The oldest question in astrophotography, answered:
What do I shoot tonight?
Our AI Capabilities
Optimal Target
Reads tonight's sky over your site — dark window, moon, cloud, wind — scores the whole catalogue against your telescope and camera, and gives you one hero target
You Get the Call
One hero target with the honest why, a shortlist of at most five backups, and a straight GO / MARGINAL / DON'T-BOTHER verdict on the night itself. Some nights the honest answer is "stay inside" — it will say so.
Tell Your Rig Once
Focal length, camera, mount, your horizon, your sky. The engine scores every target for how it actually frames and reaches on your equipment — not someone else's.
Benefits
Top Features
More Than AI
An onboard AI Co Pilot to guide you in simple to read English.
Real astronomy & mathematics computed for your exact site — the engine does the maths, never guesses.
Need Help At Remote Dark Site?
Built for the dark site: zero internet, full decision.
Scored against your rig
Focal length, sensor, mount, horizon, filters — over 7,000 objects ranked every night for how they actually frame, reach and track on your equipment. Not someone else's
The engine decides. The AI only speaks
Every altitude, window and framing number is computed deterministically from real ephemeris data.
The AI writes the debrief from those numbers — it never invents the astronomy.
Real sky mathematics.
Sun, moon and target positions computed with professional-grade ephemeris data for your exact coordinates — the same fundamentals planetariums are built on, pointed at one question: what's best tonight?
AI narration, kept honest
The nightly debrief reads like a coach, not a chatbot — because it's written from the engine's finished facts, nothing else.
Unplug the AI and the decision still stands on its own numbers.
Desktop
A desktop console that reads tonight's sky over your site, scores the whole catalogue against your rig, and hands you one confident target — with the honest why. Free for Windows.
Integrations
Export To N.I.N.A
Using NINA? If you image with NINA's Advanced Sequencer, Pro's Send-to-NINA writes tonight's pick straight into your own target-set file. Your original sequence file is never touched.
Features
We Hear You
Southern Hemisphere First
Most planning tools are written under northern skies, with the south bolted on later. Clear Night Coach was built and field-tested in Australia.
The Magellanic Clouds, 47 Tucanae, Centaurus A, the Carina arm — the objects your sky actually owns are the ones its curation knows best.
But the Northern Skies are on their way!
Pricing
The full decision — hero pick, shortlist, honest verdict — is free forever.
Pro turns the answer into action: your NINA sequence written, the recipe tuned to tonight, your nights logged and the season planned
Life Time Offer
Founder lifetime — $79, once, yours for life. First 25 supporters only, then it's gone for good. The people who back this early keep Pro forever.
