SkyCruncherResults
Results
Living pages, rebuilt as data comes in. Experiments keep every version at one address; a Results page changes when the data does, and says when it last did.
Living pages
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Sky map · Snapshot of 2026-10-12
Every target with frames in my catalog
- Captured
- 98 targets
- Processed
- 20 targets
- Published
- 7 targets
- Galactic plane
- the Milky Way's midline
- Ecliptic
- the Sun's yearly path; planets stay near it
125 targets, 629,387 frames and 3,404 hours of exposure, from my own nights, community-shared nights and uploads.
Counts as of , the catalog build the map shows. They are plain counts from the map's data file, not measurements.
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Variable stars
Seestar Collective light curves
5,223 light curves of 869 known variable stars from 463 observing sessions, on nights from 2024-06-08 to 2026-10-11.
Did your Seestar catch one? Look up your telescope.
Data: the Seestar Collective. Light curves measured; the catalog periods they are compared with are published values.
Regenerated
The chips say how each claim was made: how claims are marked.
Corpus snapshots
A Corpus snapshot is a dated, frozen page of what the measurement corpus showed on one day. Newest first.
The whole-corpus sweep behind it was retired on 2026-09-15. The next snapshot will come from my new pipeline; there's no date for it yet.
What's new
New and regenerated Results, and new Experiments, newest first. I keep this list by hand for now.
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Results, regenerated Seestar Collective light curves
Every measured night is now drawn: 5,222 light curves on cards for all 869 stars, where the page used to draw 234. It moved here from Learn.
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Experiment Watching HAT-P-32 b's transit live with a 50 mm smart telescopeExploratory
Transit depth 1.80 ± 0.24 % at the predicted time, watched as the subs arrived; the live answer matched the whole-night one.
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Experiment Hubble's V1 pulses on schedule, through a 50 mm lensConfirmed
A blind test set up in advance passes: V1 pulses on its 31.39-day schedule, and none of 2,374 empty spots come close.
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Experiment My Seestar S50 quietly stopped applying its color gainsExploratory
From the night of 10 October my S50 saved its subs without color gains: green now stops with red and blue near 65,100, and no header card shows it.
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Results, regenerated Seestar Collective light curves
Rebuilt with sessions up to 2026-10-11: 5,223 light curves of 869 known variable stars.
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Results, new Sky map
A snapshot of my frame catalog as built that day: every target with frames, placed on the sky and marked captured, processed or published.
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Experiment Catching WASP-12 b with a 50 mm smart telescopeExploratory
Transit depth 1.63 ± 0.20 %, on the newest predicted time within half a minute.
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Experiment Can we recreate the night sky?Exploratory
Seestar frames and stacks rendered from star catalogs and sky surveys, with a real-or-fake quiz.
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Experiment Thin cirrus and the glow around starsExploratory
Under thin cirrus the nebula reads too bright for its faded stars (slopes 0.16 to 0.21 over 732 subs), and every star gets a glow.
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Experiment Why a Seestar's bright stars turn green or purpleExploratory
Raw frames stop green at 49,808 to 54,288 while red and blue run to 65,535, measured on 8 units of four models.
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Experiment First nights from a remote Seestar S50 at a dark-sky observatoryExploratory
Two nights: 4,199 of 4,202 subs (single exposures) solved.
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Experiment Finding Hubble's Cepheid V1 in Andromeda with smart telescopesExploratory
V1 located in Seestar Collective frames, brighter than every blank disk spot (about 3.5 sigma); its 31.4-day pulse is not confirmed yet.
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Experiment What a Seestar S30 Pro's optics do to star positionsExploratory
The lens, coma and built-in plate solution, measured on four units.
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Experiment Catching HD 189733 b with a 30 mm smart telescopeExploratory
Transit depth 2.50 ± 0.34 %, on time within minutes.
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Experiment What a hazy night looks like, frame by frameExploratory
One M 33 night: haze dimmed the stars by about 0.07 mag for 80 minutes and looked like an even veil, not clouds.
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Experiment Stretched stars near the meridian are field rotation, not bad seeingExploratory
On one alt-azimuth night of M 33, field rotation explains all of the corner-star stretch near the meridian (109 ± 4 %).
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Experiment How many subs does a nebula need?Exploratory
Over 194 subs of NGC 7000, noise falls as the square root of the sub count; the nebula reaches 2.4 times the noise per pixel.
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Experiment M 33's spiral arms survive an odd-even splitExploratory
The even and odd halves of 1,115 frames show the two-armed pattern pointing the same way in 33 of 34 rings; a survey check agrees only in some rings.
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Experiment Subtracting 98,258 catalog stars from a Seestar image of the North America NebulaExploratory
The nebula left behind tracks the IPHAS H-alpha survey (0.983 over the whole frame).
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Experiment How precisely a 30 mm smart telescope places a starConfirmed
G 11-12 stars placed within 48-66 mas of Gaia over a night; run unchanged on other owners' telescopes, the method met 19 of 22 predictions written in advance.
Status badges are copied from each Experiment. Confirmed: the result held up on fresh data the method had never seen. Exploratory: the analysis is finished, but its check on fresh data is still to come. All Experiments
How "living" works
Each Results page says when it was last regenerated. Today I regenerate them by hand when new data is in.
| Page | Last regenerated | What changes it |
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| Sky map | A new build of my frame catalog; the page says which build it shows | |
| Variable-star light curves | New Seestar Collective sessions | |
| Corpus snapshot, 12 July 2026 | Nothing: a snapshot is frozen, and a new one gets its own date |
Share a night of subs
Send the single exposures (subs) from a night. Your targets, frame counts and hours join the sky map; nothing about who you are, which telescope you used or where you observe is shown.