Hack Day projects
Astroworld
Collect information about astronomical facilities around the world, including old, abandoned observatories, flashy new ones, future ones and archeo-astronomical sites using EpiCollect.
Creators
- Carolina Odman-Govender
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AstroScanr
A visualisation of astronomy journal titles and abstracts using natural language processing techniques.
Creators
- Rob Simpson
- Sarah Kendrew
- Karen Masters
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Science - It's Universal
An outreach video about what science is and what it is like to be a scientist.
Creators
- Amanda Bauer
- Nicole Gugliucci
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Sh*t scientists say
Sh*t Astronomer Says is a collection of what astronomers love, hate and repeat.
Creators
- Niall Deacon
- Emily Rice
- Kelle Cruz
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Flora
Flora is an attempt to enable quantitative measurements on images in a browser. In astronomy, we want to measure the position, size and brightness of various objects in our images - which in practice means fitting a model to them. Flora uses Javascript and canvas to allow the user to point at an object they want to measure, and have a catalog entry of measurements returned. We use the astrojs library to handle FITS images (including calibration information in the header) and the transformations needed to turn pixel positions into "world" coordinates on the sky.
Creators
- Amit Kapadia
- Phil Marshall
- Laura Whyte
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Zoonibot
Zoonibot was conceived as a sort-of “Planet Hunters butler,” for Talk able and ready to automatically answer questions and provide detail when users request information.
Creators
- Adrian Price-Whelan
- Chris Beaumont
- Gabe Perez-Giz
- Chris Lintott
- David Hogg
- Meg Schwamb
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Cosmology Calculator OS X widget
A port of Ned Wright's Cosmology Calculator to an OS X widget.
Creators
- Brooke Simmons
- Stuart Lowe
- Kevin Schawinski
- Julie Steele