Steve's Celestron Origin Images

Here are some images taken with my Celestron Origin. This 6-inch smart telescope has some amazing capabilities that are built into the package. The images below taken with the telescope "out of the box." I've applied some minimal post-processing to some of the images. Most of these pictures were all taken from a suburban Florida site that has a lot of light pollution. So far all of the pictures were taken using the clear filter.

A few early "lessons learned"...

  • Longer is better...For most deep-sky objects, I am using a 60 minute integration time (600 10-second exposures). I plan to go back and re-do some of the early pictures with longer exposures. All of these pictures use 10-second exposures as I have the alt-az mount.
  • Currently, all of the images linked below are from the Origin app. I am just starting to learn to do my own post-processing using Siril but have not yet made something better than the app.
  • The telescope does a great job with cutting through light pollution and even moonlight. I'm not afraid to go out with the moon in the sky at first quarter or even more.

Questions/comments? Contact Steve with comments and suggestions. Check out my weather modeling pages. To help my observation planning, I'm upgrading some of my forecast pages to add cloud cover estimates.


O  are images processed using the Celestron Origin app.  S are images stacked and processed by Steve using Siril [JOSS paper] and scripts from Deep Space Astro.

“Snapshot” images from the Total Lunar Eclipse of March 14, 2025

Period

Time (UTC)

Partial eclipse

0514 (start)   0520    0530    0600    0610    0621

Total eclipse

0627    0630    0635    0640    0646    0650    0654    0659 (max)   0705    0710    0715    0720   0725    0732

Partial eclipse

0740    0750    0800    0811    0820    0830    0840    0850 (end)    0900

 

New images.  Updated 2026-05-21

Specification

Name

Dates

O

Image links

Exposure

Notes

M101

Pinwheel galaxy

2026-05-14

C

O    O    O    S

4510

 

NGC 5846

Elliptical galaxy in Virgo

2026-05-14

C

O    O

4010

Also NGC 5850

IC 2574

Coddingham Nebula

2026-05-14

C

O    O

2710

 

NGC 3242

Ghost of Jupiter Nebula

2026-05-14

C

O

1210

 

NGC 4565

Needle Galaxy

2026-05-18

C

O    O

3620

 

NGC 5946

Fireworks Galaxy

2026-05-18

C

O    O

3610

 

NGC 3718

Galaxy in Ursa Major

2026-05-18

C

O    O    S

3610

Also NGC 3279, ARP 214

TOTM May 2026

 

Last updated 2025-05-18

Specification

Name

Dates

Filter

Filename

Exposure

Notes

ARP 286

Galaxy cluster in Virgo

2026-04-19

C

O     O    O    S

3620

Includes NGC5560, NGC5566, NGC5569

Banard 33

Horsehead Nebula

2025-01-03

C

O

3600

Very faint

C/2023 A3

Comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS

2024-11-22, 27

C

O     O     O

300, 310

 

C/2025 R2

Comet Swan

2025-10-12

2025-10-18

C

O
1946 1949 1951 1955
1959 2037 2041

610

80

Star-centered exposure

Short exposures-note motion

C/2024 E1

Comet Wierzchos

2025-11-18

C

O     O

310

Very small and faint

IC10

Irregular galaxy in Cass.

2025-12-23

C

O     O

3600

 

IC 342

Spiral galaxy in  Camelopardalis

2025-11-18

C

O     O    O

4210

Very faint—long exposure

IC 405

Flaming Star Nebula

2025-01-03

C

O     O    O

2710

 

IC 1848

Soul Nebula

2026-02-07

C

O     O    S

3610

 

LDN 1477

Dark Nebula

2025-01-04

C

O

1800

 

M 1

Crab Nebula

2025-03-02

C

O     O

3910

 

M 3

Globular cluster in Canes Venatici

2025-03-18

C

O     O

3600

 

M 4

Globular cluster

2025-07-18

C

O     O

1810

 

M 5

Globular cluster in Serpens

2025-06-16

C

O     O

3010

 

M 11

Wild Duck Cluster

2025-11-18

C

O     O

1810

 

M 13

Hercules Cluster

2024-10-13

C

O

600

First light

M 15

Great Pegasus Cluster

2025-12-23

C

O     O     S     S

3610

 

M 16

Eagle Nebula

2025-10-18

C

O     O     O

3680

Pillars of Creation

M 17

Omega Nebula

2025-07-19

C

O     O     O

3610

 

M 20

Trifid Nebula

2025-07-29

C

O     O     O

3610

 

M 22

Sagittarius Cluster

2025-07-19

C

O     O

1810

 

M 27

Dumbbell Nebula

2025-08-14

C

O     O

1510

 

M 31

Andromeda Galaxy

2024-10-13

2015-10-18

C

O
O     S

620

3280

First light

M 33

Triangulum Galaxy

2025-12-11

C

O    O     O

3540

(aka Pinwheel Galaxy)

M 34

Spiral Cluster

2025-02-26

C

O

910

 

M 37

Salt and Pepper Cluster

2025-01-04

C

O

760

 

M 42

Orion Nebula

2025-02-28

C

O      O

620

 

M 44

Beehive Cluster

2025-03-07

C

O

900

 

M 45

Pleiades Cluster

2024-11-26

C

O

600

 

M 49

Elliptical galaxy in Virgo

2025-03-18

C

O

3600

Note other galaxies

M 51

Whirlpool Galaxy

2025-04-18

C

O     O     O

3610

 

M 57

Ring Nebula

2025-07-19

C

O     O

3620

 

M 63

Sunflower Galaxy

2025-07-18

C

O     O

3610

 

M 64

Black Eye Galaxy

2025-03-18

C

O     O

3610

 

M 65 and M 66

Leo Triplet

2025-04-18

C

O     O

3620

Also NGC3623

M 71

Angelfish Cluster

2024-11-21

C

O

680

 

M 76

Little Dumbbell Nebula

2026-02-07

C

O     O

3610

 

M 81

and

M 82

Bodes Nebulae

2025-02-07, 26

 

C

M81:  O     O     O

M81 and M82:  O     O

M82:  O

3600

 

M 92

Globular cluster in Hercules

2025-10-12

C

O     O

3620

 

M 94

Cat’s Eye Galaxy

2026-04-19

C

O     O    O    S

2120

First Siril processing

M 97

Owl Nebula

2025-03-07

C

O     O     O

3600

 

M 104

Sombrero Galaxy

2025-03-17

C

O     O

3600

 

M 106

Spiral galaxy in Canes Venatici

2025-06-16

C

O     O     O

3610

 

M 110

Elliptical galaxy in Andromeda

2025-10-12

C

O      O

3610

 

NGC 862
NGC 864

Double Cluster

2024-11-26

C

O

300

 

NGC1421

Spiral galaxy in Eridanus

2025-12-23

C

O     O

3600

 

NGC 1819

Lenticular galaxy in Orion

2026-02-07

C

O     O

3610

 

NGC 1931

Reflection nebula in Auriga

2005-01-04

C

O     O

2700

 

NGC 1975

Reflection nebula in Orion

2025-03-18

C

O     O     O 

2710

 

NGC 2024

Flame Nebula

2025-03-07

C

O     O

3300

 

NGC 2158

Open cluster

2025-03-17

C

O

900

 

NGC 2244

Rosette Nebula

2025-03-02

C

O  

4210

 

NGC 2403

Spiral galaxy in Camelopardalis 

2024-11-23

2025-03-17

C
C

O

O     O

910

3600

 

Longer exposure

NGC 4449

Irregular galaxy in Canes Venatii

2026-04-19

C

O     O    O    S

3620

 

NGC 6207

Spiral galaxy in Hercules

2025-07-18

C

O     O

2690

 

NGC 6888

Crescent Nebula

2025-10-18

C

O     O

2530

 

NGC 6905

Blue Flash Nebula

2025-08-26

C

O     O

1810

 

NGC 6934

Globular cluster in  Delphinus

2025-09-03

C

O     O

3230

 

NGC 6992

Eastern Veil Nebula

2024-11-22

C

O     O

900

 

NGC 7203

Iris Nebula

2024-11-27

C

O     O 

1500

 

NGC 7320

Stephan’s Quintet

2024-11-24

C

O

1810

Look for faint galaxies in center of view. 

NGC 7293

Helix Nebula

2025-12-11

C

O     O

3670

 

NGC 7331

Spiral galaxy in Pegasus

2025-12-11

C

O     O

3690

 

NGC 7635

Bubble Nebula

2025-11-18

C

O     O     O

3620

 

Palomar 2

Globular cluster

2025-01-03

C

O     O

2410

Poor resolution of cluster

UGC 11380

Spiral galaxy in Lyra

2025-08-14

C

O     O

2120

 

 

Filter:  C=clear filter   N=nebula filter.  
O  are images processed using the Celestron Origin app.  S are images stacked and processed by Steve using Siril and scripts from Deep Space Astro.

 

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