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Has Schrödinger permanently discontinued the free Maestro version for academics? This is truly unfortunate. I have relied on this software for designing my systems for years. 🖥️🔬 #schrodinger #maestro #academictools #sciencesoftware #compchemsky #chemsky
June 9, 2024 at 8:44 PM
#astrocode #AstroJava #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is starlink-fits-java. Classes for general FITS handling, including NDX, NDArray and StarTable implementations.

Some of these classes use the nom.tam.fits package (libfits-java) for low-level FITS access,

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September 15, 2026 at 12:44 PM
#astrocode #AstroPython #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-drizzle. The drizzle library is a Python package for combining dithered images into a single image. This library is derived from code used in drizzlepac. Like drizzlepac, most of the code is
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January 13, 2026 at 7:24 AM
#astrocode #AstroDatareduction #ScienceSoftware

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), aperture photometry,
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June 16, 2026 at 7:21 AM
#astrocode #AstroSoftwareDevelopment #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is libccfits-dev. CCfits is an object oriented interface to the cfitsio library. It is designed to make the capabilities of cfitsio available to programmers working in C++.
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November 18, 2025 at 7:21 AM
#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 Earth satellites.
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September 22, 2026 at 7:21 AM
#astrocode #AstroSoftwareDevelopment #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is libccfits-dev. CCfits is an object oriented interface to the cfitsio library. It is designed to make the capabilities of cfitsio available to programmers working in C++.
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June 9, 2026 at 7:21 AM
#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. By stacking the best images, the signal to noise ratio
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July 21, 2026 at 7:21 AM
#astrocode #DebianEdu #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is xplanet-images. Xplanet renders an image of a planet into an X window or a file.

In order to run xplanet, you'll need at least one map file. This package includes some map files that can be used with xplanet.
xplanet-images homepage
xplanet.sourceforge.net
January 20, 2026 at 7:21 AM
#astrocode #AstroJava #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is skyview-java. SkyView is a "virtual" observatory dynamically generating images of the sky in different wavelength regimes from a static image database. SkyView is intended as a quick look facility to see the
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May 12, 2026 at 7:21 AM
#astrocode #AstroSoftwareDevelopment #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is libhealpix-cxx-dev. HEALPix is an acronym for Hierarchical Equal Area isoLatitude Pixelization of a sphere. As suggested in the name, this pixelization produces a subdivision of a spherical
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December 9, 2025 at 7:22 AM
#astrocode #AstroSoftwareDevelopment #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is libastro-fits-cfitsio-perl. Astro::Fits::Cfitsio is a Perl interface to William Pence's cfitsio subroutine library. For more information on cfitsio, see http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/fitsio.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:21 AM
#astrocode #AstroPython #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-fitsio. Fitsio provides an easy to use object-oriented API including providing a Numpy interface to FITS files read from CFITSIO. It allows direct access to the columns of a FITS binary table which can
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December 2, 2025 at 7:21 AM
#astrocode #AstroPython #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-pysynphot. pysynphot simulates photometric data and spectra as they are observed with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Passbands for standard photometric systems are available, and users can
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January 6, 2026 at 7:21 AM
#astrocode #SciencePublication #AstroPython #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-montagepy. MontagePy is a toolkit for assembling astronomical images into custom mosaics.

It uses algorithms that preserve the calibration and positional (astrometric) fidelity of
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February 10, 2026 at 7:21 AM
#astrocode #AstroSoftwareDevelopment #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is libnexstar-dev. This library implements the serial commands supported by the Celestron NexStar hand control (HC) and SkyWatcher/Orion SynScan HC. This applies to the Celestron: NexStar GPS,
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December 23, 2025 at 7:23 AM
#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:

* add/edit/remove FITS header keywords
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June 23, 2026 at 7:21 AM
#astrocode #IRAF #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is iraf. IRAF is the "Image Reduction and Analysis Facility". The main IRAF distribution includes a good selection of programs for general image processing and graphics.

Other external or layered packages are available
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March 24, 2026 at 7:21 AM
#astrocode #AstroTools #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is alfa. ALFA measures fluxes in emission line spectra, such as those of planetary nebulae and HII regions, using a genetic algorithm to rapidly optimise fits to large numbers of lines simultaneously.
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July 28, 2026 at 7:19 AM
#astrocode #AstroPython #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-healpy. HEALPix is an acronym for Hierarchical Equal Area isoLatitude Pixelization of a sphere. As suggested in the name, this pixelization produces a subdivision of a spherical surface in which each
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January 27, 2026 at 7:22 AM
#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 Gyoto objects in the
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June 2, 2026 at 7:39 AM
#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 image header which relate
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August 18, 2026 at 7:21 AM
#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
Here is the units module, I'm still learning how to upload everything directly through Python/Anaconda and haven't organized it yet for GitHub.

Quantum scales (attosecond & nanometer) to cosmological scales (Gyr/Es/Ys & Megaparsec + log10Es)

#Python #Units #ForScience #OpenUse #ScienceSoftware
USSN Units Module: Advanced Distance & Time Converter
Professional Python module for converting units across 40+ orders of magnitude - from quantum scales to cosmological distances and times with auto-scaling.
claude.ai
November 25, 2025 at 3:22 AM
#astrocode #AstroDatareduction #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is scamp. SCAMP reads SExtractor catalogs and computes astrometric and photometric solutions for any arbitrary sequence of FITS images in a completely automatic way.
scamp homepage
www.astromatic.net
March 17, 2026 at 7:21 AM