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= Fedora Astronomy Packages =
= Fedora Astronomy Packages =


List of Astronomy packages that are already in Fedora. You can also check [[SIGs/Astronomy/Packages/UnderReview|  packages currently under review]] , [[SIGs/Astronomy/Packages/Proposed|  proposed packages]]  and [[SIGs/Astronomy/Packages/Refused|  refused packages]] .
List of Astronomy packages that are already in Fedora. You can also check [[SIGs/Astronomy/Packages/Proposed|  proposed packages]]  and [[SIGs/Astronomy/Packages/Refused|  refused packages]] .




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|[https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/accrete Accrete] || Accrete is a physical simulation of solar system planet formation. This simulation works by modelling a dust cloud around a Sun-like star, injecting a series of masses which collect dust, and form planets by accretion.
|[[pkgdb:celestia|Celestia]] || Free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions.
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|[https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/celestia Celestia] ||Free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions.
|[[pkgdb:stellarium|Stellarium]] || 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.
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|[https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/stellarium Stellarium] ||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.
|[[pkgdb:planets|Planets]] || Planets is a simple interactive program for playing with simulations of planetary systems.
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|[https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/redmode Redmode] ||Switch to and from night red mode.
|[[pkgdb:orsa|orsa]] || ORSA is an interactive tool for scientific grade Celestial Mechanics computations. Asteroids, comets, artificial satellites, Solar and extra-Solar planetary systems can be accurately reproduced, simulated, and analyzed.
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|[https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/planets Planets] ||Planets is a simple interactive program for playing with simulations of planetary systems.
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|[https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/openuniverse openuniverse] ||OpenUniverse is a solar system simulation.
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== Image processing ==
== Image processing ==
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|[https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/ds9 ds9]  || Astronomical Data Visualization Application.
|[[pkgdb:astrometry|astrometry]]  || Blind astrometric calibration of arbitrary astronomical images.
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|[[pkgdb:ccdciel|ccdciel]]  || A free CCD capture software intended for the amateur astronomer.
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|[[pkgdb:ginga|ginga]]  || Image Viewer and Toolkit.
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|[https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/munipack MuniPack] ||MuniPack is a CCD photometry package developed by Filip Hroch under and for Linux.
|[[pkgdb:siril|Siril]] || Siril is an astronomical image processing software for Linux.
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|[https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/siril Siril] ||Siril is an astronomical image processing software for Linux.
|[[pkgdb:swarp|swarp]] || SWarp is a program that resamples and co-adds together FITS images  using any arbitrary astrometric projection defined in the WCS standard.
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|[https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/gcx gcx] ||Data-reduction tool for CCD photomet.
|[[pkgdb:wcstools|wcstools]]|| Software utilities to display and manipulate the WCS of a FITS image.
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|[https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/gpredict gpredict] ||Gpredict is a real-time satellite tracking and orbit prediction application.
|[[pkgdb:gpredict|gpredict]] || Gpredict is a real-time satellite tracking and orbit prediction application.
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|[[pkgdb:corrida|corrida]] || Meteorites archiver.
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|[https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/kdeedu KStars] ||The display includes 130,000 stars, 13,000 deep-sky objects,all 8 planets, the Sun and Moon, and thousands of comets and asteroids.
|[[pkgdb:kdeedu|KStars]] || The display includes 130,000 stars, 13,000 deep-sky objects,all 8 planets, the Sun and Moon, and thousands of comets and asteroids.
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|[[pkgdb:spacechart|messigy]] || Messiggy is a database of celestial objects, as cataloged by the French astronomer Charles Messier in the mid-18th century.
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|[https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/spacechart spacechart] ||A 3D star-mapping program.
|[[pkgdb:skychart|Cartes du Ciel/SkyChart]] || A software to draw chart of the night sky for the amateur astronomer from a bunch of stars and nebulae catalogs.
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|[https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/nightfall Nightfall] ||Nightfall is an astronomy application for fun, education, and science. It can produce animated views of eclipsing binary stars, calculate synthetic lightcurves and radial velocity curves, and eventually determine the best-fit model for a given set of observational data of an eclipsing binary star system
|[[pkgdb:cloudy|Cloudy]] || Spectral synthesis code to simulate conditions in interstellar matter.
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|[https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/rmap Rmap] ||Rmap is a package that will allow you to generate images of the earth from a distance or fairly zoomed.
|[[pkgdb:gnuradio|GNURadio]] || Gnuradio is a software defined radio framework.
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|[https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/sextractor Sextractor] ||SExtractor is a program that builds a catalogue of objects from an astronomical image.
|[[pkgdb:grc|GRC]] || The GNU Radio Companion is a preliminary graphical user interface which allows GNU Radio components to be put together graphically.
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|[https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/starplot StarPlot] ||StarPlot is a program for Unix that allows you to view charts of the relative 3-dimensional positions of stars in space.
|[[pkgdb:sextractor|Sextractor]] || SExtractor is a program that builds a catalogue of objects from an astronomical image.
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|[https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/xstar/ xstar] ||N-body simulator
|[[pkgdb:starplot|StarPlot]] || StarPlot is a program for Unix that allows you to view charts of the relative 3-dimensional positions of stars in space.
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|[https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/jday/ jday] || A simple command to convert calendar dates to julian dates. Quite useful in timing situations where you need elapsed time between dates.
|[[pkgdb:boinc-client|boinc-client]] || A platform for distributed computing.
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|[https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/cloudy Cloudy] ||Spectral synthesis code to simulate conditions in interstellar matter.
| [[pkgdb:cpl|cpl]] || ESO library for automated astronomical data-reduction
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|[https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/ggobi GGobi] ||GGobi is a data visualization system for viewing high-dimensional data.
|[[pkgdb:extrema|extrema]] || Extrema is a powerful visualization and data analysis tool that enables researchers to quickly distill their large, complex data sets into meaningful information.
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|[https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/gnuradio GNURadio] ||Gnuradio is a software defined radio framework.
|[[pkgdb:healpix|healpix]] || Hierarchical Equal Area isoLatitude Pixelization of a sphere.
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|[https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/boinc-client boinc-client] ||A platform for distributed computing.
|[[pkgdb:jday|jday]] || A simple command to convert calendar dates to julian dates. Quite useful in timing situations where you need elapsed time between dates.
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|[https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/extrema extrema] ||Extrema is a powerful visualization and data analysis tool that enables researchers to quickly distill their large, complex data sets into meaningful information.
| [[pkgdb:psfex|psfex]] ||  Model the Point Spread Function from FITS images
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| [[pkgdb:wcslib|wcslib]] || An implementation of the FITS World Coordinate System standard
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| [[pkgdb:radial|radial]] || A simple program for calculating radial velocities of stars in a binary system
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|[https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/nexcontrol nexcontrol] ||Software to control your Celestron NexStar Telescope
|[[pkgdb:libindi|indi]] || Instrument Neutral Distributed Interface
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|[[pkgdb:indistarter|indistarter]] || A GUI for controlling local and remote INDI servers
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|[[pkgdb:nexcontrol|nexcontrol]] || Software to control your Celestron NexStar Telescope
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|[[pkgdb:phd2|phd2]] || Telescope guiding software.
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|[https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/astronomy-bookmarks astronomy-bookmarks] ||Fedora astronomy bookmarks.
|[[pkgdb:calceph|calceph]] || Astronomical library to access planetary ephemeris files.
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|[[pkgdb:cdsclient|cdsclient]] || Tools to query databases at CDS.
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[[Category:Astronomy SIG|Packages]]
 
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[[Category:Astronomy]]

Latest revision as of 07:15, 1 September 2021

Fedora Astronomy Packages

List of Astronomy packages that are already in Fedora. You can also check proposed packages and refused packages .


Simulators

Celestia Free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions.
Stellarium 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.
Planets Planets is a simple interactive program for playing with simulations of planetary systems.
orsa ORSA is an interactive tool for scientific grade Celestial Mechanics computations. Asteroids, comets, artificial satellites, Solar and extra-Solar planetary systems can be accurately reproduced, simulated, and analyzed.

Image processing

astrometry Blind astrometric calibration of arbitrary astronomical images.
ccdciel A free CCD capture software intended for the amateur astronomer.
ginga Image Viewer and Toolkit.
Siril Siril is an astronomical image processing software for Linux.
swarp SWarp is a program that resamples and co-adds together FITS images using any arbitrary astrometric projection defined in the WCS standard.
wcstools Software utilities to display and manipulate the WCS of a FITS image.

Observing

gpredict Gpredict is a real-time satellite tracking and orbit prediction application.
corrida Meteorites archiver.

Star charts

KStars The display includes 130,000 stars, 13,000 deep-sky objects,all 8 planets, the Sun and Moon, and thousands of comets and asteroids.
messigy Messiggy is a database of celestial objects, as cataloged by the French astronomer Charles Messier in the mid-18th century.
Cartes du Ciel/SkyChart A software to draw chart of the night sky for the amateur astronomer from a bunch of stars and nebulae catalogs.

Data processing

Cloudy Spectral synthesis code to simulate conditions in interstellar matter.
GNURadio Gnuradio is a software defined radio framework.
GRC The GNU Radio Companion is a preliminary graphical user interface which allows GNU Radio components to be put together graphically.
Sextractor SExtractor is a program that builds a catalogue of objects from an astronomical image.
StarPlot StarPlot is a program for Unix that allows you to view charts of the relative 3-dimensional positions of stars in space.
boinc-client A platform for distributed computing.
cpl ESO library for automated astronomical data-reduction
extrema Extrema is a powerful visualization and data analysis tool that enables researchers to quickly distill their large, complex data sets into meaningful information.
healpix Hierarchical Equal Area isoLatitude Pixelization of a sphere.
jday A simple command to convert calendar dates to julian dates. Quite useful in timing situations where you need elapsed time between dates.
psfex Model the Point Spread Function from FITS images
wcslib An implementation of the FITS World Coordinate System standard
radial A simple program for calculating radial velocities of stars in a binary system

Telescope control

indi Instrument Neutral Distributed Interface
indistarter A GUI for controlling local and remote INDI servers
nexcontrol Software to control your Celestron NexStar Telescope
phd2 Telescope guiding software.

Others

calceph Astronomical library to access planetary ephemeris files.
cdsclient Tools to query databases at CDS.
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