Swarmlab is a collection of services that aims to

• provide teachers and professors with online remote tools to do their lessons

• give students the opportunity to study real life examples in their chosen area of expertise

• allow developers to fully test and debug their applications and provide POC’s

• or you simply want to use a Application (in a microservices-based architecture)

Swarmlab provides you with all the required tools, tools to teach work or try out demos in a completely virtual environment.

More info: http://docs.swarmlab.io/SwarmLab-HowTos/swarmlab/docs/swarmlab/docs/index.html

LabInstance Astronomy

KStars is freely licensed, open source, cross-platform Astronomy Software by KDE.

It provides an accurate graphical simulation of the night sky, from any location on Earth, at any date and time. The display includes up to 100 million stars, 13,000 deep-sky objects,all 8 planets, the Sun and Moon, and thousands of comets, asteroids, supernovae, and satellites.

For students and teachers, it supports adjustable simulation speeds in order to view phenomena that happen over long timescales, the KStars Astrocalculator to predict conjunctions, and many common astronomical calculations.

For the amateur astronomer, it provides an observation planner, a sky calendar tool, and an FOV editor to calculate field of view of equipment and display them. Find out interesting objects in the "What's up Tonight" tool, plot altitude vs. time graphs for any object, print high-quality sky charts, and gain access to lots of information and resources to help you explore the universe!

Included with KStars is Ekos astrophotography suite, a complete astrophotography solution that can control all INDI devices including numerous telescopes, CCDs, DSLRs, focusers, filters, and a lot more. Ekos supports highly accurate tracking using online and offline astrometry solver, autofocus and autoguiding capabilities, and capture of single or multiple images using the powerful built in sequence manager.

Astronomical Catalogs:

• Default catalog consisting of stars to magnitude 8
• Extra catalogs consisting of 100 million stars to magnitude 16
• Downloadable catalogs including Messier Images, Abell Planetary Nebulae, Sharpless Catalog, Lynds Dark Nebula Catalog
• Corrections for precession, nutation and atmospheric refraction
• Tools for retrieval of data from online databases

Quickstart

This is a quickstart guide of howto use this LabInstance

HowTo use it

Default Configuration

• Working Directory

/home/docker/project

• Default user

docker

• Default password

docker

• Default password4root

pass

RUN INSTANCE

Swarmlab services can be run in different ways.

• You can run them through the swarmlab hybrid environment (http://docs.swarmlab.io/SwarmLab-HowTos/swarmlab/docs/swarmlab/docs/hybrid/start-microservices.html)
• or use them individually at will on the command line of your system

CLI

git clone ...

cd [DIRECTORY]

help

make help

create service

make create

start service

make start

stop service

make stop

list service

make list

clean service

make clean