Index of astronomy related programs
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Fitsblink
- a program for FITS image display, blinking, extraction of
star lists and astrometry. It runs on Linux and OS/2 operating systems
and should be easy to compile on other UNIX-like systems. It runs
both in graphical interactive mode and as a command line program suitable
for batch programming. From version 3.0 on it connects to asteroid_server
to show asteroid positions and identifies asteroids which are already in
the database.
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Asteroid_server
is an Internet service which provides information about asteroids.
It uses the Lowell asteroid database with almost 50000 asteroids.
For connection to the database a number of clients
are provided together with source code in different computer languages.
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Fitsjd is a small utility
program which calculates the Julian Day of midexposure time and writes
it, together with WCS coordinates and image dimensions, to the standard
output. Useful for batch programming.
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Fits2pg and
fitsfrompg are programs
which transfer information from FITS header to a Postgres database and
retrieve the information from it. Although very simple, these programs
can be of great help when searching for old images.
- Calculation and statistical evaluation of residuals, a WWW service for asteroid astrometrists.