I’ve been working on a small tool for astrophotography planning and just released it:

AstroWindow.space

The idea is simple: instead of scrolling through huge sky maps or complicated planners, AstroWindow quickly shows the best targets available from your exact visible patch of sky at a given date and time.

What it does

• Define the actual portion of the sky visible from your backyard/location
• Instantly filter deep sky objects that are currently in that window
• Rank targets based on visibility and framing conditions
• Quickly build a session plan: manually or automatically
• When offline you can see your last plan

Plus, you can easily install it in your phone from your browser's three dots menu.

The main focus was speed and simplicity. I wanted something lightweight that helps you decide what to shoot tonight in a few seconds.

Any feedback, ideas and bug reports are super welcome. I’m actively improving it based on your comments.

https://astrowindow.space

Clear skies!

Importing files from your scope, organizing folders, deleting junk and backing up sessions is a tedious task...

I got tired of all the manual clicking so I built AstroShelf. It’s a free, open-source tool that lets you import, organize, and create projects out of your sessions in a quick, intuitive way.

With AstroShelf you can:

• Import: Pull files directly from your scope.
• Organize: Automatically sort everything by Target and Date.
• Prepare for Siril: Flatten sessions into lights/ and darks/ structures that Siril can read instantly.
• Create Astro Projects: Set up object folders with single or multi-session files.
• Archive: Keep a mirrored backup on your external drive.

It works on macOS, Windows and Linux.

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🧪 Help me Beta Test

I'm looking for a few people to test it out thoroughly and let me know how it goes and what to improve.

Join the beta here: https://forms.gle/icQphwJfdrtSpxaB8

Clear skies! 🔭

Importing files from your scope, organizing folders, deleting junk and backing up sessions is a tedious task...

I got tired of all the manual clicking so I built AstroShelf. It’s a free, open-source tool that lets you import, organize, and create projects out of your sessions in a quick, intuitive way.

With AstroShelf you can:

• Import: Pull files directly from your scope.
• Organize: Automatically sort everything by Target and Date.
• Prepare for Siril: Flatten sessions into lights/ and darks/ structures that Siril can read instantly.
• Create Astro Projects: Set up object folders with single or multi-session files.
• Archive: Keep a mirrored backup on your external drive.

It works on macOS, Windows and Linux.

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🧪 Help me Beta Test

I'm looking for a few people to test it out thoroughly and let me know how it goes and what to improve.

Join the beta here: https://forms.gle/icQphwJfdrtSpxaB8

Clear skies! 🔭

About a month ago, I reached out for beta testers to help me with Easy Drizzle, a tool designed to make the Drizzle algorithm accessible for smart telescope users editing with Siril.

Applying drizzle to you sessions allows you to increase image resolution and gain quality improvements.

The feedback was incredible and after polishing out the tool is officially ready for broad use!

Easy Drizzle automates the entire Siril workflow (registration, drizzle, and stacking) into a single click and offers very useful tooltips so you can easily understand how to customize at your own taste.

What’s included?

• Presets: Tailored settings for Galaxies, Nebulae and Star Clusters.
• Smart Auto-Detect: Automatically reads your telescope type and settings.
• Zero Technical Headache: Non-technical tooltips for every setting.
• Live Estimates: Shows disk space and time estimates before you run the script.
• Advanced Control: Full access to all Siril tweeks if you want to dive deep.

Get the Script

You can download the script directly from the Gitlab repo here: 👉Download Easy Drizzle on GitLab

Siril's addition of the script

I’ve opened a Pull Request to the official Siril scripts repository so this can eventually be installed easily from Siril.

If you find this tool useful, please head over to the PR and add a "thumbs up"👍.

Check out the PR here: Siril Scripts Merge Request #254

I’m looking forward to seeing the details you pull out of the night sky with this.

Clear skies! 🌌

Hi everyone,

Just want to share an image of my setup using S30pro in EQ mode with its stock tripod and the combination of Skywatcher wedge and tube from AZ-GTI.

Worth saying, this is not a solid piece of engineering I would use in wind conditions but for calm nights it works perfectly.

When you live in a place where you can't easily buy astro hardware at a fair price, you'd better use your creativity

To add more adrenaline, I put it on the edge of a balcony column... with some rope trying to counter weight just in case 🐔