Research / Projects
Research in time-domain astronomy, from telescope data and transient photometry to real-time alert infrastructure. Alongside it, I build private native apps and interactive work for the web.
- Projects
- 06
- Research outputs
- 02
- Since
- 2024
Research outputs
Formal outputs from my astronomy research.
GRB Detection Pipeline
Automated FITS reduction pipeline for calibration, source extraction, astrometry and time-based stacking. It produced the University of Tasmania's first confirmed gamma-ray burst detection, which is being prepared for publication.
GCN Alert Network
Persistent Kafka consumer across nine instrument topics that normalises GRB alert formats into a single internal schema. Routes observatory-filtered notifications to observing teams via discord in near real-time.
3I/ATLAS Photometry
Light curv construction for interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Ephemeris queries from NASA JPL Horizons automate aperture placement on the moving target; nightly zero-points are derived from PanSTARRS and SkyMapper catalogues to account for varying conditions across sessions.
Stowpad
Private clipboard manager for Mac that keeps an encrypted, searchable history of everything you copy. It uses on-device OCR to capture text and tables from the screen, then lets you paste any clip back into any app.
React & Motion Dashboard
A dashboard of animations and interactive effects built in React and Motion. Magnetic cursors, physics springs, gesture-driven components, and other UI experiments collected in one place.
Portfolio Site
A personal portfolio built with Astro, custom CSS, and canvas effects. The site includes a particle system that transforms into text, time-of-day sky colouring, magnetic hover effects and a photography archive.
I built these through curiosity, coursework and research. Detailed case studies are in progress.