AkastroidNot built yet. Waitlist open.
Akastroid Cloud: processing for people without a computer
If you own a smart telescope and a phone but no computer to run the app on, this would process the session for you. You upload a night's files and download a finished image.
I haven't decided whether to build it. The waitlist below is how I'm deciding.
Upload from anywhere
Phone, tablet or browser. Upload the frames your telescope saved (FITS, RAW or video) and close the tab. Nothing to install.
The same pipeline
The frames are graded, the bad ones rejected, and the rest aligned, stacked, gradient-removed, color-calibrated and stretched by the same engine as the desktop app, on a server I run.
The finished image back
An email when it is done, with three finished styles, a 16-bit TIFF and the same log of decisions the app gives you. The aim is under an hour.
You are on the list
Thank you. If enough people sign up, I'll build it and email you. Until then the desktop app is free to try on a computer you can borrow.
- Your raw frames are deleted 30 days after upload, finished images after 90. Download what you want to keep.
- Nothing about the desktop app changes. It still runs entirely on your computer and uploads nothing, ever. Cloud is a separate, opt-in service.
- The plan in mind: about $12 a month, 15 sessions, cancel any time. Say below if that is wrong.
Questions
Can I process Seestar or Dwarf frames without a computer?
Not with any mature service I know of. The established tools all run on a Mac or PC. Akastroid Cloud would do this: upload the saved frames from a phone or tablet, get the finished image back by email. If you join the waitlist you will hear when it exists.
What would it cost?
The plan in mind is about $12 a month for 15 sessions, cancel any time. Say on the form if that is the wrong number. The answers decide the price as well as whether it gets built.
What happens to my frames?
Raw frames would be deleted 30 days after upload and finished images after 90. You download what you want to keep. Nothing is used for anything except producing your image.
Does this change the desktop app?
No. The desktop app runs entirely on your computer and uploads nothing, and that will not change. Cloud is a separate, opt-in service for people who do not have a computer to run the app on.
Which telescopes and files would it support?
The same engine as the desktop app: FITS from Seestar, Dwarf, Vespera and any astro camera, camera RAW, XISF, and SER or AVI planetary video. Bayer patterns and missing header fields are handled the way the desktop app handles them.
How big is an upload?
A 90-minute Seestar session is roughly 540 FITS files and about 10 GB. Uploads would be resumable and compressed, so a dropped connection continues rather than restarts.
Longer answer: can you process astrophotos online, without a computer?