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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 7h

#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 1/2⤵

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

rendering engine and has a user interface written using Qt. 4/4

paraview.org

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

ParaView runs on distributed and shared memory parallel as well as single processor systems and has been successfully tested on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and various Unix workstations, clusters and supercomputers. Under the hood, ParaView uses the Visualization Toolkit as the data processing and 3/4⤵

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

* Develop an open-source, multi-platform visualization application. * Support distributed computation models to process large data sets. * Create an open, flexible, and intuitive user interface. * Develop an extensible architecture based on open standards. 2/4⤵

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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

Skyfield computes positions for the stars, planets, and satellites in orbit around the Earth. Its results should agree with the positions generated by the United States Naval Observatory and their Astronomical Almanac to within 0.0005 arcseconds (which equals half a “mas” or milliarcsecond). 2/2

github.com

GitHub - skyfielders/python-skyfield: Elegant astronomy for Python

Elegant astronomy for Python. Contribute to skyfielders/python-skyfield development by creating an account on GitHub.

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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

implemented in the C language. The biggest change from drizzlepac is that this code passes an array that maps the input to output image into the C code, while the drizzlepac code computes the mapping by using a Python callback. Switching to using an array allowed the code to be greatly 2/3⤵

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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

A set of Fortran-callable wrapper routines are also included for the convenience of Fortran programmers. This package contains utility programs, based on CFITSIO, namely fitscopy, fitsverify, fpack, funpack and imcopy. heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/fitsio/fitsi... 2/2

heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov

FITSIO Home Page

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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

pixel position within the image to position on the sky. Auxiliary programs search star catalogs and manipulate images. This package contains the IRAF package. 2/2

tdc-www.harvard.edu

iraf-wcstools homepage

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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

There are great astronomical libraries out there. For instance, if you're looking for high precision and speed you should take a look at libnova. For a set of Python modules aimed at professional astronomers, you should look at Astropy. On the other hand, the advantages of PyMeeus are its 2/3⤵

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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

It can subtract night sky emission lines before fitting the nebular lines if necessary. It can read plain text files containing 1D spectral data, or FITS files containing 1D, 2D or 3D datasets. 2/2

github.com

GitHub - rwesson/ALFA: Automated Line Fitting Algorithm

Automated Line Fitting Algorithm. Contribute to rwesson/ALFA development by creating an account on GitHub.

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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

is increased and details lost in the noise of individual images become visible in the resulting image. 2/2

lynkeos.sourceforge.net

lynkeos.app homepage

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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

computing the Voronoi cell for each particle individually. It is particularly well-suited for applications that rely on cell-based statistics, where features of Voronoi cells (eg. volume, centroid, number of faces) can be used to analyze a system of particles. math.lbl.gov/voro++/ 2/2

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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

resulting image is an RGB color image. acs.pha.jhu.edu/general/soft... 2/2

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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

* split/join Multi-Extension-FITS (MEF) files * unpile/pile FITS data-cubes * create/check/update FITS checksums, using R. Seaman’s protocol. 2/2

astromatic.net

missfits homepage

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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

astrometry and photometry calibration, accessing Virtual observatory, etc. This is a dependency package providing recommended complete installation. 2/2

munipack.physics.muni.cz

munipack homepage

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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

It is written in ANSI C++ and implemented using the C++ Standard Library with namespaces, exception handling, and member template functions. This package contains what you need for compiling sources that use this library in your own code. heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/fitsio/CCfits/ 2/2

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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

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. Producing videos requires the python3-opencv package. 2/2

gyoto.obspm.fr

python3-gyoto homepage

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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

ported to 64 bit and non-free code was replaced. These tasks are also useful outside of the Gemini data reduction context. 3/3

gitlab.com

iraf-st4gem homepage

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

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 only. For the Gemini legacy data reduction pipeline, selected tasks of STSDAS were 2/3⤵

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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

(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. It can also reproject to/from HEALPIX projections. 2/3⤵

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