AstroDark, section by section

You get a handful of clear, dark nights each month. AstroDark makes sure you never waste one wondering what to shoot.

AstroDark is a deep-sky target picker built by an imager, for imagers. It scores 14,000+ catalogued objects against your setup — site, scope, camera, filters, the moon, and your tastes — then tells you exactly what to image tonight and this season.

Tonight

• A ranked shortlist for your next clear night — not an alphabetical catalog dump
• Visibility graphs: altitude curves, astronomical darkness, transit times
• Filter-aware moon logic: narrowband emission targets are nearly moon-immune; broadband gets steered to dark-moon nights
• Framing fit: object size scored against your actual field of view

Season

• A calendar grid of every target's project window across the coming months
• A night-by-night allocator: broadband on dark nights, narrowband anytime
• Plan whole projects, not single nights

Knows what you've already shot

• Reads your N.I.N.A. Target Scheduler database — strictly read-only, it never writes
• Targets show as new, in-progress, or done, so you finish projects instead of restarting them
• Accepted integration time totaled per target, per filter

Built for imagers

• Every input is configurable: site, horizon, altitude floor, preferred framing fill, faint tolerance, taste boosts
• Surface-brightness scoring, not just magnitude
• Bundled 14,000-object catalog — planning works fully offline (weather and sky previews update when connected)

No strings

• One-time purchase. No subscription. No account. No ads. No tracking.