Receiving NASA’s GCN Kafka Feed

Ground Coordinates Network (GCN)

We get two kinds of data: notices and more human readable circulars.

Subscribe to Space Data

There are four different types of data and 122 notice types.

Custom Python Library

pip3 install gcn-kafka

We can do a quick Python test to see if we get any data.

RESOURCES:

GCN - Missions - IceCube

Frequently Asked Questions

Kafka Client Setup

Rubin Observatory

Alert Brokers

General Coordinates Network

GitHub - nasa-gcn/gcn-kafka-python: Official Python client for the General Coordinates Network…

GitHub - confluentinc/confluent-kafka-python: Confluent's Kafka Python Client

Start Streaming GCN Notices

Schema Browser

GCN - Documentation - Schema Browser - v3.0.0 - gcn/notices/icecube/lvk_nu_track_search

Sample Code

Kafka Notices via GCN - IGWN | Public Alerts User Guide

GitHub - nasa-gcn/gcn-kafka-python: Official Python client for the General Coordinates Network…

GCN - General Coordinates Network

GCN

IVOA Recommendation - Sky Event Reporting Metadata

GCN: General Coordinates Network

GCN - Missions - Swift

GitHub - nasa-gcn/gcn-schema: Unified multi-mission schema for GCN Notices

GitHub - nasa-gcn/gcn-raspberry-pi-demo: An educational, interactive demonstration of…

JSON Schema - Creating your first schema