awesome-astronomy
github.com/jonathansick/awesome-astronomy ↗A list of awesome astronomy projects
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Datasets
- AAVSO APASS
- AAVSO Data
Long time baseline data for variable stars.
- AllWISE
Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer.
- AstroML
Tools and data sets, including SDSS, LINEAR light curves, LIGO data.
- Gaia Archive
Gaia data for one billion stars.
- GALEX SQL query
Galex data.
Codes
- Andy Casey's ads
Python tool for ADS
- animate_spots
Make frames for animated gifs/movies showing a rotating spotted star
- aplpy
Astronomical Plotting Library in Python
- AplPy
a Python module for astronomical imaging data.
- Apogee
Tools for dealing with APOGEE data
- appaloosa
Python-based flare finding code for Kepler light curves.
Future Datasets
- ARCHES
XMM-Newton cross match database
- Pan-Starrs
Public data release coming soon.
Social Media
- Astromers.io
"A nice place for astronomers, and those working in the sphere of professional astronomy"
- Astronomer's Facebook Group
Closed group for professional astromers, with over 8000 members.
- Astronomers on Twitter
List of Astronomers on Twitter with over 1000 followers.
- Community.lsst.org
A community forum for using/developing LSST software and doing science with LSST.
- Python Users in Astronomy
A closed group for python users in astronomy.
Conferences
- International Astronomy Meetings
List of all planned Astronomy Conferences
- Python in Astronomy
A conference series focusing on the use, development, and community surrounding Python packages for all types of Astronomy.
Projects
- Project Panoptes
A citizen science project that aims to make it easy for anyone to build a low cost, robotic telescope that can be used to detect transiting exoplanets.
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