Suspiciously honest sky notes
A less lying planetarium
Deep-sky photos, coordinates, and field notes that try very hard not to exaggerate what the universe was doing that night.
Fresh from the telescope
Photos, maps, and the occasional cosmic footnote.
This is where finished captures, comparison passes, and tiny arguments with the sky end up after processing. Nebulae, galaxies, and star fields all get a chance to explain themselves.
Receipts first
What is real here?
Short answers for the suspicious. The sky map bends reality a little, but it tries to keep the important lies small.
- Are the photos real?
- Yes. I shot them.
- Why “less lying,” not “honest”?
Every planetarium cheats a little. This one still compromises, but the stars are rendered from real star data in the browser, not painted into a skybox.
- Why is it slow?
The origin server is in my house; the CDN helps, but the source is a home connection. Your GPU also keeps recalculating star size, blur, and faint-star limits like a tiny telescope simulator.
- Are the photo positions honest?
- Yes. They sit at their solved sky coordinates.
- How long did it take?
One painful year, then three months to finish the rest once LLMs caught up.
Eagle Nebula2026 remix, less dramatic than it looks
Horsehead RegionDust, flame, and a very patient camera
Whirlpool GalaxyTwo galaxies pretending this is fineThe map keeps receipts
The pictures know where they live.
Click an image and the celestial sphere swings toward its address. No mystical hand-waving here, just right ascension and declination doing the paperwork.
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