Astronomical Software Resources

Open Source Software from Shared Skies
• XmCCD - including INDI for SBIG and Apogee Alta camera control
• XmDome - including INDI for dome rotation and shutter control
• XmGuider - including INDI for SBIG SG-4 control
• XmTel - including INDI for telescope control
• Colorspec - Color spectra from digital data

  
  

  Astronomy

• XEphem for visual access to astronomical data and remote telescope operation (Linux and Mac OS X)
• INDI control protocol for distributed instrumentation
• Stellarium for realistic night sky (Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows
• Partiview for 3D visualizion (Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows)
• Grace for 2D plotting and data analysis (Linux)
• SAOImage DS9 for astronomical data visualization (Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows)
• CFITSIO - Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) library and utilities
• World Coordinate System (WCS) tools for FITS images
• Astromatic.net for astronomical pipeline software
• Astrometry.net for precise celestial coordinates

  
  

  Linux Support

• SUSE Linux
• SBIG CCD Drivers for Linux
• Apogee CCD Software from The Random Factory
• Cinepaint - 32-bit Color Image Processing (Linux and Windows)

  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  Last update: October 27, 2009
  kielkopf@louisville.edu