Dominic Ford's repositories
star-charter
A command-line tool for producing vector-graphics charts of the night sky in SVG, PDF and PNG formats.
planisphere
Make your own cardboard model planisphere
ephemeris-compute-de430
A command-line tool for producing tables of the positions of solar system objects over time.
ephemeris-compute-de405
A command-line tool for producing tables of the positions of solar system objects over time.
constellation-stick-figures
The files in this repository define stick figures which can be used to depict the 88 astronomical constellations.
eclipse-simulator
A command-line tool for producing animations of solar eclipses
satellite_log
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.
aircraft_log
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.
precession
A special design of planisphere for demonstrating the precession of the equinoxes.
commodore-tape-reader
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.
plato-wp36-v1
PLATO WP36 Exoplanet Analysis System transit detection pipeline (version 1)
4most-4gp-scripts
The 4MOST Galactic Pipeline (4GP): command line interface for spectral analysis.
acorn-tape-reader
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.
commodore-basic-list
Produce listings of binary Commodore BASIC files. Compatible with the versions of BASIC shipped with the C64, C16, Plus/4 and C128.
drawfile-render
Render Acorn / RISC OS !Draw files to PNG and SVG format
plato-wp36-v2
PLATO WP36 Exoplanet Analysis System transit detection pipeline (version 2)
pyxplot-web
Pyxplot website
repton-datafile-render
Produce maps and sprite charts from data files generated by the BBC Micro and Electron versions of Repton 3 and Repton Infinity.