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This video shows a single 12-day portion of data from the Sun-like star, Kepler 17. The data (in black) come from NASA's Kepler mission. The model (in red)…
Information sharing within the astronomy community occurs through many avenues. In this blog post I point out that the current information sharing avenues are lacking an outlet for user contributed, community-curated, open-access content about astronomy specific resources. I provide an implementation of this forum, called Awesome Astronomy, which is inspired by the Awesome lists on GitHub.
Are you an astronomer considering submitting a paper to an AAS journal? Read on to find out about the exciting new things you can do with the AAS’s newest LaTeX class file.
Protecting digital privacy is a job no one can do alone. While there are many steps you can take to protect your own privacy, the real protection comes when we recognize that privacy is a team sport. So as we celebrate Data Privacy Day on January 28, don’t just change your tools and behavior to...
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Guidelines for software papers AAS Journals welcome papers which describe the design and function of software of relevance to research in astronomy and astrophysics. Such papers should contain a description of the software, its novel features and its intended use. Such papers need not include research results produced using the software, although including examples of applications can be helpful.
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A tutorial for using XVista to do common tasks: Finding and measuring stars non-interactively: The XVista package includes several programs which are designed to perform simple measurements of stars automatically. They work only in limited situations: stars are not crowded the background around each star is relatively uniform The programs are modelled on the description of some of the routines included in the original version of DAOPHOT, written by Peter B. Stetson
This is a guest post by Edwin Henneken, IT Specialist at the Astrophysics Data System based at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. For many scientists, it’s all about the numbers and when it comes to evaluating each other, it’s no different. Project managers and administrators also want to be able to e
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nteract is an open-source, desktop-based, interactive computing application. Interactive computing applications allow individuals to create documents, like the one below, that contain executable…
Ten Simple Rules for the Care and Feeding of Scientific Data
I am here at the 227th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in Kissimmee, Florida. In the past few years, these semi-annual meetings have offered professional development classes, and many of these are in the area of software engineering and applications development methodologies. Demitri Muna and his colleagues run the SciCoder workshops, which aim…
Modules, Outcomes, Readings, Experiences, Assessments
I’m a big fan of Kanban board. I prefer it over TODO list for all my professional and personal work. It’s clear to understand, doesn’t require extensive management process and most important offers great visibility of work. I’m not going to focus on Kanban itself. If you want to read more about it I would…
