Category: Wide field
IC1396, Elephant Trunk and Garnet Star
This one is another holiday wide field capture. IC1396 Elephant Trunk nebula was the same kind of problem for me as California nebula – it never fit into field of view of my permanent imaging se... Read More
Dust in California NGC1499
NGC1499 California emission nebula is so (apparently) large, that it did not fit to any field of view of my “large” imaging setups. So I decided to capture it with my travel wide field set... Read More
Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner
Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner has been discovered in 1900 by Michael Giacobini for the first time. Its another approach has been missed, and in 1913 it was discovered again by Ernst Zinner. Comet solid c... Read More
Barnards 8-13 at the border
This is not quite often imaged area of the sky. It lies at the border of Perseus and Camelopardalis (Giraffe) constellations. This place is mostly occupied by dark clouds. Several of them were catalog... Read More
Cocoon and friends
First look at this frame will be definitely attracted to well known Cocoon nebula (IC5146) that is both emission HII region but also reflective nebula. This nebulosity surrounds star cluster Collinder... Read More
Black Lizard Nebula
Black Lizard 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 ... Read More
From Sadr Till Tulip (IOTD)
My next holiday target was pretty classical – Cygnus constellation (Swan) narrowband widefield, that in the late summer rises high up to the zenith (in Europe). I framed area starting from the S... 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 mad... Read More