131 projects tagged "Astronomy"
Updated 05 Apr 2013
AstroFocuser
| Pop | 29.38 |
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| Vit | 6.95 |
AstroFocuser is a very simple tool to help star focusing in astrophotogaphy. It applies an FWHM by transparency on the background window.
Updated 30 Jul 2012
WCSLIB
| Pop | 31.50 |
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| Vit | 1.00 |
WCSLIB is a C library, supplied with a full set of Fortran wrappers, which implements the "World Coordinate System" (WCS) standard in FITS (Flexible Image Transport System). It also includes a PGPLOT-based routine, PGSBOX, for drawing general curvilinear coordinate graticules, and a number of utility programs. The FITS "World Coordinate System" (WCS) convention defines keywords and usage which provide descriptions of astronomical coordinate systems in a FITS image header.
Updated 18 Jul 2012
GRALE
| Pop | 36.58 |
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| Vit | 1.00 |
GRALE is a set of tools - a library and a number of accompanying applications - to study gravitational lenses. Gravitational lenses are astronomical objects so massive that their gravitational pull even deflects light rays. This can cause multiple copies of the same background object to be visible, like a cosmic mirage. The locations and shapes of these copies can provide information about the mass distribution of the gravitational lens, which GRALE can help recover using a genetic algorithm-based method. Apart from these so-called lens inversions, it's also possible to simulate gravitational lenses.
Updated 12 Apr 2011
satpass
| Pop | 17.80 |
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| Vit | 1.00 |
The satpass script provides satellite visibility predictions, given the position of the observer and the NORAD element sets for the desired satellites. It can acquire the NORAD element sets directly from any site supported by Astro::SpaceTrack. It can acquire the observer's latitude and longitude from http://geocoder.us/, look up star positions in the SIMBAD catalog, and more.
Updated 09 Jul 2010
Aciqra
| Pop | 20.90 |
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| Vit | 32.39 |
Aciqra is a night sky simulator to show the sky and celestial objects. It uses the highly precise Aloac program to calculate highly accurate positions for planets, stars, comets, and everything else in the sky for thousands of years into the future. It can load a variety of catalogs and even custom ones with a bit of extension.
Updated 28 Feb 2010
AstroEasyCap
| Pop | 33.23 |
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| Vit | 34.34 |
AstroEasyCap is an optimized Linux easycap DC60 driver for astronomical purposes. It comes from the easycapdc60 driver written by rmt1947. It features integration control using a TTL output, bypass frame processing, gray-scale optimized mode, and more.
Updated 05 Apr 2013
AstroAviBrowser
| Pop | 107.81 |
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| Vit | 13.70 |
AstroAviBrowser is a small tool for astronomy imaging capture/processing. It allows you to open a video file, select the good frames, and save the new sequence in a new avi file using raw or lossless codecs. You may also de-bayer your frames and separate RGB plans. It's a kind of "AviRaw" for Linux.
Updated 05 Apr 2013
Qastrocam-g2
| Pop | 140.20 |
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| Vit | 11.95 |
Qastrocam-g2 is a fork of the Qastrocam project, Webcam capture software for astronomy. This fork adds support for RGB24 (luminance only) and YUYV. It has better generic V4L support (lx mode and resizing). Settings backup has been added. There is better parallel and serial lx mode support. There are a number of other changes and additions.
Updated 25 Jan 2010
Sunrise Sunset
| Pop | 30.53 |
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| Vit | 1.54 |
Sunrise Sunset is a Python package that can determine the sunrise and sunset based on a given altitude zenith. It has two public methods. The first returns the sunrise and sunset in a tuple. The second returns True or False depending on whether the supplied date/time is during the night or day. The constructor takes three arguments, a date, latitude, and longitude. There is one keyword argument for changing the default zenith, which is set to "official". The zeniths are "official", "civil", "nautical", "amateur" (astronomical), and "astronomical". It does not rely on third party packages, but you may need something like pytz to create dates with timezone info.
Updated 29 Mar 2012
IRAF
| Pop | 32.31 |
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| Vit | 2.66 |
IRAF is the Image Reduction and Analysis Facility, a general purpose software system for the reduction and analysis of scientific data. IRAF includes a selection of programs for general image processing and graphics applications, plus a large number of programs for the reduction and analysis of optical astronomy data within the NOAO package. External or layered packages are also available for the analysis of HST, XRAY, and EUV data. IRAF provides a programming environment which includes the Command Language script facility, the IMFORT Fortran programming interface, and the SPP/VOS programming environment in which the portable IRAF system is written.
