External IRAF packages
Several external packages are maintained in repositories within the iraf-community organization on github:
- ctio - Tools for the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
- fitsutil - Utilities for single and multiple FITS files
- mscred - Mosaic CCD reduction package
- nfextern - General IR reductions/NEWFIRM package
- sptable - IRAF package for tabular spectra
- vo - Virtual Observatory package and vocl from the NOAO v2.16.1 release
- xdimsum - Deep Infrared Mosaicing Software
The documentation of many external packages is available on Read the Docs.
Please note that the repositories only contain the source code and often did not receive an update yet. If there are more packages that should be maintained in the repositories please contact us to get them included.
IRAF packages from STScI
The STScI has developed a number of popular external packages for IRAF:
- stsdas - Software system for calibrating and analyzing data from the Hubble Space Telescope
- tables - Support of the TABLES format used by the STSDAS package
- stecf - IRAF tasks developed at the Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility
Due to license restrictions (mainly the use of Numerical Recipes code) the available source of these packages is not complete. They are also not ported to 64 bit. As STScI is transitioning away from IRAF, this is unlikely to change in the future. For reference, the free portion is stored in a Git repository.
Parts of the TABLES package are however included as NTTOOLS package in the IRAF core.
There is also a subset of STSDAS tools for use with the GEMINI data reduction available at NOIRLab as the st4gem package.