Astronomy Spin
Summary
A Fedora Spin providing a complete toolchain for both amateur and professional astronomers.
Owner
- Name: Christian Dersch
- Email: lupinix@mailbox.org
- Release notes owner:
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 23
- Last updated: 2015-07-27
- Tracker bug: #1242917
- Kickstart File and F22-based test releases
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.
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).
Scope
- Proposal owners:
- Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
- Release engineering: Add spin to spin-kickstarts, ensure spin has been tested, and release with rest of spins
- Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
- Trademark approval: Requested
Upgrade/compatibility impact
N/A (not a System Wide Change)
How To Test
Test booting and usage of live media, installation from live medium, and resulting installed system.
User Experience
Users will have a new option for trying and installing Fedora. Astronomers will get a ready-to-work installation.
Dependencies
- Fedora KDE Spin
- Trademark approval from Fedora Council is required.
Contingency Plan
- Contingency mechanism: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
- Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
- Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change)
- Blocks product? N/A
Documentation
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
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Help via Email
Users and developers are also available on the Astronomy List
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