Open Source Python Astronomy Software - Page 4

Open source development of a tool for the astronomy community to interact with the GRB Coordinates Network (GCN) broadcast of real-time gamma-ray burst (GRB) and X-ray Flash (XRF) information. Support for satellite packets: HETE-2, Integral, Swift

This project offers a python binding to the libindi library. It uses the Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator (SWIG). You may generate a PyIndi module which mainly defines an IndiClient class. This class could be used to build python scripts able to interact with indi servers using sendNew* methods and implementing new* methods of the BaseMediator class. PyQt applications may also be built on top of IndiClient, thus allowing rapid development of GUI Indi clients. Besides Python there are also bindings for node.js, Tcl (incomplete) and PHP (not useful). As application examples you will find a Python Websocket server with which you may build a web application interacting with Indi servers, and a simple PyQt application similar to the Kstars Indi Control Panel (was built as an exercise). Finally there is an equatorial mount 3D simulator written with Freecad and Python, planned to be connected with the PyIndi module. *** The pyindi-client binding has moved to github. ***

Implementation in Python of some of the statistical methods provided by "asurv", the survival analysis software.

This project has moved; http://astrofrog.github.com/python-montage/

rx2fits is an SDR code for the rx888mk2 direct-sampling receiver that streams spectral data with frequency up to 65 MHz to FITS files. This code is for the direct-sampling input of the receiver, which transmits real samples over USB3 at up to 130 MHz sample rate. rx2fits processes these samples to spectral intensities via a Fourier-transform poly-phase filter bank, which provides spectral resolution approaching the spectral bin width with good stop-band and adjacent-channel rejection. Sample rate, Fourier bin count, PFB frame count, integration time and receiver gain parameters can be set. Utilities for device enumeration, firmware upload, display of FITS header, file viewing, and for measuring sample rate and sample statistics are provided. The device interface is Ruslan Migirow's librx888 and dropped samples at 130 MHz are negligible. Runs on linux computers under .Net.

sidmon is a python program for receiving and recording submarine-transmitter signal intensities and directions in the VLF frequency range using a computer sound card. The intensities of these signals reflect the ability of radio waves at those wavelengths to propagate in what is essentially a waveguide formed by the earth and the ionosphere above it. Fluctuations in those signal intensities and directions often reflect daytime perturbations of the ionosphere by solar processes, such as solar flares and coronal mass ejections, making VLF receivers useful tools for probing the sun and the earth's ionosphere. For additional general information, see the web page at http://solar-center.stanford.edu/SID/.

UTS: Unified Telescope System. A modular system for controlling astronomical observatories.