I’ve been using my Seestar S50 to get times of minimum (TOM’s) for the legacy EB’s and it seems to be working well. (I promise I’ll report all of those TOM’s.) I generally set the scope up to run all night controlled by NINA. I was spending a not insignificant time figuring out what to observe on a given night an making up my observing plans for NINA.
Well I asked Claude for help and I got a graphical tool as an HTML file to plan each night’s observations along with an ability to throw out a target template to import into NINA to run the night’s session. This has saved me tons of time.
I got Claude to convert the remaining pdf predictions from the Milwaukee Astronomical Society site into a single Excel workbook which would highlight the current date and a button to hide the columns that were not eclipsing tonight.
I also had it make a graphical display of a visual program for when stars would be visible between evening and morning twilight using my local obstructed horizon.
It’s kind of amazing to this old fotch how much easier this made my sessions. This is all using it for just a few days. I know nothing about coding or anything else technical.
Hi Ken,
I’ll gladly do that. Let me “de-customize” them a bit. There are some parameters hard coded for my site in there and it would make them a little more friendly for a user to be able to enter their own latitude, longitude, etc.
How do you suggest I share them once they are ready? I didn’t think that something like that could be uploaded here.
I’ve been using AI quite heavily recently for spectroscopy-related projects. One example is a web-based analysis tool I developed together with ChatGPT for monitoring spectral lines like H-alpha in objects such as T CrB.
It started as a simple EW/FWHM measurement script and evolved into a much more capable tool with emission/absorption support, magnitude-corrected line measurements, configurable wavelength analysis, plots, time series, Docker deployment, etc.
What impressed me most is not just the coding itself, but how fast you can iterate on ideas and test scientific workflows even without being a professional developer.
Thanks and interesting. I use ChatGPT and ask questions about features of my spectra. From time to time I ask ChatGPT to analyze my spectra too.
Rainer
Tim:
It is possible to link a cloud file or upload certain file formats to a post. I think it would be best to start a topic under “Technology>Instrumentation & Equipment” rather than “Community”? Might be ideal to have a subcategory set up a specific to this topic? In the interim, perhaps we could also talk offline? I will try to send you an email offline under Profile?
Ken