LBN vs LDN
One letter makes difference :) LBN stands for Lynds' Catalogue of Bright Nebulae, and LDN is Lynds' Catalogue of Dark Nebulae. Both have been…
V1331 Cygni
Today some geek stuff. Some time ago I framed a sky fragment that contains several small bright and dark galactic fuzzies. Later I found out in the…
Stars overflow
Palomar catalogue is a set of fifteen globular clusters discovered during POSS program. Few of them are pretty obscured with Milky Way dusts, and one…
Boring elliptical
There is not much fun in seeing elliptical galaxies. Mostly they are symmetrical fuzzy blobs with no detail at all. Sometimes in the same field of…
Needle galaxies
There are a whole lot of galaxies in Virgo, and among them there are nice although small spiral one - NGC5364. This one and its neighbours I have…
Hunt for TrES-3b exoplanet transit
Nights in June are very short in central Europe - not even three hours. Fortunately the TrES3-b exoplanet minimum lasts only about hour and on the…
Mixed location Whirlpool
160 minutes of luminance made in Zatom. 120 minutes of RGB made in Nieborowice. Some time for processing, and here it is - M51 - Whirlpool galaxy.…
Coma Cluster
It's been over three years since I pictured Abell 1656 Coma Cluster of galaxies in the astrojolo Deep Field One entry. This cluster is about 320…
Whale plays hockey again...
It's already been three years when I pictured the same galaxies with Atik314 camera Whale plays hockey . Now a little larger sensor, a little bit…
Whole bunch of stars
M92 globular cluster has been discovered by Johann Elert Bode in 1777. He wrote then: "A nebula. More or less round with pale glow. On this…
Butterfly drama in Zatom
Here is 4h of LRGB frames I have made in Zatom at spring Star Party. Unfortunately I had tilted focuser when exposing G and B channels and it was…
Messier 48 lost-and-found
Messier 48 is a star open cluster in the constellation of Hydra. It spans over almost one degree in the sky and contains about 80 stars placed about…