So I’m new to github. And not gonna lie, I feel a little ashamed about it. To me it’s always been one of those things that only the super impressive graduate students know how to use and navigate, but it just never stuck for me. Hence my embarrassingly grey contribution array. Fetching, pushing, pul ...READ MORE...
Why WCS.jl package After the introduction of package FITSIO.jl for handling FITS files in Julia, another package was required to manage the World Coordinate System(WCS) transformations of a FITS object. The WCS info. is present in the header of one of the HDU(s) of a FITS file. These transformations ...READ MORE...
Let’s Go Yay!!GSoC 2019: Community Bonding Period — IThis post encapsulates my proceedings with the GSoC project that I have been working on, and a short log on the meeting that I had with my mentors.Community Bonding Period: Getting acquainted with the environmentSo first things first, after gettin ...READ MORE...
Getting selected for Google Summer of Code-2019This short blog post describes the journey of getting selected for Google Summer of Code, under SunPy organization, for 2019.What is Google Summer of Code?https://medium.com/media/7a66575ef94cdf51b610f8513a9d46ed/hrefAccording to the sources -Google Sum ...READ MORE...
Hello everyone, I'm Eleftheria and this summer I'll be working with poliastro under Open Astronomy as part of GSoC 2019. I'm hoping this blog will prove to be interesting to those who are interested in poliastro or simply a source of inspiration to those looking for a way to get their feet wet wi ...READ MORE...
GSoC 2019: Project IRISpy 0.1 — The BeginningThe community bonding period of this year’s GSoC is officially under way. The project I am embarking on has to do with adding a new feature to IRISpy, which is a essentially a package that is developed on top of SunPy’s NDCube package, and is written in t ...READ MORE...
Ah, “Hello World,” the classic opening. Today my mentors and I held Meeting 0, where we introduced ourselves and began sketching our way forward with the development of telescopy. Mainly we brainstormed what to do during the GSoC “Community Bonding Period” and came up with a nice to-do list for me t ...READ MORE...
From my first pull request to GSOC student Hi, my name is Jorge, and I am one of the selected students for this GSOC edition at poliastro under the OpenAstronomy organization. I started working on poliastro project after Juanlu came to my university to give a talk about Open Source software in engin ...READ MORE...
It dosen’t seems possible until it’s done!! The day 6th of March 2019 will always be remembered when dreams actually came true. We were having our end semester exams and results were going to be displayed at 11:30 PM according to our time-zone. We had the last exam tomorrow at 4 pm and the pressure ...READ MORE...
Hello World!The obscenity of time dumbfounds me as I find myself staring down the barrel of this final blog for my GSoC project. The past three months were filled with coding, debugging, optimising, taking feedback and working on suggestions. It feels like I just started contributing to Astropy, ind ...READ MORE...