For several months I've been building a software library of Astronomical components for website developers who use the Google Angular framework. With the library I also deployed a sample application on the web that demonstrates some of its capabilities. Last week when I joined RoboScopes I added your geographic coordinates so that now you can see where the Sun, Moon, and planets are in real time. One of my newest additions is a nifty component for visualizing the phases of the Moon over the next 30 days.
You can find it here:
https://u235-astro-library.now.sh
There is no log-in, no cookies, no tracking whatsoever. It's just a little web app that calculates positions of the Sun, Moon, and planets every second, and the phases of the Moon once per minute. There is never any need to refresh the browser. In fact you can be out of wi-fi and cellular range and the little web app will continue keeping you up to date.
I've tested it in Firefox, Chrome, IE11, and Edge browsers, as well as my Android phone. If you have any problems on your device, please let me know.
Brian
Brian, thats pretty darn good to be fair, would you be offended if we tried to incorporate this into the Telemetry page ?
Steve
You can find it here:
https://u235-astro-library.now.sh
There is no log-in, no cookies, no tracking whatsoever. It's just a little web app that calculates positions of the Sun, Moon, and planets every second, and the phases of the Moon once per minute. There is never any need to refresh the browser. In fact you can be out of wi-fi and cellular range and the little web app will continue keeping you up to date.
I've tested it in Firefox, Chrome, IE11, and Edge browsers, as well as my Android phone. If you have any problems on your device, please let me know.
Brian
Brian, thats pretty darn good to be fair, would you be offended if we tried to incorporate this into the Telemetry page ?
Steve
I've attached a small screenshot of the Moon phases on my device.
The date format is local to the settings on your device, so it will look different in different parts of the world. One concern I have is whether the date has enough room within the space I've given it without wrapping or some other ugliness.
Please let me know if there are any issues.
Thanks,
Brian
The date format is local to the settings on your device, so it will look different in different parts of the world. One concern I have is whether the date has enough room within the space I've given it without wrapping or some other ugliness.
Please let me know if there are any issues.
Thanks,
Brian
Thank you, Phil. I do like that Moon Phase display!
The other day I was planning my next AP project. I have a certain galaxy in mind. To help with the planning I used another web site that I developed that essentially solves the CCD Equation. It allows me to describe the properties of the object, my telescope, the camera, and my observatory...then I get to play with exposure and frame count. It calculates the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of each stack. (I discovered that total SNR of 30 or more gets me into Image Of The Day (IOTD) territory at AstroBin.) I've used it for my own imaging as well as my friend in the UK. Since then our images have reached new heights.
So as I worked through my analysis I thought to myself how convenient it would be to have a dedicated website for RoboScopes where all I had to do was select the Pier and the object of interest. I could then manipulate exposure and frame count. In return it would calculate the all-important SNR figures as well as cost depending on my subscription level. I could save these jobs to a database and retrieve them at any time for further analysis or input into RoboScopes' booking system.
Just something I am working on. When complete I am happy for others to use it. If RoboScopes' engineering team would like to eventually integrate it into your website I am happy with that. Most of my stuff is MIT licensed at GitHub. I could easily port it to vanilla JavaScript and PHP. Like I mentioned I am an Angular engineer, so my stuff is written in TypeScript using Express and Node on the server and MongoDB on the backend but I have done plenty of PHP development and MySQL.
Brian
The other day I was planning my next AP project. I have a certain galaxy in mind. To help with the planning I used another web site that I developed that essentially solves the CCD Equation. It allows me to describe the properties of the object, my telescope, the camera, and my observatory...then I get to play with exposure and frame count. It calculates the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of each stack. (I discovered that total SNR of 30 or more gets me into Image Of The Day (IOTD) territory at AstroBin.) I've used it for my own imaging as well as my friend in the UK. Since then our images have reached new heights.
So as I worked through my analysis I thought to myself how convenient it would be to have a dedicated website for RoboScopes where all I had to do was select the Pier and the object of interest. I could then manipulate exposure and frame count. In return it would calculate the all-important SNR figures as well as cost depending on my subscription level. I could save these jobs to a database and retrieve them at any time for further analysis or input into RoboScopes' booking system.
Just something I am working on. When complete I am happy for others to use it. If RoboScopes' engineering team would like to eventually integrate it into your website I am happy with that. Most of my stuff is MIT licensed at GitHub. I could easily port it to vanilla JavaScript and PHP. Like I mentioned I am an Angular engineer, so my stuff is written in TypeScript using Express and Node on the server and MongoDB on the backend but I have done plenty of PHP development and MySQL.
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You are a clever man Brian and I do admire your skills in all of this. I do hope you will be able to use it in an amazing way. Simon
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