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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is libnexstar-dev. This library implements the serial commands supported by the Celestron NexStar hand control (HC) and SkyWatcher/Orion SynScan HC. This applies to the Celestron: NexStar GPS,
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is libhealpix-cxx-dev. 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
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is libastro-fits-cfitsio-perl. Astro::Fits::Cfitsio is a Perl interface to William Pence's cfitsio subroutine library. For more information on cfitsio, see http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/fitsio
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is libccfits-dev. CCfits is an object oriented interface to the cfitsio library. It is designed to make the capabilities of cfitsio available to programmers working in C++.
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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is liberfa-dev. ERFA is a C library containing key algorithms for astronomy, and is based on the SOFA library published by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).

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Random #Debian Astro package of the week is libplplot-dev. PLplot is relatively small, portable, freely distributable, and is rich enough to satisfy most users. It has a wide range of plot types including line

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