Projects with the tag “astronomy”

AstroAviBrowser is a small tool for astronomy imaging capture/processing. With AstroAviBrowser, you may open a video file, select the good frames and save the new sequence in a new avi file. It also debayer your raw sequences.

ATpy (Astronomical Tables in Python) is a Python module aimed at dealing with tables of astronomical data with a common API. To date, the following formats are supported: FITS, VO, and IPAC tables, and SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL databases

Gpredict is a real-time satellite tracking and orbit prediction application. Gpredict can track an unlimited number of satellites and display the data in tables and various graphical view.

A small utility to help aligning frames in a sequence to later process them with other software. It is intended to be used in conjunction with Registax or similar programs to do a previous alignment in videos with lots of shaking / bad seeing.

Java based astronomical logging software which stores it's data in a free and open XML based format (OpenAstronomyLog).

Simple Navigation Tool for your PocketPC with GPS Support, contains a compass rose, GPX tracking, sun rise and set calculation for Windows Mobile 2003 SE and Windows Mobile 5 with .Net Compact Framework 2. Export to LOC, GPX, KML; !!! No route planner !!

This is a Python wrapper for the IPAC Montage software. Montage is a toolkit for assembling FITS images into custom mosaics. The Python wrapper includes both access to standalone Montage commands, and also includes high-level wrappers.

Linux modified webcam capture software for astronomy. This project is a fork from the great Qastrocam, written by F. Sicard (http://qastrocam.sourceforge.net/). It adds some features I wrote for myself.

Qastrocam is a capture program to do astrophotography. It can control a telescope to do guiding with the images received from a V4L device. It can also control the extended features of a webcam modified to do long exposure (several seconds) captures.

SoundStepper is a 100% software equatorial-mounted telescope controller, for Windows. Using audio hardware to real-time control step motors, it requires only simple external analog current amplifier to operate.

VStar is an easy-to-use variable star data visualization tool. Data can be read from a file or the AAVSO database and plotted as a light curve along with means data and error bars. Phase plots are under development and period search functions are planned