Getting info from the AAVSO API to post on social media

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Hi, I would like to get the latest magnitude (and other data) for T crb a recurrent Nova. I would like to post this information every 30 minutes to social media until the star inevitably nova’s. I’ve been searching for ways to do this and stumbled across the sky patrol api, but it returned me outdated data (from 2012 converting the julian date).

I would like to get this data from aavso vsx or any other relvant source but with the latest avalible data for star watchers like me. I am using python to do this. My intial method would be to scrape another website using some api that i can’t figure out from where they get their data.

I don’t mind making this project open source as well for others to contribute to the project, but I’m still in the early stages of this project. Right now I’m posting to bluesky, but would like to open up to other platforms in the future.

Any tips?
Thanks

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I think your clue is here : ’ but it returned me outdated data (from 2012 converting the julian date) ’

Found that last week, you need to have the latest RA/DEC for the object. You need to tinker your VSX query a bit to pick the 2026 information.

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I used the SkyPatrol AAVSO catalogue rather than the aavso api itself. I can’t find any documentation on aavso api, if you know where they are could you link them to me? thanks

As for the correct RA/DEC i tested my inputs prior on skypatrol and seem to get the latest data when converting the JD. Same input via pyasas-sn returns different results

Apparently the apparent and J2000 coordinates reveals two different RA/DEC. I choose to use j2000 since I can have one set of fixed coordinates.

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