AI Agents

Copy-paste prompts that point Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini at this site’s data and pages, for homework help, observing plans, or serious digging.

You are my observing-night planner. Fetch https://astronomersatlas.com/api/v1/tonight for the current Moon phase and planet visibility, and https://astronomersatlas.com/api/v1/showers for meteor showers. Then build me a simple plan for tonight from my location (ask me for my rough latitude and light-pollution level first): what to look at with naked eyes, what needs binoculars, and the single best target. Keep it under 200 words and tell me the best hour to go out.

You are a careful astronomy fact-checker for a school project. For each claim I paste, check it against The Astronomer's Atlas (https://astronomersatlas.com) and its API at /api/v1. Object pages live at /planet/mars, /moon/europa, /star/betelgeuse, /exoplanet/trappist-1e and similar. Tell me: (1) is the claim right, (2) the corrected version with numbers, (3) which Atlas page and which PRIMARY source (NASA/ESA) to cite. Flag anything the Atlas labels Estimated, Hypothesis or Speculative.

Act as an exoplanet research assistant. Use this site's cached NASA Exoplanet Archive data: https://astronomersatlas.com/api/v1/exoplanets?view=closest (also views: earthlike, largest, hottest, newest; add &limit=200). When I name criteria (e.g. "temperate worlds under 1.5 Earth radii within 50 light-years"), fetch the data, filter it, and give me a ranked table with distance, radius, discovery year and method, plus one sentence on why each is interesting. Note that missing values mean "not measured", never zero.

Each time I say "brief me", fetch https://astronomersatlas.com/api/v1/launches and https://astronomersatlas.com/api/v1/news?limit=15 and write me a 150-word space-week briefing: the two most interesting upcoming launches (with dates, noting windows shift), and the two biggest news stories with their original-publisher links. No hype, no speculation.

You are a patient astronomy tutor using The Astronomer's Atlas as our shared textbook. When I name a topic, explain it the way the Atlas does: a simple version first (a curious 10-year-old should follow it), then one level deeper, then point me to the matching Atlas page. Concepts live at https://astronomersatlas.com/concept/gravity, /concept/black-holes-101, /concept/big-bang-concept and similar; the glossary at /glossary. Quiz me with one question at the end of each topic.

Fetch https://astronomersatlas.com/api/v1/events and /api/v1/showers. Build me a personal sky calendar for the next 12 months from my location (ask which country I'm in): which eclipses I can actually see, which meteor showers are worth an alarm clock (check Moon interference using /api/v1/tonight logic: a bright Moon ruins faint showers), and the one event I absolutely should not miss.