From 742e141da06dc4c87b7eb4c17e060c8e76abfc2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt Craig Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2025 11:48:09 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Partial first draft --- .../proposal-calls/cycle5/craig-photometry.md | 40 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+) create mode 100644 finance/proposal-calls/cycle5/craig-photometry.md diff --git a/finance/proposal-calls/cycle5/craig-photometry.md b/finance/proposal-calls/cycle5/craig-photometry.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e380e17a --- /dev/null +++ b/finance/proposal-calls/cycle5/craig-photometry.md @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +### Accessible stellar photometry + +### Project Team +Matt Craig will lead the project. Additional participants are XXX. + +### Project Description / Scope of Work +This project will focus on a package called stellarphot, which is intended to be an easy-to-use tool for performing aperture astronomy on a set of images. It is written to be run either by a script or via a Jupyter notebook-based interface. + +This proposal will do three things: + +1. Work with users at primarily undergraduate institutions to improve the usability and accessibility of the stellarphot package. +2. Develop a workshop and tutorials for the package. +3. Add two features to improve performance of the package: i) calibration using an ubercal-style approach that minimizes changes in magnitude across several images over many nights and ii) add the ability to work with and save postage stamps of images rather than full images. + +#### Roadmap Items +These roadmap items will be addressed: + ++ "πŸŸ₯ Expand and build on workshop offerings, including online and increased geographic coverage" will be addressed by developing a workshop targeted to smaller observatories/institutions that do stellar photomtery. ++ "πŸ”Ά Develop, host, and index tutorials suitable for use in university astronomy courses" will be addressed by creating shorter notebooks in additon to the workshop materials and embedding video help into the notebooks that the package provides. ++ "πŸŸ₯ Improve support for using Astropy tools in heterogeneous computing environments such as cloud environments or GPU systems" will be addressed by ensuring that it is Array API compliant and by building out the option in `ccdproc` and `stellarphot` to convert full frame images into postage stamp cutouts around stars instead of keeping full images. + +#### Project / Work / Deliverables + + + +### Approximate Budget +Currency: US $ + +Include overheads, fringe, etc. if money is paid as sub-award to an institution. + +- Salary / contractor fees etc. (give sum here, details about contract, payment method (contract/sub-award) etc. can be worked out with the finance committee later) +- TOTAL + +Please note that we would happily accept budget items other than the above. + +Travel and conference registration should be submitted separately from this funding request, as needed. + +### Period of Performance + +The period of performance is Jan 1, 2026–Dec 31, 2026. From c47effe70390dd0e2458924e561b66512439ada5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt Craig Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2025 21:06:15 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 2/3] More draft --- .../proposal-calls/cycle5/craig-photometry.md | 45 ++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/finance/proposal-calls/cycle5/craig-photometry.md b/finance/proposal-calls/cycle5/craig-photometry.md index e380e17a..d9a6e3f3 100644 --- a/finance/proposal-calls/cycle5/craig-photometry.md +++ b/finance/proposal-calls/cycle5/craig-photometry.md @@ -1,39 +1,54 @@ ### Accessible stellar photometry ### Project Team -Matt Craig will lead the project. Additional participants are XXX. +Matt Craig will lead the project. Additional participants are from two members of the Astronomy/STEM Alliance with Lick Observatory (ASTRAL), collaborators from others in the upper Midwest who work primarily with undergraduates, and members of the AAVSO. ### Project Description / Scope of Work -This project will focus on a package called stellarphot, which is intended to be an easy-to-use tool for performing aperture astronomy on a set of images. It is written to be run either by a script or via a Jupyter notebook-based interface. +This project will focus on a package called stellarphot, which is intended to be +an easy-to-use tool for performing aperture astronomy on a set of images. It is +written to be run either by a script or via a Jupyter notebook-based interface. This proposal will do three things: -1. Work with users at primarily undergraduate institutions to improve the usability and accessibility of the stellarphot package. +1. Work with users at primarily undergraduate institutions to improve the + usability and accessibility of the stellarphot package. 2. Develop a workshop and tutorials for the package. -3. Add two features to improve performance of the package: i) calibration using an ubercal-style approach that minimizes changes in magnitude across several images over many nights and ii) add the ability to work with and save postage stamps of images rather than full images. +3. Add two features to improve performance of the package: i) calibration using + an ubercal-style approach that minimizes changes in magnitude across several + images over many nights and ii) add the ability to work with and save postage + stamps of images rather than full images. #### Roadmap Items These roadmap items will be addressed: -+ "πŸŸ₯ Expand and build on workshop offerings, including online and increased geographic coverage" will be addressed by developing a workshop targeted to smaller observatories/institutions that do stellar photomtery. -+ "πŸ”Ά Develop, host, and index tutorials suitable for use in university astronomy courses" will be addressed by creating shorter notebooks in additon to the workshop materials and embedding video help into the notebooks that the package provides. -+ "πŸŸ₯ Improve support for using Astropy tools in heterogeneous computing environments such as cloud environments or GPU systems" will be addressed by ensuring that it is Array API compliant and by building out the option in `ccdproc` and `stellarphot` to convert full frame images into postage stamp cutouts around stars instead of keeping full images. ++ "πŸŸ₯ Expand and build on workshop offerings, including online and increased + geographic coverage" will be addressed by developing a workshop targeted to + smaller observatories/institutions that do stellar photomtery and integrating + techniques for processing images from smart telescope developed by the AAVSO. ++ "πŸ”Ά Develop, host, and index tutorials suitable for use in university + astronomy courses" will be addressed by creating shorter notebooks in additon + to the workshop materials and embedding video help into the notebooks that the + package provides. ++ "πŸŸ₯ Improve support for using Astropy tools in heterogeneous computing + environments such as cloud environments or GPU systems" will be addressed by + ensuring that it is Array API compliant and by building out the option in + `ccdproc` and `stellarphot` to convert full frame images into postage stamp + cutouts around stars instead of keeping full images. #### Project / Work / Deliverables - +1. More extensive documentation and tutorials. +2. WOrkshop materials. +3. Improvement of the calibration and postage stamp features. ### Approximate Budget Currency: US $ -Include overheads, fringe, etc. if money is paid as sub-award to an institution. - -- Salary / contractor fees etc. (give sum here, details about contract, payment method (contract/sub-award) etc. can be worked out with the finance committee later) -- TOTAL - -Please note that we would happily accept budget items other than the above. -Travel and conference registration should be submitted separately from this funding request, as needed. +- Salary + - Project lead: $1,000 + - Additional team members who will help with software development and testing: $8,000 +- TOTAL: $9,000 ### Period of Performance From d4dbb94841e7db831d243fff1ac407a50487ee19 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt Craig Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2025 13:13:49 -0600 Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Add explicit budget range Updated budget estimates and salary allocations for the project. --- finance/proposal-calls/cycle5/craig-photometry.md | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/finance/proposal-calls/cycle5/craig-photometry.md b/finance/proposal-calls/cycle5/craig-photometry.md index d9a6e3f3..83bbeafe 100644 --- a/finance/proposal-calls/cycle5/craig-photometry.md +++ b/finance/proposal-calls/cycle5/craig-photometry.md @@ -42,13 +42,15 @@ These roadmap items will be addressed: 3. Improvement of the calibration and postage stamp features. ### Approximate Budget -Currency: US $ +Currency: US $4,500 - $9,000 - Salary - - Project lead: $1,000 - - Additional team members who will help with software development and testing: $8,000 -- TOTAL: $9,000 + - Project lead: $0 - $1,000 + - Additional team members who will help with software development and testing: $4,500 - $8,000 +- TOTAL: $4,500 - $9,000 + +*Note*: if funded at the lower end of the range the funding will be directed to the additional team members rather than the project lead. ### Period of Performance