v0.9.0

Release 0.9.0

Added

Features

• Southern Hemisphere support: star moves right-to-left, UI and instructions
  adapt accordingly.
• Velocity override entry (px/s) in simulation control: enter the simulation
  velocity directly in simulator pixels per second instead of a PHD2 drift rate.
  Applied via an "Apply" button; "Clear" restores the measured velocity.
  (/api/simulation/velocity POST/DELETE endpoints; config field
  sim_velocity_override_px_s).
• Average velocity fallback: if only one or two stripes are timed (not all
  three), their average is used instead of falling back to the sidereal
  estimate.
• "Current Config" link in the navigation bar between Back and Next, opening
  the configuration download in a new browser tab.
• Integrated geometry.py into the bwmt tool. Use -g or --geometry to visualize
  geometry and provide a summary of expected velocities (on simulator screen)

Developer Experience

• Logging facilities: application now writes log files in the current working
  directory.
• --locale CLI parameter to override the system / browser language
  selection.
• justfile with build, clean, and full-clean recipes for common
  development tasks; full-clean works on Windows.
• Manual workflow to publish documentation to GitHub Pages.

Changed

• Simulation velocity source label shows "manual override" (green) when a
  velocity override is active, "interpolated" when all three stripes are
  measured, "partial average" when some are missing, and "estimated" as
  fallback.

Fixed

• Pre-commit hook failed on Windows.
• PyPI readme logo not displayed because relative image URLs were used;
  switched to full URLs.

Internationalization

• German and French translations added for all UI strings.
• Simulator screen strings (status messages, stripe labels) translated for
  DE and FR.
• Documentation improvements for Southern Hemisphere users in EN, with
  tip call-outs.

Tried, but ...

• Entry field for "Drift rate" as calculated by PHD2 Log Viewer. Turned out to
  be hard to convert to screen units. A direct entry field for the px/s
  simulator velocity is much easier to tune and understand by users.

Documentation

• Velocity sources described in the manual (measured, interpolated, average,
  estimated, manual override).

Dependencies

• ruff 0.15.1 → 0.15.2
• pyinstaller 6.18.0 → 6.19.0

Full Changelog: release-0.8.0...release-0.9.0

v0.8.0

Initial Release

This is the first working release. This is the proof of concept release: The concept has been verified with my AZ-EQ6 with an awful PE of 40" peak-to-peak at stars and that error has been reconfirmed. Enabling PEC reduces this to roughly 10" peak-to-peak and this was also confirmed.

I am looking for Beta Testers: Calculated velocity is too large, but guiding and evaluation of guidelogs works in principle.