Sh2-132 Lion nebula
Autumn is a perfect time for collecting astrophotographic data on emission nebulae, which spread across different places in the northern sky. One of…
Dark nebulae Barnard 171 and LDN673
Dark nebulae are not as popular and spectacular as emission or reflection nebulae, but still, there are many astronomy amateurs who are fascinated by…
Sh2-171 aka NGC7822 emission nebula
NGC7822 star-forming complex in the constellation Cepheus is located about 3,000 light-years away from us. It contains Berkeley 59 star open cluster…
NGC7380 Wizard nebula
I was taught that hydrogen merged with oxygen is a highly explosive mixture, and after the explosion, the water is the outcome. But nothing like this…
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…
IC1396, Elephant Trunk and Garnet Star
This one is another holiday wide field capture. IC1396 Elephant Trunk nebula was the same kind of problem for me as California nebula - it never fit…
Light polluted Iris
Celestial dark stuff requires dark sky to record them. Lesson learned. I was a little bit too optimistic about my suburban conditions when I placed…
Bunch of Barnards in Cepheus
These are photons collected over one August night, when the conditions at my suburban location was fair enough for me to decide for classic LRGB…
Dark stuff in Cepheus
I already pictured Elephant Trunk nebula (IC1396) several times, but it was always "narrow" field images. And I always had kind of trouble how to…
Barnard 150 - Dark SeaHorse
Barnard 150 Dark SeaHorse is kind of lost nebula - I collected photons to this frame in September, 2016, then processed them, and forgot to blog it…
High clouds Barnard 174
This is Barnard 174 (lower right) and Barnard 173 (top and little right from the center) dark nebulae. Small dark blob in the upper right corner next…