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LDN 1295: The Giraffe Nebula
A deep wide-field exposure of LDN 1295, known as the Giraffe Nebula, highlighting dense dark absorption dust silhouetted against a rich star field in Cassiopeia.
The Sun in White Light: July 2026
A full-disk white-light mosaic of the Sun, with sunspot groups scattered across the photosphere.
M81, M82 and surroundings
A wide-field capture of Bode's Galaxy (M81) and the Cigar Galaxy (M82), framed by the delicate Integrated Flux Nebula (IFN).
Filaments and an Active Region: April 2026
A monochrome H-alpha mosaic with a winding filament, a sunspot and bright plage.
Twisted Fibrils Around a Spot Group
A monochrome H-alpha view of a sunspot group surrounded by bright plage and twisting fibrils.
IC 1805: The Heart Nebula in SHO
A spectacular narrowband image of the Heart Nebula in the Hubble palette, showcasing the intricate pillars of gas and dust shaped by the central star cluster Melotte 15.
Sunspot, Plage and Fibrils in H-alpha
A monochrome H-alpha mosaic of a sunspot with surrounding bright plage and a dense web of fibrils.
Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) in Motion
A short time-lapse of comet Lemmon drifting through the star field.
Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN)
Comet SWAN with a large, bright green coma and a faint tail drifting across a rich star field.
Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) and NGC 3180
Comet Lemmon with a vivid green coma and a long, finely structured ion tail, near the spiral galaxy NGC 3180.
M31: Andromeda Galaxy
Our nearest galactic neighbor, revealing dense dust lanes and satellite galaxies.
IC 1848: The Soul Nebula
A deep wide-field view of the Soul Nebula in Cassiopeia, showcasing its complex ridges of gas and dust illuminated by young, massive star clusters.
LDN 1228 and LBN 552: Galactic Cirrus
A deep field showcasing the intricate, sweeping dark dust clouds of LDN 1228 and LBN 552, part of a vast galactic cirrus complex in Cepheus.
Sh2-115, Sh2-116 and surrounding LBNs
A deep wide-field view of the complex emission region Sh2-115 in Cygnus, accompanied by the compact HII region Sh2-116 and expansive networks of glowing hydrogen and Lynds Bright Nebulae.
NGC 7635: The Bubble Nebula
A stunning close-up of the Bubble Nebula, a cosmic bubble blown by the fierce stellar winds of a massive central star, cropped from a wider field of view.
Sh2-157: The Lobster Claw Nebula and Surrounding Region
A stunning wide-field view capturing the glowing emission of the Lobster Claw Nebula (Sh2-157), the delicate Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635), and the sparkling open star cluster M52.
Sh2-114: The Flying Dragon Nebula
A faint, intricate emission nebula in Cygnus showcasing delicate, wispy filaments of glowing hydrogen gas that give it the appearance of a mythical dragon in flight.
NGC 5395 & NGC 5394: The Heron Galaxy (Arp 84)
An interacting galaxy pair, Arp 84, featuring the large spiral NGC 5395 and its smaller companion NGC 5394 linked by a prominent tidal tail.
M51: The Whirlpool Galaxy
A stunning grand-design spiral galaxy locked in a gravitational dance with its smaller companion, revealing extensive tidal halos.
Prominence over the Limb: May 2025
A colored H-alpha time-lapse of a prominence rising over the limb, with the chromosphere's granular texture below.
A Serpentine Filament in H-alpha
A colored H-alpha view of a long, S-shaped filament curving across the chromosphere near the limb.
M106: Spiral Galaxy in Canes Venatici
A striking spiral galaxy showcasing a brilliant core, sweeping dust lanes, and vibrant blue star clusters in its outer arms.
NGC 3718: Peculiar Spiral Galaxy
A highly warped spiral galaxy featuring a twisted dark dust lane and sweeping tidal tails, accompanied by NGC 3729 and the distant Hickson 56 galaxy group.
Limb Prominence and Chromospheric Texture
An H-alpha view of the limb, with prominence material above the chromosphere's fine granular texture.
Jupiter: Late-Apparition Detail
One of the final Jupiter captures of the 2024-2025 apparition, still resolving fine belt structure and small dark spots.
A Spotted Solar Disk in White Light
A full-disk white-light mosaic with long chains of sunspots crossing the disk.
Mars: Late-Season Detail
The smallest and last Mars capture of the 2025 apparition, still resolving a bright polar cap and a faint dark marking.
Venus: A Razor-Thin Crescent
One of the sharpest captures in the collection: Venus reduced to an extremely thin, bright crescent just before inferior conjunction.
The Moon's South Pole Region
A dramatic grazing-light view of the lunar south pole, its terrain thrown into sharp relief.
The Moon and Mare Nectaris
A sharp close-up of Mare Nectaris and its surrounding highlands along the terminator.
The Moon and Vallis Rheita
A sharp close-up of Vallis Rheita, a long valley of overlapping secondary craters near the southeastern limb.
Venus: A Thin Crescent
Venus in a striking thin crescent phase, growing larger as it approaches inferior conjunction.
Mars: A Shrinking Disk
Mars noticeably smaller a month past opposition, its disk wrapped in a bluish limb haze with dark markings still visible across the center.
Mars: A Broad Dark Region
A broad, diffuse dark region spanning much of Mars's disk, with a small polar cap still visible at the limb.
Jupiter: Turbulent Festoons and a Bright Oval
A single night's Jupiter session paired with a short rotation video, showing turbulent cloud festoons and a bright white oval in the South Equatorial Belt.
Mars: Softening Detail Post-Opposition
Mars continuing to recede from Earth, its disk softening as faint dark markings trail along the southern limb.
Jupiter: The Great Red Spot Near the Limb
The Great Red Spot approaching Jupiter's western limb, with strong turbulence in the surrounding cloud deck.
Mars: Polar Cap in Sharp Relief
Mars just past opposition, with a vivid blue-white polar cap and a compact dark marking still well resolved.
Mars: A Different Rotational Face
Still near opposition, but showing a different side of Mars thanks to the planet's roughly 24.6-hour rotation.
Mars Near Opposition
Mars at its largest and brightest, captured right around the January 2025 opposition with a prominent dark marking and polar hood.
Jupiter: The Great Red Spot at Central Meridian
The Great Red Spot crossing Jupiter's central meridian, framed by richly colored equatorial belts.
Mars with a Bright Polar Hood
Mars closing in on opposition, with a prominent blue-white north polar hood and a subtler dark surface marking.
Jupiter: The Great Red Spot in Sharp Detail
One of the sharpest captures in the collection: the Great Red Spot in vivid orange, with three Galilean moons in the same frame.
The Moon and Mare Crisium
A sharp mosaic of Mare Crisium, an isolated lava plain near the Moon's eastern limb, along the terminator.
Mars: Surface Detail Sharpens
A sharper, slightly larger Mars a few weeks before opposition, showing distinct dark markings across its disk.
Jupiter: Scalloped Cloud Bands
Rich rust and cream cloud bands with a scalloped, wave-like boundary along Jupiter's South Equatorial Belt.
Uranus
The ice giant Uranus as a small, featureless teal-green disk.
Mars: Early Approach to Opposition
Mars still small in apparent size, weeks before the January 2025 opposition, with a dark surface marking and a bright north polar hood.
LDN 1217 and PK 111+11.1: Wolf's Cave Region
A stunning deep-sky portrait featuring the dusty filament of dark nebula LDN 1217 terminating in the blue reflection nebula vdB 152, contrasted against the bright planetary nebula PK 111+11.1.
Jupiter: Fine Detail in the Equatorial Belts
Braided belt structure, small white ovals and subtle dark barges resolved across Jupiter's disk.
Venus: The Start of a New Apparition
A small, gibbous Venus marking the start of the 2024-2025 apparition.
Saturn: A Thinning Ring System
The rings continuing to thin toward edge-on, with a distinct shadow band across the globe.
LDN 1235: The Shark Nebula
A striking dark nebula complex in Cepheus that eerily resembles a shark swimming through a deep ocean of galactic cirrus, accompanied by glowing blue reflection nebulae.
A Prominence Arch with Earth for Scale
A large looping prominence over the limb with distance rings and a to-scale Earth for comparison.
Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS)
Comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS with its bright dust tail sweeping across the field, a few days after its closest approach to Earth.
The Moon and Montes Apenninus
A sharp close-up of the Apennine Mountains, the Moon's most prominent mountain range, with a large crater nearby.
The Moon's Polar Region
A close-up of the lunar polar region, its rugged, heavily cratered terrain in sharp relief.
The Moon and Copernicus
A dramatic close-up of Copernicus, one of the Moon's most prominent rayed craters, near the terminator.
The Moon: A Cratered Terminator
A sharp close-up along the terminator, showing a dense field of craters in high relief.
The Moon and Clavius
A close-up of the southern limb showing the vast crater Clavius and dramatic terminator relief.
The Moon and Rupes Recta
A sharp close-up of the Straight Wall (Rupes Recta), one of the Moon's most famous linear surface features.
LDN 1355, 1357 & 1358: The Helping Hand Nebula
A mesmerizing dark nebula complex in Cassiopeia, resembling a giant hand reaching across a rich field of dusty, faint interstellar clouds and blue reflection nebulae.
A Mineral Moon at Waning Gibbous
A second mineral-color rendition of the Moon, its waning gibbous phase revealing the same titanium-rich maria in cool blue tones.
vdB 142: The Elephant Trunk Nebula
A striking dark globule of dense interstellar gas and dust in Cepheus, sculpted by the intense stellar winds and radiation of massive nearby stars.
A Sunspot Complex in White Light
A large sunspot with a wide penumbra and smaller companion spots, set in granulated photosphere.
Jupiter: The Great Red Spot's Turbulent Wake
The Great Red Spot trailing a bright, churning wake of white ovals in Jupiter's South Equatorial Belt.
IC 5146: The Cocoon Nebula
A beautiful star-forming region in Cygnus, showcasing the glowing red emission of ionized hydrogen laced with dark dust and a delicate blue reflection nebula.
M16: The Eagle Nebula and The Pillars of Creation
A breathtaking view of M16, the Eagle Nebula, highlighting the iconic Pillars of Creation amidst glowing clouds of hydrogen gas and newly born stars.
NGC 6946: The Fireworks Galaxy
A spectacular face-on spiral galaxy known as the Fireworks Galaxy, showcasing a bright golden core, sprawling spiral arms, and vibrant pink star-forming regions.
NGC 6781: The Snowglobe Nebula
A stunning planetary nebula in Aquila, featuring a glowing blue core of ionized oxygen surrounded by a delicate red shell of hydrogen.
H-alpha Limb Panorama
A wide H-alpha panorama along the solar limb with active regions, plage and filaments.
AR3697 in Motion
An H-alpha time-lapse of active region AR3697, with bright plage, a sunspot group and a long dark filament.
M5: Globular Cluster in Serpens
One of the oldest and largest globular clusters in the Milky Way, its blazing core surrounded by a vast swarm of red giants and blue stars.
A Mineral Moon
A deep-color rendition of the Moon revealing subtle mineral variations across its surface, normally invisible to the eye.
Active Region in H-alpha: May 2024
A colored H-alpha mosaic of a sunspot-rich active region with bright plage and swirling fibrils.
The Moon, Montes Apenninus and Eratosthenes
The Apennine Mountains, the Moon's most prominent range, meeting the crater Eratosthenes at their western foot.
The Moon, Plato and Montes Alpes
Plato's dark, smooth floor and the rugged Montes Alpes range, rising sharply from the northern shore of Mare Imbrium.
The Moon and Gassendi
A sharp close-up of Gassendi, a large crater with a fractured floor on the northern shore of Mare Humorum.
The Moon: Copernicus and Its Ejecta
A close-up of Copernicus and the hummocky ejecta blanket surrounding it, secondary craters and debris chains radiating outward.
The Moon and Sinus Iridum
A tighter close-up of Sinus Iridum, the 'Bay of Rainbows,' its arcing rim caught in dramatic low-angle light.
The Moon, Sinus Iridum and Plato
A sharp close-up of the bay of Sinus Iridum and the walled plain Plato, their rims caught in dramatic low-angle light.
The Moon: A Long Terminator Mosaic
A tall multi-pane mosaic tracing the terminator from the crater Plato in the north down to Copernicus in the south.
M13: The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules
One of the most spectacular globular clusters in the northern sky, a dense sphere of several hundred thousand ancient stars resolved right down to its core.
Saturn: A Narrower Ring Tilt
Crisp rings noticeably narrower than the 2022 captures, as Saturn's rings continue closing toward edge-on.
M22: The Great Sagittarius Cluster
One of the nearest globular clusters to Earth, set against the dense star fields of the Milky Way toward the galactic center.
Venus: A Thin Morning Crescent
A thin crescent captured shortly after Venus's August 2023 inferior conjunction, now a morning object.
Jupiter Through an Antique 1875 Refractor
Jupiter's cloud belts captured through a 162mm f/15 Merz-Dallmeyer refractor built in 1875.
Saturn with Rhea, Iapetus, Tethys and Dione
Saturn framed by four moons — Rhea, Iapetus, Tethys and Dione — spread across the field.
Venus: A Clear Crescent
Venus in a clear crescent phase, roughly a quarter illuminated, with a much larger apparent disk.
Venus Just Past Dichotomy
Venus just past its half-lit dichotomy point, transitioning toward a thicker crescent.
ISS Transit Across the Sun
The International Space Station crossing the solar disk, shown as a sequence of frames in a single composite.
M45: The Pleiades
The famous Seven Sisters open cluster, its hot blue stars wrapped in delicate wisps of reflection nebula.
Saturn: The Sharpest of 2022
The sharpest and cleanest capture from the site's 2022 Saturn sessions, with a crisp Cassini Division.
Neptune
The solar system's outermost planet, a tiny pale blue-green point even at high magnification.
Saturn with Titan, Rhea, Dione and Tethys
A wide-field view placing Saturn alongside four of its moons: Titan, Rhea, Dione and Tethys.
Jupiter with Ganymede, Europa and Io
A rotation video from late October 2022 showing Jupiter with three of its Galilean moons, captured through the original Maksutov setup.
Saturn: Rings and Globe in Fine Color
Good color separation between Saturn's bluish rings and warm cream-toned globe, with the Cassini Division visible.
Jupiter with the Great Red Spot, Callisto and Io
A rotation video from October 2022 showing the Great Red Spot alongside two Galilean moons, captured through the original Maksutov setup.
A Prominence Drifting off the Limb
A time-lapse in H-alpha of a wispy prominence standing off the solar limb.