The UTA Planetarium and OIT Application Development Team have launched a new website that displays local weather conditions on the UTA campus.
“This was just another project that we accomplished with the great assistance of the OIT Team,” Levent Gurdemir, the UTA Planetarium director, said.
The site located at https://weather.uta.edu receives real-time information from UTA Observatory’s own weather station to provide current information. This weather station was integrated into UTA Observatory last year and is a scientific-grade instrument made by Davis Instruments.
“We couldn’t have done it without Josh Frayer’s amazing work with figuring out and connecting the vendor API to the UTA Weather website,” Gurdemir said. “Josh also added some astronomical information to the page such as solar noon, diagram for the position of the Sun, Moon Age, etc.”
The idea of implementing a public page that would stream the station’s data started during a casual chat between Frayer, a lead applications programmer, and Gurdemir while working on a different project. With the support of OIT Leaders, Howard Prince and Rick Desantis, the team brought the idea to completion.
