pozar87 / apts

Set of tools for automatic astrophotography images acquisition and processing

APTS - AstroPhotography Tool Set

Set of tools amateur astronomers and astrophotographers. Aim to help with equipment management, images acquisition and processing as well as notifying about good weather condition in nearby stargazing spots. This project was formerly known as Astro-Pożar Tool Set. Its going to be a open source library for stargazer.cloud service.

Features

• Register your optical equipment and compute all possible magnifications (including DSLR)
• Plot avaliable zoom and fov
• Register locations and check the weather at nearest night. Calculate condition goodness acording to configurable tresholds and settings
• Plot summary of weather conditions on a charts
• Check visible planets and Messier objects
• Send email with notification about weather conditions and objects

Configuration

Create a ~/.config/apts/apts.ini file with following content:

[weather]
# Settings for weather API 
api_url = <api_url>
api_key = <api_key>

[notification]
# Gmail address
email_address = <email>
# Gmail pass - use google application passwords!
email_password = <password>

apts's Issues

Add tests for T2 output handling

Fix planets visibility

For lower planets (Mercury and Venus) transit time is not good way of checking if planet is visible at night.