“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”
The images
Deep-Sky Gallery
Twelve favourites from the observatory — nebulae, star clusters, galaxies and one very bright Moon. The full collection lives on its own page.
Live from orbit
ISS Live Tracker
The International Space Station, right now — position, altitude and speed updating every five seconds, with the solar terminator and city lights drawn on the map. Drag to pan, scroll to zoom.
Behind the lens
About Star-Astro
STAR-ASTRO is a backyard deep-sky imaging project: long integrations, patient processing, and whatever the weather allows. Each image in the gallery is built from hours of exposure time through the telescope.
When the clouds roll in the observatory keeps watching — the all-sky camera records conditions and nightly timelapses, while the tracker above follows the ISS as it circles the planet every ~90 minutes.
Clear skies ✦