The Metadata Mess

This week has been a bit of a detour and here’s why. For those of you not familiar with the way scientific data and observations are stored they generally use FITS files with the image/data and a header containing metadata. This metadata is essentially a form of key/value pair containing details suc ...READ MORE...

Update in direction

A large portion of the work I have done so farhas been improving and fixing bugs with the schedulers that are currently in Astroplan. From conversations with mentors and from feedback on my straw-man API that I wrote for how a user should be able to interact with the schedulers, where conversation i ...READ MORE...

Judgement Week

This is it. The Mid Evaluation week. I decided to STOP doing anything until I fix SunPys copybutton.  But that turned into a nightmare as I tried everything, but couldnt get it to work. Finally me and Cadair found out what we were lacking. Patience. I dont have any hopes whatsoever of getting this i ...READ MORE...

Adding AstroPy Quantities

Welcome To QuantitiesAfter getting the TimeSeries factory working and proving the TimeSeries functionality works with real data it was time to implement another of the key features missing from the old LightCurve class.--- Queue Drumroll---AstroPy Quantity support!With the rest of SunPy moving to su ...READ MORE...

Implementing a Schedule

One week ago the work that had been done by Stephanie Douglas and Erik Tollerud was merged into astroplan. I made a straw-man API for scheduling in astroplan, partially based off their work, and submitted it as a proposal PRto get feedback on what makes sense and what should be added/changed to the ...READ MORE...

Getting The Factory Working

After a less then productive week, with 2 drives failing on me and so a lot of windows reinstalling, I have finally started getting some real progress.Welcome TimeSeries FactoryWith the factory class mostly there but not actually working, I needed to spend some time debugging.The issue there is that ...READ MORE...