New script for annotating galaxies (WIP)

Software Siril
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Hi there,

I’ve started working on a python script for Siril, mostly out of interest in the new scripting possibilities. It is a port of a similar standalone script developed by Dark Matters Discord channel user ‘helme’.
My script queries Simbad for any galaxies found in the currently loaded image, and then creates an output image result.png with

  • the original image, overlayed with Ra/Dec grid and boxes for the found galaxies
  • a tabular grid with scaled crop images of the found galaxies

There will be a basic GUI for selecting catalogs and configuring the output format. All of this is still very much work-in-progress!

The script code can be found here.
A result could look like this:

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ajeb78, lock042: I would be very much interested in your feedback and hints about stupid mistakes that I will probably have done :wink:

Grüße, Steffen

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Honestly, I don’t know enough English words to say how this script is cool.

Bravo!

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I agree with Cyril, this looks fantastic! I’ll go and have a look at the code.

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Update:
While I keep working on this script, this should be a more stable link to an up-to-date but working version:
Galaxy_Annotations.py

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As this old thread is still found by Google, I would like to give a short update:

The Galaxy Annotations script has been added to the official Siril scripts repository quite some time ago.
A lot of improvements and a completely new QT based UI have been added since, and we are meanwhile at version 1.2.7!

  • more catalogs
  • configurable colors for annotations
  • many more options for filtering and tuning the output

Feel free to try it and report any problems or improvement suggestions here!

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