Sorry for posting yet another suggestion, but since I am still in my first weeks with the Seestar, I keep noticing small features that might perhaps be useful to other users as well.

I know that Seestar already has the planning/scheduling function, but I would like to suggest a very simple additional safety option: an automatic shutdown when the number of consecutively rejected frames exceeds a user-defined threshold.

For example, this could happen when the frames are rejected because they are overexposed, meaning that astronomical darkness is over, or because not enough stars are detected, meaning that the target has gone behind an obstacle such as a tree, a building, a balcony, etc.

In my specific case, I had started an imaging session on M17 and I had not checked carefully enough in advance when the target would become too low. So I left the Seestar running overnight, and in the morning, at about 6:00, it was still “imaging”, but of course it was only capturing completely white frames.

I hope this did not damage the sensor, but I would have found it very useful if the device had been able to shut itself down automatically, so to speak as a form of self-protection.

The option could be something very simple, for example:

“Shut down Seestar after N consecutive rejected frames”

with N chosen by the user, or perhaps with a reasonable default value.

This would not replace proper planning, of course, but it could be a useful safeguard for unattended overnight sessions.

If you like the suggestion, please like or support it!

Best regards,
Claudio