About
A modern control suite for astrophotography.
OpenSkyLab exists because capturing the night sky should not require juggling five disconnected tools from the 2000s. We are building the interface we wish we had — modern, fast, open, and honest about what it costs.
Open by default
The entire core is MIT-licensed. No vendor lock-in, no hidden cloud dependencies, no phone-home telemetry.
Built by imagers
Every feature starts from a real night under the sky. We use OpenSkyLab on our own rigs before shipping it.
Local-first
Your star catalog, your captures, your session logs — all stored on your machine. Pro cloud features are opt-in.
Community-driven
Roadmap, issues and design discussions happen in public. If you can file a bug, you can shape the product.
Why now?
The astrophotography ecosystem is powerful but fragmented. INDI and ASCOM solved device interoperability fifteen years ago, yet end-user software still feels like it. OpenSkyLab pairs Rust at the core with a modern React UI to give imagers a single, cross-platform interface that feels as good as the hardware they invested in.
The open-source core stays free forever. A small set of Pro plugins — AI framing, ML quality scoring, remote access — funds full-time development without compromising the core.