Universe-Lovers is a self-motivated project between two software engineers and lovers of the universe. This project consists of several responsive sub-projects focused on astronomy.
This project consists of below three major functionalities.
NASA's InSight Mars Lander is taking daily weather measurements (temperature, wind, pressure) on the surface of Mars at Elysium Planitia, a flat, smooth plain near Mars’ equator.
Features:
- Dashboard for Mars' weather
- Switch between different available sol days
Data: Mars weather data is fetched from NASA-APIs.
The real-time International Space Station (ISS) tracker helps to identify the current location of ISS and its orbit trajectory across the globe in both 2D and 3D interactive representations.
Features:
- Real-time ISS tracking
- ISS orbit trajectory
Data: Location of ISS is brought using Open-Notify-API.
Light pollution limits the visibility of milky way to the unaided eye, the visiblity of nebulae and galaxies seen in telescopes, and raises the noise on astrophotographs. Light Pollution Map allows you to easily locate dark sites where the sky will not be affected by light pollution, allowing the best observance, star gazing, and photography of the night sky!
Features:
- Visualization of Light Pollution Map in various 2D and 3D form
- Search dark sites at particular location
Data: Light pollution map is built with the World Atlas of Artificial Night Sky Brightness dataset.
As Universe-Lovers is using free version of the APIs, one might run into few issues but not limited to HTTP 429 - too many requests.