Seiza's native Photoshop format plugins open and save FITS and XISF on Windows and Mac, with 16-bit or floating-point imports, Bayer conversion, ICC profiles and source metadata retention. Version 0.5.7 adds lossless Zstandard compression for XISF saves.
Read more →PulsarFab Regain grew from a camera-recovery plugin into a driver hub: cameras, rotators, filter wheels, focusers and flat panels, from more than one vendor, behind the same setup in N.I.N.A., Windows ASCOM and a cross-platform Alpaca server, all sharing one fault-tolerant recovery engine.
Read more →The Foraxx narrowband palette as a PixInsight script rebuilt for the 1.9.4 V8 runtime, with mask shaping, ratio masks and protected saturation, and as a Photoshop plugin that builds the same palette as mergeable layers.
Read more →Retryable, fault-tolerant camera capture for N.I.N.A.: the SDK runs in a Rust worker, failed downloads are retried, and direct USB drivers re-read a frame from camera memory instead of repeating the exposure. Now PulsarFab Regain, with native ASCOM and cross-platform Alpaca frontends and drivers for more than one vendor's accessories.
Read more →Field Kit combines Alpaca safety monitors into one result for N.I.N.A. and adds an absolute-HFR autofocus trigger. Version 0.1.0.9 makes that focus check part of the Advanced Sequencer's trigger workflow.
Read more →Image previews, autofocus curves, guiding graphs, and session updates from N.I.N.A. in Discord or Matrix. Pair with the hosted Hub or run locally, with optional Discord commands controlled by permissions on the observatory computer.
Read more →Seiza's 0.18 series adds saved stacking contexts and star measurements for tilt diagnostics. The core is now at 0.18.13, while the Mac and Windows apps are at 0.7.1 with resumable live folder stacking and better detection of small stars.
Read more →PSF Guard 0.9 brings per-night calibration, stack SNR curves, and optional RC-Astro processing. The latest 0.9.5 release adds previewed target merges, persistent processing, and another pass at trails in the first frames of a stack.
Read more →Resticpal wraps the restic backup engine in a quiet Windows service, tray icon, and WinUI 3 interface. It handles personal computers, metered networks, wake locks, and append-only ransomware-conscious setups.
Read more →Stack builds became a queue with a stop button, and a rebuild that only added frames resumes instead of integrating the night again. Previews now agree with the sky across a meridian flip. A server on the network requires a login — read that part before upgrading. And Windows builds are signed.
Read more →PSF Guard no longer needs a N.I.N.A. Target Scheduler database — point it at folders of FITS files and it builds the catalog itself. Also new: a calibration frame library, catalog-to-catalog sync (even between two running servers), scheduler planning, and signed desktop updates.
Read more →A new project: TopoSaic is a local-first desktop app that turns any place on Earth into a 3D-printable terrain jigsaw — real elevation data, land-cover colors, roads, rivers, and buildings, cut into watertight puzzle pieces with proper round tabs. Rust engine, live 3D preview, STL and color 3MF out.
Read more →Seiza grows from a plate solver into an imaging engine: linear calibration and live stacking, satellite track identification, background extraction and deconvolution, XISF support — plus native Mac and Windows apps on a shared C ABI. And in PSF Guard, the promised integration landed: plate-solve grading, satellite ID, and full color stack previews.
Read more →Six releases in six days: seiza becomes Siril's plate solver via a solve-field drop-in, gains Python bindings and SIP distortion, a guided Windows installer, rank-robust matching, and a shared overlay renderer on npm — with seiza-server 0.2 riding along and a PSF Guard integration up next.
Read more →Seiza gets a hosted demo: upload any sky image at seiza.fyi and get a durable solution page with interactive catalog overlays — deep-sky objects, field stars, live transients, an RA/Dec grid, and a rendered PNG export. Under the hood: a durable job queue and an astrometry.net-compatible API.
Read more →星座 — a new Rust plate-solving library: star detection, WCS fitting, and blind solving of a 24 MP field in under two seconds including building the whole-sky index. Now wired into tenrankai, where astro images get object overlays and live supernova markers.
Read more →The July 2026 era: a full posts revamp with categories and a permission-gated editor, RSS feeds, gallery-aware posts with hero click-through, embeddable post previews — and a sky map on image detail pages, drawn from the same RA/Dec metadata astrophotographers already write.
Read more →Status check on the Calcumaker 16 — a Cherry MX programmer's RPN calculator in the HP-16C tradition with arbitrary-precision math. The full software stack is done and running (try it in your browser); the three-board hardware design is in active development.
Read more →Catching a two-day-old supernova at sunset: a quick 8-minute run on the EdgeHD 9.25 captured SN 2026sqf, a fresh Type II supernova in the starburst galaxy NGC 3310.
Read more →The new release of PSF Guard learns to see what global statistics miss — partial occlusions, thin cloud veils, small clouds, and errant light — using grid metrics and classical differential photometry, with annotated images explaining every verdict.
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