Category: Galaxies
Active M106
Messier 106 is intermediate spiral galaxy in Canes Venatici. It was discovered by Pierre Mechain in 1791 and is located about 22 million light years from Earth. M106 is quite bright galaxy available f... Read More
NGC4559 at Coma
NGC4559 is little bit forgotten intermediate spiral galaxy in Coma Berenices. It is located about 30 million light years away and belongs to Coma I Group of galaxies. Under dark sky can be spotted wit... Read More
Messier 100
Messier 100 is a spiral galaxy similar to our own Milky Way. It is located about 60 million light years away in constellation Virgo, and it is part of Vigo Cluster of Galaxies. M100 was discovered in ... Read More
Whale and Pup mono (and colour)
NGC4631 Whale galaxy is located in Canes Venatici constellation (Hunting Dogs). Despite its uncommon shape it is actually a barred spiral galaxy seen edge-on from Earth. NGC4631 contains central starb... Read More
NGC2683 galaxy in Lynx
NGC2683 (nickname “UFO Galaxy”) was discovered by William Herschel (who else 🙂 ) on February 5, 1788. This one is placed about 20 million light years away, and can be found in the const... Read More
NGC2403 galaxy
NGC2403 is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Camelopardalis (The Giraffe). Quite similar in view to famous M33 galaxy, but placed much more far away (about 8 million light years from ... Read More
M31 and Mayall II
M31 galaxy in Andromeda is both very large and also close to us. It makes it a hard fit into field of view of medium and large scale setups. That’s why in last star party in Zatom I decided to i... Read More
NGC4565 Needle Galaxy
I already made an attempt to this object here with 6″ newtonian and Atik314L+ camera, and it was long time ago. It is magnificent object, but requires good conditions for imaging. Both seeing an... Read More