Astroterm: A Planetarium for Your Terminal

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ricq

Nice to combine with the Astrological CPU Scheduler: https://github.com/zampierilucas/scx_horoscope

isolli

Very, very distantly related to the topic, but it reminded me of the Cosmo Phase watch from Casio (CGW-50), released in the 80s [0]

Having stars and planets at your fingertips...

[0] https://www.casio.com/us/watches/50th/Heritage/1980s/

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nvmdbljstm

Regardless of whether it’s useful or not, the level of creative intelligence is impressive

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S0y

It's pretty refreshing to see such a nice and readable README. vibe coders, please take notes.

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butlike

Reminds me of `phoon` which shows the current phase of the moon in ascii

https://www.acme.com/software/phoon/

`brew install phoon`

drob518

Gotta be honest. This application seems like a mismatch for a TUI. I’m a TUI lover in general, but I would have gone a different direction.

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jubalizer

This is really cool. I've managed to set this up as my default screensaver in Omarchy. It tracks the sky from my house. Awesome!

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nextliftoff

Well done, any plans to show other space objects too? Like the ISS or Starlink? One thing I ran into when tracking satellites in the browser: CelesTrak's TLE files skip satellites with six-digit catalog numbers, which is most of what's been launched lately, so new Starlinks just weren't there. Their CSV files have them tho.

jaekwon

Similar concept but for a social network: gno.world

aamargulies

Some nice arguments:

astroterm -cub --city=Seattle -t 2 -l 2

superkickstart

Could this be set up as dynamic motd in the terminal?

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slybot

ASCII-rendered visuals looks pretty decent.

After reading the first sentence, I cannot stop imagining some Rust people cannot stop salivating at the prospect to a version saying, "written in Rust", "safe", etc. ~

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