Literature moons
Did you know that all known Uranus moons (there are currently 27 of them) are named after characters from the works of William Shakespeare and…
Deep inside the Soul
IC1848 Soul Nebula is quite extended object and there is no way for my setup to cover it all at once. But even in narrow field images there is plenty…
November testing
Atik came back from its origin - it has been sent to service and now is in perfect condition. Meanwhile I adjusted my refractor collimation, so I…
M29 - so obscured
Messier 29 is yet another open star cluster in the Cyngus constellation. Its stars belongs to the Cygnus OB1 association. Five brighters stars of…
Comets wanted
There is no spectacular comet right now in the heavens, but I have not pictured any of them for some time, so I started to miss them :) I picked up…
Cocooned with interstellar medium
Three years ago using Canon DSLR and newtonian telescope I pictured Cocoon nebula . At last star party in Zatom I decided to get back to this…
As faint as Lion
Sharpless catalog is a list of 313 HII regions (that are emission nebulae) visible in the northern hemisphere from declination -27 degrees. Most of…
Planetary mite
After a few days spent on post processing Pelican nebula ( Pelican can wait ) I decided to rest a little and collect some human readable color…
Pelican can wait
Here it is some color added to hydrogen black and white picture from Pelican in Swan post. Hydrogen presence has been mapped to green…
Too many stars in color
Time has come to colorize new refractor first light. I collected some exposures of M27 Dumbbell nebula with RGB filters, and here is the result:
Pelican in Swan
There is autumn incoming shortly, and one of this season gems (in northern hemisphere) is Cygnus (The Swan). It flies ofer the reach Milky Way…