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A Mosaic of TESS Images Acquired Near The South Ecliptic Pole

Posted on July 26, 2019 by astrocompute

  G. Bruce Berriman, John C. Good, Jessie L. Christiansen, and Benne W. Holwerda This post was first published in Res. Notes AAS 3 94 (https://doi.org/10.3847/2515-5172/ab3051) and is reproduced here with the permission of the American Astronomical Society. 1. Scientific Motivation … Continue reading →

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Results from a US survey about Research Software Engineers

Posted on June 28, 2018 by astrocompute

This week’s post is a reblog of a post by Daniel S. Katz, Sandra Gesing, Olivier Philippe, and Simon Hettrick on the URSSI blog at http://urssi.us/blog/2018/06/21/results-from-a-us-survey-about-research-software-engineers/, and reproduced here with the permission of Dan Katz. First, some summary stats from the survey … Continue reading →

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Software Citation Implementation in Astronomy

Posted on March 5, 2018 by astrocompute

This week’s post is a repost of a  summary of a meeting I attended, held at the 231st AAS meeting in National Harbor, MD, January 2018. The original summary, prepared by Daina Bouquin and Arfon Smith, is at https://github.com/CfA-Library/Cite_Astro_Software/blob/master/whitepaper.md, and is … Continue reading →

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The Virtual Observatory Is Very Much Real!

Posted on February 24, 2018 by astrocompute

  This is the title of a talk given at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics by my colleague Giuseppina (Pepi) Fabbiano. Pepi has been involved in the VO since its earliest daya, and she currently serves as Chair of the … Continue reading →

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Virtual and Augmented Reality for Space Science and Exploration

Posted on February 16, 2018 by astrocompute

This is the title of a Symposium held at the Keck Institute for Space Studies on January 30 2018 in Pasadena.  According to the website, the goals of the meeting were: “The emerging technologies of Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR) … Continue reading →

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Best Practices for a Future Open Code Policy

Posted on February 2, 2018 by astrocompute

This week,  I am posting a copy of white paper prepared by Shamir et al., in response to a call from the National Academies, who are sponsoring a Task Force on “Best Practices for a Future Open Code Policy for … Continue reading →

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A Study of the Efficiency of Spatial Indexing Methods Applied to Large Astronomical Databases

Posted on January 26, 2018 by astrocompute

This is the title of a poster presented by Tom Donaldson, Bernie Shiao (both of STScI) , John Good (Caltech/IPAC-NExScI) and myself at the 231st AAS meeting in Washington DC (January 8-12).  I am attaching a copy of the poster … Continue reading →

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The Montage Image Mosaic Toolkit As A Visualization Engine

Posted on January 9, 2018 by astrocompute

It’s January and that means it’s the Annual Winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society, this year in Washington DC. I presented a poster on how the Montage Image Mosaic Toolkit (http://montage.ipac.caltech.edu) is increasingly being used as a visualization engine. … Continue reading →

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The Exoplanet Content of the Keck Observatory Archive (KOA)

Posted on August 24, 2017 by astrocompute

This week, I have been attending the “Exoclipse 2017: Exploring New Worlds In the Shade” conference at Boise State University, splendidly organized by Brian Jackson. From the project website, the meeting’s goals are to discuss “…  discovery strategies, nascent population … Continue reading →

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Summer App Space Innovation Speaker Series

Posted on July 21, 2017 by astrocompute

Summer App Space is a paid apprenticeship for LA students and teachers to learn to program while getting paid to do fun space-related projects, and this year they are funding 12 students to attend a six-week school learning to program … Continue reading →

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