# Space/astro domain
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/space-astro-domain/4987
**Category:** Meta Discussion
**Created:** [July 20, 2017, 9:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/space-astro-domain/4987 "2017-07-20T21:43:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 18
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### Author:  [@simonbyrne](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/simonbyrne)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2017, 9:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/space-astro-domain/4987/1 "2017-07-20T21:43:41Z")
It might be a good idea to create a domain, as we now have a few users and packages in the astro/space area, e.g.:
[https://github.com/JuliaAstro](https://github.com/JuliaAstro)
[https://github.com/JuliaAstrodynamics](https://github.com/JuliaAstrodynamics)
cc: @Loic_Chappaz @Nitin_Arora @helgee
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### Author:  [@Michael\_Eastwood](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Michael_Eastwood)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2017, 10:24pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/space-astro-domain/4987/2 "2017-07-20T22:24:36Z")
I would use an astronomy-focused category.
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### Author:  [@etuini](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/etuini)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2017, 11:58pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/space-astro-domain/4987/3 "2017-07-20T23:58:52Z")
Jastro?
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### Author:  [@Loic\_Chappaz](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Loic_Chappaz)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2017, 12:06am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/space-astro-domain/4987/4 "2017-07-21T00:06:51Z")
That would be great and conducive to growing the space Julia community, whether it be for astronomers, astrophysicists, aerospace engineers, planetary scientists, or all space enthusiasts at large.
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### Author:  [@Nitin\_Arora](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Nitin_Arora)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2017, 1:41am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/space-astro-domain/4987/5 "2017-07-21T01:41:02Z")
Great idea Simon. There is a growing number of people in our research community, at JPL and other space companies / NASA centers and this will help people pull together.
Let me know if you need my help on this front.
Nitin
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### Author:  [@helgee](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/helgee)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2017, 5:15am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/space-astro-domain/4987/6 "2017-07-21T05:15:36Z")
Sounds good and great to hear that Julia is gaining momentum in these fields!
Since there is a considerable overlap between the astro-x domains (see [julia-astro list discussion](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/julia-astro/JeXwUS9UvXk)), having a single domain on Discourse makes sense IMHO.
CC: @giordano, @kbarbary
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### Author:  [@giordano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/giordano)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2017, 9:00am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/space-astro-domain/4987/7 "2017-07-21T09:00:58Z")
Of course I’m all for having an astrodomain here 😃
JuliaAstro organization still uses Google groups as discussing forum, but this shouldn’t prevent the creation of a specific domain in this place. Maybe, eventually we’ll move JuliaAstro forum here.
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### Author:  [@Nitin\_Arora](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Nitin_Arora)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2017, 8:47am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/space-astro-domain/4987/8 "2017-07-23T08:47:03Z")
@simonbyrne What needs to happen for this to come online ? Happy to do the work and contribute.
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### Author:  [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2017, 9:13am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/space-astro-domain/4987/9 "2017-07-23T09:13:20Z")
Given that there are already domains which get very little traffic, I think it would be better to create extra domains **after** domain-specific discussion reaches a certain volume. Searching for “astro” on this forum turns up a [job posting](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/internship-at-space-startup-in-pasadena-ca/4049/3) and a [note about timestamps](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/higher-resolution-datetime-timestamp/3069/11), and this topic.
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### Author:  [@Nitin\_Arora](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Nitin_Arora)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2017, 9:34am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/space-astro-domain/4987/10 "2017-07-23T09:34:01Z")
Point taken, though I do know few people (in the Julia community, like @helgee @Loic_Chappaz) who have been developing tools for Astrodynamics or Orbital Mechanics or general Space stuff. Plus I am also planning to have space related packages, @helgee has already made good contributions to this end.
Maybe “Astro” is not the right keyword. Something more general like “Space” might be more relevant. Just a thought.
-Nitin
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### Author:  [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2017, 10:25am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/space-astro-domain/4987/11 "2017-07-23T10:25:08Z")
I did not mean to imply that there is no significant Julia astro community. All I wanted to suggest is that creating new domains based on volume would be a reasonable rule of thumb in general.
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### Author:  [@antoine-levitt](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/antoine-levitt)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2017, 11:05am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/space-astro-domain/4987/12 "2017-07-23T11:05:11Z")
OTOH, creating lots of domains for every major computational discipline (say astro, geo, eco, fluids, electromagnetism, molecular, data) might cause newcomers to say “hey, there are people like me doing julia”, and lower the barrier to posting.
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### Author:  [@simonbyrne](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/simonbyrne)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2017, 1:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/space-astro-domain/4987/13 "2017-07-23T13:29:23Z")
It turns out it requires administration permissions, and @vchuravy is on holiday at the moment. Hopefully once he gets back we can create it.
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### Author:  [@tuckermcclure](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tuckermcclure)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2017, 3:00pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/space-astro-domain/4987/14 "2017-07-23T15:00:48Z")
FWIW, if there were a “space” domain, I would probably post a bit more than I do (don’t want to clutter other domains with space-specific stuff). Perhaps others would feel the same?
Case in point: as a result of reading this post, I checked at JuliaAstro and found EarthOrientation.jl! Nice!
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### Author:  [@vchuravy](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/vchuravy)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2017, 8:44am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/space-astro-domain/4987/15 "2017-07-24T08:44:10Z")
Since there is already a community e.g. `JuliaAstro` I went ahead and created a domain: [Astro/Space - JuliaLang](https://discourse.julialang.org/c/domain/astro)
@Nitin_Arora the first post in [About the Astro/Space category](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/about-the-astro-space-category/5036) is a wiki, please update it so that it fits the astor and space community.
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### Author:  [@KajWiik](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/KajWiik)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2017, 9:15am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/space-astro-domain/4987/16 "2017-07-24T09:15:08Z")
> [@tuckermcclure](#):
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> Case in point: as a result of reading this post, I checked at JuliaAstro and found EarthOrientation.jl! Nice!
As a result of this discussion I found AstroLib.jl which is really a game changer in my work. Thanks!
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### Author:  [@Nitin\_Arora](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Nitin_Arora)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2017, 5:20pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/space-astro-domain/4987/17 "2017-07-24T17:20:21Z")
Thanks @vchuravy , I will look into this later in the day today.
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### Author:  [@Loic\_Chappaz](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Loic_Chappaz)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2017, 5:20pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/space-astro-domain/4987/18 "2017-07-25T17:20:58Z")
@vchuravy I went ahead and edited the wiki, emulating other domains. Others should also feel free to edit it further to their liking, if needed.