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…
IC5146 Cocoon nebula with Barnard 168
It has been already ten years since I imaged the IC5146 Cocoon nebula with the neighboring Barnard 168 dark cloud for the first time. This time my…
Christmas Tree cluster and Cone nebula
The Christmas Tree star cluster (NGC2264) was named for its triangular shape made of young stars, that look like a tree. A bit below that cluster…
Dark nebulae in Vulpecula
The southern part of the Cygnus constellation is not as well known and not as often imaged as its northern area. But this is a place, where famous…
Perseus molecular cloud
Perseus molecular cloud is something that may look not attractive at the first glance. It does not contain any well-known targets, at least not 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…
Barnards 8-13 at the border
This is not quite often imaged area of the sky. It lies at the border of Perseus and Camelopardalis (Giraffe) constellations. This place is mostly…
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…
Black Lizard Nebula
Black Lizard is a nickname for Barnard 138 dark nebula in the star rich area in constellation Aquila (Eagle). Actually this is not very well defined…
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…
LDN807 dark complex
Beverly Turner Lynds was an american astronomer, who about 50 years ago created two catalogs - LBN and LDN - Lynds Bright and Dark Nebulae catalog.…
Barnards on sale
There are few hundreds items in the Barnard catalog of dark nebulae. And significant amount of it is placed between Aquila (Eagle) head and Scutum…