FOSSdome
A weekly podcast
FOSSdome
Episodes
FOSSdome
A weekly podcast
Episodes of FOSSdome
Mark All
A few updates and some cool Chandra X-ray Observatory stuff!Links mentioned in the episode:Museum & Informal Education Alliance https://informal.jpl.nasa.gov/museum/Kim Arcand https://www.kimarcand.com/Walking Among the Stars (V
An update on what I've been up to, followed by some useful sources for open textbooks. Links mentioned in the episode:The Changelog: Open source goes to Mars https://changelog.com/podcast/440 Learning with Python: How to Think Like
Links mentioned in the episode:NASA 3D resources https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/ The Celestia Motherlode http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/ ESO https://www.eso.org/public/ESA/Hubble https://esahubble.org/NOIRlab https
This week I followed a rabbit hole that led me to rediscover some projects I'd previously not liked, but now they have the potential to be what I need. Links from the episode:unfa channel https://www.youtube.com/user/unfa00TechHut
And that episode title sounds better than the one I used in the recording. In any case, this week is some rambling from me in which I complain about stuff and complain about complaining about stuff some insightful thoughts on some of the ups an
This week I chat about some interesting tools and tutorials for using Blender for non-visualization Astronomy stuff.Links for this week:Cycles X https://code.blender.org/2021/04/cycles-x/Fulldome Production With Blender https://g
Another update and a look at some interesting resources for learning to take astronomy data into Blender for visualization. It's how the magic gets made!AstroBlend https://www.astroblend.com/AstroBlend https://www.youtube.com/channe
An update on what I've been up to and then checking out two more pieces of open source astronomy software. Links for this episode:Loading NASA Perseverance and Ingenuity models into Blender https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36u94eMMHuU
A look at free and open source desktop planetarium software KStars, and why it deserves a a spot on the hard drive.Links for this episode:KStars https://edu.kde.org/kstars/KStars user docs https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/kstars/k
Links mentioned in the episode:Prairie Skies Spotlight on Galaxies April 2 https://youtu.be/dh0biQnJmFQESASky https://sky.esa.int/ESASky documentation https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/esdc/esasky-help"How to Use ESASky" https:/
And intro to open source astronomy software and a bit of an overview on Stellarium. Links mentioned in this episode:Stellarium https://stellarium.orgStellarium web https://stellarium-web.org/Waylena’s post on custom Stellarium
This week I talk about how I got started using Blender and ways to go about learning it if starting today.Links mentioned in this episode:Darkfall Cosmic Shaders https://darkfallblender.blogspot.com/ , https://youtu.be/vbj20u53uW8B
This week I list 10 things I use GIMP for in my planetarium work.Links mentioned in this episode:GIMP https://www.gimp.org/NASA Photojournal https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/Using Gimp to Slice Images https://fossdome.com/using-gimp-t
In this debut, I briefly go over some of my favorite open source packages and what I typically use them for.Links mentioned in the episode:Blender https://www.blender.org/GIMP https://www.gimp.org/Inkscape https://inkscape.
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