Cambridge, UK

Dominic Ford

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@dcf21

Astronomy researcher and science communicator. Founder of <in-the-sky.org>. Currently working on the Exoplanet Analysis System for the PLATO space observatory.

dcford.org.uk

star-charter. A command-line tool for producing vector-graphics charts of the night sky in SVG, PDF and PNG formats.

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astrolabe. Make your own cardboard model astrolabe

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planisphere. Make your own cardboard model planisphere

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ephemeris-compute-de4xx. A command-line tool for producing tables of the positions of solar system objects over time.

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pi-gazing. A platform for building motion-sensitive cameras to spot shooting stars and triangulating their paths.

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constellation-stick-figures. The files in this repository define stick figures which can be used to depict the 88 astronomical constellations.

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ephemeris-compute-de405. A command-line tool for producing tables of the positions of solar system objects over time.

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eclipse-simulator. A command-line tool for producing animations of solar eclipses

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satellite_log. A quick-and-dirty SQL database for storing the historical orbital elements of satellites, including a script for trawling data from Celestrak and Space Track to populate the database.

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commodore-tape-reader. Extract binary files from WAV recordings of audio cassette tapes recorded by 8-bit Commodore computers (e.g. C64, C16, Plus/4 and C128). These will typically have been recorded using a Commodore 1530 / C2N / 1531 datasette.

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precession. A special design of planisphere for demonstrating the precession of the equinoxes.

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pyxplot9. Pyxplot version 0.9: a vector graphics and plotting package for Linux / MacOS

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aircraft_log. A quick-and-dirty database and web interface I built for storing an archive of the historical positions of aircraft, as detected using a USB Flight Aware Pro Stick.

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jsplot. Javascript graph plotting

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plato-wp36-v1. PLATO WP36 Exoplanet Analysis System transit detection pipeline (version 1)

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drawfile-render. Render Acorn / RISC OS !Draw files to PNG and SVG format

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acorn-tape-reader. Extract binary files from WAV recordings of audio cassette tapes recorded by 8-bit Acorn computers, including the BBC Micro, Acorn Electron and BBC Master computers.

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pyxplot7. Pyxplot version 0.7: a vector graphics and plotting package for Linux / MacOS

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meteor-pi. A platform for building motion-sensitive cameras to spot shooting stars and triangulating their paths.

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4most-4gp. The 4MOST Galactic Pipeline (4GP): core python modules for spectral analysis

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4most-4gp-scripts. The 4MOST Galactic Pipeline (4GP): command line interface for spectral analysis.

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adfslib. Python 3 package for reading Acorn ADFS disc images in ADF file format

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