Chris Peterson

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Physicist, astronomer, astroimager, nature photographer, advocate for progressive change. https://cloudbait.com

355 meteor trails and some star trails.
Comet C/2025 R2 (Swan)
2.5 hour animation of interstellar comet C/2025 N1.
A new supernova in NGC 7331, part of the Deer Lick Group.
Hubble palette view of the Tulip Nebula.
Thick dust lanes forming the dark nebula Barnard 150 in the constellation of Cepheus, about 1200 light years away.
Globular cluster Messier 13.
Colliding galaxies which have created long tidal tails, giving it the name the Antennae.
M101 spiral galaxy, imaged as a 2x2 panel mosaic.
M61, barred spiral galaxy in Virgo.
Messier 94 image showing inner starburst ring.
NGC 2024, the Flame Nebula in Orion.
NGC 4676, The Mice, interacting galaxy pair.
Central Rosette Nebula in H-alpha
Sunrise behind Pikes Peak.
Central section of NGC 281, the Pacman Nebula, in the Hubble palette.
NGC 4725, spiral galaxy
Arp 104, Keenan's system, a pair of galaxies connected by a bridge of stars.
Messier 82, the Cigar Galaxy, HLRGB image.
Thor's Helmet emission nebula.
The three galaxies of the Leo Triplet.
M 42, the Orion Nebula.
Crab Nebula 22-year animation.
M81, Bode's Galaxy.
T CrB light curve over 228 days.
NGC 6951 barred spiral galaxy + integrated flux nebula.
Draco Triplet galaxy group.
M16, Eagle Nebula, Pillars of Creation, in narrowband Hubble palette.
Hubble's Variable Nebula and surrounding dust and gas clouds.
LRGB image of NGC 147.
RGB Image of NGC 1333.
SHO image of NGC 896