Talk to your telescope.

This is the whole interface: the node software runs a small server on your own computer, and your AI assistant talks to it. You run the whole rig by asking — no dashboards to learn, no config files to edit, no drivers to fight.

1. 1Nothing to set up. The installer introduces your telescope to Claude Desktop. Open it and the tools are already there — no config files, no keys to paste.
2. 2“Connect my telescope.” It searches your network, links the scope to your account, and reports back when it’s online. Usually under a minute.
3. 3“What’s the plan tonight?” Every day it proposes a night’s work, research first. Accept it, reshape it, or say nothing — the recommendation runs on its own at dusk.
4. 4“Two hours of research, then image the Whirlpool.” The measurements go to the network. The rest of the night is yours.
5. 5“Stop.” It stops — in about a second. Mid-exposure, mid-slew, whenever. Weather stops it too, without being asked.
6. 6“Show me.” Come back in the morning for the images and what the night measured.

The sky changes. Our coverage doesn't.

Stars aren't fixed points. Some pulse, some suddenly brighten, some explode entirely. Astronomers can't predict exactly when, so to catch these moments you need telescopes pointed at the sky all night, everywhere at once.

The world's giant observatories are few, costly, and booked years ahead. So most of what happens up there is simply missed.

Meanwhile, millions of capable telescopes sit idle — in closets, on balconies, in gardens — dark on exactly the nights the sky does something remarkable. That's the gap TTN closes: your telescope's downtime is the coverage astronomy is missing. Closing it doesn't take a research background — it takes one sentence to your telescope, and the network does the rest.

Small telescopes. Planet-sized advantage.

One little telescope isn't much. But thousands of them, spread across the planet and running every clear night, become an instrument no single observatory can match.

That's the network. Everyone watches their own patch of sky — and together, we cover the whole thing. Those green markers are members already on watch tonight. None of them coordinate with each other by hand: you say what you want, and the network fits your night into everyone else's.

Connect once. Contribute nightly.

1. 1Use the telescope you have, or get a small smart telescope. Seestar, Vespera, Dwarf, Unistellar, Celestron Origin, and many ALPACA/ASCOM setups can join. No telescope budget? We help members look for funding.
2. 2Install the node software once. Then just ask your AI assistant to connect your telescope — it finds it, links your account, and offers to install the star catalog for plate solving. No code to copy.
3. 3Let it run. Every clear night it picks targets, photographs them, checks the measurements, and uploads the results automatically.

This is what continuous watch catches.

That marked star is SS Cygni — a burned-out star 370 light-years away, quietly stealing gas from a neighbor. Every few weeks it erupts, brightening many times over in just a few hours.

Astronomers want every eruption on record, but only a handful of telescopes catch each one. Tonight, yours could be one of them — recording the whole thing automatically while you sleep. You didn't have to know it was due; you just asked what the plan was.

Your telescope. Your data. Real science.

Every measurement your telescope makes is checked and filed into a 100-year-old scientific database that professional astronomers — and even NASA missions — actually use. Your name is attached to each one.

This isn't a game or clicking on photos. It's real data that real research is built on. This galaxy, for instance, is a place supernovae keep appearing — exactly what a network like ours catches first.

We submit every observation to the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) — the 100-year-old archive that NASA, ESA, and professional observatories depend on.

Don't just join TTN. Help define it.

We're just getting started. The people who join now are the founding network — your name goes on the founding charter, and your telescope helps shape how the whole thing works.

There are only a few of us right now. That's the point. You'd be one of the people who were there at the beginning, before anyone had heard of this.