Smart Telescopes (Early)

Smart telescopes are how a lot of people fall into this hobby — and plenty of imagers keep one running beside the main rig, grabbing a second target while the big scope works. ARIS is bringing them into the fleet.

Seestar support is rolling out

Support for the ZWO Seestar is rolling out now in early access. The goal is simple: a Seestar joins your ARIS fleet like any other rig — discovered on your network, monitored from the same dashboard, its images handled alongside the output of your INDI and NINA rigs.

One app for the whole yard: the main rig sequencing through the night, the Seestar on its own target, both visible from the couch.

Early access means exactly that. Capability is expanding week over week as support matures, and what works today grows with each release. If you run a Seestar, expect rough edges and fast movement rather than a finished, frozen feature.

Note

Seestar support is early access, not a finished feature. We would rather ship it to interested users now and grow it in the open than sit on it until it is perfect.

More to come

The Seestar is the first, not the last. More smart telescopes are planned — the fleet model was built for mixed hardware from the start, and a smart scope is one more kind of rig on the dashboard.

Following along

Smart telescope support lands through the ARIS beta. If you are in the beta, updates arrive with your normal app and rig updates — nothing extra to install. If you are not yet, join the waitlist and mention the smart telescope you own; early hardware feedback directly shapes what gets built next.