IC1805 Heart nebula
There are more and less known objects in the sky, and one of the measures of popularity is the target’s number of names and symbols. The IC1805…
Sh2-188 Dolphin nebula
Planetary nebulae do not always look like rings or blobs, and Sh2-188 is an example of that. It was photographed for the first time in 1965 and was…
IC1848 Soul nebula fragment
I have already imaged the IC1848 nebula in the past using a 130mm aperture apochromatic refractor and an Atik383 camera. I was quite happy with that…
Star Adventurer at Zatom starparty
The weather at XX star party in Zatom was generally good however, some amount of high clouds was present all the time. But it did not prevent me from…
Cassiopeia and Cepheus
As you may already know Cassiopeia was a queen of Aethiopia and wife of king Cepheus. These mythological characters were put together also in the…
IC1795 Fish Head
This year January was a really cloudy time. That's why I was even more surprised by sudden clear night that occurred on January, 19th. Conditions…
NGC281 Pacman explored
I already captured this well known nebula over four years ago. This time I wanted to go a little bit deeper to interesting interior of NGC281 Pacman…
Abell 82 planetary unknown
Abell 82 is at the very end of the list of popular astroimaging targets. This planetary nebula has apparent size similar to size of well known M57…
KjPn8 planetary nebula in Cassiopeia
KjPn8 is not well known planetary nebula in Cassiopeia, though probably many of astroimages contain this object, because it is quite close to famous…
Heart of the Heart
IC1805 Heart nebula in Cassiopeia is well known hydrogen cloud, very appreciated by astroimagers. This object is placed 6000 light years away. In…
Messier 103
Messier 103 open cluster has been discovered by Pierre Mechain in 1781. Pierre was Charles Messier's friend and collaborator, and Charles had no…
Bubble and elusive KjPn 8
Few days ago I put here an entry with NGC7635 Bubble nebula in hydrogen alpha band. Later on I collected some data with RGB filters (3x40 minutes)…