Bohredom| Hey! What Are You Looking At?

Awards & Nominations

Bohredom has received the following awards and nominations. Way to go!

Global Nominee

Hey! What Are You Looking At?

The High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC) archives space agencies' data from missions studying electromagnetic radiation from extremely energetic cosmic phenomena (e.g., gravitational wave detections, gamma ray bursts, and supernovae). The Canadian Astronomy Data Center (CADC) is another repository containing missions studying comets, asteroids, and exoplanets among other things. Your challenge is to create a visualization tool that can help people interested in these phenomena to access the data quickly and easily.

Bohredom Space Viewer

Summary

We, as Bohredom, afforded delicately to develop a website platform in order to serve to science enthusiasts as a source. During this limited period of time, our team analyzed scientific data which have provided by NASA and their partners. After the analyses were completed, we have determined and gathered specific information which will be relayed to users. If you ask us "how are you achieving this?" Bohredom website visualizing the space environment and make you feel as you are visiting the place while you are learning about it. Our primary purpose is to make people, especially young generations, interested in astronomy and physics with a mesmerizing path.

How We Addressed This Challenge

We developed a webpage which is visualizing the space environment for science lovers. Bohredom is an excellent option to reach helpful, clear, straightforward and useful information while travelling through the deep space. On the webpage, you can find diverse telescope options which will provide users to access various wavelength views and information about both telescopes and wavelengths. Bohredom uses NASA's, different agencies' database in order to extract the data which will be used. We are collecting data from these resources and convert the data to a proper format to show on the website. Users might find clear explanations about observatories and terms that they encounter in "about" and "information" section. Thanks to different observatories data collection, we are able to display various filters of sky view from infrared to gamma wavelengths.

How We Developed This Project

Our team members are keen on to learn about astronomy and the bizarre universe. Thanks to this ambition, we thought that we might convert this devotion into something useful for the public. Therefore we have chosen " Hey! What Are You Looking At?" and designed a website. During the development of this website, we have used:


  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • JavaScript
  • NodeJS
  • Firebase Hosting
  • Firebase Database
  • GitHub
  • Figma
  • Aladin
  • HiPS2FITS
  • Adobe Illustrator CC 2020
  • Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2020
  • Adobe Photoshop CC 2020
  • Gimp(GNU Image Manipulation Program)2

In these two days time, we were determined to finish every single thing that we had in our minds. In spite of having some troubles whilst gathering data as in FITS and HiPS formats, we have solved them to use these formats thanks to different methods such as using Aladin.

How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project

We have used different databases, and all of them are NASA's and NASA's partners' data. In our website, we are letting users experience diverse observatory and telescope views such as:


  • HEASARC(Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory)
  • JAXA(Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory)
  • GSO Data Center(Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope)
  • CDS [Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, The Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS), Two Micron All-Sky Survey(2MASS)]

The data was extracted from databases in HiPS format. After that, it was turned into a proper image format such as PNG.

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Data & Resources

We are listing the resource links of sky view data which are used on the website:


Used Databases:


  • HEASARC
  • JAXA
  • GSO Data Center
  • CDS

Other than that we have used different webpages of NASA and NASA's partners to get more information in order to serve more data and make them knowledgeable about the subject:


Tags
#space, #website, #telescope,#observatory, #database,#wavelenghts, #astronomy
Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Judging process.