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awesome-astronomy-tools

A collection of awesome tools, resources and shiny toys for astronomy research
https://github.com/OttoStruve/awesome-astronomy-tools

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  • Tools

    • z - - A shell command to jump around directories. z learns your most used directories and lets you cd to them by only specifying a piece of the name, e.g. z sys will cd to ~/Projects/Systemic2 on my machine. (stefano)
    • GNU Parallel - - Runs jobs in parallel using one or more computers from the command line. (stefano)
    • Period04 - - Fourier Transform software suite for Fourier analysis of astronomical data (full FTs). Ask me if you're interested in command line (batch file) capabilities and/or a Python wrapper. (Keaton)
    • ClipMenu - - This tool maintains a history of your clipboard, so that you can paste old snippets of text, images, URLs, etc. (stefano)
  • Editors

    • Emacs - - The ultimate editor nirvana. (stefano)
    • Sublime Text 2 - - A graphical editor with a lot of built-in features (Kevin)
    • pycharm - - An interactive development environment (IDE) for Python. (Kevin)
    • Diffuse - - Graphical Diff/Merge tool. Best installed using your OS's package manager, e.g. 'brew install diffuse' (Jacob)
  • Data Analysis

    • wxMaxima - - A free alternative to Mathematica. (stefano)
    • TOPCAT - - An interactive data analysis and plotting tool. (Yi-Kuan)
    • pandas - - A convenience layer on top of numpy arrays. Also great for database operations (Kevin)
  • Plotting

  • Programming

  • Git and GitHub

    • Git prompt - Get the status and branch name of the git repository inside your prompt. (stefano)
  • Web

    • Wakari - Host iPython notebooks on the Web. (stefano)
    • Atomic Line List - Database of atomic and ionic spectral lines by Peter van Hoof (Kyle)
  • Simulation Packages

    • Hyperion - Three dimentional Monte Carlo dust radiative transfer code, working in parallel. (yaolun)
    • RADMC-3D - Three dimantional Monte Carlo radiative transfer code, not working in parallel. Can do both line and dust. (yaolun)