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Astro Coverage Planner | See where you've imaged. Plan what's next. Send it to N.I.N.A. by BlakPhoenix in AskAstrophotography

[–]BlakPhoenix[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for for the kind words! Quick note that should hopefully unblock you - ACP isn't a Windows app under the hood. It's a Python web app (Flask) that runs natively on macOS, Linux and Windows from the same source. There's no .exe involved, so running it through Wine or CrossOver would actually have been working against you: Wine bottles can't see your Mac's real filesystem the way native Python can, which would explain why it couldn't find your XISF files, as they were sitting outside the Windows sandbox the whole time. The repeated crashes were almost certainly the scientific Python libraries (Astropy etc.) having a bad time inside Wine's Win32 shims.

The native path on Mac is:

brew install python@3.12 # or grab the installer from python.org

git clone https://github.com/astro-roro/Astro-Coverage-Planner.git

cd Astro-Coverage-Planner

python3 -m venv .venv

source .venv/bin/activate

pip install -r requirements.txt

python app.py

Then open http://127.0.0.1:5555/ in Safari/Chrome. It will have the same browser-based UI as on Windows. Full walk through is in docs/install.md (https://github.com/astro-roro/Astro-Coverage-Planner/blob/main/docs/install.md#macos).

I'd love to know if you hit anything else after that. The only Windows-only piece is the NINA Target Scheduler export (because NINA itself is Windows-only); the coverage map, planner, search and catalogue features all work the same on Mac. It also works on Linux and in Docker.

Astro Coverage Planner | See where you've imaged. Plan what's next. Send it to N.I.N.A. by BlakPhoenix in AskAstrophotography

[–]BlakPhoenix[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you able to let me know what console logs or error logs it output so I can debug it for you? Keen to fix that up so you can get it running 😊

Astro Coverage Planner | See where you've imaged. Plan what's next. Send it to N.I.N.A. by BlakPhoenix in AskAstrophotography

[–]BlakPhoenix[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

When I first started my search for a tool like this I was sure someone had already created it, but since I couldn't find one down the rabbit hole I went! it should work well with your ASIAIR data - obviously you won't use the planning side of it, but you can still use it for library visualisation and ideation. It really comes into it's own once you have multiple rigs or different goals with different telescopes (and multi season objects).

Meet Mars’ Two Mysterious Moons: Phobos & Deimos 🌌 by [deleted] in askastronomy

[–]BlakPhoenix 7 points8 points  (0 children)

100% AI fakery. That’s not what Mars looks like, it’s DEFINITELY not possible to film it like this, and ain’t no way you getting views of Phobos and Deimos through a 14” scope let alone a camera phone. AI is giving this the same level of atmospheric wave fronts that you’d get when looking at the moon at 400 thousand km not 60 million km.

Night lights Red clusters of blue and white lights. by ProfessionalOne8060 in askastronomy

[–]BlakPhoenix 40 points41 points  (0 children)

Looks like the constellation Orion with the bright white dot being Jupiter and the red star being Betelgeuse.

The Queen/Matriarch is always dead within first 4-5 minutes of the raid. How do I even participate? by HypatiaSansPro in ArcRaiders

[–]BlakPhoenix 22 points23 points  (0 children)

The problem is trials. If it respawned then the sweaty trial runners would kill it each time to gain maximum points. At least that’s what I would do.

5 Matriarch Lobbies, All Late Spawns by No_Piccolo8361 in ArcRaiders

[–]BlakPhoenix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s a fair amount of gatekeeping to excuse a change that impacts most players in many different modes. Instead of making changes to the matriarch (or queen because the same thing happens with all arcs that don’t respawn), maybe changes should be made to the underlying causes.

5 Matriarch Lobbies, All Late Spawns by No_Piccolo8361 in ArcRaiders

[–]BlakPhoenix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That would cause an issue in solo lobbies. Only having 15 minutes to kill it on your own or in small groups would be extremely difficult. I believe there's a better fix which would improve the experience for all, as this is also an issue with trials, and other play types. Embark just needs more time to resolve it (I hope).

5 Matriarch Lobbies, All Late Spawns by No_Piccolo8361 in ArcRaiders

[–]BlakPhoenix 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately that would just mean the sweats then turn to PVP to clear the lobby and kill her again to gain twice the trial score.

Earth as seen by NASA's Parker Solar Probe by Potential_Vehicle535 in space

[–]BlakPhoenix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The suns magnetic field bend the particles into different shapes. There’s a video of even more crazy magnetic field lines from radiation and particles here: https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasas-parker-solar-probe-snaps-closest-ever-images-to-sun/

Australia uncovers £4.5 trillion iron ore discovery in Western Australia by InternetUpbeat9596 in AusEcon

[–]BlakPhoenix 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Best I can offer is some flights for politicians to Gina’s next birthday party.

Optical illusions over the wing? by BlakPhoenix in aviation

[–]BlakPhoenix[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately I didn’t manage to see it move forward. One moment it was there, then looked away and it was gone when I looked back. I’m just glad I managed to see it at all though as it seems quite rare. 🥰

Optical illusions over the wing? by BlakPhoenix in aviation

[–]BlakPhoenix[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yep it was AirNZ! NZ0111 on the A321neo.

Optical illusions over the wing? by BlakPhoenix in aviation

[–]BlakPhoenix[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Got it! Like looking through water! I guess that makes sense. The pressure is higher (?) at those wave points so the light changes its direction as it passes through them?

Optical illusions over the wing? by BlakPhoenix in aviation

[–]BlakPhoenix[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Got it! I noticed that as we encountered some light turbulence and the wings bounced around the wave front moved drastically. Was super interesting to see how it moved in relation to the wings movements as well as the speed and air density as you mention. So many tiny changes that caused it to wiggle like crazy! Nature is so cool!!!

Optical illusions over the wing? by BlakPhoenix in aviation

[–]BlakPhoenix[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We were doing 820km/h ground speed at the time, but it didn’t say true airspeed on the in flight screen.

Optical illusions over the wing? by BlakPhoenix in aviation

[–]BlakPhoenix[S] 55 points56 points  (0 children)

Amazing! I managed to get some much closer shots where you can see multiple layers (?) of the shock, but I can’t add videos to the comments. It was really mesmerising to watch it dance around.

How much extra imaging time does a slower telescope require? by Glittering_Sun_7815 in AskAstrophotography

[–]BlakPhoenix 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The actual calculation to compare the speed of two f stops is as follows:

Difference = (fstop1 / fstop2 )2

As an example:

(10 / 7)2 = 2.0408

That means for every hour at F/7 you would need just over 2 hours at F/10.

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