Dominic Ford's Projects
The 4MOST Galactic Pipeline (4GP): core python modules for spectral analysis
The 4MOST Galactic Pipeline (4GP): command line interface for spectral analysis.
Extract binary files from WAV recordings of audio cassette tapes recorded by 8-bit Acorn computers, including the BBC Micro, Acorn Electron and BBC Master computers.
Python 3 package for reading Acorn ADFS disc images in ADF file format
A quick-and-dirty database and web interface I built for storing an archive of the historical positions of aircraft, as detected using a USB Flight Aware Pro Stick.
Make your own cardboard model astrolabe
Produce listings of binary Commodore BASIC files. Compatible with the versions of BASIC shipped with the C64, C16, Plus/4 and C128.
Extract binary files from WAV recordings of audio cassette tapes recorded by 8-bit Commodore computers (e.g. C64, C16, Plus/4 and C128). These will typically have been recorded using a Commodore 1530 / C2N / 1531 datasette.
The files in this repository define stick figures which can be used to depict the 88 astronomical constellations.
Render Acorn / RISC OS !Draw files to PNG and SVG format
A command-line tool for producing animations of solar eclipses
A command-line tool for producing tables of the positions of solar system objects over time.
A command-line tool for producing tables of the positions of solar system objects over time.
Javascript graph plotting
A platform for building motion-sensitive cameras to spot shooting stars and triangulating their paths.
A platform for building motion-sensitive cameras to spot shooting stars and triangulating their paths.
Make your own cardboard model planisphere
PLATO WP36 Exoplanet Analysis System transit detection pipeline (version 1)
PLATO WP36 Exoplanet Analysis System transit detection pipeline (version 2)
A special design of planisphere for demonstrating the precession of the equinoxes.
Pyxplot website
Pyxplot version 0.7: a vector graphics and plotting package for Linux / MacOS
Pyxplot version 0.8: a vector graphics and plotting package for Linux / MacOS
Pyxplot version 0.9: a vector graphics and plotting package for Linux / MacOS
Produce maps and sprite charts from data files generated by the BBC Micro and Electron versions of Repton 3 and Repton Infinity.
A quick-and-dirty SQL database for storing the historical orbital elements of satellites, including a script for trawling data from Celestrak and Space Track to populate the database.
A command-line tool for producing vector-graphics charts of the night sky in SVG, PDF and PNG formats.