#astrocode #AstroPython #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, 1/3⤵

#astrocode #SciencePublication #AstroPython #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 1/3⤵

#astrocode #AstroPython #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 1/2⤵

#astrocode #AstroPython #ScienceSoftware 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 1/2⤵

#astrocode #DebianEdu #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.

#astrocode #AstroPython #ScienceSoftware 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 1/3⤵

#astrocode #AstroPython #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 1/5⤵

#astrocode #telescopecontrol #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 1/2⤵

#astrocode #AstroSoftwareDevelopment #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, 1/2⤵

#astrocode #AstroDatareduction #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. 1/5⤵

#astrocode #AstroSoftwareDevelopment #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 1/4⤵

#astrocode #AstroPython #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 1/2⤵

#astrocode #AstroSoftwareDevelopment #ScienceSoftware 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. 1/3⤵

#astrocode #AstroSoftwareDevelopment #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++. 1/2⤵

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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. 1/2⤵

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. 1/2⤵

Random Debian Astro package of the week is openvlbi. OpenVLBI is an open source correlator 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. 1/2⤵

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⤵