M42 - Orionnebel

600 x 10s, Smart Telescope DWARF II.
Processed with github.com/jeamy/tile_c...
and Siril: Veralux Hypermetric Stretch
#astrocode #astrophotography #astromethods

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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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#astrocode #AstroTools #ScienceSoftware

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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GitHub - Sigmyne/SuperNOVAS: The Naval Observatory NOVAS C astrometry library, made better The Naval Observatory NOVAS C astrometry library, made better - Sigmyne/SuperNOVAS

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

github.com/Sigmyne/Supe...

Exo Skryer: A JAX-accelerated sub-stellar atmospheric retrieval framework Contemporary exoplanet and brown dwarf atmospheric research relies heavily on retrieval frameworks to recover thermal and chemical properties and perform model comparison in an observational data-driv...

Elsie’s the best in the game. arxiv.org/abs/2602.19687 🔭 #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
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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

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

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!
#Neuroscience #AstroCode

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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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The Astrosky Ecosystem: An independent online platform for science communication and social networking While almost everything that astronomers study occurs in the vacuum of space, astronomy itself does not `happen in a vacuum'. Interactions between scientists, as well as outreach to members of the pub...

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.

#astrocode #AstroPython #ScienceSoftware

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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Polars DataFrames for the new era

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. 🤯

Recently published in JOSS: the QhX allows for periodicity detection in the presence of red noise, use cases include QSOs and earthquakes among others. #astrocode

Recent publications in JOSS: PyStarshade allows high fidelity simulations of star shade observations of exoplanets. #astrocode

pynucastro 2.9.0 has been released:
pynucastro.github.io/pynucastro/c...

This includes lots of optimizations to AMReX C++ networks and a new TemperatureTabularRate class that opens the door to supporting the StarLib reaction rate library.

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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is python3-pysynphot. pysynphot simulates photometric data and spectra as they are observed with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Passbands for standard photometric systems are available, and users can
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Kelle Cruz introduces the astropy units module at AAS 247 in Phoenix, AZ.

Welcome new astropy users at #AAS247!

Here, Kelle Cruz is introducing an absolute unit of a module: the astropy units module. 🔭 #astrocode

SuperNOVAS SuperNOVAS is a light-weight, high-precision astrometry C/C++ library, based on NOVAS C 3.1.

SuperNOVAS v1.5.1 bug fix release is out today. SuperNOVAS is a fast, high-precision C/C++ astrometry library for professionals an amateur astronomers alike. Use it to take your astronomy code to the next level. #astrocode smithsonian.github.io/SuperNOVAS/