Citizen astronomy · a shared live sky
Point at the dark. Everyone sees what you see.
Perigee is a network of internet-connected smart telescopes. Aim one at a faint smudge in Sagittarius, let the sky plate-solve and lock, and the whole node watches the same photons arrive — from a rooftop in Lisbon, a plateau in the Karoo, a bothy in the Cairngorms. One sky, pointed together.
[ Tonight · steer the sky ]
Sweep the reticle. The network locks on.
This is the live viewport a Perigee operator sees. Move your pointer across the field — or use the arrow keys — and the nearest catalogued object plate-solves and locks. Coordinates are computed for right now; the card is exactly what a node broadcasts to everyone watching.
[ The network ]
Real scopes, dark sites, one shared aperture.
Every node is a smart telescope owned by a member and pointed by consensus. When a site has clear sky, it publishes its live pointing to the network so anyone can queue a target.
[ Observations ]
Tonight's stack, from the whole network.
Each frame below is integrated from many nodes shooting the same coordinates — renders are procedural, the metadata is astronomy. Hover a card to read the full acquisition.
[ Join a node ]
Three steps to a sky you share.
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Point
Aim any Perigee-ready scope at a dark patch of sky. Rough is fine — you're within a degree, the network does the rest.
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Focus
The field plate-solves against 4.8 billion catalogued stars, locks your mount, and reports exactly where you're pointed to the arcsecond.
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Share
Publish your framing to the node. Everyone watching drops onto your coordinates and the photons stack across the whole network.
The sky was always public. We just pointed together.