M74 Phantom Galaxy
M74 galaxy is located in constellation of Pisces. Distance to this grand design spiral galaxy has been determined to 32 million light years. The number of stars in M74 is estimated to 100 billion. M74... Read More
IC4954 and Roslund 4
There are many places in the space where new stars are born. Reflection nebulae IC4954 (near center) and 4955 (lower left) is one of them. These nebulae surround open cluster Roslund4. Its age is esti... Read More
Astro Arduino – part I
Arduino is open hardware platform that became extremely popular due to its simplicity, free and friendly development environment and massive number of ready to use examples and libraries that can be u... Read More
Narrowband colours
If you are an astroimaging amateur and capturing narrowband frames, you probably already needed to make a decision – how to compose all these channels into one colourful image. There is large nu... Read More
Abell 82 planetary unknown
Abell 82 is at the very end of the list of popular astroimaging targets. This planetary nebula has apparent size similar to size of well known M57 Ring nebula, but Abell 82 is much, much fainter objec... Read More
KjPn8 in Cassiopeia
KjPn8 is not well known planetary nebula in Cassiopeia, though probably many of astroimages contain this obiect, because it is quite close to famous NGC7635 Bubble nebula and M52 open cluster (I alrea... Read More
NGC7086 open cluster in Cygnus
Despite the fact, that NGC7086 is an open cluster in frequently visited and popular part in the sky, it is not often imaged. NGC7086 lies about 4,200 light years away, and was discovered by William He... Read More
IC1396, Elephant Trunk and Garnet Star
This one is another holiday wide field capture. IC1396 nebula was the same kind of problem for me as California nebula – it never fit into field of view of my permanent imaging setups. But for 1... Read More