M78 · Nebula
Messier 78
A blue reflection nebula in Orion, framed with the dust that gives the region its moody character.
- Captured
- 14h 5m
- Revisions
- 1
- Season
- Winter
- Status
- Worth revisiting
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Imaging Projects
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NGC 2237 · Nebula
Rosette Nebula
A wide Rosette Nebula frame centered on the open cluster that clears the heart of the nebula.
- Captured
- 11h 20m
- Revisions
- 1
- Season
- Winter
- Status
- Worth revisiting
NGC 7635 · Nebula
Bubble Nebula
A tiny blue shell floats inside a busy red nebular field, giving the image an immediate focal point.
- Captured
- 8h 35m
- Revisions
- 2
- Season
- Autumn
- Status
- Worth revisiting
M101 · Galaxy
Pinwheel Galaxy
A soft, open spiral whose faint arms reward a slower look across the full-resolution frame.
- Captured
- 6h 40m
- Revisions
- 1
- Season
- Spring
- Status
- Worth revisiting
M33 · Galaxy
Triangulum Galaxy
A wide, clean look at M33 with blue star-forming arms and soft pink hydrogen regions threading the disk.
- Captured
- 5h 50m
- Revisions
- 1
- Season
- Autumn
- Status
- Worth revisiting
M16 · Nebula
Eagle Nebula
A classic nebular field with star-forming structure and warm narrowband color throughout the frame.
- Captured
- 3h 40m
- Revisions
- 1
- Season
- Summer
- Status
- Worth revisiting
B33 · Nebula
Horsehead Nebula
One of the most recognizable silhouettes in the winter sky, framed by red emission and nearby reflection glow.
- Captured
- 3h 25m
- Revisions
- 1
- Season
- Winter
- Status
- Worth revisiting
NGC 2174 · Nebula
Monkey Head Nebula
A compact star-forming region in Orion with strong emission structure and dark dust lanes.
- Captured
- 3h 15m
- Revisions
- 1
- Season
- Winter
- Status
- Worth revisiting
IC 1805 · Nebula
Heart Nebula
The site gets its pulse here: sculpted red emission, dark dust, and the compact Melotte 15 star cluster in the core.
- Captured
- 2h 45m
- Revisions
- 1
- Season
- Autumn
- Status
- Worth revisiting
IC 1848 · Nebula
Soul Nebula
A large-scale view of glowing gas and intricate dust, paired naturally with the Heart Nebula nearby.
- Captured
- 2h 45m
- Revisions
- 2
- Season
- Autumn
- Status
- Worth revisiting
NGC 7293 · Nebula
Helix Nebula
The central blue-green shell gives way to a warm red halo, making this one of the most graphic pieces in the set.
- Captured
- 2h 40m
- Revisions
- 1
- Season
- Autumn
- Status
- Worth revisiting
M13 · Cluster
Hercules Globular Cluster
A dense old cluster, resolved into a spray of stars that thickens toward the center.
- Captured
- 2h
- Revisions
- 2
- Season
- Summer
- Status
- Worth revisiting
M20 · Nebula
Trifid Nebula
The Trifid is all contrast: magenta emission, blue reflection, and sharp dark lanes dividing the core.
- Captured
- 1h 52m
- Revisions
- 1
- Season
- Summer
- Status
- Worth revisiting
IC 5146 · Nebula
Cocoon Nebula
The Cocoon Nebula sits in a rich Cygnus field, combining emission, reflection, and surrounding dark dust.
- Captured
- 1h 30m
- Revisions
- 1
- Season
- Summer
- Status
- Worth revisiting
NGC 7023 · Nebula
Iris Nebula
The Iris is quieter than the emission targets, with blue reflected starlight emerging from brown dust.
- Captured
- 1h 15m
- Revisions
- 1
- Season
- Summer
- Status
- Worth revisiting
M42 · Nebula
Orion Nebula
A bright broadband target with glowing gas, dark lanes, and the Trapezium region at the core.
- Captured
- 58m
- Revisions
- 1
- Season
- Winter
- Status
- Worth revisiting
M8 · Nebula
Lagoon Nebula
A glowing summer field with the open cluster NGC 6530 embedded in the surrounding emission.
- Captured
- 32m
- Revisions
- 1
- Season
- Summer
- Status
- Worth revisiting
M27 · Nebula
Dumbbell Nebula
Bright teal oxygen and red hydrogen structures make this one of the most legible planetary nebula plates.
- Captured
- 25m
- Revisions
- 2
- Season
- Summer
- Status
- Worth revisiting
Milky Way · Widefield
Milky Way, June 2014
A legacy summer Milky Way frame brought over.
- Captured
- —
- Revisions
- 1
- Season
- Summer
- Status
- Worth revisiting
Milky Way · Widefield
Milky Way, September 2012
A legacy widefield Milky Way frame from the early archive.
- Captured
- —
- Revisions
- 1
- Season
- Autumn
- Status
- Worth revisiting
Summer Triangle · Widefield
Summer Triangle Annotated
The annotated Summer Triangle image.
- Captured
- —
- Revisions
- 1
- Season
- Autumn
- Status
- Worth revisiting
Summer Triangle · Widefield
Summer Triangle Widefield
A widefield Summer Triangle image from the early archive.
- Captured
- —
- Revisions
- 1
- Season
- Autumn
- Status
- Worth revisiting
IC 405 · Nebula
Flaming Star Nebula
The Flaming Star Nebula mixes red emission and blue reflection around the runaway star AE Aurigae.
- Captured
- —
- Revisions
- 1
- Season
- Winter
- Status
- Worth revisiting
NGC 2359 · Nebula
Thor's Helmet
The teal oxygen shell and red hydrogen field give the object a sculptural, almost metallic character.
- Captured
- —
- Revisions
- 1
- Season
- Winter
- Status
- Worth revisiting
Orion · Widefield
Orion Widefield
A wide view of Orion preserved.
- Captured
- —
- Revisions
- 1
- Season
- Winter
- Status
- Worth revisiting
Orion · Widefield
Orion Widefield Annotated
The annotated Orion version.
- Captured
- —
- Revisions
- 1
- Season
- Winter
- Status
- Worth revisiting
M81 / M82 · Galaxy
Bode and Cigar Galaxies
The later M81 and M82 revision includes the surrounding field and faint galactic structure from the 2022 run.
- Captured
- 43h 4m
- Revisions
- 2
- Season
- Spring
- Status
- Archive baseline
vdB 152 · Nebula
van den Bergh 152
A subtle field where the main drama is shadow: dark dust, faint reflection light, and a delicate star field.
- Captured
- 31h 40m
- Revisions
- 1
- Season
- Autumn
- Status
- Archive baseline
Sh2-157 · Nebula
Lobster Claw Nebula
A large nebular complex whose shapes read like layered smoke against the dense star background.
- Captured
- 27h 55m
- Revisions
- 1
- Season
- Autumn
- Status
- Archive baseline
NGC 6960 · Nebula
Western Veil Nebula
A delicate shock front crossing Cygnus, with filamentary blue and red strands from a long-ago supernova.
- Captured
- 21h 36m
- Revisions
- 3
- Season
- Summer
- Status
- Archive baseline
NGC 1499 · Nebula
California Nebula
A broad field that works beautifully as a gallery plate: warm ionized gas cut with textured lanes of dust.
- Captured
- 21h 25m
- Revisions
- 1
- Season
- Winter
- Status
- Archive baseline
NGC 7380 · Nebula
Wizard Nebula
A dramatic star-forming region with ridges, cavities, and a strong central silhouette.
- Captured
- 21h 10m
- Revisions
- 3
- Season
- Autumn
- Status
- Archive baseline
M65 / M66 · Galaxy
The Leo Triplet
A spring galaxy pairing in Leo, with M65 and M66 showing tilted spiral structure in the same frame.
- Captured
- 18h 45m
- Revisions
- 1
- Season
- Spring
- Status
- Archive baseline
M45 · Cluster
Pleiades Cluster
A newer Pleiades frame with cold blue reflection nebulosity and a tighter modern crop.
- Captured
- 17h 30m
- Revisions
- 3
- Season
- Winter
- Status
- Archive baseline
NGC 7000 / IC 5070 · Nebula
North America and Pelican Nebulae
A sweeping emission field with dense dust lanes and glowing hydrogen clouds spread across a huge patch of Milky Way.
- Captured
- 16h 15m
- Revisions
- 1
- Season
- Summer
- Status
- Archive baseline
IC 63 · Nebula
Ghost of Cassiopeia
A newer Ghost of Cassiopeia frame with the faint nebular edge and surrounding star field preserved.
- Captured
- 14h
- Revisions
- 2
- Season
- Autumn
- Status
- Archive baseline
IC 1396 · Nebula
Elephant Trunk Nebula
A strong composition of red emission and dark molecular dust, with the trunk cutting into the glowing field.
- Captured
- 12h 45m
- Revisions
- 3
- Season
- Autumn
- Status
- Archive baseline
Sh2-101 · Nebula
Tulip Nebula
A vivid compact nebula surrounded by dense Cygnus stars and subtle background emission.
- Captured
- 12h 25m
- Revisions
- 1
- Season
- Summer
- Status
- Archive baseline
NGC 6888 · Nebula
Crescent Nebula
A Cygnus emission shell shaped by stellar winds, with oxygen structure glowing through the surrounding hydrogen.
- Captured
- 11h 5m
- Revisions
- 2
- Season
- Summer
- Status
- Archive baseline
M31 · Galaxy
Andromeda Galaxy
A classic anchor image for the archive, with bright galactic core, dusty lanes, and companion galaxies in the field.
- Captured
- 10h 6m
- Revisions
- 2
- Season
- Autumn
- Status
- Archive baseline
Sh2-132 · Nebula
Lion Nebula
A dim, rewarding target with curling emission structure and a strong narrowband personality.
- Captured
- 9h 15m
- Revisions
- 1
- Season
- Summer
- Status
- Archive baseline
NGC 281 · Nebula
Pacman Nebula
A later Pacman Nebula frame with sculpted hydrogen structure and a strong central cluster.
- Captured
- 9h
- Revisions
- 2
- Season
- Winter
- Status
- Archive baseline
IC 443 · Nebula
Jellyfish Nebula
A supernova remnant with filamentary shock fronts drifting through the winter sky in Gemini.
- Captured
- 8h 55m
- Revisions
- 1
- Season
- Winter
- Status
- Archive baseline
M51 · Galaxy
Whirlpool Galaxy
A crisp spiral paired with its companion galaxy, showing star-forming arms and a tidal bridge in a compact frame.
- Captured
- 8h 10m
- Revisions
- 1
- Season
- Spring
- Status
- Archive baseline
NGC 2264 · Nebula
Cone Nebula and Christmas Tree Cluster
A 2021 look at the Cone Nebula region, pairing bright emission with dark dust and embedded young stars.
- Captured
- 7h 50m
- Revisions
- 2
- Season
- Winter
- Status
- Archive baseline
C/2022 E3 ZTF · Comet
Comet C/2022 E3
A different rhythm from the nebulae: a moving object, green coma, and dusty tail caught against the background stars.
- Captured
- 2h 2m
- Revisions
- 1
- Season
- Winter
- Status
- Archive baseline