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Dev tools · December 6, 2017

Astronomical image processing library rewritten in Rust

Lucky imaging library. Contribute to GreatAttractor/libskry_r development by creating an account on GitHub.

Astronomical image processing library rewritten in Rust launched on December 6, 2017 with 16 votes, #788 of 2,482 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.

In plain words

This is a library for processing astronomical images, originally written in another language and now rewritten in Rust. It is designed for developers and researchers who work with space imagery and need efficient image manipulation tools. The Rust implementation offers improved performance and memory safety compared to the original version, making it suitable for computationally intensive astronomical data analysis tasks.

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