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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: Simon Clark (sclark)

Current status

Targeted release: Fedora 24
Last updated: 2016-09-23
Tracker bug: #1242917
Complete

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: Implement this Change.

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: Approved

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 (has been approved).

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

F23-based test releases

Plans

Spins Page

Name and Location

"Astronomy Lab" on [1]

Slogan

Explore the Outer Space

Spin description

Fedora Astronomy brings a complete open 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

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

None

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+* Release notes owner: [mailto:sclark@fedoraproject.org Simon Clark] ([[User:sclark|sclark]])
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 == Scope ==
-* Proposal owners:
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 * Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
-* Trademark approval: [https://fedorahosted.org/council/ticket/35 Requested]
+* Trademark approval: [https://fedorahosted.org/council/ticket/35 Approved]
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 == Dependencies ==
 * Fedora KDE Spin
-* Trademark approval from Fedora Council is required.
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 == Documentation ==
-* [https://lupinix.fedorapeople.org/AstronomySpin/ Kickstart File and F22-based test releases]
+* [https://lupinix.fedorapeople.org/AstronomySpin/ F23-based test releases]
-== Release Notes ==
+== Plans ==
+== Spins Page ==
+<!-- This information will be used on the spins.fedoraproject.org website.  See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Website_redesign_2009/Mockups/Spins.fpo for more info. -->
-[[Category:ChangeReadyForWrangler]]
+=== Name and Location ===
+"Astronomy Lab" on [http://labs.fedoraproject.org]
+=== Slogan ===
+Explore the Outer Space
+=== Spin description ===
+Fedora Astronomy brings a complete open source toolchain to both amateur and professional astronomers. The Spin provides the Fedora KDE desktop enhanced with a complete scientific Python environment and the [http://www.astromatic.net/ 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 ===
+[[File:astrospin.png|500px|Astronomy Spin with Celestia and KStars]]
+=== 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 [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/IRCHowTo how-to]
+'''Help via Email'''
+Users and developers are also available on the [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/astronomy 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 [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines Fedora Mailing List Guidelines].
+=== Custom branding ===
+None
+[[Category:ChangeAcceptedF24]]
 [[Category:SelfContainedChange]]

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