Although I was busy in uni stuff in the last fornight, I managed to get some work done in Download from fido search result implemented. The ultimate objective was to move Database.fetch over to using Fido. Oh, and to fix everything that broke, after a horrible rebase. So now, that PR is under review ...READ MORE...
Google Summer of Code : OpenAstronomy This summer, I was delighted to have the opportunity to work with the Astropy community, a sub-organisation under the umbrella organisation, OpenAstronomy. The project that I aimed to tackle this summer was originally titled Seamless Combination of SkyCoord, Tab ...READ MORE...
Link to GitHub repository: http://github.com/hipspy/hips List of Pull Requests Work related with HiPS tile drawing
Add progress bar support for fetching and drawing HiPS tiles Add reporting functionality for HipsPainter Introduce precise drawing algorithm Add methods for drawing markers over sky im ...READ MORE...
It’s been quite an adventure.Somewhere between the initial stumble with my first PR in the coding period and completing all the todo’s on my Google Summer of Code proposal, I became a decent coder (hopefully?).Current Project Status ;-)With almost 4000 lines of code (more if you include my work in F ...READ MORE...
These awesome three months of summer spent developing for python-casacore under Google Summer of Code, have filled me with great zeal and zest. The adventurous journey of thousand lines of code comes to an end. This entire project was quite informative and filled me with lots of good experiences and ...READ MORE...
How time flies! Three months of the GSoC coding period are coming to an end now; most of the coding is done; documentation is done; testing is done. After missing 3 blog posts, unfortunately (I postponed it due to some rough time I had), here is a long one, describing whatever I did during my summer ...READ MORE...
Believe or not, there is only one week left to the end of GSoC ! The whole GSoC period became an unforgettable experience for me. I still remember the first time I read the documentation of Sphinx and say “What the hell am I supposed to do now ?”The old SunPy website was a Ruby based Jekyll static w ...READ MORE...
Eh so slight change in plans. DISCOVR implementation has been delayed, and Ill do it in December. Which means 2 things : Im not gonna forget about it. It is officially in my December todo list. Im potentially gonna ruin peoples holidays. Hence during this period, I mostly worked on getting 2 of my P ...READ MORE...
So finally NDcube is being used in IRISPy. NDCube turned out to be pretty generic and so it can be used for other mission also.Starting to write the to_sunpy() method it will convert the NDCube to a Sunpy object depending on the wcs axis and shape of data. Also need to make corrections in the meta, ...READ MORE...
As documented in the Tile distortion issue section, the previous technique for drawing HiPS tiles brings some astrometry offsets for distorted tiles. An example of such distortions is shown in the example below (uncheck "Activate deformations reduction algorithm" to view the astrometry offsets): htt ...READ MORE...