Observation Planning Tools

Plan tonight with ISS position, observing conditions, and upcoming events.

Groq-powered astronomy assistant

Ask Stellara AI about tonight's sky

Use your saved location, telescope, and live observing data to get target ideas, session advice, and practical next steps.

Live ISS Tracker

Live ISS position, altitude, speed, and visibility status.

Updating ISS orbital position from CelesTrak TLE data...
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Use this map to time visible passes at your site, then cross-check cloud cover and moonlight below.

ISS orbit data: CelesTrak TLE propagation (satellite.js).

Upcoming Astronomy Events

Meteor showers, conjunctions, eclipses, and opposition dates with visibility notes.

Visibility labels indicate hemisphere coverage and useful observing windows such as "Best before dawn".

Events database status: waiting for fetch...

Fetching upcoming astronomical events from the Stellara events database...

Event visibility catalog: Stellara curated astronomy events database.

Astronomy Weather and Moon Conditions

Cloud layers, humidity, wind, seeing, transparency, moon phase, and visibility.

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Search your observing site and decide quickly: deep-sky session, lunar/planetary session, or wait for better conditions.

Practical note: high humidity can increase haze, strong winds can make tracking unstable, and moonlight can brighten the background sky.

Weather models: Open-Meteo (cloud, wind, humidity, visibility) + 7Timer (seeing, transparency). Astronomy times: QWeather (server-side proxy).

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