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#astrocode #GnuDataLanguage #ScienceSoftware Random #Debian Astro package of the week is gnudatalanguage. GNU Data Language (GDL) is a free IDL (Interactive Data Language) compatible incremental compiler. It has full syntax compatibility with IDL 7.1. IDL is a registered trademark of ITT 1/3⤵

Visual Information Solutions. From IDL 8.0, the following language elements are supported: * FOREACH loop * negative array indices * garbage collection pointers and objects * call methods on an object using "." (e. g. `object.aMemberProcedure,arg1`) The file input output system is fully 2/3⤵

#astrocode #radioastronomy #ScienceSoftware Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-radio-beam. Radio Beam is a simple toolkit for reading beam information from FITS headers and manipulating beams. Some example applications include Convolution/deconvolution and Unit conversion (Jy 1/2⤵

#astrocode #AstroTools #ScienceSoftware Random #Debian Astro package of the week is rawtran. Rawtran is an utility to convert of raw photos in .CR2, .CRW, MRW, NEF, RAF, etc. formats to the general astronomical FITS image format. The identification of raw photo type and decoding itself is 1/2⤵

#astrocode #DataViewer #ScienceSoftware Random #Debian Astro package of the week is paraview. ParaView is an open-source, multi-platform application designed to visualize data sets of size varying from small to very large. The goals of the ParaView project include the following: 1/4⤵

ParaView runs on distributed and shared memory parallel as well as single processor systems and has been successfully tested on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and various Unix workstations, clusters and supercomputers. Under the hood, ParaView uses the Visualization Toolkit as the data processing and 3/4⤵

#astrocode #DataViewer #ScienceSoftware Random #Debian Astro package of the week is paraview. ParaView is an open-source, multi-platform application designed to visualize data sets of size varying from small to very large. The goals of the ParaView project include the following: 1/4⤵

#astrocode #AstroPython #ScienceSoftware Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-skyfield. Skyfield is a pure-Python astronomy package that is compatible with both Python 3 and makes it easy to generate high precision research-grade positions for planets and Earth satellites. 1/2⤵

#astrocode #AstroJava #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, 1/2⤵

#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⤵

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 mapping by using a Python callback. Switching to using an array allowed the code to be greatly 2/3⤵

#AstroTools #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware Random #Debian Astro package of the week is libcfitsio-bin. 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. 1/2 ⤵

#astrocode #IRAF #ScienceSoftware 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 1/2⤵

#astrocode #AstroPython #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. 1/3⤵

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 astronomers, you should look at Astropy. On the other hand, the advantages of PyMeeus are its 2/3⤵

#astrocode #AstroSoftwareDevelopment #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. 1/2⤵

#astrocode #AstroTools #ScienceSoftware 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. 1/2⤵

#astrocode #telescopecontrol #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 1/2⤵

#astrocode #AstroTools #ScienceSoftware 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, 1/2⤵

#astrocode #AstroTools #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 1/2⤵

#astrocode #AstroTools #ScienceSoftware 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 1/2⤵

#astrocode #AstroDatareduction #ScienceSoftware 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 1/2⤵

#astrocode #AstroDatareduction #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, 1/2⤵

#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⤵

#astrocode #AstroPython #ScienceSoftware 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 1/2⤵

#astrocode #IRAF #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 1/3⤵

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 non-free code and was 32-bit only. For the Gemini legacy data reduction pipeline, selected tasks of STSDAS were 2/3⤵