Week 0: Hello, World!

Ah, “Hello World,” the classic opening. Today my mentors and I held Meeting 0, where we introduced ourselves and began sketching our way forward with the development of telescopy.

Mainly we brainstormed what to do during the GSoC “Community Bonding Period” and came up with a nice to-do list for me to check off:

• • • Make a blog post
    • Create synphot example documentation – this will help me become more familiar with the synphot package and will aid future users by fleshing out the current documentation
      • Compute count rates: Tutorials can be found here!
        • Using the 3.5 m Telescope (at Apache Point Observatory), observe HAT-P-11, a star with T_eff = 4780 K at a distance of 123 light years in a 10 second exposure.
        • Using the 3.5 m Telescope (at Apache Point Observatory), observe TRAPPIST-1, a star with T_eff = 2500 K at a distance of 40 light years in a 1 min exposure
    • Add a quick edit to the astropy.constants/units documentation to help clear up my own misunderstanding of the usage of these packages while also becoming more familiar with contributing to astropy
    • Check out existing astropy issues I can address.
      • Add an example of using dimensionless units (scaled and unscaled) in the “Getting Started” section of the astropy.units documentation.
        Pull request submitted merged!