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Fedora Astronomy Packages

List of Astronomy packages that are already in Fedora. You can also check packages currently under review , proposed packages and refused packages .

Simulators

Accrete	Accrete is a physical simulation of solar system planet formation. This simulation works by modelling a dust cloud around a Sun-like star, injecting a series of masses which collect dust, and form planets by accretion.
Celestia	Free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions.
Stellarium	Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors.
Redmode	Switch to and from night red mode.
Planets	Planets is a simple interactive program for playing with simulations of planetary systems.
openuniverse	OpenUniverse is a solar system simulation.
mars-sim	The Mars Simulation Project is a free software Java project to create a simulation of future human settlement of Mars.

Image processing

ds9	Astronomical Data Visualization Application.
gcx	Data-reduction tool for CCD photomet.
MuniPack	MuniPack is a CCD photometry package developed by Filip Hroch under and for Linux.
Siril	Siril is an astronomical image processing software for Linux.
swarp	SWarp is a program that resamples and co-adds together FITS images using any arbitrary astrometric projection defined in the WCS standard.

Observing

gpredict

Gpredict is a real-time satellite tracking and orbit prediction application.

Star charts

KStars	The display includes 130,000 stars, 13,000 deep-sky objects,all 8 planets, the Sun and Moon, and thousands of comets and asteroids.
spacechart	A 3D star-mapping program.

Data processing

Nightfall	Nightfall is an astronomy application for fun, education, and science. It can produce animated views of eclipsing binary stars, calculate synthetic lightcurves and radial velocity curves, and eventually determine the best-fit model for a given set of observational data of an eclipsing binary star system
Rmap	Rmap is a package that will allow you to generate images of the earth from a distance or fairly zoomed.
Sextractor	SExtractor is a program that builds a catalogue of objects from an astronomical image.
StarPlot	StarPlot is a program for Unix that allows you to view charts of the relative 3-dimensional positions of stars in space.
xstar	N-body simulator
jday	A simple command to convert calendar dates to julian dates. Quite useful in timing situations where you need elapsed time between dates.
Cloudy	Spectral synthesis code to simulate conditions in interstellar matter.
GGobi	GGobi is a data visualization system for viewing high-dimensional data.
GNURadio	Gnuradio is a software defined radio framework.
GRC	The GNU Radio Companion is a preliminary graphical user interface which allows GNU Radio components to be put together graphically.
boinc-client	A platform for distributed computing.
extrema	Extrema is a powerful visualization and data analysis tool that enables researchers to quickly distill their large, complex data sets into meaningful information.

Telescope control

nexcontrol

Software to control your Celestron NexStar Telescope

Others

astronomy-bookmarks

Fedora astronomy bookmarks.