Astrotify is a project that notifies you when nice things occurs from an astronomical point of view :

• when evening will be worth getting out your telescope
• daily celestial body ephemeride

Compile

To compile and run test, use maven mvn clean package

Architecture

Astrotify use Meteoblue to gather astronomical weather data near your location.

Astrotify use SkyLive to gather celestial body data.

Astrotify use Google Cloud Platform and is deployed as a Cloud Function. It is triggered by topic subscription, sent by a Cloud Scheduler on a daily basis.

Currently, Astrotify will notify you on Telegram using Astrotify Telegram Bot

Deploy

To deploy astrotify to GCP, use gcp-function-deploy.sh Astrotify also use Google Secret Manager to store/fetch Astrotify Telegram Bot API Token. Secret ID is ASTROTIFY_TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN. Astrotify will need specific env vars depending on the use case.

Check weather use case

PubSub Message will need the following env vars :

• FUNCTION : CHECK_WEATHER
• METEOBLUE_URL : Meteoblue URL for your location
• TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID : Telegram chat id where you will be notify (look at this tutorial in order to get chat Id)

Celestial Body ephemeride use case

PubSub Message will need the following env vars :

• FUNCTION : CELESTIAL_BODY
• METEOBLUE_URL : Meteoblue URL for your location, used for weather
• TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID : Telegram chat id where you will be notify (look at this tutorial in order to get chat Id)
• SKY_LIVE_URL : Sky live URL for your location, used for celestial body data
• CITY : The city where you want to observe the celestial body name
• CELESTIAL_BODY : The celestial body name