Fedora Astronomy Packages
List of Astronomy packages that are already in Fedora. You can also check proposed packages and refused packages .
Simulators
| Celestia |
Free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions.
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| Stellarium |
Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors.
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| Planets |
Planets is a simple interactive program for playing with simulations of planetary systems.
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| orsa |
ORSA is an interactive tool for scientific grade Celestial Mechanics computations. Asteroids, comets, artificial satellites, Solar and extra-Solar planetary systems can be accurately reproduced, simulated, and analyzed.
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Image processing
| astrometry |
Blind astrometric calibration of arbitrary astronomical images.
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| ccdciel |
A free CCD capture software intended for the amateur astronomer.
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| ginga |
Image Viewer and Toolkit.
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| Siril |
Siril is an astronomical image processing software for Linux.
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| swarp |
SWarp is a program that resamples and co-adds together FITS images using any arbitrary astrometric projection defined in the WCS standard.
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| wcstools |
Software utilities to display and manipulate the WCS of a FITS image.
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Observing
| gpredict |
Gpredict is a real-time satellite tracking and orbit prediction application.
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| corrida |
Meteorites archiver.
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Star charts
| KStars |
The display includes 130,000 stars, 13,000 deep-sky objects,all 8 planets, the Sun and Moon, and thousands of comets and asteroids.
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| messigy |
Messiggy is a database of celestial objects, as cataloged by the French astronomer Charles Messier in the mid-18th century.
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| Cartes du Ciel/SkyChart |
A software to draw chart of the night sky for the amateur astronomer from a bunch of stars and nebulae catalogs.
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Data processing
| Cloudy |
Spectral synthesis code to simulate conditions in interstellar matter.
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| GNURadio |
Gnuradio is a software defined radio framework.
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| GRC |
The GNU Radio Companion is a preliminary graphical user interface which allows GNU Radio components to be put together graphically.
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| Sextractor |
SExtractor is a program that builds a catalogue of objects from an astronomical image.
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| StarPlot |
StarPlot is a program for Unix that allows you to view charts of the relative 3-dimensional positions of stars in space.
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| boinc-client |
A platform for distributed computing.
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| cpl |
ESO library for automated astronomical data-reduction
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| extrema |
Extrema is a powerful visualization and data analysis tool that enables researchers to quickly distill their large, complex data sets into meaningful information.
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| healpix |
Hierarchical Equal Area isoLatitude Pixelization of a sphere.
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| jday |
A simple command to convert calendar dates to julian dates. Quite useful in timing situations where you need elapsed time between dates.
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| psfex |
Model the Point Spread Function from FITS images
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| wcslib |
An implementation of the FITS World Coordinate System standard
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| radial |
A simple program for calculating radial velocities of stars in a binary system
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Telescope control
| indi |
Instrument Neutral Distributed Interface
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| indistarter |
A GUI for controlling local and remote INDI servers
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| nexcontrol |
Software to control your Celestron NexStar Telescope
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| phd2 |
Telescope guiding software.
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Others
| calceph |
Astronomical library to access planetary ephemeris files.
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| cdsclient |
Tools to query databases at CDS.
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