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Hello floss.social!

I've recently joined from fosstodon having previously been a first-timer to the fediverse on linuxrocks.online in around 2021.

I am a #manjaro, '#Debian and #FreeBSD user and my workflow comprises mainly of #kicad #arduino #stellarium and #kstars yes, there's a theme developing!

I am recently retired having been a Project Manager in IT

I drink #realale and follow #StockportCounty .

I do tend to post some #UKpolitics

Feel free to say hello and consider a follow..

Any Stellarium scripting experience out there?

I’d like to try my hand, but I feel like there's a gaping hole in my skillset when I look at the documentation.

I'm not a coder, but I’m good at figuring things out–I just want to know how deep the water is before I dive in.

Can I take a pre-existing script, tweak/add/remove stuff, and expect it to work? Or is some kind of compiling necessary?

Questions about the depth of my ignorance are encouraged - Good teaching requires knowledge of the student 😊

Some examples of the kind of things I want to do:
- Have some basic startup files that set different locations/projections/landscapes and visibility of planets/stars/satellites, so I can quickly load a bunch of settings to demonstrate concepts

- Have an absolutely clean startup interface (e.g., no GUI, just the ground and the sky) for when I use the program, and a “learner’s” interface with the basic controls visible at all times

- Start at one location with high light pollution, look around, then move to another location with good seeing and look around. Captions as we go.

- Still thinking about this: Some kind of script that shows the best times to view planets over a school year. This one is for when I'm encouraging Grade 9 teachers to talk about astronomy throughout the year, as opposed to the remaining time before the exam period. (e.g. This year, I really tried to encourage them to spend 15 minutes or so back in January to see planets that aren't easily visible now)

I'm sure some of that is not covered under scripting, but I have my fingers crossed.

I'm especially interested in hearing from people who don't know the difference between a div and a class and an object, as I clearly don’t, but managed to cobble some of their own scripts together in spite of that 😊

I'd be very thankful for boosts for reach.

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Qué difícil es explicar que no hay nada de lo que se afirma en tantos titulares. Cuando se lo explico a algún medio no me creen. ¿Por qué habrían de confiar en un enterado como yo cuando lo dicen todos los medios, todas las agencias, todos los influencers de mierda?

Y mientras el cielo esta tarde:
(pantallazo de #Stellarium

Can anyone tell me anything about the object OCI999.0? I found it on the catalogue of my Dwarf II, and it seems to be an open cluster with a nebula.

I cannot find anything about it! Not even which catalogue it is from!

Edit: Mystery solved with the aid of a co-worker .

It is actually OCL 999.0 aka Trumpler 24 . The issue was a font failure, I vs l.

#dwarfii #stellarium #astronomy

@CosmicRami ? @futzle ? @ariaflame ?

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This is of course a rather fake composite of several processings of 60 images (Canon G7 X, 3s, ISO 400, 35mm equivalent FL):
1) Median of unaligned frames for the roof and tree
2) Median aligned on stars, erased around the roof and tree to show #1
3) Max aligned on stars for ISS, blended in "lighten only" mode, with other stuff blacked out
Alignment and stacking with @gmic and variously tortured in gimp

Bonus: #Stellarium planning image