Astrophotography Tools

I added final UI improvements ahead of shipping and reduced redundant code

Added a stacking calculator to show how well a stack of images will look based on their signal to noise ratio

Did some compression work to bring the download size down from 16 MB to only 4 MB. Mostly compressing images, but also making a new catalog, reduced catalog for stars.

So, it turns out I didn’t need to enter all those lines manually, there are saved files out there for it.

I got more constellations (Hydra, Bootes) and added offical International Astronomy Union names when applicable

Ha, I added orion and aries. This took forever b/c orion has so many connections

I’m working on an offline star chart generator. I’ve been working with Astronomy Engine and the Yale Bright Stars Catalog to find the proper motion of the stars. I’ve only added the Big Dipper, but I plan add more of the 88 IAU constellations.

I actually used my project. Here is a shot I took of Bishop Pass in the Eastern Sierra Nevada mountains.

Worked on getting the project deployed to Vercel (A lot of headaches with relative and absolute paths)

Add redlight mode to prevent eyes from getting burned while adjusting to the dark

I spent way too much time debugging how to use the data from lightpollution.it to find the light pollution index at a coordinate. Turns out they were using an off-centered projection that I used ChatGPT to decode (x = (lon + 126.44) / 0.03382; y = (-20.28 * lat) + 1862.4;)

Created the equivalent exposures tool to calculate values for each part of the exposure triangle based on other values.