The sky, frame by frame
The whole sky from public surveys, from starlight to glowing gas and dust, in layers you can switch on and zoom into. On top of it, a mark on every target I hold frames of: my own nights, community-shared nights and uploads.
125targets 629,387frames 3,404hours of exposure
Counts as of . Each value measured, labeled approximate, or absent: how claims are marked.
Picture: starlight in color, my map made from Gaia star data (ESA/Gaia/DPAC), CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO. Licenses.
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Plan a night
What is up this week, from transits and variable stars to deep-sky picks. Open the sky planner
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Keep your subs
The single frames your Seestar can save are what measurements are made from. What your Seestar saves, and which files to keep
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Measure or share
See what the community's frames already show, or share a night of subs. Your targets, frame counts and hours join the sky map; nothing about where you observe is shown. See Privacy ยท What's in your files before you share them
Newest results
What the frames have shown lately
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Exploratory
Watching HAT-P-32 b's transit live with a 50 mm smart telescope
A 50 mm Seestar watched HAT-P-32 b's transit as the subs arrived: depth 1.80 ± 0.24 % at the predicted time, and the live answer matched the whole-night one.
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Confirmed
Hubble's V1 pulses on schedule, through a 50 mm lens
A blind test with a 50 mm Seestar, set up in advance, passes: Hubble's V1 in Andromeda pulses on its 31.39-day schedule, and none of 2,374 empty spots come close.
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Results
Seestar Collective light curves
Light curves of 869 known variable stars in Seestar Collective images: search by star or look up your own telescope. Data: the Seestar Collective.
Everything on skycruncher.io
- SkyThe whole sky in layers, from starlight to glowing gas and dust
- LearnHow starlight becomes a measurement, for smart-telescope owners
- ResultsLiving pages: the sky map, variable stars, corpus snapshots
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- ToolsPlan a night, clean your files, calibrate
- Share dataSend a night of subs; your site is moved before anything leaves your computer
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