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Astrowidget
Interactive radio astronomy visualization widget for Jupyter notebooks. Renders radio images on a rotatable celestial sphere with spectrum and light curve extraction.
PythonJavaScriptAstronomyVisualization
Year2026RoleSole creatorOutcomeDOI-minted with 4 releases
Overview
Astrowidget is an interactive radio astronomy visualization widget for Jupyter notebooks. It renders radio images on a rotatable celestial sphere using SIN projection, reads directly from zarr data stores, and integrates Aladin Lite HiPS background surveys.
Features
- WebGL2-powered celestial sphere rendering
- Click-to-inspect spectrum and light curve extraction
- Panel-based SkyViewer dashboard
- Direct zarr data store reading via xarray and dask
Related
Built for the OVRO-LWA Portal data pipeline. Part of the SSEC Research Software Engineering portfolio.