This job involves updating a Java applet that displays the area of the sky visible from various telescopes at different times of the year. The applet was written in Java 1.1 and needs to be ported to the current version of Java, so knowledge of astronomy algorithms is not necessary, but proficiency in Java programming is required.
This program, "TheSky", was originally written by Robert Quimby. Some documentation is available at http://panisse.lbl.gov/~quimby/javadoc/TheSky.html.
The Java source code is located in /home/lilys/quimby/java/wup. It is called "TheSky". There is also some code in /home/lilys/quimby/public_html which is meant to launch TheSky (or ShowTheSky). You can get some pointers to documentation there (e.g., at http://panisse.lbl.gov/~quimby/javadoc/TheSky.html). The dates in that dir are more recent, but that might just be the result of the files having been copied from elsewhere.
More documentation: http://supernova.lbl.gov/~quimby/javadoc/
Note that this code tries to access some of our SN databases (that is why you see things like "K98 (Keck Nov 1998)", and that could be one thing which is killing it at the moment since that access may have changed since Quimby wrote the code. We will want to change it to access the supernova candidates database. Rollin Thomas, one of our postdocs, may know how to do that. For the moment, it can be disabled.
After the code has been updated, it will need to be documented, tested on different SNfactory platforms (e.g. Linux and Mac), and checked in to our CVS repository.
Please contact Cecilia Aragon with any questions.
Last updated 23 September 2005.