Debian Astro Pure Blend

Debian Astro is a "Debian Pure Blend" that fits the requirements of astronomers.
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Producing videos requires the python3-opencv package.

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#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

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Gyoto objects in the Python 3 language.

This package provides an extension for the Python 3 programming language exposing the Gyoto facilities. It allows using Gyoto interactively from the Python 3 prompt or running complex Gyoto scripts.

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only. For the Gemini legacy data reduction pipeline, selected tasks of STSDAS were ported to 64 bit and non-free code was replaced. These tasks are also useful outside of the Gemini data reduction context.

https://t.co/8bpoO9gXGz

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#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).

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STSDAS includes the same calibration routines as are used 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

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It can also reproject to/from HEALPIX projections.
This package contains the Python 3 version of the package.

https://t.co/iphUe3jqwZ

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#astrocode #AstroPython #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-reproject. This is a package to reproject astronomical images using various techniques via a uniform interface. Reprojection means the re-gridding of images from one world

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coordinate system to another (for example changing the pixel resolution, orientation, coordinate system). Currently implemented are reprojection of celestial images by interpolation, as well as by finding the exact overlap between pixels on the celestial sphere.

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Density or gray scale calibration is also available.

ImageJ is developed by Wayne Rasband ([email protected]), is at the Research Services Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

https://t.co/I0G6KwcE5x

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#astrocode #DataViewer #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is imagej. It can display, edit, analyze, process, save and print 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit images. It can read many image formats including TIFF, GIF, JPEG, BMP, DICOM, FITS and "raw".

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It supports standard image processing functions such as contrast manipulation, sharpening, smoothing, edge detection and median filtering.

Spatial calibration is available to provide real world dimensional measurements in units such as millimeters.

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or comet for a series of dates.

Nothe that this package will continue to be maintained, but it no longer stands at the cutting edge of astronomy in Python.

https://t.co/3z89qjc5U5
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-ephem. PyEphem provides an ephem Python package for performing high-precision astronomy computations. The underlying numeric routines are coded in C and are the same ones that

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drive the popular XEphem astronomy application, whose author, Elwood Charles Downey, generously gave permission for their use in PyEphem.

The name ephem is short for the word ephemeris, which is the traditional term for a table giving the position of a planet, asteroid,

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The library was originally written for the commercial IDL interpreter, but large parts are usable with the GDL interpreter as well. Other names for the libraries are "astron" and "idlastro".

https://t.co/nT2S3VNV3u

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#astrocode #GnuDataLanguage #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is gdl-astrolib. The IDL Astronomy Users Library is a central repository for low-level astronomy software written in the GNU Data Language (GDL). The library is not meant to be an

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integrated package, but rather is a collection of procedures from which users can pick and choose (and possibly modify) for their own use. Submitted procedures are given a cursory testing, but are basically stored in the library as submitted.

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@chandraCIAO This version is now also available on Debian testing: https://t.co/q228nwL6QX