SIGs/Astronomy/Packages/Proposed

Fedora Astronomy proposed packages

This is list of packages proposed to be included in Fedora.

If you are interested in helping and want to package any of them, feel free to do so. Have no experience with RPM packaging? No problem, just drop a message to the mailing list and we'll mentor you!

Don't forget to move the entry to UnderReview once you submit a review.

When adding a package, please double-check packages already in Fedora and refused packages first.

You're encouraged to add a note to the table below if you'll really appreciate some particular package in Fedora. We'll use it when deciding what to package next!

Package name	Description	Packager	Note
astrobuffer	AstroBuffer is a CCD astrophotography image manipulation application.	-	Next version will be out by end of next month
astroguider	Astroguider analyzes the picture taken by a Webcam (or any other camera), and follows an object (e.g. a star).	None	Needs patching
+AstroMD	A Multi Dimensional visualization and analysis toolkit for astrophysics.	None
+ audela	Audela is a free and open source astronomy software intended for digital observations (guider)	None	Hard one
AVSOMAT	A small utility to automate the reduction of variable stars.	None
+ 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.	LubomirRintel	Ready to review, pending lazarus fix for fpc-2.2.2
Chicam	chicam is a small suite of command line utilities to process frames from webcams or digital SLRs.	None
einstein	Einstein@GNOME is a GNOME panel applet that lets you participate in the Einstein@Home neutron star search.	DebarshiRay
+ ESO-MIDAS	The ESO-MIDAS system provides general tools for image processing and data reduction.	SergioPascual	Testing a first version of the package.
Indi	INDI is a distributed control protocol designed to operate astronomical instrumentation.	HuzaifaSidhpurwala
MarsMOLA	The Mars Orbiter Laser Alitimeter experiment carried on the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft produced a topographic map of the entire surface of Mars.	None
NightView	The NightView is a software package to control of the SBIG's CCD cameras under Linux. It provides full iterative or batch control of a camera and a filter wheel. It is developed on Monte Boo observatory as a main control software of our camera and telescope. The develop is under GPL so a source code is open for possible changes.	LubomirRintel
Nova	Nova is a free integrated observational environment for amateur astronomers. It's aim is to combine ephemeris, sky view, observatory control and basic image capture functionality into an easy to use Gnome application.	None
OrbitViewer	OrbitViewer is an interactive applet that displays the orbit of small bodies (comets or asteroids) in the solar system in 3D	None
PartView	Partiview is free, open-source software from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.	None
PP3	PP3 creates celestial charts. It generates resolution independent maps of very high graphical quality. They can be used for example as illustrations in books or on web pages. You may use own databases or free ones from the Internet.	None
PyIraf	Python interface to Iraf (but Iraf isn't free for the moment).	SergioPascual	Packaged, but unusable without Iraf
PyMidas	Python interface to Midas	None
Qastrocam	Qastrocam is a capture program that can work with any video4linux device. Its main purpose is to do astrophotography.	None
radial	This program calculates the radial velocities of both stars in a binary system	None
s4l	Mel Bartels SCOPE telescope stepper controller program	None
savi	SaVi is software written to facilitate the visualization and analysis	None
+ shiny	SBIG cameras control	None
SImg	SImg is a software mainly developed for astronomical image processing.	None
SkyDome	SkyDome is a starmap including the radio sky with an original user interface.	None
skyviewer	OpenGL based program to display HEALPix -based skymaps	None
Starbase Data Tables	an ASCII relational database for UNIX.	None
Starlink	Starlink is a collection of software packages used by many astronomers. All GPL'ed, but a mess to package up.	None'
wcslib	An implementation of the FITS WCS standard	None
coriander	Coriander is the Linux graphical user interface (GUI) for controlling a Digital Camera through the IEEE1394 bus (aka FireWire, or iLink).	None
+ corrida	Meteorites archiver.	None
SkyViewer	SkyViewer is an OpenGL-based program written by Nicholas Phillips to display HEALPix-based sky maps from FITS format files. The program will display sky maps on a 3D sphere or a 2D Mollweide projection. Real time panning and zooming are supported, as are rotations of the 3D sphere (if you have a fast graphics card).	None
planets3d	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.	None
xplns	Xplns reproduces real starry sky on your display of X Window System. It calculates the position of many celestial objects (stars, galaxies, nebulae, constellations, planets, comets, etc.) very accurately. You can enjoy the past and future sky on the desk top as if you have traveled all around the world. In solar system projection mode, you can examine motion of solar objects.	None
galaxy	...	None
low predict	PREDICT is an open-source, multi-user satellite tracking and orbital prediction program written under the Linux operating system by John A. Magliacane, KD2BD.	None
starcats	A Star Catalog visualization and data record retrieval tool.	None
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