Computers: Software: Astronomical

Astronomical

AIPS - NRAO's Astronomical Image Processing System
AIPS++ - the next generation of AIPS
- AIPSview visualization tool
ASDS - Astronomical Software Directory Service
Astronomical software from the SAO Telescope Data Center
ASTRO-D mission information, robot graphics software, etc.
CCP7, a collaborative computational project for spectral synthesis codes, including ATLAS9 (STScI mirror)
CIAO - Chandra Interactive Analysis of Observations software
- ISIS - Interactive Spectral Interpretation System (for X-ray spectroscopy)
CLOUDY, a photoionization code
Data Formats
- FEP - Formats Evolution Process, from NASA/GSFC
- FITS - Flexible Image Transport System
  - Coordinates in fits
    - fitswcs, a Java implementation of wcslib
  - ESO archive
  - FITSIO library for accessing FITS files
  - FTOOLS package for FITS file manipulation
  - FITS archive at NRAO
  - FITS resources from HEASARC
  - fv, an interactive FITS file viewer
  - Tools from ncsa
DRAO - Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory software
Educational Software
- Binary Stars
FIGARO
GAIA - Graphical Astronomy and Image Analysis Tool from Starlink
Getimage, software for accessing the Digitized Sky Survey
GISSEL - Galaxy Isochrone Synthesis Spectral Evolution Library
Grid, a graphical signal-processing environment
IDL - Interactive Data Language
- FAQ
- IDL Astronomy User's Library
- Index of WWW pages
- Newsgroup: comp.lang.idl-pvwave
IPAC infrared analysis tools, including IRSKY, ISSA-PS, XCATSCAN, and XSCANPI
IRAF - Image Processing and Analysis Facility
- Documentation:
  - A Beginner's Guide to Using IRAF
  - CVOS Guide, the C interface to the Virtual Operating System (VOS)
  - Programming documents
- External packages:
  - Aspec spectral analysis package
  - EUVE
  - NEBULAR package
  - PROS, the IRAF x-ray package
  - RVSAO, Radial Velocity Package for IRAF
  - STSDAS - Space Telescope Science Data Analysis System
- Help System
- OpenIRAF changes to xc compiler
- Newsgroups:
Karma and other visualization software from ATNF
Khoros, from Khoral Research, Inc.
Linux for Astronomy CD-ROM
MIDAS (including a FAQ)
Physics Academic Software
Pickles software for pointing HST
Redshift space simulation software
SAOimage
- SAOImage
- SAOtng - SAOimage, The Next Generation
- SAOImage DS9
Satlas - Solar spectrum atlas
Sky Calendar (also includes SkyCalc)
Software Bisque, makers of TheSky and other software
Space Physics software (xspace)
Starlink
StarView, for HST archive access
WCSTools - World Coordinate System
X Window System clients
- xephem, interative astronomical ephemeris
- xsimbad, X11-based interface for SIMBAD archive

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Last modified: Tue Feb 20 18:01:31 PST 2001