The natural language interface for telescope control.
Point it at real research — eruptions, occultations, discoveries. No driver, no app, no code. Just say what you want.
Talk to your telescope.
This is the whole interface. A small server on your computer, an AI assistant that talks to it — no dashboards, no config, no drivers.
- 1Nothing to set up. The installer introduces your telescope to Claude Desktop — the tools are already there.
- 2“Connect my telescope.” It finds it, links your account, confirms it’s online. Under a minute.
- 3“What’s the plan tonight?” It proposes research first. Accept it, change it, or say nothing — it runs at dusk either way.
- 4“Two hours of research, then image the Whirlpool.” Data goes to the network; the rest is yours.
- 5“Stop.” Stops in about a second, whenever you say it. Weather stops it too.
- 6“Show me.” Images and measurements, waiting in the morning.
One interface. Not just for research.
Research comes first — but the same sentence runs everything else, too.
The sky changes. Our coverage doesn't.
Stars pulse, flare, explode — and astronomers can't predict when. Catching it means telescopes on the sky all night, everywhere.
Giant observatories are few, costly, booked years out. Most of it gets missed.
Meanwhile millions of telescopes sit idle in closets and gardens. That's the gap TTN closes: your downtime is the coverage astronomy is missing. Closing it takes one sentence.
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.
One network, a whole sky's worth of science.
You don't pick a target — you ask, and the network matches it to live research. Eruptions like SS Cygni are only the start:
This is what continuous watch catches.
That marked star is SS Cygni, 370 light-years away, stealing gas from a neighbor. Every few weeks it erupts many times brighter, in hours.
Only a handful of telescopes catch each eruption. Tonight, yours could be one — recording it automatically while you sleep. You didn't need to know it was due; you just asked.
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.
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 starting. Join now and you're on the founding charter — your telescope helps shape how this works.
There are only a few of us. That's the point — you'd be here before anyone had heard of this.
Become a researcher.
Four steps. No codes, no config — plain language once it's set up. Need gear or funding help? Tell us.
- 1Put your telescope on your home Wi-Fi — Station Mode in its own app. Do this first: out of the box it makes its own network, and your computer can't see it until you switch. The app says “connected” either way, so it won’t warn you. Full Wi-Fi setup guide →
- 2Install Claude Desktop. Free, and what you’ll talk to. ChatGPT won’t work here — it can only reach tools on the internet, not your home network.
- 3Run the installer below on a computer that stays on at night, on the same Wi-Fi as the telescope. Quit and reopen Claude afterward so it notices.
- 4Open Claude Desktop and say “connect my telescope.” It finds it, makes your account, and tells you when you’re online.
macOS, Windows and Raspberry Pi OS · works with Seestar, Vespera, Dwarf, Unistellar, Celestron Origin, and most ASCOM/ALPACA setups · stuck? just ask Claude — it can read the telescope’s logs and tell you what is wrong