Dominic Ford

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icon company Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge icon location Cambridge, UK icon location Astronomy researcher and science communicator. Founder of <in-the-sky.org>. Currently working on the Exoplanet Analysis System for the PLATO space observatory.

Results 7 repositories owned by Dominic Ford

star-charter

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

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astrolabe

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Make your own cardboard model astrolabe

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ephemeris-compute-de405

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

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ephemeris-compute-de430

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

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planisphere

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Make your own cardboard model planisphere

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constellation-stick-figures

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

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pi-gazing

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

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