https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1UMUbjwpPD/ARGOS is a free, open-source desktop program (by jperret21 on GitHub
https://github.com/jperret21/argos/ ) that controls the Seestar from a computer through its ASCOM Alpaca interface.
It is built for science rather than pretty pictures:
- it captures raw FITS frames in a planned sequence (exposure, gain, filter, number of frames);
- it plate-solves every frame with ASTAP, so you always know where the target is;
- it does live differential photometry during the run, with comparison stars taken automatically from the AAVSO VSP charts;
- for exoplanets, "Prepare transit sequence" takes the planet's ephemeris and works out the number of frames needed to cover the transit plus a baseline before and after.
The frames were then reduced with star_var_script (same author
https://github.com/RygelThe16th/star_var_script ), a Siril-based pipeline that calibrates, registers and measures the frames and exports a light curve.
