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ALFA measures fluxes in emission line spectra, such as those of planetary nebulae and HII regions, using a genetic algorithm to rapidly optimise fits to large numbers of lines simultaneously. It can subtract night sky emission lines before fitting the nebular lines if necessary. It can read plain text files containing 1D spectral data, or FITS files containing 1D, 2D or 3D datasets.

• Wesson, R.: ALFA: an automated line fitting algorithm. Monthly Notice of the Royal Astronomical Society 456:3774-3781 (2016) (eprint)

• Debian Astronomy Team
• Roger Wesson

• 2.2-1 (trixie)
• 2.2-1 (sid)
• 2.1-1 (bullseye)
• 1.0-3 (buster)
• 1.0-2 (stretch)
• 2.2-1 (bookworm)

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Das Programm aa berechnet die Orbitpositionen planetarer Körper und führt bei offensichtlich geozentrischen oder topozentrischen (Ort des Beobachters ist der Koordinatenursprung) Orten drastische Koordinatenreduzierungen (auf lokale Höhe und Azimuth) durch. Darüber hinaus werden auch Sterne, deren Katalog-Positionen in den Systemen FK4 oder FK5 notiert sind, reduziert. Daten für die 57 Navigationssterne sind enthalten. Die meisten der eingesetzten Algorithmen stammen aus The Astronomical Almanac (AA) herausgegeben vom US Government Printing Office.

aa folgt den in den aktuellen Ausgaben des Astronomischen Almanachs bereitgestellten strengen Algorithmen zur Reduzierung der Himmelskoordinaten. Die Reduktion auf offensichtliche geozentrische Orte wurde überprüft mit einer Spezialversion des Programms (aa200), das planetare Positionen direkt aus der numerischen Integration DE200 des Sonnensystems vom Jet Propulsion Laboratory entnimmt. Die Ergebnisse stimmen genau mit den Tabellen des Astronomischen Almanachs ab 1987 überein (frühere Almanache verwendeten etwas andere Reduktionsmethoden).

Bestimmte Berechnungen, wie beispielsweise die Korrektur für die Schwankung der Erdachse, werden im AA nicht explizit angegeben, sind aber dort referenziert. In diesen Fällen führt das Programm die vollständigen, für die Erstellung der Tabellen des Almanachs verwendeten, Berechnungen durch (Quellen sind angegeben).

• Thorsten Alteholz

• 5.6-7 (trixie)
• 5.6-7 (bullseye)
• 5.6-6 (buster)
• 5.6-4 (stretch)
• 5.6-4 (jessie)
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• 5.6-7 (bookworm)

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SETI@home is a distributed computing project using Internet-connected computers for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). It searches for possible evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence in radio transmissions collected by the Arecibo radio telescope.

This package contains the SETI@home Enhanced application for the BOINC distributed computing platform. The BOINC client downloads the radio data which the SETI@home application analyzes looking for signals of extraterrestrial origin. Results are then send back to the SETI@home server by the BOINC client.

Note that this package has been primarily created for users of architectures for which SETI@home does not provide its application. If your architecture is x86 or AMD64 the BOINC client automatically downloads the latest SETI@home application if you participate in this project. There is no need to install this package then, except for it to take all technical hurdles from you to have your very custom SETI patch or new compiler flags evaluated. The configuration of BOINC to find the local SETI binary is all performed by the package.

This package only provides command line application. The boinc-app-seti-graphics package provides graphic application.

• Debian BOINC Maintainers
• Gianfranco Costamagna

• 8.00~svn3363-3 (stretch)
• 8.00~svn3725-3 (buster)
• 7.28~svn2633-3 (jessie)

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lang:c++

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astronomy, physics

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daemon

network

client

role

plugin

science

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utility

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analysing, calculating, learning, searching, viewing

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fitscut wurde für das Extrahieren von Ausschnitten aus Bilddateien im FITS-Format entworfen. Die Ausgabeformate FITS, PNG und JPEG werden unterstützt. Im Falle mehrerer Eingabedateien und dem Ausgabeformat PNG oder JPEG ist das resultierende Bild ein RGB-Farbbild.

• Debian Astro Team
• Ole Streicher

• 1.4.4-4 (stretch)
• 1.4.4-4 (buster)
• 1.4.4-5 (bullseye)
• 1.4.4-5 (bookworm)
• 1.4.4-6 (trixie)
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Fitsverify is a computer program that rigorously checks whether a FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) data file conforms to all the requirements defined in Version 3.0 of the FITS Standard document.

• Debian Astro Team
• Ole Streicher

• 4.17-1 (jessie)
• 4.22-1 (sid)
• 4.22-1 (trixie)
• 4.20-4 (bookworm)
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• 4.19-1 (buster)
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astronomy

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checking

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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 utility programs, based on CFITSIO, namely fitscopy, fpack and funpack.

• Debian Astronomy Maintainers
• Aurelien Jarno

• 3.410-1 (stretch)
• 4.2.0-3 (bookworm)
• 4.4.1-2 (trixie)
• 4.4.1-2 (sid)
• 3.370-2+deb8u1 (jessie)
• 3.490-3 (bullseye)
• 3.450-3 (buster)
• 4.5.0 (upstream)

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qfits is a stand-alone library written in C to interact with files complying with the FITS format, which is a data format most used in astronomy.

This package includes tools for simple manipulations of FITS files.

• Aurelien Jarno

• 6.2.0-8 (jessie)
• 6.2.0-8 (stretch)
• 6.2.0-8 (buster)
• 6.2.0-8 (bullseye)
• 6.2.0-8 (bookworm)
• 6.2.0-9 (trixie)
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Siril ist ein Bildverarbeitungsprogramm, speziell für Rauschunterdrückung und zum Verbessern der Signal/Rausch-Ratio eines Bildes von mehreren Erfassungen, wie es in der Astronomie benötigt wird. Siril kann automatisch oder manuell anordnen, Bilder und Bildsequenzen (wie Filme und SER-Dateien) von verschiedenen Dateiformaten stapeln und verbessern.

• Debian Astronomy Maintainers
• Cyril Richard

• 1.2.1-1 (trixie)
• 0.9.5-2 (stretch)
• 0.9.10-2 (buster)
• 0.99.8.1-1 (bullseye)
• 1.0.6-1 (bookworm)
• 1.2.4-1 (sid)

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WCSLIB is a C library, supplied with a full set of Fortran wrappers, that implements the "World Coordinate System" (WCS) standard in FITS (Flexible Image Transport System).

This package contains the utility programs fitshdr, wcsware, HPXcvt, and wcsgrid that are included in wcslib.

• M. R. Calabretta, F. Valdes, E. W. Greisen and S. L. Allen: Representations of distortions in FITS world coordinate systems. Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS) XIII 314:551 (2004) (eprint)

• Debian Astronomy Team
• Ole Streicher

• 7.3.1+ds-1~bpo10+1 (buster-backports)
• 7.4+ds-2 (bullseye)
• 7.7+ds-1~bpo11+1 (bullseye-backports)
• 5.16-1 (stretch)
• 6.2-2 (buster)
• 7.12+ds-1 (bookworm)
• 4.24-1 (jessie)
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The XPA messaging system provides seamless communication between many kinds of Unix programs, including X programs and Tcl/Tk programs. It also provides an easy way for users to communicate with these XPA-enabled programs by executing XPA client commands in the shell or by utilizing such commands in scripts. Because XPA works both at the programming level and the shell level, it is a powerful tool for unifying any analysis environment: users and programmers have great flexibility in choosing the best level or levels at which to access XPA services, and client access can be extended or modified easily at any time.

This package contains the additional tools.

• E. Mandel and R. Swick: Public Access Programming: Opening The Black Box That Hides Internal Data. Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems III 61:507 (1994)

• Debian Astro Team
• Ole Streicher

• 2.1.20-2 (sid)
• 2.1.15-4 (jessie)
• 2.1.18-1 (stretch)
• 2.1.18-4 (buster)
• 2.1.20-1 (bullseye)
• 2.1.20-1 (bookworm)
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The identification of asteroids and comets typically starts with the differential analysis of a series of images taken from the same area of the sky. Objects appearing to be moving are tracked over multiple days.

This software is fed with pixel positions in images in the context of the same for neighbouring stars. From these data it interpolates the position of the presumed near earth object. The results of this analyses are - if the quality of the data allows - sent to the minor planet center (MPC) for archival and comparisons with data from known objects.

• Debian Astro Maintainers
• Nilesh Patra

• 0.0~git20180227-5 (experimental)

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Tablator is a utility for converting tables in astronomy into different formats. Tablator can read and write tables in fits, ipac table, hdf5, votable, json, json5, csv, and tsv, and can write html. The emphasis is on speed, so all conversions are done in memory.

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