Many shades of Soul
There always happens a lot in the Milky Way areas of our sky. For example Soul and Ghost nebulae can be found in the constellation of Cassiopeia.…
Deep inside the Soul
IC1848 Soul Nebula is quite extended object and there is no way for my setup to cover it all at once. But even in narrow field images there is plenty…
Cocooned with interstellar medium
Three years ago using Canon DSLR and newtonian telescope I pictured Cocoon nebula . At last star party in Zatom I decided to get back to this…
As faint as Lion
Sharpless catalog is a list of 313 HII regions (that are emission nebulae) visible in the northern hemisphere from declination -27 degrees. Most of…
Pelican can wait
Here it is some color added to hydrogen black and white picture from Pelican in Swan post. Hydrogen presence has been mapped to green…
Pelican in Swan
There is autumn incoming shortly, and one of this season gems (in northern hemisphere) is Cygnus (The Swan). It flies ofer the reach Milky Way…
Barnard in red
Edward Emerson Barnard was an American astronomer. Among many astronomy activities he was also pioneering astrophotographer. He cataloged a series of…
Sharpless 112
In astrophotography noone cares about sharpless pictures. However one of the astronomy catalogs is called Sharpless - it was published by the US…
Orion the Hunter
Probably many of you heard and saw Orion Nebula - there is not much to add in this area actually. I also wanted to have it pictured, but last year…