All-sky survey planner
Set the area each pointing should cover and BOSSky lays out an even grid over the sky, with elevation limits plus meridian and pole buffers so the telescope never goes where it should not.
Software · Web · Observatory control
Run the whole sky survey
from a browser.
BOSSky is the web control room for Bosscha Observatory's sky brightness monitoring. It plans an all-sky survey, hands it to NINA, and lets you watch the telescope, dome and cameras work, from anywhere on the network.
- Works with NINA
- Any browser
- Light & dark
- 01Define the surveySite, field of view, exposure, limits.
- 02Generate the gridEven coverage, shortest route.
- 03Load into NINAOne click, per telescope.
- 04Monitor and adjustLive from any browser.
Everything between “plan the night”
and “data on disk”
Shortest path, automatically
Pointings are ordered by a travelling-salesman search so the mount spends its time exposing instead of slewing. The route is drawn on the sky map with numbered points.
One survey, several telescopes
Split the sky by azimuth across any number of telescopes, each with its own route and its own NINA template.
Straight into NINA
Export a ready-to-run NINA Advanced Sequence, or load it into NINA with one click. CSV export is there when you need the raw coordinates.
Fix the plan by hand
Click a point on the sky map to move or delete it, or add one manually by azimuth and altitude. Estimated time updates as you go.
Live dashboard
Sequence state and progress, survey points coloured by status, the all-sky camera, camera readouts and a ZWO webcam, all refreshing while you work. Rearrange the cards by dragging.
Camera, focuser and filters
Connect the camera, cool or warm to a target temperature, take a preview, change filters, move the focuser and trigger autofocus.
Telescope and dome
Slew by RA and Dec, park, unpark, flip and stop. Open, close and stop the dome shutter. Every status field is on the same page.
Frames filed and ready
New FITS files are picked up from a watched folder and catalogued by telescope, night, filter, binning, exposure and temperature. Queue master bias, dark and flat builds from the browser.
Dashboard
See the sky and the survey side by side
The dashboard pulls the all-sky camera, sequence progress and survey map into one view, with a live latency badge for the link to the observatory and an emergency stop within reach. Switch between light and dark for the dome.
The interface
Want BOSSky for your observatory?
BOSSky was built at Bosscha Observatory for sky brightness monitoring. Get in touch to talk about your telescopes, your survey, or a demo.