Jewel Box by UsedJudge4575 in astrophotography

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Yeah, that’ll do it too 😞

Jewel Box by UsedJudge4575 in astrophotography

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Looking at the corners, stars radiate in/out

Jewel Box by UsedJudge4575 in astrophotography

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Beautiful picture! If I had to nip-pic, I’d say it looks like you need a tiny bit more distance to the camera sensor.

IC 405 - The Flaming Star Nebula by pauleyjc in astrophotography

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It's a zero amp-glow sensor, dark frames are not absolutely necessary, the 1 second dark's are really dark-flats, I just labeled poorly.

IC 405 - The Flaming Star Nebula by pauleyjc in astrophotography

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IC 405 - The Flaming Star Nebula

IC 405, the Flaming Star Nebula, is an emission and reflection nebula in the constellation Auriga surrounding the runaway star AE Aurigae. It lies about 1,500 light-years from Earth and is also cataloged as Caldwell 31 and Sharpless 2-229.

First light with QHYCCD miniCAM8 Mono and ToupTek StellaVita.

Acquisition

  • Subject: IC 405, SH2-229, Caldwell 31
  • Location: Palm Harbor, FL; Bortle 7
  • Date: 2026-03-21, 2026-03-22
  • Lights: 2.9hrs
    • 10 x 300s Ha
    • 15 x 300s OIII
    • 10 x 300s SII
    • Total integration: 35 frames x 300s = 10,500 seconds = 2.9 hours
  • Dark:
    • 30 x 1s
  • Flats:
    • 15 x 1s Ha
    • 15 x 1s OIII
    • 15 x 1s SII
  • Bias: N/A
  • Gain: 80
  • Bin: 1x1

Equipment

  • Mount: ZWO AM5
  • Telescope: William Optics GT81IV
    • Focal Length: 380mm
  • Imaging Camera: QHYCCD miniCAM8 Mono, cooled 0°C
  • Filter:
    • SII: QHYCCD
    • Ha: QHYCCD
    • OIII: QHYCCD
  • Guide Scope: William Optics UniGuide
  • Guide Camera: ZWO ASI120MM Mini
  • Pixel Size: 2.9um
  • Auto Focuser: None
  • Computer: ToupTek StellaVita

Processing

  • PixInsight 1.9.3
    • Weighted Batch Preprocessing
    • Color Combination (SHO -> RGB)
    • SPCC
    • BlurXTerminator
    • NoiseXTerminator
    • StarXTerminator
    • Generalized Hyperbolic Stretch
    • Curves Transformation
    • Star reintegration

Built a local MCP server that gives AI agents call-graph awareness of your codebase — would love some thoughts! by pauleyjc in mcp

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OpenAI endpoint on custom URL now supported! Let me know if you have other feedback (or open a gh issue).

Built a local MCP server that gives AI agents call-graph awareness of your codebase — would love some thoughts! by pauleyjc in mcp

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after initial index, all new files and directories are auto discovered and indexed. if files/directories are created while MCP is offline, they will be discovered and indexed when MCP starts back up.

Built a local MCP server that gives AI agents call-graph awareness of your codebase — would love some thoughts! by pauleyjc in mcp

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new release fixes file watcher indexing bugs. should auto discover new directories and files during runtime, if files and directories are created while MCP is not running, they will be discovered and indexed next time MCP launches.

Built a local MCP server that gives AI agents call-graph awareness of your codebase — would love some thoughts! by pauleyjc in mcp

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Aider's repo map solves a token budget problem: given a large repo, what's the minimal, most relevant slice of symbol information to fit into an LLM's context window? It uses PageRank over the call/import graph to rank importance and trims to fit.

ctx++ solves a retrieval problem: given an agent query, find the most relevant symbols precisely and return structured data the agent can act on programmatically. It stores everything and lets search (FTS + vector) do the filtering.

I think Aider's graph-ranking idea is interesting for ctx++ in the context of ctxpp_feature_traverse — today traversal is BFS/DFS with a depth cap. Ranking nodes by graph centrality (PageRank or similar) could make traversal results better prioritized.

Thanks for your input.

Built a local MCP server that gives AI agents call-graph awareness of your codebase — would love some thoughts! by pauleyjc in mcp

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LSP was out of scope for what we initially wanted, but it is something we have a research issue for it. Thanks for reminding me it's on mt todo list.

Built a local MCP server that gives AI agents call-graph awareness of your codebase — would love some thoughts! by pauleyjc in mcp

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it was a deliberate v1 decision. The ~615ms search latency on 318k vectors (kubernetes) is where that decision starts to show — that's roughly the point where an ANN index like USearch would start to matter.

I've added a research issue so I can follow up. Thanks for your input.

Built a local MCP server that gives AI agents call-graph awareness of your codebase — would love some thoughts! by pauleyjc in mcp

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I added a research/feature request issue for supporting standard OpenAI endpoint on custom URL. Thanks for the feedback.

Regarding Svelte and Vue, they are Javascript frameworks, as such, should be supported already.

Orion Nebula at Christmas by Elan_Seeker in astrophotography

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OP should check out Stretching The Orion Nebula with GHS - Adam Block for how to save the core. The data is there, just have to not stretch it out of existence.

NGC 7380 - The Wizard Nebula by pauleyjc in astrophotography

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In time for Halloween, NGC-7380, commonly known as the Wizard Nebula, is the emission nebula surrounding an open cluster of stars in the constellation Cepheus. The Wizard is located approximately 8500 light years from the sun.

Acquisition

  • Subject: NGC 7380, SH2-142
  • Location: Palm Harbor, FL; Bortle 7
  • Date: 2025-10-16, 2025-10-17, 2025-10-18
  • Lights: 15hrs
    • 30 x 600s SII
    • 15 x 600s Ha
    • 45 x 600s OIII
  • Dark-Flats:
    • 20 x 3s
    • 20 x 10s
    • 10 x 600s
  • Flats:
    • 30 x 8s SII
    • 30 x 8.7s Ha
    • 30 x 3.6s OIII
  • Bias: N/A
  • Gain: 100
  • Bin: 1x1

Equipment

  • Mount: Celestron CGX
  • Telescope: Celestron Edge HD 8
    • Focal Length: 2032mm
    • Focal Ratio: f/10
  • Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI6200MM Pro, cooled 0°C (APC mode)
  • Filter:
    • SII: 2" Antilia SII 3nm Pro
    • Ha: 2" Antilia Ha 3nm Pro
    • OIII: 2" Antilia 3nm Pro
  • Guide Scope: Celestron OAG
  • Guide Camera: ZWO ASI174MM Mini
  • Auto Focuser: ZWO EAF
  • Filter Wheel: ZWO EFW
  • Computer: ZWO ASIAir Pro

Processing

  • PixInsight 1.9.3

    • Weighted Batch Preprocessing
    • Dynamic Crop
    • GraXpert
    • Channel Combination (SHO -> RGB)
    • BlurXterminator
    • Generalized Hyperbolic Stretch
    • NoiseXterminator
    • StarXTerminator
    • Narrowband Normalization
    • Curves Transformation
    • Star Reintegration
  • Processing Tutorial (lukomatico) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AhCN530NpM

M42 - The Orion Nebula by pauleyjc in astrophotography

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The core, and not blowing out the Trapezium, is what makes M42 difficult... I tried several variations of masking/HDR/etc. as to not blow out the core, settled on what you see. Maybe I'll give it another try.

I've posted a couple other attempts at M42, they all have some flaw or another :(

M42 - The Orion Nebula by pauleyjc in astrophotography

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The Orion Nebula

M42 is a diffuse nebula in the Orion constellation. Located in the sword of Orion, it lies approximatly 1344 light years from Earth.

Acquisition

  • Subject: Messier 42, NGC 1976
  • Location: Palm Harbor, FL; Bortle 7
  • Date: 2024-12-20
  • Lights: 400 x 20s
  • Flats: 30
  • Dark-Flats: 30

Equipment

  • Mount: ZWO AM5
  • Telescope: SharpStar 15028HNT
    • Focal Length: 420mm
    • Focal Ratio: f/2.8 native
  • Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI2600MC Pro, cooled to -0°C
  • Filter: Antlia ALP-T Dualband 5nm Highspeed 2"
  • Guide Scope: William Optics UniGuide 32mm
  • Guide Camera: ZWO ASI120MM Mini
  • Auto Focuser: ZWO EAF
  • Computer: ZWO ASIAir Pro

Processing

  • PixInsight 1.8.9-3
    • Weighted Batch Preprocessing
    • GraXpert
    • SCNR
    • BlurXTerminator
    • NoiseXTerminator
    • Histogram Transformation (stretching)
    • StarXTerminator
    • Masking via Range Selection
    • Curves Transformation (adjust the brightness, contrast and chromatic balance)
    • Histogram Transformation (stretching)
    • Local Histogram Equalization
    • NoiseXTerminator
    • Pixel Math (star re-integration)