
California Nebula
A broad field that works beautifully as a gallery plate: warm ionized gas cut with textured lanes of dust.
The archive over time
Images, revisions, and field notes as the practice changes from year to year.

A broad field that works beautifully as a gallery plate: warm ionized gas cut with textured lanes of dust.

A newer Pleiades frame with cold blue reflection nebulosity and a tighter modern crop.

A later Pacman Nebula frame with sculpted hydrogen structure and a strong central cluster.

The site gets its pulse here: sculpted red emission, dark dust, and the compact Melotte 15 star cluster in the core.

Frame 1 from the 2017 solar eclipse sequence.

An early Pleiades revision from 2015, kept as part of the long-running archive.

An older Andromeda attempt from the archive, kept beside the newer mono-camera revision for comparison.

A legacy widefield Milky Way frame from the early archive.