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* | * Initial release: [[Releases/24 | Fedora 24]] | ||
* [https://labs.fedoraproject.org/astronomy/download/index.html Download] | |||
* [https:// | * Last updated: 22 September 2016 | ||
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Latest revision as of 21:35, 22 September 2016
🔗 Spin Name
Fedora Astronomy Spin
🔗 Summary
The goal is to create a Live media spin containing a set of tools for astronomers and astrophysicists. This includes observatory control as well as scientific data analysis and astrophotography.
🔗 Status
🔗 Owner
- Name: Christian Dersch
- email: lupinix@fedoraproject.org
🔗 Detailed Description
In both amateur and professional astronomy and astrophysics Linux is a very popular operating system. More and more data analysis is performed using Python, especially the astropy project is a quite new effort providing a professional toolchain. The Astronomy Spin provides a complete scientific Python environment (2 and 3) as well as the AstrOmatic software. For observational astronomy, KStars provides a complete solution for astrophotography using the INDI library. In addition to an astronomical collection of packages the spin also adds a menu for astronomy to make work more comfortable.
🔗 User Experience
- Powerful completely open-source and free tool for amateurs and professionals.
🔗 Benefit to Fedora
At the moment, there is no such distribution which offers a set of professional open-source tools for astronomers and astrophysicists and Fedora is very popular in astronomers' environment (that it is strongly linux-based).
🔗 Kickstart File
- Kickstart File: [1]
🔗 ISO Name / FS Label
- ISO name: Fedora-$release-$arch-Live-Astronomy
- FS-Label: Fedora-$release-$arch-Astronomy
🔗 Dependencies
- Fedora KDE Spin
🔗 Plans
🔗 Spins Page
🔗 Slogan
Explore the Outer Space
🔗 Spin description
Fedora Astronomy brings a complete ioen source toolchain to both amateur and professional astronomers. The Spin provides the Fedora KDE desktop enhanced with a complete scientific Python environment and the AstrOmatic software for data analysis. KStars was added to provide a full featured astrophotography tool. As KStars uses the INDI library to control equipment, various telescopes, cameras etc. are supported. Summarized, Fedora Astronomy provides a complete set of software, from the observation planning to the final results.
🔗 Screenshot
Will follow soon
🔗 Download tab
Default
🔗 Support tab
Need help using Fedora Astronomy?
Help via Chat General help is available in irc channel #fedora-astronomy on irc.freenode.net.
For help using IRC, please visit the Fedora IRC how-to
Help via Email
Users and developers are also available on the Astronomy List
General help with Fedora is available on the Fedora users' mailing list at [users@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users]. For guidance on how to interact on Fedora mailing lists, please review the Fedora Mailing List Guidelines.
🔗 Custom branding
TODO