High-Level Project Summary
StarTime is a platform that unifies astronomical information on stellar variability, the lifetime of stars, their luminosity, magnitude and other important information on the subject. The objective is to provide an easily accessible place for students to obtain information through reliable sources and information gathered in one place. Instead of students studying a topic that is already difficult through multiple sources and scattered information, Startime will have everything in one place, providing greater accessibility and ease of knowledge.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
We created a tool (a web system) that unifies and facilitates access to astronomical data. It gathers data such as stellar variability, magnitude, luminosity, lifetime of stars, information about events if a celestial body comes to an end, presentation of different celestial cultures, among others. We hope to be able to gather as much information as an astronomy student might need to pursue their research on celestial bodies.
Our system is created with React + TypeScript for the front-end and python + Django for the back-end, also counting on an api created by us, which queries and gathers the necessary data.
Space Agency Data
We used the Wolfram Alpha platform to extract data from information about some of the most important stars visible on Earth, such as magnitude, luminosity, among others, as all data followed the same pattern, facilitating data entry into the database. In addition, we use NASA's Exoplanet API to obtain more specific information about these stars, such as their HIP name. To obtain images, we use the NASA Image and Video Library API, which were displayed along with the information.
Hackathon Journey
For most of us on the team, it was our first Hackathon, so it was quite a challenge. However, as we are made up of people with different abilities, we were able to separate tasks after sharing ideas and opinions. Every time we ran into a problem, we got together to solve it and share ideas. We decided to choose this challenge precisely because it was a topic that would be different for us, and we would be able to share this learning experience with many other people through Startime. In addition, we would like to thank, mainly, the challenge mentors present at PUC MINAS during the weekend, who helped us a lot in several areas and gave us many good ideas, in addition to the amazing participants we met throughout the project as well.
References
Exoplanet NASA api,
Wolframalpha,
Python,
Django rest framework,
React,
TypeScript,
and an api created by us, which gathers the necessary data from other apis
(data used so far)
Tags
#software, #stars, #celestialbodies, #research, #study