Mobile Companion - AstroIndexer

Two apps, one library

AstroIndexer is a desktop application. The companion app is a window onto the same indexed data — it does not re-analyse anything, it shows you what your desktop already worked out.

Desktop

Where the work happens

Scanning, plate solving, quality analysis, stacking and the machine-learning modules all run locally on your computer, against your FITS and XISF files.

Mobile

Where you check it

Browse the catalogue, pull up any object, and read its capture summary and pipeline state — while you are setting up under the sky, or nowhere near your desk.

Overview

Your archive at a glance.

Library

Every indexed object, searchable.

Equipment

Rigs, and how each one performs.

Insights

Patterns found in your history.

Settings

Sync and preferences.

The same library, on every screen

One sync, three form factors. Browse on the phone in the field, spread the grid out on a tablet, then put the results on the television.

Recorded on a real library — 27 targets, 168 hours of integration. Tablet layouts ship on iPad and Android.

Your whole catalogue, in one view

Search by object or catalogue, filter the list, and see the totals for everything you have indexed — objects, accumulated exposure, and how much has been through quality analysis.

Search across objects and catalogues
Filter by catalogue or by filter used
Library totals: objects, exposure hours, QA coverage
A featured target surfaced from your own archive

Android tablet Library view with the navigation rail, a search field and a four-column grid of indexed objects with exposure totals and filters

Every object, with the numbers that matter

Open any target and see what you have actually accumulated on it — not a folder listing, but the totals your desktop computed. Scan, Rig, QA, ML and Image each carry their own state, so one look tells you whether an object is finished or still waiting.

Total exposure, frame count and how many nights it took
The rig that captured it, named
Date range from first to most recent session
Coordinates and calibration sets on record
Per-stage pipeline indicators and the quality verdict
Object previews synced from your indexed library

Phone object detail view for NGC2237 showing total exposure, frame count, nights, the rig that captured it with focal length and f-ratio, date range and coordinates

And on the television

The Apple TV app is a viewer, not a spreadsheet. It shows the targets you have actually processed as a wall of photographs, and puts any one of them full-screen with the numbers underneath — the way you would show them to someone standing in the room. Move through your targets with the remote and the gallery atmosphere follows your selection.

Your imaged targets as a focus-driven gallery wall
Full-screen viewing with exposure, frames and filters
The rig that captured each frame, named on screen
Pairs from the desktop with an on-screen Allow — nothing to type

Apple TV gallery showing a wall of imaged targets with exposure times, nights and filters, above a header reading 27 objects and 168.6 hours

Apple TV full-screen view of the bright nebula LBN622, with its name, 5.8 hours of exposure, 70 frames and the telescope and camera that captured it

Your library, in your pocket