Debian Astro Viewers packages

Aladin is an interactive software sky atlas allowing the user to visualise digitised astronomical images, to superimpose entries from astronomical catalogues or databases, and to interactively access related data and information from the Simbad database, the VizieR service and other archives for all known sources in the field.

Created in 1999 by the Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS), Aladin has become a widely-used tool of the Virtual Observatory (VO) framework capable of addressing challenges such as locating data of interest, accessing and exploring distributed datasets, and visualising multi-wavelength data. Compliance with existing or emerging VO standards, interconnection with other visualisation or analysis tools, and the ability to easily compare heterogeneous data are the key topics which allow Aladin to be a powerful data exploration and integration tool.

• F. Bonnarel, P. Fernique, O. Bienayme, D. Egret, F. Genova, M. Louys, F. Ochsenbein, M. Wenger and J. G. Bartlett: The ALADIN interactive sky atlas. A reference tool for identification of astronomical sources. Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series 143:33 - 40 (2000) (eprint)

• Debian Astro Team
• Ole Streicher

• 10.076+dfsg-1 (buster)
• 11.024+dfsg2-1 (bullseye)
• 12.060+dfsg-3 (sid)
• 12.060+dfsg-3 (trixie)
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Ginga is a toolkit designed for building viewers for scientific image data in Python, visualizing 2D pixel data in numpy arrays. It can view astronomical data such as contained in files based on the FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) file format. It is written and is maintained by software engineers at the Subaru Telescope, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan.

The Ginga toolkit centers around an image display object which supports zooming and panning, color and intensity mapping, a choice of several automatic cut levels algorithms and canvases for plotting scalable geometric forms. In addition to this widget, a general purpose "reference" FITS viewer is provided, based on a plugin framework. A fairly complete set of standard plugins are provided for features that is expected from a modern FITS viewer: panning and zooming windows, star catalog access, cuts, star pick/fwhm, thumbnails, etc.

This package contains the image viewer based on Python 3.

• Debian Astronomy Team
• Ole Streicher

• 5.2.0-1 (sid)
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IFRIT (the Ionization FRont Interactive Tool) has its origins (and hence name) in a specialized utility designed to visualize ionization fronts in cosmological numerical simulations. IFRIT, however, has outgrown its origins and now can visualize general data sets as well.

IFRIT is written in C++ and is based on two state-of-the-art toolkits: the Visualization ToolKit (VTK) and a GUI toolkit QT.

• Debian QA Group
• Adam Borowski

• 4.1.2-5 (stretch)
• 3.4.2-1 (jessie)
• 4.1.2-6 (buster)

field

chemistry, physics

role

program

uitoolkit

ncurses, qt

use

viewing

x11

application

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MayaVi2 is a cross-platform tool for 2-D and 3-D scientific data visualization. Its features include:

• Visualization of scalar, vector and tensor data in 2 and 3 dimensions
• Easy scriptability using Python
• Easy extendability via custom sources, modules, and data filters
• Reading several file formats: VTK (legacy and XML), PLOT3D, etc.
• Saving of visualizations
• Saving rendered visualization in a variety of image formats.

MayaVi2 has been designed with scriptability and extensibility in mind. While the mayavi2 application is usable by itself, it may be used as an Envisage plugin which allows it to be embedded in user applications natively. Alternatively, it may be used as a visualization engine for any application.

This package also provides TVTK, which wraps VTK objects to provide a convenient, Pythonic API, while supporting Traits attributes and NumPy/SciPy arrays. TVTK is implemented mostly in pure Python, except for a small extension module.

• Debian Python Team
• Colin Watson

• 4.5.0-1 (stretch)
• 4.3.1-3.1 (jessie)
• 4.8.0-2 (bookworm)
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• 4.8.2-3 (trixie)
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• 4.8.2-3 (sid)

devel

examples, lang:python

role

program

use

viewing

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QFitsView is a FITS file viewer based on DPUSER. In addition to displaying two-dimensional images, it also provides means to explore three-dimensional data cubes. It integrates the functionality of DPUSER which can be accessed directly out of QFitsView.

Note that this package was compiled with the giza library instead of PGPLOT, since the latter is non-free software.

• Debian Astro Team
• Ole Streicher

• 4.0+dfsg-3 (bullseye)
• 4.1+dfsg-1 (bookworm)
• 3.3+p1+dfsg-2 (stretch)
• 4.2+dfsg-1 (trixie)
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The SER file format can be used to store data from fast frame rate astronomy cameras instead of using the AVI file format. This application enables users to review SER files in the same way that AVI files are reviewed with a video player.

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• Phil Wyett

• 1.7.3-3 (sid)
• 1.7.2-3 (buster)
• 1.7.3-2 (bullseye)
• 1.7.3-2 (bookworm)
• 1.7.3-3 (trixie)

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TOPCAT is an interactive graphical viewer and editor for tabular data. Its aim is to provide most of the facilities that astronomers need for analysis and manipulation of source catalogues and other tables, though it can be used for non-astronomical data as well. It understands a number of different astronomically important formats (including FITS and VOTable) and more formats can be added.

This package contains the executable.

• Taylor, M. B.: TOPCAT & STIL: Starlink Table/VOTable Processing Software. Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XIV 347:29-33 (2005) (eprint)

• Debian Astro Team
• Ole Streicher

• 4.10-1 (sid)
• 4.10-1 (trixie)
• 4.8.7-3 (bookworm)
• 4.8-2 (bullseye)
• 4.6.2-1 (buster)

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Cubeview is a viewer for 3D data store in FITS files, a file format extensively used among astronomers. It is specialized in displaying spectro-imaging data but can be used to do basic visualization on any FITS file containing a 3D array.

Cubeview features a stand-alone graphical user interface which adheres to the GTK+ look-and-feel. Being written in Yorick, it is inherently scriptable. A system of hooks allows custom actions to be repeated automatically when certain events occur.

• Debian Science Maintainers
• Adrian Bunk

• 2.2-2 (jessie)
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• 2.2-2.1 (bullseye)
• 2.2-2 (stretch)

field

astronomy

interface

shell, x11

role

plugin, program

scope

utility

uitoolkit

gtk

use

viewing

works-with

image, image:raster

x11

application

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SpecViz is a tool for visualization and quick-look analysis of 1D astronomical spectra. SpecViz allows spectra to be easily plotted and examined. It supports flexible spectral unit conversions, custom plotting attributes, interactive selections, multiple plots, and other features. SpecViz notably includes a measurement tool for spectral lines which enables the user, with a few mouse actions, to perform and record measurements. It has a model fitting capability that enables the user to create simple (e.g., single Gaussian) or multi-component models (e.g., multiple Gaussians for emission and absorption lines in addition to regions of flat continua). A typical data-analysis workflow might involve data exploration using SpecViz and then scripting to create more complex measurements or modeling workflows using SpecUtils.

• Debian Astronomy Maintainers
• Josue Ortega

• 0.6.2-1 (VCS)

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CubeViz is an visualization and analysis toolbox for data cubes from integral field units (IFUs). It is built as part of the glue visualiztion tool. CubeViz is designed to work with data cubes from the NIRSpec and MIRI instruments on JWST, and will work with data cubes from any IFU. It uses the specutils package from Astropy.

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