Your whole astrophotography rig in your phone
YAN turns a Raspberry Pi into the controller of your whole setup: camera, mount, filter wheel, focuser, rotator and guiding. You set up and run the session from a phone or tablet, in the field without internet.
From mount setup to finished frames
Plate solving and GOTO
The mount finds the target and centres it after solving the image. A fast solver runs on the device itself, without internet.
Polar alignment
Step-by-step alignment of the mount axis with live error measurement.
Autofocus
Focusing with an HFR curve, also automatically during the night: after a temperature or filter change, or every few frames.
Guiding
Built-in guiding based on PHD2, without a separate program or setup, with a graph and dithering.
Session plans
Sequences of targets and filters, meridian flip, camera cooling, grading and retaking weak frames. Start the plan and go to sleep.
Calibration and Live mode
Darks, flats and biases in a few taps. Live mode with SER recording for planetary imaging.
Sky map
Object catalogues, a plan for the coming night, the site horizon and framing with a rotator.
Files and compatibility
FITS with full headers and JPG previews, NINA-compatible metadata, whole folders downloaded to the phone or computer.
YAN in action
Click a screenshot to enlarge it. All features with screenshots.
Your equipment, no closed ecosystem
YAN drives equipment through INDI, the open standard used in astronomy. Supported are astro cameras (ZWO, QHY, Atik and more), Canon and Nikon DSLR and mirrorless cameras, EQMOD mounts (Sky-Watcher HEQ5, EQ6 and similar) and other INDI mounts, filter wheels, focusers and rotators.
- Device: Raspberry Pi 5 (4 GB RAM or more) or a ready YAN box (coming soon).
- Install: write the image to an SD card, insert it and power on. No system setup.
- Connect: the phone joins the device's own Wi-Fi in the field or your home network.
One licence, no subscription
Trial
14 days of the full version, once per device.
YAN licence
One-time payment. The price will be announced soon.
- for one device at a time
- move it to a new device yourself, from your account
- updates included
Licence sales start soon. You can start the trial in the app.
App and card image
Android
The YAN app on Google Play: coming soon.
iPhone and iPad
In preparation.
Raspberry Pi 5
SD card image to download: coming soon.