Add a new topic guide for the 2024 Eclipse

[ehsteve]

Provide a general description of the issue or problem.

Having a new topic guide for the eclipse would be nice to be able to advertise SunPy and what SunPy can provide to support the eclipse that is occurring in April 2024. We could create a press release and share the link which would feature code examples and gallery examples. Some content already exists in the solar-eclipse repo. It needs to be updated and content migrated. This repo could then be made private or deleted.

Some additional content that could be added

• A recreation an eclipse path map such as this one.
• A guide on how to import a photograph into a Map and determine its coordinates
• Example processing steps to be performed on an eclipse photograph like stacking, flat-fielding, and sharpening

[ShrutiRDalvi]

Hello, I'd love to work on this if someone isn't already, thanks

[nabobalis]

Hello, I'd love to work on this if someone isn't already, thanks

Hello! This is going to be part of a potential gsoc project and as such, we don't want people working on those linked issues until we either select a person for the project or the project is not picked.

[ShrutiRDalvi]

okay sure, thanks a lot!

[AnonymousCodes911]

Greetings! @nabobalis,

I am intrigued by this project and am proficient in Python. I am also fascinated by physics and astronomy, and I would love to contribute to this project. I have some questions that will help me understand the deliverables better and create a proposal.

1.What would be some good first issues you would recommend to familiarize with the codebase?
2.What kind of calculations and computations should we expect?
3. Do we have to complete any tasks/objectives before beginning with the proposal?

Thankyou for your time and consideration.

[nabobalis]

Greetings! @nabobalis,

Hello @AnonymousCodes911,

1.What would be some good first issues you would recommend to familiarize with the codebase?

There are not really any of those for this project. I would suggest having a look and picking ones that interest you.

2.What kind of calculations and computations should we expect?

It is more about understanding how cooridates work within sunpy and being able to understand the coordinate frames that are used in Solar Physics.

3. Do we have to complete any tasks/objectives before beginning with the proposal?

You only have to open a pull request to a sunpy organization repository first.
Our GSoC Advice is here: https://github.com/sunpy/sunpy/wiki/Google-Summer-of-Code

Hopefully that helps!

[kartikmandar]

Hello @nabobalis
I am a third year BS-MS (Physics major) student from IISER Bhopal. Astronomy has always been a pivotal part for me joining academia. I am really passionate to learn about the workings of the cosmos. I have experience in programming languages like C, python, kotlin, js. And have worked in real world projects involving app and web development too. I want to use my programming knowledge and physics background to contribute to the astronomy society in general. How can I get started?

[nabobalis]

Hello @nabobalis I am a third year BS-MS (Physics major) student from IISER Bhopal. Astronomy has always been a pivotal part for me joining academia. I am really passionate to learn about the workings of the cosmos. I have experience in programming languages like C, python, kotlin, js. And have worked in real world projects involving app and web development too. I want to use my programming knowledge and physics background to contribute to the astronomy society in general. How can I get started?

Hello @kartikmandar,

We recommend that everyone starts with reading https://docs.sunpy.org/en/latest/dev_guide/contents/newcomers.html to get started.
This will walk you through getting a development environment setup. When that is complete, the next step is to start tackling some good first issues which are linked in that guide.

Our GSoC advice is on our Wiki: https://github.com/sunpy/sunpy/wiki/Google-Summer-of-Code if you are after that.

If you have any questions or problems do please let us know on our public chat room; https://matrix.to/#/#sunpy:openastronomy.org

[kartikmandar]

Thank you for the info @nabobalis. I have set up the dev env. Will check the other resources.