Supergiant star in Cygnus Heart
Nights in July are short, and long time deep sky exposures must be split into several days to achieve decent result with many-hours images. However…
Samyang with two cameras at Auriga
A few days after I collected wide field H alpha frames I pointed QHY163 color camera to the same target and then merged both color and hydrogen alpha…
Samyang 135 talks to QHY163
Last days I have been preparing my wide field astroimaging setup. There have been some changes in conception and eventually I decided to give up on…
Monkey Head
NGC2175 Monkey Head nebula is in the boundary of Orion constellation - but very close to Gemini, under they feet I would say :) In absolute terms…
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…
Perseus in California
Well, actually it is vice versa - California nebula in Perseus constellation. It is large emission nebula, it spans almost 2.5 degree long over the…
Rosette one more time
I pictured NGC2244 Rosette nebula almost three years ago. It was 6" newtonian then and CCD camera. A few days ago again it came to my field of view -…
Rosette emission
NGC2244 Rosette emission nebula is extreme, it is actually a complex that consists of hot, young stars (about 2500 of them are there), molecular…
Auriga blobs
A few days ago forecast was very kind - starting from midnight there will be clear sky - it said. Well, not this time. Clouds slowly broke up around…
Cepheus star nursery
NGC7822 is star-gas-dust cloud in Cepheus constellation. As you probably already know these are perfect conditions for star forming, and that is also…
Hydrogen Phantom Mask
This one is HII molecular hydrogen cloud in Perseus arm of our Galaxy. It's Sharpless number is Sh2-173, and can be found in Cassiopeia close to…
QHY163M fine tuning side effects
Well, nothing really happened fortunately :) "Side effects" here means only one more target that I was able to picture last night, when I have been…