OPEN NIGHT-SKY ARCHIVE
Good evening, Observer.
Your observatory is ready for another night.
TONIGHT’S FIELD BRIEFWED · JUL 29
Follow the Swan
into the summer dark.
Begin with Albireo at dusk, move north through the Veil, and finish with M39 before the Moon climbs above the trees.
- BEST WINDOW
- 23:40 — 02:10
- FACING
- NE → Zenith
- PRIMARY KIT
- 8″ Dob · OIII
- SESSION GOAL
- 3 targets
LIVE EPHEMERIS
Tonight at a glance
MOON PHASE—
Calculating lunar age
SKY COVERMostly clear18%
SEEINGAverage · III3/5
TRANSPARENCYGood after 23:004/5
ASTRONOMICAL DARK22:48 — 04:265h 38m
SERVER LOGBOOK
Recent observations
UPCOMING
Observing schedule
ARCHIVE SIGNAL
What you observe
Average field rating—
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ARCHIVE CONTINUITY
Everything in its place
Database healthyAll changes persist on the observatory server.
- Storage engine
- SQLite WAL
- Archive size
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- Last synchronized
- Just now
- API release
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THE OBSERVATION RECORD
Field logbook
Every clear hour, with the conditions and equipment that shaped it.
DATE / CONDITIONSOBJECT & ENTRYOPTICAL TRAINFIELD RATING
Reading the server logbook…
AUGUST 2026 · OBSERVING RUN
Sky planner
Turn celestial opportunities into prepared nights.
OBSERVING CALENDAR
August 2026
MONTUEWEDTHUFRISATSUN
MeteorLunarPlanetaryDark sky
TONIGHT’S RUN
Target sequence
WARM-UPCollimate & cool mirror45 min
DOUBLE STARAlbireo · β Cyg92× · colour sketch
SUPERNOVA REMNANTEastern Veil · NGC 699250× · OIII
PLANETARY NEBULADumbbell · M2792× · UHC comparison
OPEN CLUSTERM39 · Cygnus43× · finish
CELESTIAL AGENDA
Planned events
TARGET QUEUE
Waiting for the right night
TARGETTYPEALTITUDEPRIORITY
NGC 7331Galaxy 74°HIGH
Stephan’s QuintetGalaxy group 58°HIGH
NGC 6826Planetary 81°MED
Comet C/2025 K1Comet 31°MED
NGC 7000Emission nebula 86°LOW
CURATED OBJECT CATALOGUE
Object atlas
Familiar lights, unfinished challenges, and the data needed to find them again.
12OBJECTS
IN VIEW
IN VIEW
ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY WORKSPACE
Imaging lab
Reference frames, acquisition notes, and processing experiments.
REFERENCE VISUALIZATION · 00:24
Orion in visible
VIDEO · NASA / ESA / G. BACON (STScI)
Orion in visible
and infrared light.
A multi-wavelength reference for separating luminous gas, dust lanes, and the embedded stellar population before the next M42 session.
- SOURCES
- Hubble + Spitzer
- FORMAT
- 1280 × 720 · MP4
- ARCHIVE
- NASA SVS 30959
REFERENCE LIBRARY
Multi-wavelength studies
ACQUISITION LEDGER
Integration by target
M425h 42m
M314h 51m
NGC 69924h 14m
M453h 25m
Jupiter2h 48m
Moon2h 33m
Broadband 14.8h Narrowband 8.8h
PROCESSING BOARD
Active reductions
CALIBRATE · 2NGC 6992OIII master stack JUPITERJuly 24 derotation
48 × 300s · flats pending
24%6 SER files · 18.4 GB
QUEUEDPROCESS · 2M31Dust-lane contrast M42Core HDR blend
Revision 04 · masks
68%5 exposure groups
81%ARCHIVED · 1MOONEclipse sequence
24-frame composite
DONEFIELD REFERENCE & QUESTIONS
Notebook
Techniques, packing lists, unfinished thoughts, and lessons learned slowly.
Opening the field notebook…
OPTICAL & FIELD SYSTEMS
Equipment room
Specifications, usage history, readiness, and the maintenance that keeps a night reliable.
—READY
Field system statusReading maintenance records…
NEXT SERVICEEQ tracking platformClean drive roller · Aug 02
MOST USED200 mm Dobsonian31 logged sessions
ACTIVE SETUPS3 configurationsVisual · planetary · travel
DATA, SECURITY & CONTINUITY
Archive controls
Your observatory account, durable records, and a clear path to take everything with you.
ARCHIVE HEALTHYAll checks passing
OBSERVER ACCOUNT
Identity & access
AO
Asteria Observer@observer- Authentication
- Not signed in
- Session protection
- Available to editors
- Session expiry
- No active session
- Access level
- Public reader
PORTABLE ARCHIVE
Export everything
Download the public observations, notes, events, equipment, metadata, and timestamps in one documented JSON archive.
{
"format": "asteria-archive",
"observations": — records,
"notes": — records,
"equipment": — records
SYSTEM TELEMETRY
Observatory services
Asteria APIVersion —HEALTHY
SQLite archiveCalculating sizeWAL MODE
Daily snapshotsWaiting for first backupROTATING
Caddy edgeTLS · HTTP/2 · HTTP/3SECURE
Session syncJust nowLIVE
SECURITY
Change passphrase
Editor sign-in is required. Changing the passphrase closes every active session and requires a fresh login.
DESIGNED TO GROW
Archive roadmap
Durable server logbookSQLite, CRUD, export, authenticated API
Equipment & maintenanceReusable optical systems with service history
03Multi-observer teamsRoles, shared sessions, attribution
04Image ingestionFITS metadata and plate-solving hooks
05Live ephemeris providerLocation-aware altitude and weather feeds