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Debian Astro is a "Debian Pure Blend" that fits the requirements of astronomers. @DebianAstro@fosstodon.org @debianastro.bsky.social

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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. 1/3⤵
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IDL is a registered trademark of ITT 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 "." 2/3⤵
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The file input output system is fully implemented. GUI support (widgets) is officially provided, but it's not complete yet. This package contains the main commandline and interpreter frontend. github.com/gnudatalanguage/g… 3/3

GitHub - gnudatalanguage/gdl: GDL - GNU Data Language

GDL - GNU Data Language. Contribute to gnudatalanguage/gdl development by creating an account on GitHub.

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#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. 1/2⤵
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The identification of raw photo type and decoding itself is done via DCRAW utility by D.Coffin. integral.physics.muni.cz/raw… 2/2
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#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 1/3⤵
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Earth satellites. Skyfield computes positions for the stars, planets, and satellites in orbit around the Earth. Its results should agree with the positions generated by the United States Naval Observatory and their Astronomical Almanac to within 0.0005 arcseconds (which 2/3⤵
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equals half a “mas” or milliarcsecond). github.com/brandon-rhodes/py… 3/3

GitHub - skyfielders/python-skyfield: Elegant astronomy for Python

Elegant astronomy for Python. Contribute to skyfielders/python-skyfield development by creating an account on GitHub.

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#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 1/2⤵
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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. tdc-www.harvard.edu/software… 2/2
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#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. 1/2⤵
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By stacking the best images, the signal to noise ratio is increased and details lost in the noise of individual images become visible in the resulting image. lynkeos.sourceforge.net/ 2/2
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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. 1/3⤵
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A distinguishing feature of the Voro++ library is that it carries out cell-based calculations,computing the Voronoi cell for each particle individually. It is particularly well-suited for applications that rely on cell-based statistics, 2/3⤵
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where features of Voronoi cells (eg. volume, centroid, number of faces) can be used to analyze a system of particles. math.lbl.gov/voro++/ 3/3
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#AstroTools #AstronomySoftware #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.
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When multiple input files are specified and the output type is PNG or JPEG the resulting image is an RGB color image. acs.pha.jhu.edu/general/soft…
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#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. 1/2⤵
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This package includes tools for simple manipulations of FITS files. eso.org/sci/software/eclipse… 2/2
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#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: 1/2⤵
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* add/edit/remove FITS header keywords * split/join Multi-Extension-FITS (MEF) files * unpile/pile FITS data-cubes * create/check/update FITS checksums, using R. Seaman’s protocol. astromatic.net/software/miss… 2/2
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