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Fenómenos de Titán durante el alineamiento de los anillos de Saturno (2024-2026)

A finales de marzo de 2025 los anillos de Saturno se pondrán de canto desde nuestra perspectiva. El plano orbital de sus satélites es prácticamente el mismo que el de los anillos, por lo que esta orientación propicia la ocurrencia de tránsitos, sombras, eclipses y ocultaciones de los satélites por parte del disco de Saturno. En particular, por su tamaño y brillo, los fenómenos de Titán deben ser los más fácilmente detectables con medios amateur (aunque no será sencillo, considerando que Titán presenta un diámetro aparente en torno a 0,7")
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XISF Format Decoder/Encoder Module for Python


PixInsight uses natively its own, but openly documented, file format to store images (and other objects), called XISF, and pronounced more or less like... a sneeze. 

When experimenting with astronomical images processed with PixInsight on scikit-learn or Keras python libraries, I found myself converting them to TIFF or the old FITS or format and then using scikit-image or astropy to load them, because there is no native way in python to load XISF files. 

So, even it isn't even a fully functional XISF decoder (as defined in XISF specifications), I developed a very crude, at least by now, native XISF library for python, available at github. In the project page I summarized what's (hopefully) working by now and what's not supported (sorry I don't know even if I'll extend it anymore). Of course, you're welcome if you want to test and complete it.  

17/06/2021 Update: now a simple XISF encoder is also implemented. 

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