Category: Other nebulae
Jones-Emberson 1
This image subject is faint planetary nebula in the constellation Lynx. Its total apparent magnitude is 14mag, but due to large dimensions its surface brightness is pretty low. Nebula is placed about ... Read More
WeBo1 and Mel15
Do you remember december molecular trophies? There were hydrogen alpha only band of Melotte 15 open cluster in the middle of the Heart nebula IC1805. I collected some more – oxygen III band and ... Read More
Dark SeaHorse
This is kind of lost nebula – I collected photons to this frame in September, 2016, then processed them, and forgot to blog it 🙁 So it is not really winter sky object, but, well, its time has... Read More
Crab in the mist – update
Two days ago day after wet day it came pretty clean evening. However it quickly changed to ubiquitous myst. That plus crescent Moon made very poor transparency, but pretty decent seeing conditions. I ... Read More
High clouds Barnard 174
This is Barnard 174 (lower right) and Barnard 173 (top and little right from the center) dark nebulae. Small dark blob in the upper right corner next to two brighter (10mag) stars has not found its pl... Read More
Minkowski double
In the frame below big blue blob is epsilon Cephei star. It is variable of type Delta Scuti, varies between 4.15 and 4.21mag with period of 59 minutes. At the right there is open cluster NGC7234. Then... Read More
E.E. Barnard meets Beverly Lynds
Another piece of Milky Way stars and dusts. There are several non-stellar objects in the picture below. Main dark knight is Barnard 361 – large blob in the left part. Other objects are identifie... Read More
LBN vs LDN
One letter makes difference 🙂 LBN stands for Lynds’ Catalogue of Bright Nebulae, and LDN is Lynds’ Catalogue of Dark Nebulae. Both have been compiled in 1960s by Beverly Lynds. Many of ... Read More