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AstrBot is an open-source project hosted on GitHub that delivers a lightweight, cross-platform GUI manager for orchestrating containerized astronomy workflows. Built with modern web technologies and packaged as a portable executable, AstrBot Launcher provides researchers, educators, and amateur stargazers with a unified dashboard to pull, configure, and launch pre-built Docker images for planetarium software, telescope control suites, astrometry solvers, and FITS image processors. Typical use cases span from preparing classroom demos by quickly spinning up Stellarium or Celestia instances, to automating nightly observatory sequences that chain plate-solving, mount synchronization, and data reduction pipelines. The interface exposes one-click buttons for starting stacks, monitoring logs, adjusting environment variables, and mounting local directories into containers, eliminating the need for command-line Docker syntax. Version tags and image hashes are visibly tracked, ensuring reproducible setups across Windows, macOS, and Linux workstations. Because the tool is community-driven, new astronomy packages are regularly contributed and can be refreshed through an in-app catalog. AstrBot Launcher is available for free on get.nero.com, where downloads are delivered through trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always installing the latest upstream release and supporting batch installation alongside other applications.