Scisoft VI
今年春，欧洲南方天文台发布了天文软件合集Scisoft的最新版，基于Fedora Core 3平台。整个软件集共900余M，包括了IRAF、IDL、SAOImage DS9等天文学研究常用软件，也有Xephem这样的电子星图工具。所包括的软件基本是rmp包，安装起来也比较容易。
Scisoft VI不支持Solaris、HP-UX、MacOS等系统，如果是上述系统的用户，请索取早期版本。
软件包内容如下：
| Data Analysis Systems | Notes |
| IRAF 2.12.2a-EXPORT | UPDATED |
| + ctio | Utilities from CTIO |
| + crutil 1.6 | Cosmic ray utilities from NOAO |
| + gemini 1.7 (Oct2004) | Utilities from the Gemini Telescopes - UPDATED |
| + gmisc | Miscellaneous utilities for Gemini - UPDATED |
| + mxtools (Dec2001) | Utilities from NOAO including QDPHOT |
| + guiapps | Graphical applications for IRAF |
| + xdimsum (Jan2003) | Enhanced IR data reduction and mosaicing software - UPDATED |
| + ifocas (Apr2001) | object detection and classification software |
| + dimsum 2 (Oct1999) | IR data reduction and mosaicing software |
| + color | Utilities for creating colour images |
| + fitsutil | FITS utilities |
| + mscred 4.8 (May 2004) | Mosaic camera CCD reduction tasks from NOAO - UPDATED |
| + esowfi 1.3 | March 2001 Version |
| + eis 1.8 (May2002) | ESO Imaging Survey IRAF tasks (EIS Drizzle etc) |
| + rvsao 2.3.2 | Spectral Radial Velocity package from CfA - UPDATED |
| + nmisc 020618 | IRAF miscellany - UPDATED |
| + xccdred | CCD reduction for multi-port chips |
| + stecf 1.5 | Utilities from ST-ECF, including polarimetry reduction and spectral restoration packages |
| + stsdas/tables 3.4 (Nov2005) | HST data analysis and tables systems - UPDATED |
| eclipse 4.9.0 | Includes ISAAC, CONICA, WFI, Lua and ADONIS add-ons - UPDATED |
| ESO-MIDAS 05SEPpl1.3 | UPDATED |
| PyMidas 1.0.4 | NEW |
| IDL 6.1 | Interactive Data Language from RSI. Commercial package, requires license - Note: NOT included in EXPORT version - UPDATED |
| + Astron (Jul2004) | Goddard Astron IDL astronomical procedure library - UPDATED |
| + StarFinder | IDL adaptive optics photometry software |
| + JHUAPL Library (Aug2004) | IDL procedure collection from Johns Hopkins - UPDATED |
| + ATV | an interactive display tool for IDL |
| Gildas (Feb2005c) | Radio astronomy applications from IRAM - Note: NOT included in EXPORT version - UPDATED |
| Difmap 2.4g | Interactive program for radio synthesis imaging from Caltech - UPDATED |
| Image Display Servers | Notes |
| x11iraf 1.3.1 | May 2000 version, including ximtool and xgterm - UPDATED |
| SAOImage 1.26 | The original, needs 8bit Xserver |
| DS9 4.0b7 | Latest display server from SAO. Works with 24bit X servers - UPDATED |
| XPA 2.1.6 | Messaging system from SAO. Used by DS9. - UPDATED |
| Skycat 2.7.4 | ESO image display tool with catalogue and image server access - UPDATED |
| fv 4.1.4 | Interactive fits viewer - UPDATED |
| Graphics Software | Notes |
| SM 2_4_26 (Dec2002) | SuperMongo - Note: NOT included in EXPORT version - UPDATED |
| PGPLOT 5.2 | Graphics library |
| gnuplot 4.0 | Command-line driven interactive function plotting utility - UPDATED |
| Grace 5.1.9 | 2D WYSIWYG plotting tool |
| ggobi 1.0-4-beta | Data visualisation in 3D - UPDATED |
| xgobi (Apr2002) | Multivariant data visualisation |
| Scripting Languages | Notes |
| Python 2.4 | urpose, object orientated, extensible scripting language. Includes Numeric 23.8 Scientific 2.4.9 RV 1.1 Gnuplot 1.7 Imaging (PIL) 1.1.4 Pmw 1.2 pCFITSIO 0.99.2 _sre readline _locale thread gdbm zlib fcntl pwd grp errno select mmap _socket termios _tkinter new asciidata 0.01 binascii matplotlib 0.70.1 ipython 0.6.6 pygtk 2.4.1 scipy 0.3.2 ppgplot 1.3 biggles 1.6.4 psyco 1.4 pygame 1.7.1 cStringIO & cPickle packages - UPDATED |
| STScI_Python 2.2 | STScI Python packages, including the following - UPDATED |
| PyRAF 1.2 | Python replacement for IRAF cl - UPDATED |
| numarray 1.4.1 | Enhanced Python numerical package from STScI - UPDATED |
| pyfits 1.0 | Python FITS package from STScI - UPDATED |
| PyDrizzle 5.6.0 | Drizzling software - UPDATED |
| MultiDrizzle 2.7.0 | Automatic image combination drizzling software - UPDATED |
| Scientific Libraries | Notes |
| GSL 1.6 | The GNU Scientific Library - UPDATED |
| DISLIN 8.2 | Scientific Data Plotting software - UPDATED |
| CFITSIO 2510 | FITS File Subroutine Library - UPDATED |
| LAPACK Release 3.0 | Linear Algebra Subroutine Library |
| Atlas 3.6.1 | Another Linear Algebra Library - NEW |
| FFTW 3.0.1 | Fast Fourier Transform library - NEW |
| plotutils 2.4.1 | GNU plotting utilities - NEW |
| Miscellaneous Utilities | Notes |
| wcstools 3.5.7 | World Coordinate System software tools and library from Doug Mink at SAO - UPDATED |
| Terapix Software Tools | A Selection: SExtractor 2.3.2 - UPDATED, SWarp 2.15 - UPDATED, & WeightWatcher 1.7 - UPDATED |
Tiny Tim 6.3 (Jun2004) | HST point-spread function simulation software - UPDATED |
| Xephem 3.6.3 | Planetarium and ephemeris software - UPDATED |
| dss & dss2 | Digitized Sky Survey image extraction software |
| Cloudy 06.01 | Plasma simulation and spectral synthesis code (no patches applied) - UPDATED | HyperZ 1.1 | Photometric Redshift Code |
| Hipparcos Transit Tools | small Fortran applications (td2uv and td2gf) for processing transit data | Latex style files | ion of style files for astronomical journals - UPDATED |
有兴趣者可在http://scisoft.lamost.org/download/下载（可以下载单独的rpm包），或者向scisoft@lamost.org发邮件索取DVD光盘。
