On 22/05/2024 19.13, Attila Kovacs wrote: > Hi! > > I'm an astrophysicist / developer (nowadays more developer than > astrohysicist). I mostly write code in C and Java (for work and for personal > stuff). My main job is maintaining and developing software for the > Smithsonian's Submillimeter Array (SMA) observatory atop Maunakea. Some of > the software we develop can have wider application. Hence I'm starting to > spin off and open-source some of the more universally applicable bits of our > code. > > For example, at the SMA (and the MIT Haystack 37-m telescope) we use a > customized version of the Naval Observatory Vector Astrometry Software > (NOVAS) C 3.1. I have fixed a bunch of bugs in it, cleaned up the API, added > browseable documentation, and extended its functionality with new features. > My goal is to make it easier and safer to use it, while promoting best > practices also. This is is how the SuperNOVAS package on GitHub was born, > somewhat recently. It is a light-weight high-precision C/C++ astrometry > library capable of sub-microarsecond position calculations. Thus is may serve > as a component for running observatories (or your backyard telescope), or a > very precise planetarium program, or any other astronomy software that needs > to calculate positions of celestial objects with accuracy. The source code > and releases are hosted at: > > https://github.com/Smithsonian/SuperNOVAS > > And you can find more information, including the online documentation at the > project pages at: > > https://smithsonian.github.io/SuperNOVAS/ > > Its second release (v1.0.1) just got published some two weeks ago. (Yay!) > > Next I would like to package it for Fedora, not the least because the Debian > folks have expressed interest -- which is all great, but I myself have been a > Fedora / RedHatter since '97, so I'd look forward to a Fedora package ever > more so. I am hoping to find a sponsor too. If I understand correctly that's > a separate step from the self intro here, but if you would want to help guide > me anyway, I'd very much welcome it any time.
Welcome to Fedora. Consider joining the Astronomy and Scitech SIGS: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Astronomy_SIG https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:SciTech_SIG > > I look forward to working with you and learning from you. > > cheers, > > -- Attila. > -- -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
