Introducing AstroGuide
What AstroGuide does, who it is for and what it does not try to replace.
AstroGuide is a static, multilingual web application. It lets you browse a catalogue of 39 celestial objects through three complementary views, with no account, backend or personal-data collection. English is the default language; French, Spanish and German are maintained alongside it.
Who is AstroGuide for?
- Anyone looking for a visual exploration of the Solar System and more distant objects.
- Teachers and curious minds who need readable orders of magnitude rather than a mission simulator.
- Developers looking for a static, Docker-ready application with no API key.
AstroGuide is not a game, an exact scale model of the Universe or a NASA ephemeris client. Rendered positions, visual distances, orbits and 3D sizes remain illustrative.
The three main views
- 3D exploration: textures, animated orbits and camera controls.
- 2D map: zoomable spatial representation, constellations, search and filters.
- Comparison: approximate diameters or extents shown side by side.
Where does the data stay?
The exploration state remains in browser memory. AstroGuide uses no account, analytics or remote API. It stores only the selected interface language in local storage so that the preference survives a reload; no personal or exploration data is persisted.
Open-source product
The code is published under the MIT License on GitHub. The official Docker image is ghcr.io/lucas-lepajollec/astroguide.