systematic craft feedback for astrophotography — not a judgment, a mirror
what is astroscore?
astroscore uses Claude AI to analyse astrophotography images against a set of craft parameters — signal-to-noise, processing, composition, star quality, detail, colour palette, and more — and returns a structured, systematic score calibrated against AstroBin's IOTD, Top Pick, Top Pick Nomination, and general image population.
The motivation is simple: consistent, dispassionate, parameter-by-parameter feedback is genuinely hard to get. Human critique is valuable but variable (across people, but even with the same person over time!).
This tool won't tell you whether your image moves someone emotionally — that's not its job (and besides how people respond to an image is deeply personal). It analyses craft, not feeling.
A secondary curiosity: running actual IOTDs and TPs through the tool can be illuminating. The inconsistencies that emerge perhaps reveal something about how those selections are made, or the importance (or not) of such selections!
the universe belongs to all of us, and each person's interaction with it is valid. you are made of this.
a note on costs and sustainability
astroscore is free to use. but it's honest to say that running it costs real money — every analysis makes calls to ai and cloud infrastructure that add up.
the deal is simple: if the community finds it useful and supports it via the ☕ buy me a coffee button, it stays free for everyone. monthly supporters help the most, as the costs are monthly too.
if support doesn't cover costs after a few months, it will become a supporter-only tool — access via a password shared with active monthly supporters on buy me a coffee.
no drama, no hard sell. just a tool built for the community, trying to stay that way.
very novel software — comments were pretty close to my thoughts on my images and processing techniquesabout as good as asking an honest, experienced astrophotographer for feedbackalerted me to a slight residual background gradient which was picked up welldraws my attention to elements of my image I had not considered beforea great tooli'm very impressedi've been using it regularlyit provides a really valuable objective point of viewa heck of a tool — it will help both novice and experienced astrophotographersa great idea and a lot of work behind the appi like iti will use that to improve some weak areas of my imagesthe feedback is clear, concise and constructivethe user interface is very straightforwardit caught the areas that i knew were less than okay, as well as areas i wasn't aware ofi learned a lot from reading the critique — found it helpfulthis is a cool tool!!!very novel software — comments were pretty close to my thoughts on my images and processing techniquesabout as good as asking an honest, experienced astrophotographer for feedbackalerted me to a slight residual background gradient which was picked up welldraws my attention to elements of my image I had not considered beforea great tooli'm very impressedi've been using it regularlyit provides a really valuable objective point of view
tell us about your image — all optional, fill in before dropping image
running this tool incurs api, software and function call costs — the ☕ buy me a coffee button helps keep it running, entirely optional
you can use finished images or work-in-progress images for feedback as you post-process ·
this is a structured rubric, not a judgment or an absolute truth ·
you are the only person who needs to be happy with your image — if a suggestion doesn't work for your aesthetics, ignore it ·
everyone's experience is valid