a Python like environment. It works very similar to IRAF CL, but has been updated to allow such things as importing Python modules, GUI parameter editing and help. It can be imported into Python allowing you to run IRAF commands from within a larger script.

https://iraf-community.github.io/pyraf.html

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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is asdftool. ASDF (Advanced Scientific Data Format) is a proposed next generation interchange format for scientific data. ASDF aims to exist in the same middle ground that made FITS so successful, by being a hybrid text and binary format: containing human editable metadata for interchange, and raw binary data that is fast to load and use. Unlike FITS, the metadata is highly structured and is
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#AstroTools #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is asdftool. ASDF (Advanced Scientific Data Format) is a proposed next generation interchange format for scientific data. ASDF aims to exist in the same middle ground that made FITS so successful, by being a hybrid text and binary format: containing human editable metadata for interchange, and raw binary data that is fast to load and use. Unlike FITS, the metadata is highly structured and is
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-asdf. ASDF (Advanced Scientific Data Format) is a proposed next generation interchange format for scientific data. ASDF aims to exist in the same middle ground that made FITS so successful, by being a hybrid text and binary format: containing human editable metadata for interchange, and raw binary data that is fast to load and use. Unlike FITS, the metadata is highly structured and is
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#AstroPython #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-asdf. ASDF (Advanced Scientific Data Format) is a proposed next generation interchange format for scientific data. ASDF aims to exist in the same middle ground that made FITS so successful, by being a hybrid text and binary format: containing human editable metadata for interchange, and raw binary data that is fast to load and use. Unlike FITS, the metadata is highly structured and is
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-drms. The drms module provides an easy-to-use Python interface for accessing HMI, AIA and MDI data with Python. It uses the publicly accessible Joint Science Operations Center (JSOC) server by default, but can also be used with local NetDRMS sites.

The Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) and the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) are instruments aboard the Solar Dynamics
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#AstroPython #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-drms. The drms module provides an easy-to-use Python interface for accessing HMI, AIA and MDI data with Python. It uses the publicly accessible Joint Science Operations Center (JSOC) server by default, but can also be used with local NetDRMS sites.

The Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) and the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) are instruments aboard the Solar Dynamics
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#SciencePublication #AstroPython #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-montagepy. MontagePy is a toolkit for assembling astronomical images into custom mosaics.

It uses algorithms that preserve the calibration and positional (astrometric) fidelity of the input images to deliver mosaics that meet user-specified parameters of projection, coordinates, and spatial scale. It supports all projections and coordinate systems in use in
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#SciencePublication #AstroPython #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-montagepy. MontagePy is a toolkit for assembling astronomical images into custom mosaics.

It uses algorithms that preserve the calibration and positional (astrometric) fidelity of the input images to deliver mosaics that meet user-specified parameters of projection, coordinates, and spatial scale. It supports all projections and coordinate systems in use in
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#AstroPython #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-fast-histogram. fast-histogram aims to provide simple and fast histogram functions for regular bins that don't compromise on performance. It doesn't do anything complicated - it just implements a simple histogram algorithm in C and keeps it simple. The aim is to have functions that are fast but also robust and reliable. The result is a 1D histogram function here that is 7-15x faster
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-fast-histogram. fast-histogram aims to provide simple and fast histogram functions for regular bins that don't compromise on performance. It doesn't do anything complicated - it just implements a simple histogram algorithm in C and keeps it simple. The aim is to have functions that are fast but also robust and reliable. The result is a 1D histogram function here that is 7-15x faster
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-healpy. 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 python3-healpy. 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 xplanet-images. Xplanet renders an image of a planet into an X window or a file.

In order to run xplanet, you'll need at least one map file. This package includes some map files that can be used with xplanet.

https://xplanet.sourceforge.net/