SIGs/Astronomy/Packages

Fedora Astronomy Packages

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

Simulators

pkgdb: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.
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.
pkgdb:redmode Redmode	Switch to and from night red mode.
pkgdb:planets Planets	Planets is a simple interactive program for playing with simulations of planetary systems.
pkgdb:openuniverse openuniverse	OpenUniverse is a solar system simulation.
pkgdb:mars-sim mars-sim	The Mars Simulation Project is a free software Java project to create a simulation of future human settlement of Mars.
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.
pkgdb:justmoon Just Moon	Just Moon: a moon viewer.

Image processing

pkgdb:ds9 ds9	Astronomical Data Visualization Application.
pkgdb:gcx gcx	Data-reduction tool for CCD photomet.
pkgdb: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.
pkgdb:wcstools wcstools	Software utilities to display and manipulate the WCS of a FITS image.
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.
pkgdb:opticalraytracer opticalraytracer	Utility that analyzes systems of lenses.
pkgdb:saoimage SAOimage	SAOimage (pronounced S-A-0-image) is a utility for displaying astronomical images in the X11 window environment.

Observing

pkgdb:gpredict gpredict	Gpredict is a real-time satellite tracking and orbit prediction application.
pkgdb:xvarstar xvarstar	XVarStar is a astronomical program written for variable star observers, and is used for searching GCVS catalogue.
pkgdb:corrida corrida	Meteorites archiver.

Star charts

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.
pkgdb:spacechart spacechart	A 3D star-mapping program.
pkgdb:spacechart messigy	Messiggy is a database of celestial objects, as cataloged by the French astronomer Charles Messier in the mid-18th century.
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.

Data processing

pkgdb: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:rmap Rmap	Rmap is a package that will allow you to generate images of the earth from a distance or fairly zoomed.
pkgdb:sextractor Sextractor	SExtractor is a program that builds a catalogue of objects from an astronomical image.
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.
pkgdb:xstar xstar	N-body simulator
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.
pkgdb:cloudy Cloudy	Spectral synthesis code to simulate conditions in interstellar matter.
pkgdb:ggobi GGobi	GGobi is a data visualization system for viewing high-dimensional data.
pkgdb:gnuradio GNURadio	Gnuradio is a software defined radio framework.
pkgdb:grc GRC	The GNU Radio Companion is a preliminary graphical user interface which allows GNU Radio components to be put together graphically.
pkgdb:boinc-client boinc-client	A platform for distributed computing.
pkgdb:cpl cpl	ESO library for automated astronomical data-reduction
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.
pkgdb:starlab starlab	A package for simulating the evolution of dense stellar systems
pkgdb:funtools funtools	Minimal FITS library and utilities
pkgdb:pp3 pp3	Creation of sky charts in Postscript or PDF format
pkgdb:wcslib wcslib	An implementation of the FITS World Coordinate System standard

Telescope control

pkgdb:libindi indi	Instrument Neutral Distributed Interface
pkgdb:nexcontrol nexcontrol	Software to control your Celestron NexStar Telescope
pkgdb:nightview nightview	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.

Others

pkgdb:astronomy-bookmarks astronomy-bookmarks	Fedora astronomy bookmarks.
pkgdb:python-numdisplay python-numdisplay	Visualize numpy array objects in ds9.