Changelog

Changelog#

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

0.3.1 - 2025-08-21#

Added#

  • Tracking stop at the end of object plans (thanks @Sebastián Zúñiga-Fernández)

0.3.0 - 2025-07-03#

Added#

  • Defocus/refocus within plans (thanks David Degen)

  • Improved autofocusing stability

  • Relative autofocus range search

  • Camera binning

  • Relative sky temperature for better cloud detection

  • German equatorial mount guiding support, including pier flip handling.

0.2.5 - 2024-05-03#

Fixed#

  • fix:Astelos acknowledgment by @dsagred in #51

0.2.4 - 2024-03-20#

Added#

  • speculoos property to Astra class to permit easier use of Astra outside of speculoos

  • time_to_safe variable to permit the user to set the time to safe from config, instead of fixed 30 mins (in future, planned to add smarter logic for different weather conditions)

  • Basic test framework for Astra class

  • Simple script to remove guiding reference image row from sqlite database.

Fixed#

  • AstelOS error handling for malformed GPS

Removed#

  • Removed unused files for ascom devices – sticking to alpaca.

0.2.3 - 2024-01-19#

Added#

  • Added ‘Malformed telegram from GPS’ to AstelOS error handling

  • Made the AstelOS acknowledgement verbose the messages in the logs and better error handling

  • Changelog

0.2.2 - 2024-01-11#

Removed#

  • Removed subframing from flats as camera was crashing due to this – unknown why, it started happening only recently.

0.2.1 - 2024-01-08#

Added#

  • 0.1s sleep to camera acquistion sequence

  • 0.5s (from 0.1s) to monitor status function

0.2.0 - 2023-12-17#

Added#

  • Working version after implementation at SSO - SPECULOOS specific hardware handling

  • Flats sequence

  • Guiding logic from DONUTS

  • Pointing logic (only working in theory since AsTelOS does not accept sync commands?)

Changed#

  • Moved alpaca devices to their own process as a single device would previously lock all others if polling request hung

  • UI improvements

  • Error handling logic

0.1.0 - 2023-05-23#

Added#

  • Initial version

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