Debian Astro Pure Blend
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Debian Astro is a "Debian Pure Blend" that fits the requirements of astronomers. Account maintained by @olebole.bsky.social
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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
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September 23, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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
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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.
August 26, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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
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August 19, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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
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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).
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June 17, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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).
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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
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June 10, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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
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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:
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Some core features of Gpredict include:
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May 27, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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:
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Some core features of Gpredict include:
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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: www.debian.org/devel/debian...
#AstronomySoftware #Debian
#AstronomySoftware #Debian
May 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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: www.debian.org/devel/debian...
#AstronomySoftware #Debian
#AstronomySoftware #Debian
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
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Features:
- Stunning visualisations
- Create unlimited variations of simulations
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April 8, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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
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Features:
- Stunning visualisations
- Create unlimited variations of simulations
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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,
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Some features:
- default star catalogue with over 600 thousand stars,
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April 1, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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,
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Some features:
- default star catalogue with over 600 thousand stars,
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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
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December 17, 2024 at 7:21 AM
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
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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.
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December 10, 2024 at 7:21 AM
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.
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Random Debian Astro package of the week is python3-ginga. Ginga is a toolkit designed for building viewers for scientific image data in Python, visualizing 2D pixel data in numpy arrays. It can view astronomical data such as contained in files based on the FITS (Flexible Image Transport System)
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October 15, 2024 at 6:56 PM
Random Debian Astro package of the week is python3-ginga. Ginga is a toolkit designed for building viewers for scientific image data in Python, visualizing 2D pixel data in numpy arrays. It can view astronomical data such as contained in files based on the FITS (Flexible Image Transport System)
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Random Debian Astro package of the week is astrometry.net. The astrometry engine will take any image and return the astrometry world coordinate system (WCS), a standards-based description of the transformation between image coordinates and sky coordinates.
October 1, 2024 at 7:21 AM
Random Debian Astro package of the week is astrometry.net. The astrometry engine will take any image and return the astrometry world coordinate system (WCS), a standards-based description of the transformation between image coordinates and sky coordinates.
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 done via DCRAW utility by D.Coffin.
September 3, 2024 at 7:21 AM
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 done via DCRAW utility by D.Coffin.
Random Debian Astro package of the week is topcat. TOPCAT is an interactive graphical viewer and editor for tabular data. Its aim is to provide most of the facilities that astronomers need for analysis and manipulation of source catalogues and other tables, though it can be used for
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July 16, 2024 at 7:21 AM
Random Debian Astro package of the week is topcat. TOPCAT is an interactive graphical viewer and editor for tabular data. Its aim is to provide most of the facilities that astronomers need for analysis and manipulation of source catalogues and other tables, though it can be used for
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Random Debian Astro package of the week is mayavi2. MayaVi2 is a cross-platform tool for 2-D and 3-D scientific data visualization. Its features include:
* Visualization of scalar, vector and tensor data in 2 and 3 dimensions
* Easy scriptability using Python
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* Visualization of scalar, vector and tensor data in 2 and 3 dimensions
* Easy scriptability using Python
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July 2, 2024 at 7:21 AM
Random Debian Astro package of the week is mayavi2. MayaVi2 is a cross-platform tool for 2-D and 3-D scientific data visualization. Its features include:
* Visualization of scalar, vector and tensor data in 2 and 3 dimensions
* Easy scriptability using Python
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* Visualization of scalar, vector and tensor data in 2 and 3 dimensions
* Easy scriptability using Python
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#telescopecontrol #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware #DebianBookworm
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.
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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.
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April 16, 2024 at 7:51 AM
#telescopecontrol #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware #DebianBookworm
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.
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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.
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is splash. This (formerly SUPERSPHPLOT) is a visualisation tool for output from (astrophysical) simulations using the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method in one, two and three
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is splash. This (formerly SUPERSPHPLOT) is a visualisation tool for output from (astrophysical) simulations using the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method in one, two and three
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March 26, 2024 at 7:57 AM
#datasimulation #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware #DebianBookworm
Random #Debian Astro package of the week is splash. This (formerly SUPERSPHPLOT) is a visualisation tool for output from (astrophysical) simulations using the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method in one, two and three
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is splash. This (formerly SUPERSPHPLOT) is a visualisation tool for output from (astrophysical) simulations using the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method in one, two and three
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Random Debian Astro package of the week is veusz. Veusz is a 2D and 3D scientific plotting and graphing package, designed to produce publication-ready PDF, SVG, Postscript and bitmap output. Veusz provides a GUI, command line and scripting interface (based on Python) to its plotting facilities.
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March 12, 2024 at 7:49 AM
Random Debian Astro package of the week is veusz. Veusz is a 2D and 3D scientific plotting and graphing package, designed to produce publication-ready PDF, SVG, Postscript and bitmap output. Veusz provides a GUI, command line and scripting interface (based on Python) to its plotting facilities.
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Random Debian Astro package of the week is saods9. SAOImage DS9 is an astronomical imaging and data visualization application. DS9 supports FITS images and binary tables, multiple frame buffers, region manipulation, and many scale algorithms and colormaps. It provides for easy communication
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February 27, 2024 at 8:32 AM
Random Debian Astro package of the week is saods9. SAOImage DS9 is an astronomical imaging and data visualization application. DS9 supports FITS images and binary tables, multiple frame buffers, region manipulation, and many scale algorithms and colormaps. It provides for easy communication
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Random Debian Astro package of the week is python3-pyraf. PyRAF is a command language for running IRAF tasks in a Python like environment. It works very similar to IRAF CL, but has been updated to allow such things as importing Python modules, GUI parameter editing and help.
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February 13, 2024 at 7:26 AM
Random Debian Astro package of the week is python3-pyraf. PyRAF is a command language for running IRAF tasks in a Python like environment. It works very similar to IRAF CL, but has been updated to allow such things as importing Python modules, GUI parameter editing and help.
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Random Debian Astro package of the week is aladin. Aladin is an interactive software sky atlas allowing the user to visualise digitised astronomical images, to superimpose entries from astronomical catalogues or databases, and to interactively access related data and information from the Simbad
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January 9, 2024 at 8:20 AM
Random Debian Astro package of the week is aladin. Aladin is an interactive software sky atlas allowing the user to visualise digitised astronomical images, to superimpose entries from astronomical catalogues or databases, and to interactively access related data and information from the Simbad
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Random Debian Astro package of the week is ximtool. Ximtool provides an image display capability to remote client applications for IRAF using the standard imtool/iis image display protocol. The image display server allows a number of image frame buffers to be created and displayed.
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November 14, 2023 at 9:13 AM
Random Debian Astro package of the week is ximtool. Ximtool provides an image display capability to remote client applications for IRAF using the standard imtool/iis image display protocol. The image display server allows a number of image frame buffers to be created and displayed.
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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⤵
November 7, 2023 at 7:47 AM
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⤵