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jdszekeres

@jdszekeres

Joined June 4th, 2026

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Long-time programmer and amateur photographer

Working on: Astrophotography Tools
Ship Pending review

I built a reinforcement Machine Learning model that finds out what photo editing settings best replicate a filter.

Photographers: Have you ever seen someone post an amazing before and after photo, but you have no idea what settings they used? Have no fear, just run this program overnight with the photos and find out what settings those gatekeepers used.

How to try it:

If you don’t want to train a model overnight, you can download cli.exe from releases to try it out with a model I trained on my yellow-tinted sunglasses.

If you do want to train a model, gather before/after photos and follow the detailed instructions in the readme.

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first full model training and it went TERRIBLE. My scoring was based on the histogram for the image, so color is not preserved :cry-cursed: . These photos have very similar average light values. I’m going to rerun the model with a new scoring algorithm that scores each color channel individually.

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I’ve added the first draft of alarm clock code. It fetches time over NTP and plays the Monty Python Lumberjack song at alarm time (Because it plays right after the Dead Parrot Sketch in “And Now for Something Completely Different”).

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Completed what is hopefully my final design for the enclosure. It features both the buttons and screen on the top, which differs from the guide, but don’t worry, It’s all going to be turned sideways in the end. Also, if you look very closely, you’ll see that my buzzer hole is in the shape of a parrot that is resting/pining for the fjords

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Hi, Hola, Bonjour, and welcome to my Blare devlogs. During this first session I’ve created my PCB and KiCad and imported it into Onshape.

To make my project unique I am going to add a web control interface as well and I’ve added clipart and quotes from Monty Python Dead Parrot Scene to the PCB silkscreen

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In this ship, I:

  • Finally got to fixing the UI, making it more space-themed (i.e stars on every page background with comets, zero-g floating cards, comsic latte color scheme)
  • Added planets and other visible celestial objects to the FOV preview
  • Made the Bortle Scale indicator work by building my own light pollution map from the CU Boulder VIIRS dataset

Check out this photo of the moon I took!

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I fixed the Bortle Scale by building my own light pollution map from scratch using a light pollution scattering kernel using the CU Boulder VIIRS dataset.

Previously, the dataset I used didn’t have enough labels for each bortle scale and had country borders, which screwed with what the expected light pollution is.

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I’ve taken your feedback from the last ship and I’ve started work on a more space-y theme for this project. So far, I’ve switched up the color scheme to a dark blueish-purple and comsic latte (The average color of the universe). I also added a procderual starfield with comets in the background. Also, check out the homepage, the page cards also float around like they’re in microgravity!

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I did a lot of space saving (pun intended) to reduce the offline cache size by about 0.7 Mb to 3.8 Mb by better compressing images and minifying code and JSON. I also had to do an emergency fix for mobile, where it wasn’t working on certain phones.

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I added FOV preview and hyperfocal distance calculator tools to the site, as well as adding the Milky Way to the star chart. Lastly, I added a guide to help newer astrophotographers get comfortable with astrophotography. Here’s a photo I took of some star trails in the Dolomites.

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I added a FOV preview, which shows how the 110 messier objects appear in photos based on your camera sensor size and lens focal length. It’s very useful for deep space imaging.

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