Tag: cassiopeia
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 Pacman, but it requires quite a lot of captured data to reveal de... Read More
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 Ring nebula, but Abell 82 is much, much fainter objec... Read More
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