Needle mono
It's been already over a month since I have collected photons to the picture below. It is 120 minutes of luminance only of pretty well known Needle…
Dark stuff in Cepheus
I already pictured Elephant Trunk nebula (IC1396) several times, but it was always "narrow" field images. And I always had kind of trouble how to…
Messier 48 in Hydra
Imaging targets below celestial equator is kind-of problem at my backyard. Down to declination -10 it is fairly easy, but below -10 I have many…
Samyang with two cameras at Auriga
A few days after I collected wide field H alpha frames I pointed QHY163 color camera to the same target and then merged both color and hydrogen alpha…
Samyang 135 talks to QHY163
Last days I have been preparing my wide field astroimaging setup. There have been some changes in conception and eventually I decided to give up on…
Jones-Emberson 1
This image subject is faint planetary nebula in the constellation Lynx - Jones-Emberson 1. Its total apparent magnitude is 14mag, but due to large…
Flaming Star
IC405 Flaming Star is beautiful emission-reflection nebula in constellation of Auriga. It is placed in rich area od Milky Way about 1500 light years…
Moon 2017 season opening
Last night sky was partially cloudy, however Moon has been smiling to me so nice, that I could not resist and set up little bit dusty SCT8" with…
Double youngsters
Double open cluster in Perseus is an object I like to get back. It is well known northern sky gem, visible with naked eye and in all sorts of…
Hamburger mono
Few days ago starry night caught me unprepared. Out of nowhere stars appeared in the sky, and weather forecast said it would be for about three…
Monkey Head
NGC2175 Monkey Head nebula is in the boundary of Orion constellation - but very close to Gemini, under they feet I would say :) In absolute terms…