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Astrophotography visibility plotting and planning tool

29 pointsby NKosmatoslast Thursday at 7:33 PM5 commentsview on HN

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maxnoetoday at 7:05 AM

If you are more into doing this locally than using a Webservice, have a look at astroplan based on astropy.

https://astroplan.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

bhoustontoday at 7:31 AM

This reminds me of this submission to Hacker News recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46330012

blackhaztoday at 8:20 AM

Very nice tool. If you don't mind, I've linked to it from our observatory: https://www.alnitakobs.com/telescope/

A widget version would be nice!

lanthadetoday at 4:16 AM

Interesting tool, would probably be super useful if I had more knowledge of the things floating around out there. I'm usually just concerned with photographing the galactic core on dark nights. I didn't have enough domain knowledge to figure that out with this tool though. I use PhotoPils on my iOS devices for astrophotography planning and that works great for my limited level of knowledge.

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