marybarr

On 19/11/2023 at 21:52, Ags said:

I am trying to bag a few asteroids next year, so I decided some finder charts would be helpful, so I am working on a book to guide me through the coming year. The format is simple - just some widefield overview charts to show what's up, and the detailed charts showing stars down to magnitude 11 to pick out the little things in the star field. The data is coming from the NASA Horizons service.

I am hoping to make a few animations of the fainter ones, and of course some naked-eye spotting of the brighter ones.

Here are a few sample pages (note there is currently a bug in the RA/DEC grid causing it to be horribly out of alignment):

I am rebuilding my code for generating charts to make them more modular and layered, so there are a few issues at the moment with label scaling, clip boxes and so on, but I hope once it is done my codebase will be a lot more maintainable! It's good that in my university I have a course in astrology, and a good professor, who helps me a lot with that process by providing some information and recommendations. And you know, for me writing a book is easier than writing a paper. Sometimes it takes me a lot of time and not I can succeed. From time to time I use https://essays.edubirdie.com/pay-for-essay because for me it's much better than the missed deadline. And I dedicate a lot of time to my book, but I hope to find a balance and work on those skills because education is also important.

Amazing book idea.

Is it hard to work on such a project?