Debian Astro Telescope Control packages

This meteor detection software is aimed to monitor the sky with GigE all-sky cameras to detect and record falling stars and fireball. It was originally developed for the FRIPON (Fireball Recovery and InterPlanetary Observation Network) project.

• Debian Astronomy Team
• Chiara Marmo

• 1.3.0-1 (buster)

• 1 regular users
• 10 total installations (of 247424 submissions)

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INDI (Instrument-Neutral Device Interface) is a distributed XML-based control protocol designed to operate astronomical instrumentation. INDI is small, flexible, easy to parse, scalable, and stateless. It supports common DCS functions such as remote control, data acquisition, monitoring, and a lot more.

This package contains the INDI server, the drivers for the supported astronomical instrumentation, and other INDI tools.

• Debian Krap Maintainers
• Pino Toscano

• 0.9.8.1-5.1 (jessie)
• 1.2.0-3 (stretch)
• 1.7.5+dfsg-1 (buster)
• 1.8.8+dfsg-1 (bullseye)
• 1.9.9+dfsg-2 (bookworm)
• 1.9.9+dfsg-3 (trixie)
• 1.9.9+dfsg-3 (sid)
• 2.0.9+dfsg-1 (experimental)
• 2.1.0 (upstream)

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astronomy

interface

commandline

network

service

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program

• 127 regular users
• 64 recent
• 1092 total installations (of 247424 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)
• 3.6.2-2 (bookworm)
• 3.7.3-1 (experimental)
• 16.08.3-2 (stretch)
• 3.4.3-1 (bullseye)
• 3.6.2-2 (sid)
• 3.0.0-1 (buster)
• 4.14.2-1 (jessie)
• 3.7.0 (upstream)

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astronomy

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x11

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program

suite

kde

uitoolkit

qt

use

learning

x11

application

• 108 regular users
• 62 recent
• 1192 total installations (of 247424 submissions)

• kstars-data-extra-tycho2

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Lynkeos is an application dedicated to the processing of astronomical (mainly planetary) images taken with a webcam through a telescope. By stacking the best images, the signal to noise ratio is increased and details lost in the noise of individual images become visible in the resulting image.

• Debian GNUstep maintainers
• Yavor Doganov

• 3.7+dfsg-5 (trixie)
• 3.7+dfsg-5 (sid)
• 3.1+dfsg1-2 (buster)
• 3.4+dfsg1-2 (bullseye)
• 3.5+dfsg-1 (bookworm)
• 1.2-7.1 (stretch)
• 1.2-7 (jessie)

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astronomy

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gnustep

uitoolkit

gnustep

• 6 regular users
• 12 recent
• 107 total installations (of 247424 submissions)

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RTS2, or Remote Telescope System, 2nd Version, is an integrated open source package for remote observatory control under the Linux operating system. Its goals is to create a system, which you will put on computer(s) running observatory, and it will keep it running, protecting it from elements, taking images, ensuring that pointing is good, reacting to TOOs, keeping track what was done, sending you data, and helping you to do science.

RTS2 is designed to run the observatory in fully autonomous mode, picking targets from a database table, storing image meta data to the database, processing images and storing their WCS coordinates in the database and offering Virtual-Observatory enabled access to them. It is currently running on various telescope setups world-wide. For control of devices from various manufacturers we developed an abstract device layer, enabling control of all possible combinations of mounts, CCDs, photometers, roof and cupola controllers.

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