Random Debian Astro package of the week is gdl-mpfit. These GDL routines provide a robust and relatively fast way to perform least-squares curve and surface fitting. The algorithms are translated from MINPACK-1, which is a rugged minimization routine found on Netlib, and distributed with 1/4⤵

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 1/2⤵

Today, a new #PyRAF version 2.2.3 was released. This is a maintenance release which makes PyRAF compliant to #Python 3.13. Uploaded to PyPI and to #Debian unstable. github.com/iraf-communi... #IRAF

Random Debian Astro package of the week is python3-astroml. AstroML is a Python 3 module for machine learning and data mining built on numpy, scipy, scikit-learn, and matplotlib. It contains a growing library of statistical and machine learning routines for analyzing astronomical data in 1/2⤵

Random Debian Astro package of the week is planetary-system-stacker. This package contrains software to produce a sharp image of a planetary system object (moon, sun, planets) from many seeing-affected frames using the "lucky imaging" technique._ The program is mainly targeted at extended 1/7⤵

Random Debian Astro package of the week is python3-unyt. Often writing code that deals with data that has units can be confusing. A function might return an array but at least with plain NumPy arrays, there is no way to easily tell what the units of the data are without somehow knowing a 1/2⤵

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.

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 1/2⤵

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. 1/2⤵

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.

Random Debian Astro package of the week is graphviz. Graph drawing addresses the problem of visualizing structural information by constructing geometric representations of abstract graphs and networks. Automatic generation of graph drawings has important applications in key technologies such as 1/5⤵

Random Debian Astro package of the week is python3-astropy-affiliated. A major part of the Astropy project is the concept of “Affiliated Packages”. An affiliated package is an astronomy-related Python package that is not part of the astropy core package, but has requested to be included as part 1/2⤵

Random Debian Astro package of the week is python3-astroalign. Astroalign is a Python module that will try to align two stellar astronomical images, especially when there is no WCS information available. It does so by finding similar 3-point asterisms (triangles) in both images and deducing 1/3⤵

Random Debian Astro package of the week is iraf-dev. IRAF is the "Image Reduction and Analysis Facility". The main IRAF distribution includes a good selection of programs for general image processing and graphics, plus a large number of programs for the reduction and analysis of optical and IR 1/2⤵

Random Debian Astro package of the week is aravis-tools. Basic viewer for aravis compatible cameras, real-time camera control using GenICam implemented properties (arv-viewer-0.8).

Random Debian Astro package of the week is python3-pygnuplot. PyGnuplot works as a Python pipe for Gnuplot allowing to pipe commands to Gnuplot command prompt, plot, save data files, create postscript and PDF files This package installs the library for Python 3.

Random Debian Astro package of the week is python3-astlib. astLib is a set of Python3 modules that provides some tools for research astronomers. It can be used for astronomical plots, some statistics, common calculations, coordinate conversions, and manipulating FITS images with World 1/2⤵

Random Debian Astro package of the week is python3-cmyt. This package provides several colormaps for the scientific use with matplotlib. It contains perceptually uniform sequential colormaps (abre, dusk, kepl, octarine), monochromatic sequential colormaps (blue, green, red) and other (algae, 1/2⤵

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 1/3⤵

Random Debian Astro package of the week is gyoto. Gyoto is a framework for computing geodesics in curved space-times. The gyoto utility program uses this framework to compute images of astronomical objects in the vicinity of compact objects (e.g. black-holes). 1/3⤵

Random Debian Astro package of the week is iraf-xdimsum. XDIMSUM is a package for creating accurate sky subtracted images from sets of dithered observations. While the observations need not be in the infrared, the dominance of the variable sky background in infrared data requires the dithering 1/2⤵

Random Debian Astro package of the week is iraf-wcstools. WCSTools is a set of software utilities, written in C, which create, display and manipulate the world coordinate system of a FITS or IRAF image, using specific keywords in the image header which relate pixel position within the image to 1/2⤵

Random Debian Astro package of the week is gpredict. Gpredict is a real time satellite tracking and orbit prediction program for the Linux desktop. It uses the SGP4/SDP4 propagation algorithms together with NORAD two-line element sets (TLE). Some core features of Gpredict include: 1/4⤵

Random Debian Astro package of the week is esorex. EsoRex is the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Recipe Execution Tool. It can list, configure and execute CPL-based recipes from the command line. The Common Pipeline Library (CPL) comprises a set of ISO-C libraries that provide a 1/3⤵

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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 1/3⤵

Random Debian Astro package of the week is python3-specreduce. The specreduce package aims to provide a data reduction toolkit for optical and infrared spectroscopy, on which applications such as pipeline processes for specific instruments can be built. The scope of its functionality is 1/2⤵

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 1/3⤵

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 1/2⤵

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 1/2⤵

Random Debian Astro package of the week is gravit. Gravit is a free, visually stunning gravity simulator, where you can spend endless time experimenting with various configurations of simulated universes. Features: - Stunning visualisations - Create unlimited variations of simulations 1/3⤵

Random Debian Astro package of the week is stellarium. Stellarium renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real-time. With Stellarium, you really see what you can see with your eyes, binoculars or a small telescope. Some features: - default star catalogue with over 600 thousand stars, 1/6⤵

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 1/2⤵

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 1/2⤵

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. 1/2⤵

Random Debian Astro package of the week is python3-astroquery. Astroquery is a set of Python tools for querying astronomical web forms and databases. This is the Python 3 version of the package.

Random Debian Astro package of the week is wcstools. WCSTools is a set of software utilities, written in C, which create, display and manipulate the world coordinate system of a FITS or IRAF image, using specific keywords in the image header which relate pixel position within the image to 1/2⤵

Random Debian Astro package of the week is iraf-mscred. The MSCRED external package is used to reduce CCD mosaic data in multiextension FITS format. This format is produced for example by the Data Capture Agent when observing with the NOAO CCD Mosaic Imager, as well as similar instruments from 1/3⤵

Random Debian Astro package of the week is python3-pymoc. PyMOC provides a Python compatible library for handling MOCs. Frequently astronomical survey catalogues or images are sparse and cover only a small part of the sky. In a Multi-Order Coverage map the extent of data in a particular 1/5⤵

Random Debian Astro package of the week is python3-astropy. The astropy package contains core functionality and some common tools needed for performing astronomy and astrophysics research with Python. It can be extended by a number of "affiliated packages" that are intended to work with the 1/2⤵

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 1/2⤵

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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.

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 1/2⤵

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Random Debian Astro package of the week is python3-photutils. Photutils contains functions for: * estimating the background and background rms in astronomical images * detecting sources in astronomical images * estimating morphological parameters of those sources (e.g., centroid 1/2⤵

Random Debian Astro package of the week is python3-emcee. emcee is an extensible, pure-Python implementation of Goodman & Weare's Affine Invariant Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) Ensemble sampler. It's designed for Bayesian parameter estimation.

Random Debian Astro package of the week is jel-java. The JEL library enables users to enter algebraic expressions into their program. Since JEL converts expressions directly into Java bytecode, it significantly speeds up their evaluation time. If the user's Java virtual machine has a JIT 1/3⤵

Random Debian Astro package of the week is astronomical-almanac. The aa program computes the orbital positions of planetary bodies and performs rigorous coordinate reductions to apparent geocentric and topocentric place (local altitude and azimuth). It also reduces star catalogue positions 1/5⤵

Random Debian Astro package of the week is eso-midas. The ESO-MIDAS system provides general tools for image processing and data reduction with emphasis on astronomical applications including imaging and special reduction packages for ESO instrumentation at La Silla and the VLT at Paranal. 1/2⤵