Debian Astro Education packages

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 package contains a minimal frontend for Celestia. There is a separate package that provides a frontend that integrates with GNOME.

• Guus Sliepen
• YunQiang Su

• 1.6.1+dfsg-3.1 (jessie)

field

astronomy

hardware

opengl

interface

3d, x11

role

program

scope

application

uitoolkit

glut

use

learning, viewing

x11

application

• 18 total installations (of 236210 submissions)

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Gpredict is a real time satellite tracking and orbit prediction program for the Linux desktop. It uses the SGP4/SDP4 propagation algorithms together with NORAD two-line element sets (TLE).

Some core features of Gpredict include:

• Tracking of a large number of satellites only limited by the physical memory and processing power of the computer
• Display the tracking data in lists, maps, polar plots and any combination of these
• Have many modules open at the same either in a notebook or in their own windows. The modules can also run in full-screen mode
• You can use many ground stations
• Predict upcoming passes
• Gpredict can run in real-time, simulated real-time (fast forward and backward), and manual time control
• Detailed information both the real time and non-real time modes
• Doppler tuning of radios via Hamlib rigctld
• Antenna rotator control via Hamlib rotctld

• Debian Hamradio Maintainers
• tony mancill

• 1.3-3 (stretch)
• 2.3-115-g0f3beb6-3 (sid)
• 2.3-115-g0f3beb6-3 (trixie)
• 2.3-72-gc596101-3 (bookworm)
• 2.3-72-gc596101-3 (bullseye)
• 2.3-33-gca42d22-1 (buster)
• 1.3-2 (jessie)

field

astronomy

hardware

hamradio

interface

x11

role

program

scope

application

suite

gnome

uitoolkit

gtk

use

learning, monitor

x11

application

• 61 regular users
• 39 recent
• 614 total installations (of 236210 submissions)

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KStars is a scientifically accurate desktop planetarium, visualising a 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. KStars addresses students and amateur astronomers of all levels.

The database of known objects can be extended and updated from local or remote databases, which is prepared for in a user-extendable interface. KStars suggests observations of particular interest like conjunctions with respect to the location of the user. And for user-selected targets it proposes the ones that are best-observable.

The software may be used for planning experiments around the globe, e.g. for remote controlled commercial services. But KStars also features an INDI interface to control local telescopes and cameras. Users with programming experience can script it via the KDE desktop bus.

• Debian KDE Extras Team
• Pino Toscano

• 3.6.2-2 (trixie)
• 3.0.0-1 (buster)
• 3.4.3-1 (bullseye)
• 3.6.2-2 (bookworm)
• 3.6.2-2 (sid)
• 3.7.0-2 (experimental)
• 4.14.2-1 (jessie)
• 16.08.3-2 (stretch)
• 3.7.0 (upstream)

field

astronomy

interface

x11

role

program

suite

kde

uitoolkit

qt

use

learning

x11

application

• 101 regular users
• 75 recent
• 1282 total installations (of 236210 submissions)

• kstars-data-extra-tycho2

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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.

• Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
• Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu)

• 1.0beta3.1+dfsg-7.1 (bookworm)
• 1.0beta3.1+dfsg-6.1 (bullseye)
• 1.0beta3.1+dfsg-6 (stretch)
• 1.0beta3.1+dfsg-6 (buster)
• 1.0beta3.1+dfsg-3 (jessie)
• 1.0beta3.1+dfsg-7.1 (sid)
• 1.0beta3.1+dfsg-7.1 (trixie)

field

astronomy

hardware

opengl

interface

3d, commandline

role

program

scope

application

uitoolkit

glut

use

viewing

x11

application

• 22 regular users
• 25 recent
• 382 total installations (of 236210 submissions)

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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:

• default star catalogue with over 600 thousand stars,
• information about the brightest stars (spectral type, distance, etc.),
• downloadable star catalogue extensions, for up to 210 million stars,
• all New General Catalogue (NGC) objects,
• images of almost all Messier objects and the Milky Way,
• real time positions of the planets and their satellites,
• 13 different cultures with their constellations,
• artistic illustrations of the 88 Western constellations,
• very realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset,
• 7 panoramic landscapes (more can be made or downloaded from the website),
• scripting with ECMAScript,
• plug-in support: Stellarium comes with 8 plug-ins by default, including:
• artificial satellites plug-in (updated from an on-line TLE database),
• ocular simulation plug-in (shows how objects look like in a given ocular),
• Solar System editor plug-in (imports comet and asteroid data from the MPC),
• telescope control plug-in (Meade LX200 and Celestron NexStar compatible).

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.

• Debian Astro Maintainers
• Tomasz Buchert

• 24.1-1 (sid)
• 0.22.2-1 (bookworm)
• 0.20.4-3 (bullseye)
• 0.18.3-1 (buster)
• 0.18.1-1~bpo9+1 (stretch-backports)
• 0.15.0-1 (stretch)
• 0.13.1-1 (jessie)
• 23.4-2 (trixie)

field

astronomy

hardware

opengl

interface

x11

role

program

scope

application

uitoolkit

sdl

use

learning, viewing

x11

application

• 287 regular users
• 167 recent
• 2638 total installations (of 236210 submissions)

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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.

• Alexander Reichle-Schmehl

• 1.3.0-5.1 (bullseye)
• 1.3.1-3 (bookworm)
• 1.3.0-4 (stretch)
• 1.3.0-5.1 (buster)
• 1.3.0-2 (jessie)
• 1.3.1-3 (trixie)
• 1.3.1-3 (sid)

field

astronomy

game

toys

interface

x11

role

app-data

use

learning, viewing

x11

screensaver

• 1666 total installations (of 236210 submissions)

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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).

• Peter S Galbraith
• Adrian Bunk

• 2.13.2-1 (stretch)
• 2.13.2-1 (jessie)
• 2.15.2-1 (bullseye)
• 2.15.2-1.1 (sid)

field

geography, meteorology

interface

commandline, daemon, web, x11

network

server

role

program

uitoolkit

athena

use

learning, timekeeping

x11

application

• 12 regular users
• 1 recent
• 49 total installations (of 236210 submissions)

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