.Astronomy 9

14 – 17th November 2017

South African Astronomical Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa

Organizers: Steve Crawford, Kevin Govender, Carolina Ödman-Govender

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!

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Wave At Kepler

Static Website to compute direction to Kepler when it takes photo

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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.

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Hack Roulette

Spin the wheel to generate a new hack using past dotastro hacks.

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