Following the release of the first James Webb Space Telescope images, I saw a captivating video montage that a Redditor had made using their own astrophotography, zooming out of the Carina Nebula to a view of the Milky Way. It showed where it was relative to Earth instead of just ‘somewhere out there.’ I thought it would be great to see more from this perspective, so I set out to create a platform and editor to make creating these ‘zooms’ quick and easy.

A demonstration of such a montage is shown above. The “video” isn't actually a video, but a series of images that are loaded as you zoom out and placed dynamically in 3d space. This allows for a much higher resolution than a video would allow, and the ability to interact with the content.