{"category":{"categoryid":339,"name":"sci-astronomy","summary":"The sci-astronomy category contains software that can be used in astronomical and related scientific environments."},"packages":[{"categoryid":339,"description":"Simulator of light scattering by planetary atmospheres","firstseen":"2022-11-05T01:51:21.004097","name":"calcmysky","packageid":75597},{"categoryid":339,"description":"Collection of scripts to access the CDS databases","firstseen":"2010-05-04T00:54:45.661860","maintainer":"sci-astronomy@gentoo.org","maintainername":"Gentoo Astronomy Project","name":"cdsclient","packageid":51929,"summary":"The cdsclient package is a set of C and csh routines which can be built on Unix stations or PCs running Linux, which once compiled allow to query some databases located at Centre de Donnees astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS) or on mirrors over the network."},{"categoryid":339,"description":"OpenGL 3D space simulator","firstseen":"2010-05-04T00:54:45.661860","maintainer":"sci-astronomy@gentoo.org","maintainername":"Gentoo Astronomy Project","name":"celestia","packageid":42315,"summary":"Celestia is a real-time space simulation that lets you experience our universe in three dimensions. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or beyond the galaxy. All travel in Celestia is seamless; the exponential zoom feature lets you explore space across a range of scales, from galaxy clusters down to spacecraft a few meters across. A 'point-and-goto' interface is used to navigate through the universe to the object you want to visit."},{"categoryid":339,"description":"ESO common pipeline library for astronomical data reduction","firstseen":"2010-05-27T14:35:49.561660","maintainer":"sci-astronomy@gentoo.org","maintainername":"Gentoo Astronomy Project","name":"cpl","packageid":55820,"summary":"The Common Pipeline Library (CPL) comprises a set of ISO-C libraries that provide a comprehensive, efficient and robust software toolkit. It forms a basis for the creation of automated astronomical data-reduction tasks (known as \"pipelines\"). CPL Title Graphic The CPL was developed to standardise the way VLT instrument pipelines are built, to shorten their development cycle and to ease their maintenance. However, it may be more generally applied to any similar application, and the details of the CPL code have been engineered in a way to make the library portable and flexible, as well as minimising external dependencies."},{"categoryid":339,"description":"Data visualization application for astronomical FITS images","firstseen":"2011-08-06T14:34:59.520716","maintainer":"sci-astronomy@gentoo.org","maintainername":"Gentoo Astronomy Project","name":"ds9-bin","packageid":57722,"summary":"The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Image Deep Space 9 is an astronomical imaging and data visualization application. It is the new generation of the SAOImage software. DS9 supports FITS images and binary tables, multiple frame buffers, region manipulation, many scale algorithms and colormaps. It provides communication with external analysis tasks and is configurable and extensible. DS9 supports multiple frame buffers, mosaic images, tiling, blinking, geometric markers, colormap manipulation, scaling, arbitrary zoom, rotation, pan, and a variety of coordinate systems. DS9 also supports FTP and HTTP data access. This is the binary version (source version has a lot of source bundling issues)."},{"categoryid":339,"description":"Essential Routines for Fundamental Astronomy","firstseen":"2013-11-27T14:36:29.905212","maintainer":"sci-astronomy@gentoo.org","maintainername":"Gentoo Astronomy Project","name":"erfa","packageid":61631,"summary":"Essential Routines for Fundamental Astronomy is a C library containing key algorithms for astronomy, and is based on the SOFA library published by the International Astronomical Union (IAU)."},{"categoryid":339,"description":"ESO Recipe Execution Tool to exec cpl scripts","firstseen":"2010-05-27T14:35:49.561660","maintainer":"sci-astronomy@gentoo.org","maintainername":"Gentoo Astronomy Project","name":"esorex","packageid":55819,"summary":"EsoRex is the ESO Recipe Execution Tool. It can list, configure and execute CPL-based recipes from the command line. One of the features provided by the CPL is the ability to create data-reduction algorithms that run as plugins (dynamic libraries). These are called recipes and are one of the main aspects of the CPL data-reduction development environment. As these recipes are dynamic libraries, it is not possible to run them directly from the command line. However, ESO provides several tools to do this, thus saving recipe developers the need to write such an application themselves. One of these is GASGANO (a GUI-based tool) and the other is EsoRex (which runs from the command line."},{"categoryid":339,"description":"Software package for astronomical image processing","firstseen":"2017-07-05T20:32:27.659860","name":"fitsh","packageid":67857,"summary":"The FITSH software package provides a set of independent binary programs (called Tasks) that are designed for execution from a UNIX command line shell or shell script. Each of these tasks performs a specific operation, following the UNIX philosophy of modular tools that performs a single step related to astronomical data reduction and image processing."},{"categoryid":339,"description":"FITS to PNG converter","firstseen":"2016-06-08T13:38:57.770632","maintainer":"sci-astronomy@gentoo.org","maintainername":"Gentoo Astronomy Project","name":"fitspng","packageid":65494,"summary":"Fitspng is an utility intended to convert of the natural high dynamic range of FITS images, directly representing measured data, to the limited numerical range of PNG format widely used in computer graphics. Fitspng implements a global tone mapping technique by a set of tone functions using parameters provided by user or by machine estimate on base of a robust count statistics. Moreover, the conversion keeps an important FITS meta-information as a text part of PNG header."},{"categoryid":339,"description":"FITS library and utlities for astronomical images","firstseen":"2010-05-04T00:54:45.661860","maintainer":"sci-astronomy@gentoo.org","maintainername":"Gentoo Astronomy Project","name":"funtools","packageid":55008,"summary":"Funtools, is a minimal buy-in FITS library and utility package from the SAO\/HEAD. The Funtools library provides simplified access to FITS images and binary tables, as well as to raw array and binary event lists. The Funtools utilities provide high-level support for processing astronomical data."},{"categoryid":339,"description":"Stellar simulation program","firstseen":"2010-05-28T15:04:00.118272","maintainer":"sci-astronomy@gentoo.org","maintainername":"Gentoo Astronomy Project","name":"galaxy","packageid":55828,"summary":"Stellar simulation program. Watch a few stars move around each-other, accelerated by their mutual attractions, or watch thousands of random stars evolve into a spiral galaxy."},{"categoryid":339,"description":"ESO astronomical data file organizer","firstseen":"2010-05-27T14:35:49.561660","maintainer":"sci-astronomy@gentoo.org","maintainername":"Gentoo Astronomy Project","name":"gasgano","packageid":55821,"summary":"Gasgano is a Data File Organiser developed and maintained by ESO to help its user community to manage and organise in a systematic way the astronomical data observed and produced by all VLT compliant telescopes, i.e. by telescopes which are being operated through Observation Blocks. The tool also supports FITS files which are not generated by those telescopes but with a limited number of functionalities."},{"categoryid":339,"description":"GNU Astronomy Utilities","firstseen":"2017-07-05T20:32:27.659860","name":"gnuastro","packageid":67858,"summary":"The GNU Astronomy Utilities (Gnuastro) is an official GNU package consisting of various programs and library functions for the manipulation and analysis of astronomical data. All the programs share the same basic command-line user interface for the comfort of both the users and developers. Gnuastro is written to comply fully with the GNU coding standards so it integrates finely with the GNU\/Linux operating system. This also enables astronomers to expect a fully familiar experience in the source code, building, installing and command-line user interaction that they have seen in all the other GNU software that they use."},{"categoryid":339,"description":"Astronomical user routines for IDL","firstseen":"2011-12-30T14:36:09.035739","maintainer":"sci-astronomy@gentoo.org","maintainername":"Gentoo Astronomy Project","name":"idlastro","packageid":58627,"summary":"The IDL Astronomy Users Library is a central repository for low-level astronomy software written in the commercial language IDL or GNU version of it (GDL). The Library is not meant to be an integrated package, but rather is a collection of procedures from which users can pick and choose (and possibly modify) for their own use. Submitted procedures are given a cursory testing, but are basically stored in the Library as submitted."},{"categoryid":339,"description":"Desktop Planetarium","firstseen":"2018-04-09T19:43:49.072214","name":"kstars","packageid":69073},{"categoryid":339,"description":"Performs basic maintenance and packaging tasks on FITS files","firstseen":"2016-03-03T14:39:42.255788","maintainer":"sci-astronomy@gentoo.org","maintainername":"Gentoo Astronomy Project","name":"missfits","packageid":65081,"summary":"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 * split\/join Multi-Extension-FITS (MEF) files * unpile\/pile FITS data-cubes * create\/check\/update FITS checksums, using R. Seaman’s protocol."},{"categoryid":339,"description":"Toolkit for assembling FITS images into mosaics","firstseen":"2016-06-08T13:38:57.770632","maintainer":"sci-astronomy@gentoo.org","maintainername":"Gentoo Astronomy Project","name":"montage","packageid":65495,"summary":"Montage is a toolkit for assembling astronomical images into custom mosaics. It uses algorithms that preserve the calibration and positional (astrometric) fidelity of the input images to deliver mosaics that meet user-specified parameters of projection, coordinates, and spatial scale. It supports all projections and coordinate systems in use in astronomy. It contains independent modules for analyzing the geometry of images on the sky, and for creating and managing mosaics; these modules are powerful tools in their own right and have applicability outside mosaic production, in areas such as data validation."},{"categoryid":339,"description":"Positional Astronomy Library","firstseen":"2016-12-29T14:36:23.682042","name":"pal","packageid":66301,"summary":"The Positional Astronomy 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 the use of a \"pal\" prefix."},{"categoryid":339,"description":"Extracts models of the Point Spread Function from FITS images","firstseen":"2016-03-08T14:45:23.589958","maintainer":"sci-astronomy@gentoo.org","maintainername":"Gentoo Astronomy Project","name":"psfex","packageid":65105,"summary":"PSFEx (“PSF Extractor”) extracts models of the Point Spread Function (PSF) from FITS images processed with"},{"categoryid":339,"description":"Astronomical routines for the Python programming language","firstseen":"2010-05-04T00:54:45.661860","maintainer":"sci-astronomy@gentoo.org","maintainername":"Gentoo Astronomy Project","name":"pyephem","packageid":47976,"summary":"PyEphem provides astronomical computations for the Python programming language. Given a date and location on the Earth's surface, it can compute the positions of the Sun and Moon, of the planets and their moons, and of any asteroids, comets, or earth satellites whose orbital elements the user can provide. Additional functions are provided to compute the angular separation between two objects in the sky, to determine the constellation in which an object lies, and to find the times at which an object rises, transits, and sets on a particular day."},{"categoryid":339,"description":"Python library to interface Python to a SiriL script","firstseen":"2022-05-16T06:44:44.459128","name":"pysiril","packageid":74974},{"categoryid":339,"description":"Astrometric and photometric solutions for astronomical images","firstseen":"2016-03-08T14:45:23.589958","maintainer":"sci-astronomy@gentoo.org","maintainername":"Gentoo Astronomy Project","name":"scamp","packageid":65106,"summary":"SCAMP computes astrometric and photometric solutions from SExtractor catalogs and stores them in header files. These headers files can be read by SWarp to coadd images."},{"categoryid":339,"description":"Extract catalogs of sources from astronomical FITS images","firstseen":"2016-03-08T14:45:23.589958","maintainer":"sci-astronomy@gentoo.org","maintainername":"Gentoo Astronomy Project","name":"sextractor","packageid":65107,"summary":"SExtractor (Source Extractor) is a program that builds a catalogue of objects from an astronomical image. Although it is particularly oriented towards reduction of large scale galaxy-survey data, it performs rather well on moderately crowded star fields. It has the ability to automatically separate stars and galaxy using neural networks."},{"categoryid":339,"description":"A free astronomical image processing software","firstseen":"2022-05-16T06:44:44.459128","name":"siril","packageid":74975,"summary":"SIRIL is an astronomical image processing tool. It is specially tailored for noise reduction and improving the signal\/noise ratio of an image from multiple captures, as required in astronomy. SIRIL can align automatically or manually, stack and enhance pictures from various file formats, even image sequence files (films and SER files). It works well with limited system resources, like in embedded platforms, but is also very fast when run on more powerful computers."},{"categoryid":339,"description":"Preparing acquisition files for processing with the SiriL software","firstseen":"2022-05-16T06:44:44.459128","name":"sirilic","packageid":74976,"summary":"SiriLic (SiriL's Interactif Companion) is a software for preparing acquisition files (RAW, Offset, Flat and Dark) for processing with SiriL software."},{"categoryid":339,"description":"Program that simulates astronomical images","firstseen":"2016-03-03T14:39:42.255788","maintainer":"sci-astronomy@gentoo.org","maintainername":"Gentoo Astronomy Project","name":"skymaker","packageid":65082,"summary":"SkyMaker is a program that simulates astronomical images. It accepts object lists in ASCII generated by the Stuff program to produce realistic astronomical fields. There are various options for the user: build a realistic Point Spread Function, generate a list of stars and galaxies. Galaxies are modeled analytically."},{"categoryid":339,"description":"Library for algorithms for models in fundamental astronomy","firstseen":"2013-04-24T13:37:15.295426","maintainer":"sci-astronomy@gentoo.org","maintainername":"Gentoo Astronomy Project","name":"sofa_c","packageid":60673,"summary":"This is a suite of vector\/matrix routines and various utilities that underpin the astronomy algorithms, which include routines for the following: * Calendars * Time Scales * Earth rotation and sidereal time * Ephemerides (medium precision) * Geocentric\/geodetic transformations * Precession, nutation, polar motion * Star space motion * Star catalogue conversion This is the ANSI C version of the library. The International Astronomical Union's SOFA service has the task of establishing and maintaining an accessible and authoritative set of algorithms and procedures that implement standard models used in fundamental astronomy."},{"categoryid":339,"description":"3D photo-realistic skies in real time","firstseen":"2010-05-04T00:54:45.661860","maintainer":"mr_bones_@gentoo.org","maintainername":"Gentoo Astronomy Project","name":"stellarium","packageid":45607,"summary":"Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors."},{"categoryid":339,"description":"Converts astronomical FITS images to the TIFF format","firstseen":"2010-05-04T00:54:45.661860","maintainer":"sci-astronomy@gentoo.org","maintainername":"Gentoo Astronomy Project","name":"stiff","packageid":49416,"summary":"STIFF is a program that convert scientific FITS images to the more popular TIFF, in 8 (grayscale) or 24 (true colour: 3 times 8) bits per pixel."},{"categoryid":339,"description":"Tool for automatic generation of astronomical catalogs","firstseen":"2016-03-03T14:39:42.255788","maintainer":"sci-astronomy@gentoo.org","maintainername":"Gentoo Astronomy Project","name":"stuff","packageid":65083,"summary":"Stuff is a program that simulates “perfect” astronomical catalogues. It generate object lists in ASCII which can read by the SkyMaker program to produce realistic astronomical fields."},{"categoryid":339,"description":"Resample and coadd astronomical FITS images","firstseen":"2010-05-04T00:54:45.661860","maintainer":"sci-astronomy@gentoo.org","maintainername":"Gentoo Astronomy Project","name":"swarp","packageid":46429},{"categoryid":339,"description":"Astronomical World Coordinate System transformations library","firstseen":"2010-05-04T00:54:45.661860","maintainer":"sci-astronomy@gentoo.org","maintainername":"Gentoo Astronomy Project","name":"wcslib","packageid":43471,"summary":"WCSLIB is a C library, supplied with a full set of Fortran wrappers, that implements the \"World Coordinate System\" (WCS) convention 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."},{"categoryid":339,"description":"World Coordinate System library for astronomical FITS images","firstseen":"2010-05-04T00:54:45.661860","maintainer":"sci-astronomy@gentoo.org","maintainername":"Gentoo Astronomy Project","name":"wcstools","packageid":51109,"summary":"Astronomers often need to relate positions on an image of the sky to positions on the real sky to identify catalogued objects in images, tell other people where to look to find an identified object, or to compute motions of planets, satellites, asteroids, or comets. WCSTools is a package of programs and a library of utility subroutines for setting and using the world coordinate systems (WCS) in the headers of the most common astronomical image formats, FITS and IRAF .imh, to relate image pixels to sky coordinates. The Gentoo package is using GNU autotools to produce portable shared and static libraried."},{"categoryid":339,"description":"Combine weight maps and polygon for astronomical images weighting","firstseen":"2016-03-03T14:39:42.255788","maintainer":"sci-astronomy@gentoo.org","maintainername":"Gentoo Astronomy Project","name":"weightwatcher","packageid":65084,"summary":"WeightWatcher is a program that combines weight-maps, flag-maps and polygon data in order to produce control maps which can directly be used in astronomical image-processing packages like Drizzle,"},{"categoryid":339,"description":"Interactive tool for astronomical ephemeris and sky simulation","firstseen":"2010-05-04T00:54:45.661860","maintainer":"sci-astronomy@gentoo.org","maintainername":"Gentoo Astronomy Project","name":"xephem","packageid":48938,"summary":"Xephem is an interactive astronomical ephemeris program for X Windows systems. It computes heliocentric, geocentric and topocentric information for fixed celestial objects and objects in heliocentric and geocentric orbits; has built-in support for all planet positions; the moons of Jupiter, Saturn and Earth; Mars' and Jupiter's central meridian longitude; Saturn's rings; and Jupiter's Great Red Spot."},{"categoryid":339,"description":"Viewer for astronomical images in FITS format","firstseen":"2010-05-04T00:54:45.661860","maintainer":"sci-astronomy@gentoo.org","maintainername":"Gentoo Astronomy Project","name":"xfitsview","packageid":45227,"summary":"XFITSview is a Graphical User Interface based on the Motif library to visualize astronomical images in the FITS format. It's a fairly simple program useful for doing simple astrometry."}]}