Building an Open Sourced, Social Planetarium
Because I currently can't afford school (and am on academic probation anyways), I'm building an open-sourced, social planetarium to help me learn as much as possible. It's called SKY @ Lab of Oz (where I'm building other mini-apps, for math, physics, and the sciences in general).
The project will, when completed, have:
- 2D, printable skycharts
- 3D planetarium (like Stellarium)
- Lunar calendar
- Weather forecast
- "To-View" lists
- Calendars
- Personal Catalogues
- Friends/Groups
- Social Astrophotography
- Stack images
- Flipping (for object finding/tracking)
- Image generators (upload image and add date, scope, details etc to it for download)
- Add your image to the 3D planetarium, which people can see when they zoom in to an object/section of the sky
[*]Stitching module (stitch together multiple images)
- Stack images
Because the highest level of math I've completed in school was Algebra, I'm using a book called "Astronomy for the Personal Computer" to help guide me in the right direction. And while the text gives examples in C++, I'm porting what I learn into Javascript. You can keep up to date by following/forking my Ephemerides Library on GitHub (not much there yet :p )
The first demo I posted, today, is a simple conversion tool that will allow me to convert between decimal and degree angles. You can play around with it in SKY Lab.
Anyways, the blog posts I'll be posting here on SGL will be far less code-oriented and more focused on the astronomy.
Thanks for reading! This was the "introductory/about" post, so the next one will be more interesting :p
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