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title: "App Overview & Navigation"
description: "Astro PM organizes a complete astrophotography workflow – from choosing targets to watching subs arrive – into a handful of panels. This page is a map of where everything lives and how the pieces fit together. ### The Main Areas…"
url: "https://astro-pm.com/docs/app-overview-navigation/"
updated: "2026-07-11"
category: Astro PM App Guide
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# App Overview & Navigation

Astro PM organizes a complete astrophotography workflow – from choosing targets to watching subs arrive – into a handful of panels. This page is a map of where everything lives and how the pieces fit together.

### The Main Areas

- **Projects** – your imaging projects: target, exposure plan, progress, constraints, charts, and weather for each one.
- **Equipment** – sites, telescopes, cameras, filters, and Imaging Systems (your named rigs).
- **Sky View** – a planetarium for framing targets, setting rotation, and building mosaics.
- **Simulator / NINA Sync** – builds the nightly schedule for a rig, shows the plan as a graph and log, and pushes everything to the cloud for NINA.
- **Weather** – forecast panels per site plus a satellite imagery player.
- **Image Analysis** – scans your captured subs and feeds accepted counts back into project progress.

[![](https://astro-pm.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/project-management-editor.jpg)](https://astro-pm.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/project-management-editor.jpg)

### The Workflow at a Glance

1. **Set up equipment once** – sites, scopes, cameras, filters, and an Imaging System per rig.
2. **Create a project** – pick a target, frame it in Sky View, attach an exposure plan.
3. **Simulate the night** – the scheduler allocates time across all active projects and shows you exactly what will be shot, when, and through which filter.
4. **Sync to the cloud** – NINA picks up the plan each night and executes it.
5. **Review progress** – captured subs count down each project until it is complete.

    ![](https://astro-pm.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Screenshot-2026-07-11-164628.png)

### Light & Dark Theme

Astro PM supports light and dark themes. Dark is the natural choice at the observatory; switch any time – the setting is remembered.