#AstronomySoftware
#AstroDatareduction #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware #DebianBookworm
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⤵
October 3, 2023 at 7:49 AM
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
May 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Yay, #astropy v7.2 finally allows users to work with world coordinates in the units they want. 😀
https://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/whatsnew/7.2.html#preserving-units-in-fits-wcs
#astronomysoftware #sciencesoftware
December 1, 2025 at 8:31 PM
#AstroPython #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware #DebianBookworm

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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May 21, 2024 at 7:40 AM
#datasimulation #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware #DebianBookworm

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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May 7, 2024 at 8:06 AM
#IRAF #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware #DebianBookworm

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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April 2, 2024 at 7:47 AM
#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.

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September 3, 2026 at 12:48 PM
New in the #VirtualObservatory: “ArXSP: Archive Spectrum Processing Tool” by Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute
https://dachs.fai.kz/soft_arxsp/q/arxsp-soft/info
#spectroscopy #astronomysoftware #astronomydatareduction
Information on Service 'ArXSP: Archive Spectrum Processing Tool'
dachs.fai.kz
December 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM
New in the #VirtualObservatory: “Astronomical Calendar: Sun and Moon Ephemerides and Twilight
Calculator” by Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute
https://dachs.fai.kz/soft_astro_calendar/q/astrocal-web/info
#ephemerides #astronomysoftware #twilight #themoon
Information on Service ' Astronomical Calendar: Sun and Moon Ephemerides and Twilight Calculator'
dachs.fai.kz
December 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
📄 The Astropy Project: Sustaining and Growing a Community-oriented Open…

Quicklook:
Astropy Collaboration et al. (2022) · The Astrophysical Journal
Reads: 382 · Citations: 4877
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac7c74

#Astronomy #Astrophysics #AstronomySoftware #OpenSourceSoftware #AstronomyDataAnalysis
The Astropy Project: Sustaining and Growing a Community-oriented Open-source Project and the Latest Major Release (v5.0) of the Core Package
The Astropy Project supports and fosters the development of open-source and openly developed Python packages that provide commonly needed functionality to the astronomical community. A key element of the Astropy Project is the core package astropy, which serves as the foundation
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
April 6, 2026 at 10:44 AM
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.
April 21, 2024 at 9:28 PM
MARTINI transforms galaxy simulations into synthetic radio telescope observations, letting researchers peek into the cosmic future of HI surveys before building the next generation of instruments.

https://github.com/kyleaoman/martini

#RadioAstronomy #GalaxySimulations #AstronomySoftware
February 27, 2026 at 5:01 AM
Monte Carlo powerhouse that maps the cosmic haystack - predicting where exoplanet surveys will strike gold by combining stellar catalogs with instrument limits to generate detection probability maps.

https://github.com/mbonav/Exo_DMC

#ExoplanetDetection #MonteCarlo #AstronomySoftware
February 15, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Decode the atmospheric secrets of distant worlds with BeAR - a GPU-accelerated Bayesian retrieval engine that transforms exoplanet spectra into detailed atmospheric compositions and structures.

🔗 https://github.com/NewStrangeWorlds/BeAR

#ExoplanetAtmospheres #BayesianAnalysis #AstronomySoftware
February 4, 2026 at 5:00 AM
Simulate alien sunsets and Martian twilights with physically accurate atmospheric scattering - from exoplanet skies to solar eclipses, render any world's atmosphere.

🔗 https://github.com/10110111/CalcMySky

#AtmosphericScattering #Planetarium #AstronomySoftware
January 30, 2026 at 3:01 PM
#GnuDataLanguage #AstroPython #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware

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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June 18, 2024 at 1:16 PM
#AstroSoftwareDevelopment #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware #DebianBookworm

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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June 11, 2024 at 7:43 AM
#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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June 4, 2024 at 7:27 AM
#AstroDatareduction #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware #DebianBookworm
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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May 28, 2024 at 7:58 AM
#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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May 14, 2024 at 7:58 AM
#datasimulation #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware #DebianBookworm

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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April 30, 2024 at 10:55 AM
#AstroSoftwareDevelopment #AstronomySoftware #ScienceSoftware #DebianBookworm

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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April 23, 2024 at 7:44 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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April 16, 2024 at 7:51 AM