Nightwatch
A free Mac menu bar app for astrophotographers that finds tonight’s clear window and ranks your targets.
What shipped: Launch Launched on Hacker News. ·
What they got right
It writes for the reader’s actual back garden: tell it what blocks your sky, “the house, the trees, a balcony roof”, and it only suggests what you can actually see.
Details
- Made by
- Richard Sutcliffe
- Shipped
- Launch, 4 October 2026
- Featured
- October 2026
- Angle
- Positioning
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