Astro Imaging
Where art, science, and education meet
Desktop applications
What would a page be without a big list of links? Where possible, we use open-source cross-platform applications.
- AstroImageJ – an astronomical photometry and analysis package
- ds9 – for quick manipulation of FITS image files
- FITS/NASA – a list of applications that display and manipulate FITS images
- Fits Liberator – for quick manipulation of FITS image files
- GIMP – the GNU Image Manipulation Program
- Siril – an astronomical image processing package (IRIS clone for Linux)
- Stellarium – desktop planetarium software
Web applications
- AAVSO – when appropriate, our research results are archived by the American Association of Variable Star Observers
- arXiv – preprint server
- Astrometry – adds/fixes world coordinate system on FITS images
- IAU/MPC – IAU minor planet center
- IRSA – NASA/IPAC infrared science archive – galactic dust and reddening tool
- JDSO – Journal of Double Star Observations
- JPL/SBDB – JPL small body database
- js9 – web-based version of ds9 (with reduced functionality)
- NASA/ADS – SAO/NASA astrophysics data system
- Simbad – database of astronomical objects
- Skynet enhanced labs – undergrad lab exercises developed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- SkyView – NASA-hosted image server from radio to gamma ray
- WEBDA – observational data on stars in open clusters
News servers
- APOD – astronomy picture of the day
- AstroBiology.com – collection of news related to life in the universe
- heavens-above – satellite tracker and live sky chart
- in-the-sky – calendar of celestial events
- Phys.org – science and technology news
- Science alert – independent online news service
- Space.com – NASA, space exploration, and astronomy news
- SpaceWeather – news and information about the Sun-Earth environment
- Universe Today – space and astronomy news