LIVE DVD “UBUNTU ASTRONOMY 16.04” 64-BIT

The following distributive is designed for the astronomy amateurs that are familiar with OS Ubuntu (Linux). It is free to download and utilize. It includes different types of programms: planetariums, reception and edition of astronomical images, telescopes' and other equipment's control through the library and the INDI server. In order to get familiar with the content in Live DVD mode, you only have to download the *.iso image format and run it with a virtual machine. You can also create an installation DVD or USB flash drive. The Cartes du Ciel / Skychart enables an acess to the collection of the sky atlases. This software allows a big range of possibilities to study celestial objects: virtual observatory mode, SAMP protocole support, convertion of text catalogues for a graphical display with the help of the built in CatGen. It also includes a HNSKY sky atlas which has a telescope control funcion through INDI server.
The Virtual Moon Atlas is designed for the Moon study and its planetary analogue is aimed for Mercury, Venus and Mars exploring. If you want to create a robotic observatory, you can use KStars, a program which has a big set of necessary tools. Stellarium, Celestia, Digital Universe, BoPlanet, Where Is M13 are the planetariums and interactive night sky maps installed on the DVD.
You can use Lin_guider and PHD2 for the autoguiding during astro-photo sessions. The INDI server and equipment drivers' control is operated through indistarter.
wxAstroCapture, Audela and oaCapture are used for the Moon and plantes shooting, while CCDciel, GoQat, OpenSkyImager, Audela and KStars are used for taking photos of deep-sky objects. The digital cameras' support is made through the libgphoto2 library. It is also used by Entangle, a cameras control program and one of the INDI drivers. The processing of astronomical images is made through AstroimageJ, Siril, THELI GUI, Lxnstack, ImPPG, GCX, C-Munipack, Stackistry, Regim, MicroObservatoryImage. SAODS9, fv FITS Editor, APT, Aladin, nip2 are installed for the *.FITS analysis and editing.

Concerning the search and exploration of variable stars, there are two programes installed on the disc: C-Munipack and Vstar. Observation Manager performs a role of an observations' planner.

“UBUNTU ASTRONOMY 16.04” 64-BIT disc is free for download, distribution and use.

Project site: https://sourceforge.net/projects/ubuntu-astronomy-16-04/
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Oleh Malyi, Portugal