Sequence Library

A deep-sky project is rarely one night’s work. The Sequence Library makes sequences durable: save a dialed-in plan under a name, set per-filter hour goals, and every run — tonight’s, next week’s, next season’s — folds its captured frames into the same running total. When the sky clears, you load the entry and start, instead of rebuilding the plan from memory.

Saving a sequence

From the Sequencing screen, choose Save to Library. The save sheet asks for:

• Name and notes — “M31 HaRGB”, “Veil two-panel”, whatever you’ll recognize in March.
• Per-filter hour goals — optional targets like 8h of Ha and 4h of OIII. A blank goal simply means no goal: the entry still accumulates stats, it just draws no progress meter for that filter.

The entry captures the whole plan: targets with their coordinates and framing, each filter entry’s exposure, count, and gain, and the pre- and post-sequence commands. A target’s planned start time is deliberately not saved — absolute dates don’t reuse across nights.

The gallery

The library is photo-first: each tile shows imagery for the entry’s target, its per-filter progress meters, and an overall progress underline. Entries split into Active and Archived sections, and an entry whose sequence is running right now carries a LIVE chip with its stats updating as frames land.

The detail view

Open an entry for the full picture:

• Goals arc — overall progress toward the entry’s combined hour goals.
• Per-filter meters — acquired hours against each filter’s goal.
• Plan summary — the saved targets, filter plans, and commands, so you can confirm what will load before loading it.
• Run ledger — every run of this entry: when it ran, how it ended, and what it captured, per target and filter.

Loading it back

Load into Sequencing fills the Sequencing screen with the saved plan in one tap — same targets, same framing, same filter entries, same pre/post commands. You start it exactly the way you start any sequence, and the run is attributed to the library entry automatically.

If the connected rig’s filter wheel doesn’t carry a filter name the entry uses, ARIS warns on that entry before you load — filter matching is exact, and it never quietly maps two similar names onto one slot. You can fix the wheel’s slot names, edit the plan after loading, or choose Load anyway.

Rename, duplicate, archive, reset, delete

• Rename — the name is a label; stats and history stay attached.
• Duplicate — a fresh copy of the plan with empty stats, for pointing the same recipe at a new season or variation.
• Archive — moves a finished project out of the active gallery. Nothing is lost; unarchive any time.
• Reset Progress — re-baseline the meters to start a re-shoot.
• Delete — removes the entry after a confirmation.

1. Choose Reset Progress on an entry you want to shoot again from zero.

2. Confirm. The progress meters restart from this moment — run history is kept. Every past run stays in the ledger; the meters simply stop counting frames captured before the reset.

How stats accrue

Stats are derived from run records the rig writes, never hand-incremented:

• Every run folds in — including runs you stop early, with their frames-so-far. A night that dies at 2am still credits the two hours it captured.
• Times run, last run, total subs, integration accumulate on the entry, and per-filter hours drive the meters.
• Live during a run — the running entry’s stats update as frames complete, so the LIVE tile is a progress meter for tonight, not just a memory of past nights.

Across rigs, and offline

Signed in, the library lives at the account level: the same entries, goals, and run history on every device and every rig, across years. Each rig also keeps its own copy of the library, so browsing and loading keep working on the local network with no internet connection and no sign-in — the rig copy is what you see at a dark site. Run records originate on the rig and sync up when a signed-in device next connects, so a night the app slept through still lands in the ledger.

Note

The library stores plans and statistics. The frames themselves live in the rig’s file archive as always, and Data Sync is what brings them home.