π Spin Name
Fedora Astronomy Spin
π 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.
π Status
- Targeted release: Fedora 24
- Last updated: 10th Nov 2015
- Fedora 23 based test releases
π Owner
- Name: Christian Dersch
- email: lupinix@fedoraproject.org
π 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.
π User Experience
- Powerful completely open-source and free tool for amateurs and professionals.
π 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).
π Kickstart File
- Kickstart File: [1]
π ISO Name / FS Label
- ISO name: Fedora-$release-$arch-Live-Astronomy
- FS-Label: Fedora-$release-$arch-Astronomy
π Dependencies
- Fedora KDE Spin
π Plans
π Spins Page
π Slogan
Explore the Outer Space
π 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.
π Screenshot
Will follow soon
π Download tab
Default
π 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.
π Custom branding
TODO