Celestial Gallery — A Telescope Pointed at the Cosmos

"Explore the wonders of the cosmos. From nebulae to black holes, search the cosmos… nebula, galaxy, Mars…"

Celestial Gallery is the showcase SPA for the Dumont Assets Connector. It indexes a local filesystem full of astrophotography — FITS images from research telescopes, TIFF masters, JPEG previews — and serves them up as a gorgeous, filterable cosmic archive.

What is this?

Imagine a Hubble-grade observatory archive — thousands of photographs of nebulae, galaxies, eclipses and planetary surfaces — sitting quietly on a file share. The Dumont Assets Connector walks the filesystem, extracts metadata, computes file size and extension, and ships it all to Turing. This SPA is the public face of that archive: a violet-and-cobalt gallery where every tile is a window into deep space.

Highlights

🔭 Cinematic hero with an animated starfield and the tagline "Explore the wonders of the cosmos."
🖼️ Asset cards with extension badges — violet for TIFF, blue for PNG, cyan for FITS, amber for JPG — instantly readable at a glance.
📊 Human-readable file sizes (B / KB / MB / GB / TB) formatted client-side with zero dependencies.
🌌 Facet navigation ("Browse By…") lets users narrow by format, mission, celestial object, or any custom taxonomy your filesystem exposes.
🔎 Smart search with placeholder hints: "nebula, galaxy, Mars…"
🌓 Dark-mode-first design — because you don't browse the universe under fluorescent lights.

What's indexed?

Whatever your telescope — or your /opt/celestial-gallery directory — can throw at it:

File type	Typical payload
`.fits`	Raw telescope data cubes
`.tiff`	High-dynamic-range masters
`.png` / `.jpg`	Web-ready previews
Sidecar metadata	EXIF, IPTC, custom XML

The sample configuration (scripts/sample/export/sample-assets.json) maps the local path /opt/celestial-gallery to the public URL https://gallery.example.com/celestial, so your users get clickable links to the actual image files.

Architecture at a glance

  Filesystem (/opt/celestial-gallery)
           │
           ▼
  fs-connector ──► Assets Plugin ──► Dumont Connector ──► Turing ES ──► Celestial Gallery SPA
                                                                              │
                                                                              ▼
                                                                      You, stargazing
                                                                      through your browser

Deploy in three steps

Grab the zip from the Dumont Marketplace.
Upload it to a Turing SN Site called celestial-gallery.
Create an Assets source pointing to any folder of images and hit Index All.

Within seconds, your files become a fully searchable observatory.

Tech Stack

React 19 · TypeScript · Vite · Tailwind CSS v4 · shadcn/ui · Tabler Icons (yes, there's a telescope icon) · Turing React SDK

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