A small collection of scripts and utilities I’ve built to support astronomy data processing, equipment automation, and observatory workflow. Source code for each tool is available on GitHub.
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SharpCap Session Analyzer
Analyzes SharpCap session logs into clear, structured reports. It extracts capture-sequence activity, guiding and dithering events, autofocus runs, meridian flips, and thermal focus corrections, then summarizes session diagnostics. Reports are available in JSON, CSV, and plain-text formats, making it easier to review observing sessions and investigate issues.
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PHD2 Session Analyzer
PHD2 Session Analyzer is a Python tool for analysing PHD2 guiding logs. It extracts dithering and settling results, guiding configuration, RA/DEC errors, SNR trends, possible cloud-related events, and timeout patterns, producing clear session reports and CSV data for astrophotography troubleshooting and long-term performance comparison.
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Unsupervised X-ray Source Detection in XMM-Newton with HDBSCAN
Master’s thesis project applying HDBSCAN — a density-based clustering algorithm — to detect X-ray source candidates directly from raw XMM-Newton EPIC-pn event files. Validated over 100 observations across 4 hyperparameter profiles, achieving median matching distances of ~3.35 arcsec against the official SAS pipeline.
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Reading BME280 Sensor on Windows 11 via USB-I2C (CH341T_V3)
Python service running on Windows 11 that reads a BME280 sensor via USB-I2C (CH341T_V3), publishes temperature, humidity and pressure to Home Assistant over MQTT, and feeds SharpCap’s Observing Conditions in real time.
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SharpCap EQMOD PPEC auto enable
SharpCap startup script that waits for the mount to connect and begin sidereal tracking, then checks and enables PPEC through EQMOD/EQASCOM. It verifies the resulting state and reports the outcome. Requires a PPEC curve already recorded on the mount.
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SharpCap Focus Sequencer
Provides thermal focus correction for SharpCap sequences. It applies temperature-based corrections between exposures using a pre-calibrated TCF coefficient, helping keep stars sharp without interrupting guiding.
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SharpCap Focus Temperature
Extracts autofocus results from SharpCap logs, filters outliers, fits a focus–temperature regression, and calculates the TCF for temperature compensation.