Devlog #3

I haven’t posted a devlog on here in a while, but I’ve got quite a bit of progress to show off. First, I finished up some extra stuff in my physics script to calculate for telescope errors (more detail on that in the actual project).

Next, I learned how I’m going to make the data in my project under universal headers! Essentially, for any telescope data added, it’ll need to be added to a dictionary containing each of the telescope data’s names (in other words, a master key of all the different places data is coming from). From there, that data is filtered through a seperate, smaller dictionary, and the different headers used to classify data in each file are renamed. These new universal names are then run through the equations to for all calculations (they will then be plotted on an H-R diagram; this will be tomorrow’s work). I’ve the skeleton of everything up, now I just need to fill in the data, put it all together, and get it plotted. I spent roughly an extra hour learning where to find the data for different telescopes (such as GAIA and Kepler data) and learning how to incorporate them in my code.

I also decided to go from simply pasting the telescope data url’s into my code to now getting sample sets of the data these files have, downloading them, and incorporating THOSE into my code. I learned it would make things run much smoother and cleaner (I spent an hour researching the pros and cons of this decision and how to integrate it).

The code I’m showing right now is the very rough drafts of everything. It will be all filled in by tomorrow.