IRAS 05358 on astro-ph. Check out my page on the region too.
Articles by Adam (keflavich@gmail.com)
Acquiring DSS images
This is the way to get DSS images: ESO's batch downloader
Another attempt to get 64 bit python on Snow Leopard
Sam Skillman posted his attempt to get 64 bit python on snow leopard. It worked, but you need to install python with --enable-framework and NOT --prefix and NOT --enable-universalSDK. It is 64-bit only, not universal: universal causes trouble.
apache/php/mysql on snow leopard
This post helped me out
API documentation on agpy
I finally processed agpy through sphinx and made some nice html documentation. http://agpy.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/html/agpy.html
Applescripting out that VIM error
I have a frequent problem where my VIM window is too large for my macbook screen but it fits on my external monitor, so when I unplug the external the VIM file bar gets stuck behind the Mac OS menu bar. It's a huge pain to fix this normally, but I wrote/stole an applescript to fix the problem:
try tell application "Vim" activate end tell tell application "System Events" tell process "Vim" set size of the first window to {1000, 200} set position of the first window to {50, 50} end tell end tellend tryArt mimicing reality
An artist who likes painting astronomical objects: Marianne Beacham Gallery
astro-better post
I contributed to a post on Astro Better asking about mosaicing software.
Astronomy gets some recognition
First off, this guy does some amazing work, like measuring the galactic rotation curve. He got recognized by the Colbert Report. Sweet.
Awk sexagesimal to decimal conversion
In VIM I often need to convert columns of RA/Dec from Sexagesimal into Decimal format. %!awk '{ra = ($2+$3/60+$4/3600)*15; dec = $6+$7/60+$8/3600; print $1,"ra=",ra,", dec= ",$5,dec}' The far more irritating inverse operation: `` %!awk '{h=($2/15); h=h-(h%1); m=($2-h*15)/15*60; m=m-(m%1); s=($2-h*15-m*15/60)/15*3600; d=-($3-$3%1); am=(-$3-d)*60; am=am-(am%1); as=(-$3-d-am/60)*3600; printf "%s %02i:%02i:%02.2f, -%02i:%02i:%02.2f %s %s %sn" , $1,h,m,s,d,am,as,$4,$5,$6}' ``