Category: Wide field
Black Lizard Nebula
It is a nickname for Barnard 138 dark nebula in the star rich area in constellation Aquila (Eagle). Actually this is not very well defined dark nebula, that hardly resembles this animal. If you increa... Read More
From Sadr Till Tulip
My next holiday target was pretty classical – Cygnus constellation (Swan), that in the late summer rises high up to the zenith (in Europe). I framed area starting from the Sadr star (Gamma Cygni... Read More
Barnards on sale
There are few hundreds items in the Barnard catalog of dark nebulae. And significant amount of it is placed between Aquila (Eagle) head and Scutum (Shield) top corner 🙂 So around the triangle... Read More
Dark side of Coathanger
I planned to picture Collinder 399 (nickname Coathanger, or Brocchi’s Cluster) for a pretty long time, but my “large” imaging setups had too small field of view. This time I used 135... Read More
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 setup outside and pointed it to Cygnus again. This ... Read More
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 with fast lens it is possible to fairly quickly coll... Read More
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 pack some dark nebulosity around into the ... Read More