In the galaxy far far away
Last week was not so good in terms of weather, but over three nights I was able to collect some exposures for the picture above. Left part is…
21 million and over one billion light years away
Summer is coming. Days will be even longer and unfortunately nights will become shorter. June and July nights are so short, that you can easily say…
Whirlpool galaxy now and two centuries ago
M51 Whirpool galaxy Whirlpool Galaxy already has been presented in my blog (see Space interactions) but it was B&W image of luminance only…
Hercules Globules - update
Hercules constellation is famous among astronomy amateurs because of the largest globular cluster that can be seen in the northern hemisphere. It…
Astrojolo Deep Field One
Well, it is nothing one can compare to Hubble Deep Field, but I am gonna get better:) Coma Cluster is a galaxy cluster about 99 megaparsecs away…
Galaxies in coma
There is modest constellation called Coma Berenices. It is somewhere above well known Leo and Virgo constellations. Not so many stars visible in…
Celestial fast food
Hopefully you can see why this sky item is called Hamburger Galaxy. It has not been noticed by Messier in his famous catalog of faint fuzzies.…
Whale plays hockey
Finally clouds went away (do not really care where) and I had a chance to make some night exposures. There are so many interesting object and so few…
Black Eyed Piece
Messier 64 galaxy is also known as Black Eye or Sleeping Beauty galaxy. Both these names corresponds to the spectacular dark band of absorbing dust…
Space interactions
Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) was one of my birthday night targets. It it placed in Canes Venatici (Hunting Dogs) constellation about 23 mln light years…
Faint chasing - update
Yet another cloudy night, so I took yet another look into my NGC4565 picture and found out a bunch of faint stars near to the galaxy. These stars…
Mortal Combat - DSLR vs Atik
Just before weather break down I managed to gather some more photons that have been travelling about 8 milion years to be eventually captured in my…