seti stars

 Slowly getting the hang of it.

asterism brocchi in vulpecula
veTEC571 on nt150s

reflection nebula ic5076 in cygnus
veTEC571 on sv550

HDR

 Finally got around to trying HDR. Same image. 2 stretches. One hard. One soft. Pictures explain it better. GIMP's layer mask and judicial use of a black paintbrush. It's almost as good as Star tools.

SASPro

GIMP layers

globular cluster m13 in hercules
atr533 on gso203

sasp scripts

update

#!/bin/bash

#pypi

cd /home/steve/setiastrosuitepro

. venv/bin/activate

pip install setiastrosuitepro --upgrade

#main

cd /home/steve/saspro-main

printf "\n ___\nbranch main\n"

git pull

pip install -e .

#dev

cd /home/steve/sasp-dev

printf "___\nbranch dev\n"

git pull

pip install -e .

exit

select

#!/bin/bash
PS3='Please enter your choice: '
options=("pypi" "main" "dev" "QUIT")
select opt in "${options[@]}"
do
    case $opt in
        "pypi")
            echo "sasp-pypi"
            /home/steve/runsasp
            ;;
        "main")
            echo "sasp-main"
            /home/steve/runsasp-main
            ;;
        "dev")
            echo "sasp-dev"
            /home/steve/runsasp-dev
            ;;
        "QUIT")
            break
            ;;
        *) echo "invalid option $REPLY";;
    esac
done

plasma launcher

[Desktop Entry]
Comment[en_US]=
Comment=
Exec=/home/steve/select-sasp.sh
GenericName[en_US]=
GenericName=
Icon=system-run
MimeType=
Name[en_US]=select-sasp
Name=select-sasp
Path=
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=true
TerminalOptions=\s--noclose
Type=Application
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false

X-KDE-Username=

weather

Two days of proper weather, but back to climate for the weekend.

Citrus. Rain. But too late and never enough. Ask the agricultores...
Oranges ripe before mandarinas. ¿Cambio climático?

m45

 Never get this right. There are 4 hours here and still rubbish. Anyway...

open cluster m45 pleiades in taurus
veTEC571 on sv550    72x4min @ hcg100

...and finally getting the hang of stars and colour in setiastrosuitepro. 

setiastrosuitepro 1.6.1

 Quite an event. These days, this is all you need. Method for Kubuntu 25.10 but should be sufficiently generic for any modern distribution.

Big call out to Franklin and the Devs at setiastro.com

mkdir setiastrosuitepro
cd setiastrosuitepro
python3.12 -m venv venv
. venv/bin/activate
pip install --no-cache-dir setiastrosuitepro

cd venv/bin
python setiastrosuitepro.py

... and yeyhhh...

upgrade
pip install setiastrosuitepro --upgrade

script
 I called it runsasp. Don't forget to chmod +x it.

Make one for pypi, main and dev perhaps.

#!/bin/bash

cd /home/steve/setiastrosuitepro

. venv/bin/activate

cd venv/bin

python setiastrosuitepro.py

plasma launcher

[Desktop Entry]

Comment[en_US]=sasp

Comment=sasp

Exec=/home/steve/runsasp

GenericName[en_US]=sasp

GenericName=sasp

Icon=/home/steve/sasp-dev/src/setiastro/images/astrosuite.png

MimeType=

Name[en_US]=sasp

Name=sasp

Path=

StartupNotify=true

Terminal=true

TerminalOptions=\s--noclose

Type=Application

X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false

X-KDE-Username=

winter solstice 2025

 

The sun reached it's most souttherly point, above the Tropic of Capricorn, today at 16:03 and Alicante will have its shortest day.