Black Lizard Nebula
It is a nickname for Barnard 138 dark nebula in the star rich area in constellation Aquila (Eagle). Actually this is not very well defined dark nebula, that hardly resembles this animal. If you increa... Read More
Bunch of Barnards in Cepheus
These are photons collected over one August night, when the conditions at my suburban location was fair enough for me to decide for classic LRGB composition. I pointed telescope to some dark dusties i... Read More
Crescent and Soap Bubble
At the end of August I collected some more light to extreme classic – NGC6888 Crescent nebula in Cygnus. It is emission nebula placed about 5000 light years away that has been formed from massiv... Read More
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
From Sadr Till Tulip
My next holiday target was pretty classical – Cygnus constellation (Swan), that in the late summer rises high up to the zenith (in Europe). I framed area starting from the Sadr star (Gamma Cygni... Read More
Barnards on sale
There are few hundreds items in the Barnard catalog of dark nebulae. And significant amount of it is placed between Aquila (Eagle) head and Scutum (Shield) top corner 🙂 So around the triangle... Read More
