Equipment Library
Every telescope, camera, filter, eyepiece, and observatory site lives in a structured equipment library. Change your scope or camera on a project, and every calculation updates throughout Astro PM.
Track every location you shoot from as a full profile: geographic coordinates, elevation, time zone, Bortle class, typical seeing, and dome or roll-off roof type.
Store remote access credentials for each site and link projects to the location. Easy remote connection links are accessible from the projects panels.
Full optical specification tracking with automatic calculations. Define aperture, focal length, focal ratio, and optical design. Add a focal reducer and see the reduced specs computed automatically.
Astro PM calculates Dawes limit, Rayleigh limit, and light-gathering power from your specs. Track every physical dimension for every scope in your collection including visual eyepiece coverage zones.
Detailed sensor specifications that power every downstream calculation. Define resolution, pixel size, bit depth, and binning modes. Set up multiple gain profiles with read noise, full well capacity, and e/ADU values that feed directly into the exposure calculator.
Leverage our sampling calculators using this data as well as exposure SNR efficiency curves to better understand capabilities for your sky and target.
Filter libraries allow you to setup project exposure plans. This feeds into your project synchronization and time calculations per target as well as many calculators.
Visual uses will like the eyepiece library so you can can track the coverage area you have with combinations of barlows and eyepieces. Data feeds back into the telescope section when used in conjunction with your eyepiece library.
Share complete equipment profiles with friends, imaging partners, or technicians in seconds. Send a single scope, an entire imaging train, or your full library, including every spec, calibration value, and gain profile, exactly as Astro PM uses it.
When a technician needs to service your rig or a friend wants to replicate your setup, there is no more screenshotting spec sheets or rebuilding configurations from memory. Share it, import it, done.
Plate scale, field of view, SNR, and exposure recommendations all recalculate the moment you swap a telescope or camera on any project.