MyAstroBoard - Visual Tour
A walkthrough of MyAstroBoard’s interface, tab by tab - from tonight’s go/no-go decision to the logbook of everything you have imaged. Each section links to the page that documents the feature in full.
Table of Contents
- Astrophotography
- Weather
- SkyTonight
- Astrodex
- Spaceflight
- Observatory
- Equipment
- My settings
- App settings
- Everywhere
Astrophotography
Everything you need to decide whether tonight is worth setting up the telescope. Details: ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY.md.
Astrophotography
The night’s conditions through an astrophotographer’s eyes - clouds, transparency, seeing, wind, humidity, dew risk - with alerts when something will spoil the session.
Best window
The best imaging window of the night, computed in three modes: Moon below the horizon, Moon below 5 degrees, or Moon less than 15% lit.
Moon
Phase, rise and set, altitude chart, dark-sky window, the next nights and a monthly phase calendar. Lunar eclipses are highlighted.
Sun
Twilight times, altitude chart and the next solar eclipse for your location.
Aurora Borealis
Kp forecast and a visibility assessment for your latitude.
Events Calendar
Upcoming sky events - conjunctions, oppositions, meteor showers, eclipses, ISS transits - with the parameters that help you prioritize them. An event can be turned into a share card.
Weather
Details: WEATHER.md.
Weather
Hourly forecast for the night from Open-Meteo: temperature, precipitation, cloud layers, wind, pressure.
Seeing Forecast
Seeing and transparency from 7Timer for your location.
Observation Conditions
Time series of the atmospheric conditions to find the sweet spot of the night.
SkyTonight
SkyTonight computes the best targets for the coming night from a dozen catalogues and ranks them with an AstroScore (visibility, sky quality, brightness, comfort). Details: SKYTONIGHT.md.
Plot
A polar map of the sky with the path of every observable target tonight; click a target to inspect it.
Deep Sky Objects
Thousands of deep-sky objects, scored and sorted. Filter by type, size, magnitude, constellation, AstroScore, or by how well a target fits your equipment. “Tonight for you” picks a few targets matched to your experience level (BEGINNER_EXPERIENCE.md).
Each target opens a details panel with catalogue names, transit time, a visibility calendar over the year, and the equipment combinations that suit it best.
The Beginner catalogue is a curated list of forgiving targets, each with an explanation.
Solar System Bodies and Comets
The Moon and planets, and the comets currently observable, from live orbital elements.
Altitude charts
An altitude-vs-time chart for every target, with the astronomical night and the observable zone, and your horizon profile.
Framing simulator
Your sensor’s field drawn over a real image of the sky around a target, with rotation and up to three equipment combinations compared side by side. Also opens from the Wishlist, Plan My Night and the Astrodex. See SKYTONIGHT.md.
Astrodex
Your logbook, from the plan to the finished picture: Plan -> Observe -> Log -> Astrodex.
Astrodex
Your collection of imaged objects, with your pictures, their acquisition details, ratings and notes. A picture can be turned into a share card, or sent to MyAstroShine for re-processing (MYASTROSHINE.md). Details: ASTRODEX.md.
Plan my night
Turn your SkyTonight shortlist into a timeline for the night: durations, ordering (by hand or by the optimizer), live progress during the night, CSV and PDF export. Shared equipment combinations appear in the combination selector alongside your own. Details: PLAN_MY_NIGHT.md.
Observation Log
One record per night: conditions, equipment, and what you shot on each target. A plan becomes a session in one click, and frames logged on a target add it to the Astrodex. Details: OBSERVATION_LOG.md.
Your Sky
Everything the Observation Log knows, read back to you: total integration time, the object types and constellations you favour, which equipment did the work, and how your ratings line up with the seeing, transparency, SQM and Moon you recorded. Every comparison shows its own sample count, and a group with too few nights behind it says so. Details: SESSION_ANALYTICS.md.
The sky coverage chart draws your captures over the Milky Way and the ecliptic, with the band of sky that never rises from your location shaded out.
Wishlist
The targets you want to image next, with a priority, when each one is next visible, and how many you have already captured.
Photo Map
Where your pictures were taken, on a map, from the locations you entered on them. Whether other users’ pictures appear is an administrator setting.
Catalogue Collection
Pick a catalogue (Messier, Caldwell, Herschel 400…) and see which of its objects you have already caught.
Spaceflight
Details: SPACEFLIGHT.md.
Launches
Upcoming and recent launches, with a detailed view and the webcast when one is available.
Astronauts
Who is in space right now, on which vehicle, and for how long.
Space Events
Mission milestones, spacewalks, dockings and other spaceflight events.
Orbital Stations
Visible passes of the ISS and the China Space Station (Tiangong) over your location, and their transits across the Sun and the Moon.
Observatory
A live panel fed by your own equipment through connectors: AllSky camera image, keogram, startrails, timelapse and sensor data. The tab appears once a connector is enabled. Details: OBSERVATORY.md, CONNECTORS.md.
Equipment
Telescopes, cameras, mounts, filters and accessories, combined into named equipment combinations. Combinations feed the target recommendations, the field-of-view filters, the framing simulator and the exposure calculator. Details: EQUIPMENT.md, EXPOSURE_CALC.md.
Sharing equipment
Every piece of equipment can be marked Share with all users. Shared items show up, read-only, for every other user: in their Equipment tab, the FOV calculator, the target recommendations, the Astrodex picture form and the Plan My Night combination selector. A combination counts as shared only when every piece it uses is shared. When a shared combination goes away, plans built on it are kept and show a warning. Useful for a family or a club that shares a mount or a filter set.
My settings
Each user’s own preferences: theme (including a red night-vision theme), startup tab, density, time format, experience level, their locations, notifications, password and two-factor authentication, and the download of their personal data. Details: USER_SETTINGS.md.
App settings
Administration of the instance (admin only). Details: CONFIGURATION.md.
- Locations: up to five location presets, attributed to users (LOCATIONS.md).
- Configuration: SkyTonight constraints, Astrodex privacy, notifications contact, reverse proxy, MQTT connections.
- Connectors: AllSky, MyAstroShine, MQTT / Home Assistant, Astrodex Stream (CONNECTORS.md, HOME_ASSISTANT.md).
- Logs: live log viewer, levels, retention, and an export to attach to a GitHub issue.
- Users: accounts and roles (admin, user, read-only), trusted networks, two-factor policy (AUTHENTICATION.md).
- Metrics: system, database, scheduler and cache job health.
- Backup / Restore: one archive with your configuration, accounts and collections.
Everywhere
- Sky status widget in the header: the current state of the night and the active location, with a switcher when you have several.
- Share cards: a picture, a session, tonight’s sky or an event as a ready-to-post image (SHARE_CARDS.md).
- Phones: installable as an app, with push notifications (MOBILE.md).
- Six languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese.
Last updated 2026-11-13