Asteroid Hunter
Automatically finds moving asteroids in telescope images. Upload a set of frames of the same patch of sky and let the pipeline track what moves.
Upload your frames
Add 3–10 telescope images (.fits, or a .zip of them) of the same patch of sky. Four or more works best.
The pipeline scans
It lines up the frames and looks for the one thing that shifts position while the stars stay put.
See what moves
Blink and zoom through the frames, and any known asteroids get named with their orbits.
- ✔ Works with .fits or .zip
- ✔ Identifies known asteroids
- ✔ Blink & zoom viewer
- ✔ Results in ~1–2 min
Built to be explored by everyone
Detect by ear — sonification. An asteroid's motion is turned into sound: the closer your cursor is to the moving object, the louder it gets. With full keyboard control and spoken guidance, blind and low-vision users can hunt asteroids by hearing.
Orbital viewer. See a named asteroid's real path around the Sun, drawn from its known orbital data.
Built for the IASC asteroid search · by Siddhant