Open Source Astronomy Software

Fixed width data files are probably the most annoying data to import into database. This utility allows user to insert user-defined column separators into user-defided positions of flat file table given in fixed-width format. I am using this utility to import astronomical catalogs provided as flat tables at CDS ftp-server into postgresql; Build: $ make all [cc={icc|gcc}] Install: $ make install [prefix=/path/to/your/bin/directory] Example of usage: $ gzip -dc table.dat.gz | fw2csv --stops=4,10,11,20,30,36 -d '|' -header 1 | psql wsdb -c "copy mytable from stdin with csv delimiter '|'" For the list of available options call $ fw2csv --help

NTuple is a Python module used by high-energy physicists and astrophysicists to easily and efficiently access ntuple data stored in large ROOT data stores. Specifically, NTuple provides a friendly Pythonic interface to TNtuples and TTrees stored in TFiles

The Open Source Sunspots Organizer is a php interface designed to register all data acquired from sunspots' observation. It supports a login system to separate observers. As a php based interface it needs a web server to run.

ProC 3.0 is a scientific workflow engine to build, manage and execute workflows (pipelines) in heterogeneous environments, supporting GRID and other means of parallel processing. It includes a data management component (DMC) to transparently access databases for storage of results and automatically adds metadata to track the processing of data products, so that at every time a full processing history is available. The software was developed and used within the ESA Planck satellite mission.

Project Galileo at Sourceforge.net aims to provide developers a unique opportunity to develop open source software for an on-line telescope for schools across the UK. See http://www.projectgalileo.org.uk for more details.

Q3C is the plugin for PostgreSQL, designed for the work with large astronomical catalogs or any catalogs of objects on the sphere.Q3C allows you to perform fast searches within a circles, ellipses or polygons on the sky and fast cross-matches. The main development happens on https://github.com/segasai/q3c/

SPIDR (Space Physics Interactive Data Resource) is a distributed database and application server network, built to select, visualize and model historical space weather data. SPIDR is a web-application and a grid of data mining web-services.

Speckify is a C++/FLTK-based GUI tool for generating useful datasets from astronomical databases. It allows ASCII databases of arbitrary format to be processed into output files that can then be used in various planetarium software applications.

This project will be dedicated to developing a standard XML Schema and related technologies for the purpose of platform independent exchange of astronomical observations.

libadb is an astronomical catalog management library desgined to provide fast access to astronomical object data.

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