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Allsky transforms a camera into a tireless, intelligent observer of the night sky — an automated system that watches, records, and analyses everything that happens above you.

Using a high-sensitivity camera, powerful Raspberry Pi-based software, and modular extensions, Allsky captures meteors, satellites, aurora, and passing cloud, 24 hours a day. Each frame is processed in real time to reveal events invisible to the naked eye — and every night becomes its own story told through data, images, and motion.

But Allsky is more than just a camera — it’s an ecosystem. The web-based interface lets you monitor your system live, review captured events, design custom overlays, visualise sensor data, and automate your setup with a flexible module system. From temperature and dew heater control to star detection and meteor analytics, every feature works together in a single, polished dashboard.

Built by enthusiasts for enthusiasts, Allsky is open, extensible, and endlessly curious — a fusion of astrophotography, automation, and discovery.

Allsky Developers

The Allsky Camera software was originally created by Thomas Jacquin, a developer and astrophotography enthusiast based in Canada.

Thomas released the first version of Allsky around 2018, designed to run on a Raspberry Pi with a ZWO ASI or Raspberry Pi HQ camera to capture images of the entire sky — automatically creating timelapses, keograms, and detecting meteors.

Since then, the project has grown into a large open-source community effort on GitHub under the Allsky Team organisation, with contributions from many developers and users:

Thomas continues to be recognised as the founder and original author, while the Allsky Team now maintains and evolves the software collaboratively.

The current maintainers are
- Eric Claeys - @EricClaeys
- Alex Greenland - @Alex-developer

There are several sections to the documentation

  • Allsky Guide Information for installing, configuring, and running the Allsky software, including describing what various features like overlays and keograms are, and how to troubleshoot and fix problems.
  • Overlays Information on how the overlay system works and how to configure it
  • Modules Details all of the modules both core and extra available for Allsky
  • Developer Guide Information for developers on howto extend Allsky by creating custom modules
  • SDK Reference Information for developers on the available libraries within Allsky

Installing Allsky

To install Allsky please refer the the Installation Guide.

Getting Help

If you have a QUESTION or want to REQUEST A NEW FEATURE create a new Discussions on the GitHub page.

Discussions vs Issues

Please do NOT create an Issue in Github, these are reserved for the Allsky development team. YOur discussion may be converted to an issue by the team if required

If you have a problem first look in the "Allsky Guide -> Troubleshooting" pages for a solution - most known problems are listed there. If you can't find a similar problem look in the Discussions (it may be a closed discussion). If you still can't find your problem, read the Reporting Problems page and then create a new Issue.

Contributing

If you would like to contribute code to Allsky then please see the Contributing Guide

Thanks - the Allsky Team