plan_session
Generate an observing plan for any location and date, returning the best celestial objects grouped by evening, midnight, and pre-dawn, scored by observability.
Instructions
Generate an observing session plan for a given location and date. Returns the best celestial objects to observe grouped by time window (evening, midnight, pre-dawn), scored by observability.
Tool call template
Replace each placeholder with a value matching the input schema. Only required parameters are included; add optional parameters as needed.
{
"id": 1,
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"method": "tools/call",
"params": {
"arguments": {
"latitude": "<latitude>",
"longitude": "<longitude>"
},
"name": "plan_session"
}
}Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| date | No | Date in ISO 8601 format (defaults to today) | |
| types | No | Object type codes to include (e.g. ["G", "PN", "OCl"]) | |
| latitude | Yes | Observer latitude in degrees (-90 to 90) | |
| longitude | Yes | Observer longitude in degrees (-180 to 180) | |
| minAltitude | No | Minimum peak altitude in degrees (default 15) | |
| maxMagnitude | No | Maximum (faintest) visual magnitude to include |