AkastroidFor manufacturers
Licensing Akastroid's measurement code
Parts of Akastroid can be licensed into a telescope or camera maker's own app or firmware. One is ready now, one is being built and one is only planned. Each is labeled below.
Image Quality SDK
Per-frame quality measurement, licensed for your own app or firmware.
This is the measurement code in Akastroid's desktop app, the same code that runs in the browser at akastroid.com/diagnostic. On a single frame it reads star shape (FWHM, eccentricity, roundness), background gradient strength, clipping, signal-to-noise, hot and cold pixels, and satellite or aircraft trails, in well under a second.
Who this is for: Smart telescope and camera companion apps that want to tell a user "this sub is good, keep it" or "this one is trailing, check the tracking" while they are still capturing. It also helps after the sale: telling a hardware fault apart from a tracking or sky problem decides whether a support ticket ends in a returned unit.
It runs on every session processed in the desktop app today.
Target Recommendation Engine
Which targets are worth imaging tonight, from where the user is.
Given a location and a date, it works out each target's altitude through the night, how much the Moon interferes, and a sensible imaging order. An experienced imager does this planning in their head; a beginner usually can't yet.
Who this is for: Smart telescope companion apps and planetarium-style software that currently show a static object list and leave the user to judge whether a target is high enough and whether the Moon will wash it out.
Being built now. I'm open to setting the first version's scope around a launch partner's timeline.
Autonomous Telescope Intelligence SDK
The two above, combined into one loop.
Quality measurement decides during capture whether to keep, retake or abandon a sub, and passes what it saw to the recommendation layer, so the plan follows the night's actual conditions instead of a fixed catalog. The aim is a telescope that makes the calls an experienced imager would make.
Who this is for: A manufacturer that wants this in its own hardware or app before it is a common feature.
This does not exist yet. It is something I would build with a committed partner, and there is no shipping date.
Talk to us
Write and describe the product you are building, whether you want the Image Quality SDK as it is today or want to shape the recommendation engine or the autonomous layer around it.
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