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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 | |
| 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. | 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. | Being packaged by LubomirRintel | |
| 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 | |
| opencoeli | OpenCoeli [ce:li] is free open source (GPLv2) astronomical planetarium. | None | |
| skylive | Software for astronomic observation and CCD image acquisition trough internet in REAL TIME. | None | |
| Name of proposed package | Short summary | Packager |