Samyang 135 f/2 ED UMC for fast widefields
I have already read much good about this lens before I decided to purchase one. Its main purpose in my field will be wide-field astroimaging. I plan to use it both with Canon DSLR and with my mono QHY... Read More
Tadpoles in IC410
Tadpoles are twisted trails of interstellar matter in the IC410 hydrogen cloud. In the same moment these are must have in every astrophotographer portfolio. In this season I decided to make up on this... Read More
Messier double three
It is already my third attempt to this object 🙂 I really do not feel comfortable with processing of this magnificent galaxy, I always have a feeling it can and should be done better. Maybe one impo... Read More
Messier 35
Almost two years ago I made some wide field pictures, and caught in the same time Messier 35 open cluster. This time M35 and its tiny neighbour NGC2158 were my main targets. A few days ago I pointed t... 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
Yet another fast changer
Last night again I pointed telescope to a variable star for 120 minutes. This time it was V0799 Aur variable ( https://www.aavso.org/vsx/index.php?view=detail.top&oid=186067 ) . This one is of typ... Read More
Huge and fast
Among plethora of variable stars there is large subset of really fast changers. It is really amazing, how these huge blobs of plasma can change their brightness significantly in the range of minutes. ... 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