DALLAS - TelAve -- DALLAS, Texas — NYRA Tech Corporation today announced BortleBuddy, an all-in-one mobile app whose core objective is to simplify astrophotography planning for photographers of all skill levels. Powered by specialized artificial intelligence and advance augmented reality (AR), BortleBuddy unifies a historically fragmented workflow into a single platform. The company is targeting an initial rollout in August or September 2026.

Capturing deep-sky objects or the Milky Way requires a precise alignment of complex factors: cloud cover, light pollution, moon phase, atmospheric transparency, and celestial timing. Today, photographers juggle a half-dozen disconnected tools—jumping between weather apps, light pollution maps, star charts, and planning calculators. BortleBuddy replaces this friction with a unified, purpose-built ecosystem so photographers spend less time cross-referencing screens and more time behind the lens.

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The application integrates satellite light pollution data, detailed sky forecasts, and an interactive AR night sky view, allowing users to visualize celestial alignment during pre-shoot planning and directly in the field.

At the platform's core is BortleGPT, an AI assistant built on a large language model fine-tuned strictly for observational astronomy and field photography. BortleGPT is strictly task-focused: ask it how to frame and expose a shot from a specific location, and it draws on real-time atmospheric data to guide you step-by-step—delivering the expertise of a seasoned photographer standing beside you in the dark.

"Every astrophotographer has stood in a field at two in the morning wishing an expert were standing right beside them," said the company's founder and CEO. "That is the gap BortleBuddy closes. We aren't building a general-purpose utility; we are building a dedicated companion tailored entirely to this craft."

The underlying technology behind BortleBuddy is patent-pending.

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The project grew out of personal necessity. The company's founder took up astrophotography in 2019, encountering the tedious tangle of tools required for a single shoot—all while chasing increasingly rare dark skies. Beyond software utility, the team built BortleBuddy with a broader conservation mission: raising awareness about light pollution's impact on human health, bird migration, and energy waste.

Ahead of the launch, the company released a free, interactive Light Pollution Map built alongside light pollution researchers, accessible at https://app.bortlebuddy.com/lightpollutionmap.

BortleBuddy will roll out in phases, beginning with a private beta for experienced astrophotographers before its broader public release. To request early access, visit https://bortlebuddy.com.