h1. Monthly Meeting - 03/25/2025
Slides with all the informations are attached to this page.
This monthly meeting was recorded.
Monthly Meeting Recording: https://youtu.be/tchUh6CVy-w
h2. Agenda:
- Review of activities from the last month. How do you all feel about the alert system?
- Update on the pre-processing manual.
- Update on KNC Utilities (FORGE, Youtube, etc)
- Update on social media posts.
- Update on monthly photo challenge: Deep Sky Objects or other images!
- Update on topic requests. This form has had a few submissions. Thank you!
- POSTPONED: A short presentation by KNC member, Thierry Midavaine, on a topic of interest; a new technology from a company called Prophesee that could be applied to CMOS arrays where you can use machine learning to analyze the rise and fade of each pixel in an image.
h2. Meeting Minutes:
- KNC Manual We’re continuing to develop the KNC Manual collaboratively, and I deeply appreciate everyone who’s already contributed. You can find the document here.
Please take a look at the first page of the document. It contains recommendations and suggested areas for edits, which help me track contributions. Thanks again to all who are taking the time to improve this manual!
KNC Manual - Software List
If you’d like to contribute a short video or written summary on how to use any astronomy-related software you're familiar with, please feel free to send them to me! You can also add new tools or software suggestions directly into the list on the manual doc (see above). These will be especially helpful for new members.Seestar Real-Time Alert System by Heinz-Bernd Eggenstein
We’re excited to share a community-made alert system developed by Heinz-Bernd!
GitHub Repo: https://github.com/Bikeman/SeestarPhotometricWatchdog
Quick Summary:
This is a work-in-progress collection of simple scripts that enables on-the-fly photometry with the ZWO Seestar series telescopes. Its goal is to detect real-time variability. For example, to catch the eruption of recurrent novae like T CrB. It’s designed to run on a Raspberry Pi connected to the same network as the telescope, automatically pulling images via the Seestar’s SMB share. The telescope can be left recording unattended, and the system will notify the user if significant brightness changes are detected.
Slack Channels to Mute
Feel free to mute #fink-knc-lc and #fink-mangrove for now, as these are not active or relevant at the moment.KNC Hub or "Wiki": Forge
You can always find the latest updates and meeting notes here:https://forge.in2p3.fr/projects/kilonova-catcher/wiki
If you're having any issues accessing the Forge, please respond to this email thread.General Paper on KNC Process
We’ve started initial conversations on the possibility of a general paper detailing the scientific workflow and photometric analysis done within KNC. Stay tuned!Don’t Forget: Non-detections Matter
Even when you don’t detect anything, uploading your images is valuable! Nondetections support cross-confirmation with other telescopes and help us establish upper limits. Please continue sharing them via the usual upload channels and the KNC website.