Lantern

Catch the light. Keep it.

Lantern is the Lone Star Observatories astrophotography companion. Plan tonight's sky and log your capture in the field, then ingest, grade, stack, and process in the browser — no local install, no local GPU — and release a finished frame into a shared sky.

Enter My Sky

You will continue on the Lone Star Observatories identity service and return here afterward.

One account, from field to finish

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Plan tonight

A deterministic Sky Score reads weather, seeing, and light pollution so you know whether tonight is worth the drive — and which targets are in reach.

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Capture in the field

A native mobile companion logs your session fully offline at the dark site, then syncs the frame manifest — metadata only — when you're back on signal.

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Process in the cloud

Connect your own storage, ingest your subs, then grade, calibrate, stack, and process — the multi-gigabyte pixel work runs as cloud jobs while the browser stays thin.

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Release a lantern

Dedicate a finished capture to someone and share it, at a visibility you choose, into a memorial-aware community sky.

From connect to release

  1. Connect

    Link your own cloud storage — Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, or an S3-compatible store — and ingest your subs directly. No re-upload, no local GPU.

  2. Stack

    Grade and cull, then calibrate and integrate your frames as cloud jobs while the browser stays thin and responsive.

  3. Process

    Non-destructively stretch, denoise, and finish your master in the browser — every step reversible, nothing baked in.

  4. Export

    Pull a full-resolution master back to your own storage, ready to print, post, or archive.

  5. Release

    Dedicate a finished frame and release it into the shared, memorial-aware sky at a visibility you choose.

Release a lantern

Dedicate a finished capture to someone — often someone you've lost — and share it, at a visibility you choose, into a memorial-aware community sky. Handled with dignity: no ads, no cost, on the dedication view. Light, caught and kept.

Enter My Sky