AstroVitals

Your telescope is imaging all night. AstroVitals puts its vital signs on your
iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch — so you can check on the session from the couch,
the tent, or your wrist at 3 AM.

AstroVitals connects to N.I.N.A. (Nighttime Imaging 'N' Astronomy) over your
local network through the Advanced API plugin, and turns the numbers into a
dark, glanceable night-vision dashboard.

GUIDING AT A GLANCE
• Flowing RA/Dec guide graph, just like your guiding software
• Live total RMS plus session best, worst and stability score
• Peak-error and pixel-scale readouts, adjustable time window

FOCUS & IMAGE QUALITY
• Watch autofocus V-curves build point by point, live
• Best-focus position and HFR marked when the run completes
• HFR and star-count trends across every sub of the session

YOUR WHOLE SEQUENCE
• The full Advanced Sequencer tree — instructions, triggers, loop conditions
• The running step highlighted with live progress (87/250 exposures…)
• Values shown inline: exposure length, filter, wait-until times and more

THE STATS DASHBOARD
• A live 3D model of your mount showing exactly where it points, with
meridian-flip warning colors and flat-panel cover state
• Target altitude path with transit time and astronomical darkness
• Camera cooling, ambient temperature, power draw and input voltage
• Rearrangeable tiles — drag them into your preferred layout

ON YOUR WRIST
• The full dashboard as a native Apple Watch app
• Watch-face complications: meridian-flip countdown and subs done
• iPhone home-screen and lock-screen widgets with a live flip timer

SIMPLE SETUP
• Auto-discovers your NINA machine on the local network
• Demo mode simulates a full session — try every screen without a telescope

SMART ALERTS & CONFIRMED CONTROL
• Optional alerts for worsening or recovering image quality, lost guiding and
meridian-flip progress while AstroVitals is active
• Start, pause and stop the running sequence when Allow Control is enabled
• A configurable panic plan can stop activity, park or home the mount, close a
detected flat-panel cover and disable selected power outputs
• Siri opens the review-and-slide confirmation screen; it never sends a command
by itself

Requires N.I.N.A. with the free Advanced API plugin (v2) on the same network.
AstroVitals starts in Read-only mode. Control requires explicit opt-in and
confirmation, and remains on the user's local network.
No accounts, no analytics, no data leaves your network.