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

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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).

• Thorsten Alteholz

• 5.6-4 (stretch)
• 5.6-8 (sid)
• 5.6-7 (bookworm)
• 5.6-4 (jessie)
• 5.6-7 (bullseye)
• 5.6-6 (buster)
• 5.6-8 (trixie)

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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

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

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lang:c++

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astronomy, physics

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daemon

network

client

role

plugin

science

calculation

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utility

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analysing, calculating, learning, searching, viewing

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fitscut is designed to extract cutouts from FITS image format files. FITS, PNG, and JPEG output types are supported. When multiple input files are specified and the output type is PNG or JPEG the resulting image is an RGB color image.

• Debian Astro Team
• Ole Streicher

• 1.4.4-5 (bullseye)
• 1.4.4-4 (buster)
• 1.4.4-6 (sid)
• 1.4.4-6 (trixie)
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• Debian Astronomy Maintainers
• Aurelien Jarno

• 4.17-1 (jessie)
• 4.22+cfitsio4.6.2-2 (sid)
• 4.22+cfitsio4.6.2-2 (trixie)
• 4.20-4 (bookworm)
• 4.20-3 (bullseye)
• 4.19-1 (buster)
• 4.18-1 (stretch)

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astronomy

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checking

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file

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• Debian Astronomy Maintainers
• Aurelien Jarno

• 3.410-1 (stretch)
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• 4.6.2-2 (trixie)
• 4.6.2-2 (sid)
• 3.370-2+deb8u1 (jessie)
• 3.490-3 (bullseye)
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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)
• 6.2.0-9 (sid)
• 6.2.0-9 (trixie)
• 6.2.0-8 (bookworm)
• 6.2.0-8 (bullseye)
• 6.2.0-8 (buster)
• 6.2.0-8 (stretch)

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Siril is an image processing tool specially tailored for noise reduction and improving the signal/noise ratio of an image from multiple captures, as required in astronomy. Siril can align automatically or manually, stack and enhance pictures from various file formats, even images sequences (movies and SER files).

• Debian Astronomy Maintainers
• Cyril Richard

• 0.99.8.1-1 (bullseye)
• 0.9.5-2 (stretch)
• 1.4.0~beta2-1 (experimental)
• 1.2.6-1 (sid)
• 1.2.6-1 (trixie)
• 1.0.6-1 (bookworm)
• 0.9.10-2 (buster)

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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

• 8.4+ds-1 (sid)
• 4.24-1 (jessie)
• 5.16-1 (stretch)
• 6.2-2 (buster)
• 7.3.1+ds-1~bpo10+1 (buster-backports)
• 7.4+ds-2 (bullseye)
• 7.7+ds-1~bpo11+1 (bullseye-backports)
• 7.12+ds-1 (bookworm)
• 8.4+ds-1 (trixie)

field

astronomy

interface

commandline

role

program

scope

utility

use

converting

works-with

file, image, image:raster

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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
• Phil Wyett

• 2.1.20-1 (bookworm)
• 2.1.20-3 (sid)
• 2.1.15-4 (jessie)
• 2.1.18-1 (stretch)
• 2.1.18-4 (buster)
• 2.1.20-1 (bullseye)
• 2.1.20-3 (trixie)

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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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