Summary
Astronomy
Debian Science Astronomy packages
This metapackage will install Debian Science packages related to
Astronomy. You might also be interested in field::astronomy debtag
and, depending on your focus, in the education-astronomy metapackage.
The list to the right includes various software projects which are of some interest to the Debian Science Project. Currently, only a few of them are available as Debian packages. It is our goal, however, to include all software in Debian Science which can sensibly add to a high quality Debian Pure Blend.
For a better overview of the project's availability as a Debian package, each head row has a color code according to this scheme:
If you discover a project which looks like a good candidate for Debian Science
to you, or if you have prepared an unofficial Debian package, please do not hesitate to
send a description of that project to the Debian Science mailing list
Links to other tasks
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Debian Science Astronomy packages
Official Debian packages with high relevance
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Astronomical-almanac
astronomical almanac - calculate planet and star positions
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| Versions of package astronomical-almanac |
| Release | Version | Architectures |
| sid | 5.6-3 | s390,alpha,amd64,armel,hppa,hurd-i386,i386,ia64,mips,mipsel,powerpc,sparc |
| squeeze | 5.6-3 | sparc,powerpc,ia64,i386,hppa,s390,armel,amd64,mipsel,mips |
| etch | 5.6-2+b1 | sparc |
| lenny | 5.6-2+b1 | sparc |
| etch | 5.6-2 | arm,hppa,mipsel,mips,alpha,s390,i386,powerpc,ia64,amd64 |
| lenny | 5.6-2 | s390,ia64,mips,arm,powerpc,mipsel,armel,hppa,amd64,alpha,i386 |
| Debtags of package astronomical-almanac: |
| field | astronomy |
| role | program |
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License: DFSG free
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The aa program computes the orbital positions of planetary bodies and
performs rigorous coordinate reductions to apparent geocentric and
topocentric place (local altitude and azimuth). It also reduces star
catalogue positions given in either the FK4 or FK5 system. Data for
the 57 navigational stars is included. Most of the algorithms
employed are from The Astronomical Almanac (AA) published by the
U.S. Government Printing Office.
The aa program follows the rigorous algorithms for reduction of
celestial coordinates exactly as laid out in current editions of
the Astronomical Almanac. The reduction to apparent geocentric
place has been checked by a special version of the program (aa200)
that takes planetary positions directly from the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory DE200 numerical integration of the solar system. The
results agree exactly with the Astronomical Almanac tables from
1987 onward (earlier Almanacs used slightly different reduction
methods).
Certain computations, such as the correction for nutation,
are not given explicitly in the AA but are referenced there. In
these cases the program performs the full computations that are
used to construct the Almanac tables (references are provided).
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Boinc-app-milkyway
Milkyway@home application for the BOINC client
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| Versions of package boinc-app-milkyway |
| Release | Version | Architectures |
| sid | 0.18d-1 | mips,armel,mipsel,hurd-i386,powerpc,i386,s390,amd64,sparc,alpha,ia64,hppa |
| squeeze | 0.18d-1 | sparc,amd64,armel,hppa,i386,ia64,mips,mipsel,powerpc,s390 |
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License: DFSG free
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The goal of Milkyway@Home is to use the BOINC platform to harness
volunteered computing resources in creating a highly accurate three
dimensional model of the Milky Way galaxy using data gathered by the
Sloan Digital Sky Survey. This project enables research in both
astroinformatics and computer science.
In computer science, the project is investigating different optimization
methods which are resilient to the fault-prone, heterogeneous and
asynchronous nature of Internet computing; such as evolutionary and
genetic algorithms, as well as asynchronous newton methods. While in
astroinformatics, Milkyway@Home is generating highly accurate three
dimensional models of the Sagittarius stream, which provides knowledge
about how the Milky Way galaxy was formed and how tidal tails are
created when galaxies merge.
This package contains the Milkyway@home application for the BOINC
distributed computing platform.
Note that this package has been primarily created for users of
architectures for which Milkyway@home does not provide its application.
If your architecture is x86 or AMD64 the BOINC client automatically
downloads the latest Milkyway@home application if you participate in this
project. There is no need to install this package then.
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Celestia
A real-time visual space simulation
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| Versions of package celestia |
| Release | Version | Architectures |
| sid | 1.5.1+dfsg1-2 | all |
| squeeze | 1.5.1+dfsg1-2 | all |
| lenny | 1.5.1+dfsg1-1 | all |
| upstream | 1.6.0 |
| Debtags of package celestia: |
| field | astronomy |
| interface | x11, 3d |
| role | program |
| scope | application |
| use | viewing, learning, gameplaying |
| x11 | application |
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License: DFSG free
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Celestia is a free 3D astronomy program. Based on the Hipparcos
Catalogue, it allows users to display objects ranging in scale from
artificial satellites to entire galaxies in three dimensions using
OpenGL. Unlike most planetarium software, the user is free to travel
about the Universe.
This is a dummy package that selects at least one frontend for Celestia.
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Fv
a tool for viewing and editing FITS format files
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| Versions of package fv |
| Release | Version | Architectures |
| lenny | 3.0-17 | s390,ia64,alpha,powerpc,amd64,mips,arm,armel,sparc,hppa,mipsel,i386 |
| etch | 3.0-15 | alpha,amd64,arm,hppa,i386,ia64,mips,mipsel,powerpc,s390,sparc |
| Debtags of package fv: |
| field | astronomy |
| interface | x11 |
| role | program |
| scope | application |
| special | completely-tagged |
| uitoolkit | tk |
| use | viewing, editing, downloading |
| works-with | image:vector, image:raster, image |
| x11 | application |
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License: DFSG free
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Fv provides a graphical user interface to data stored in FITS
(Flexible Image Transport System) files. Local files can be created,
viewed and edited, files on the internet can be opened read-only
through the http and ftp protocols. Through the POWplot program,
FITS data can be visualized in a large variety of styles. An
interface to the SkyView online database allows for searching,
downloading, and plotting of images and object lists for a region of
the sky.
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Gcx
astronomical image processing and photometry gtk+ application
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| Versions of package gcx |
| Release | Version | Architectures |
| sid | 1.1-1 | s390,hppa,hurd-i386,powerpc,amd64,i386,sparc,alpha,ia64,mipsel,armel,mips |
| etch | 0.9.8-2 | alpha,amd64,arm,hppa,i386,ia64,mips,mipsel,powerpc,s390,sparc |
| lenny | 0.9.11-4 | hppa,i386,sparc,ia64,s390,mips,mipsel,alpha,amd64,arm,armel,powerpc |
| Debtags of package gcx: |
| field | astronomy |
| interface | x11, commandline |
| role | program |
| scope | utility |
| special | completely-tagged |
| uitoolkit | gtk |
| use | viewing, converting |
| works-with | image:raster, image |
| x11 | application |
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License: DFSG free
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Gcx is an astronomical image processing and data reduction tool,
with an easy to use graphical user interface. It provides a
complete set of data reduction functions for CCD photometry,
with frame WCS fitting, automatic star identification, aperture
photometry of target and standard stars, single-frame ensemble
photometry solution finding, multi-frame color coefficient
fitting, extinction coefficient fitting, and all-sky photometry;
as well as general-purpose astronomical image processing functions
(bias, dark, flat, frame alignment and stacking); It can function
as a FITS viewer.
The program can control CCD cameras and telescopes, and implement
automatic observation scripting. Cameras are controlled through a
hardware-specific server, to which gcx connects through a TCP socket.
It generates FITS files with comprehensive header information.
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Gpredict
Satellite tracking program
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| Versions of package gpredict |
| Release | Version | Architectures |
| sid | 1.1-3 | i386,sparc,powerpc,hurd-i386,hppa,armel,s390,amd64,alpha,mipsel,mips |
| sid | 0.8.0-2+b1 | ia64 |
| squeeze | 0.8.0-2+b1 | s390,amd64,armel,hppa,i386,ia64,mips,mipsel,powerpc,sparc |
| lenny | 0.8.0-2 | ia64,alpha,mips,mipsel,arm,armel,sparc,hppa,s390,i386,amd64,powerpc |
| etch | 0.6.1-1 | hppa,mips,amd64,arm,s390,i386,sparc,powerpc,mipsel,ia64,alpha |
| upstream | 0.9.0 |
| Debtags of package gpredict: |
| field | astronomy |
| hardware | hamradio |
| interface | x11 |
| role | program |
| scope | application |
| suite | gnome |
| uitoolkit | gtk |
| use | monitor |
| x11 | application |
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License: DFSG free
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Gpredict is a real time satellite tracking program for GNOME, based on
the tracking engine of John Magliacane's excellent satellite tracker Predict.
Gpredict includes the following features:
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Tracking an infinite number of satellites only limited by the
physical memory and processing power of the computer.
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Display the tracking data in lists, maps, polar plots and any
combination of these.
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You can have many modules open at the same either in a
notebook or in their own windows. The module can also run in
full-screen mode.
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You can use many ground stations. Ground station coordinates
can either be entered manually or you can get some appriximate values
from a list with more than 2000 predefined locations worldwide.
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Predict upcoming passes for satellites, including passes where a
satellite may be visible and communication windows
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Very detailed information about both the real time data and the
predicted passes.
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Gpredict can run in real-time, simulated real-time (fast forward and
backward), and manual time control.
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Doppler tuning of radios via Hamlib rigctld.
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Antenna rotator control via Hamlib rotctld.
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Kstars
desktop planetarium for KDE 4
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| Versions of package kstars |
| Release | Version | Architectures |
| sid | 4.3.4-1 | i386,amd64,s390,alpha |
| sid | 4.3.2-1 | armel,hppa,ia64,mips,mipsel,powerpc,sparc |
| squeeze | 4.3.2-1 | amd64,mips,ia64,hppa,sparc,powerpc,armel,mipsel,s390,i386 |
| lenny | 3.5.9-2 | ia64,mipsel,hppa,mips,alpha,amd64,powerpc,s390,sparc,arm,armel,i386 |
| etch | 3.5.5-1 | mipsel,mips,amd64,sparc,arm,alpha,s390,hppa,i386,powerpc,ia64 |
| Debtags of package kstars: |
| field | astronomy |
| interface | x11 |
| role | program |
| suite | kde |
| uitoolkit | qt |
| use | learning |
| x11 | application |
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License: DFSG free
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KStars is a desktop planetarium for KDE 4, depicting an accurate graphical
simulation of the night sky, from any location on Earth, at any date and time.
The display includes 130,000 stars, 13,000 deep-sky objects, all 8 planets,
the Sun and Moon, and thousands of comets and asteroids. It includes tools
for astronomical calculations and can control telescopes and cameras.
This package is part of the KDE 4 education module.
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Libcfitsio3
shared library for I/O with FITS format data files
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| Versions of package libcfitsio3 |
| Release | Version | Architectures |
| sid | 3.210-3 | s390,alpha,amd64,armel,hppa,hurd-i386,i386,ia64,mips,mipsel,powerpc,sparc |
| squeeze | 3.210-3 | sparc,powerpc,ia64,i386,hppa,s390,armel,amd64,mipsel,mips |
| lenny | 3.080-2 | i386,sparc,hppa,amd64,mips,arm,powerpc,s390,mipsel,armel,alpha,ia64 |
| etch | 3.006-1.3 | arm,s390,mips,mipsel,powerpc,amd64,sparc,hppa,alpha,i386,ia64 |
| Debtags of package libcfitsio3: |
| role | shared-lib |
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License: DFSG free
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FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) is a data format most used in
astronomy. cfitsio is a library of ANSI C routines for reading and
writing FITS format data files. A set of Fortran-callable wrapper
routines are also included for the convenience of Fortran
programmers.
This package contains what you need to run programs that use this
library.
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Lightspeed
Shows how objects moving at relativistic speeds look like
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| Versions of package lightspeed |
| Release | Version | Architectures |
| etch | 1.2a-7 | arm,s390,mips,mipsel,powerpc,amd64,sparc,hppa,alpha,i386,ia64 |
| lenny | 1.2a-7 | i386,sparc,hppa,amd64,mips,arm,powerpc,s390,mipsel,armel,alpha,ia64 |
| sid | 1.2a-7 | s390,alpha,amd64,armel,hppa,hurd-i386,i386,ia64,mips,mipsel,powerpc,sparc |
| squeeze | 1.2a-7 | sparc,powerpc,ia64,i386,hppa,s390,armel,amd64,mipsel,mips |
| Debtags of package lightspeed: |
| field | astronomy |
| game | toys |
| interface | 3d |
| role | program |
| uitoolkit | gtk |
| use | entertaining |
| works-with | 3dmodel |
| x11 | application |
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License: DFSG free
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Light Speed! is an OpenGL-based program which illustrates the effects of
special relativity on the appearance of moving objects. When an object
accelerates past a few million meters per second, these effects begin to
grow noticeable, becoming more and more pronounced as the speed of light
is approached. These relativistic effects are viewpoint-dependent, and
include shifts in length, object hue, brightness and shape.
The moving object is, by default, a geometric lattice. 3D Studio and
LightWave 3D objects may be imported as well. Best of all, the simulator
is completely interactive, rendering the exotic distortions in real-time!
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Openuniverse
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| Versions of package openuniverse |
| Release | Version | Architectures |
| etch | 1.0beta3.1-6+b1 | hppa |
| etch | 1.0beta3.1-6 | amd64,mips,ia64,arm,i386,mipsel,sparc,alpha,powerpc,s390 |
| sid | 1.0beta3.1-6 | hurd-i386 |
| sid | 1.0beta3.1+dfsg-1+b1 | s390,alpha,amd64,armel,hppa,i386,ia64,mips,mipsel,powerpc,sparc |
| squeeze | 1.0beta3.1+dfsg-1+b1 | sparc,powerpc,ia64,i386,hppa,s390,armel,amd64,mipsel,mips |
| lenny | 1.0beta3.1+dfsg-0.1 | armel,hppa,amd64,arm,mipsel,powerpc,i386,alpha,s390,mips,ia64,sparc |
| Debtags of package openuniverse: |
| field | astronomy |
| hardware | opengl |
| interface | commandline, 3d |
| role | program |
| scope | application |
| uitoolkit | glut |
| use | viewing |
| x11 | application |
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License: DFSG free
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OpenUniverse (OU for short) is a fun, fast and free
OpenGL space simulator. It currently focuses on the Solar System
and lets you visit all of its planets, most major moons and a vast
collection of smaller bodies in colorful, glorious and realtime
3D. If you've ever had a chance to visit Mercury or asteroid Geographos,
here you'll find them looking exactly the same way, following exactly
the same path as when you've left them.
Notice that OpenUniverse is not actively being maintained anymore and
that users are recommended to use Celestia instead.
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Saods9
image display tool for astronomy
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| Versions of package saods9 |
| Release | Version | Architectures |
| lenny | 4.0b7-2+b1 | mips,mipsel |
| sid | 4.0b7-2+b1 | mips,mipsel |
| lenny | 4.0b7-2 | hppa,i386,sparc,ia64,s390,alpha,amd64,arm,armel,powerpc |
| sid | 4.0b7-2 | amd64,alpha,i386,armel,ia64,s390,sparc,hppa,hurd-i386,powerpc |
| etch | 4.0b7-1.4 | alpha,amd64,arm,hppa,i386,ia64,mips,mipsel,powerpc,s390,sparc |
| upstream | 5.7 |
| Debtags of package saods9: |
| field | astronomy |
| interface | x11, commandline |
| role | program |
| scope | application |
| special | completely-tagged |
| uitoolkit | tk |
| use | viewing, learning, editing, downloading, converting |
| web | browser |
| works-with | image:raster, image |
| x11 | application |
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License: DFSG free
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DS9 is an application for astronomical imaging and data
visualization.
DS9 is the modern imtool used by astronomers. It is most
distinguished by its support for displaying images of high dynamic
range (such as 16 bit greyscale FITS files). Whereas many other
tools will only read an approximation to such files, DS9 works in
full precision, and uses various display parameters to map input data
into 8 bit data which can be displayed on the screen.
Available parameters for the mapping include: brightness, contrast,
false color, and nonlinear input mapping (such as logarithm, square
root, square, etc.)
Although it may be useful in other fields, DS9 includes a fair number
of features specific to astronomy. There is an astronomical "name
resolver" which allows a lookup of an arbitrary named object to its
coordinates. Given the coordinates of a field, online archive
servers may be queried, and an image retrieved. DS9 thusly
implements a preliminary "Virtual Observatory".
DS9 is entirely controllable from external programs ("XPA"), which
simplifies complex tasks such as data acquisition, realtime display,
and batch analysis.
If images include WCS (World Coordinate System) keywords, then they
may be "blinked" to search for moving or changing objects.
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Sextractor
source extractor for astronomical images
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License: DFSG free
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Find sources, such as stars and galaxies, in astronomical images.
The input data files are in FITS file format, and are analyzed to
compute the locations of sources, with the ability to distinguish
between galaxies and stars using a neural-network technique.
Homepage: [http://terapix.iap.fr/rubrique.php?id_rubrique=91/](http://terapix.iap.fr/rubrique.php?id_rubrique=91/)
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Slang-cfitsio
read and write FITS files from S-Lang
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| Versions of package slang-cfitsio |
| Release | Version | Architectures |
| sid | 0.3.8+nosvn-4 | s390,alpha,amd64,armel,hppa,hurd-i386,i386,ia64,mips,mipsel,powerpc,sparc |
| squeeze | 0.3.8+nosvn-4 | sparc,powerpc,ia64,i386,hppa,s390,armel,amd64,mipsel,mips |
| lenny | 0.3.8+nosvn-1 | i386,sparc,hppa,amd64,mips,arm,powerpc,s390,mipsel,armel,alpha,ia64 |
| etch | 0.3.2b-5 | arm,s390,mips,mipsel,powerpc,amd64,sparc,hppa,alpha,i386,ia64 |
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License: DFSG free
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The CFITSIO library consists of a set of functions for reading and
writing FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) files. The S-Lang
CFITSIO module wraps many of the functions of the CFITSIO library and
permits one to easily manipulate FITS files from the S-Lang interpreter.
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Spacechart
Star map viewer and navigator
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| Versions of package spacechart |
| Release | Version | Architectures |
| etch | 0.9.5-13 | alpha,amd64,arm,hppa,i386,ia64,mips,mipsel,powerpc,s390,sparc |
| Debtags of package spacechart: |
| field | astronomy |
| game | toys |
| interface | 3d |
| role | program |
| suite | gnome |
| uitoolkit | gtk |
| use | viewing, gameplaying |
| x11 | application |
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License: DFSG free
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SpaceChart is a program to display 3d maps of stars and move freely
around it. It is capable of showing only a subset of the stars in a
given data file, and only those within a given distance of the
center of the display. Also, it shows lines between stars that are
closer than a given distance.
Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/spacechart/spacechart.html
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Ssystem
3D solar system simulator
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| Versions of package ssystem |
| Release | Version | Architectures |
| etch | 1.6-17 | alpha,amd64,arm,hppa,i386,ia64,mips,mipsel,powerpc,s390,sparc |
| lenny | 1.6-17 | s390,ia64,alpha,powerpc,amd64,mips,arm,armel,sparc,hppa,mipsel,i386 |
| Debtags of package ssystem: |
| field | astronomy |
| game | toys |
| hardware | opengl |
| interface | 3d |
| role | program |
| uitoolkit | glut |
| use | gameplaying |
| x11 | application |
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License: DFSG free
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An OpenGL Solar System simulator which includes the sun, the nine
planets, a few major satellites, and background stars.
This package has since been rewritten and repackaged as Celestia,
but since that package has significantly higher hardware requirements
than ssystem does, this package is being kept around. Celestia
has a better looking solar system, more options, and unlike ssystem,
is actually still being worked on, so you probably only want to use
this if you have older hardware that cannot run Celestia at a
reasonable speed.
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Stardata-common
Common framework to manage astronomy packages
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| Versions of package stardata-common |
| Release | Version | Architectures |
| sid | 0.7 | s390,alpha,amd64,armel,hppa,hurd-i386,i386,ia64,mips,mipsel,powerpc,sparc |
| squeeze | 0.7 | sparc,powerpc,ia64,i386,hppa,s390,armel,amd64,mipsel,mips |
| lenny | 0.5 | i386,sparc,hppa,amd64,mips,arm,powerpc,s390,mipsel,armel,alpha,ia64 |
| etch | 0.4 | arm,s390,mips,mipsel,powerpc,amd64,sparc,hppa,alpha,i386,ia64 |
| Debtags of package stardata-common: |
| field | astronomy |
| works-with | software:package |
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License: DFSG free
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This package allows the installation and removal of astronomy catalogues,
converting those catalogues to astronomy programs' data formats.
All stardata catalogues conforming to stardata-common policy are
converted automatically at installation time to the formats of
astronomy programs that support stardata-common.
The register-stardata program is transparent for the user; this program
is called automatically when any astronomy package conforming to the
stardata-common policy is installed, upgraded or removed.
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Starplot
3-dimensional perspective star map viewer
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| Versions of package starplot |
| Release | Version | Architectures |
| sid | 0.95.5-3+b1 | ia64,armel |
| squeeze | 0.95.5-3+b1 | armel,ia64 |
| sid | 0.95.5-3 | s390,alpha,amd64,hppa,hurd-i386,i386,mips,mipsel,powerpc,sparc |
| squeeze | 0.95.5-3 | mips,mipsel,sparc,powerpc,i386,hppa,s390,amd64 |
| lenny | 0.95.5-1 | powerpc,ia64,mips,sparc,mipsel,arm,armel,hppa,s390,amd64,i386,alpha |
| etch | 0.95.3-2+b1 | hppa |
| etch | 0.95.3-2 | alpha,mipsel,amd64,arm,mips,i386,powerpc,sparc,s390,ia64 |
| Debtags of package starplot: |
| field | astronomy |
| game | toys |
| interface | 3d |
| role | program |
| uitoolkit | gtk |
| use | gameplaying |
| x11 | application |
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License: DFSG free
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StarPlot is a GTK+ based program that can be used interactively to view
three-dimensional perspective charts of stars. Charts can be re-centered,
rotated, or zoomed in or out with a mouse click (this can also, of course,
be done via dialog boxes for more precision). Stars may be viewed (or
ignored) by spectral class and absolute magnitude.
StarPlot is packaged with starconvert, a utility that converts
line-oriented stellar data records to StarPlot format. Most star data
files available on the Internet can be converted this way if a short file
describing the original file format is provided to starconvert.
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Stellarium
real-time photo-realistic sky generator
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| Versions of package stellarium |
| Release | Version | Architectures |
| lenny | 0.9.1-4 | i386,sparc,hppa,amd64,mips,arm,powerpc,s390,mipsel,armel,alpha,ia64 |
| etch | 0.8.1-2 | arm,s390,mips,mipsel,powerpc,amd64,sparc,hppa,alpha,i386,ia64 |
| sid | 0.10.2-1 | s390,alpha,amd64,armel,hppa,hurd-i386,i386,ia64,mips,mipsel,powerpc,sparc |
| squeeze | 0.10.2-1 | sparc,powerpc,ia64,i386,hppa,s390,armel,amd64,mipsel,mips |
| Debtags of package stellarium: |
| field | astronomy |
| interface | x11 |
| role | program |
| scope | application |
| uitoolkit | sdl |
| use | viewing |
| x11 | application |
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License: DFSG free
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Stellarium renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real-time.
With stellarium, you really see what you can see with your eyes, binoculars or
a small telescope.
Some features:
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Over 120000 stars from the Hipparcos Catalogue with name and infos for the
brightest ones,
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Planets in real time, with a powerful zoom mode to see them like in a
telescope,
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Drawing of the 88 constellations with their names,
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Drawing of more than 40 messiers objects (Orion, M31 etc..),
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Photorealistic Milky Way,
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Ground, fog, and landscape,
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Clickable stars, planets and nebulas with informations,
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Windowed and fullscreen modes.
Stellarium should not be used for very high accurate calculation or ephemerids
like eclipse predictions.
However, it is the ideal program to prepare an observation evening with naked
eye, binocular, or small telescope.
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Xorsa
tool for Celestial Mechanics investigations
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| Versions of package xorsa |
| Release | Version | Architectures |
| etch | 0.7.0-7 | arm,s390,mips,mipsel,powerpc,amd64,sparc,hppa,alpha,i386,ia64 |
| sid | 0.7.0-15 | s390,alpha,amd64,armel,hppa,hurd-i386,i386,ia64,mips,mipsel,powerpc,sparc |
| squeeze | 0.7.0-15 | sparc,powerpc,ia64,i386,hppa,s390,armel,amd64,mipsel,mips |
| lenny | 0.7.0-12 | i386,sparc,hppa,amd64,mips,arm,powerpc,s390,mipsel,armel,alpha,ia64 |
| Debtags of package xorsa: |
| field | astronomy |
| interface | x11 |
| role | program |
| uitoolkit | qt |
| x11 | application |
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License: DFSG free
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Orbit Reconstruction, Simulation and Analysis (ORSA) is a framework
for Celestial Mechanics investigations. The main goals of the project
are the implementation of state of the art orbit integration
algorithms, with concerns on accuracy and performance, and the
development of a number of analysis tools.
This package contains xorsa, the main graphical application provided
by the ORSA project. It 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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Xplanet
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| sid | 1.2.1-3 | ia64,i386,sparc,powerpc,hurd-i386,hppa,armel,s390,amd64,mips,alpha,mipsel |
| squeeze | 1.2.1-2 | s390,amd64,armel,hppa,i386,ia64,mips,mipsel,powerpc,sparc |
| lenny | 1.2.0-6 | alpha,ia64,mips,mipsel,arm,armel,sparc,hppa,s390,i386,amd64,powerpc |
| etch | 1.2.0-1.4 | hppa,mipsel,amd64,arm,s390,i386,powerpc,sparc,mips,ia64,alpha |
| Debtags of package xplanet: |
| field | astronomy |
| interface | commandline |
| role | program |
| scope | utility |
| use | viewing, learning |
| x11 | screensaver |
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License: DFSG free
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Xplanet renders an image of a planet into an X window or a file. All
of the major planets and most satellites can be drawn, and different
map projections are also supported, including azimuthal, hemisphere,
Lambert, Mercator, Mollweide, Peters, polyconic, and rectangular.
In order to run xplanet, you'll need at least one map file. Some maps
are included in the xplanet-images package.
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Xplanet-images
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| Versions of package xplanet-images |
| Release | Version | Architectures |
| sid | 1.2.1-3 | all |
| squeeze | 1.2.1-2 | all |
| lenny | 1.2.0-6 | all |
| etch | 1.2.0-1.4 | all |
| Debtags of package xplanet-images: |
| field | astronomy |
| game | toys |
| interface | x11 |
| role | app-data |
| use | viewing |
| x11 | screensaver |
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License: DFSG free
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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. This package
includes some map files that can be used with xplanet.
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Official Debian packages with lower relevance
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Pdl
perl data language: Perl extensions for numerics
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| Versions of package pdl |
| Release | Version | Architectures |
| sid | 2.4.5+dfsg-2 | s390,alpha,amd64,armel,hppa,i386,ia64,mips,mipsel,powerpc,sparc |
| squeeze | 2.4.5+dfsg-2 | sparc,powerpc,ia64,i386,hppa,s390,armel,amd64,mipsel,mips |
| lenny | 2.4.3-8 | alpha,s390,hppa,mips,amd64,powerpc,sparc,mipsel,arm,ia64,armel,i386 |
| etch | 2.4.3-3 | s390,mips,arm,mipsel,powerpc,amd64,sparc,hppa,alpha,i386,ia64 |
| Debtags of package pdl: |
| devel | library, lang:perl |
| field | mathematics |
| interface | shell, commandline |
| role | program, devel-lib |
| scope | utility |
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License: DFSG free
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gives standard perl the ability to COMPACTLY
store and SPEEDILY manipulate the large N-dimensional data arrays
which are the bread and butter of scientific computing. The idea
is to turn perl in to a free, array-oriented, numerical language
in the same sense as commercial packages like IDL and MatLab. One
can write simple perl expressions to manipulate entire numerical arrays
all at once. For example, using PDL the perl variable $a can hold a
1024x1024 floating point image, it only takes 4Mb of memory to store
it and expressions like $a=sqrt($a)+2 would manipulate the whole image
in a few seconds.
A simple interactive shell (perldl) is provided for command line use
together with a module (PDL) for use in perl scripts.
Web page: http://pdl.perl.org/
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Python-scientific
Python modules useful for scientific computing
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| Versions of package python-scientific |
| Release | Version | Architectures |
| sid | 2.8-1.1 | all |
| lenny | 2.4.11-2 | all |
| squeeze | 2.4.11-2 | all |
| etch | 2.4.11-1 | all |
| upstream | 2.9.0 |
| Debtags of package python-scientific: |
| devel | library, lang:python |
| role | app-data |
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License: DFSG free
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ScientificPython is a collection of Python modules that are
useful for scientific computing. Most modules are rather general,
others belong to specific domains and will be of interest to only a
small number of users (e.g. the module Scientific.IO.PDB). Almost all
modules make extensive use of Numerical Python (NumPy)
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Sunclock
fancy clock showing time and geographical data
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| Versions of package sunclock |
| Release | Version | Architectures |
| sid | 3.56-6 | s390,alpha,amd64,armel,hppa,i386,ia64,mips,mipsel,powerpc,sparc |
| squeeze | 3.56-6 | sparc,powerpc,ia64,i386,hppa,s390,armel,amd64,mipsel,mips |
| lenny | 3.56-5 | alpha,s390,hppa,mips,amd64,powerpc,sparc,mipsel,arm,ia64,armel,i386 |
| etch | 3.56-2 | s390,mips,arm,mipsel,powerpc,amd64,sparc,hppa,alpha,i386,ia64 |
| Debtags of package sunclock: |
| interface | x11 |
| role | program |
| scope | utility |
| uitoolkit | xlib |
| use | timekeeping |
| x11 | application |
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License: DFSG free
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sunclock is an X11 application that displays a map of the Earth and
indicates the illuminated portion of the globe by drawing sunlit
areas dark on light, night areas as light on dark. In addition to
providing local time for the default timezone, it also displays GMT
time, legal and solar time of major cities, their latitude and
longitude, and the mutual distances of arbitrary locations on Earth.
Sunclock can display meridians, parallels, tropics and arctic
circles. It has builtin functions that accelerate the speed of time
and show the evolution of seasons.
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Xtide
provides tide and current predictions
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| Versions of package xtide |
| Release | Version | Architectures |
| lenny | 2.9.5-3 | sparc,hppa,amd64,s390,mips,arm,powerpc,alpha,mipsel,armel,i386,ia64 |
| etch | 2.8.2-3+b1 | hppa |
| etch | 2.8.2-3 | arm,s390,mips,mipsel,powerpc,amd64,sparc,alpha,i386,ia64 |
| sid | 2.10-2 | s390,alpha,amd64,armel,hppa,hurd-i386,i386,ia64,mips,mipsel,powerpc,sparc |
| squeeze | 2.10-2 | sparc,powerpc,ia64,i386,hppa,s390,armel,amd64,mipsel,mips |
| Debtags of package xtide: |
| interface | x11, web, daemon, commandline |
| network | server |
| role | program |
| uitoolkit | athena |
| use | timekeeping |
| x11 | application |
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License: DFSG free
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XTide is a package that provides tide and current predictions in a wide
variety of formats. Graphs, text listings, and calendars can be generated,
or a tide clock can be provided on your desktop.
XTide can work with the X window system, plain text terminals, or the
web. This is accomplished with three separate programs: the interactive
interface (xtide), the non-interactive or command line interface (tide),
and the web interface (xttpd).
The algorithm that XTide uses to predict tides is used by the National
Ocean Service in the U.S. It is significantly more accurate than the
simple tide clocks that can be bought in novelty stores. However, it takes
more to predict tides accurately than just a spiffy algorithm -- data are
required for every tidal prediction location. This package provides a
sample data set for only one location so you can try out the package, but
anything useful requires the data packaged in the xtide-data package (or
downloaded from the XTide ftp site).
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Xtide-data
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| Versions of package xtide-data |
| Release | Version | Architectures |
| sid | 20081228-1 | all |
| squeeze | 20081228-1 | all |
| lenny | 20070318-3 | all |
| etch | 20040203-3 | all |
| Debtags of package xtide-data: |
| role | app-data |
| special | auto-inst-parts |
| use | timekeeping |
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License: DFSG free
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XTide is a package that provides tide and current predictions in a wide
variety of formats. Graphs, text listings, and calendars can be generated,
or a tide clock can be provided on your desktop.
This package provides the harmonics data used by the xtide package to
display tidal information for most parts of the world. The data are
packaged separately from xtide because they may be updated separately.
Some data omitted from the upstream harmonics file because of restrictions
on commercial distribution and were included in the non-free package
xtide-data-nonfree.
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Yorick
interpreted language and scientific graphics
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| Versions of package yorick |
| Release | Version | Architectures |
| sid | 2.1.05+dfsg-7 | hurd-i386 |
| lenny | 2.1.05+dfsg-6 | alpha,ia64,mips,mipsel,arm,armel,sparc,hppa,s390,i386,amd64,powerpc |
| squeeze | 2.1.05+dfsg-6 | s390,amd64,armel,hppa,i386,ia64,mips,mipsel,powerpc,sparc |
| sid | 2.1.05+dfsg+cvs20091202-2 | powerpc,hppa,s390,amd64,alpha,ia64,mipsel,i386,sparc |
| sid | 2.1.05+dfsg+cvs20091202-1 | mips,armel |
| etch | 2.1.01cvs20060706-1 | hppa,mipsel,amd64,arm,s390,i386,powerpc,sparc,mips,ia64,alpha |
| Debtags of package yorick: |
| devel | runtime, interpreter, ide |
| field | physics, mathematics, astronomy |
| interface | shell, commandline |
| role | program, devel-lib |
| scope | application |
| use | viewing, analysing |
| works-with | image:raster, image |
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License: DFSG free
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Yorick is an interpreted programming language for:
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scientific simulations or calculations
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postprocessing or steering large simulation codes
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interactive scientific graphics
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reading, writing, and translating large files of numbers
The language features a compact syntax for many common array
operations, so it processes large arrays of numbers very quickly and
efficiently. Superficially, yorick code resembles C code, but yorick
variables are never explicitly declared and have a dynamic scoping
similar to many Lisp dialects. The yorick language is designed to be
typed interactively at a keyboard, as well as stored in files for
later use.
This package includes an emacs-based development environment, which
you can launch by typing M-x yorick in emacs.
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Debian packages in contrib or non-free
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Gliese
stellar data set from the Third Catalogue of Nearby Stars
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| Versions of package gliese |
| Release | Version | Architectures |
| sid | 3.0.95-1 | all |
| squeeze | 3.0.95-1 | all |
| lenny | 1.1-15 | all |
| etch | 1.1-13 | all |
| Debtags of package gliese: |
| field | astronomy |
| game | toys |
| use | gameplaying |
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License: non-free
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This package provides a star catalog which contains approximately
3800 star records including the known stars nearer to Earth than
approximately 80 light-years, taken from the Third Catalogue of Nearby
Stars (preliminary edition), Gliese and Jahreiss, 1991.
This stellar data set may be viewed with the StarPlot program available
from Debian, but can also be used with other astronomical software.
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Pgplot5
large subroutine library for plotting scientific data
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| Versions of package pgplot5 |
| Release | Version | Architectures |
| etch | 5.2.2-8 | s390,mips,arm,mipsel,powerpc,amd64,sparc,hppa,alpha,i386,ia64 |
| sid | 5.2.2-15 | s390,alpha,amd64,armel,hppa,i386,ia64,mips,mipsel,powerpc,sparc |
| squeeze | 5.2.2-15 | sparc,powerpc,ia64,i386,hppa,s390,armel,amd64,mipsel,mips |
| lenny | 5.2.2-14+b1 | mips,mipsel |
| lenny | 5.2.2-14 | i386,s390,hppa,armel,alpha,amd64,powerpc,sparc,arm,ia64 |
| Debtags of package pgplot5: |
| devel | library |
| field | mathematics |
| role | shared-lib, devel-lib |
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License: non-free
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This package contains both runtime and development libraries. Many
routines are included in pgplot for viewing scientific data. Many
(about 70) output devices are supported. 2-D , 3-D , contour, image
manipulation, etc. are well supported. Interactive routines are
included. Both a C and a FORTRAN library are present. See
http://astro.caltech.edu/~tjp/pgplot/ for more information.
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Stars
star map program that draws the night sky
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| Versions of package stars |
| Release | Version | Architectures |
| etch | 0.12+1-1+b1 | i386 |
| etch | 0.12+1-1 | sparc,amd64,arm,hppa,alpha,ia64,mips,mipsel,powerpc,s390 |
| Debtags of package stars: |
| field | astronomy |
| role | program |
| uitoolkit | gtk |
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License: DFSG free, but needs non-free components
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Stars is an astronomy program that lets you view the sky from
your computer.
Except for generating a small rotation matrix and some parameters,
all math is integer based, allowing very fast display. At 16 bytes
of memory per object, many objects can be loaded at once. Most
graphics are antialiased.
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Due to licensing restrictions, certain data in the upstream
package has been removed. Please see the comments in README.Debian
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Worldwind
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| Release | Version | Architectures |
| sid | 0.5.0-7 | all |
| squeeze | 0.5.0-7 | all |
| lenny | 0.5.0-1 | all |
| Debtags of package worldwind: |
| field | geography |
| interface | x11 |
| role | program |
| use | viewing |
| x11 | application |
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License: non-free
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World Wind allows any user to zoom from satellite altitude into
any place on Earth, leveraging high resolution LandSat imagery
and SRTM elevation data to experience Earth in visually rich 3D,
just as if they were really there.
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Yale
stellar data set from the Yale Bright Star Catalog
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| Versions of package yale |
| Release | Version | Architectures |
| sid | 5.0.95-1 | all |
| squeeze | 5.0.95-1 | all |
| lenny | 1.0-14 | all |
| etch | 1.0-12 | all |
| Debtags of package yale: |
| field | astronomy |
| role | data |
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License: non-free
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These data come from the [Yale] Bright Star Catalog, 5th Rev. Ed.
(preliminary), Hoffleit and Warren, 1991. It contains all
the stars with apparent magnitude brighter than +6.5.
This stellar data set may be viewed with StarPlot program available from
Debian, but can be used with other astronomical software.
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Unofficial packages built by somebody else
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Xephem
An interactive astronomical ephemeris for X.
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License: Non-free
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Xephem is an interactive astronomical ephemeris program for X Windows
systems with Motif. It provides many graphical views as well as
quantitative heliocentric, geocentric and topocentric information for
Earth satellites, solar system and celestial objects.
This project used to be an official Debian package in 2002 but vanished
from the Debian pool of packaged software (for reasons that should be
clarified). The URL of the "unofficial" package points to the location
where the old package could be found on http://snapshot.debian.net.
There are later upstream versions than this Debian package available.
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No known packages available but some record of interest (WNPP bug)
predicts occultations of stars by minor planets
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License: GPL
Debian package not available
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LinOccult uses the DE405 precomputed major planets ephemeris (position
of astronomical object in the sky at a given time) that are provided by
the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for a precise numerical integration
of asteroidal orbits. The user can select asteroids to process by
changing several parameters in a configuration file.
Some initial packaging has been performed and will be submitted to
pkg-scicomp.alioth.debian.org.
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the European Southern Observatory Munich Image Data Analysis System
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License: GPL
Debian package not available
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The ESO-MIDAS system provides general tools for image processing and
data reduction with emphasis on astronomical applications including
imaging and special reduction packages for ESO instrumentation at La
Silla and the VLT at Paranal. In addition it contains applications
packages for stellar and surface photometry, image sharpening and
decomposition, statistics and various others.
The official name, ESO-MIDAS, is a registered trademark. ESO-MIDAS is
available under the GNU General Public License (GPL), and can be
implemented on OpenVMS and UNIX (Linux) systems.
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computation of asteroidal orbits
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License: GPL
Debian package not available
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OrbFit is a software system allowing one to compute the orbits
of asteroids (soon also comets) starting from the observations,
to propagate these orbits, and to compute predictions on the future
(and past) position on the celestial sphere. It is a tool to be used
to find a well known asteroid, to recover a lost one, to attribute a
small group of observations, to identify two orbits with each other,
to study the future (and/or past) close approaches to Earth, thus to
assess the risk of an impact, and more.
OrbFit has been developed by a team of professional scientists, working
in the field of asteroid and comet dynamics, orbit determination,
nonlinear and chaotic dynamics, and astrometry. The composition of the
OrbFit consortium, and the motivations for this work, are described
below.
Status of packaging:
A rudimentary package was prepared, upstream was contacted with a very
positive reply. The packaging bits will be injected to pkg-scicomp
in near future.
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