Tag: cassiopeia
KjPn8 in Cassiopeia
KjPn8 is not well known planetary nebula in Cassiopeia, though probably many of astroimages contain this obiect, because it is quite close to famous NGC7635 Bubble nebula and M52 open cluster (I alrea... Read More
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 its apparent center there is very young open star clus... Read More
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 opportunity to verify this discovery before he pr... Read More
Bubble and elusive KjPn 8
Few days ago I put here an entry with Bubble nebula in hydrogen alpha band. Later on I collected some data with RGB filters (3×40 minutes) and also with O III filter (20×10 minutes) and trie... Read More
Into the Bubble
This one is hyper classic object – Bubble Nebula in Cassiopeia together with M52 open cluster. This extraordinary HII molecular cloud is placed about 11,000 light years away. The “bubble&#... Read More
XV astroparty in Zatom
Autumn equinox happened for me during XV astroparty in Zatom. Almost 60 astronomy lovers from all around Poland have met again in darkness of Drawa National Park. As usual it was mix of both visual ob... Read More
Samyang 135 f/2 ED UMC for fast widefields
I have already read much good about this lens before I decided to purchase one. Its main purpose in my field will be wide-field astroimaging. I plan to use it both with Canon DSLR and with my mono QHY... Read More
WeBo1 and Mel15
Do you remember december molecular trophies? There were hydrogen alpha only band of Melotte 15 open cluster in the middle of the Heart nebula IC1805. I collected some more – oxygen III band and ... Read More