This season's target is the Eagle Nebula. You can request an image by clicking on the Observe button for the Eagle Nebula.
Select the image settings you want, and your photo will be taken tonight by a MicroObservatory telescope.
(The Eagle Nebula will be observable at night by the end of January. Requests made earlier will be fulfilled once the telescope is able to take your image.)
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The telescope will take an image of your selected target.
Prior to selecting your target, you can click on the thumbnail to see a detailed view.
Moon
Jupiter
Not up
tonight
JupiterMoons
Not up
tonight
Venus
Saturn
Mars
Sun
Hercules
Cluster
Orion Nebula
Pleiades
Ring Nebula
Milky Way
Sagittarius A
Dumbbell
Nebula
Trifid Nebula
Lagoon Nebula
Eagle Nebula
Crab Nebula
Cyg X-1
Messier 46
Messier 15
Beehive
Cluster
CQ Cep
Algol
Delta Cephei
Beta Lyr
Mira
Not up
tonight
Carina Nebula
Eight-Burst
Nebula
Veil Nebula
East
Veil Nebula
West
Helix Nebula
TauCanis
Majoris
Rosette
Nebula
NGC 2477
SS Cygni
Andromeda
Galaxy
Whirlpool
Galaxy
Messier 33
Pinwheel
Galaxy
Centaurus A
Messier 81
Messier 82
NGC 253
Not up
tonight
3C 273
NGC 891
NGC 4013
NGC 2543
NGC 4124
Messier 87
Messier 58
Messier 95
Messier 74
Not up
tonight
NGC 55
Not up
tonight
NGC 4945
Southern
Pinwheel
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