Category: Open clusters
Saint Valentine’s Rosette – update
NGC2244 is formal code of the star open cluster placed about 5000 light years away in the constellation Monoceros (Unicorn). The stars in this cluster are very young – the age is estimated to be... Read More
Retro Seven Sisters
The Pleiades or Seven Sisters is an open star cluster located in constellation Taurus. Contains middle aged (about 100 million years old), hot, blue and extremely luminous stars. The nebula surroundin... Read More
Mirror figure tested by Perseus
At the end of last year I sent my telescope mirors to cover with fresh reflective layer of aluminium and also to improve its shape. So called ‘mirror figuring’ has been performed by experi... Read More
Bubble hydrogen attack
Not so long time ago I shot Bubble Nebula with modded Canon 450D. Total exposure was 6.5h and I was pretty happy with the outcome. But the time has come for narrowband exposures. Hydrogen alpha is the... Read More
NGC7822 star nursery
There are many hidden astrophoto treasures in the constellation of Cepheus (although not so many for visual observations). One of them is nebulosity called NGC7822. It is a young star forming complex... Read More
Eleven hours with Little Fox
Vulpecula is latin name for Little Fox constellation. It is little and contains no bright stars. It is placed nearby Swan constellation in the pretty bright region of Milky Way. Well known M27 Dumbb... Read More
Bubble friends
In the border of Cepheus and Cassiopeia constellations some interesting objects can be found. The most famous is probably Bubble Nebula (NGC7635 aka Sharpless 162 aka Caldwell 11). One may try to rec... Read More
A far cry and hard by
At the border of Cepheus and Cygnus the Swan constellations there is a place where quite remote deep sky objects meets quite close one. A far cry object is NGC6946 galaxy, called also Fireworks Galaxy... Read More- 4 of 4
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