Tag: cygnus
Supergiant star in Cygnus Heart
Nights in July are short, and long time deep sky exposures must be split into several days to achieve decent result with many-hours images. However with fast lens it is possible to fairly quickly coll... 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
QHY163M fine tuning side effects
Well, nothing really happened fortunately 🙂 “Side effects” here means only one more target that I was able to picture last night, when I have been adjusting flattener distance. It... Read More
Codename Sh2-124
Not much can be said or read about Sh2-124 molecular hydrogen cloud in the north-east Cygnus frontiers. It is pretty large but not too bright. The whole area is filled with the hydrogen, so every plac... Read More
The Hole in the Cluster
There is some open star clusters in Cygnus. Joke! There is whole lot of open clusters in Cygnus! NGC6811 is one of them, pretty large, pretty old (1 billion years), pretty rich (about 1000 stars). And... 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
V1331 Cygni
Today some geek stuff. Some time ago I framed a sky fragment that contains several small bright and dark galactic fuzzies. Later I found out in the picture a small arc surrounding one of the stars. It... Read More