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Star Life

ASTAP – Astrometric STAcking Program

November 29, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

ASTAP is a free stacking and astrometric solver (plate solver) program for deep sky images.

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Milky Way

CRUSH is an astronomical data reduction and imaging tool

May 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Scientific

CRUSH is a free and open source data reduction pipeline and toolkit for specific astronomical imaging arrays.

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OpenChrom – software for chromatography, spectrometry and spectroscopy

May 17, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

OpenChrom is software for chromatography, spectrometry and spectroscopy. Data from different systems can be imported and analyzed.

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Astronomy

Tenmon is a FITS and XISF image viewer, converter and indexer

April 23, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Tenmon is a FITS/XISF image viewer with multithreaded image loading.

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XEphem – Serious Interactive Astronomical Software Ephemeris

February 6, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

XEphem is a Motif based ephemeris and planetarium program for Unix-like operating systems including Linux.

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Linux at Home - Astronomy

kosmorro – calculate your ephemerides

January 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

Kosmorro is a program that calculates your astronomical ephemerides.

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Astronomy

astroterm – terminal-based star map

January 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI

astroterm is a planetarium for your terminal. Explore stars, planets, constellations, and more, all rendered right in the command line.

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Star Life

Skyfield – astronomy for Python

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

Skyfield computes positions for the stars, planets, and satellites in orbit around the Earth.

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Star Life

THELI – tool for the automated reduction of astronomical images

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

THELI is a tool for the automated reduction of astronomical images. It’s command-line software with an independently created GUI available.

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Star Life

PyRAF – Python-based IRAF command language

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

PyRAF is a command language for running IRAF tasks that is based on the Python scripting language.

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Star Life

IRAF – Image Reduction and Analysis Facility

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

IRAF is the Image Reduction and Analysis Facility, a general purpose software system for the reduction and analysis of astronomical data.

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Star Life

MYRaf – astronomical image reduction and photometry software and interface for IRAF

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

MYRaf is a practical, astronomical image reduction and photometry software and interface for the Image Reduction and Analysis Facility (IRAF).

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Star Life

STSDAS – Space Telescope Science Data Analysis System

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

The Space Telescope Science Data Analysis System (STSDAS) is a software package for reducing and analyzing astronomical data.

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Star Life

Sherpa – modeling and fitting application for Python

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

Sherpa is a modeling and fitting application for Python. It contains a powerful language for combining simple models into complex expressions.

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Star Life

TOPCAT – Tool for OPerations on Catalogues And Tables

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

TOPCAT is a free and open source interactive graphical tool for analysis and manipulation of tabular data.

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Star Life

SAOImage DS9 – astronomical imaging and data visualization application

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

SAOImage DS9 is a free and open source astronomical imaging and data visualization application.

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Star Life

CARTA – Cube Analysis and Rendering Tool for Astronomy

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

Cube Analysis and Rendering Tool for Astronomy (CARTA) is a next generation image visualization and analysis tool.

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Star Life

Astropy – collection of Python software packages for astronomy

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

The Astropy Project is a community effort to develop a common core package for Astronomy in Python and foster an ecosystem of interoperable astronomy packages.

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Milky Way

Celestia – real-time 3D visualization of space software

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Web Apps

Celestia is a real-time space simulation that lets you visually experience the universe in three dimensions.

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Milky Way

Stellarium – open source planetarium

October 20, 2023 Steve Emms Scientific

Stellarium is a software project that allows people to use their home computer as a virtual planetarium.

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