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Seestar S30 Pro Total Solar Eclipse Edition
Friday, June 26, 2026 by Austin Harris
On August 12, the Moon's shadow will once again cross Europe. For eclipse chasers, astronomy travelers, and anyone who remembers the feeling of watching daylight fade into totality, moments like this are not just dates on a calendar. They are experiences people plan around, travel for, and re...
Using Claude to Control A Telescope Via ESP32
Friday, April 24, 2026 by Russ Scritchfield
A new firmware called LUNA is now available, bringing natural language telescope control to affordable ESP32 boards. LUNA serves as a bridge between Claude AI and a wide range of astronomy mounts and software, using the Model Context Protocol to exchange structured commands and data. The result is a...
Planet and moon image stacking gets easier with LuckyStackWorker 7
Wednesday, January 14, 2026 by Russ Scritchfield
LuckyStackWorker - a free, open-source desktop application for astrophotographers that automates the post-processing (sharpening, denoising) of stacked solar system images (planets, Moon, Sun) captured with techniques like lucky imaging, has updated to a new release of version 7.0.0. The application...
AstroFiler 1.2 Calibration Automation Update
Tuesday, January 13, 2026 by Austin Harris
AstroFiler has quietly built a reputation as a practical utility for astronomers who find themselves managing more data than their original folder structures ever anticipated. As modern capture software and smart telescopes lower the barrier to collecting deep sky data, the challenge increasingly sh...