Project Management
Every imaging target is a structured project that moves through a defined lifecycle. Track what you planned, what you captured, and what still needs to be done.
Each project carries a status: Planning, Active, On Hold, Ready to Inspect, Ready to Process, Completed, or Unfinished.
Filter by status, star favorites for quick access, and see everything organized in list, card, or detail views. Batch-sync all projects to the cloud in a single click.
Search 14,000+ DSO catalog entries for instant target lookup. Define precise RA/Dec coordinates and camera rotation. Plan mosaic grids with per-panel coordinates and overlap control.
Build filter-by-filter exposure plans with per-panel settings. Track planned, acquired, and accepted frame counts. Flag narrowband filters as moon-safe and monitor total integration time automatically.
Planning → Active → Complete workflow with seven project states you can filter and sort.
14,000+ DSO entries with instant lookup, RA/Dec coordinates, and precise camera rotation.
Multi-panel grids with per-panel coordinates, overlap control, and rotation per frame.
Per-filter exposure plans with planned, acquired, and accepted frame counts plus total integration time.
Seeing, transparency, SQM, temperature, and humidity — your own weather database built night by night.
Push every project — coordinates, exposure plans, mosaics — to N.I.N.A. with one click.
Every project shows you exactly when the target is worth imaging — both tonight and across the whole year. Altitude windows, moon-safe periods, and usable hours are modeled down to the minute.
Hour-by-hour altitude for tonight, with dark-hour and moon-safe windows highlighted. See exactly when to start, when to stop, and when the target crosses the meridian.
365-day usable-hour totals at a glance. Spot the best weeks to schedule this target, find the narrow windows for hard objects, and plan a full season in one view.
Browse your projects in list view with multi-column details, card view with visual thumbnails for quick scanning, or detail view grouped by status with expandable sections.
Log observation sessions with atmospheric conditions — seeing, transparency, SQM, temperature, and humidity — building a personal weather database over time.
Astro PM scans your captured images, identifies stars and deep-sky objects, and annotates them against popular catalogs — NGC, IC, Messier, and more. Click any object to jump straight to its SIMBAD record for full astrophysical details, alternate designations, and references whenever you need to dig deeper.
Export an entire project in one click: target details, sky parameters, exposure plan settings, observatory site, telescope, and camera specifications — plus remote access credentials when you need to hand the keys to a partner or technician. Attach a shared Dropbox, OneDrive, or Google Drive folder and everyone on the project can pull captured imagery without copying files around. Drop the export into any other Astro PM install to pick up exactly where you left off.
Bundle a project — coordinates, exposure plans, frame counts, annotations, and notes — into a single portable file ready to share with a friend or archive for safekeeping.
Drop an exported project into another Astro PM install and pick up exactly where you left off — every spec, plan, frame, and note intact.