PHOTZIP - A lossy compression utility for FITS images.
More information about this software can be found in the following paper:
Shamir, L., Nemiroff R. J., PHOTZIP:A Lossy FITS Image Compression Algorithm that Protects User-Defined Levels of Photometric Integrity, The Astronomical Journal, Volume 129, Issue 1, pp. 539-546, 2005. pdf WOLF - The software that processes the FITS files and generates the photometry files, annotated JPGs, opacity maps, background, transient detection and luminance changes detection.
More information about this software can be found in the following paper:
Shamir, L., Nemiroff R. J., 2005, A fuzzy Logic Based Algorithm for Finding Astronomical Objectws in Wide-Angle Frames, Publication of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 22(2), 111-117. pdf and also in Shamir, L., Nemiroff R.J., Torrey, D. O., Pereira, W. E., 2006, MNRAS, 366, 353.
A full Linux-compiled version + source code + additional required files can be downloaded at: wolf.tar.gz
Also might need the library libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 metdet - This program reads FITS file's (Meteors) and find the start of the meteor and end of the meteor and averages the pixel counts along x-axis and y-axis and write this in a output file.
A square or rectangular grid should be specified interms of the x,y coordinates of the corners of this square or rectangular grid where the meteor occurs.
Compiled Linux version of metdet is available here
Credit: Tilvi Vithal.
xml2txt - A simple command line utility that removes the tags from an xml file and generates .txt files such that all fields start at a fixed column.
Compiled version of xml2txt (unix) is available here
Other Software:
APOD - A lean piece of software that brings to your desktop the astronomy pictre and explanation from Astronomy Picture of the Day.
