Measure the Pixels · Building an AI Astrophotographer — the real, production code behind the channel: a system that stacks, processes, grades, and plans astrophotography captures on its own — every step measured from pixel statistics, guarded against artifacts, and versioned like the software it is.
Important
Preliminary public preview. NOVA is under active development, and the public replication package is still being formalized. The production project is real, but the clean-install documentation, configuration contract, sample data, and sample-data licence, golden metrics, and clean-machine evidence are not yet complete enough for a supported installation. You are welcome to explore the code and follow its progress. A verified tagged release and filmed AI-assisted installation walkthrough are planned.
There is no installer — on purpose. Every deployment is a port to your OS, storage, and toolset. Open this repo with an AI coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, …) and say: "Read REPLICATE.md and set this up for my system." The contract in that file tells the agent how to discover your environment, what it may adapt, and which checks are currently possible.
This export contains a small real-capture sample and its verification tooling,
but it cannot prove an end-to-end result until the pending fields in
sample_data/README.md are resolved and a clean-machine pass is recorded. Until
then, treat this as source-preview documentation rather than a validated quickstart.
Free-tool core: Siril + ASTAP + GraXpert + Seti Astro Suite Pro (pip). Optional paid tier: PixInsight + RC-Astro plugins. See the capability matrix in REPLICATE.md.
Support boundary: shared as-is alongside the channel; issues/PRs welcome, responses not guaranteed — hobby project, fixed time budget.
Measure the pixels. Make the call.