Starplot - New version released
🎉 New version of Starplot is available!
The new minor version, v0.15.7, includes a few small changes to make it easier to build AI agents that use Starplot as a tool:
- Changes sky object models to Pydantic models
- Adds a
sqlkwarg to all object selection/plotting methods - Makes
DsoTypean enum - Improves a few doc-strings
These changes are especially useful when using AI frameworks like PydanticAI. Future versions of Starplot will build upon these initial changes and make it even easier to use Starplot with AI tools.
I’ve been experimenting a lot with PydanticAI lately, and it’s pretty cool to be able to write a simple prompt and some configuration code to build an agent that creates a sky map from text like “create a map of the entire sky as seen from Lone Pine, CA on August 25, 2025 at 9pm, and make the background dark gray and the stars light yellow.” I’ll share some example code in future emails!
Introducing the All Sky Map!
Excited to share the first printed map created with Starplot is now available! It's a map of the entire night sky, printed on waterproof and tear-resistant paper. It includes stars down to magnitude 6, all constellations, all Messier objects, and more!
This is something I've been working on for over six months, so it's super exciting to finally be real!
P.S. Starplot stickers are available too :)
Have you published something using Starplot?
If you've used Starplot for a research paper, book, or anything really (e.g. an app), I'd love to hear about it! I recently created a publications page on the website to start listing them there.
Thanks for reading, and happy starplotting!
Steve Berardi
steve@starplot.dev