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Old 26-06-2016, 09:26 PM
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What happened to Distro Astro?

Their homepage is gone.

Is this temporary? What's going on?

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Old 15-07-2016, 08:23 AM
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To follow on from this, does anyone know of any similar Linux packages? I know with a bit of work you could build an Ubuntu box with all the same stuff on it but Distro Astro was handy for being prebuilt like it was.

The server is still down and they have not responded to anyone on their facebook page for quite some time so it would seem that Distro Astro is down for the count.
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Old 15-07-2016, 09:06 AM
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Pity. I was afraid this could happen. When I played with it the build was a bit out of date: not based on the most recent Ubuntu and other packages not up to date. I stayed with my MATE build (I prefer the desktop to Unity) and added the packages I wanted. Consequently I don't have the nightvision mode for the whole UI but this isn't an issue as mine isn't an observatory scope.
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Old 15-07-2016, 02:32 PM
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I still have the AMD64 ISO of Distro Astro 3.0.2 on my machine. I have made it available if you are after it? I believe this was the last release (might be wrong). It is 2.44GB and my connection is a little slow (1 mbps) so it may take 4 or 5 hrs for one person.

http://www.joelye95.com/distroastro-3.0.2-amd64.iso
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Old 15-07-2016, 02:36 PM
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I think I still have the ISO I downloaded stored somewhere, but I can not recall what version of it I had.
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Old 15-07-2016, 06:03 PM
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The beauty of Linux, is that it's not really too hard to make your own "astronomy distro". There wasn't really anything peculiar to it.
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Old 20-07-2016, 06:01 AM
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Actually, a new astronomy distro called "Ubuntu Astronomy" is being planned:

http://www.cloudynights.com/topic/54...ntu-astronomy/

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Old 27-07-2016, 11:10 AM
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linux Astro programs

Here is a list of some Astro programs gleaned from Cloudy Nights, I hope some find the helpful. After installing your prefered Linux OS, install the programs that you require :- this list is by no means complete.


1. KStars is free, open source, cross-platform Astronomy Software. It provides an accurate graphical simulation of the night sky, from any location on Earth, at any date and time. Free. Supports INDI.

2. Cartes du Ciel / SkyCharts This program enables you to draw sky charts, making use of the data in many catalogs of stars and nebulae. In addition the position of planets, asteroids and comets are shown. Free. Supports INDI.

3. Virtual Moon Atlas. Free software for Moon observation or survey.

4. Virtual Planets Atlas. New free software for planets observation and study.

5. Xephem is a Motif based ephemeris and planetarium program for Unix-like operating systems. Supports INDI.

6. Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. Free.

7. Celestia is free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions. Free.

8. Siril is meant to be Iris for Linux (sirI-L). It is an astronomical image processing tool, able to convert, pre-process images, help aligning them automatically or manually, stack them and enhance final images. Free.

9. AstroImageJ is ImageJ with astronomy plugins and macros installed. It includes tools based on the Göttingen ImageJ astronomical resources with additions we find useful. Because it was necessary to modify the original ImageJ code to enable some of these features, this package should be installed in its entirety. Free.

10. MicroObservatory Image is a simple to use, yet powerful astronomical image processing program that works with FITS and GIF files. Free.

11. Lxnstack is a program designed to align and stack astronomical images (both planetary and deep-sky) by Maurizio D'Addona. Written in python and qt for the Linux platform it is released under the Open Source GPLv3 licence. Free.

12. Regim is a software tool for processing astronomical images. Free.

13. oaCapture is a planetary imaging application intended mainly for Linux. Free.

14. OpenSkyImager is a capture program written for Astronomy camera operation. Free.

15. CCDciel is a free CCD capture software intended for the amateur astronomer. Supports INDI.

16. THELI GUI is a powerful and easy-to-use package for astronomical image reduction, offering e.g. Free.

17. Observation Manager is a free and open logbook for (amateur-) astronomical observations. It's written in pure Java and runs on every platform supporting Java 1.4 or higher.

18. C-Munipack is the software package, which offers the complete solution for reduction of images carried out by CCD camera, intended on a observation of variable stars. Each step of reduction process can be run from the command line or via simple and intuitive graphical user interface.

19. VStar is a multi-platform, easy-to-use variable star observation visualisation and analysis tool. Data can be read from a file or the AAVSO database, light curves and phase plots created, period analysis performed, and filters applied. Plugins can be developed, e.g. to make additional observation sources available.

20. EqmodGui is a user interface for Linux INDI Eqmod telescope driver.
It allow to easily set the main parameters require to use this driver and manage the alignment data. Free. Supports INDI.

21. INDI Starter is a user interface to run a INDI server. You can configure different profile for your astronomical equipment. The INDI server can be launched locally or remotely on another computer. In this last case a ssh tunnel is established to allow local client connection. Free.

22. astrofocuser is a very simple tool written with Qt 4.5 to help star focusing in astrophotogaphy. This tool applies an FWHM by transparency on the background window. Free.

23. Fv: The Interactive FITS File Editor is the easy to use graphical program for viewing and editing any FITS format image or table. Fv can be used with the DS9 image display.Free.

24. SAOImage DS9 is an astronomical imaging and data visualization application. DS9 supports FITS images and binary tables, multiple frame buffers, region manipulation, and many scale algorithms and colormaps. It provides for easy communication with external analysis tasks and is highly configurable and extensible via XPA and SAMP. Free.

25. Aperture Photometry Tool (APT) is software for astronomical research, as well as for learning, visualizing and refining aperture-photometry analyses. Image overlays, graphical representations, statistics, models, options and controls for aperture-photometry calculations are brought together into a single package. Free.

26. Linux version of PHD2.
PHD2 is telescope guiding software that simplifies the process of tracking a guide star, letting you concentrate on other aspects of deep-sky imaging or spectroscopy. Free.

27. Lin-guider is an astronomical autoguiding program for Linux. It supports Philips, Logitech, uvc webcams, QHY5, QHY6, DSI2PRO, QHY5L-II-M, QHY5L-II-C, QHY5-II, ATIK, Starlight Xpress, ZWO ASI astrocams for video and FTDI chip-based, parallel port-based (LPT), GPIO-based, GPUSB devices, Nexstar-protocol based and QHY5, QHY6, QHY5L-II-M, QHY5L-II-C, QHY5-II, ATIK, Starlight Xpress, ZWO ASI astrocams for pulse guiding. Free.

28. AstroAviBrowser is a small tool for astronomy imaging processing. With AstroAviBrowser, you may open a video file, select the good frames and save the new sequence in a new avi file. It also debayer your raw sequences. Free.

29. Audela is a free and open source astronomy software intended for digital observations (CCD cameras, Webcams, etc.). Its concept is entirely new, because whilst it features advanced image processing and acquisition functions like existing software, its originality lies in the fact that it is entirely reprogrammable using simple scripts. It has been written for both Windows and Linux platforms and can control many telescope mounts and cameras or DSLRs. Free.

30. HNSKY for LINUX or HNSKY is a full feature planetarium program for Windows and Linux (under development). Contains 30.000 deep sky objects, a comet and asteroid database and the TYCHO2++ 4.5 million star database up to magnitude 12.5. The Sun, Moon, the planets and their major moons are all displayed with surface features. It is supplied with hundreds of DSS deep sky images which will blend in at the correct size and orientation.
31. SER Player is a video player for playing LuCam Recorder SER files. SER files are used for planetary, lunar and solar captures and this player allows these captures to be viewed in the same way AVI files are viewed with a standard video player.
SER Player also supports basic processing and will save frames in other file formats.

32. cvastroalign (video align tool for astrophotography) is a program that loads a video sequence, aligns and stacks the selected frames obtaining an image as result of this process.

33. Aladin is an interactive sky atlas allowing the user to visualize digitized astronomical images or full surveys, superimpose entries from astronomical catalogues or databases, and interactively access related data and information from the Simbad database, the VizieR service and other archives for all known astronomical objects in the field.

34. Gpredict is a real-time satellite tracking and orbit prediction application. It can track an unlimited number of satellites and display their position and other data in lists, tables, maps, and polar plots (radar view). Gpredict can also predict the time of future passes for a satellite, and provide you with detailed information about each pass.

35. GCX is an astronomical image processing and photometry application written in C using Gtk+-1.2, and provided under the Gnu General Public License. It was tested on Linux, FreeBSD and OS/X (using the X Window System

36. Entangle provides a graphical interface for “tethered shooting”, aka taking photographs with a digital camera completely controlled from the computer.

37. wxAstroCapture is a free capture program primarily intended for astronomical use, it is developed as a joint effort between Martin Burri (Switzerland) and Carsten Arnholm (Norway).

38. Geomview is an interactive 3D viewing program for Unix. Geomview lets you view and manipulate three- and higher-dimensional objects, and can also be used as a display engine by other programs to animate objects. Geomview supports OpenGL and uses a Motif X interface.

39. TOPCAT is an interactive graphical viewer and editor for tabular data. Its aim is to provide most of the facilities that astronomers need for analysis and manipulation of source catalogues and other tables, though it can be used for non-astronomical data as well. It understands a number of different astronomically important formats (including FITS, VOTable and CDF) and more formats can be added.

40. GoQat is a hardware control and data acquisition program for astronomy on the Linux platform. It has an INDI client to control any device with an INDI driver and has native support for any CCD camera from Quantum Scientific Imaging and any Starlight Xpress USB 2.0 camera. It can also control Starlight Xpress filter wheels. GoQat can guide mounts via a serial/USB port, parallel port or autoguider port.

41. Where is M13? is a unique application that helps you visualize the locations and physical properties of deep sky objects in and around the Galaxy.

42. BoPlanets is a virtual planetarium showing the planets relatively to any observing planet. The planets can be viewed in ecliptical-, equatorial- or horizontal view. The times of rise, transit and set of a planet can be determined.

43. JSky package contains java classes for displaying astronomical images, searching astronomical
catalogs and plotting catalog symbols on images. The jskycat application is also included and makes use of most of the features.

44. Specview is a Java GUI_based application for 1-D spectral visualization and analysis of astronomical spectrograms generated by a variety of observatories and instruments.

45. INDIprop provides a generic user interface for browsing device properties published by an INDI server.

Happy Linux computing.

Cheers Keith
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Old 27-07-2016, 12:32 PM
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Actually, a new astronomy distro called "Ubuntu Astronomy" is being planned:

http://www.cloudynights.com/topic/54...ntu-astronomy/

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You say about my topic.

I need your feedbacks for this open project.

You can download its daily snapshot ubuntu_astronomy_16.04_260716_64bit .iso.

Also, you can see the screen shots on FB page Ubuntu Astronomy.

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Old 27-07-2016, 03:59 PM
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Ubuntu Astro Distro

Down loading the .iso at the moment, will try it live from the dvd. Will run it live to see what it is like, let you know when I have tested it.

Cheers Keith.
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Old 06-08-2016, 03:11 AM
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Their Facebook page reports that the Distro Astro site is working
again, and that an updated version is being planned.

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Old 06-08-2016, 07:03 AM
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their site is back http://www.distroastro.org/

and a new version based on Ubuntu 16.04 will be coming out very soon
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Old 04-07-2017, 07:19 AM
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The Distro Astro site has been down again (for a month now).

On their Facebook and Twitter accounts, no response from the developers.

Teething troubles for the site, or has development on v4.0 stopped? Does anybody know?

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