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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 2d

Python, loaders for several open astronomical datasets, and a large suite of examples of analyzing and visualizing astronomical datasets.
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python3-astroml homepage

www.astroml.org

Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 2d

Random Debian Astro package of the week is python3-astroml. AstroML is a Python 3 module for machine learning and data mining built on numpy, scipy, scikit-learn, and matplotlib. It contains a growing library of statistical and machine learning routines for analyzing astronomical data in
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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 9d

blended into a global image, using the
background image in places without alignment points.
* After stacking is completed, the stacked image can be postprocessed
(sharpened) either in a final step of the stacking workflow, or in a
separate postprocessing job.
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GitHub - Rolf-Hempel/PlanetarySystemStacker: Produce a sharp image of a planetary system object (moon, sun, planets) from many seeing-affected frames according to the "lucky imaging" technique.

Produce a sharp image of a planetary system object (moon, sun, planets) from many seeing-affected frames according to the "lucky imaging" technique. - Rolf-Hempel/PlanetarySystemStacker

github.com

Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 9d

Note that this list can be different for different points.
* For all frames, local shifts are computed at all alignment points.
* Using those shifts, the alignment point patches of all contributing
frames are stacked into a single average image patch.
* Finally, all stacked patches are
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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 9d

are discarded. The user can modify the alignment points, or set them all
by hand as well.
* For each alignment point, all frames are ranked by their local contrast
in a surrounding image patch.
* The best frames up to a given number are selected for stacking.
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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 9d

* Using this patch, all frames are aligned globally with each other.
* A mean image is computed by averaging the best frames.
* An alignment point mesh covering the object is constructed automatically.
Points, where the image is too dim, or has too little contrast or structure,
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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 9d

The following algorithmic steps are performed:

* First, all frames are ranked by their overall image quality.
* On the best frame, a rectangular patch with the most pronounced structure
in x and y is identified automatically. (Alternatively, the user can
select the patch manually as well.)
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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 9d

objects (moon, sun), but it works as well for planets. Results obtained in many tests show at least the same image quality as with the established software AutoStakkert!3.

Input to the program can be either video files or directories containing still images.
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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 9d

Random Debian Astro package of the week is planetary-system-stacker. This package contrains software to produce a sharp image of a planetary system object (moon, sun, planets) from many seeing-affected frames using the "lucky imaging" technique._

The program is mainly targeted at extended
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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 16d

priori.

The unyt package (pronounced like “unit”) provides a subclass of NumPy’s ndarray class that knows about units.
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GitHub - yt-project/unyt: Handle, manipulate, and convert data with units in Python

Handle, manipulate, and convert data with units in Python - yt-project/unyt

github.com

Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 16d

Random Debian Astro package of the week is python3-unyt. Often writing code that deals with data that has units can be confusing. A function might return an array but at least with plain NumPy arrays, there is no way to easily tell what the units of the data are without somehow knowing a
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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · 23d

Random Debian Astro package of the week is skyview. SkyView is a "virtual" observatory dynamically generating images of the sky in different wavelength regimes from a static image database. SkyView is intended as a quick look facility to see the heavens.

This package includes the executable.

skyview homepage

skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov

Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · Sep 9

namespaces, exception handling, and member template functions.
This package contains what you need for compiling sources that use this library in your own code.

heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/softwar...

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CCfits: C++ Wrappers for the CFITSIO library

Home page for the CCfits Software Library

heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov

Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · Sep 9

Random Debian Astro package of the week is libccfits-dev. CCfits is an object oriented interface to the cfitsio library. It is designed to make the capabilities of cfitsio available to programmers working in C++. It is written in ANSI C++ and implemented using the C++ Standard Library with
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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · Sep 2

This package contains the development files.
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libstarlink-pal-dev homepage

starlink.eao.hawaii.edu

Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · Sep 2

Random Debian Astro package of the week is libstarlink-pal-dev. This library is a collection of code designed to aid in replacing the SLA library with code from NOVAS and ERFA.

Where possible the API is similar to the C SLA API except for the use of a "pal" prefix.
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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · Aug 26

github.com/cgarry/ser-p...

GitHub - cgarry/ser-player: A simple video player for playing SER files used for solar, lunar and planetary astronomy-imaging.

A simple video player for playing SER files used for solar, lunar and planetary astronomy-imaging. - cgarry/ser-player

github.com

Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · Aug 26

Random Debian Astro package of the week is ser-player. 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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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · Aug 19

database of telephone calls or e-mail messages
This package contains the command-line tools.
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Graphviz

www.graphviz.org

Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · Aug 19

* you would like to browse a database schema, knowledge base, or
distributed program represented graphically
* you would like to see an overview of a collection of linked documents
* you would like to discover patterns and communities of interest in a
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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · Aug 19

and source files
* you need to find the bottlenecks in an Internet backbone - not only
individual links, but their relationships
* you're debugging a protocol or microarchitecture represented as a
finite state machine and need to figure out how a certain
error state arises
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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · Aug 19

database design, software engineering, VLSI and network design and visual interfaces in other domains. Situations where these tools might be particularly useful include:

* you would like to restructure a program and first need to understand
the relationships between its types, procedures,
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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · Aug 19

Random Debian Astro package of the week is graphviz. Graph drawing addresses the problem of visualizing structural information by constructing geometric representations of abstract graphs and networks. Automatic generation of graph drawings has important applications in key technologies such as
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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · Aug 12

of the Astropy project’s community. These packages are expressing an interest in Astropy’s goals of improving reuse, interoperability, and interface standards for Python astronomy and astrophysics packages.

This metapackage installs all affiliated packages.
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python3-astropy-affiliated homepage

www.astropy.org

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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · Aug 12

Random Debian Astro package of the week is python3-astropy-affiliated. A major part of the Astropy project is the concept of “Affiliated Packages”. An affiliated package is an astronomy-related Python package that is not part of the astropy core package, but has requested to be included as part
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