AstroWeb: Astronomy software servers

AIPS++ (Astronomical Information Processing System)
AIPS++ is a software package which will calibrate and image (primarily) radio astronomical data. It is being written in an object-oriented style using the C++ language. AIPS++ is being developed by an international consortium. AIPS++ is not yet of interest to users, although there are some email reflectors you may wish to join for information. A beta library release is available via anonymous ftp. This may be of interest to C++ software developers.
http://www.nrao.edu/aips++/
ANA data processing package/language (ANA)
A free, extensive, IDL-like interactive data analysis and display program and language for 32-bit computers, developed and used by the authors for scientific investigation of images of the Sun (but not limited to those). The source code is written in C (with X11) and is (Nov 1998) about 4.2 Mbyte in size, of which 670 kbyte is covered by the manual. The authors use ANA on linux and SGI Irix, and it has also run on DEC OSF and Sun Solaris.
http://ana.lmsal.com/
ASSIST
ASSIST implements a uniform graphical interface to analysis systems, documentation, and other community memory.
ftp://sao-ftp.harvard.edu/pub/rd/
ASTRONOMY on the Web
ASTRONOMY on the Web presents the contents of the current issue of ASTRONOMY magazine, previews the next issue, and highlights current and future sky events. Full text is available for featured articles, an introduction to the hobby, and guides to buying telescopes and accessories. It also provides links to many astronomical resources on the Web. Programs that appeared in ASTRONOMY are also available for downloading.
http://www.kalmbach.com/astro/astronomy.html
Ada in (Astro)physics
This page provides a set of programs of astrophysical interest written in the ADA programming language. These programs cover topics from LTE line syntehsis in rotating and pulsating stars, Continuous opacities for Kurucz and other atmospheres, Feautrier formal solver package, Zeeman-Feautrier and DELO polarised radiation formal solvers package, Zeeman pattern determination from spectroscopic terms, partition function package and other packages for graphical plotting and interpolation.
http://amok.ast.univie.ac.at/~stift/STIFT_HOME.HTML
Algorithm reference implementations, astronomical and Unix system management tools
Various items including: Jiggle - a program for noninteractive mosaic assembly, Limbctr - a program for non-interactive identification of planetary limbs and centers in images, Mko2FITS - converts '80s-era UH 2.24-meter telescope CCD image files to FITS, Icarus.sty - Latex macros for formatting papers for the planetary journal Icarus, Backup - Unix scripts that automate nightly backup securely over a network, Clues - cut-and-paste instructions for getting and installing over 75 (mostly free) software packages, Sundiskfmt - practical example of partitioning a disk in SunOS. Most items have liberal/free distribution terms.
ftp://oobleck.tn.cornell.edu/pub/
Analyz (single-dish spectral analysis (NAIC)
ftp://naic.edu/pub/Analyz
Astro Space Center (ASC)
The Astro Space Center as a branch of Lebedev Institute of Physics has a number of commitments for space experiments in the areas of upper atmospheric, solar, and astronomical research aboard Radioastron , Kvant and other space projects. Division scientists are involved in major research thrusts that include interferometric observations, studies of the solar atmosphere by using spectrographic techniques, and studies of astronomical ranging from the ultraviolet through cosmic rays. The division maintains facilities to design, construct, assemble, and calibrate space experiments.
http://www.asc.rssi.ru/
Astronomical Image Processing System (AIPS (the Classic Variety) at NRAO)
The Astronomical Image Processing System is a software package for calibration, data analysis, image display, plotting, and a variety of ancillary tasks on Astronomical Data. It comes from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. It is primarily for Radio Astronomy. There is a Usenet newsgroup alt.sci.astro.aips that deals with AIPS issues and has occasional interesting announcements. There is an AIPS memo that nicely describes the AIPS software system (PostScript, 189404 bytes). It contains one schematic diagram of the overall AIPS structure.
http://www.cv.nrao.edu/aips/
Astronomical Software & Documentation Service (ASDS)
The Astronomical Software and Documentation Service (ASDS) is a network service that allows you to find existing astronomical resources for solving your problem. ASDS started life as the Astronomical Software and Documentation Service, devoted entirely to astronomical software packages and their associated on-line documentation. Much code is rewritten these days, not because anyone has found a fundamentally better way to solve the problem, but because they simply don't know who has already done it, whether the code runs on the system they have available, or where to get it if it does. That is the problem that ASDS was intended to solve. The objectives of ASDS changed in 1998 when its scope was expanded to include astronomical observing sites and their associated telescope and instrument manuals, taken from a listing maintained by Liz Bryson (bryson@cfht.hawaii.edu). The service was renamed at this point.
http://asds.stsci.edu/
Astronomical Software Directory Service (ASDS)
Our goal is to help you find the astronomical software you need to solve your problem.We have several ways to help you look:A collection of user guides, programmer guides, on-line help files, etc: Package overviews, giving a general description, along with requirements, availability, and pointers to other sources of information:
http://asds.stsci.edu/asds/
Astronomical software on top of Linux
A list of astronomical software available on top of the Linux/Unix operating system.
http://bima.astro.umd.edu/nemo/linuxastro/
Astronomy and Islam
A galaxy of astronomical links many with an Islamic flavour.
http://www.ummah.net/astronomy/
Astronomy freeware
A description of useful astronomy freeware and software field tested in the classroom with download links
http://www.cvc.org/astronomy/freeware.htm
Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL.net)
The Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL or ASCL.net) is a free, on-line library housing source codes of all sizes that are of interest to astrophysicists. All ASCL.net source codes have been used to generate results published in or submitted to a refereed journal.
http://ascl.net/
Astroware 1 CD-ROM
Astroware 1: Astronomy Shareware & Freeware (ISBN 1-886376-03-4). This CD-ROM is the first to be released in a new series of space and astronomy related CD titles. Astroware 1 is devoted to shareware and freeware files on the topics of Astronomy, Amateur Telescope Making, CCD imaging and image processing. A wide range of text files and programs for DOS, OS/2, Macintosh, and Unix computers are included on this ISO-9660 disc.
http://www.ncc.com/cdroms/as1/index.html
Binary Stars
Free software for Macintosh computers, complete with manuals, for use in an educational setting or for self-learning. Teaches binary star concepts.
http://www.uark.edu/misc/clacy/BinaryStars/
CADC Services
The CADC tools package includes: starcat - STARCAT is a tool for accessing the HST Archive, CFHT and ESO archives. xhot - X tool which displays the planned activities of the Hubble Space Telescope. It allows you to find out what the telescope is currently observing simbad - The new SIMBAD tool now runs on your workstation. xmgr - This very nice interactive plotting package is now used for the Preview system whitin STARCAT. You will be amazed by its capabilities. Data display could be FFT'd, fitted, zoomed, printed, etc...
http://cadcwww.dao.nrc.ca/misc/
CCDPHOT
An IDL widget based CCD photometry reduction system
http://www.lowell.edu/users/buie/idl/ccdphot.html
CFD codes list
http://icemcfd.com/cfd/CFD_codes.html
CHIANTI: A database for astrophysical emission line spectroscopy (CHIANTI)
CHIANTI is a database that contains the most accurate data available for the calculation of emission line intensities as a function of both temperature and density. The database is essentially complete for wavelengths greater than 50 Angstroms and is to be extended to shorter wavelength. A library of IDL procedures is included.
http://wwwsolar.nrl.navy.mil/chianti.html
CLOUDY - Photoionization Simulation code (CLOUDY)
Cloudy is a large-scale Fortran code designed to simulate physical conditions in a broad range of astronomical plasmas, and predict its resulting spectrum. The Cloudy homepage provides pointers to the code and its documentation, along with related publications and activities.
http://www.pa.uky.edu/~gary/cloudy
CNIDR Isite
CNIDR Isite is an integrated software package including a text indexer, search engine and Z39.50 communication tools to access databases. Isite includes the CNIDR ZDist, Isearch and Search API distributions.
http://www.cnidr.org/ir/isite.html
CcdBazar
This site (mostly in French) carries information about usage of CCD by amateurs for astronomical photography.
http://www.astrosurf.org/ccdbazar/
Chemistry of CircumStellar ENVelopes (CSENV)
CSENV is a code that computes the chemical abundances for a desired set of species as a function of radius in a stationary, non-clumpy, CircumStellar ENVelope.
http://www.iap.fr/users/gam/csenv.html
Create your own Stellar Population (Dial-a-model)
This form allows users to cook up arbitrary combinations of single-burst stellar population ages and metallicities. A grid of models is automatically consulted and properties of the requested population (integrated colors, M/L ratios, SBF magnitudes, and line strengths) are immediately returned. Optionally, the entire SED (spectral energy distribution) is sent to the user in a file.
http://astro.sau.edu/~worthey/dial/dial_a_model.html
CyberSky
CyberSky (TM) is a colorful, easy-to-use program that transforms your computer screen into a planetarium, allowing you to learn about astronomy by exploring the sky in the past, present, and future.
CyberSky displays the stars, constellations, deep sky objects, sun, moon, and planets as visible from any location on the earth at a given time. One of CyberSky's most powerful and educational features is its ability to animate the display, allowing you to see "movies" of the changing appearance of the sky over time.
http://cybersky.simplenet.com/
DEC gatekeeper.dec.com Archive
http://gatekeeper.dec.com/hypertext/gatekeeper.home.html
DEEPSKY 2000 (Steve Stuma)
http://www.deepsky2000.com/
Data Reduction Expert Assistant (DRACO)
The use of large format detectors, increased access to very large astronomical databases, and other developments in observational astronomy have led to the situation where many astronomers are overwhelmed by the reduction and analysis process. Draco is a novel approach to data reduction and analysis which works in conjunction with existing analysis systems such as STSDAS/IRAF, IDL, etc. Draco takes on much of the mechanics of the process, allowing the astronomer to spend more time understanding the physical nature of the data.
http://www.stsci.edu/~miller/draco/draco.html
ESO-MIDAS Courier (Newsletter for ESO-MIDAS User)
The ESO-MIDAS Courier is published twice per year by the MIDAS group of the European Southern Observatory.
http://www.eso.org/esomidas/midas-courier.html
ESO-MIDAS Users Guide (Overview)
ESO-MIDAS is the acronym for the European Southern Observatory - Munich Image Data Analysis System which is developed and maintained by the European Southern Observatory. The MIDAS system provides general tools for image processing and data reduction with emphasis on astronomical applications including imaging and special reduction packages for ESO instrumentation at La Silla. Volume A describes the basic MIDAS system with all general purpose facilities such as MIDAS Control Language, all available commands, data input/output (including plotting and image display), table system (MIDAS Data Base). Site specific features are given in an appendix. Volume B describes how to use the MIDAS system for astronomical data reduction. Application packages for special types of data or reductions (e.g., long slit and echelle spectra, object search, or crowded field photometry) are discussed assuming intensity calibrated data. A set of appendices gives a detailed description of the reduction of raw data from ESO instruments. Volume C gives the detailed description for all commands available. This volume is not available to remote users as the complete volume as it is accessed via the MIDAS GUI XHelp.
http://www.eso.org/esomidas/doc/user/
European Southern Observatory - Munich Image Data Analysis System (ESO-MIDAS)
The European Southern Observatory, established in 1962, operates astronomical observatories at La Silla (600 km north of Santiago de Chile) and at Paranal (130 km south of Antofagasta). ESO's headquarters are in Garching, just north of Munich, Germany. ESO is supported by: Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland. In Europe and in Chile, ESO has a combined scientific, technical, adminstrative and visiting staff of around 400.
http://www.eso.org/esomidas/
FIGARO Data reduction system (AAO)
http://www.aao.gov.au/figaro/
FITS Information Archive
This is an archive for the Flexible Image Transport System [FITS], the standard data interchange and archival format of the worldwide astronomy community.
ftp://fits.cv.nrao.edu/
FITS Support Office
http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/
FITS archive documents database
The nrao-fits WAIS server supports searches of all of the text files in the entire FITS archive. " All" means everything -- READMEs, standards, drafts, overviews, and all of the news and Email messages in the traffic archive, even including the ASCII headers of the FITS sample and test data files. All of the Postscript documents are in the index too. The WAIS server enables users to search this huge mass of text for instances of any strings.
wais://fits.cv.nrao.edu/nrao-fits
FITSview FITS image viewers (FITSview)
The FITSview family of viewers for FITS format astronomical images are available for Microsoft Windows (FITSview), Apple Macintosh (MacFITSview) and Unix/X-Windows (XFITSview) computer systems. These viewers have easy to use graphical controls and will display astronomical images in the Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) format allowing zooming, scrolling, modifying the brightness, contrast and pseudo color and allow determination of celestial positions and the physical brightness units in the image. Both standard World Coordinate System (WCS) and Digitized Sky Survey
http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~bcotton/fitsview.html
FTOOLS - UK Mirror
This is the UK mirror of the HEASARC (GSFC) FTOOLS pages. FTOOLS is a collection of utility programs used to create, examine, or modify the contents of FITS data files. There are also user friendly GUI tools which allow interactive browsing of FITS files and provide a more intuitive interface for running the FTOOLS. The FTOOLS package forms the core of the HEASARC software system for reducing and analyzing data in the FITS format.
http://ledas-www.star.le.ac.uk/ftools/ftools_menu.html
FTP Software Inc
Innovative developer of TCP/IP transports and applications for DOS, Windows and OS/2
http://www.ftp.com/
Fitsblink 3.x
Fitsblink is a program for Unix computers with the following functions: it reads and displays an arbitrary number of FITS images, allows their alignment, blinks them on screen, extracts and reads star lists, matches them with GSC, USNO and ACT catalogs, performs astrometry, identifies asteroids using the asteroid_server and allows sending of results directly by email. Binaries in easy to install RPM format for Linux, binaries for OS/2 and sources with user manual are available.
http://kastor.ijs.si/~jure/fitsblink/fitsblink.html
Flexible Image Transport System (FITS archive at NRAO)
http://www.cv.nrao.edu/fits/
GLU : Uniform Link Generator
GLU is a tool developed by CDS (Strasbourg) for managing heterogeneous distributed Web services.
http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/demo/glu.html
Grenoble Image and Line Data Analysis Software (GILDAS)
GILDAS, the " Grenoble Image and Line Data Analysis Software" , is a collection of software developped by the Observatoire de Grenoble and IRAM, oriented towards radioastronomy applications.
http://iram.fr/doc/doc/doc/gildas.html
Groningen IP SYstem (GIPSY)
README Release 3.5: This document describes how to install GIPSY Release 3.5 on one or more of the machines mentioned below. Only on these systems GIPSY is fully supported. They are: Alliant FX80, Decstations, HP 300 series, HP 700 series, IBM/RS6000, Silicon Graphics/IRIX, Sun 4 systems (<5.0), Sun 4 systems (>=5.0), Convex C2 and C3, OSF1/alpha.
ftp://kapteyn.astro.rug.nl/gipsy/
Grove Creek Observatory, Australia (GCO)
Grove Creek Observatory in NSW Australia, specializes in CCD imaging and research. Accomodation available for visiting amateur astronomers.
http://gco.apana.org.au/
Grup d'Estudis Astronomics (GEA)
GEA is a private non-profit organization devoted to research in Astronomy. We are now deeply involved in Jupiter & Saturn atmospheric studies. Our members are also developing LAIA a powerful image analysis tool for MS-Windows, able to reduce CCD images of Jupiter, giving coordinates of atmospheric details. We are, among others, collaborating with the " Pic du Midi" observatory (French Pyrenees). From that observatory, our members discovered and tracked the last GWS (Great White Spot) in Saturn (August 1994).
http://www.gea.cesca.es/
HEASARC FITS toolset (FTOOLS)
FITSIO This directory contains files related to version 3.410 of the FITSIO subroutine package for reading and writing data files in FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) format. Also: FTOOLS (FITS Tools) This directory contains the FTOOLS distribution file for Suns, DECstations, Alpha and VAX computers. Distribution for both the Public and Develop releases of FTOOLS are located here. This is also the distribution point for XSELECT as of the version 2.4c Develop release.
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/software/ftools/ftools_menu.html
HST Tools and Utilities (ST-ECF)
Software tools related to instruments on board Hubble Space Telescope.
http://ecf.hq.eso.org/stecf-tools.html
Hallo northern sky (planetarium software program)
The program Hallo northern sky is a simple windows application which plots an electronic version of the night sky. It displays all stars to magnitude 8.0 (or 9.5) and 8415 deep sky objects. It also shows the planets, Moon, Sun, the Jovian moons, phases of the Moon and inner planets, solar and lunar eclipses, rings and moons of Saturn and some minor planets and comets.The intention of the program is to familiarise you with the night sky and prepare yourself with a map for a night with your telescope. To help you with this, all deepsky objects are displayed in the correct size and orientation if available.
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/han_kleijn/software.htm
IDL Astronomy User's Library
The IDL Astronomy Users Library is a central repository for general purpose astronomy procedures written in the commercial language IDL. The Library is not meant to be an integrated package, but rather is a collection of procedures from which users can pick and choose (and possibly modify) for their own use.
http://idlastro.gsfc.nasa.gov/homepage.html
IRAF (Image Reduction and Analysis Facility) (NOAO)
IRAF ftp archive directories. README = This file; ORDERFORM = IRAF order form, for mailed IRAF distributions and printed and bound versions of the manuals; REGISTER = IRAF mailing list and site registration; conf = November 1991 IRAF Conference information; contrib = Contributed software; docs = IRAF user and technical documentation; extra = IRAF add-on layered packges, fixes, etc.; v28 = The IRAF V2.8 distribution (partial); v29 = The IRAF V2.9 distribution; v210 = The IRAF V2.10 distribution; web = World Wide Web (WWW) home directory.; (there is an IRAF home page (preliminary) \}
ftp://iraf.tuc.noao.edu/iraf
Image Processing CD-ROM
The IMAGE PROCESSING TOOLS CD-ROM contains a huge selection of files related to the topics of image processing, file formats and documentation, format conversions, specialized image processing applications, and source code for algorithms, converters, and complete image processing systems. The disk also includes a large amount of FITS information, CCD imaging software, and specialized astronomical image processing software.
http://www.ncc.com/cdroms/ipt/index.html
Image Reduction and Analysis Facility (IRAF)
IRAF is the "Image Reduction and Analysis Facility". The main IRAF distribution includes a good selection of programs for general image processing and graphics, plus a large number of programs for the reduction and analysis of optical and IR astronomy data (th>

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layered packages are available for applications such as data acquisition or handling data from other observatories and wavelength regimes such as the Hubble Space Telescope (optical), EUVE (extreme ultra-violet), or ROSAT and AXAF (X-ray). These external packages are distributed separately from the main IRAF distribution but can be easily installed. The IRAF system also includes a complete programming environment for scientific applications, which includes a programmable Command Language scripting facility, the IMFORT Fortran/C programming interface, and the full SPP/VOS programming environment in which the portable IRAF system and all applications are written.
http://iraf.tuc.noao.edu/
Interactive Data Language from Research Systems, Inc. (IDL)
IDL, Interactive Data analysis Language, is a complete package for the interactive reduction, analysis, and visualization of scientific data and images. Optimized for the workstation environment, IDL integrates a responsive array oriented language with numerous data analysis methods and an extensive variety of two and three dimensional displays into a powerful tool for researchers. IDL supports an extensive data import capability, publication quality hard copy output, and user-defined Motif graphical user interfaces. Users can create complex visualizations in hours instead of weeks with the aid of IDL's high level capabilities and interactive environment. IDL is useful in physics, astronomy, image and signal processing, mapping, medical imaging, statistics, and other disciplines requiring visualization of large amounts of data.
The pages include technical information about IDL, distributor information, a gallery of images that you can download, and links to the IDL ftp site. A number of scientific visualization products. (ftp)
IDL Astronomy Library
http://www.rsinc.com/
Interactive Graphical Milky Way Concordance
The Concordance is a suite of programmes and catalogues which display all objects of interest in a user-specified sky window. Currently specialising in nebulous galactic objects, the Concordance plots source positions and sizes, and labels each object with its catalogue name and distance. The Concordance uses the SuperMongo plotting package.
http://www.nrao.edu/~pbarnes/concord/
Interactive raytracing for optical design or education (Raytrace)
Raytrace allows you to set up and trace rays through arbitrarily complex optical systems. Rays may be one of three colours (wavelengths). Both real and idealised optical elements are supported. A scripting facility allows student tasks or demos or complex design tasks to be set up and played at the click of the mouse button. Ray diagrams can be animated by dragging with the mouse or under script control and ray paths are updated automatically as you drag. Protractor and tape measure tools allow accurate measurements which update automatically as diagrams are dragged or modified.
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~imesoft/raytrace.htm
JPL Molecular Spectroscopy (JPL Line Catalog)
The JPL Molecular Spectroscopy Home Page is the starting point for accessing the JPL Submillimeter, Millimeter, and Microwave Spectral Line Catalog, which is a collection of predicted line positions and intensities for use in Astrophysics, Planetary Science, and studies of the Earth Atmosphere. There is also a collection of programs used to calculate the spectra.
http://spec.jpl.nasa.gov/
Jandel Scientific Software
Jandel Scientific offers PC-based software to aid researchers in many areas of astronomy and astrophysics. Jandel products include SigmaPlot graphics software, SigmaStat statistical software, TableCurve 2D and 3D curvefitting software, and SigmaScan image measurement and analysis software. In business since 1982, Jandel serves nearly 100,000 customers, many in astronomy and related disciplines.
http://www.spss.com/software/science/
Karma (ATNF@CSIRO-RP)
The Karma package is a library and applications for Signal and Image Processing written by Richard Gooch.
ftp://ftp.atnf.csiro.au/pub/software/karma/
LISP-STAT
Completed, ongoing, or contemplated projects in Lisp-Stat, an advanced statistical computing environment based on public domain XLisp.
http://euler.bd.psu.edu/lispstat/lispstat.html
Links to Relativistic Starflight (RFS)
This is a list of links to all known relativistic flight simulators. There are a variety of technologies in use.
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/anima/rfslink.htm
Linux for Astronomy CDROM project (LfA)
NEW RELEASE - V3/4 has 1.6Gb of astronomy packages plus a full linux system distribution, URL database, HTML documentation library, and much more.
The Lfa CDROM contains Linux versions of the following Astronomical data reduction and analysis packages : AIPS (radio astronomy and image processing) ASSIST (gui for IRAF +) IRAF + contributed packages (general purpose) Karma (image processing) NEMO (stellar dynamics) MIDAS (general purpose) PGPERL (graphics) SAOIMAGE (imaging/graphics) SAOtng (imaging/graphics) StarBase (astronomy database).
http://www.randomfactory.com/lfa.html
Massively Parallel Richardson-Lucy (MPRL)
MPRL is a software package for performing spatially-variant point spread function (SV-PSF) deconvolution of astronomical images. Its development is motivated by, but its utility is hopefully not limited to, Hubble Space Telescope image data.
http://huey.jpl.nasa.gov/mprl
MathSoft
We're the developers of S-PLUS as well as developers and providers of a variety of other tools for statistical and data analysis. We strive to provide you with a variety of online information which will help you work more efficiently and creatively within S-PLUS.
http://www.mathsoft.com/
MathSource -- Mathematica Software (Wolfram Research, Inc.)
This site contains all material available through MathSource. The General directory contains items of general interest to the Mathematica community, such as administrative info, MathGroup archives, Mathematica tutorials, MathSource information, utility programs, and Mathematica tips. The Enhancements directory contains items that enhance the functionality of Mathematica beyond the capabilities of the basic kernel. Items in the Applications directory deal with the application of Mathematica to specific problems or subject areas. The subcategories group related items together into manageable sizes. Subcategories under Applications include: Audio, Chemistry, Complexity, Computer Science, Data-Tables, Economics-Finance, Education, Engineering, Geography, Graphics, Life Science, Material Science, Math, and Physics. Books supplements, periodicals, journals, press-announcements, bibliographical information, Mathematica documentation, and the like are all stored in the Publications directory.
ftp://mathsource.wri.com/
Mathematical Morphology
ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/morphology/
MediaTheque
The Strasbourg astronomical Data Centre (CDS) is collecting modern media offering material related to astronomy and space sciences.
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/mediatheque.html
Microcomputer Image Processing System (MiPS)
(this document is the announcement of a demo for MS-DOS computers)
http://www.cv.nrao.edu/fits/www/news_mips.txt
Miriad Interferometric Data Reduction Package (Miriad)
Miriad is a radio-interferometry data reduction package, going from raw visibility data through calibration, imaging, analysis and publication quality output.
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/computing/software/miriad/
Munich Image Data Analysis System (FTP) (ESO-MIDAS)
This directory contains: README = This file; 9NNOV = Subdirectory containing the 9NNOV release of MIDAS (only packages, patches and documentation); courier = Directory containing the compressed postscript files of the newsletter: MIDAS Courier.; calib = Directory with the ESO calibration files for MIDAS.; linux = Directory containing binary versions of MIDAS for PC/Linux.
ftp://ftp.eso.org/midaspub/
NASA COmputer Software Management and Information Center (COSMIC)
http://www.cosmic.uga.edu/
NASA Network Application and Information Center (NAIC)
The Network Applications And Information Center (NAIC), located at Ames Research Center, was established in March 1993 to coordinate network information center (NIC) services for NASA. The NAIC mission is: (1) To facilitate a distributed system of NASA Center NICs. (2) To distribute and assist NASA users with advanced applications programs developed or supported by the ANA group. (3) To act as liaison between NASA and other government network information activities. (4) To foster the use of information protocols, standards, and procedures among NASA NICs that are conducive to quick and easy network access to online information resources. (5) To serve as a NIC of first and last resort for users at Centers without NICs and for scientists and educators coming from other networks. (6) To act as a high-level referral center for NASA information resources.
http://naic.nasa.gov/naic/
NCSA AipsView Visualization System (AipsView)
AipsView is a tool for visual data analysis built at NCSA with support from the NSF/ARPA Grand Challenge project in Radio Astronomy Imaging, and in cooperation with the AIPS++ programming project. AipsView is a tool for two-dimensional visualization and relies on Motif and Xlib for its user interface and drawing capabilities. A companion tool for three-dimensional visualization, AipsView3, requires OpenInventor. AipsView3 is at an early stage of development, and is not yet described on these pages.
http://monet.astro.uiuc.edu/AipsView/av.html
NCSA Software
ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/
NEMO Stellar Dynamics Toolbox (NEMO)
NEMO is a Stellar Dynamics Toolbox with many programs to create, integrate, analyze and visualize N-body (and related) systems. In addition there are various tools to operate images, tables and orbits, including FITS files to import/export data to/from other data reduction packages.
http://bima.astro.umd.edu/nemo/
NETLIB Software
Netlib is a collection of mathematical software, papers, and databases.
http://www.netlib.org/
NSI On-Line Network Aide - NONA
telnet://nsinic@nic.nsi.nasa.gov/
Neural Network Papers
ftp://archive.cis.ohio-state.edu/pub/neuroprose/
Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG)
NAG is a supplier of numerical, statistical, symbolic and visualisation systems plus compilers and tools.
http://www.nag.co.uk/
Origin (data analysis)
Origin is a data analysis and technical graphics software in Windows for scientists and researchers. Free full working model is available at our website.
http://www.microcal.com/
PGPLOT Graphics Subroutine Library
The PGPLOT Graphics Subroutine Library is a Fortran-callable, device-independent graphics package for making simple scientific graphs. It is intended for making graphical images of publication quality with minimum effort on the part of the user. For most applications, the program can be device-independent, and the output can be directed to the appropriate device at run time.
http://astro.caltech.edu/~tjp/pgplot/
PGPLOT module for Perl
The pgperl module allows the use of the the PGPLOT graphics library from the popular Perl scripting language. PGPLOT makes it very easy to process and plot data using the powerful file and text manipulation facilites built in to Perl.
ftp://ftp.ast.cam.ac.uk/pub/kgb/pgperl/
PROS Software
ftp://sao-ftp.harvard.edu/
PSPLOT
PSPLOT is a Fortran-callable PostScript plotting library which can create 2-D publication-quality graphics. It supports the standard 35 PostScript fonts and color, and is distributed free of charge for non- commercial use.
http://www.nova.edu/ocean/psplot.html
Parallel Tools Consortium (Ptools)
The purpose of the Ptools WWW pages is to provide information about the Ptools software consortium to the community. The on-line pages include up-to-date general information about the consortium, consortium project descriptions, meeting announcements and minutes, the email reflector archive, the by-laws, and pointers to other WWW resources.
http://www.ptools.org/
Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM)
PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) is a software system that enables a collection of heterogeneous computers to be used as a coherent and flexible concurrent computational resource. The individual computers may be shared- or local-memory multiprocessors, vector supercomputers, specialized graphics engines, or scalar workstations, that may be interconnected by a variety of networks, such as ethernet, FDDI, etc. PVM support software executes on each machine in a user-configurable pool, and presents a unified, general, and powerful computational environment of concurrent applications. User programs written in C or Fortran are provided access to PVM through the use of calls to PVM library routines for functions such as process initiation, message transmission and reception, and synchronization via barriers or rendezvous. Users may optionally control the execution location of specific application components. The PVM system transparently handles message routing, data conversion for incompatible architectures, and other tasks that are necessary for operation in a heterogeneous, network environment.
http://www.netlib.org/pvm3/
Personal MicroCosms
Download Astronomy Lab and Astronomy Clock from Personal MicroCosms' web site. These programs are available in Windows 3.1 and Windows 95, 98, and NT versions.
http://www.PersonalMicroCosms.com/
Planetary Data System Imaging Node (PDSIMG)
The Imaging Node of the Planetary Data System is the curator of NASA's primary digital image collections from past, present, and future planetary missions. The node provides to the NASA planetary science community the digital image archives, necessary ancillary datasets, software tools, and technical expertise necessary to fully utilize the vast collection of digital planetary imagery.
http://www-pdsimage.jpl.nasa.gov/PDS/
Quantum Image Processing
Quantum Image, Image restoration software for Microsoft Windows platforms.
http://www.quantimage.com/
Remote Proposal Submission Software
http://www.stsci.edu/ftp/software/rps2/
SAO Telescope Data Center (RVSAO, RGSC, SKYMAP Software)
Includes software packages: RVSAO, an IRAF package for finding radial velocities from spectra; RGSC a program for searching the Hubble Space Telescope Guide Star Catalog; SKYMAP a program for mapping star catalogs onto the sky; STAR a program for searching star catalogs
http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/TDC.html
SAOimage Image Display Utility (SAOimage)
SAOimage (pronounced S-A-0-image) is a utility for displaying astronomical images which runs under the X11 window environment. It was written by Mike Van Hilst at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in 1990 and is now maintained by Doug Mink. Image files can be read directly, or image data may be passed through a named pipe (Unix) or a mailbox (VMS) from IRAF display tasks. SAOimage provides a large selection of options for zooming, panning, scaling, coloring, pixel readback, display blinking, and region specification. User interactions are generally performed with the mouse.
http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/software/
SL9: IMPACT '94 CD-ROM
The SL9: IMPACT '94 CD-ROM contains a huge selection of images and other files related to the impact of the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter. The SL9 CD-ROM contains hundreds of images, motion video sequences, and technical information related to the July 1994 collision of the Periodic Comet Shoemaker-levy 9 (1993e) and the planet Jupiter. ISO-9660 disc.
http://www.ncc.com/cdroms/sl9/index.html
SPECTRUM
SPECTRUM is an IBM PC-based stellar spectral synthesis program. Given a stellar atmosphere model, SPECTRUM computes the LTE synthetic spectrum. This Web site contains an introduction to SPECTRUM, full on-line documentation, and access to the ftp site for downloading SPECTRUM and auxiliary files. SPECTRUM is being made available over the Internet for the purposes of research and education.
http://www.acs.appstate.edu/dept/physics/spectrum/spectrum.html
SSL software abstracts
WAIS index to the software abstracts maintained at the Software Support Laboratory (SSL), located at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado.
wais://sslab.colorado.edu:3333/ssl
STSDAS help system
The World Wide Web version of the help information for STSDAS, the Space Telescope Science Data Anlaysis System, developed at the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD.
http://ra.stsci.edu/gethelp/HelpSys.html
STSDAS help system index
WAIS index of all help files for STSDAS, the Space Telescope Science Data Analysis System, developed at the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, for the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
wais://ra.stsci.edu:2010/helpsys
STSDAS source code
WAIS index of all spp (Subset Preprocessor) source code of STSDAS (Space Telescope Science Data Analysis System), developed at the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, for the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
wais://ra.stsci.edu:2010/spp
Scientific Astronomer
A comprehensive astronomy package for Mathematica.
http://www.wolfram.com/applications/astronomer/index.html
Shadows : Freeware for the design of sundials
Shadows is a free software that allows to design and calculate various kind of sundials. Very easy to use. Contains a database of more than 700 locations, can draw and print the sundial drawing, gives the co-ordinates of all the lines, provides a very detailed on-line help with lots of information on the sundial theory, and advices to create a real sundial.
http://web.fc-net.fr/frb/sundials/shadows.html
Signal Processing Information Base (SPIB)
a project sponsored by the Signal Processing Society and the National Science Foundation. SPIB contains information repositories of data, papers, software, newsgroups, bibliographies, links to other repositories, and addresses, all of which are relevant to signal processing research and development. For general information, send e-mail to spib@spib.rice.edu containing the message: send help
http://softlib.rice.edu/spib.html
Sky Charts (free astronomy software)
This program for Windows 95/98/NT enables you to draw sky charts, making use of the data from 15 catalogs of stars and nebulae. In addition the position of planets, asteroids and comets are shown. The purpose of this program is to prepare different sky maps for a particular observation. A large number of parameters help you to choose specifically or automatically which catalogs to use, the colour and the dimension of stars and nebulae, the display of labels and coordinate grids, the superposition of FITS images, the condition of visibility and more.
http://www.astrosurf.org/astropc/cartes/eindex.html
SkyCat (ESO)
SkyCat is a tool developed at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) that combines visualization of images and access to catalogs and archive data for astronomy.
http://archive.eso.org/skycat/
Software Engineering Institute (SEI)
The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) is a major force causing the widespread adoption of significant improvements in the practice of software engineering. The institute is committed to the evolution of software engineering from an ad-hoc, labor-intensive activity to a managed, technology-supported engineering discipline.
http://www.sei.cmu.edu/
Solar UV Atlas from HRTS (HRTS data)
Through the generosity of Dr. Pål Brekke of the University of Oslo, the High Resolution Spectrograph and Telescope (HRTS) ultraviolet solar atlas is now available on the Web. Click here for more information.
http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/uv_atlas/atlas.html
Space Telescope Science Data Analysis System (STSDAS)
This is a preliminary Mosaic document for the Space Telescope Science Data Analysis System. STSDAS is software primarily designed for reducing and analyzing data from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). This includes the same instrument calibration code included in the routine data processing pipeline. STSDAS also includes general-purpose tools and enhancements to IRAF.
http://ra.stsci.edu/STSDAS.html
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
STScI is responsible for the scientific operations of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). STScI is operated by Associated Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) under contract to NASA.
http://www.stsci.edu/
Spike Planning and Scheduling (Spike)
Space Telescope Science Institute developed the Spike planning and scheduling software in support of the Hubble Space Telescope as a general toolkit for planning and scheduling under Contract NAS5-26555 with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. It is our desire that this toolkit be used to promote scientific research through the effective and efficient use of ground- and space-based astronomical observatories. By providing the Spike system to other facilities, we hope to develop a community of users who develop and use the Spike system. To the degree our resources allow, STScI will act as a clearinghouse for users, bug fixes, modifications, etc.
http://www.stsci.edu/spike
StarClock: Stellar evolution
StarClock 2.0 is a simple free program for PC/DOS machines with VGA graphics that animates stellar evolution in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. Based on a grid of models computed recently at Geneva Observatory.
http://www.physics.muni.cz/~ondra/sclock/sclock.html
Starlink
The Starlink Software Collection is an anthology of astronomy applications packages and supporting subroutine libraries and utilities. It is provided by the UK Starlink Project and contributing institutions, and distributed to non-profit making organizations for use in astronomical research. At present, the collection comprises some 140 different items covering most wavebands and branches of astronomy. Most run on popular versions of UNIX. Starlink sites in the UK automatically receive regular updates, while other sites may obtain copies of the collection (and updates) on request to ussc@star.rl.ac.uk.
http://star-www.rl.ac.uk/
Starman - Crowded-field stellar photometry
Starman is a software package for:- Crowded-field stellar photometry Stellar photometry Image handling Table handling.
http://ast.star.rl.ac.uk/dev/starman/main.html
StatLib Index
StatLib, a system for distributing statistical software, datasets, and information by electronic mail, FTP, gopher, and WWW. StatLib started out as an e-mail service and some of the organisation still reflects that heritage.
http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/
Statistical software for astronomy and related fields (StatCodes)
StatCodes is a Web metasite with links to >200 source codes and packages implementing statistical methods which are freely available on the Internet. Most are in C or Fortran. Categories include: general statistics; statistical distributions; Bayesian statistics; time series analysis; multivariate analysis; multivariate clustering and classification; censored and truncated data; nonparametric methods; density estimation and smoothing; spatial statistics; image analysis; correlation and regression; visualization tools; interactive Web tools.
http://www.astro.psu.edu/statcodes/
Sun, Moon & Earth Applet
This interactive Java applet displays the positions of sun and moon for any date, time and location on the horizon, and on a world map with day and night regions. The times of rise and setting, the declination, the Greenwich Hour Angle of sun and moon, the equation of time and more data are computed.
http://www.sweethome.de/giesen/SME/
TCL WWW Info
These pages are an index to a set of TCL/Tk references on the WWW. The author has started off with pointers to the ones he could access from the TCL FAQ and added references as he came across them.
http://www.pi.infn.it/tcl/Tcl.html
TIM (Telescope Imaging Model) (PSF software for HST)
TinyTIM PSF software for HST
http://www.stsci.edu/ftp/software/tim/
Twin Press Astronomy Publishers
Twin Press publishes information for students of astronomy and for the professional astronomer at as low a cost as possible.
http://www.twinpress.nl/
UniPOPS (NRAO)
http://www.cv.nrao.edu/unipops/
University of Washington - Department of Astronomy
The Department participates in these major projects: Apache Point Observatory, Sloan Digital Sky Survey and NASA High Performance Computing and Communications. The HPCC Project offers the results of simulations including gas dynamics or just dark matter. Their software exchange contains N-body codes, tools for particle based codes, the Theoretical Image Processing System, TIPSY.
http://www.astro.washington.edu/
University of Washington - HPCC/ESS Project
The Department of Astronomy offers the results of simulations including SPH gas dynamics and dark matter. Their software exchange contains N-body codes, tools for particle based codes, and the Theoretical Image Processing System, TIPSY.
http://www-hpcc.astro.washington.edu/
VISTA Software
ftp://ftp.lowell.edu/pub/
WIP
WIP is a simple to use command line user interface used to produce high quality graphical output. It is linked with the PGPLOT subroutine package providing easy interaction with those subroutines.
http://bima.astro.umd.edu/wip/
XIRAF - a startup script for IRAF
XIRAF is C shell script which starts up an IRAF session on an xgterm, including starting an image display of the user's choice (i.e. SAOimage, XImtool, SAOtng). Its purpose is to provide a simple IRAF startup from Unix/Linux.
http://www.astro.cornell.edu/staff/vassilis/xiraf/
Xephem: An Interactive Ephemeris for X Windows/Motif (XEPHEM)
Xephem is an interactive astronomical ephemeris program for X Windows systems. It computes heliocentric, geocentric and topocentric information for celestial objects. Xephem has built-in support for all planets; the moons of Jupiter, Saturn and Earth and Mars' central meridian longitude. Xephem supports objects in heliocentric or Earth orbit given the appropriate elements. Sample databases of over 16000 objects are included in the release kit. Xephem generates data in configurable tabular forms and in several detailed graphical formats. Xephem can plot and list all data fields and can be programmed to search for arbitrary circumstances. Xephem can serve as the control point for automated telescopes and can connect to auxiliary database servers in real-time via named streams pipes (UNIX fifos).
http://www.clearskyinstitute.com/xephem/xephem.html
pgperl
pgperl is a version of the Perl 4.0 language which has been combined with the PGPLOT FORTRAN library, a very popular package for plotting astronomical data. (As a glance through any issue of ApJ or MNRAS will confirm.) The details of this involve some complicated C glue routines but are transparent to the user. perl is a real C-like language with full control structures, and is very fast and efficient. All the power of perl (and believe me that is a lot) is available to extract data to plot from multitudes of files in complicated free formats.
http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/AAO/local/www/kgb/pgperl/

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