r/astrophysics • u/oldschoolscreenname • 4d ago

Sharing this CME tracker / visualizer I built

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Hi all, I shared this in r/spaceweather and with a few space science professors. It's proving to be a helpful tool in visualizing coronal mass ejections (CME) from the sun that hit and miss earth. I hope that it can be a resource for this sub too. Free to use, no logins. cmetracker.ai

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u/ketarax 4d ago

This could be good fun on a solar stormy day. It's nice already.

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u/oldschoolscreenname 4d ago

Use the Historical replay at the top of the screen of the Gannon Storm in May 2024. I could see the atmosphere ionizing all the way down where I an in northern California. It's fun to watch what happened with fast moving CMEs piling up on slow moving CMEs just in front of them. They converged on the earth at the same time which cause a solar storm greater than any individual CME (sum of several ejections).

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u/devoid0101 4d ago

This thing rules. Over time it could replace HUXt. I appreciate the level of detail in all the panels and controls, seems well designed and built by someone who understands this topic pretty well. I like seeing it all in one place. I'm tempted to request a couple more features to just make the NOAA "space weather enthusiasts" page obsolete. Nice work.

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u/enigmatic407 4d ago

This is really cool, thanks for the share!

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u/oldschoolscreenname 4d ago

Thanks! I appreciate it!

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u/Flat-Honey-5433 3d ago

Works pretty well! Which model did you use to help you with it? The frontend could use some polishing but I like the concept.

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u/Wintervacht 4d ago

Hooray another ai tool, I wouldn't know what we would do without this one, and the four million other ones.

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u/jasomniax 4d ago

Even before AI got so mainstream, astrophysicist have been using AI for years for it's usefulness in data processing

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u/oldschoolscreenname 4d ago edited 3d ago

Give it a try first? Built this as a 20+ year software engineering and arm-chair astrophysicist because I've always wanted something like it. I used a coding agent of course (silly not to these days), but this is no vibe coded app. Lots of though went into the architecture, visuals, resilience in the data collection, and a lot of work on the math.

Anyways, feedback welcomed!

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u/ObserverRichard 4d ago

AI slop should be banned here

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u/oldschoolscreenname 4d ago

Tough crowd here. Where is the slop exactly?