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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.
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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 Coordinate System (WCS) information through PyWCSTools - a simple wrapping of WCSTools by Jessica Mink. PyWCSTools is distributed (and developed) as
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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, pastel and xray).
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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 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). Such images are distorted by strong gravitational lensing. The gyoto program takes a scenery description in XML format, computes this scenery using relativistic ray-tracing,
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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 and recombination of many short carefully sky subtracted exposures to produce deep images.
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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 position on the sky. Auxiliary programs search star catalogs and manipulate images.
This package contains the IRAF package.
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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:
* Tracking of a large number of satellites only limited by the physical
memory and processing power of the computer
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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 comprehensive, efficient and robust software toolkit. It forms a basis for the creation of automated astronomical data-reduction tasks.
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With the upcoming #DebianTrixie release, you can install the standard software for astronomy just with one click during the installation! Test the first release candidate of the installer: https://debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
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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 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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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 limited to basic spectroscopic reduction, with basic image processing steps (such as bias subtraction) instead covered by ccdproc and other packages,
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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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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 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.
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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
- You can view the simulation in
3D without glasses using stereoscopic imaging
- Can be installed as a screen saver in Windows
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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,
- information about the brightest stars (spectral type, distance, etc.),
- downloadable star catalogue extensions, for up to 210 million stars,
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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.
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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 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.
