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Michael Aye

@michael.planetarypy.space
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Planetary data cruncher, wannabe musician, dad to human and dogs (all of them.) ORCID: orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0002-… Profile image credits: Artistic vision of CO2 jets on Mars. Published by NASA; artist: Ron Miller.

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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 01/10/2026
for creating good matplotlib plots, AI/Claude REALLY shines. the amount of fine-tuning I am able to do without looking up the 20 year old APIs that sometimes (not always) are counter-intuitive or just "aged"... it's cool how good looking products one can achieve in less time!
plot of Ganymede flyby observation planning, including boxes for regions of interest and colored ribbons indicating illumination state and smearing evaluation
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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 23/08/2026
When you go to Germany, try to find a “Grand Marnier” cake, if possible in German marzipan capital “Lübeck”. The name comes from using the Grand Marnier liquor to soak the base in.
German Marzipan based cake called “Grand Marnier”
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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 25/07/2026
That’s no Aperol Spritz, more like an Aperol Splash! ;)
Large glass of Aperol Spritz at the beach
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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 11/07/2026
First time tennis since 10 years. Glorious weather with 27 degrees and clouds on and off, just a perfect day!
Foto of dusty tennis socks on foot after a long day of tennis
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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 11/07/2026
First time tennis since 10 years. Glorious weather with 27 degrees and clouds on and off, just a perfect day!
Foto of dusty tennis socks on foot after a long day of tennis
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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 17/06/2026
I still could cry about how beautiful and motivating big software migrations are these days thanks to AI. This always gets me over the scary hump of migrations!
Screenshot of AI created software migration plan
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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 19/05/2026
Moon with Venus and Jupiter, shot in Madrid while at the JUICE Science working team meeting.
Moon Venus and Jupiter shot with iPhone
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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 01/05/2026
#planetarypy tidbits: When you type "plp spicer Pluto" it will realize it needs the plu60.bsp kernel and fetch it for you before it shows you a small tidbit of info in the terminal:
Screenshot of terminal CLI command "plp spicer Pluto" showing the automatic download of a required SPICE kernel, followed by showing the radii,  current Solar constant, and sub-solar point coordinates
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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 30/04/2026
#planetarypy (plp) now gives you terminal access to product_id related metadata with a simple "plp meta mro.hirise.edr PSP_00392_0985". Working for 78 registered index files that automatically download with plp as well.
metadata table for HiRISE obsid PSP_003092_0985summary table of supported index files in planetarypy
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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 18/04/2026
wow, @anthropic.com projecs are really useless are they? I got 4 pdfs and 2 15 MB html files in this project and that's too much? plus, files created in one chat are not even automatically known by other chats in the same project, and i would have to manually download and then upload them so that
screenshot of Claude projects complaining about project knowledge size...
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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 11/04/2026
Celebratory whiskey deployed.
Celebratory  whiskey deployed with Artemis 2 floating on the projector screen as background
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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 07/04/2026
Peek-a-boo! ;)
Sun coming up behind Moon for the Orion capsule, from my 3D plotter of the Artemis flyby trajectory (+- 1 day)
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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 07/04/2026
I increased the time resolution of the HTML plotting file, but it's a balance to strike. increases file size to 86 MB: figshare.com/ndownloader/... Sun behind Moon!
Screenshot of 3d plot of Sun behind Moon from point of view of Orion (approx.)
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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 06/04/2026
This feels almost like a chicken race of a flyby. Orion turning towards the approaching Moon. But then missing it. Play with the 3D of the flyby via my interactive HTML file with a Plotly 3d plot from here: figshare.com/ndownloader/... (55 MB dowload). Based on NASA's trajectory data, converted
Screenshot of a plotly 3d plot of the Artemis flyby
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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 02/04/2026
Have you seen the other things archive.org is offering related to it?
Screenshot of archive.org offering related itemd to the Apollo 11 capcom music album we found.
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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 01/04/2026
Good call!
Photo of celebratory whiskey, iPad showing PBS/NASA stream and projector showing space flight now stream
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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 01/04/2026
Liftoff of #artemis2 !!
Photo of my projector screen showing the liftoff of Artemis 2.
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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 15/02/2026
Wow perplexity fails with scientifically researched health information. ;)
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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 15/02/2026
Not claiming they think but there are definitely quality differences.
Asking Claude the same question that was incorrectly answered by ChatGPT. Claude nails it.
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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 27/01/2026
Here are the numbers until back to 2010:
plot of LPSC abstract submissions 2010-2026
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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 15/11/2025
Trust me, you don’t need the alpro barista milk for a nice vegan cappuccino. The standard “not milk” (1.5 % fat here) is doing foam just fine. The barista has more sugar in it though, in case you fancy that.
Photo of a beautiful cappuccino using vegan milkVegan milk bag alpro “Not milk”
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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 29/10/2025
@quarto.org hi lovely quarto folks! just wanted to let you know you that your dark theme CSS needs some work, code is hard to read on this page:https://quarto.org/docs/journals/authors.html#author-schema
screenshot from a hard to read config file for quarto docs.
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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 16/10/2025
@howard.fm hi! Brave browser doesn’t like some tracker you seem to use to see how many people click on the solveit link in your email.
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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 16/07/2025
Screenshot of iPhone text replacement for Weywot
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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 08/07/2025
If I’m not missing something one needs a 2 equation system to calculate the amount of descaled when all you are given is the recommended ratio with water and a target overall volume? I was surprised initially, thought it can be done with the rule of three. See, maths IS good for everyday stuff.
Piece of paper with calculations.
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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 05/07/2025
You saw it here first! Working on a public release, a colleague will talk about this and heliophysics Python library at #scipy2025 so I quickly needed to finish our initial logo draft. It’s a cool 1950 Sci-fi look, isn’t it?
Logo for the upcoming planetarypy Python library. It shows a planet with rings and a few orbiting moons, underlined with capital letters PLANETARYPY
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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 28/05/2025
Another win for #homeassistant: regular internet speed tests.
Graphs from the HomeAssistant server showing internet speed test results and precipitation amounts
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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 16/05/2025
The fuck? I don’t see an obvious move for black.
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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 09/05/2025
The IKEA shopping professionell :)
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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 18/04/2025
Miniaturization never ceases to amaze me. This little thing is a complete computer capable of HDMI connection and WiFi. It will serve as my remote 3d printer control named OctoPi. I previously had the original Raspberry Pi but its specs aren’t sufficient anymore for the OctoPi server.
Raspberry Pi Zero on top of a MacBook Air 15 inch
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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 14/04/2025
@vscode.dev so, trying out GH copilot, your docs say I should be able, in the free version, to change the model provider. but the list popping up with the command palette only shows 4o, and the chat even claims integration with other LLMs is not supported?
screenshot of command palette for "Change completions model" of VScode editor showing only one option, the GPT-4o copilot.
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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 04/04/2025
The way Georgian kitchen is combining cheese and bread in several dishes is just heaven on Earth. This one is called Adjarian Khachapuri. The bread is being dismantled from the side to fish out molten cheese with egg!
Picture of Georgian bread dish with cheese and egg
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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 01/03/2025
Bus stop sign showing a satire on Tesla: “Goes from 0 to 1939 in 3 seconds, Tesla, the swasticar ” and shows how Musk inside a Tesla is doing the Nazi salute.
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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 16/02/2025
We got a beautiful cooling curve as if somebody switched off heating. Expecting -13 C in the night. In Berlin!!
Showing temperatures of today from my weather station. Since 16:00 there’s a very clean cooling curve visible.
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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 13/01/2025
The effect of one sunny day on our weatherstation‘s battery. It was very gloomy here in recent weeks.
Display of battery voltage of weather station. Strong increase during sunny day.
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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 27/12/2024
The advantage of buying good stuff is that most likely you can still repair them after ten years with parts that fit well. Like my 10 years old ATH M50x studio headphones.
Old headphones before repair, with ear pads and headband looking quite grim, things flaking off. Headphones after repair, looking as new.
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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 13/12/2024
TFW your wife is sitting in a train going through areas with active air raid alerts... :(
Map of center part of Ukraine around Kyiv indicating active air raid alerts.
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Michael Aye @michael.planetarypy.space · 29/11/2024
@stackoverflow.com.web.brid.gy the cookie pop up renders the website unusable on iOS safari. Can’t scroll.
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