In this project, we created an interactive constellation visualization using d3. This repository contains the code for the website and visualization, datasets, and data preparation code.
Link to the website: https://vrmelican.github.io/final/
Link to the screencast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMGT6WDc_fk
Data scraping tutorial: https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/web-scraping-a-wikipedia-table-into-a-dataframe-c52617e1f451
Scraped star locations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_stars_by_constellation
Scraped constellation paths and histories: http://www.seasky.org/constellations/constellations.html
Used to check constellation paths: https://www.iau.org/public/themes/constellations/
Used to find unlabelled stars: https://theskylive.com/sky/constellations/
Describes how to convert RA/Dec to Lon/Lat: https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-resources/right-ascension-declination-celestial-coordinates/
Path glow tutorial: https://www.visualcinnamon.com/2016/06/glow-filter-d3-visualization/
Search tutorial: https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_js_search_menu.asp