Trusted Partners
Vendors Supporting OpenAstro
Built hand-in-hand with the companies behind your gear.
Compatible Apps
Apps That Work with OpenAstro
The imaging software you already know, ready out of the box.
Three Steps to First Light
How It Works
Set up your device
Install AlpacaBridge on an iMate, StellaVita, ASIAIR, or Raspberry Pi with our step-by-step guides.
Connect over your network
Your cameras, mount, and focuser speak ASCOM Alpaca over Wi-Fi or Ethernet. No cables to the house.
Image from anywhere
Use Ara on Linux, macOS, or Windows, or classic apps like APT, CCDciel, N.I.N.A., Sequence Generator Pro, SharpCap, and Voyager.
See It in Action
Try It Now: Meet Ara
Try AlpacaBridge in your browser
No hardware needed. Drive a simulated camera, mount, and focuser right now with the interactive demo.
Ara Pro
Ready-to-run builds, priority support, and every update included, on all your devices. In development now; pricing announced at launch. See what's coming.
Seamless Astronomy
The Goal of OpenAstro
Six promises. One mission: get you imaging, not troubleshooting.
Open standards. No lock-in.
Built on ASCOM Alpaca. Every driver ConformU verified. Your gear speaks a language every app understands.
Your hardware, unleashed.
Free your iMate, StellaVita, or ASIAIR from the software it shipped with. Or start fresh on a Raspberry Pi.
Any OS. Your call.
Linux, macOS, or Windows. Same setup, same workflow, everywhere.
Built under real skies.
Shaped by astronomers who actually image with it, and a community that answers at 2 a.m.
The gear you own, ready to go.
Cameras, mounts, focusers, filter wheels. Support that grows with every release.
Set up outside. Image inside.
Everything streams over Wi-Fi or Ethernet. The scope stays in the cold. You don't.
The universe is waiting.
Free. Open source. Ready for your gear tonight.