Format: https://blends.debian.org/blends/1.1
Task: Scisoft
Install: false
Index: false
Leaf: false
Metapackage: false
Description: Scisoft packages
 Here we list the status of the packages that belong to the 
 [SciSoft](http://www.eso.org/sci/software/scisoft)
 distribution. Scisoft is a project within [ESO](http://www.eso.org) to
 provide a collection of  astronomical software utilities in a uniform way at
 all ESO sites and to make them available to the outside world. The
 package list was retrieved in April, 2018.

Recommends: libccfits-dev

Recommends: cdsclient
Homepage: http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/doc/cdsclient.html
Pkg-Description: Tools to query databases at CDS
 The cdsclient package is a set of C and shell routines which can be
 built on Unix stations or PCs running Linux, which once compiled
 allow to query some databases located at CDS or on mirrors over the
 network.
 .
 The cdsclient package includes two generic query programs:
 .
  * vizquery, a program to remotely query VizieR. It connects the
    VizieR server via the HTTP protocol (requires an access to the
    port 80)
 .
  * find_cats, a program for fast access to large surveys from a list
    of positions, via a dedicated client (requires an access to the
    port 1660) Specific programs like find2mass or finducac3 are
    connecting directly to one of the very large surveys available
    from CDS (a very large survey has 107 or more rows).

Recommends: lcms2-dev, lcms2-utils

Recommends: libtk-img-dev

Recommends: iraf

Recommends: iraf-rvsao

Recommends: iraf-ctio
Homepage: http://www.stecf.org/scripts/irafhelp?ctio
Pkg-Description: Utilities from CTIO
 CTIO is an IRAF external package with some CTIO-specific tools as well
 as some general purpose ones not included in the main IRAF
 distribution.

Recommends: iraf-mxtools
Homepage: http://www.noao.edu/noao/staff/mighell/mxtools/
Pkg-Description: Utilities from NOAO including QDPHOT
 MXTOOLS is an IRAF package providing tools for image matching and
 image coordinate manipulation.

Recommends: iraf-guiapps
Homepage: http://iraf.noao.edu/new_stuff/guiapps.html
Pkg-Description: Graphical applications for IRAF
 GUIAPPS is an IRAF external package providing some prototype GUI
 applications for data reduction and analysis.

Recommends: iraf-xdimsum
Pkg-Description: Enhanced IR data reduction and mosaicing software
 XDIMSUM is a package for creating accurate sky subtracted images from sets of
 dithered observations. While the observations need not be in the infrared, the
 dominance of the variable sky background in infrared data requires dithering of
 many short exposures and recombination with careful sky subtraction to produce
 deep images. Hence the package is called "Experimental Deep Infrared Mosaicing
 Software" or XDIMSUM.
 .
 XDIMSUM is a variant of the DIMSUM package developed by P. Eisenhardt, M.
 Dickensen, S.A. Stanford, and J. Ward. F. Valdes (IRAF group) modified DIMSUM
 to support FITS format images, added the DIMSUM tutorial demos script, wrote
 the original version of this document, and repackaged DIMSUM for distribution
 as an IRAF external package.  L. Davis (IRAF group) rewrote the the major
 DIMSUM scripts to improve their clarity, robustness, and efficiency, added
 new scripts for computing relative offsets, and documented the tasks. The new
 package uses the same default algorithms as DIMSUM but is sufficiently
 different in format that it has been renamed XDIMSUM.

Recommends: iraf-color
Homepage: http://www.stecf.org/scripts/irafhelp?color
Pkg-Description: Utilities for creating colour images
 A prototype IRAF color image display package, COLOR, is now available.
 Currently this package provides conversion of 3 bandpass IRAF images to a
 Sun 24-bit RGB rasterfile format, a 24-bit to 8-bit compression algorithm
 and Floyd-Steinberg dithering, and an RGB 8-bit pixel dithering algorithm.
 The Sun rasterfiles are displayed using non-IRAF tools and the others use
 only IRAF images and SAOimage or IMTOOL.  These tasks are usable with the
 currently common 8-bit color workstations and are provided for those users
 which don't have more capable hardware such as 24-bit workstations, IIS
 displays, and 24-bit addon cards.

Recommends: iraf-fitsutil
Homepage: http://www.stecf.org/scripts/irafhelp?fitsutil
Pkg-Description: FITS utilities
 FITSUTIL is an IRAF external package providing some extra utilities
 for manipulating FITS files, including multiextention FITS files.

Recommends: iraf-mscred
Homepage: http://www.stecf.org/scripts/irafref?mscred
Pkg-Description: Mosaic camera CCD reduction tasks from NOAO
 MSCRED is the IRAF CCD Mosaic Reduction package and can be used to
 reduce CCD mosaic data that is in the mosaic MEF data format.

Recommends: iraf-esowfi
Pkg-Description: ESO WFI Mosaic reduction package
 The ESOWFI external package is used to reduce ESO WFI CCD  mosaic  data.
 It  provides  a  single task for converting the ESO headers to work with
 the MSCRED package.  It also sets the default instrument  files  and  an
 astrometry  solution.   The  reductions  are  then done using the MSCRED
 Mosaic reduction package.

Recommends: iraf-stecf
Homepage: http://www.stecf.org/software/stecf-iraf/
Pkg-Description: Utilities from ST-ECF
 Utilities from ST-ECF, including polarimetry reduction and spectral
 restoration packages.

Recommends: iraf-stsdas, iraf-tables
Homepage: http://www.stsci.edu/resources/software_hardware/stsdas
Pkg-Description: HST data analysis and tables systems
 TABLES provides support for tabular data for STSDAS and other packages. Many
 types of data are stored in tabular format, such as catalogs of astronomical
 objects, spectral data (e.g. columns of wavelength and flux), and
 coefficients of fit to data. TABLES provides a programming interface for
 accessing tables, and it includes a collection of utility programs for
 working with tables. FITS tables, STSDAS format, and simple text tables are
 supported. The programming interface is used for the utility programs in
 TABLES, by tasks in STSDAS, and by other external packages. The utility
 programs are used for such tasks as plotting, selecting rows based on an
 expression involving column values, sorting rows in a table, joining tables,
 and performing arithmetic operations on column values.

Recommends: eso-eclipse
Homepage: http://www.eso.org/sci/software/eclipse/
Pkg-Description: C Library for an Image Processing Software Environment
 Written in ANSI C, eclipse is a library offering numerous services
 related to astronomical image processing: FITS data access, various
 image and cube loading methods, binary image handling and filtering
 (including convolution and morphological filters), 2-D cross-
 correlation, connected components, cube and image arithmetic, dead pixel
 detection and correction, object detection, data extraction, flat-
 fielding with robust fit, image generation, statistics, photometry,
 image-space resampling, image combination, and cube stacking. It also
 contains support for mathematical tools like random number generation,
 FFT, curve fitting, matrices, fast median computation, and point-pattern
 matching. The main feature of this library is its ability to handle
 large amounts of input data (up to 2GB in the current version)
 regardless of the amount of memory and swap available on the local
 machine. Another feature is the very high speed allowed by optimized C,
 making it an ideal base tool for programming efficient number-crunching
 applications, e.g., on parallel (Beowulf) systems.
Remark:
 Latest version: 5.0-0 released 23 Sept 2005

Recommends: eso-midas

Recommends: pymidas
Homepage: http://www.eso.org/sampo/pymidas
Pkg-Description: Python interface for ESO-MIDAS
 PyMidas is an interface between Python and MIDAS, the major ESO legacy
 general purpose data processing system. PyMidas allows a user to exploit
 both the rich legacy of MIDAS software and the power of Python scripting
 in a unified interactive environment. PyMidas also allows the usage of
 other Python-based astronomical analysis systems such asPyRAF.
Remark:
 PyMidas is outdated and no longer maintained. Does not support Python 2.7 or 3.x.

Recommends: miriad
Homepage: http://bima.astro.umd.edu/miriad/
Pkg-Description: Calibration, mapping, deconvolution and image analysis of interferometric data
 MIRIAD is a radio interferometry data-reduction package, designed for
 taking raw visibility data through calibration to the image analysis
 stage. It has been designed to handle any interferometric array, with
 working examples for BIMA, CARMA, SMA, WSRT, and ATCA. A separate
 version for ATCA is available, which differs in a few minor ways from
 the CARMA version.
Vcs-Browser: https://github.com/kernsuite-debian/miriad

Recommends: karma
Homepage: http://www.atnf.csiro.au/computing/software/karma/
Pkg-Description: Toolkit for IPC, authentication, graphics display etc.
 Karma is a toolkit for interprocess communications, authentication,
 encryption, graphics display, user interface and manipulating the Karma
 network data structure. It contains KarmaLib (the structured libraries
 and API) and a large number of modules (applications) to perform many
 standard tasks. A suite of visualisation tools are distributed with the
 library.
Remark:
 Not maintained any longer.

Recommends: theli
WNPP: 959899

Recommends: xgterm, ximtool
WNPP: 961418

Recommends: saoimage, saods9
Homepage: http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/software/saoimage.html
Pkg-Description: The original, needs 8bit Xserver
 SAOimage (pronounced S-A-0-image) is a utility for displaying astronomical
 images in the X11 window environment. It was written at the Smithsonian
 Astrophysical Observatory by Mike Van Hilst in 1990 and hass been 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. Mouse tracking in an image's world coordinate system, usually sky
 coordinates, was added in 1994. You can also plot catalogs over images with
 WCS information in their headers.
 .
 The SAOimage desktop includes, a main image display window, a button menu
 panel, a display magnifier, a pan and zoom reference image, and a color
 bar. A color table graph window can be brought up by clicking on the color
 bar.
Remark:
 saoimage is outdated; use saods9

Recommends: skycat

Recommends: ftools-fv

Recommends: starlink-gaia
Homepage: http://star-www.dur.ac.uk/~pdraper/gaia/gaia.html
Pkg-Description: Graphical Astronomy and Image Analysis Tool
 GAIA is an image and data-cube display and analysis tool for astronomy.
 It provides the usual facilities of image display tools, plus more
 astronomically useful ones such as aperture and optimal photometry,
 contouring, source detection, surface photometry, arbitrary region
 analysis, celestial coordinate readout, calibration and modification,
 grid overlays, blink comparison, defect patching and the ability to
 query on-line catalogues and image servers. It can also display slices
 from data-cubes, extract and visualize spectra as well as perform full
 3D rendering. GAIA uses the Starlink software environment (ascl:1110.012)
 and is derived from the ESO SkyCat tool(ascl:1109.019).

Recommends: python3-pil

Recommends: python-numeric
Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy/files/Old%20Numeric/
Pkg-Description: Python module for high-performance, numeric computing
 Numeric is a Python module for high-performance, numeric computing. It
 provides much of the functionality and performance of commercial numeric
 software such as Matlab; in some cases, it provides more functionality than
 commercial software.
Remark:
 Python-numeric is not maintained anymore, outdated by python3-numpy

Recommends: python-asciidata
Homepage: http://www.stecf.org/software/PYTHONtools/astroasciidata/
Pkg-Description: Python module to handle ASCII tables
 AstroAsciiData is a Python module to handle ASCII tables. Features:
 .
  * Imports all reasonably well-formed Ascii tables
  * Column-first access
  * Easy creation and manipulation of tables, columns, rows and attached
    comments 
  * Retains formatting of data values
  * Support for SExtractor style headers
  * Column sorting
  * Interchangeable comment character, column delimiter and null value
  * Exports data to Ascii, Numpy/Numarray, FITS table, HTML table, LaTeX table
Remark:
 Python-asciidata and pyfits are obsoleted by python3-astropy.

Suggests: python-pybiggles

Recommends: python3-pysynphot

Recommends: python-numdisplay, python3-pyds9
Homepage: http://stsdas.stsci.edu/numdisplay/
Pkg-Description: Visualize numpy array objects using saods9
 Numdisplay provides the capability to visualize numpy array objects
 using astronomical image display tools such as DS9 or XIMTOOL
 directly from the Python command line. This task can display any
 numpy object, whether it was created interactively or read in from a
 FITS file using PyFITS on any platform which supports Python and
 numpy.
Remark:
 Last version of python-numdisplay was 1.5.6 from 2009. Use
 python3-pyds9 instead.

Recommends: python-drizzlepac, python3-drizzle
Homepage: http://drizzlepac.stsci.edu/
Pkg-Description: Software for aligning and combining HST images
 DrizzlePac is new software package for aligning and combining HST
 images, which brings an array of new features and algorithmic
 improvements.
Remark:
 Debian includes the python-drizzle package instead of python-drizzlepac

Recommends: python3-pyraf

Recommends: python-pydrizzle
Homepage: http://www.stsci.edu/resources/software_hardware/pydrizzle
Pkg-Description: Drizzling software
 PyDrizzle provides a semi-automated interface for computing the
 parameters necessary for runningDrizzle. PyDrizzle performs the task of
 determining the parameters necessary for aligning images based on the
 WCS information in the input image headers, as well as any supplemental
 alignment information provided in shift files, and combines the images
 onto the same WCS. Though it does not identify cosmic rays, it has the
 ability to ignore pixels flagged as bad, such as pixels identified by
 other programs as affected by cosmic rays.

Recommends: python-multidrizzle
Homepage: http://stsdas.stsci.edu/multidrizzle/
Pkg-Description: Automatic image combination drizzling software
 MultiDrizzle automates and simplifies the detection of cosmic-rays and the
 combination of dithered observations using the Python scripting language and
 PyRAF, the Python-based interface to IRAF. MultiDrizzle was developed by the
 Science Software Branch at the Space Telescope Science Institute.

Recommends: qfitsview

Recommends: plotutils

Recommends: funtools

Recommends: scamp

Recommends: tiny-tim
Homepage: http://www.stsci.edu/software/tinytim/tinytim.html
Pkg-Description: HST point-spread function simulation software
 Tiny Tim generates simulated Hubble Space Telescope point spread
 functions (PSFs). It is written in C and distributed as source code and
 runs on a wide variety of UNIX and VMS systems. Tiny Tim includes mirror
 zonal errors, time dependent aberrations (for the pre-repair
 instruments), field dependent obscuration patterns (for WF/PC-1 and
 WFPC2), and filter passband effects. It can produce a normally sampled
 or subsampled PSF. Output is a FITS image file.
Remark:
 Unknown, unspecified license

Recommends: xephem
Homepage: http://www.clearskyinstitute.com/xephem/
Pkg-Description: Planetarium and ephemeris software
 XEphem is a scientific-grade interactive astronomical ephemeris package
 for UNIX-like systems. Written in C, X11 and Motif, it is easily ported
 to systems. Among other things, XEphem:computes heliocentric, geocentric
 and topocentric information for all objects;has built-in support for all
 planets; the moons of Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Earth; central
 meridian longitude of Mars and Jupiter; Saturn's rings; and Jupiter's
 Great Red Spot;allows user-defined objects including stars, deepsky
 objects, asteroids, comets and Earth satellites;provides special
 efficient handling of large catalogs including Tycho, Hipparcos,
 GSC; displays data in configurable tabular formats in conjunction with
 several interactive graphical views;displays a night-at-a-glance 24 hour
 graphic showing when any selected objects are up;displays 3-D stereo
 Solar System views that are particularly well suited for visualizing
 comet trajectories;quickly finds all close pairs of objects in the sky;
 andsorts and prints all catalogs with very flexible criteria for
 creating custom observing lists.Its capabilities are listed more fully
 in theuser manual introduction.
Remark:
 Not DFSG-Free.

Recommends: fitsverify

Recommends: fitscut

Recommends: cloudy
WNPP: 725891
Homepage: http://www.nublado.org/
Pkg-Description: Plasma simulation and spectral synthesis code
 Cloudy is a large-scale spectral synthesis code designed to simulate
 fully physical conditions within an astronomical plasma and then predict
 the emitted spectrum. The code is freely available and is widely used in
 the analysis and interpretation of emission-line spectra.

Recommends: hyperz
Homepage: http://webast.ast.obs-mip.fr/hyperz/
Pkg-Description: Photometric Redshift Code
 From a photometric catalogue, hyperz finds the redshift of each object
 by means of a standard SED fitting procedure, i.e. comparing the
 observed magnitudes with the expected ones, computed from template
 Spectral Energy Distributions. The set of templates used in the
 minimization procedure (age, metallicity, reddening, absorption in the
 Lyman forest, ...) is studied in detail, through both real and simulated
 data. The expected accuracy of photometric redshifts, as well as the
 fraction of catastrophic identifications and wrong detections, is given
 as a function of the redshift range, the set of filters considered, and
 the photometric accuracy. Special attention is paid to the results
 expected from real data.
Remark:
 Last update: 2000-12-11

Recommends: graphviz

Recommends: aladin

Recommends: vospec
Homepage: http://esavo.esa.int/vospec/
Pkg-Description: tool for handling Virtual Observatory compliant Spectra
 VOSpec is a multi-wavelength spectral analysis tool with access to
 spectra, theoretical models and atomic and molecular line databases
 registered in the VO. The standard tools of VOSpec include line and
 continuum fitting, redshift and reddening correction, spectral
 arithmetic and convolution between spectra, equivalent width and flux
 calculations, and a best fitting algorithm for fitting selected SEDs to
 a TSAP service. VOSpec offers several display modes (tree vs table) and
 organising functionalities according to the available metadata for each
 service, including distance from the observation position.

Recommends: voplot
Homepage: http://vo.iucaa.ernet.in/~voi/voplot.htm
Pkg-Description: VOTable plotting tool
 VOPlot is a tool for visualizing astronomical data. It was developed in
 Java and acts on data available in VOTABLE, ASCII and FITS formats.
 VOPlot is available as a stand alone version, which is to be installed
 on the user's machine, or as a web-based version fully integrated with
 the VizieR database.

Recommends: plastic
Homepage: http://plastic.sourceforge.net/
Pkg-Description: PLatform for AStronomical Tool InterConnection
 PLASTIC is a protocol for communication between client-side astronomy
 applications. It is very simple for application developers to adopt and is
 easily extended. Through PLASTIC applications can do tasks such as instruct
 each other to load VOTables, highlight a subset of rows or load an image of a
 particular area of sky. Although such operations are quite simple, they
 enable powerful collaborations between tools. The philosophy is that the
 astronomer should have a suite of interoperating tools at his disposal, each
 of which does one thing well and which can be composed according to his
 particular needs.
Remark:
 The IVOA Applications Working Group has now produced a
 specification for SAMP, the successor protocol to PLASTIC. It is
 recommended to use SAMP rather than PLASTIC.

Recommends: specview
Homepage: http://www.stsci.edu/resources/software_hardware/specview
Pkg-Description: 1-D spectral visualization and analysis of astronomical spectrograms
 Specview is a tool for 1-D spectral visualization and analysis of
 astronomical spectrograms. Written in Java, it is capable of reading all
 the Hubble Space Telescope spectral data formats as well as data from
 several other instruments (such as IUE, FUSE, ISO, FORS and SDSS),
 preview spectra from MAST, and data from generic FITS and ASCII tables.
 It can read data from Virtual Observatory servers, and read and write
 spectrogram data in Virtual Observatory SED format. It can also read
 files in the SPC Galactic format used in the chemistry field. Once
 ingested, data can be plotted and examined with a large selection of
 custom settings. Specview supports instrument-specific data quality
 handling, flexible spectral units conversions, custom plotting
 attributes, plot annotations, tiled plots, hardcopy to JPEG files and
 PostScript file or printer, etc. Specview can be used to build wide-band
 SEDs, overplotting or combining data from the same astronomical source
 taken with different instruments and/or spectral bands. Data can be
 further processed with averaging, splicing, detrending, and Fourier
 filtering tools. Specview has a spectral model fitting capability that
 enables the user to work with multi-component models (including user-
 defined models) and fit models to data.

Recommends: splat-vo
WNPP: 827354
Homepage: http://star-www.dur.ac.uk/~pdraper/splat/splat-vo/
Pkg-Description: Spectral Analysis Tool
 SPLAT is a graphical tool for displaying, comparing, modifying and
 analyzing astronomical spectra stored in NDF, FITS and TEXT files as
 well as in NDX format. It can read in many spectra at the same time and
 then display these as line plots. Display windows can show one or
 several spectra at the same time and can be interactively zoomed and
 scrolled, centered on specific wavelengths, provide continuous
 coordinate readout, produce printable hardcopy and be configured in many
 ways. Analysis facilities include the fitting of a polynomial to
 selected parts of a spectrum, the fitting of Gaussian, Lorentzian and
 Voigt profiles to emission and absorption lines and the filtering of
 spectra using average, median and line-shape window functions as well as
 wavelet denoising. SPLAT also supports a full range of coordinate
 systems for spectra, which allows coordinates to be displayed and
 aligned in many different coordinate systems (wavelength, frequency,
 energy, velocity) and transformed between these and different standards
 of rest (topocentric, heliocentric, dynamic and kinematic local
 standards of rest, etc). SPLAT is distributed as part of
 theStarlink(ascl:1110.012) software collection.

Recommends: stilts

Recommends: topcat

Recommends: virgo
Homepage: http://archive.eso.org/cms/tools-documentation/visual-archive-browser.html
Pkg-Description: Visual Browser for the ESO Science Archive Facility
 VirGO is the next generation Visual Browser for the ESO Science Archive
 Facility developed by the Virtual Observatory (VO) Systems Department.
 It is a plug-in for the popular open source software Stellarium adding
 capabilities for browsing professional astronomical data. VirGO gives
 astronomers the possibility to easily discover and select data from
 millions of observations in a new visual and intuitive way. Its main
 feature is to perform real-time access and graphical display of a large
 number of observations by showing instrumental footprints and image
 previews, and to allow their selection and filtering for subsequent
 download from the ESO SAF web interface. It also allows the loading of
 external FITS files or VOTables, the superimposition of Digitized Sky
 Survey (DSS) background images, and the visualization of the sky in a
 `real life' mode as seen from the main ESO sites. All data interfaces
 are based on Virtual Observatory standards which allow access to images
 and spectra from external data centers, and interaction with the ESO SAF
 web interface or any other VO applications supporting the PLASTIC
 messaging system.
Remark:
 VirGo is no longer supported by ESO. Last version was 1.4.5 from 2010.

Recommends: python3-matplotlib, python3-astropy, python-pmw, python3-numpy,
 python3-scipy, ipython3, python-wxgtk3.0, python3-gnuplot, python3-tk

Recommends: libcfitsio-dev, libcfitsio-bin, libwcstools-dev, wcstools,
 libplplot-dev, liblapack-dev, libgsl-dev, libatlas-dev, libfftw-dev

Recommends: plotutils, grace, graphviz, ggobi