Planning guides

Practical guides for the decisions around each night.

AstroGuide helps you understand the sky, save future intent, plan a capture, and describe the gear you actually use so each decision has better context.

  • Tonight planning
  • Longer-term projects
  • Capture Studio
  • Telescope Workshop

Start here

Use the guide that matches the decision in front of you.

These guides explain the major AstroGuide workflows in plain language, from deciding whether tonight is worth using to building a rig and saving a capture plan.

Planning tonight

Make the current night easier to understand.

Start with conditions, night ratings, hourly forecasts, observation windows, and recommendations that fit your real site and equipment.

  • Night ratings
  • Hourly conditions
  • Observation windows
  • Target fit
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Planning ahead

Give future ideas somewhere useful to live.

Use goals, objectives, monthly visibility, and seasonal context so every good subject does not have to become tonight’s plan.

  • Goals
  • Objectives
  • Monthly visibility
  • Seasonal planning
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Capture Studio

Turn a promising subject into a capture plan.

Use framing, filter fit, sub-exposure guidance, and integration estimates to understand how a subject, site, and rig fit together.

  • Framing Advisor
  • Filter Advisor
  • Sub-length guidance
  • Integration planning
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Telescope Workshop

Build a rig before you depend on it.

Combine optics, cameras, and focal multipliers to understand field of view, pixel scale, sampling fit, and how a setup compares.

  • Optics and cameras
  • Focal multipliers
  • Derived attributes
  • Rig comparisons
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App alignment

Written for the product as it works today.

These guides focus on practical workflows: night ratings, hourly conditions, observation windows, recommendations, goals, objectives, monthly visibility, Capture Studio planning, Telescope Workshop rig building, and post-session learning.

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