OrbitOS

Inspiration

Before the winter break this fall term, the news had projected that the northern lights would be visible in Kingston. Interested to view this once in a lifetime event, to see the northern lights in our own city, we set out late at night to view the stars. However, everywhere we went had clouds or too much light pollution, and we never got a truly amazing view of the lights. We wanted to build an app to ensure that this does not happen for anyone again. We wish to bring the stars closer to us though this application.

What it does

OrbitOS collects a variety of astronomical and weather data, and beautifully displays it in an interactive web application with the streamlit python library. From interactive maps, to listing upcoming astronomical events, OrbitOS provides detailed information to anyone who would like to look skyward.

How we built it

To construct this web application, we used Streamlit a python framework which challenged us to have our code in a centralized location. We used many API's to gain data regarding weather, clouds, location and more.

Challenges we ran into

We ran into challenges in accessing data that is clean and usable for our purposes.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of how we were able to build a finished product which can be used for user activities. We most enjoyed creating a database of subscriptions and having email's sent out to user's to alert them of events in their areas.