MINERVA (Modular Imaging Neural Engine for Reliable Validation and Automation)

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Update on MINERVA (Modular Imaging Neural Engine for Reliable Validation and Automation)

Beta of the calibration module is underway, and the results look very good! We have some feature updates to make based on user feedback. Really looking forward to the seeing this one grow up!

We have a new module we just finished that leverages our data we collect about subframes from the calibration module work, and can act as a feedback loop to automatically tell Leo’s Voyager Astrophotography Automation software to get more data on a target, without the user doing anything other than running our module.

We have another module in design now to complete the full data stack – register and integrate. The full data stack is within our reach with this work and we could not be more excited.

We are working with some of the best minds in Astrophotography to design this all, and the best part is? It will all be FREE. 🙂

If you are interested in learning more – hit us up at matters@darkmattersastro.com to get in, or just to learn more about us and what we are doing.

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Thanks Leo!

We have had a number of people reach out to get their feet with with this automation and it has been great to get all of the feedback in and we have made a number of updates so far, with more to come.

The product is at a stable 1.0 state with all modules current working quite well. Calibration, integration, dashboard, targets selection and Voyager update run for Dark Matters Astro daily in production (on our CDK14 and CDK20 scopes) and this project has saved us a ton of time so far!

The targets selection is really cool, and eventually we would like to be able to allow users to find a target in the list of suggestions, and send that right to RoboTarget to queue up – that is not in YET, but boy would that be awesome!

Documentation is light at the moment, but should be on the radar to get fleshed out late Aug to Early September. Feel free to reach out to me to learn more and try it out!

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