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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/

#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/

#AstroPython #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

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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#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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#AstroPython #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

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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#AstroPython #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

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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#AstroDatareduction #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

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

#IRAF #AstroPython #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

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

#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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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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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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#DebianEdu #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

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/

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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-drizzle. The drizzle library is a Python package for combining dithered images into a single image. This library is derived from code used in drizzlepac. Like drizzlepac, most of the code is implemented in the C language. The biggest change from drizzlepac is that this code passes an array that maps the input to output image into the C code, while the drizzlepac code computes the
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#AstroPython #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-pysynphot. pysynphot simulates photometric data and spectra as they are observed with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Passbands for standard photometric systems are available, and users can incorporate their own filters, spectra, and data. pysynphot user interface allows you to:

* Construct complicated composite spectra from various grids of model
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#telescopecontrol #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is indi-starbook. This package contains the INDI driver for the Vixen Starbook telescope controllers. It aims for compatibility with first generation Starbook.

This driver is compatible with any INDI client such as KStars or Xephem.

https://github.com/indilib/indi-3rdparty

#AstroSoftwareDevelopment #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

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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#AstroDatareduction #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is fitsh. This software package provides independent binary programs (so called tasks) which performs various steps of astronomical image reduction and data processing. These tasks are designed for execution from a UNIX command line shell or shell script. Each of these tasks performs a specific operation (e.g. transforming an image to another reference frame, search and identifiy stars
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#AstroSoftwareDevelopment #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

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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#AstroPython #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-fitsio. Fitsio provides an easy to use object-oriented API including providing a Numpy interface to FITS files read from CFITSIO. It allows direct access to the columns of a FITS binary table which can be useful for reading large fits files. Compared to astropy.io.fits, this package is closer to the underlying cfitsio library.

Fitsio also exposes a microlanguage (implemented in
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Yay, #AstroPy v7.2 finally allows users to work with world coordinates in the units they want. 😀
https://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/whatsnew/7.2.html#preserving-units-in-fits-wcs
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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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#AstroSoftwareDevelopment #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

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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#AstroPython #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-numpy. NumPy contains a powerful N-dimensional array object, sophisticated (broadcasting) functions, tools for integrating C/C++ and Fortran code, and useful linear algebra, Fourier transform, and random number capabilities.

This package installs NumPy for Python 3.

http://www.numpy.org/

#AstroSoftwareDevelopment #radioastronomy #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

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

#AstroSoftwareDevelopment #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

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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#VirtualObservatory #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is skyview. 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 executable.

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

#AstroSoftwareDevelopment #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

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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#AstroSoftwareDevelopment #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

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

#DataViewer #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is ser-player. The SER file format can be used to store data from fast frame rate astronomy cameras instead of using the AVI file format. This application enables users to review SER files in the same way that AVI files are reviewed with a video player.

https://github.com/cgarry/ser-player

#AstroSoftwareDevelopment #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

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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#VirtualObservatory #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is jython-stilts. The STIL Tool Set is a set of command-line tools based on STIL, the Starlink Tables Infrastructure Library. It deals with the processing of tabular data; the package has been designed for, but is not restricted to, astronomical tables such as object catalogues. Some of the tools are generic and can work with multiple formats (including FITS, VOTable, CDF, CSV, SQL and
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#VirtualObservatory #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is stilts. The STIL Tool Set is a set of command-line tools based on STIL, the Starlink Tables Infrastructure Library. It deals with the processing of tabular data; the package has been designed for, but is not restricted to, astronomical tables such as object catalogues. Some of the tools are generic and can work with multiple formats (including FITS, VOTable, CDF, CSV, SQL and ASCII),
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#AstroSoftwareDevelopment #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

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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#AstroJava #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is starlink-fits-java. Classes for general FITS handling, including NDX, NDArray and StarTable implementations.

Some of these classes use the nom.tam.fits package (libfits-java) for low-level FITS access, though several of them do most of the handling in customised ways themselves for efficiency reasons.

https://github.com/Starlink/starjava/tree/master/fits

#AstroJava #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is starlink-fits-java. Classes for general FITS handling, including NDX, NDArray and StarTable implementations.

Some of these classes use the nom.tam.fits package (libfits-java) for low-level FITS access, though several of them do most of the handling in customised ways themselves for efficiency reasons.

https://github.com/Starlink/starjava/tree/master/fits

#AstroJava #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is starlink-fits-java. Classes for general FITS handling, including NDX, NDArray and StarTable implementations.

Some of these classes use the nom.tam.fits package (libfits-java) for low-level FITS access, though several of them do most of the handling in customised ways themselves for efficiency reasons.

https://github.com/Starlink/starjava/tree/master/fits

#AstroJava #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is starlink-fits-java. Classes for general FITS handling, including NDX, NDArray and StarTable implementations.

Some of these classes use the nom.tam.fits package (libfits-java) for low-level FITS access, though several of them do most of the handling in customised ways themselves for efficiency reasons.

https://github.com/Starlink/starjava/tree/master/fits

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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is eag-healpix-java. The package creates sky pixelization to a specified resolution.

These tools permit creation of HEALPix maps as well as use of existing maps. There are tools to translate sky coordinates (Ra, Dec) to a pixel number, and to generate a list of neighboring pixels within some specified radius. More complicated queries are also supported.

https://home.fnal.gov/~kuropat/HEALPIX/Pix
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#AstroJava #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is eag-healpix-java. The package creates sky pixelization to a specified resolution.

These tools permit creation of HEALPix maps as well as use of existing maps. There are tools to translate sky coordinates (Ra, Dec) to a pixel number, and to generate a list of neighboring pixels within some specified radius. More complicated queries are also supported.

https://home.fnal.gov/~kuropat/HEALPIX/Pix
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#AstroJava #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is eag-healpix-java. The package creates sky pixelization to a specified resolution.

These tools permit creation of HEALPix maps as well as use of existing maps. There are tools to translate sky coordinates (Ra, Dec) to a pixel number, and to generate a list of neighboring pixels within some specified radius. More complicated queries are also supported.

https://home.fnal.gov/~kuropat/HEALPIX/Pix
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#AstroJava #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is eag-healpix-java. The package creates sky pixelization to a specified resolution.

These tools permit creation of HEALPix maps as well as use of existing maps. There are tools to translate sky coordinates (Ra, Dec) to a pixel number, and to generate a list of neighboring pixels within some specified radius. More complicated queries are also supported.

https://home.fnal.gov/~kuropat/HEALPIX/Pix
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#AstroJava #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is libfits-java. FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) is the standard data format in astronomy used for the transport, analysis, and archival storage of scientific data sets.

This library provides efficient I/O for FITS images and binary tables. All basic FITS formats and gzip compressed files are supported.

https://nom-tam-fits.github.io/nom-tam-fits/