154 projects tagged "Astronomy"
Updated 06 Jan 2012
AIPS
| Pop | 62.93 |
|---|---|
| Vit | 12.21 |
AIPS (Astronomical Information Processing System) handles the processing and display of data from radio interferometers. Data can be collected from any radio telescope array. Images can be exported in FITS format.
Updated 09 Jul 2010
Aciqra
| Pop | 21.38 |
|---|---|
| Vit | 32.32 |
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 01 Feb 2001
Apogee Instruments CCD camera drivers
| Pop | 22.18 |
|---|---|
| Vit | 1.00 |
These are drivers for the range of scientific CCD cameras manufactured by Apogee Instruments Inc. The drivers are accompanied by a full GUI interface designed for use in an astronomical environment. Binning, subregion, and drig-scan modes are currently supported.
Updated 26 Feb 2002
Astro Info
| Pop | 59.32 |
|---|---|
| Vit | 64.02 |
Astro Info is an astronomical ephemeris/almanac for PalmOS. It displays some basic information useful to stargazers, such as rise, trans, and set times, coordinates, magnitude and phase information for Sun, Moon, and the other 8 planets and stars. It can display a view of the sky (with stars, the Sun, Moon, and planets positioned) at arbitrary times and locations. You can also search for objects based on their names and see where they are.
Updated 24 Sep 2002
Astro::ADS Module
| Pop | 25.63 |
|---|---|
| Vit | 2.32 |
The Astro::ADS module is an OO Perl interface to the Astrophysics Data System (ADS) abstract service. The ADS is a NASA-funded project whose main resource is an Abstract Service, which includes four sets of abstracts: astronomy and astrophysics, instrumentation, physics and geophysics, and Los Alamos preprint server.
Updated 21 Feb 2009
Astro::Aladin
| Pop | 22.85 |
|---|---|
| Vit | 2.18 |
Astro::Aladin is a an object-oriented interface into the resources provided by the CDS Aladin project. The Aladin Java application is driven in script mode using an anonymous pipe, while high level access to resources is provided by the module which disguises the mechanics of the data access.
Updated 07 Jun 2005
Astro::Catalog Module
| Pop | 51.00 |
|---|---|
| Vit | 1.69 |
The Astro::Catalog module is an generic, object-oriented astronomical catalogue. It provides access to the online USNO-A2 and Guide Star Catalogues provided by ESO/ST-ECF, and additionally provides read/write access to ARK CLUSTER format files.
Updated 08 Aug 2001
Astro::Cosmology
| Pop | 17.32 |
|---|---|
| Vit | 1.00 |
The Astro::Cosmology Perl module allows you to calculate cosmological distances, volumes, and times for commonly-considered cosmological models.
Updated 03 Oct 2002
Astro::DSS Module
| Pop | 21.63 |
|---|---|
| Vit | 1.47 |
Astro::DSS Module is an object orientated Perl module that provides an interface to both the first and second Digital Sky Surveys at the ESO-ECF online archive. While the first sky survey is 100% complete, the second survey covers 98% of the sky in Red, 45% of the sky in Blue, and 27% of the sky in Infra-red.
Updated 16 Sep 2003
Astro::FITS::HdrTrans
| Pop | 23.81 |
|---|---|
| Vit | 59.42 |
Astro::FITS::HdrTrans translates instrument-specific FITS headers into generic ones. It is easily extensible to new instruments, as one only needs to write translation methods (or, even more simply, add values and keys to a hash for one-to-one translations).
