cpaczek/skylight
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. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
57/100
- Activity 97
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 6
Flags: no_releases young
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 92
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 22
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
3222 stars · 398 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Skylight is a real-time aircraft visualization application that decodes ADS-B signals from an RTL-SDR radio receiver and projects live overhead aircraft onto a ceiling via a projector. It renders planes with airline/type labels, comet trails, and a live sky layer showing the sun, moon, stars, planets, and satellites like the ISS at their true positions.
Use cases
- project live airplane positions on my ceiling in real time
- track aircraft flying overhead using an RTL-SDR receiver
- visualize flights near my local airport with runway alignment
- display the real night sky with stars, planets, and ISS passes on a projector
- build a Raspberry Pi-based flight tracking art installation
- watch where overhead planes are headed with destination info
- control a PTZ camera to automatically film planes passing overhead
When to choose
- you have an RTL-SDR dongle and want a stunning real-time ceiling projection of overhead aircraft
- you want an art-installation-quality flight tracker with a live astronomical sky layer
- you want to run it on a Raspberry Pi pointed at a ceiling projector
- you want phone-based live tuning of themes, filters, and sky toggles over your LAN
When to avoid
- you need a conventional map-based flight tracking dashboard
- you don't have a projector or SDR hardware and only want a web API demo
- you need dense multi-airport fleet monitoring or historical flight data analytics
Facets
application · maturity active
data-visualization web-framework websocket data-visualization hardware web-development iot ads-b rtl-sdr flight-tracker projector art-installation react typescript real-time sky-rendering iss-tracking aviation web linux
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/cpaczek/skylight · fetched 2026-08-28 · a68d93174e7f
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| cpaczek/skylight | main | 57 |
For agents
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