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Top 23 Astronomy Open-Source Projects
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stellarium
Stellarium is a free GPL software which renders realistic skies in real time with OpenGL. It is available for Linux/Unix, Windows and macOS. With Stellarium, you really see what you can see with your eyes, binoculars or a small telescope.
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InfluxDB
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asteroids_atlas_of_space
Code, data, and instructions for mapping orbits of asteroids in the solar system
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Trail-Sense
An Android app that uses your phone's sensors to assist with wilderness treks or survival situations.
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WorkOS
The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
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OpenSpace
This is the official GitHub repository for OpenSpace: an open source astrovisualization project. For instructions on how to build and run OpenSpace, see the Getting Started Guides on the wiki page at http://docs.openspaceproject.com
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asdf
ASDF (Advanced Scientific Data Format) is a next generation interchange format for scientific data (by asdf-format)
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star-charter
A command-line tool for producing vector-graphics charts of the night sky in SVG, PDF and PNG formats.
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pycbc
Core package to analyze gravitational-wave data, find signals, and study their parameters. This package was used in the first direct detection of gravitational waves (GW150914), and is used in the ongoing analysis of LIGO/Virgo data.
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SwiftAA
The most comprehensive collection of accurate astronomical algorithms in (C++, Objective-C and) Swift.
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Project mention: Stellarium is a free GPL software which renders realistic skies in real time | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-13
Astropy [0] lives at the heart of most work. It has a Python interface, often backed by Fortran and C++ extension modules. If you use Astropy, you're indirectly using libraries like ERFA [6] and cfitsio [7] which are in C/Fortran.
I personally end up doing a lot of work that uses the HEALPix sky tesselation, so I use healpy [2] as well.
Openorb is perhaps a good example of a pure-Fortran package that I use quite. frequently for orbit propagation [3].
In C, there's Rebound [4] (for N-body simulations) and ASSIST [5] (which extends Rebound to use JPL's pre-calculated positions of major perturbers, and expands the force model to account for general relativity).
There are many more, these are just ones that come to mind from frequent usage in the last few months.
Celestia is a rare Linux app not on Flathub, but it is available from Fedora's Flatpak repo, which in theory should be usable on any distro: https://github.com/CelestiaProject/Celestia/discussions/1988
My guess is that you're using the most recent Raspbian OS, Bookworm? AllSky isn't ready for it yet (https://github.com/thomasjacquin/allsky/issues/3012)
If I can throw in another link, since the project is open-source, we can also find us on GitHub https://github.com/OpenSpace/OpenSpace if someone wants to contribute
Paying for code doesn't make it any less prone to bugs. If Python can be trusted to handle observations from the James Webb Space Telescope, it can probably be trusted for other, more terrestrial applications. In any case, since it is open-source, you can always inspect the source code yourself to verify what it is doing.
Project mention: Books/ other resources to learn about Fraunhofer diffraction farfield model using MATLAB/python? | /r/Optics | 2023-05-11
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
The latest post mention was on 2024-01-13.
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Astronomy projects? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | stellarium | 6,604 |
| 2 | astropy | 4,203 |
| 3 | Celestia | 1,716 |
| 4 | asteroids_atlas_of_space | 1,183 |
| 5 | allsky | 1,070 |
| 6 | Trail-Sense | 921 |
| 7 | apod-api | 764 |
| 8 | OpenSpace | 718 |
| 9 | jwst | 529 |
| 10 | asdf | 504 |
| 11 | termtrack | 481 |
| 12 | taotie | 377 |
| 13 | little-sun-gazer | 367 |
| 14 | star-charter | 334 |
| 15 | pycbc | 293 |
| 16 | gdl | 261 |
| 17 | astro-rust | 246 |
| 18 | GalSim | 211 |
| 19 | poppy | 196 |
| 20 | heyoka | 189 |
| 21 | indi-allsky | 177 |
| 22 | SwiftAA | 164 |
| 23 | stingray | 163 |
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