It is with great pleasure that I announce that I’ve been accepted into OpenAstronomy under Google Summer of Code! I applied specifically for Ginga, under the Astropy Project (The full ideas page is given here for 2016) I will working on adding enhancements and features to the project–my proposal lis ...READ MORE...

I've been enjoying observing the Astropy mailing list, the two main threads that have interested me are about NDData with LSST and the freezing of features in preparation for the next Astropy version's release. The conversation with NDData and LSST has gone into if/why backwards compatibility is nee ...READ MORE...

Second week of the community bonding period is over!

During that week, I primarily took a detailed reading of the classic Stetson’s 1987 paper, which meticulously describes the algorithms implemented in the DAOPHOT software to perform point spread function photometry on crowded fields.

As stated i ...READ MORE...

Week one of the community bonding period is over!

So far, I mostly read photutils source code and I would say I am getting very well acquainted with it, mainly with the PSF photometry code.

Of course, the most interesting thing last week was my very first meeting with mentors via Skype. They ...READ MORE...

So beings my exciting adventure with the Google Summer of Code. When I submitted my proposal, I did not expect to be accepted and am relishing in delight that I have been. I can’t wait to start coding and shall be updating Condiments or Code? every two weeks. This project will be berry beneficial ...READ MORE...

Approved Proposal Shown here!I'm so very excited that my GSoC project working with Sunpy has been accepted! In the next month, I'll be becoming more acquainted with both Sunpy and CHIANTI. Then, coding will ensue on this project. I'm also excited to be working with mentors Drew Leonard and Will Barn ...READ MORE...

I'm glad to announce that my proposal was accepted! At that moment I am waiting for the begging of my coding phase. Before that I have to arrange my blog and solve some organization questions. This summer promises to very interesting and useful :) ...READ MORE...

I'm very glad to say that I have been selected by the Astropy project to participate in the Google Summer of Code 2016, aka GSoC'16!!

Many thanks surely goes to Duília, Jandro, Marcelo, Moritz, Brigitta and Erik and to all who make the Astropy development community ;-)

During the GSoC (and af ...READ MORE...

This post commemorates my acceptance into GSoC as a Student Developer. I want to pour my heart out, but can’t seem to find the right words. Maybe,… Read more "GSoC Proposal Accepted." ...READ MORE...

After waiting (very) anxiously for the results (and refreshing the page hundreds of times to see, if, by any chance the results were out before 1900 UTC), officially I am in !!! Now I will be working as a student developer under GSoC for SunPy. I would like to thank Cadair, DavidPS and especially de ...READ MORE...