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AMATEUR ASTRONOMY - TOOLS AND INFORMATION
ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTATION, METHODS AND TECHNIQUES
ASTRONOMICAL DATA BASES
ASTROMETRY AND CELESTIAL MECHANICS
COSMOLOGY
GALAXIES
INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM (ISM)
PHYSICAL DATA AND PROCESSES
THE GALAXY
THE SUN
SOLAR SYSTEM
STARS
SOURCES AS A FUNCTION OF WAVELENGTH
AMATEUR ASTRONOMY - TOOLS AND INFORMATION
data processing: images| ace | The ACE external package is used to catalog objects in images and manipulate the catalogs. |
| acsfit | Automatic Stellar Coordinate fitting |
| color | IRAF Tools for Color Image Display |
| crutil | COSMIC RAY REMOVAL UTILITY PACKAGE |
| ds9 | FITS data viewer |
| eclipse | Astronomical image processing package |
| fitsutil | IRAF FITS utilities |
| gcx | CCD image processing |
| ifocas | IRAF Tools Faint Object Classification |
| immatchx | Package of Image Matching and Image Coordinates Tasks |
| ISIS | Optimal Image Subtraction implementation |
| mem0 | IRAF Maximum Entropy image restoration tools |
| swarp | SWarp is a program that resamples and co-adds together FITS images using any arbitrary astrometric projection defined in the WCS standard. |
| wcstools | display and manipulate the world coordinate system of a FITS or IRAF images |
| xite | X based Image processing Tools and Environment |
| astcatx | Astronomical Catalog and Surveys Access Package |
| autophot | Autophot uses IRAF’s digiphot daophot routines, it automates the procedure a bit. |
| avsomat | A small utility to automate the reduction of variable stars, |
| digiphotx | Photometry package for IRAF |
| eye | Eye stands for ``Enhance your Extraction’’: a software for training SExtractor’s retina |
| mxtools | IRAF MX version of Quick and Dirty PHOTometry |
| photom | Match lists of stars/galaxies |
| sextractor | Source Extractor, locates astronomical objects in images |
| aspec | An Astronomical Spectrum Analysis Package |
| CHIANTI | A Database for Astrophysical Emission Line Spectroscopy |
| cora | line fitting tool designed for emission line spectra with low count numbers |
| apogee | CCD camera drivers (Apogee Instruments cameras) |
| audine | CCD camera drivers (Audine and others) |
| autograb | Performs automatic, command-line grab of images by SBIG ST-x CCD cameras. |
| ccdview | ST-x and FITS (CCD) image viewer |
| indilib | An Instrument-Neutral Device Interface protocol |
| mx5ccd | MX5 ccd camera driver - kernel module |
| nightview | CCD camera and telescope controler |
| PySBIG | SBIG data import for python |
| sbigstv | SBIG STV camera control |
| talon | Telescope and instrument control suite |
| XAudine | Image acquisition program for Audine Kaf400 Camera. |
| xmccd | Gui for SBIG ccd camera control |
| foucault | Foucault Test Image Analyzer |
| kojac | Kojac is Optics Java Applet Classes |
| camsource | camsource grabs images from a video4linux device |
| qastrocam | Astronomical video capture program |
| adccdrom | IRAF Tools for Accessing the ADC CDROM |
| apmcat | APMCAT gets data from the APM catalogues server. |
| astroperl | astroperl is a collection of perl routines for astronomical catalog access |
| finder | IRAF catalog search tools |
| gax | A user-friendly tool to search, sort, and report galaxy information |
| gsc-north | Hubble Guide Star Catalog (north) compressed |
| gsc-south | Hubble Guide Star Catalog (south) compressed |
| justmoon | ust Moon: a moon viewer for Linux (and other unixlike platforms) |
| PGC | This is a binary representation of some of the fields in the the PGC galaxy catalog. |
| sky2000 | This is a binary representation of some of the fields in the the Sky 2000.0 catalog. |
| starbase | Starbase Data Tables - An Ascii Relational Database for UNIX |
| aa56 | Computes the orbital positions of planetary bodies |
| astrolabe | Astrolabe is a collection of subroutines and applications for calculating the positions of the sun, moon, planets and other celestial objects |
| emb | Earth-Moon barycenter calculator |
| jday | Astronomical Julian Date calculator |
| skycalc | SKYCALC AND SKYCALENDER |
| skywait | Wait until specified interval before sunrise |
| xephem | X Window System + Ephemeris |
| gpredict | A real time satellite tracking program |
| accrete | Accrete is a physical simulation of solar system planet formation |
| celestia | Solar System visualization |
| cosmix | Celestial Mechanics Simulation |
| gadget | A code for collisionless and gasdynamical cosmological simulations |
| hh2000 | Hitchhiker 2000 |
| MarsProject | Mars colony simulation |
| openuniverse | Solar system simulation |
| Orbitviewer | OrbitViewer is an interactive applet that displays the orbit of small bodies (comets or asteroids) in the solar system in 3D |
| partiview | partiview is an advanced 4D-visualization tool |
| skymaker | A program that simulates astronomical images. |
| starlab | A package for simulating the evolution of dense stellar systems |
| stellarium | Real-time photorealistic sky simulator |
| xspace | Space Physics Visualization Software Package |
| xstar | N-body simulator |
| cdc | Cartes de ciel is a skychart program |
| gstar | gstar is a gtk front-end for the starchart program |
| kastrhorloge | astronomy program for Linux & KDE. |
| kstars | KStars is a Desktop Planetarium for KDE. |
| spacechart | SpaceChart is a program for displaying maps of the stars in 3D |
| starplot | 3D star chart |
| xephem | X Window System + Ephemeris |
| eSTAR | The eScience Telescopes for Astronomical Research (eSTAR) Project is a programme to build a prototype robotic telescope network |
| indilib | An Instrument-Neutral Device Interface protocol |
| nexcontrol | NexStar Telescope control |
| nightview | CCD camera and telescope controller |
| s4l | Mel Bartels SCOPE telescope stepper controller program |
| talon | Telescope and instrument control suite |
| avsomat | A small utility to automate the reduction of variable stars, |
| nightfall | Light Curve Synthesis Program |
| xvarstar | XVarStar is a program written for variable star observers |
| Astro-IRAF | Perl module that provides an object-orientated interface to IRAF |
| astroperl | astroperl is a collection of perl routines for astronomical catalog access |
| cephes-math | Math library |
| cfitsio | C library for read/write FITS format files |
| fftw | Fastest Fourier Transform in the West. |
| funtools | Funtools, is a minimal buy-in FITS library and utility package from the SAO/HEAD R&D group |
| gsl | GNU Scientific subroutine library |
| libAstronomy | Basic Astronomical Package |
| libnova | Celestial Mechanics and Astronomical Calculation Library |
| ncarg | NCAR graphics utilities and libraries |
| novas | Naval Observatory Vector Astrometry Subroutines |
| ftools | FITS data processing package |
| iraf | Image reduction and Analysis Facility |
| karma | Karma is a toolkit for interprocess communications, authentication, encryption, graphics display, user interface and manipulating the Karma network data structure |
| midas | European Southern Observatory Munich Image Data Analysis System |
| scilab | Scientists mathematical toolbox |
PHYSICAL DATA AND PROCESSES
accretion, accretion disks| dusty | solves the problem of radiation transport in a dusty environment |
| csenv | A code for the chemistry of CircumStellar ENVelopes |
| CHIANTI | A Database for Astrophysical Emission Line Spectroscopy |
| CHIANTI | A Database for Astrophysical Emission Line Spectroscopy |
| cloudy | Stellar Atmospheres |
| cmbfast | A microwave anisotropy code |
| AstroMD | A Multi Dimensional visualization and analysis toolkit for astrophysics |
| gadget | A code for collisionless and gasdynamical cosmological simulations |
| gadget | A code for collisionless and gasdynamical cosmological simulations |
| cloudy | Stellar Atmospheres |
| aspec | An Astronomical Spectrum Analysis Package |
| cora | line fitting tool designed for emission line spectra with low count numbers |
| guiapps | IRAF GUIs |
| aspec | An Astronomical Spectrum Analysis Package |
| cora | line fitting tool designed for emission line spectra with low count numbers |
| guiapps | IRAF GUIs |
| cmbfast | A microwave anisotropy code |
| cloudy | Stellar Atmospheres |
| cloudy | Stellar Atmospheres |
| cloudy | Stellar Atmospheres |
| ddscat | DDSCAT is a FORTRAN program to calculate scattering and absorption of electromagnetic radiation by arbitrary targets |
| ddscat | DDSCAT is a FORTRAN program to calculate scattering and absorption of electromagnetic radiation by arbitrary targets |
ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTATION, METHODS AND TECHNIQUES
space vehicles| stecf | IRAF Tools for reduction and analysis of Hubble Space Telescope data |
| stsdas | IRAF Tools for Hubble Space Telescope data reduction |
| tinytim | HST PSF generator |
| xray | Multi-mission x-ray analysis software system |
| xray | missions – list of missions and instruments supported by the xray package |
| ftools | ascaray – ASCA mirror ray tracing program |
| xray | xtiming - timcor - scc_to_utc – convert from ROSAT space-craft clock to UTC |
| xray | xtiming - timcor - utc – ROSAT spacecraft clock to universal time data points |
| fftw | Fastest Fourier Transform in the West. |
| mem0 | IRAF Maximum Entropy image restoration tools |
| starfinder | Stellar field analysis |
| audine | CCD camera drivers (Audine and others) |
| gccd | A ccd camera control program |
| kojac | Kojac is Optics Java Applet Classes |
| mx5ccd | MX5 ccd camera driver - kernel module |
| ftools | ascaray – ASCA mirror ray tracing program |
| aips | Radio Astronomy data processing package |
| mem0 | IRAF Maximum Entropy image restoration tools |
| bima-miriad | Miriad is a a synthesis radio-astronomy data reduction, imaging and analysis package |
| hipparcos | process Hipparcos transit data from CD-ROM |
| stecf | IRAF Tools for reduction and analysis of Hubble Space Telescope data |
| stsdas | IRAF Tools for Hubble Space Telescope data reduction |
| tinytim | HST PSF generator |
| fftw | Fastest Fourier Transform in the West. |
| consky | computes telescope times for sky observation projects. |
| crutil | COSMIC RAY REMOVAL UTILITY PACKAGE |
| ctio | IRAF Tools for CTIO telescope data |
| iraf212 | Image reduction and Analysis Facility |
| mxtools | IRAF MX version of Quick and Dirty PHOTometry |
| skymaker | A program that simulates astronomical images. |
| stecf | IRAF Tools for reduction and analysis of Hubble Space Telescope data |
| stsdas | IRAF Tools for Hubble Space Telescope data reduction |
| aspec | An Astronomical Spectrum Analysis Package |
| cora | line fitting tool designed for emission line spectra with low count numbers |
| iraf212 | Image reduction and Analysis Facility |
| stecf | IRAF Tools for reduction and analysis of Hubble Space Telescope data |
| stsdas | IRAF Tools for Hubble Space Telescope data reduction |
| kojac | Kojac is Optics Java Applet Classes |
| BCR | Cooperative Data Sharing library |
| cdf | Common Data Format |
| cfitsio | C library for read/write FITS format files |
| ds9 | FITS data viewer |
| dx | IBM OpenDX Data Explorer |
| ggobi | GGobi is a data visualization system for viewing high-dimensional data |
| gsl | GNU Scientific subroutine library |
| iraf212 | Image reduction and Analysis Facility |
| karma | Karma is a toolkit for interprocess communications, authentication, encryption, graphics display, user interface and manipulating the Karma network data structure |
| midas | European Southern Observatory Munich Image Data Analysis System |
| ncarg | NCAR graphics utilities and libraries |
| perl-lfa | A collection of perl packages for Astronomy |
| python-lfa | Astronomically Enhanced python |
| saoimage | Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory image utility |
| starfinder | Stellar field analysis |
| stecf | IRAF Tools for reduction and analysis of Hubble Space Telescope data |
| stsdas | IRAF Tools for Hubble Space Telescope data reduction |
| tables | IRAF Tools for processing FITS table data |
| scilab | Scientists mathematical toolbox |
| crutil | COSMIC RAY REMOVAL UTILITY PACKAGE |
| Dexter | Dexter is a little java applet that is used by the ADS to let users extract data from figures on scanned images |
| fftw | Fastest Fourier Transform in the West. |
| ggobi | GGobi is a data visualization system for viewing high-dimensional data |
| tables | IRAF Tools for processing FITS table data |
| AstroMD | A Multi Dimensional visualization and analysis toolkit for astrophysics |
| dx | IBM OpenDX Data Explorer |
| gadget | A code for collisionless and gasdynamical cosmological simulations |
| nemo | NEMO is a Stellar Dynamics Toolbox |
| partiview | partiview is an advanced 4D-visualization tool |
| starlab | A package for simulating the evolution of dense stellar systems |
| xstar | N-body simulator |
| fftw | Fastest Fourier Transform in the West. |
| gsl | GNU Scientific subroutine library |
| scilab | Scientists mathematical toolbox |
| gsl | GNU Scientific subroutine library |
| ISIS | An optimal image subtraction package |
| scilab | Scientists mathematical toolbox |
| xray | Multi-mission x-ray analysis software system |
| hipparcos | process Hipparcos transit data from CD-ROM |
| mem0 | IRAF Maximum Entropy image restoration tools |
| tinytim | HST PSF generator |
| color | IRAF Tools for Color Image Display |
| crutil | COSMIC RAY REMOVAL UTILITY PACKAGE |
| dimsum | DEEP INFRARED MOSAICING SOFTWARE |
| ds9 | FITS data viewer |
| dx | IBM OpenDX Data Explorer |
| eclipse | Astronomical image processing package |
| eis | IRAF Tools for ESO imaging survey data |
| esowfi | ESO WFI MOSAIC REDUCTION PACKAGE |
| eye | Eye stands for ``Enhance your Extraction’’: a software for training SExtractor’s retina |
| gipsy | Groningen Image Processing System |
| guiapps | IRAF GUIs |
| iraf212 | Image reduction and Analysis Facility |
| ISIS | An optimal image subtraction package |
| karma | Karma is a toolkit for interprocess communications, authentication, encryption, graphics display, user interface and manipulating the Karma network data structure |
| mem0 | IRAF Maximum Entropy image restoration tools |
| midas | European Southern Observatory Munich Image Data Analysis System |
| stecf | IRAF Tools for reduction and analysis of Hubble Space Telescope data |
| stsdas | IRAF Tools for Hubble Space Telescope data reduction |
| stiff | convert scientific FITS images to TIFF |
| swarp | SWarp is a program that resamples and co-adds together FITS images using any arbitrary astrometric projection defined in the WCS standard. |
| xite | X based Image processing Tools and Environment |
| aips | Radio Astronomy data processing package |
| bima-miriad | Miriad is a a synthesis radio-astronomy data reduction, imaging and analysis package |
| mscred | IRAF Tools for Mosaic image processing |
| consky | computes telescope times for sky observation projects. |
| vol | IRAF Tools for manipulating and viewing 3d or in some cases 4d volume images |
| autophot | Autophot uses IRAF’s digiphot daophot routines, it automates the procedure a bit. |
| consky | computes telescope times for sky observation projects. |
| crutil | COSMIC RAY REMOVAL UTILITY PACKAGE |
| eSTAR | The eScience Telescopes for Astronomical Research (eSTAR) Project is a programme to build a prototype robotic telescope network |
| eye | Eye stands for ``Enhance your Extraction’’: a software for training SExtractor’s retina |
| fitsutil | IRAF FITS utilities |
| ftools | FITS data processing package |
| funtools | Funtools, is a minimal buy-in FITS library and utility package from the SAO/HEAD RDgroup. |
| ggobi | GGobi is a data visualization system for viewing high-dimensional data |
| guiapps | IRAF GUIs |
| ifocas | IRAF Tools Faint Object Classification |
| midas | European Southern Observatory Munich Image Data Analysis System |
| mxtools | IRAF MX version of Quick and Dirty PHOTometry |
| sextractor | Source Extractor, locates astronomical objects in images |
| skymaker | A program that simulates astronomical images. |
| stecf | IRAF Tools for reduction and analysis of Hubble Space Telescope data |
| stsdas | IRAF Tools for Hubble Space Telescope data reduction |
| velocity | program to fit an orbital solution to measured radial velocity curves of spectroscopic binary stars |
| aspec | An Astronomical Spectrum Analysis Package |
| CHIANTI | A Database for Astrophysical Emission Line Spectroscopy |
| guiapps | IRAF GUIs |
| spectrum | A stellar spectral synthesis program |
| consky | computes telescope times for sky observation projects. |
| cora | line fitting tool designed for emission line spectra with low count numbers |
| crutil | COSMIC RAY REMOVAL UTILITY PACKAGE |
| ctio | IRAF Tools for CTIO telescope data |
| drao | Export package for processing DRAO telescope data |
| eis | IRAF Tools for ESO imaging survey data |
| esowfi | ESO WFI MOSAIC REDUCTION PACKAGE |
| mscred | IRAF Tools for Mosaic image processing |
| s4l | Mel Bartels SCOPE telescope stepper controller program |
| spectime | IRAF SPECTRAL EXPOSURE TIME CALCULATOR |
| stecf | IRAF Tools for reduction and analysis of Hubble Space Telescope data |
| stsdas | IRAF Tools for Hubble Space Telescope data reduction |
ASTRONOMICAL DATA BASES
astronomical data bases:| starbase | Starbase Data Tables - An Ascii Relational Database for UNIX |
| CHIANTI | A Database for Astrophysical Emission Line Spectroscopy |
| HDF | The HDF software includes I/O libraries and tools for analyzing, visualizing, and converting scientific data |
| XDF | Metadata tools |
| xsil | XSIL means eXtensible Scientific Interchange Language. |
| starplot | 3D star chart |
| ace | The ACE external package is used to catalog objects in images and manipulate the catalogs. |
| apmcat | APMCAT gets data from the APM catalogues server. |
| finder | IRAF catalog search tools |
| gax | A user-friendly tool to search, sort, and report galaxy information |
| gsc-north | HST Guide Star Catalog - northern sky |
| gsc-south | HST Guide Star Catalog - southern sky |
| xephem | Xephem-lite — a sampler of the interactive astronomy program |
| consky | computes telescope times for sky observation projects. |
| eis | IRAF Tools for ESO imaging survey data |
| eSTAR | The eScience Telescopes for Astronomical Research (eSTAR) Project is a programme to build a prototype robotic telescope network |
| hipparcos | process Hipparcos transit data from CD-ROM |
| mscred | IRAF Tools for Mosaic image processing |
| skymaker | A program that simulates astronomical images. |
| stuff | SkyStuff is a program that generates artificial but realistic catalog of astronomical sources |
| wcstools | display and manipulate the world coordinate system of a FITS or IRAF images |
| ftools - ecd2pha | Converts Einstein PHA dataset in the format on the HEASARC CD-ROM |
| xray - xspatial | eintools - be_ds_rotate rotate IPC bright Earth and deep survey maps using BKFAC table |
ASTROMETRY AND CELESTIAL MECHANICS
astrometry eclipses| ascfit | Automatic Stellar Coordinate fitting |
| eye | Eye stands for ``Enhance your Extraction’’: a software for training SExtractor’s retina |
| hipparcos | process Hipparcos transit data from CD-ROM |
| mscred | IRAF Tools for Mosaic image processing |
| novas | Naval Observatory Vector Astrometry Subroutines |
| skymaker | A program that simulates astronomical images. |
| starfinder | Stellar field analysis |
| swarp | SWarp is a program that resamples and co-adds together FITS images using any arbitrary astrometric projection defined in the WCS standard. |
| wcstools | display and manipulate the world coordinate system of a FITS or IRAF images |
| weightwatcher | WeightWatcher is a program that combines weight-maps, flag-maps and polygon data |
| xephem | Xephem-lite — a sampler of the interactive astronomy program |
| novas | Naval Observatory Vector Astrometry Subroutines |
| xephem | Xephem-lite — a sampler of the interactive astronomy program |
| xephem | Xephem-lite — a sampler of the interactive astronomy program |
| novas | Naval Observatory Vector Astrometry Subroutines |
| swarp | SWarp is a program that resamples and co-adds together FITS images using any arbitrary astrometric projection defined in the WCS standard. |
| wcstools | display and manipulate the world coordinate system of a FITS or IRAF images |
| novas | Naval Observatory Vector Astrometry Subroutines |
THE SUN
Sun: atmosphere| CHIANTI | A Database for Astrophysical Emission Line Spectroscopy |
| grasp - ephem - epheminterp – Interpolate ephemeris tables to the date/time of observation. |
| grasp - ephem - velfit – Fits the average solar observer motion to the ephemeris velocity. |
| grasp - ephem - vfit – Fits the average solar observer motion to the ephemeris velocity. |
| grasp - grtools - freq – Estimate the frequency of a mode given n, l and m. |
| grasp - grtools - gapfill – Fill gaps in GONG time series via autoregressive interpolation. |
| grasp - grtools - guesspar – Estimate frequency, FWHM and amplitude of a mode given n, l and m. |
| grasp - grtools - lnudiagram – Produce l-nu diagrams from Power-Spectra or Time Series |
| grasp - grtools - mfit – Antia’s a-coefficient fitting (Legendre and Clebsch-Gordon). |
| grasp - grtools - freq – Estimate the frequency of a mode given n, l and m. |
| grasp - grtools - gapfill – Fill gaps in GONG time series via autoregressive interpolation. |
| grasp - grtools - guesspar – Estimate frequency, FWHM and amplitude of a mode given n, l and m. |
| grasp - grtools - lnudiagram – Produce l-nu diagrams from Power-Spectra or Time Series |
| grasp - grtools - mfit – Antia’s a-coefficient fitting (Legendre and Clebsch-Gordon). |
| grasp - velcal - wlmcor – vector subtraction of wide-band correction image from oscillation image |
| grasp - grtools - legfit - legsing – Legendre analysis of rotation, individual radial orders. |
| grasp - grtools - legfit - legsvd – Legendre rotation analysis using singular value decomp. |
| ftools - - ao – Evaluates the geometrical variation of the scattered solar X-ray background |
SOLAR SYSTEM
solar system: general| openuniverse | Solar system simulation |
STARS
stars: abundances| spectrum | A stellar spectral synthesis program |
| CHIANTI | A Database for Astrophysical Emission Line Spectroscopy |
| spectrum | A stellar spectral synthesis program |
| nightfall | Light Curve Synthesis Program |
| aspec | An Astronomical Spectrum Analysis Package |
| velocity | program to fit an orbital solution to measured radial velocity curves of spectroscopic binary stars |
| csenv | A code for the chemistry of CircumStellar ENVelopes |
| ascfit | Automatic Stellar Coordinate fitting |
| autophot | Autophot uses IRAF’s digiphot daophot routines, it automates the procedure a bit. |
| aspec | An Astronomical Spectrum Analysis Package |
| cora | line fitting tool designed for emission line spectra with low count numbers |
| autophot | Autophot uses IRAF’s digiphot daophot routines, it automates the procedure a bit. |
| spectrum | A stellar spectral synthesis program |
| nemo | NEMO is a Stellar Dynamics Toolbox |
| starlab | A package for simulating the evolution of dense stellar systems |
| aspec | An Astronomical Spectrum Analysis Package |
| aspec | An Astronomical Spectrum Analysis Package |
| nightfall | Light Curve Synthesis Program |
| autophot | Autophot uses IRAF’s digiphot daophot routines, it automates the procedure a bit. |
| eye | Eye stands for ``Enhance your Extraction’’: a software for training SExtractor’s retina |
| autophot | Autophot uses IRAF’s digiphot daophot routines, it automates the procedure a bit. |
| autophot | Autophot uses IRAF’s digiphot daophot routines, it automates the procedure a bit. |
| autophot | Autophot uses IRAF’s digiphot daophot routines, it automates the procedure a bit. |
| nightfall | Light Curve Synthesis Program |
| xvarstar | XVarStar is a program written for variable star observers |
INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM (ISM), NEBULAE
ISM: abundances| cloudy | Stellar Atmospheres |
| cloudy | Stellar Atmospheres |
| ddscat | DDSCAT is a FORTRAN program to calculate scattering and absorption of electromagnetic radiation by arbitrary targets |
| dimsum | DEEP INFRARED MOSAICING SOFTWARE |
| dimsum | DEEP INFRARED MOSAICING SOFTWARE |
| aspec | An Astronomical Spectrum Analysis Package |
| cora | line fitting tool designed for emission line spectra with low count numbers |
| csenv | A code for the chemistry of CircumStellar ENVelopes |
THE GALAXY
Galaxy: formation| cmbfast | A microwave anisotropy code |
GALAXIES
galaxies: clusters: general| eye | Eye stands for ``Enhance your Extraction’’: a software for training SExtractor’s retina |
| hyperz | a photometric redshift code |
| eye | Eye stands for ``Enhance your Extraction’’: a software for training SExtractor’s retina |
| gax | A user-friendly tool to search, sort, and report galaxy information |
| ifocas | IRAF Tools Faint Object Classification |
| hyperz | a photometric redshift code |
| autophot | Autophot uses IRAF’s digiphot daophot routines, it automates the procedure a bit. |
| eye | Eye stands for Enhance your Extraction : a software for training SExtractor’s retina |
| hyperz | a photometric redshift code |
| sextractor | Source Extractor, locates astronomical objects in images |
| aspec | An Astronomical Spectrum Analysis Package |
| skymaker | A program that simulates astronomical images. |
| aspec | An Astronomical Spectrum Analysis Package |
| cora | line fitting tool designed for emission line spectra with low count numbers |
| hyperz | a photometric redshift code |
| cosmics | Cosmological Initial Conditions and Microwave Anisotropy Codes |
COSMOLOGY
(cosmology:) cosmic microwave background| cmbfast | A microwave anisotropy code |
| cosmics | Cosmological Initial Conditions and Microwave Anisotropy Codes |
| cosmics | Cosmological Initial Conditions and Microwave Anisotropy Codes |
| mlapm | a C code for cosmological simulations |
| mlapm | a C code for cosmological simulations |
| cosmics | Cosmological Initial Conditions and Microwave Anisotropy Codes |
| cmbfast | A microwave anisotropy code |
| cosmics | Cosmological Initial Conditions and Microwave Anisotropy Codes |
| mlapm | a C code for cosmological simulations |
SOURCES AS A FUNCTION OF WAVELENGTH
infrared: general| dimsum | DEEP INFRARED MOSAICING SOFTWARE |
| aspec | An Astronomical Spectrum Analysis Package |
| aips | Radio Astronomy data processing package |
| bima-miriad | Miriad is a a synthesis radio-astronomy data reduction, imaging and analysis package |
| drao | Export package for processing DRAO telescope data |
| aips | Radio Astronomy data processing package |
| bima-miriad | Miriad is a a synthesis radio-astronomy data reduction, imaging and analysis package |
| drao | Export package for processing DRAO telescope data |
| cmbfast | A microwave anisotropy code |
| euv | IRAF Tools for EUV data reduction |
| ftools - - bodgetvp – Gets viewing period info from BATSE occultation data. |
| ftools - - ao – Evaluates the geometrical variation of the scattered solar X-ray background |
| xray | Multi-mission x-ray analysis software system |
| ftools - - bemerge | – merges XTE binned event spectral files. |
| ftools - - cmadead (sep98) | — ftools.cmadead — CMADEAD (sep98) cmadead – corrects EXOSAT CMA lightcurves and images for deadtime |
| ftools - - decodeevt | – Decodes event keywords in XTE Science Event files |
| ftools - - dyenspec | – Generates a dynamic energy spectrum from XTE Standard2 |
| ftools - - fxbary | – reads XTE light-curve, science array, or science event |
| ftools - - hrifilt | – Creates a ROSAT HRI makefilter file |
| xray - xspatial - qpsim | – Generate simulated events for a ROSAT HRI field. |
| xray - xspatial - rosat_files | – description of ROSAT data files which can be input to PROS. |
| xray - xdataio - rarc2pros | – convert ROSAT ARCHIVE FITS files into a set of IRAF/PROS files |
| xray - xdataio - rfits2pros | – convert a set of (disk-resident) ROSAT FITS files |
| xray - xdataio - upimgrdf | – convert a list of IRAF/PROS IMAGE files into RDF compatible format |
| xray - xdataio - upqpoerdf | – convert a list of IRAF/PROS QPOE file into RDF compatible format |