Jul 15
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working on updating my home page, so here is the progress. I'm tempted to work on this all night, but I'm forcing myself to go bed lol.
I FINALLY MANAGED TO FETCH USING MY OWN Q PARAMETER FROM AN API OMG I FIGURED IT OUT I’M SURE MY APPROACH IS THE WORST LMAO BUT IDC IT’S WORKING LETS GOOO (if anyone knows how to create query parameters for a URL using fetch in vanilla JS/know a generally better way to do this pls lmk tho ;_;)
(also idk how secret api keys are so imma just blur it out to be safe, it might be overkill but oh well)
So this photometry code I use does iterative sigma clipping, but for some of the galaxies the code crashes because the masked array isn’t being created, so it just creates an empty numpy array instead. And since the array is empty, it’s iterating over nothing.
Returns this error: numpy.ndarray object has no attribute mask
I had this problem before when I was trying to use this code, and the scientist who wrote it speculated that it was because the galaxies were too faint, but this is happening for objects like M101 and M82, which are very bright galaxies.
Now that two of us have had this problem, we gotta bother the scientist.
print debugging
oooooh boy okay I’m excited bc I’m getting photometry figured out and set up in my code and that’s gonna be really cool bc it will produce PLOTS
but first I gotta figure out how to use this ascii.read() tool and interact with the table it downloads and reads. that’s where I have to get all the apertures and sky positions of the galaxies in the survey. then maybe plots? gotta check those outputs.
i’m getting closer to doing science!!! i really wanna learn how to build my own science tools.
i just got smacked in the face with how useful functionizing your code is and i feel like i’ve unlocked extra powers
y’know I’m still a baby at programming but it’s so great that I’m not scared anymore of writing a code to do a thing for me instead of just doing repetitive tasks manually