Citizen Science

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Christmas Bird Count (CBC)

Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Galaxy Morphology

Space Warps

Gravitational Lenses

Gravitational Lenses

Zooniverse Technical Overview

20+ projects

1 API

Modern Web

Javascript

fitsjs

https://github.com/astrojs/fitsjs

wcsjs built with emscripten

http://astrojs.github.io/wcsjs/

              
                emconfigure ./configure --prefix=$(EMSCRIPTEN)/system;
                emmake make;
                emmake make install;
                emcc -O2 src/wrapper.c -lwcs -o wcslib.js \
                -s EXPORTED_FUNCTIONS="['_getWcs', '_pix2sky', '_sky2pix']";
              
            

ruse.js

https://github.com/kapadia/ruse.js

              
                var r = new ruse(el, width, height);
                
                // A million points if you want :)
                var data = [
                  {x: 1, y: 2, z: 3},
                  {x: 3, y: 2, z: 1}
                ];
                r.plot(data);