GUI parameter editing and help. It can be imported into Python allowing you to run IRAF commands from within a larger script.
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GUI parameter editing and help. It can be imported into Python allowing you to run IRAF commands from within a larger script.
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#astrocode #IRAF #AstroPython #ScienceSoftware
Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-pyraf. PyRAF is a command language for running IRAF tasks in a Python like environment. It works very similar to IRAF CL, but has been updated to allow such things as importing Python modules,
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hybrid text and binary format: containing human editable metadata for interchange, and raw binary data that is fast to load and use. Unlike FITS, the metadata is highly structured and is designed up-front for extensibility.
This package contains the asdf command line tool.
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is asdftool. ASDF (Advanced Scientific Data Format) is a proposed next generation interchange format for scientific data. ASDF aims to exist in the same middle ground that made FITS so successful, by being a
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hybrid text and binary format: containing human editable metadata for interchange, and raw binary data that is fast to load and use. Unlike FITS, the metadata is highly structured and is designed up-front for extensibility.
This is the Python 3 package.
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-asdf. ASDF (Advanced Scientific Data Format) is a proposed next generation interchange format for scientific data. ASDF aims to exist in the same middle ground that made FITS so successful, by being a
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The Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI) is the predecessor to the current HMI and was launched aboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). HMI and MDI observe the full solar disk at 6173 Å with high resolution, while AIA is designed to study the solar corona.
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but can also be used with local NetDRMS sites.
The Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) and the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) are instruments aboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) designed to study oscillations and the magnetic field at the solar surface.
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-drms. The drms module provides an easy-to-use Python interface for accessing HMI, AIA and MDI data with Python. It uses the publicly accessible Joint Science Operations Center (JSOC) server by default,
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managing mosaics; these modules are powerful tools in their own right and have applicability outside mosaic production, in areas such as data validation.
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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
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-montagepy. MontagePy is a toolkit for assembling astronomical images into custom mosaics.
It uses algorithms that preserve the calibration and positional (astrometric) fidelity of
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simple histogram algorithm in C and keeps it simple. The aim is to have functions that are fast but also robust and reliable. The result is a 1D histogram function here that is 7-15x faster than numpy.histogram, and a 2D histogram function that is 20-25x faster than numpy.histogram2d.
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-fast-histogram. fast-histogram aims to provide simple and fast histogram functions for regular bins that don't compromise on performance. It doesn't do anything complicated - it just implements a
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pixel covers the same surface area as every other pixel. It is commonly used to store all-sky astronomical images, most famously maps of the cosmic microwave background.
This package provides a Python3 wrapper around the C++ implementation of HEALPix.
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-healpy. HEALPix is an acronym for Hierarchical Equal Area isoLatitude Pixelization of a sphere. As suggested in the name, this pixelization produces a subdivision of a spherical surface in which each
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is xplanet-images. Xplanet renders an image of a planet into an X window or a file.
In order to run xplanet, you'll need at least one map file. This package includes some map files that can be used with xplanet.
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
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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
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Python to easily perform repetitive operations such as simulate the observation of multiple type of sources through multiple observing modes.
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instrument mode.
pysynphot can help HST observers to perform cross-instrument simulations, to examine the transmission curve of the HST Optical Telescope Assembly (OTA), and spectra of HST calibration targets. Expert users can take advantage of the control and data structures available in
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* Query the resulting structures for quantities of interest, such as
countrate, effective wavelength, effective stimulus, as well as the
wavelength and flux arrays.
* Plot HST sensitivity curves and calibration target spectra.
* Compute photometric calibration parameters for any HST
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incorporate their own filters, spectra, and data. pysynphot user interface allows you to:
* Construct complicated composite spectra from various grids of model
atmosphere spectra, parameterized spectrum models, and atlases of stellar
spectrophotometry.
* Simulate observations.
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-pysynphot. pysynphot simulates photometric data and spectra as they are observed with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Passbands for standard photometric systems are available, and users can
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is indi-starbook. This package contains the INDI driver for the Vixen Starbook telescope controllers. It aims for compatibility with first generation Starbook.
This driver is compatible with any INDI client
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NexStar GPS-SA, NexStar iSeries, NexStar SE Series, NexStar GT, CPC, SLT, Advanced-VX, Advanced-GT, CGE, CGEM etc. SkyWatcher: EQ5, HEQ5, EQ6 (Pro), AZ-EQ5 GT, AZ-EQ6 GT, EQ8 etc. and the corresponding Orion mounts. This package contains the development files of the library
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is libnexstar-dev. This library implements the serial commands supported by the Celestron NexStar hand control (HC) and SkyWatcher/Orion SynScan HC. This applies to the Celestron: NexStar GPS,
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