Live coverage of Artemis II's launch and lunar flyby, as well as daily mission briefings, will also stream on this feed. These events will additionally be carried as standalone streams on NASA's YouTube channel and elsewhere. Four astronauts — three from NASA and one from the CSA (Canadian Space Agency) — make up the Artemis II crew: - NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, Artemis II commander - NASA astronaut Victor Glover, Artemis II pilot - NASA astronaut Christina Koch, Artemis II mission specialist - Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, Artemis II mission specialist After launching into space atop SLS, the crew will journey around the Moon and back in their Orion spacecraft on an approximately 10-day mission. Artemis II will be the first crewed flight test of SLS and Orion, testing the technologies we'll need for long-term lunar exploration and human missions to Mars.
Read the latest Artemis II mission updates: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/artemis
Universal Object Lookup
Messier, NGC, IC, Caldwell, Sharpless, clusters, stars, galaxies, planets, moons, comets, and spacecraft are accessible through a single query.
Each object includes magnitude, distance, velocity, flux, orbital parameters, closest approaches, and ephemerides.
Framing is computed using your sensor, rotation, and focal length to produce exact field-of-view alignment.
Weather Intelligence
14-day, hour-by-hour forecast restricted to true astronomical darkness.
Conditions are reduced to a 0–100 Imaging Score based on clouds, moonlight, humidity, wind, and pressure.
All calculations are aligned with Astronomical Timing for the exact observing location.
Target Finder
Deep-sky targets ranked for the current night based on altitude, airmass, angular size, and visibility windows.
Evaluation uses the same atmospheric model and timing system as the forecast.
Solar System Map
Real-time Solar System visualization using NASA JPL ephemerides.
Accurate planetary positions, elliptical orbits, and Earth-relative distances.
Interactive view with zoom and pan for current system configuration.
There is also a direct API:
Target info (replace with any object, e.g. M3, M51)
https://astro.fzastro.com/api/lookup?q=pgc3096119
Weather (enter latitude and longitude)
https://astro.fzastro.com/api/see?lat=50.2459&lon=8.4923
Target list (best targets for the current night)
https://astro.fzastro.com/api/targets
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nearby stars
distant stars
Planetary Nebula Exploding Star
Supernovae and Star Clusters
Star Birth Nebula
The Milky Way
Andromeda and the Local Group
The Local Volume
Virgo Supercluster
Local Superclusters
Colliding Galaxies
The Cosmos
The Microscopic
The Atom
The Microscopic
Elementary Particles
The Higgs Boson
Superposition
Quantum Entanglement
The Speed of Light
Special Relativity
General Relativity
Gravitational Lensing
Black Holes
Gravitational Waves
My name is Photios, and I am an engineer, explorer, and astro photographer.
From a young age, I was fascinated by the night sky and the mysteries it holds.
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Every image I capture is not just data or light; it is a story written across thousands or millions of years of cosmic history.
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