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onger need to click sort after running the wizard clicking sort during a run reorders only the remaining unvisited points leaving completed rows undisturbed the wizard now automatically configures the solver for each alignment point blind solves are used by default because no pointing model exists yet at the start of a run so the mount s reported position may be significantly off the goto mode is forced to sync so the mount is updated after each successful solve the original settings are saved and restored when the run finishes is aborted or is reset refactored point generation logic to eliminate duplicated generation and conversion math in the test suite improving generator efficiency using a stateful sequence toni schriber fixed activation of the rotator button in the align module fixed effective focal length calculation to use radians in the dslr branch guide thanks to andreas ruthner guide streaming now correctly handles video stream window interaction the video window no longer pops up when guide streaming starts displays frames correctly when opened from the capture module after a guide session and now renders 16 bit mono stream frames previously only 8 bit mono and rgb were handled andreas also fixed frame binning gain and exposure sync for streaming mode when starting guide streaming the module now applies the same frame settings that captureoneframe applies for single frame captures previously streaming mode skipped this setup entirely causing stale values from other modules to remain active in the driver frame roi and binning now sync on stream start live gain updates apply immediately when the user changes the spinner during active streaming and binning exposure changes automatically stop and restart the stream added 0 001 0 01s exposure values to the guide exposure spinner for fast streaming and daytime testing rotator fixed several issues with reversed rotator state not taken into account in various rotator operations rotation now aborts if the position angle error keeps increasing due perhaps to reversed rotator behavior ekos profiles connection significantly cut down time to connect to indi web manager by skipping dns resolution if we already have an ip address specified for the remote host fixed rare crash due to dangling clientmanager pointer with test to verify the fix capture livestacking use opencv debayering by default enforce even roi selection to ensure bayer boundaries are respected always sync from indi to overwrite shadow states in the camera process account for stream_full_depth when streaming john evans added support for live stacker alt az data via seestar s30 pro it should support other telescopes in alt az mode john added a gradient removal option to post processing in live stacker fits viewer file handling use standard gzip compress instead of qt own compression algorithm support loading fits gz and xisf gz in the viewer scheduler observatory automation fixed scheduler freezes when loading esl referencing many esq files patch by tomas bugs 519294 autopark should work over multiple nights now if observatory is not started skip shutdown procedure fixed issue where post shutdown script run in infinite loop fixed scheduler and capture scripts not running inside flatpak optical trains dbus api added dbus call to set and get pictures directory fixed warning of missing devices when we already selected alternative devices in the optical train build infrastructure use ksutil to consolidate all calls to external executable so they can run correctly within a flatpak as well within flatpak run the external scripts on the host system since it may require libraries that are only available on the host system christian kemper fixed macos iconutil failure by adding 256px and 512px icon sizes rendered from the existing svg source which are required by iconutil on macos 15 sequoia wolfgang reissenberger updated the dockerfile to be based on installation scripts for all steps indi stellarsolver phd2 gsc opencv all scripts are built uniformly such that existing packages or installations are preferred if the package is missing first installing the appropriate package is tried if this fails the package is built from sources stability bug fixes fixed crash reported in crash reports kde org regarding invalid base device or message text the check for message text now occurs earlier in the process to protect against this crash milhan kim fixed test deadlock by replacing qtest mouseclick with animateclick which posts the click through the event loop and prevents tests from hanging indefinitely on qdialog exec loops fixed an issue where frequent temperature updates can cause the dark cover check to run indefinitely hy murveit fixed green lines display issue fixed solution assignment fixed crash and distorted artifacts in video streaming replaced all abs and fabs with std abs for consistency modernized signals and slots many thanks to christian kemper andreas ruthner toni schriber hy murveit john evans milhan kim wolfgang reissenberger tomas and all others who contributed fixes and improvements to this release your work makes kstars better for everyone download kstars v3 8 3 today and enjoy improved mount modeling faster connections and more reliable guiding posted by jasem mutlaq at 1 36 pm 3 comments labels flatpak guide kde kstars mount model wednesday april 8 2026 kstars 3 8 2 released kstars v3 8 2 is released on 2026 04 08 for windows linux and macos for linux users it s highly recommended to use the official kstars flatpak hosted at flathub this release brings reliability improvements across the scheduler live stacking polar alignment along with new features like passive camera warming a startup queue failure popup and preliminary automatic polar alignment correction here are some highlights scheduler observatory automation fixed ekos not shutting down after preemptive shutdown task executor no longer stalls when a park command is issued new startup queue failure popup with state reset for clean retries scheduler restart from error state now always resets startup to idle fixed crashes caused by improper use of qsharedpointer simulator based regression tests expanded added ability to wait indefinitely for weather to improve profiles now synced from indi web manager on startup deleting a profile in kstars removes it from the manager fixed checkindistate returning incorrect value when transitioning to startup_post_devices added optical trains dbus interface for scripted access to train configuration polar alignment preliminary support for automatic polar alignment correction via the indi polar alignment corrector interface indi polar alignment drivers include avalon upas not tested and mlastro robotic polar alignment not released yet fixed overwrap calculation error producing erroneous correction vectors multisetup pa sync workaround contributed by philip mair live stacking added mutex locking on livestack image buffer updates to prevent segvs under concurrent load john evans livestacker settings are now retained between sessions parameters synced programmatically to ui fixed saved xisf stacks to store pixel values in the correct 0 1 0 range stacker now restarts automatically when the filter or imaging target changes capture focus added passive camera warming for graceful end of session cooldown fixed critical bug where autofocus triggered by a filter change could leave sequences stuck indefinitely fixed sequence filter not being restored after a meridian flip when autofocus is not required pavan kumar s g fixed dithering getting stuck in streaming mode fixed crashes when closing compressed fits files and failure to open compressed fits images umangjeet singh pahwa guiding initial work to support streaming mode in the guide module enabling video capable cameras for guiding this is especially useful for harmonic mounts where you can guide at higher frequency 2 4 hz other fixes added dome slit overlay to the sky map view ed lee various dust cap and light box device handling improvements fixed indi web manager port detection on macos and windows suppressed spurious empty disconnect messages on clean disconnects mount unpark no longer passes a hardcoded mount string indi resolves the device by interface type posted by jasem mutlaq at 6 02 am 2 comments monday february 2 2026 kstars 3 8 1 is released kstars v3 8 1 is released on 2026 02 092 for windows linux and macos for linux users it s highly recommended to use the official kstars flatpak hosted at flathub you can install the stable flatpak or try out new features by downloading the kstars nightly flatpak for x86_64 and arm64 architectures this is mostly a bugfix release with nice improvements in debayering algorithms thanks to john evan s work on this using opencv here are some highlights scheduler observatory automation enhanced weather based scheduling with proper abort resume during soft shutdown improved preemptive shutdown with wakeup timers and better state management safety monitor now continues monitoring even after complete shutdown fixed jobs incorrectly marked as aborted when completed live stacking improvements added debayering support for multiple cameras including touptek implemented hot cold pixel removal added xisf file format support with debayering general bayer processing refactoring meridian flip alignment fixed capture operation timeouts during meridian flips added extensive logging for post flip actions improved rotator timeout handling now aborts alignment instead of waiting indefinitely reliability error handling more resilient indi web manager connectivity checks with graceful failures fixed adu based flat frame signature matching improved filter offset handling for multi camera setups better dark frame diagnostic logging other fixes fixed comet position calculations for hyperbolic orbits e g 3i atlas improved artificial horizon importer to handle spaces in files enhanced hips survey filtering and sorting with partial sky survey support support for many more catalogs like nsns posted by jasem mutlaq at 3 39 pm 10 comments wednesday december 3 2025 kstars v3 8 0 is released kstars v3 8 0 is released on 2025 12 03 for windows linux macos release is expected in one week due to build issue on kde ci infrastructure for linux users it s highly recommended to use the official kstars flatpak hosted at flathub you can install the stable flatpak or try out new features by downloading the kstars nightly flatpak for x86_64 and arm64 architectures live stacker lrgb stacking john evans implemented generation of rgb and lrgb images from individual mono subframes watch r g b and optionally l directories and combine the individual stacks into rgb or lrgb images add directories for r g b and optionally l subs these are monitored and a single color image is displayed rgb images are combined with a linear fit type algorithm lrgb images are combined with a lrgb combination type algorithm snr algorithm has been rewritten appears to work better but is more resource intensive live stacker imagemm stacking method john evans added an implementation of the imagemm stacking method this implementation strikes a balance between speed it needs to be a live stacker and fidelity to use select imagemm as the stacking method and play with the available controls this method is considerably more resource intensive than regular stacking because it uses an iterative approach live stacker live stacker monitor john evans implemented the live stacker monitor live stacking monitor window is a popup from live stacker that shows a table of subs that match the chosen directory in live stacker the purpose is to allow analysis of live stacker for example to allow investigation of bottlenecks in the stacking process when a sub is added to the watched directory the sub is added to the monitor s table as the sub is processed by each step of the process information is updated in the table waiting to load the sub is in the queue to be processed but live stacker is busy with other subs loading the sub is loaded into memory plate solving the sub is undergoing plate solving if appropriate waiting to stack the sub is waiting to be stacked e g currently there are insufficient subs loaded to start a stack calibration dark flat calibration alignment stacking table columns and sort order are configurable changing cells can be highlighted or not task queue system observatory startup and shutdown steps are now replaced by the new highly configurable task queue system the task queue system is a modern flexible automation framework that replaces traditional startup and shutdown scripts with a template based configurable task execution system it provides a visual interface for building sequences of automated operations that can control your observatory equipment through indi it is accessible from ekos scheduler why use it the task queue system offers several advantages over traditional scripting visual management build and monitor task sequences through an intuitive graphical interface reusability use pre built templates for common operations without writing code error handling built in retry logic and configurable failure responses device compatibility automatic matching of templates to available devices progress monitoring real time status updates and detailed execution logs collections pre defined task sets for startup shutdown and other common scenarios flexibility combine templates or create custom variations without programming safety monitor kstars scheduler now fully supports indi safety monitor driver released part of indi v2 1 7 a standalone driver may be used independent of the equipment profile that is running on a different indi server to provide 24 7 safety monitor updates to the scheduler no observatory operations shall take place unless it is deemed safe by the safety monitor the indi safety monitor can listen to any number of sources including weather stations ups uninterruptible power supply monitors and any auxiliary device that support the indi s standard safety_status property push to assistant wolfgang reissenberger added an incredibly useful tool for users with manual mounts push to assistant just attached a camera to your dobsonian and use this tool to center the target in the eyepiece this tool assumes that both the camera center and eyepiece center are already aligned the new push to assistant is intended as plate solving support for mechanical mounts in combination with a digital camera on a finder scope setup create an optical train with the telescope simulator as mount and configure your combination of finder scope and digital camera usage start ekos open the push to assistant located in the tools menu move your scope as good as possible to the target you want to find select the target from the catalog or enter its coordinates manually and press select target press solve position to determine the position your scope is currently pointing at as soon as the position has...