The verdict of Google's AI search on the SuperNOVAS C/C++ astrometry library. It sounds about right... ;-)
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The SuperNOVAS library introduces its C++API, bringing its high-precision astrometry into the modern era, and providing an intuitive interface that is on par with astropy. Check it out the first preview today. The finalized release is expected in May. #astrocode
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is iraf. IRAF is the "Image Reduction and Analysis Facility". The main IRAF distribution includes a good selection of programs for general image processing and graphics.
Other external or layered packages are available
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For hunters of rocky worlds: save the date! 🔭 #astrocode
We're preparing a Data Challenge modeled after the 2015 Spitzer Exoplanet Data Challenge, this time with MIRI observations from the Rocky Worlds DDT program.
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My talk on modeling reactive flows at the High Performance Software Foundation 2026 meeting:
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#hpsfcon
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is scamp. SCAMP reads SExtractor catalogs and computes astrometric and photometric solutions for any arbitrary sequence of FITS images in a completely automatic way.
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M42 - Orionnebel
600 x 10s, Smart Telescope DWARF II.
Processed with github.com/jeamy/tile_c...
and Siril: Veralux Hypermetric Stretch
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-pyraf. PyRAF is a command language for running IRAF tasks in a Python like environment. It works very similar to IRAF CL, but has been updated to allow such things as importing Python modules,
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Join @stsci.edu as a software engineer, working on interactive data analysis and visualization tools for astronomers. 🔭 #astrocode
Apps due March 18, 2026.
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is asdftool. ASDF (Advanced Scientific Data Format) is a proposed next generation interchange format for scientific data. ASDF aims to exist in the same middle ground that made FITS so successful, by being a
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The new high-level C++ API of the SuperNOVAS astrometry library is inching closer by the day. It will enhance SuperNOVAS with a brand new API that will be on par with astropy in terms of simplicity and elegance, only much-much faster. Stay tuned! #astrocode
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-asdf. ASDF (Advanced Scientific Data Format) is a proposed next generation interchange format for scientific data. ASDF aims to exist in the same middle ground that made FITS so successful, by being a
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As an example science application, they apply the code to a JWST survey searching for distant galaxies. By improving the depth of the photometry in every band, they treble the number of z>9 sources identified in the survey field.
☄️🔭 #astrocode #extragalactic
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The code learns the detector noise characteristics and focusses on only noise-dominated parts of the image. In a test survey with 168 exposures, they give only 8 of them to the ASTERIS algorithm. The code recovers the same sources as appear in the deeper stack. ☄️🔭 #astrocode
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Can astronomical imaging be more sensitive, with no additional observations?
Guo et al. apply machine learning to the co-addition (stacking) of multiple exposures. For stacks of 8 JWST NIRCam exposures, the detection limit improves by 1 magnitude. ☄️🔭 #astrocode
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-drms. The drms module provides an easy-to-use Python interface for accessing HMI, AIA and MDI data with Python. It uses the publicly accessible Joint Science Operations Center (JSOC) server by default,
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-montagepy. MontagePy is a toolkit for assembling astronomical images into custom mosaics.
It uses algorithms that preserve the calibration and positional (astrometric) fidelity of
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This image is a composite of artist's illustrations of NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope pointing towards a lengthy collection of exoplanets against a background image of the Galactic Plane. The text says "2026 Sagan Summer Workshop" and the theme "Exoplanets with Roman Surveys: Microlensing and Transits July 20-24, 2026, Pasadena, California" followed by the hashtag #sagan2026.
⏰Time to Register for #sagan2026⏰
The hybrid workshop focuses on expected #exoplanet science from the @nasaromantelescope.bsky.social Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey. Travel support requests for early-career participants are due 3/5. nexsci.caltech.edu/workshop/2026
🔭 #astrocode #instrumentation
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Another job was just posted, at the senior software engineer level at @stsci.edu: 🔭 #astrocode
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Entry level software engineer position at @stsci.edu, application deadline Feb 28: 🧪🔭 #astrocode
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🎉 Say hello to Mario Martín-Fernández, the newest member of #CNC!
He’s exploring how astrocytes help the brain encode information and guide adaptive behavior.
🔬His website: astroneuronal.com
Welcome to the team, Mario!
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-fast-histogram. fast-histogram aims to provide simple and fast histogram functions for regular bins that don't compromise on performance. It doesn't do anything complicated - it just implements a
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do any astro software projects have AI policies in their github (akin to codes of conduct, community statements, citation files, etc...)
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-healpy. HEALPix is an acronym for Hierarchical Equal Area isoLatitude Pixelization of a sphere. As suggested in the name, this pixelization produces a subdivision of a spherical surface in which each
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Social media is essential for outreach and communication. So why should a single bad actor be able to destroy it? 🔭☄️
We don't think that should be the case, and that's why we're building The Astrosky Ecosystem - starting with the Astronomy feeds.
We now have a paper about our project! #astrocode
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is xplanet-images. Xplanet renders an image of a planet into an X window or a file.
In order to run xplanet, you'll need at least one map file. This package includes some map files that can be used with xplanet.
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-drizzle. The drizzle library is a Python package for combining dithered images into a single image. This library is derived from code used in drizzlepac. Like drizzlepac, most of the code is
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If you are user of the Python package Pandas, I cannot recommend switching to Polars highly enough. #astrocode
I'm doing some groupbys for some plots, and a complicated set of string & numerical operations on *25 million rows* takes just 3 seconds on my laptop.
The Pandas equivalent: 2+ minutes. 🤯
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