Monitoring a live session

The telescope status screen gives you a real-time view of what the telescope is doing — from its pointing position to current exposure progress and live planning charts. Here's how to read every part of it.

How to access

1. Open the telescope

   Select the telescope you want from the Dashboard.

2. Go to Status

   Click Status in the top navigation bar. It's the default view when you open a telescope.

Reading the status badge

The same status badge appears in two places: next to each telescope on the dashboard, and in the header of a telescope's status page. Click through the states below to see both. Note that the dashboard only shows whether a telescope is In Use — the specific action (Imaging, Slewing, Focusing) and the target appear on the status page.

What the status screen shows

When the telescope is active, every field updates in real time. Below is a live replica of the status panels mid-session — watch the exposure fill, the plan advance, and the target drift down the sky:

Each panel, field by field:

Pointing

Current exposure

Imaging plan

Last image

A live preview of the most recently captured frame. It updates after each exposure.

Target Altitude & Sky Track

The bottom of the status screen shows two live planning charts. Both update in real time and mark the telescope's current pointing position as a dot on the graph.

• Target Altitude — the target's altitude arc through the night. Use it to see whether the object is rising or descending, and how much imaging time remains before it drops below the horizon limit.

• Sky Track — the arc the target travels across the sky. The dot marks the current position with live altitude and azimuth. Hover the arc to read values at any point in the night.