maxmahlke / telescope-fieldofview

The field-of-view of the FACT telescope, in right ascension and declination. The date and time can be chosen at the beginning. Some frequently observed sources, the ecliptic plane, and the current zenith above FACT are plotted.

Max Mahlke | arXiv | Thesis | CV | Contact

I'm an astronomer studying the minor bodies of the Solar System. My repositories include several open-source tools for the minor-body community and for researchers in general.

I'm available for PostDoc starting December 2024. Please do not hesitate to get in touch should you or someone you know offer a position that may apply to my research profile.

Minor Bodies

• rocks - A python and command-line interface to all kinds of asteroid data except for reflectance spectra.
• classy - A python and command-line interface to asteroid reflectance spectra. And it classifies them, too.
• ssos - Pipeline for automatic detection and recovery of minor bodies in astronomical images.
• mpc - Make local queries to the observations database of the Minor Planet Center.
• Les Houches Index of Small-Body Tools - Maintained index of tools for Asteroids, Comets, and Meteorites
• Timeline of the asteroid taxonomy

General

• fuzzy-ads - A command-line interface to NASA ADS
• mcfa - A python implementation of Mixture of Common Factor Analyzers dimensionality reduction / clustering
• re-research - A TeX publication template focused on reproducible research
• Solar-System Orbiter - Simulation of Solar System including Hohmann transfers between planets