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Map of satellites immediately above you, with pertaining info below

Attributions

Icons were created by the wonderful folks at The Noun Project! The people icon was created by Prime Icons, US. The satellite icon was created by ProSymbols, US. The telescope icon was created by Icons Producer. Furthermore, our satellite image came from Geely. Finally, big thanks to tsparticles, Bootstrap, socket.io, node.js, and express for making our project possible

About Satalight

A collective interest in astronomy prompted us to consider how many artificial objects, in reality, obscure our Milky Way. They interfere with stargazing, muck-up science observations from the surface, and leave streaks on images.

Satalight offers a suite of accurate and updated graphics describing the positions artificial satellites currently in our sky. You can gather how many objects are above you, realize the impact, and rationalize the severity of our light pollution pandemic.

We hosted this site on Heroku, using node.js, HTML and Bootstrap, Express.js, CSS, and the Plotly and particle.js libraries. We gathered our satellite data using the N2YO API.

Plotting the satellite data was a major task. Laying out this data on our app, making it presentable, and fully utilizing Bootstrap were also considerably difficult. However, we are proud of our site's visualizations! Having such a polished product is also quite gratifying.

We learned many things about many new libraries and coding languages. The Plotly library, node.js, Express.js, advanced Bootstrap, CSS, and even a particle generator in node.js were all topics we explored this hackathon. We all also became quite familiar with using and formatting data from an API, for massive data collection. Most of all, we acknowledged the power of friendship.

What's next for Satalight

This website will continue to run for any and all curious souls. Our message stands. We intend to continue to use this site as a means to shine light on satellites and artificial light pollution in-orbit.

Thanks for visiting

~ Team Sevens: Spencer, Maigh, George, & Ash

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I helped to template the website initially and created a wireframe for the page along with finding images and stats

Maigh Jammu
I focused on front-end using Bootstrap, implementing particles, conceptual plotting, and brainstorming.

Spencer Stepanek
Hey all! I'm currently a CompSci and Music Comp undergrad at CU Boulder. I'm into astronomy, music, image processing, and automation.
I worked on the back-end, including socket.io/node.js/n2yo api work as well as frontend tsparticles and bootstrap work.

Ash Duy
I worked on the backend designing the visualizations with PlotLy and linking frontend user data to backend API requests/handling using Node.js and socket.io.

georgej1144 Johnson