As a peace offering the auto-mod gods, I'm including my latest processed image. NGC 6960 through my S50. Just over 2 hours of integration time. Processed in Siril.

But the reason I'm posting is I have some questions for the community here. I'm working on an Astrophotography library and workflow management app. It's going to be free and open source, and cross-platform (desktop). The vision is "Lightroom for Astrophotographers". It has grown out of my own workflow. It aims to help you keep track of your library of images, help you manage your processing workflow, and also give you some goals to work towards, to help guide your astrophotography journey. It does not aim to replace tools like Siril or PixInsight, nor tools like SkySafari or Stellarium. Some of the headline features:

* Easy ingest from Seestar scopes (and I hope to support Dwarflabs scopes as well, and eventually just unstructured collections of files)
* Keep track of which objects have fresh lights and need a re-stack
* Track your progress in collecting the objects in the Messier catalog (and/or several other catalogs, including selections for users in the southern hemisphere)
* Prep for Siril processing (create working directories organized as Siril expects, including presets for the Naztronomy script). Other post processing tools coming later.
* Publish your images (creates a static site now, will support CMSs and popular hosting options)
* There are lots of other features not mentioned here around session planning, display, and organization

Anyway as I said this is built off of my workflow, which is an S50, Siril, and a Mac as the computer. As I prepare for the beta, I could really use a few capture directories from other scopes (S30, S30 Pro, and Dwarflabs scopes). I want to ensure the importer does the right thing with all the different image types these scopes save, and I'd love to support Dwarflabs out the gate. If anyone is willing to help out here please DM me, I'd be really grateful. I don't need a ton of .fit files, but ideally a few directories with different objects including DSO, planetary, solar/lunar and landscape images (plus star trails or any other tricks your scope has), looking like they'd look when the scope is connected to your computer. I would not use the files for any purpose other than app development and testing, and would not publish or redistribute them.

The other thing, just informally, what is everyone running for an OS? I assume at least a plurality of folks here run Windows. Are there Linux users here? Mac users? Chime in on the thread and let me know. Also curious what processing tools you're using. I know Siril and PixInsight are important. Are y'all using SAS Pro? Any other tools? 

Thanks for reading, and let me know what you think! I hope to ship a beta in the next month.

Questions for the Community