Astryx Feature List — Astryx Tools

Target Database & Search

14,000+ deep-sky objects — a full catalogue of galaxies, nebulae, and clusters, ready to search without building your own list first.
Filter by type, size, magnitude, and constellation — narrow thousands of targets down to the handful worth a night's imaging time.
Cross-catalogue naming — find the same object whether you know it as M1, NGC1952, or Sh2-244.
To Do List — build a working shortlist of targets, each with a live altitude graph so you can see at a glance which ones are worth tonight.

Yearly Observability — see at a glance which months a target clears your horizon and stays clear of the moon, before you commit a night to it.
Daily Visibility — a full altitude and twilight timeline for a specific night, so you know exactly when a target rises above your imaging minimum and when it sets.
Target Optimizer — scores and ranks every candidate target for a given night against altitude, moon separation, and moon illumination, so the best combination for tonight isn't a guess.
Multi-target combo scoring — plans a full night across several targets, not just the single best one, accounting for the time each stays usable.
Weather strip — current and forecast sky conditions shown alongside your plan, so you don't cross-reference a separate app.
Multiple observer locations — save home, dark-sky, and travel sites, and switch between them with every view updating to match.

Real sky-survey imagery — see what your target and its surrounding field actually look like before you point the scope at it.
Framing preview by your own gear — overlay your sensor's true field of view, using your saved telescope and camera combination, directly on the sky image.
Drag to recentre — nudge the framing box and Astryx remembers your custom center the next time you open that target.
Always current — navigating between targets keeps Viewfinder in sync, so it's never showing the previous object's framing.

Time-budget an entire night — exposures, dithers, autofocus runs, and meridian flips accounted for, so a planned sub count matches what the night can actually deliver.
Meridian flip aware — flip timing is worked out from the target's own coordinates and transit time, not a flat guess.
Adjustable sliders for every overhead — sub gap, dither settle, autofocus duration, and flip pause each tune independently to match your rig.
Multi-target sequencing — split a night's imaging time across more than one target and see the resulting sub counts for each.

Track every session — log target, exposure, sub count, and span for each night, building a real record of what you've actually captured.
Projects and programs — group sessions under a target project, or a longer-running program spanning many targets, and see cumulative integration time roll up automatically.
Activity heatmap — a GitHub-style contribution graph of every imaging night across the year, so gaps and streaks are visible at a glance.
Equipment referenced, not retyped — sessions link to your saved telescopes, sensors, filters, and locations, so a piece of gear in active use can't be silently deleted out from under your log.

ASIAir and PHD2 log parsing — import your imaging and guiding logs directly, no manual data entry after the session ends.
Combined Report — imaging and guiding data fused into one night's story, rather than two logs you have to cross-reference yourself.
Settled-frame guide RMS — guiding performance measured on frames that were actually tracking, not diluted by dither settles included in the average.
Calibration analysis — orthogonality error, rate swings, and star-lost-during-calibration events surfaced in plain language, not left buried in the raw log.
Dither directional bias — checks whether your dithers are actually mixing randomly across the frame or drifting in one direction session after session.
SNR-vs-darkness check — flags signal-to-noise drops that happen deep in the night, when twilight can't be blamed, so a real problem doesn't hide behind a normal explanation.
Meridian flip breakdown — pause and flip shown as separate timeline entries, so a slow flip and a long pause aren't lumped into one unreadable number.

Telescopes, sensors, and filters — save your gear once, reuse it across framing, sequencing, and logging without retyping specs.
Automatic plate scale — telescope and sensor combinations compute field of view and pixel scale for you.
Delete-safe — equipment or a location currently referenced by a logged session can't be deleted out from under your history by accident.

Guided walkthroughs — step-by-step tutorials for every major view, from first launch through advanced sequencing.
Resume where you left off — an in-progress tutorial is picked back up automatically instead of restarting from the beginning.
Full help documentation — every view and setting explained, opening in its own tab so it never interrupts your session.
Inline tooltips — hover any control for a plain-language explanation of what it does.

Web and native desktop — run it in the browser or install a native app for Windows, macOS, and Linux, with the same planning tools either way.
Five selectable themes — including dark and low-light options built for the observatory, with colorblind-accessible visuals throughout.
Works offline — the desktop build runs entirely on your own machine, no connection required once loaded.

Local-first — your targets, sessions, and settings live in a database on your own machine, not someone else's cloud.
One-click backup and restore — right from the admin tools, so switching machines or recovering from a mistake doesn't cost you your log.
PDF export — turn a session or report into a portable document you can save or share.