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Astro Software & Methods

by Emily Hunt @emily.space

A feed to discuss methods and software for astronomy research! Part of the Astronomy feeds network. Astronomers can sign up to post here via @bot.astronomy.blue Contains posts from signed up users with #astromethods, #astrocoding, or #astrocode.

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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 2 days ago
#astrocode #radioastronomy #ScienceSoftware Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-radio-beam. Radio Beam is a simple toolkit for reading beam information from FITS headers and manipulating beams. Some example applications include Convolution/deconvolution and Unit conversion (Jy 1/2⤵
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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 9 days ago
#astrocode #AstroTools #ScienceSoftware Random #Debian Astro package of the week is rawtran. Rawtran is an utility to convert of raw photos in .CR2, .CRW, MRW, NEF, RAF, etc. formats to the general astronomical FITS image format. The identification of raw photo type and decoding itself is 1/2⤵
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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 16 days ago
#astrocode #DataViewer #ScienceSoftware Random #Debian Astro package of the week is paraview. ParaView is an open-source, multi-platform application designed to visualize data sets of size varying from small to very large. The goals of the ParaView project include the following: 1/4⤵
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Brett Morris @brettmorr.is · 17 days ago
Astronomers and software devs: does anyone else think it's time for @asclnet.bsky.social to stop automatically ingesting software without approval by the authors? ASCL was awesome before you could make your own DOI or publish astro software alone. That's not our world anymore! 🔭 #astrocode
As an example, this image shows citations to many unique record identifiers for photutils, an astropy coordinated package. The 2016 ASCL entry did not make the code more citable than it was at the time, and does not now either.
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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 23 days ago
#astrocode #AstroPython #ScienceSoftware Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-skyfield. Skyfield is a pure-Python astronomy package that is compatible with both Python 3 and makes it easy to generate high precision research-grade positions for planets and Earth satellites. 1/2⤵
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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · about 1 month ago
#astrocode #AstroJava #ScienceSoftware Random #Debian Astro package of the week is starlink-fits-java. Classes for general FITS handling, including NDX, NDArray and StarTable implementations. Some of these classes use the nom.tam.fits package (libfits-java) for low-level FITS access, 1/2⤵
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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · about 1 month ago
#astrocode #AstroPython #ScienceSoftware Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-drizzle. The drizzle library is a Python package for combining dithered images into a single image. This library is derived from code used in drizzlepac. Like drizzlepac, most of the code is 1/3⤵
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