Fly into your astrophoto.
With real star distances.
AstroVideo plate-solves your image, looks up every star in ESA's Gaia catalogue and renders a scientifically grounded 3D fly-in video. No PixInsight scripts, no Blender, no catalogue downloads.
From stack to fly-in in four steps
Everything runs automatically after the upload. You only pick the camera motion and resolution.
Science, not guesswork
Generic 2D-to-3D tools treat bright stars as foreground objects and make nebulae swim. AstroVideo separates catalogue-confirmed stars from the nebula and places each one at its measured distance, in front of or behind the object. Every video comes with a science report: solved coordinates, field of view, the deep-sky object's distance with its reference, and the nearest and farthest stars.
Is the depth real or AI-generated?
Real. Star distances come from Gaia DR3 (Bailer-Jones et al. 2021) and Hipparcos for bright stars; the deep-sky object distance is the median of published measurements in SIMBAD. No AI depth estimation is used.
Why does the 3D look compressed?
Stars span tens to thousands of light-years while a galaxy can be millions away. AstroVideo keeps the order and ratios of all distances but maps them logarithmically so a camera can fly through. You control the exaggeration.
What if my image can't be plate-solved?
Very narrow or heavily cropped fields sometimes fail. Type the object name (e.g. M31) and retry; the solver then searches around that position.
Are my images private?
Yes. Uploads and videos are stored in a private bucket and are only streamed to your signed-in account.