The Astronomical Image Processing System is a software package for calibration, data analysis, image display, plotting, and a variety of ancillary tasks on Astronomical Data. Astronomical Software on Linux provides links to astronomical software that is known to run under linux or have direct binaries available. Draco takes on much of the mechanics of the process, allowing the astronomer to spend more time understanding the physical nature of the data. In addition it contains applications packages for stellar and surface photometry, image sharpening and decomposition, statistics and various others.
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Macaulay 2 home page Macaulay 2 is a new software system devoted to supporting research in algebraic geometry and commutative algebra. Macsyma Inc. Macsyma Inc. is the originator of the world's first, and still best, artificial intelligence based math engine providing easy to use, powerful math software for symbolic and numeric computing. They offer a student version. Maple's math engine is used in MatCAD and MatLab among other math packages. Octave GNU Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations.