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You imaged all night.
Was it worth it?

Astrowarden reads every sub, culls the junk, and tells you exactly what went wrong, before you waste an hour stacking. Read-only. Evidence-first. It never invents a pixel of your data.

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M31 · 2026-06-12 · 300 × 300s · Ha+OIII
Tonight287 kept · 13 rejected
Verdict
Process, with a tilt caveat.
Bottom-right stars elongated. FWHM 4.6″ vs 2.1″ top-left, monotonic across the frame.
Guiding clean. RMS 0.61″, no excursions matched to soft frames.
13 dropped: 9 trailed · 3 dew · 1 cloud.
cause: sensor tilt, not field curvature
The 2am questions

Every clear night ends with
the same questions.

You know them by heart. Astrowarden answers each one with a number you can check, not a guess at the eyepiece.

"Did six hours of subs survive the wind and the dew?"
→ Astrowarden
Every frame graded the second it lands. Junk gone, keepers flagged.
"Soft corners again. Tilt, curvature, or collimation?"
→ Astrowarden
It measures all four corners and names the actual cause.
"Do I spend the night stacking this, or reshoot?"
→ Astrowarden
A clear, defensible verdict before sunrise.
"I'm at a dark site, ninety minutes from my monitor."
→ Astrowarden
Watch the whole session live from your phone.
"Will an AI hallucinate detail into my data?"
→ Astrowarden
Never. It is read-only and reports only what the data shows.
"Blinking three hundred subs by hand. Again."
→ Astrowarden
Culled in under a minute. Free, every night, forever.
What it does

Cull. Diagnose. Decide.

Three things, every session, so you never pour an evening into data that was never going to work.

the chore you hate, gone

Cull

Point it at three hundred subs. It grades every frame on FWHM, eccentricity, trails and SNR, and tosses the junk. Free and unlimited, every night.

287 kept · 13 rejected
the answer you couldn't get

Diagnose

Tilt, coma, guiding, focus drift, dew, gradients, trails. It sees the cause and shows the measurement behind every call.

BR FWHM 4.6 vs 2.1 · tilt
the call, before you commit

Decide

Stack it, salvage it, or reshoot. No more eight hours of processing only to learn the subs were never going to work.

verdict: process w/ caveats
It shows its work

No black box.
No invented detail.

The community is right to be wary of AI in their data. So Astrowarden cites a number you can check or a region you can see for every call. A pro acts on "bottom-right FWHM 4.6 versus 2.1 top-left, monotonic, so tilt not curvature." Never on "you have tilt."

tiltcoma guiding errorfocus drift field curvaturedew gradientssatellite trails walking noiseclouds

Read-only, always

It reads your files and never writes a pixel. No deconvolution, no denoise, no "enhancement." Your data is your data.

Your raw data never leaves home

Full-resolution frames stay on your machine. Only tiny previews and the measured numbers are ever analyzed in the cloud.

Sharper every month

It learns from thousands of nights across every rig and sky. Your app gets smarter with every update, at no extra cost, and runs more of the work right on your machine.

NGC 7000 · live02:14
Imaging now · sub 142 of 240
Kept tonight
131/142
Guide RMS
0.58
Frame quality · last 30
!
Focus drifting. HFR up 18% over 20 min. Refocus suggested.
iPhone companion

Your rig is out there.
You shouldn't have to be.

Remote observatory, backyard pier, or a dark site an hour from home: the companion mirrors your desktop session and drives it from anywhere, in real time.

Live   Every sub graded the moment it lands, from bed or a thousand miles away. Alerts   A push the instant stars elongate, focus drifts, dew creeps in, or clouds roll through. Control   Cull, re-run analysis, and steer the desktop session without leaving the house. Call it   Keep going or pack it in, decided from the data, not a guess at the window.
Everywhere you image

One warden. Every rig.

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Windows10 & 11
Linuxcommunity tier
iPhonecompanion app

Reads FITS · XISF · TIFF · PHD2 logs. Ha, OIII, SII, or one-shot color. Dedicated astro cam or smart scope.

Pricing

Most tools bill you forever.
Buy Astrowarden once.

One purchase, yours on every platform. Unlimited culling never costs a thing. Deep diagnosis runs on simple prepaid credits, so you only ever pay for what you use, and never a cent more.

The app
$89 one time
  • macOS, Windows, Linux, and the iPhone companion
  • Unlimited subframe culling, free forever
  • The on-device engine that sharpens with every update
  • A starter set of diagnosis credits included
  • Yours to keep. No subscription required.
Founder pricing for the first wave. Join the waitlist to lock it in.
Diagnosis credits
prepaid pay as you go
  • One credit runs one deep diagnosis
  • Buy a pack, use it whenever the sky cooperates
  • Credits go further as the app learns and runs more locally
  • Prepaid only. You are never billed by surprise.
An optional monthly plan is coming for remote-observatory and high-volume imagers.
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