KOPR documentation
User guides for installation, all five production workflows, data formats and troubleshooting, together with developer contracts for the current R179 Comet Analyzer formula transaction line.
Current cumulative state: R179 completes canonical formula parsing and separates editor drafts, Refresh runtime commits, Save persistence and Analyse typed commits on the retained R169/R164/R163/R161/R156/R154/R149/R144/R130/R121 contracts. The build remains RC / PASS_HEADLESS until the R154, R161 and R179 real-PyQt5 gates and native smoke runs pass.
User documentation
Install and start
Linux and Windows/WSL installation, first startup, active configuration and main-window workflow.
Prepare images
DSLR RAW materialization, calibration masters, astrometry, quality control, matched stacks and measurement hand-off.
Measure observations
CCD photometry, ACF review, automatic helpers and visual-observation processing.
CCD · ACF / Review · Visual
Plan observations
N-body planning with bounded interval jobs and persistent validated segments.
Analyse light curves
One-to-N comet analysis with explicit AUTO/USER plot ranges, coordinate-invariant display encoding, persistent Point size and style overrides, controlled Fit Groups, fitting and Multi-colour CSV export.
Comet Analyzer · Plot ranges · Display encoding & invariance
Comet Analyzer state & Qt gate · Fit Groups & CSV export · Display encoding & styles
Understand performance
Fixed processing limits, modal ephemeris policies, Planner persistence and unified Comet Analyzer compute/render ownership.
Current R187 Comet Analyzer baseline
The current authority is one Comet Analyzer workspace for 1..N comets, implemented by WLightCurves. It includes typed targets and datasets, target-scoped returns/formulas, global channels/Fit Groups, Independent fit for 1..N, Shared n for 2+, observation-defined automatic X, cached Auto range and portable transactional .kopr-lc.json scenarios.
Qualification is PASS_HEADLESS. The real PyQt5 gates R154, R161 and R179 remain pending.
Current application structure
The production main window now exposes five workflow tabs:
- Process Visual Obs.
- Image Calibration & Stacking
- Process CCD Obs.
- Observation Planner
- Comet Analyzer
The old Analyzer and Comparison documentation URLs remain as transition links to the unified guide.
Reference and support
Configuration · Comet designations · Data formats · Scientific/Compact FITS · Troubleshooting · Developer documentation