Find dark skies. Plan the shot. Process the photo.

A free atlas of dark-sky locations built by the community, with the tools to use them.

Dark-sky locations Community pins for the Milky Way, telescopes, the Moon and astro-tourism, with sky brightness and photos. Open the map

Planetarium Your real sky from any pin, with local terrain. Frame your lens, scrub the night, take a guided tour. Open the Planetarium

Beta Sky Transits Find where the ISS, Tiangong or Hubble crosses the Sun, Moon, Jupiter or Saturn, and exactly where to stand to see it. Search for a transit

22 Jul 2028 Eclipse 2028 Where to stand, how to frame the Sun with the land, and how to see it properly. Includes the Channel Country. Read the eclipse guides

Plate-solved photos Location photos labelled with the stars, constellations and deep-sky objects actually in the frame. Open a solved photo

Gear compare Cameras, lenses, trackers and smart telescopes side by side. Tag what you own. Choose a comparison

StarLock Sharp-star exposure settings for your camera and lens: NPF, aperture and ISO guidance. Open StarLock

Photoshop BlurXT for Photoshop Run RC-Astro's BlurXTerminator from inside Photoshop. Built for nightscapes and wide fields. Free download

Photoshop AstroCooker One click turns a raw nightscape into a ready-to-share Milky Way. See how it works

Photoshop Recipe Card Reads your photo's EXIF and builds a gear and settings card for you. How to use it

Visit respectfully: stay low-key near properties, including farms, and leave no trace.