Category: Other nebulae
Eskimo Nebula
NGC2392 is a planetary nebula to be found in Gemini constellation. It was discovered by William Herschel in 1787, and is known as Eskimo or Clownface Nebula – once you take a look into the image... Read More
Light polluted Iris
Celestial dark stuff requires dark sky to record them. Lesson learned. I was a little bit too optimistic about my suburban conditions when I placed Iris nebula into the field of view of my imaging set... Read More
Bunch of Barnards in Cepheus
These are photons collected over one August night, when the conditions at my suburban location was fair enough for me to decide for classic LRGB composition. I pointed telescope to some dark dusties i... Read More
Merrill’s Star and Minkowski 1-67 nebula
WR124 is a Wolf-Rayet star in the Sagitta (Arrow) constellation. It is surrounded by a nebula of expelled material known as Mi1-67 or Sh2-80. The star was discovered by Paul W. Merrill in 1938 as high... Read More
LDN807 dark complex
Beverly Turner Lynds was an american astronomer, who about 50 years ago created two catalogs – LBN and LDN – Lynds Bright and Dark Nebulae catalog. She made it basing on visual review of P... Read More
Barnards more and less obscured
Barnard 352 (larger) and 353 (smaller and less dense) are two dust clouds in the Cygnus constellation. Framed region is at the northern part of well known NGC7000 nebula. Not much else to see here exc... 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
Jones-Emberson 1
This image subject is faint planetary nebula in the constellation Lynx. Its total apparent magnitude is 14mag, but due to large dimensions its surface brightness is pretty low. Nebula is placed about ... Read More