KOPR documentation
Documentation for installing, configuring and using KOPR, together with technical information for developers and scientific validation.
Documentation revision 10.22 — R81 provenance and viewport hotfix The current guide retains the cumulative R79 calibration, astrometry and reference-star authorities, adds the R80 effective Use-state presentation, and documents the R81 direct TG FITS identity, derived-product provenance filtering and viewport preservation. Complete deterministic QA reports 1225 passed, 6 skipped and 0 failed from 1231 collected tests.
User documentation
Install and start
Verified Linux and Windows/WSL installation, first startup, active configuration and main-window workflow.
Prepare images
Complete guide to DSLR RAW → TG FITS materialization, calibration masters, calibrated frames, astrometry, quality control, matched stacks and measurement hand-off.
Measure a comet
Manual comet photometry with the PA-adaptive ACF, bounded centroid, frozen measurement context, Review dialog, curve of growth, Afρ and ICQ output.
Assist and inspect WCCD
Persistent helper defaults with observation-local comet finding, optional JPL position, automatic comparison-star measurement, compact progress and independent raw Slice profiles without implicit photometry.
Observe, plan and analyse
Complete guides for visual reductions, ephemerides, visibility diagrams, single-comet fitting and multi-comet comparison.
Visual · Planner · Analyzer · Comparison
Understand performance limits
Fixed automatic thread and memory ceilings, serial fallbacks, platform contracts and target-machine acceptance.
Reference and support
Baseline and validation
Revision 10.22 synchronizes the R80 and R81 hotfixes over the cumulative R79 authority. Neither hotfix changes the strict pairwise mathematics, RAW green-channel extraction mathematics, calibration, astrometry, comet photometry or ICQ output.
R80 makes the visible Use checkbox represent effective inclusion and removes the redundant Pairwise status column. R81 distinguishes direct TG FITS representations with RAWREP, prevents derived products from being misidentified as competing RAW representations and preserves zoom/pan when a measurement is repeated on the already active image role.
The complete deterministic R81 QA archive collected 1231 tests: 1225 passed, 6 environment-gated tests were skipped and none failed.
Download the documentation baseline and validation summary.
Open Reference stars · Open DSLR RAW materialization · Open release validation.
Current application structure
The documentation follows the six tabs in the current Python 3 application:
- Process Visual Obs.
- Image Calibration & Stacking
- Process CCD Obs.
- Observation Planner
- Light Curve Analyzer
- Light Curve Comparison