Debian Astro Pure Blend

#astrocode #AstroDatareduction #ScienceSoftware Random #Debian Astro package of the week is scamp. SCAMP reads SExtractor catalogs and computes astrometric and photometric solutions for any arbitrary sequence of FITS images in a completely automatic way. astromatic.net/software/scamp

This package contains the asdf command line tool. github.com/asdf-format/as… 3/3

successful, by being a 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. 2/3⤵

#astrocode #AstroTools #ScienceSoftware 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 1/3⤵

successful, by being a 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. github.com/asdf-format/as… 2/2

#astrocode #AstroPython #ScienceSoftware 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 1/2⤵

HMI and MDI observe the full solar disk at 6173 Å with high resolution, while AIA is designed to study the solar corona. github.com/sunpy/drms 4/4

aboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) designed to study oscillations and the magnetic field at the solar surface. The Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI) is the predecessor to the current HMI and was launched aboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). 3/4⤵

#astrocode #AstroPython #ScienceSoftware 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. 1/4⤵

geometry of images on the sky, and for creating and managing mosaics; these modules are powerful tools in their own right and have applicability outside mosaic production, in areas such as data validation. montage.ipac.caltech.edu 3/3

(astrometric) fidelity of 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 2/3⤵

#astrocode #SciencePublication #AstroPython #ScienceSoftware 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 1/3⤵

faster than numpy.histogram2d. github.com/astrofrog/fast… 3/3

just implements a 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 2/3⤵

#astrocode #AstroPython #ScienceSoftware 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 1/3⤵

This package provides a Python3 wrapper around the C++ implementation of HEALPix. healpy.readthedocs.org 3/3

surface in which each 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. 2/3⤵

#astrocode #AstroPython #ScienceSoftware 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 1/3⤵

This package includes some map files that can be used with xplanet. xplanet.sourceforge.net 2/2

#astrocode #DebianEdu #ScienceSoftware 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. 1/2⤵