AstroWeb: Astronomy software servers
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AIPS++
(Astronomical Information Processing System)
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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++/
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ANA data processing package/language
(ANA)
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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/
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ASSIST
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ASSIST implements a uniform graphical interface to analysis systems, documentation,
and other community memory.
- ftp://sao-ftp.harvard.edu/pub/rd/
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ASTRONOMY on the Web
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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
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Ada in (Astro)physics
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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
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Algorithm reference implementations, astronomical and Unix system management tools
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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/
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Analyz
(single-dish spectral analysis (NAIC)
- ftp://naic.edu/pub/Analyz
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Astro Space Center
(ASC)
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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/
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Astronomical Image Processing System
(AIPS (the Classic Variety) at NRAO)
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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/
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Astronomical Software
& Documentation Service
(ASDS)
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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/
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Astronomical Software Directory Service
(ASDS)
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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/
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Astronomical software on top of Linux
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A list of astronomical software available on top of the
Linux/Unix operating system.
- http://bima.astro.umd.edu/nemo/linuxastro/
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Astronomy and Islam
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A galaxy of astronomical links many with an Islamic flavour.
- http://www.ummah.net/astronomy/
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Astronomy freeware
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A description of useful astronomy freeware and software field tested
in the classroom with download links
- http://www.cvc.org/astronomy/freeware.htm
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Astrophysics Source Code Library
(ASCL.net)
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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/
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Astroware 1 CD-ROM
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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
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Binary Stars
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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/
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CADC Services
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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/
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CCDPHOT
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An IDL widget based CCD photometry reduction system
- http://www.lowell.edu/users/buie/idl/ccdphot.html
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CFD codes list
- http://icemcfd.com/cfd/CFD_codes.html
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CHIANTI: A database for astrophysical emission line spectroscopy
(CHIANTI)
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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
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CLOUDY - Photoionization Simulation code
(CLOUDY)
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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
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CNIDR Isite
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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
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CcdBazar
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This site (mostly in French) carries information about usage of
CCD by amateurs for astronomical photography.
- http://www.astrosurf.org/ccdbazar/
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Chemistry of CircumStellar ENVelopes
(CSENV)
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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
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Create your own Stellar Population
(Dial-a-model)
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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
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CyberSky
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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/
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DEC gatekeeper.dec.com Archive
- http://gatekeeper.dec.com/hypertext/gatekeeper.home.html
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DEEPSKY 2000
(Steve Stuma)
- http://www.deepsky2000.com/
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Data Reduction Expert Assistant
(DRACO)
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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
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ESO-MIDAS Courier
(Newsletter for ESO-MIDAS User)
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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
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ESO-MIDAS Users Guide
(Overview)
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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/
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European Southern Observatory - Munich Image Data Analysis System
(ESO-MIDAS)
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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/
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FIGARO Data reduction system
(AAO)
- http://www.aao.gov.au/figaro/
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FITS Information Archive
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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/
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FITS Support Office
- http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/
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FITS archive documents database
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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
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FITSview FITS image viewers
(FITSview)
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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
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FTOOLS - UK Mirror
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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
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FTP Software Inc
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Innovative developer of TCP/IP transports and applications for DOS, Windows
and OS/2
- http://www.ftp.com/
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Fitsblink 3.x
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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
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Flexible Image Transport System
(FITS archive at NRAO)
- http://www.cv.nrao.edu/fits/
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GLU : Uniform Link Generator
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GLU is a tool developed by CDS (Strasbourg) for managing
heterogeneous distributed Web services.
- http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/demo/glu.html
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Grenoble Image and Line Data Analysis Software
(GILDAS)
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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
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Groningen IP SYstem
(GIPSY)
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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/
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Grove Creek Observatory, Australia
(GCO)
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Grove Creek Observatory in NSW Australia, specializes in CCD imaging
and research. Accomodation available for visiting amateur astronomers.
- http://gco.apana.org.au/
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Grup d'Estudis Astronomics
(GEA)
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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/
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HEASARC FITS toolset
(FTOOLS)
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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
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HST Tools and Utilities
(ST-ECF)
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Software tools related to instruments on board Hubble Space Telescope.
- http://ecf.hq.eso.org/stecf-tools.html
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Hallo northern sky
(planetarium software program)
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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
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IDL Astronomy User's Library
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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
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IRAF (Image Reduction and Analysis Facility)
(NOAO)
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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
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Image Processing CD-ROM
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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
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Image Reduction and Analysis Facility
(IRAF)
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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
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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/
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Interactive Data Language from Research Systems, Inc.
(IDL)
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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/
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Interactive Graphical Milky Way Concordance
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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/
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Interactive raytracing for optical design or education
(Raytrace)
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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
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JPL Molecular Spectroscopy
(JPL Line Catalog)
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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/
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Jandel Scientific Software
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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/
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Karma
(ATNF@CSIRO-RP)
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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/
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LISP-STAT
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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
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Links to Relativistic Starflight
(RFS)
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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
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Linux for Astronomy CDROM project
(LfA)
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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
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Massively Parallel Richardson-Lucy
(MPRL)
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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
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MathSoft
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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/
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MathSource -- Mathematica Software
(Wolfram Research, Inc.)
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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/
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Mathematical Morphology
- ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/morphology/
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MediaTheque
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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
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Microcomputer Image Processing System
(MiPS)
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(this document is the announcement of a demo for MS-DOS
computers)
- http://www.cv.nrao.edu/fits/www/news_mips.txt
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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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