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…
NGC7000 wide field rich field
A few nights ago clouds went out somewhere for some time, and despite of almost full Moon I decided to catch some light. I quickly placed wide field…
Supergiant star in Cygnus Heart
Nights in July are short, and long time deep sky exposures must be split into several days to achieve decent result with many-hours images. However…
NGC4565 Needle Galaxy
I already made an attempt to NGC4565 Needle Galaxy here with 6" newtonian and Atik314L+ camera, and it was long time ago. It is magnificent object,…
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…
M106 after four years
It's been already four years when I imaged M106 galaxy for the first time, however not much changed in this area. Then it was made with 6 inches…
M5 in snake's head
Globular clusters are more less all the same - bunch of a few hundreds thousands stars packed in a sphere of 50-150 light years diameter, so pretty…
Lesser-known space around NGC6791
There is whole lot of famous astroimaging targets in the Milky Way around Cygnus. NGC6791 open cluster is not one them. It is rarely imaged and…
Messier 46 and two bubbles
Messier 46 is an open cluster in Puppis constellation. It is pretty low above horizon at my location, so I needed to wait for convenient moment to…
Stars among stars
Short summer nights plus half full Moon are not a good candidates for deep sky imaging. Spring galaxies requires much exposure time, and narrowband…
May in the Moon
It's getting close to summer solstice. Nights are shorter and shorter, and there is also growing Moon in the sky - not a good time for deep sky…
Short course to Jupiter
On May, 16th with my astro amateur friend we spent a few hours on Jupiter observing from my backyard - it was kind of test with different optics. We…