startrak

Develop a mobile phone app to provide interested astronomers with ‘daily news’ on the transient high-energy sky, based on information available from public pages at NASA, the European Space Agency, the Japanese Space Agency, etc.

This project is solving the Transient Watch – Daily News on Active Neutron Stars and Black Holes on Your Mobile Phone challenge.
Description
StarTrak

Summary

Develop a mobile phone app to provide interested astronomers with ‘daily news’ on the transient high-energy sky, based on information available from public pages at NASA, the European Space Agency, the Japanese Space Agency, etc.

Process

Develop a dataset that is scrapped from disparate data sources provided by various space agencies

Understand the datasets

Extract value from data

Develop an API that returns these datasets

Develop the Android App and tie these services together

Software Stack

Python

Java

Android SDK

Redis

Project Information

License: NASA Open Source Agreement 1.3 (NASA-1.3)

Source Code/Project URL: https://github.com/astro-charles/startrak

Resources

BeXRB ESA - http://integral.esac.esa.int/bexrbmonitor/webpage_oneplot.php
NASA data portal - https://data.nasa.gov/dataset/The-BeXRB-monitor/cy6b-9h7m

Team