at Oracle Labs on Micronaut Main focus on build plugins and dev productivitity @[email protected] - Formerly working at Gradle Inc - Author of static compiler of Groovy - Amateur astronomer @[email protected] https://www.astrobin.com/users/melix/ https://bit.ly/3eGD0GM (Youtube)
= Solar Explorer • Invented by Christian Build (amateur astronomer) • Community driven and DIY http://www.astrosurf.com/solex/sol-ex-presentation-en.html
choose wavelength • Very fine resolution (<0.2 Å), narrower than typical filters (several Å) • Upgrade to star spectrography (Star’Ex project) • But no direct images! • Official software : INTI by Valérie Desnoux
purpose – Understand how Sol’Ex / SHG works – Am I still a capable developer ? • Technical challenge • Technology playground (JavaFX, vector API, ...) • Show that Java is very capable for real science https://melix.github.io/blog/2023/04-22-introducing-astro4j.html
• Programming is fun • Many challenging problems, math is hard! • Scientific literature is hard to convert to algorithms • Happy users are your reward for hard work • Java 17+ : 😍 • Java modules : 🤨