# Searching for Exoplanets with Node-Red

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/searching-for-exoplanets-with-node-red/14239>\
**Category:** Share Your Projects\
**Created:** [12 August 2019 05:59 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/searching-for-exoplanets-with-node-red/14239 "2019-08-12T05:59:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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**Author:** ![T0T4R4](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/t0t4r4/32/10850_2.png) [@T0T4R4](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/T0T4R4)\
**Post date:** [12 August 2019 05:59 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/searching-for-exoplanets-with-node-red/14239/1 "2019-08-12T05:59:14Z")

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**MINERVA Australis, a robotic telescope array dedicated to exoplanet research**

_How about using Node-Red to automate a multi-million dollar telescope array research facility ?_

See [my post on reddit](https://reddit.com/r/nodered/comments/cp5css/searching_for_exoplanets_with_nodered/) on how we used Node-Red for this purpose. It doesn't go too much in details, but there are a few flows screenshots 🙂

Cheers

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**Author:** ![afelix](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/afelix/32/9743_2.png) [@afelix](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/afelix)\
**Post date:** [12 August 2019 06:03 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/searching-for-exoplanets-with-node-red/14239/2 "2019-08-12T06:03:32Z")

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One word: wow

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**Author:** ![bakman2](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/bakman2/32/6207_2.png) [@bakman2](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/bakman2)\
**Post date:** [12 August 2019 07:39 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/searching-for-exoplanets-with-node-red/14239/3 "2019-08-12T07:39:21Z")

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Awesome stuff! Tomorrow's headline; node-red found aliens !? 👽

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**Author:** ![dceejay](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/dceejay/32/38_2.png) [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)\
**Post date:** [12 August 2019 07:48 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/searching-for-exoplanets-with-node-red/14239/4 "2019-08-12T07:48:30Z")

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If only we could get them to contribute code 🙂  
(I mean the 👽s )

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**Author:** ![kuema](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/kuema/32/6542_2.png) [@kuema](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/kuema)\
**Post date:** [12 August 2019 09:58 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/searching-for-exoplanets-with-node-red/14239/5 "2019-08-12T09:58:41Z")

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Really cool stuff! I'm fascinated by the diversity of use-cases of Node-RED. 👍

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**Author:** ![Bobo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/bobo/32/8401_2.png) [@Bobo](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Bobo)\
**Post date:** [12 August 2019 10:09 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/searching-for-exoplanets-with-node-red/14239/6 "2019-08-12T10:09:00Z")

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> [@dceejay](#):
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> If only we could get them to contribute code

I'm sure they are on an early version. 🌌

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**Author:** ![T0T4R4](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/t0t4r4/32/10850_2.png) [@T0T4R4](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/T0T4R4)\
**Post date:** [29 April 2020 04:39 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/searching-for-exoplanets-with-node-red/14239/8 "2020-04-29T04:39:11Z")

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Just an update on this guys, we are running now the automation on latest NodeRed (in a docker container btw) and already two (or three?) science papers have been published. The system hangs on nicely (as it always does) and we have been using Dashboard however are rewriting a user interface using the UI elements of the GoDot game engine (more on this later).

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**Author:** ![dceejay](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/dceejay/32/38_2.png) [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)\
**Post date:** [29 April 2020 08:44 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/searching-for-exoplanets-with-node-red/14239/9 "2020-04-29T08:44:50Z")

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🍿 .

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**Author:** ![T0T4R4](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/t0t4r4/32/10850_2.png) [@T0T4R4](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/T0T4R4)\
**Post date:** [10 November 2020 23:28 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/searching-for-exoplanets-with-node-red/14239/10 "2020-11-10T23:28:18Z")

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A few updates on what i've been doing since all this time. Watch out, LOTS of screenshots 🙂

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Some fun with Splunk 🙂

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**Author:** ![T0T4R4](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/t0t4r4/32/10850_2.png) [@T0T4R4](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/T0T4R4)\
**Post date:** [10 November 2020 23:36 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/searching-for-exoplanets-with-node-red/14239/11 "2020-11-10T23:36:34Z")

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So at this stage just FYI we are doing follow up of the NASA TESS Mission (can't say more 😃 ) with ground-based telescopes.

In terms of system architecture, main server is linux and hosts a central N-R instance (along with nginx/grafana/influxdb/splunk friends), then each telescope is attached to a NUC running windows with another N-R instance (same flow for each scope), and finally the Spectrograph has its own N-R instance. Weather station and allsky cameras have their own PC, windows, with data and images exposed locally by IIS (accessed by main server). Domes have their own IP Camera.

All N-R logging goes to splunk; System metrics are gathered using Telegraf on both linux and windows. Network health is monitored using PTRG. Node red on main runs in docker, with extras like Python and Powershell Core. Unfortunately as some Astro libraries are only available in Python, no choice but to execute python code either using a plugin directly into nodered or using an exec node (if it's in a separate file). Powershell core talks to the windows PCs in the domes (which have the telescope connected to) via (remote powershell over SSH).

Things runs smooth 👌