Category: Other nebulae
Planetary newbie
Well, not newbie as “youg”, but rather “recently discovered”. PuWe1 (PNG 158.9 + 17.8) is a pretty large (about 20 arc minutes diameter) planetary nebula in the const... Read More
IC349 Barnard’s Nebula
It is just a small nebula that lies about 0.06 light years from Merope star (bright one in the center). It is quite a difficult object, because it is well hidden in the bright light from the illuminat... Read More
Planetary mite
After a few days spent on post processing Pelican nebula ( Pelican can wait ) I decided to rest a little and collect some human readable color picutures. Due to almost full Moon bright sky I have choo... Read More
Too many stars in color
Time has come to colorize new refractor first light. I collected some exposures of M27 Dumbbell nebula with RGB filters, and here is the result: Total exposure time was 50 minutes for luminance and 30... Read More
Too many stars
Last night I caught a few almost cloudless moments, and was able to collect first frames using TS130 refractor with 0.79x reducer. The proper distance to sensor has been adjusted, and here it is 50 mi... Read More
Great Bear’s fleece
I meant to picture IFN (Integrated Flux Nebula) with Great Bear’s galaxies, but eventually I pictured galaxies with traces of IFN 🙂 Dark sky in Zatom has been helpful and I managed to gather ... Read More
Elephant in red
Elephant’s Trunk nebula is a part of IC1396 complex that contains both open star cluster and surrounding nebulosity. All this goods can be found in Cepheus, and the complex is about 2700 light y... Read More
Autumn is coming
And northern autumn constellations as well – Cygnus is the one quite well known. I already presented a few pictures positioned in this constellation, here it comes another one of IC1318 nebula. ... Read More
The Owl, The Far and The Ugly
Owl Nebula is approximately 8000 years old. The central star of the nebula has brightness about 14 magnitude and mass about 55% solar mass, but is much brighter and its surface temperature is 123000K... Read More- 3 of 4
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