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#astrocode #AstroJava #VirtualObservatory #ScienceSoftware

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 Virtual Observatory
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November 10, 2026 at 7:21 AM
#astrocode #AstroSoftwareDevelopment #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is libstarlink-pal-dev. This library is a collection of code designed to aid in replacing the SLA library with code from NOVAS and ERFA.

Where possible the API is similar to the C SLA API except for
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November 3, 2026 at 7:21 AM
#astrocode #AstroPython #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-extinction. Extinction contains Cython-optimised implementations of empirical dust extinction laws found in the astronomical literature.
GitHub - sncosmo/extinction: Fast interstellar dust extinction laws in Python
Fast interstellar dust extinction laws in Python. Contribute to sncosmo/extinction development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
October 27, 2026 at 7:21 AM
#astrocode #GnuDataLanguage #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is gnudatalanguage. GNU Data Language (GDL) is a free IDL (Interactive Data Language) compatible incremental compiler. It has full syntax compatibility with IDL 7.1. IDL is a registered trademark of ITT
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October 20, 2026 at 7:21 AM
#astrocode #radioastronomy #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-radio-beam. Radio Beam is a simple toolkit for reading beam information from FITS headers and manipulating beams. Some example applications include Convolution/deconvolution and Unit conversion (Jy
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October 13, 2026 at 7:21 AM
#astrocode #AstroTools #ScienceSoftware

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
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October 6, 2026 at 7:21 AM
#astrocode #DataViewer #ScienceSoftware

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:
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September 29, 2026 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 #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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September 8, 2026 at 7:21 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
#astrocode #AstroPython #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-regions. The regions package provides (or plans to provide) classes to represent regions defined using pixel or celestial coordinates or on the celestial sphere.
Astropy Regions
Astropy Regions logo Astropy Regions logo Version: 0.12, Date: Jun 24, 2026, Useful links: Installation| Release Notes, regions is an in-development coordinated package of Astropy for region handli...
astropy-regions.readthedocs.io
August 25, 2026 at 7:21 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
I'm exploring some software. I check out the dependencies... Perl, MatLab, BLAST, and DSSP.

This is going to break. I just know it.

#sciencesoftware
May 28, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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
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
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#MolecularBiology #LabManagement #ScienceSoftware #ResearchEfficiency
May 12, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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 #AstroPython #ScienceSoftware

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. (1998)" by Jean Meeus.
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August 11, 2026 at 7:19 AM
#astrocode #AstroSoftwareDevelopment #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is libhdf5-dev. Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) is a file format and library for storing scientific data. HDF5 was designed and implemented to address the deficiencies of HDF4.x.
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August 4, 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 #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 #AstroTools #ScienceSoftware

Random #Debian Astro package of the week is voro++. Voro++ is a software library for carrying out three-dimensional computations of the Voronoi tessellation. A distinguishing feature of the Voro++ library is that it carries out cell-based calculations,
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July 14, 2026 at 7:21 AM