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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#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: 1/4⤵

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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#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. 1/2⤵

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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#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, 1/2⤵

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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

#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 1/3⤵

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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

#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. 1/2 ⤵

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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

#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 1/2⤵

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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

#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. 1/3⤵

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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

#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. 1/2⤵

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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

#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. 1/2⤵

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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

#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 1/2⤵

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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

#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, 1/2⤵

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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

#astrocode #AstroTools #ScienceSoftware Random #Debian Astro package of the week is fitscut. fitscut is designed to extract cutouts from FITS image format files. FITS, PNG, and JPEG output types are supported. When multiple input files are specified and the output type is PNG or JPEG the 1/2⤵

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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

#astrocode #AstroTools #ScienceSoftware Random #Debian Astro package of the week is qfits-tools. qfits is a stand-alone library written in C to interact with files complying with the FITS format, which is a data format most used in astronomy. This package includes tools for simple 1/2⤵

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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

#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 1/2⤵

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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

#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, 1/2⤵

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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

#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++. 1/2⤵

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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

#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 1/2⤵

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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

#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). STSDAS includes the same calibration routines as are used 1/3⤵

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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

#astrocode #AstroDatareduction #ScienceSoftware Random #Debian Astro package of the week is psfex. Extract models of the Point Spread Function (PSF) from FITS images processed with SExtractor, and measures the quality of images. The generated PSF models can be used for model-fitting photometry 1/2⤵

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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

#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 1/2⤵

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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

#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 coordinate system to another 1/3⤵

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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

#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". 1/4⤵

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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

#astrocode #AstroPython #ScienceSoftware Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-pyavm. PyAVM is a module to represent, read, and write metadata following the Astronomy Visualization Metadata (AVM) standard. With pyavm you can: * Parse AVM meta-data from an existing image. 1/2⤵

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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

#astrocode #AstroPython #ScienceSoftware 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 drive the popular XEphem 1/3⤵

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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

#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 integrated package, but 1/3⤵

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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

#astrocode #AstroPython #ScienceSoftware Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-vispy. Vispy is a high-performance interactive 2D/3D data visualization library. Vispy leverages the computational power of modern Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) through the OpenGL library to 1/2⤵

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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

#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 1/3⤵

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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

#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.

astromatic.net

scamp homepage

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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

#astrocode #IRAF #AstroPython #ScienceSoftware Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-pyraf. PyRAF is a command language for running IRAF tasks in a Python like environment. It works very similar to IRAF CL, but has been updated to allow such things as importing Python modules, 1/2⤵

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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

#astrocode #AstroTools #ScienceSoftware Random #Debian Astro package of the week is asdftool. ASDF (Advanced Scientific Data Format) is a proposed next generation interchange format for scientific data. ASDF aims to exist in the same middle ground that made FITS so successful, by being a 1/2⤵

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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

#astrocode #AstroPython #ScienceSoftware Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-asdf. ASDF (Advanced Scientific Data Format) is a proposed next generation interchange format for scientific data. ASDF aims to exist in the same middle ground that made FITS so successful, by being a 1/2⤵

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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

#astrocode #AstroPython #ScienceSoftware Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-drms. The drms module provides an easy-to-use Python interface for accessing HMI, AIA and MDI data with Python. It uses the publicly accessible Joint Science Operations Center (JSOC) server by default, 1/3⤵

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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

#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 1/3⤵

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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

#astrocode #AstroPython #ScienceSoftware Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-fast-histogram. fast-histogram aims to provide simple and fast histogram functions for regular bins that don't compromise on performance. It doesn't do anything complicated - it just implements a 1/2⤵

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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

#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 1/2⤵

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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

#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.sourceforge.net

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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

#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 1/5⤵

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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

#astrocode #telescopecontrol #ScienceSoftware Random #Debian Astro package of the week is indi-starbook. This package contains the INDI driver for the Vixen Starbook telescope controllers. It aims for compatibility with first generation Starbook. This driver is compatible with any INDI client 1/2⤵

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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

#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, 1/2⤵

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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

#astrocode #AstroDatareduction #ScienceSoftware Random #Debian Astro package of the week is fitsh. This software package provides independent binary programs (so called tasks) which performs various steps of astronomical image reduction and data processing. 1/5⤵

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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

#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 1/4⤵

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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

#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 1/2⤵

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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

#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 heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/fitsio. 1/3⤵

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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

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Ole Streicher @olebole.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Presenting the @debianastro.bsky.social poster at #ADASS2025

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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Random Debian Astro package of the week is python3-numpy. NumPy contains a powerful N-dimensional array object, sophisticated (broadcasting) functions, tools for integrating C/C++ and Fortran code, and useful linear algebra, Fourier transform, and random number capabilities. 1/2⤵

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