u/Bud0131

Astronomy freshman here working on our observational astronomy final project.

We need to process nebulae, galaxies, and star clusters using DSS/GIMP, and I wanted to work with real astrophotography data instead of tiny-aperture school datasets.

I’m looking for beginner-friendly FITS or stacked TIFF files that are okay for educational use only (full credits included of course).

I’m especially interested in dramatic-looking objects like:

- Veil Nebula

- Crab Nebula

- Pillar of Creation

- Whirlpool Galaxy

- Black Eye Galaxy

- Cigar Galaxy

- Double Cluster

- Pleiades

- Hercules Global Cluster

Or any available objects

Even a single dataset would already help a lot. Thank you.