A purpose-built photo log for astrophotographers. Track your progress through the Messier, Caldwell, and NGC catalogs. See how far you've come.
THE MISSION
Catalog the night sky.
See how far you've come.
Challenge yourself.
A modern photo-logging system to catalog every object you've captured, track your journey through the deep sky catalogs, and challenge yourself to complete them all.
Catalog
Upload and organize your captures around the catalogs that define the hobby.
Reflect
See your progress over time. Your collection tells the story of your growth.
Discover
Track what you haven’t captured yet. Every catalog shows you what’s next.
Challenge
Take on full catalog completions. The Messier 110. All 109 Caldwell targets. How far can you go?
WHAT YOU GET
Tools built for the night sky.
Work through the sky.
Object by object.
Sky Log is built around the catalogs that define the hobby. The Messier 110. The Caldwell list. The full NGC. Pick a challenge and build your collection one object at a time.
Every capture updates your progress. The targets you haven't shot yet are still there, waiting. Come back to the same object a year later with better gear and you have a record of how far you've come.
Drop your photos.
We'll do the rest.
No scrolling through catalogs to find a match, no manual tagging. Plate solving identifies every object in your images and catalogs them automatically.
Switching from Astrobin or another platform? Batch upload years of astrophotos from your NAS, cloud storage, or any folder on your computer. Quick ID plate solves and catalogs everything — your entire collection migrated in minutes, not months.
Migrate from any platform — batch upload your full library
Plate solving identifies objects so you never search manually
Upload from NAS, cloud storage, or local folders
One tap to confirm and add to your collection
Know your rig.
Down to the pixel.
Save your telescope, camera, mount, and accessory configurations. Sky Log calculates your pixel scale automatically and stores your full imaging train for every session.
Pick from popular presets or enter custom gear. Switch between setups in one tap — backyard rig, travel scope, or club observatory.
Popular telescope & camera presets
Auto-calculated pixel scale
Multiple saved configurations
Tagged to every observation
See what others
are capturing.
The Field is a shared gallery of real observations from real astrophotographers. No ads, no algorithm, no noise. Just deep sky images from people who care about the craft.
Follow other observers, explore their collections, and see discoveries from every catalog.
EXPLORE THE FIELD
ORIGIN
Sky Log grew from a visit to the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria. Walking in as a curious visitor and leaving as a volunteer, taking drone surveys, laser measurements, and telescope operator training, made one thing clear: the best way to understand the sky is to work with it deliberately, object by object.
The hobby deserves more than a photo dump. It deserves a system that understands what a Messier object is, why revisiting the same target matters, and how satisfying it is to watch a catalog fill in over months and years.
Sky Log is built on that instinct: real sky, real data, real people who care about the craft.
Catalog. Reflect. Discover. Challenge.
CATALOGING PLATFORMS FOR NATURE PHOTOGRAPHERS
Sky Log is part of a family of field logging platforms built for people who look closely at the world around them. Track the sky, birds, and ocean — all in one place.
