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<title>Linux Astronomy HOWTO
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<author>Elwood Downey and John Huggins <tt/howto@astronomy.net/
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<date>$Revision$, $Date$
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<abstract>
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This document shares tips and resources to utilize Linux
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solutions in the pursuit of Astronomy.
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</abstract>
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<toc>
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<sect> Introduction
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<sect1> Knowledge Required
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<p>
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With all the help from major Linux distributions such as SuSE, Redhat, Caldera and many others, Linux based systems are becoming easier to use. However, there is still some need of understanding of basic UNIX skills to make the most of Linux. Thus, this HOWTO will assume that the reader has at least a basic knowledge of using a UNIX system including the ability to compile and install programs.
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A few resources we have found useful over the years include:
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<itemize>
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<item> "A Practical Guide to the UNIX System", Mark G. Sobel
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<item> "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment", the late W. Richard Stevens
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<item> "Running LINUX", Matt Welsh et al.
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<item> "LINUX Device Drivers", Alessandro Rubini
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</itemize>
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Similarly, this is not a tutorial or reference for astronomy principles or
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astronomical instrumentation. Astronomy is perhaps the grandest of all
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sciences, employing widely disparate disciplines in a bold attempt to
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understand nothing less than the universe itself. Your interests will lead
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in many directions. A few references we have used include:
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<itemize>
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<item> "Astronomy with your Personal Computer", Peter Duffett-Smith
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<item> "Astronomy on the Personal Computer", Oliver Montenbruck et al
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<item> "Textbook on Spherical Astronomy", W. M. Smart
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<item> "The Astronomy and Astrophysics Encyclopedia", Stephen P. Maran, ed.
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</itemize>
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<sect1> Scope
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<p>
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The authors define the scope of this HOWTO as primarily an index to Linux tools applicable in some fashion to the pursuit of Astronomy. It is NOT our intention to list WWW astronomy references in general. Our own interests tend more towards the technology than the pure science and so we welcome contributions from others who have found Linux tools which contribute in other ways to Astronomy. Please contact us at the address above.
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<sect1> Version
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<p>
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$Revision$
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<p>
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$Date$
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<p>
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The latest version of this document is always available on the <htmlurl url="http://www.astronomy.net/" name="Astronomy Net"> at <htmlurl url="http://www.astronomy.net/howto/Astronomy-HOWTO.html" name="Astronomy HOWTO">.
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<p>
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We eagerly accept suggestions from you. Send them to <htmlurl url="mailto:howto@astronomy.net" name="Astronomy HOWTO Editors">.
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<sect1> Copyright
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<p>
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Copyright 2000 by Elwood Downey and John Huggins. This document may be distributed only subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the LDP License except that this document must not be distributed in modified form without the author's consent.
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A verbatim copy may be reproduced or distributed in any medium physical or electronic without permission of the author. Translations are similarly permitted without express permission if it includes a notice on who translated it. Commercial redistribution is allowed and encouraged; however please notify authors of any such distributions.
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Excerpts from the document may be used without prior consent provided that the derivative work contains the verbatim copy or a pointer to a verbatim copy.
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Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this document provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies.
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In short, we wish to promote dissemination of this information through as many channels as possible. However, we wish to retain copyright on this HOWTO document, and would like to be notified of any plans to redistribute this HOWTO.
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<sect> Software
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<p>
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<sect1> Collections
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<p>
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Here are some links to collections and other indexes of Linux astronomy
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software.
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<itemize>
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<item> <htmlurl url="http://www.randomfactory.com/lfa.html" name="The Linux for Astronomy CDROM"> </item>
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<item> <htmlurl url="http://SAL.KachinaTech.COM/Z/4/index.shtml" name="Scientific Applications on Linux (SAL), Physics and Astronomy"> </item>
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<item> <htmlurl url="http://home.xnet.com/~blatura/linapp3.html#science" name="Linux Applications and Utilities Page, Science and Math"> </item>
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<item> <htmlurl url="http://bima.astro.umd.edu/nemo/linuxastro/astromake/" name="AstroMake"> is a utility intended to make installations of some common astronomical packages (in binary form) easy.</item>
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<item> The linuxastro mailing list also contains a list of applications and packages. For more information, see <htmlurl url="http://bima.astro.umd.edu/nemo/linuxastro" name="linuxastro">.
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</itemize>
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<sect1> Planetarium Programs
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<p>
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Here is discussion of whole programs for use in finding objects, natural and
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man-made, in the sky which run on Linux.
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<p>
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<itemize>
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<item> <htmlurl url="http://clearskyinstitute.com/xephem" name="XEphem"> has been the pet project of one of us (Downey) for the past 15-odd years. It has grown to become one of the more capable interactive tools for the computation of astronomical ephemerides.
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</item>
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<item> <htmlurl url="http://venus.sunquest.com/xsky_blurb.html" name="XSky"> is by Terry R. Friedrichsen, terry@venus.sunquest.com. XSky is essentially an interactive sky atlas.
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</item>
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<item>
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<htmlurl url="http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/software/skymap.html" name="Skymap"> is an astronomical mapping program written in Fortran and C for unix workstations by Doug Mink of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Telescope Data Center.
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</item>
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<item>
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<htmlurl url="http://www.astroarts.com/products/xplns/" name="Xplns"> reproduces real starry sky on your display of X Window System.
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</item>
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<item>
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<htmlurl url="http://www-mips.unice.fr/~biederd/eric/astrhorloge_en.shtml" name="AstrHorloge"> is a small astronomy software that shows a sky map, give you the coordinates of stars and planets.
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</item>
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<item>
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<htmlurl url="http://www.lsw.uni-heidelberg.de/~rwichman/Nightfall.html" name="Nightfall"> is an astronomy application for fun, education, and science. It can produce animated views of eclipsing binary stars, calculate synthetic lightcurves and radial velocity curves, and eventually determine the best-fit model for a given set of observational data of an eclipsing binary star system.
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</item>
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</itemize>
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<sect1> Libraries
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<p>
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This section discusses bits and pieces of software that can be used to form the basis for specialized projects.
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<itemize>
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<item><htmlurl url="http://rlspc5.bnsc.rl.ac.uk/star/docs/sun67.htx/sun67.html#xref_" name="SLALIB">, part of the <htmlurl url="http://star-www.rl.ac.uk" name="Starlink Project">, is a complete library of subroutines for astrometric computations.
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</item>
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<item><htmlurl url="http://ascl.net" name="Astrophysics Source Code Library"> is a collection of links to numerical astrophysical process models.
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</item>
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<item><htmlurl url="http://people.ne.mediaone.net/moshier/index.html" name="Astronomy and numerical software source codes"> is a collection of C codes related to astronomy.
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</item>
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<item><htmlurl url="http://hotel04.ausys.se/pausch/comp/ppcomp.html" name="How to compute planetary positions">.
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</itemize>
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<sect1> Other
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<p>
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Every list needs a miscellaneous section, and this is it for Software.
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<itemize>
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<item> <htmlurl url="http://iraf.noao.edu" name="IRAF"> is a gigantic but exceptionally capable astronomical analysis system, shepherded over the past 20-odd years by Doug Tody of NOAO. It has accumulated innumerable authoritative contributions from leading astronomers in all areas of astronomical data analysis. If you have a serious interest in astronomical data reduction and significant time to invest, this system will reward you mightily.
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<item> <htmlurl url="http://www.lsw.uni-heidelberg.de/~rwichman/Nightfall.html" name="Nightfall Eclipsing Binary Star Program"> </item>
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</itemize>
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<sect> Astronomical Images over the web
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<p>
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Much effort exists to allow access to Astronomical image file type such as FITS from any web browser. Here are some pointers.
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<sect1> List
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<p>
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The folks at harvard have a list of Image Servers and Image Browsers.
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<itemize>
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<htmlurl url="http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/astro.image.html" name="Astronomical Images Over the Web">
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</itemize>
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<sect> Organizations
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<p>
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<itemize>
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The yearly <htmlurl url="http://hea-www.harvard.edu/adass" name="Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems, ADAAS,"> Conference Series provides a forum for scientists and computer specialists concerned with algorithms, software and operating systems in the acquisition, reduction and analysis of astronomical data. The program includes invited talks, contributed papers and poster sessions as well as user group meetings and special interest meetings ("BOFs''). All these activities aim to encourage communication between software specialists and users, and also to stimulate further development of astronomical software and systems.
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The linuxastro mailing list, linuxastro@majordomo.cv.nrao.edu, is for people who are interested in porting astronomical software to linux. For more information, see <htmlurl url="http://bima.astro.umd.edu/nemo/linuxastro" name="linuxastro">.
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</itemize>
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<sect> Hardware Control
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<p>
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More folks are using Linux to control equipment. Users range from amateur astronomers in the field to professional observatories.
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<sect1> Telescope Control
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<itemize>
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<htmlurl url="http://www.torusoptics.com/OCAAS.htm" name="OCAAS"> is a complete Observatory Control and Astronomical Analysis System for Linux.
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<htmlurl url="http://clearskyinstitute.com/xephem" name="XEphem"> has the capability to communicate with a telescope control daemon process.
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<htmlurl url="http://www.apogee-ccd.com/software.html" name="Apogee Instruments Inc"> supports their line of professional CCD cameras under Linux.
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<htmlurl url="http://www.sbig.com/sbwhtmls/linux_announcement.htm" name="SBIG"> offers some assistance with operating their ST7 and ST8 CCD cameras under Linux.
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</itemize>
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<sect> Installation Help
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<p>
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You need to know what you're doing with Linux and installing programs, but help is available for some programs. Here are some ways to make life easier.
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<htmlurl url="http://bima.astro.umd.edu/nemo/linuxastro/astromake/" name="AstroMake">
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XEphem requires several elements to exist on your machine. Life is much simpler with the CDROM version of the program as it contains an installation script which loads the appropriate precompiled binary for most systems and places all auxiliary files to the correct spots. See <htmlurl url="http://www.clearskyinstitute.com/ecommerce/xephem/order.html" name="XEphem CDROM">
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<article>
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<title>Linux Astronomy HOWTO
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<author>Elwood Downey and John Huggins <tt/howto@astronomy.net/
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<date>v1.17, 2001-04-10
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<abstract>
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This document shares tips and resources to utilize Linux
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solutions in the pursuit of Astronomy.
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</abstract>
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<!-- Table of contents -->
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<toc>
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<!-- Beginning -->
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<sect> Introduction
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<sect1> Knowledge Required
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<p>
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With all the help from major Linux distributions such as SuSE, Redhat, Caldera and many others, Linux based systems are becoming easier to use. However, there is still some need of understanding of basic UNIX skills to make the most of Linux. Thus, this HOWTO will assume that the reader has at least a basic knowledge of using a UNIX system including the ability to compile and install programs.
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A few resources we have found useful over the years include:
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<itemize>
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<item> "A Practical Guide to the UNIX System", Mark G. Sobel
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<item> "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment", the late W. Richard Stevens
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<item> "Running LINUX", Matt Welsh et al.
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<item> "LINUX Device Drivers", Alessandro Rubini
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</itemize>
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Similarly, this is not a tutorial or reference for astronomy principles or astronomical instrumentation. Astronomy is perhaps the grandest of all sciences, employing widely disparate disciplines in a bold attempt to understand nothing less than the universe itself. Your interests will lead in many directions. A few references we have used include:
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<itemize>
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<item> "Astronomy with your Personal Computer", Peter Duffett-Smith
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<item> "Astronomy on the Personal Computer", Oliver Montenbruck et al
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<item> "Textbook on Spherical Astronomy", W. M. Smart
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<item> "The Astronomy and Astrophysics Encyclopedia", Stephen P. Maran, ed.
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</itemize>
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<sect1> Scope
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<p>
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The authors define the scope of this HOWTO as primarily an index to Linux tools applicable in some fashion to the pursuit of Astronomy. It is NOT our intention to list WWW astronomy references in general. Our own interests tend more towards the technology than the pure science and so we welcome contributions from others who have found Linux tools which contribute in other ways to Astronomy. Please contact us at the address above.
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<sect1> Version
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$Revision$
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<p>
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$Date$
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<p>
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The latest version of this document is always available on the <htmlurl url="http://astronomy.net/" name="Astronomy Net"> at <htmlurl url="http://howto.astronomy.net/howto/Astronomy-HOWTO.html" name="Astronomy HOWTO">.
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<p>
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We eagerly accept suggestions from you. Send them to <htmlurl url="mailto:howto@astronomy.net" name="Astronomy HOWTO Editors">.
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<sect1> Copyright
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<p>
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Copyright 2000 by Elwood Downey and John Huggins. This document may be distributed only subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the LDP License except that this document must not be distributed in modified form without the author's consent.
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A verbatim copy may be reproduced or distributed in any medium physical or electronic without permission of the author. Translations are similarly permitted without express permission if it includes a notice on who translated it. Commercial redistribution is allowed and encouraged; however please notify authors of any such distributions.
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Excerpts from the document may be used without prior consent provided that the derivative work contains the verbatim copy or a pointer to a verbatim copy.
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Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this document provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies.
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In short, we wish to promote dissemination of this information through as many channels as possible. However, we wish to retain copyright on this HOWTO document, and would like to be notified of any plans to redistribute this HOWTO.
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<sect1> About the authors
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<p>
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Elwood Downey has over twenty years experience in software engineering for various astronomy projects. Learn more about Elwood at <htmlurl url="http://www.clearskyinstitute.com/resumes/ecdowney/resume.html" name="Clear Sky Institute">.
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John Huggins has eleven years experience in hardware engineering including eight years associated with an astronomy project. Learn more at <htmlurl url="http://www.va.net/~jhuggins/" name="John's Site">.
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<sect> Software
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<sect1> Collections
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Here are some links to collections and other indexes of Linux astronomy software.
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<item> <htmlurl url="http://www.randomfactory.com/lfa.html" name="The Linux for Astronomy CDROM"> </item>
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<item> <htmlurl url="http://SAL.KachinaTech.COM/Z/4/index.shtml" name="Scientific Applications on Linux (SAL), Physics and Astronomy"> </item>
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<item> <htmlurl url="http://home.xnet.com/~blatura/linapp3.html#science" name="Linux Applications and Utilities Page, Science and Math"> </item>
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<item> <htmlurl url="http://bima.astro.umd.edu/nemo/linuxastro/astromake/" name="AstroMake"> is a utility intended to make installations of some common astronomical packages (in binary form) easy.</item>
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<item> The linuxastro mailing list also contains a list of applications and packages. For more information, see <htmlurl url="http://bima.astro.umd.edu/nemo/linuxastro" name="linuxastro">.
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</itemize>
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<p>
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Here is discussion of whole programs for use in finding objects, natural and man-made, in the sky which run on Linux.
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<p>
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<itemize>
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<item> <htmlurl url="http://clearskyinstitute.com/xephem" name="XEphem"> has been the pet project of one of us (Downey) for the past 15-odd years. It has grown to become one of the more capable interactive tools for the computation of astronomical ephemerides.
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</item>
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<item> <htmlurl url="http://www.astrotrf.net:8080/xsky_blurb.html" name="XSky"> is by Terry R. Friedrichsen, terry@venus.sunquest.com. XSky is essentially an interactive sky atlas.
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<htmlurl url="http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/software/skymap.html" name="Skymap"> is an astronomical mapping program written in Fortran and C for unix workstations by Doug Mink of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Telescope Data Center.
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</item>
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<htmlurl url="http://www.astroarts.com/products/xplns/" name="Xplns"> reproduces real starry sky on your display of X Window System.
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</item>
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<htmlurl url="http://www.lsw.uni-heidelberg.de/~rwichman/Nightfall.html" name="Nightfall"> is an astronomy application for fun, education, and science. It can produce animated views of eclipsing binary stars, calculate synthetic lightcurves and radial velocity curves, and eventually determine the best-fit model for a given set of observational data of an eclipsing binary star system.
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</item>
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</itemize>
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<sect1> Libraries
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This section discusses bits and pieces of software that can be used to form the basis for specialized projects.
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<itemize>
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<item><htmlurl url="http://rlspc5.bnsc.rl.ac.uk/star/docs/sun67.htx/sun67.html#xref_" name="SLALIB">, part of the <htmlurl url="http://star-www.rl.ac.uk" name="Starlink Project">, is a complete library of subroutines for astrometric computations.
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<item><htmlurl url="http://ascl.net" name="Astrophysics Source Code Library"> is a collection of links to numerical astrophysical process models.
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<item><htmlurl url="http://people.ne.mediaone.net/moshier/index.html" name="Astronomy and numerical software source codes"> is a collection of C codes related to astronomy.
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<item><htmlurl url="http://hotel04.ausys.se/pausch/comp/ppcomp.html" name="How to compute planetary positions">.
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<item><htmlurl url="http://dimensional.com/~ashe/ccd-astro.html" name="CCD Astronomy on Linux ">A library of routines that help control SBIG cameras.
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<sect1> Other
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Every list needs a miscellaneous section, and this is it for Software.
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<item> <htmlurl url="http://iraf.noao.edu" name="IRAF"> is a gigantic but exceptionally capable astronomical analysis system, shepherded over the past 20-odd years by Doug Tody of NOAO. It has accumulated innumerable authoritative contributions from leading astronomers in all areas of astronomical data analysis. If you have a serious interest in astronomical data reduction and significant time to invest, this system will reward you mightily.
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<item> <htmlurl url="http://www.lsw.uni-heidelberg.de/~rwichman/Nightfall.html" name="Nightfall Eclipsing Binary Star Program"> </item>
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<sect> Astronomical Images over the web
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Much effort exists to allow access to Astronomical image file type such as FITS from any web browser. Here are some pointers.
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<sect1> List
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The folks at harvard have a list of Image Servers and Image Browsers.
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<htmlurl url="http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/astro.image.html" name="Astronomical Images Over the Web">
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<sect> Organizations
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The yearly <htmlurl url="http://hea-www.harvard.edu/adass" name="Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems, ADAAS,"> Conference Series provides a forum for scientists and computer specialists concerned with algorithms, software and operating systems in the acquisition, reduction and analysis of astronomical data. The program includes invited talks, contributed papers and poster sessions as well as user group meetings and special interest meetings ("BOFs''). All these activities aim to encourage communication between software specialists and users, and also to stimulate further development of astronomical software and systems.
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The linuxastro mailing list, linuxastro@majordomo.cv.nrao.edu, is for people who are interested in porting astronomical software to linux. For more information, see <htmlurl url="http://bima.astro.umd.edu/nemo/linuxastro" name="linuxastro">.
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</itemize>
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<sect> Hardware Control
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<p>
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More folks are using Linux to control equipment. Users range from amateur astronomers in the field to professional observatories.
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<sect1> Telescope Control
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<p>
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<itemize>
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<item>
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<htmlurl url="http://www.torusoptics.com/OCAAS.htm" name="OCAAS"> is a complete Observatory Control and Astronomical Analysis System for Linux.
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<htmlurl url="http://clearskyinstitute.com/xephem" name="XEphem"> has the capability to communicate with a telescope control daemon process.
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</itemize>
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<sect1> CCD Camera Control
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<p>
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<itemize>
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<item>
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<htmlurl url="http://www.apogee-ccd.com/software.html" name="Apogee Instruments Inc"> supports their line of professional CCD cameras under Linux.
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</item>
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<item>
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<htmlurl url="http://www.sbig.com/sbwhtmls/linux_announcement.htm" name="SBIG"> offers some assistance with operating their ST7 and ST8 CCD cameras under Linux.
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</item>
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<item>
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<htmlurl url="http://dimensional.com/~ashe/ccd-astro.html" name="CCD Astronomy on Linux"> These pages describe a number of facets of using astronomical CCD cameras for image acquisition and processing under Linux.
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</item>
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</itemize>
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<sect> Installation Help
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<p>
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You need to know what you're doing with Linux and installing programs, but help is available for some programs. Here are some ways to make life easier.
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<itemize>
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<item>
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<htmlurl url="http://bima.astro.umd.edu/nemo/linuxastro/astromake/" name="AstroMake">
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is is a utility intended to make installations of some common astronomical packages (in binary form) easy.
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</item>
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<item>
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XEphem requires several elements to exist on your machine. Life is much simpler with the CDROM version of the program as it contains an installation script which loads the appropriate precompiled binary for most systems and places all auxiliary files to the correct spots. See <htmlurl url="http://www.clearskyinstitute.com/ecommerce/xephem/order.html" name="XEphem CDROM">
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</item>
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</itemize>
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<sect> Projects using Linux
|
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<p>
|
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Here is a list of astronomy projects using Linux in whole or in part of their instrumentation:
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<itemize>
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<item>
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<htmlurl url="http://www.chara.gsu.edu/CHARA/index.html" name="The CHARA Array"> is an optical interferometer project using Linux in their control system.
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