Best Astronomy Software for Linux

aipy is a Python package that collects together tools for radio astronomical interferometry. In addition to pure-python phasing, calibration, imaging, and deconvolution code, this package includes interfaces to MIRIAD (a Fortran interferometry...

SRPAstro contains a set of tools developed for personal use. Use them at your...

At the top level asciitable looks like many other ASCII table readers since it provides a default read() function with a long list of parameters to accommodate the many variations possible in commonly encountered ASCII table formats. But unlike other...

ref_index is a Python tool for calculating refractive index of air, under varying atmospheric conditions. Functions for conversion of wave length of light in vacuum to that in air, and vice-versa are also defined.The code is based on the...

StarPlot is a program for Unix that allows you to view charts of the relative 3-dimensional positions of stars in space.It is free software; the source code for StarPlot is available under the GNU General Public License. Here is a screenshot (click for a...

de421 is a recent short-period ephemeris published by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It requires only 14 MB of storage and is specially accurate with respect to the position of Earth's Moon.Name: DE421 (February 2008)Years: 1900 through 2050Planets:...

SphereSim is a open source, completely free and cross-platform graphical software project that provides a tool for animating and simulating the movement and behavior of particles in a space. SphereSim2 is a complete rewrite of the original SphereSim...

Galacticus is an application to help you create...

WebbPSf is a tool that produces simulated PSFs for the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA's next flagship infrared space telescope. WebbPSF can simulate images for any of the four science instruments plus the fine guidance sensor, including both direct...

edrn.nyuxls2erne is a converter. It takes specimen records from New York University Medical School (NYU)'s cancer research specimen collection that are stored as a series of spreadsheets. From those, it outputs a series of SQL statements that can be...