Hack Day projects
Hack Graveyard
dotAstronomy is full of amazing pitches and amazing hacks. Unfortunately, we do not have enough hours in the "Hack Day" to complete all of our hacks. The "Hack Graveyard" keeps track of these hacks so they can be revived in the future!
Creators
- Will Armentrout
- Arna Karick
- Lisa Ballard
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xorastro Extremely Open, Extremely Reproducible Astronomy
We built a neural network to predict galaxy colors from galaxy shapes in the most open and reproducible way possible
Creators
- Joshua Peek
- Orapeleng Mogawana
- Brian Nord
- Chris Lintott
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Where in the Universe?
Have you ever wondered where you'd currently be in the Universe if you were launched towards the zenith above your birth place at the time you were born? Well we hacked a simple site to calculate your position in space and determine the nearest star to you and its distance.
Creators
- Becky Smethurst
- Brigitta Sipocz
- Fernando Becerra
- Lisa Ballard
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Whose line is it anyway?
Have you ever plotted a 1D spectrum and wondered what a particular absorption/emission feature was? `whoseline` is a small package for plotting common spectral line lists on your spectra, so you can discover whose line is responsible for a particular absorption/emission line.
Creators
- Brett Morris
- Nick Earl
- Adrianna Pińska
- Mike Walmsley
- Demitri Muna
- Becky Smethurst
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Sketch dotAstro: hunting for Jupiter sketches in archival notebooks
Attempting to use computer vision to distinguish between boring pages in archival notebooks and pages with sketches of Jupiter.
Creators
- Daina Bouquin
- Chris Lintott
- Teresa de Young
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Wave At Kepler
Static Website to compute direction to Kepler when it takes photo
Creators
- Ben Cook
- Becky Smethurst
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Project PHaEDRA website and logo
Rethinking/rough drafting a logo and website for Project PHaEDRA: a collaborative effort to digitize and transcribe the work of early astronomers.
Creators
- Charl Cater
- Daina Bouquin
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Hack Roulette
Spin the wheel to generate a new hack using past dotastro hacks.
Creators
- Lisa Ballard
- Daina Bouquin
- Steve Crawford
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