I love this so much. Is there any open-source software that calculates where a given planet or star might be (based on your coordinates) and automatically finds the star / planet and then follows it? Can these mounts be used with such software if it exists?

Stellarium and Kstars (which has EKOS built in) are both very good planetarium software. Both can interface with indiserver, which can talk to many astronomy devices such as mounts, filter wheels, cameras. I use Kstars mainly for controlling the mount, and Stellarium mainly for finding nice targets.

Thank you!

> Is there any open-source software that calculates where a given planet or star might be (based on your coordinates)

Sure. Skyfield is a python library to calculate that (among others). Right on the front page is an example how to calculate the azimuth and elevation of Mars: https://rhodesmill.org/skyfield/

Thank you!

Yes, the OnStep firmware used here has drivers for ASCOM and Indi, which are communications protocols commonly used by most astronomy software on Windows and Linux. It also speaks the older Meade LX200 serial protocol, which is another common method.

For example, Stellarium on your phone can connect to the mount’s wifi station and control it.

Run ubuntu and setup a windows virtual machine with office etc on it. 8+ years running like this. Highly recommended.

A society that shuns children is doomed. This western mindset of separating family and work is imo toxic.

I think more people are starting to realize that the search engine content is curated, so they are starting to look at additional search engines and comparing results. Though Google casts such a large net that its hard to see a world where they become a minority player.

That's definitely a niche amplified on reddit and HN, average users don't know or care about their search engine.

it feels like the author wanted to make a very basic, yet interesting, list that would allow the reader to then go and explore other topics they might be interested in and dive into the details from there.

When China gets going on something they don't kid around.

Neat, so you are running both bootstrap and your custom css file and js file in parallel on your app? How are you guys quantifying what parts to work on?

Anytime we make a change to a screen we opt to upgrade the CSS template. So, only if we are working on that part of the application.

Typically it takes just a few minutes to switch out the CSS.

Now, there are a few very complex screens that require more effort (a lot of data viz and variable state). Those we evaluate - maybe we will punt on the upgrade – or maybe we dig in and do it if there is nothing urgent on the books.

The issue I find with a lot of these methodologies is that in the end all it does is just add even more complexity to a project.

The best projects have always been the ones that were lean. The more people you insert between the customer/requirements and the end developer, the more likely you are to develop something the customer has little use for.

I had a similar situation happen with running multiple virtual machines where their storage was a .vdi file - the files grew too big and maxed out my storage. On next boot ubuntu would not start, same error telling me disk is too full.

I had a recent backup so i just reinstalled everything. I always make sure there is some space on the disks from that moment on.

I have been using ubuntu as my main OS since 2018. Like anything it takes some time to get used to it. Once you get your particular setup dialed in, it just works.

I enjoy the consistency of being in linux for all my work. For anything that ubuntu cannot do - I have a windows VM, and a Mac VM - although I rarely start the mac VM these days.