# DebianEdu # AstronomySoftware # ScienceSoftware 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 togethe...

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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...
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-gdl. GNU Data Language (GDL) is a free IDL (Interactive Data Language) compatible incremental compiler. It has full syntax compatibility with IDL 7.1.

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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is liberfa-dev. ERFA is a C library containing key algorithms for astronomy, and is based on the SOFA library published by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).

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#radioastronomy #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware #DebianBookworm

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is casacore-data. This package will install a basic set of data tables to be used by Common Astronomy Software Applications core library at runtime and test:

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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is astap. ASTAP is a free stacking and astrometric solver (plate solver) program for deep sky images. In works with astronomical images in the FITS format, but can import RAW DSLR

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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.

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#AstroJava #VirtualObservatory #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware #DebianBookworm

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is libjsamp-java. The Simple Application Messaging Protocol (SAMP) is a messaging protocol that enables astronomy software to interoperate and communicate as part of the

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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is mocassin. mocassin is a fully 3D or 2D photoionisation and dust radiative transfer code which employs a Monte Carlo approach to the transfer of radiation through media of arbitrary

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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is inhomog. The inhomog library calculates average cosmological expansion. This particular package contains an example front end program that uses the biscale_partition routines of the

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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is libplplot-dev. PLplot is relatively small, portable, freely distributable, and is rich enough to satisfy most users. It has a wide range of plot types including line

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I could today successfully buidt #IRAF on a
#fedora 40 (beta) system. Very few adjustments were needed to get it compiled with the default compiler flags.
Still we look for someone who volunteers to maintain a proper package for this still important #AstronomySoftware piece.

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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 indi-gpsd. This package contains an INDI driver for the gpsd GPS daemon.

This driver is compatible with any INDI client such as KStars or Xephem.

github.com/indilib/indi...

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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is iraf-fitsutil. Several tasks to operate of FITS files and extensions from within IRAF, like copying, extension extraction, conversion etc.
The following tasks are available:
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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 python3-glue. python3-glue is a Python library for data interaction, it blurs the boundary between GUI-centric and code-centric data exploration. There are many ways to leverage Glue
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-pyds9. The XPA messaging system provides seamless communication between many kinds of Unix programs, including Tcl/Tk programs such as ds9.
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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), 1/2⤵