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skylight Flight Tracking & Radar

Project the aircraft passing overhead onto your ceiling in real time, from an RTL-SDR — with a live sky layer (sun, moon, stars, ISS) and where each plane is headed.

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2026-10-14Last commit
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What skylight does

Project the aircraft passing overhead onto your ceiling in real time, from an RTL-SDR — with a live sky layer (sun, moon, stars, ISS) and where each plane is headed. It is a free, open-source project hosted at cpaczek/skylight and released under the MIT licence.

Download and install

  1. Get the files. Use Download releases above if the maintainers publish binaries, otherwise grab the source ZIP or git clone https://github.com/cpaczek/skylight.git.
  2. Read the README. Build and runtime requirements differ per platform — the repo README is the authoritative guide.
  3. Check the licence. MIT terms apply to redistribution and commercial use.
  4. Join the community. Issues, discussions and pull requests live in the repository — that is where bugs get fixed.

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