Moonwalk - lunation 12.1
In the center of the picture below there is Gassendi crater (111km). The crater has been inundated by lava during the formation of nearby Mare…
Moonwalk - lunation 7.1
Moon is almost in the middle on his way to be a Full Moon, so many interesting features come up from the shadow near the terminator line. Between…
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…
Planetscapes
Three planets in a row. One night. Haze. Not so warm. Moderate seeing. Low planets altitude. Mars - low above horizon and quite far away so quite…
Spring is coming
And when there is a spring there is a time fo galaxy hunting. Messier 96 (left) is spiral galaxy placed about 38 million light years away. It…
Birthday Jupiter
Jupiter is the largest planet of the Solar system - it is over 1300 times heavier than Earth and its surface area is over 120 times larger than our…
Great Bear fuzzies
Great Bear constellation is well known undeer the northern hemisphere. This large constellation lies far away from the Milky Way plane, so there…
Rosette stars - blue is hot
Not so long time ago Saint Valentine's Rosette appeared in my blog. A few days later I pictured a little bit of RGB light to this frame, so it is now…
Saint Valentine's Rosette - update
NGC2244 is formal code of the star open cluster placed about 5000 light years away in the constellation Monoceros (Unicorn). The stars in this…
Retro Seven Sisters
The Pleiades or Seven Sisters is an open star cluster located in constellation Taurus. Contains middle aged (about 100 million years old), hot, blue…
Mirror figure tested by Perseus
At the end of last year I sent my telescope mirors to cover with fresh reflective layer of aluminium and also to improve its shape. So called 'mirror…
Elusive Orion
Winter is slowly fading away (hopefully) and during this time Orion has been shining at the sky with its gems. Among the bright Orion's stars there…