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…
Into the Orion Nebula
M42 Orion Nebula is well known even for people who are not into the astronomy. M42 can be seen with naked eye, and it is probably the most often…
1321 Majuba photometry
(1321) Majuba is one of very many asteroids in the Solar System. It orbits around Sun with the period of 5 years and 21 days in the average distance…
NGC2403 galaxy
NGC2403 is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Camelopardalis (The Giraffe). Quite similar in view to famous M33 galaxy, but placed…
Messier 103
Messier 103 open cluster has been discovered by Pierre Mechain in 1781. Pierre was Charles Messier's friend and collaborator, and Charles had no…
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…
The Fox Head
NGC6819 Fox Head is a remote star open cluster in Cygnus constellation, nearby Lyra. This one is about 7200 light years away and contains not so…
Bubble and elusive KjPn 8
Few days ago I put here an entry with NGC7635 Bubble nebula in hydrogen alpha band. Later on I collected some data with RGB filters (3x40 minutes)…
Deep sky colors
I have been asked several times if the colors presented at astroimages are natural, or they are just an effect of processing and author imagination.…
Into the Bubble
This one is hyper classic object - NGC7635 Bubble Nebula in Cassiopeia together with M52 open cluster. This extraordinary HII molecular cloud is…