Category: Other nebulae
Merrill’s Star and Minkowski 1-67 nebula
WR124 is a Wolf-Rayet star in the Sagitta (Arrow) constellation. It is surrounded by a nebula of expelled material known as Mi1-67 or Sh2-80. The star was discovered by Paul W. Merrill in 1938 as high... Read More
LDN807 dark complex
Beverly Turner Lynds was an american astronomer, who about 50 years ago created two catalogs – LBN and LDN – Lynds Bright and Dark Nebulae catalog. She made it basing on visual review of P... Read More
Barnards more and less obscured
Barnard 352 (larger) and 353 (smaller and less dense) are two dust clouds in the Cygnus constellation. Framed region is at the northern part of well known NGC7000 nebula. Not much else to see here exc... Read More
Barnard 145
Last year in late summer I started to image dark nebula from Barnard catalogue. And I felt in love with them quickly. Emission nebulae shapes are maybe more interesting, but this dust clouds that make... Read More
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