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Resources currently sorted by:Popularity (Descending) Astrolinux  | | Description: | Live-CD of profesional astronomical software.
You can use this software without using linux in your computer because it can use a USB stick to store data.
Included software:
ESO-MIDAS
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PyMidas
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IRAF
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Pyraf
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Iris
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SpIris
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XEphem
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PyEphem
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SAO-DS9
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ESO-Eclipse
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Sextractor
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WCSTools
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| CFitsio
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HCompress
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PgPlot
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Gnuplot
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XAudine
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Bifsconv
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mpic2fits
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gcc/g++
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| | | Version: | 1.0 | | Filesize: | 505.86 Kb | | Added on: | 06-Nov-2007 | | Downloads: | 600 | | Category: | Linux | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
| XEphem | | Description: | The best and most know non Windows astronomy app. «Computes heliocentric, geocentric and topocentric information for all objects; has built-in support for all planets; the moons of Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Earth; central meridian longitude of Mars and Jupiter; Saturn's rings; and Jupiter's Great Red Spot. allows user-defined objects including stars, deepsky objects, asteroids, comets and Earth satellites. offers many large databases including Tycho, Hipparcos, GSC, USNO. Displays data in configurable tabular formats in conjunction with several interactive graphical views; graphically displays a 24 hour period showing when any selected objects are up; 3-D stereo views of the Solar System that are particularly well suited for visualizing comet trajectories; quickly finds all close pairs of objects in the sky; sorts and prints all catalogs with very flexible criteria for creating custom observing lists; can create plots of any pairs of all data fields throughout the program. Self downloads/updates from the Internet AAVSO light curves, current asteroid and comets lists from Lowell and MPC; timely Earth satellite orbital TLE parameters; Digitized Sky Survey FITS files from STScI or ESO. Displays seti@home client progress and plots position being processed on Sky View map; provides a handy spreadsheet for converting among equatorial, ecliptic, horizontal and galactic coordinates; includes a compiler for entering and solving user-written functions using any data fields; serves as the control point for GOTO telescopes such as Meade LX200 (Mac users will need a USB-to-Serial adaptor, not included, but we do support those made by KeySpan); displays FITS files and DSS images overlaid with properly registered database symbols and other graphical information; performs automatic star pattern matching to solve for accurate World Coordinate System on any image; performs 1-click 2D Gaussian relative and absolute photometry; lets you define and save any number of Eyepieces to use in sky maps; displays your own local horizon profile; can store sets of Sky View options for easy playback later; uses high quality Postscript for all printing.»
These (name link) are the Linux RPMs. A port for FreeBSD is also available. | | | Version: | 3.6 | | Filesize: | 2.38 MB | | Added on: | 01-Aug-2003 | | Downloads: | 519 | | Rating: | 10.0 (2 Votes) | | Category: | Linux | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | Comments (2) | |
| Skyviewer | | Description: | An OpenGL based program to display HEALPix-based skymaps, saved in FITS format files. The loaded skymaps can be viewed either on a 3D sphere or as a Mollweide projection. In either case, realtime panning and zooming are supported, along with rotations for the 3D sphere view, assuming you have a strong enough graphics card.
- Realtime rotation, zooming and panning of map
- Choice of 3D sphere or 2D Mollweide projection
- Adjustable mapping from pixel value to color table range
- View Temperature, Polarization or NumObs field
- Save screen shots to image file
- Contextual Help
- OS agnostic
Linux binary (built under a Red Hat 9 system) and source available (should work with Windows and Mac OSX as well). | | | Version: | 0.2.3 | | Filesize: | 459.46 Kb | | Added on: | 29-Dec-2005 | | Downloads: | 484 | | Category: | Linux | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
| AudeLA | | Description: | Offers advanced image processing and acquisition functions . Its originality lies in the fact that it is entirely reprogrammable using simple scripts.
Completely configurable : You can write scripts to automate all types of observations and even completely redesign the graphic user interface. The powerful and increasingly widespread scripting language used is TCL/TK, which is easy to learn. Ready-to-use and free scripts are available.
Multi-purpose : AudeLA enables not only camera control, but also full telescope control, locally or at long distance via a network.
Automation : AudeLA is especially conceived to automate the set of tasks necessary for a particular topic of observation. For example, if you want to make a survey of supernovae, AudeLA will be able to manage your telescope and camera without your intervention, will begin the observations at the beginning of night, take care of the pointing and shooting of the chosen galaxies, save the images and will finish off at the end of the night.
Philosophy of Aude and Audine: It controls the Audine camera. But can also control other cameras well (Genesis 16, SBIG-ST7, Hi-SIS11, Hi-SIS22, CookBook-245, Starlight-MX5, webcams, and Kitty-237) and several mountings (all protocols LX200 (Meade, Sky Sensor 2000, etc), AudeCom and Ouranos).
This is the Linux version. A Windows ersion is also available. | | | Version: | 1.2.7 | | Filesize: | 13.35 MB | | Added on: | 18-Sep-2003 | | Downloads: | 468 | | Category: | Linux | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
 Satellitarium | | Description: | Satellitarium is a graphical application that predicts the position of artificial satellites and displays them against the sky background.
Satellitarium computes high precision positions by using the standard SGP4/SDP4 satellite motion models. Orbital elements for satellites are loaded directly from standard TLE (two-line elements) files.
Beside position display, Satellitarium is capable of doing different searches on satellite conditions. It can, for example, search for visible passes over observer location or for eclipsing periods of satellites.
Features foreseen for future releases include printing and enhanced display. And, given that my brother owns a Meade ETX telescope, I could also try to add some real-time telescope tracking features.
Available as a Debian Package, RPM and source. | | | Version: | 0.0beta | | Filesize: | 292.97 Kb | | Added on: | 14-June-2004 | | Downloads: | 450 | | Category: | Linux | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
| KStars | | Description: | Part of KDE's «edutainment» project, «provides an accurate graphical simulation of the night sky, from any location on Earth, at any date and time. The display includes 130,000 stars, 13,000 deep-sky objects,all 8 planets, the Sun and Moon, and thousands of comets and asteroids.».
It is able to fetch online images for chosen objects. Telescope support with Indi is available.
Integrated multiple languages translation.
This is the Linux version. A Unix/BSD port is also available. | | | Version: | 3.4.0 | | Filesize: | 0 bytes | | Added on: | 01-Aug-2003 | | Downloads: | 417 | | Rating: | 9.1 (4 Votes) | | Category: | Linux | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
| Gnome Predict | | Description: | «Gnome Predict is a satellite tracking program for Gnome. In the begining it was just a GUI client to John Magliacane's Predict, but due to performance problems it has been decided to include the tracking code directly.
The current version can track a large number of satellites, display the satellite data in lists and/or show the satellites on maps. It is possible to have several lists and maps open at the same time in a separate windows or organized in a notebook (you can also have some of them in a notebook and some of them in their own window). The lists can be sorted and the maps can be saved and printed. You can alse make brief or detailed predictions of upcoming passes and each pass can be plotted in a radial plot. The predictions and plots can be saved and printed as well.»
| | | Version: | 1.4 | | Filesize: | 0 bytes | | Added on: | 01-Aug-2003 | | Downloads: | 413 | | Category: | Linux | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
| Planets 3D | | Description: | The purpose of Planets 3D is to show a simulation of our solar system. The focus lies on a nice graphic (3D OpenGL) and the possibility to modify the objects of the solar system to see what happens.
This program is written on Linux using C++. In theory it should be portable to windows, because only plattform independent libraries were used. Anyone who tries to port it please contact the author even if unsuccessful, perhaps he can help overcome arising errors.
Currently it includes a small program which converts different coordinate systems into each other. It is called Astroconvert.
Features of Planets3D are:
- simulate the development of the solar system based on calculations of the gravity power;
- take screenshots;
- load and save solar systems;
- modify solarsystem;
- switch between different cameras to view the solar system (e.g. look through a shuttle window.
Platform-Independent source and Linux i386 binary available for download. | | | Version: | 1.3 | | Filesize: | 505.49 Kb | | Added on: | 23-Jan-2004 | | Downloads: | 406 | | Category: | Linux | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
| PP3 | | Description: | PP3 creates celestial charts. It generates resolution independent sky maps of very high graphical quality. They can be used for example as illustrations in books or on web pages. Databases are included but you may use own data if you wish.
PP3 creates a LaTeX file. If Latex and Ghostscript are installed, PP3 creates Postscript and PDF files, too.
Best fited for Linux (RPMs available) it can also be used in Windows.
Note: PP3 stands for «Parvum Planetarium» (Latin for «Little Planetarium»).
| | | Version: | 1.3.2 | | Filesize: | 1.62 MB | | Added on: | 20-Oct-2003 | | Downloads: | 402 | | Rating: | 9.0 (1 Vote) | | Category: | Linux | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
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