This is my first post on this forum. My name is Fran and I usually work in photometry.
I recently migrated from SGPro (Wndows) to Ekos-Kstars (Linux) and I have been impressed for the excellent work it does: it is very fast and reliable, especially with plate solve, guiding.
The only "but" I have is... when you work in photometry, it is crucial not to saturate the star you are observing. In most programs, you can place a window on the star that covers entirely the star's PSF. Then, a complete statistics are shown, including maximum and average (or median) ADU's inside this window.
I see this option is not implement, and I must hoover the mouse in all the star's PSF, pixel by pixel. This is very problematic and unconfortable, because you can miss a pixel, maybe one saturated. Thus, you can have bitter surprises when you process these images and see that the pixel is saturated or out of linearity range.