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M74 Phantom Galaxy
M74 galaxy is located in constellation of Pisces. Distance to this grand design spiral galaxy has been determined to 32 million light years. The number of stars in M74 is estimated to 100 billion. M74... 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
NGC7086 open cluster in Cygnus
Despite the fact, that NGC7086 is an open cluster in frequently visited and popular part in the sky, it is not often imaged. NGC7086 lies about 4,200 light years away, and was discovered by William He... Read More
NGC4762 and 4754 lenticular galaxies
This galaxy pair is actually non-interacting, visual pair placed approximately 55 million light years away. NGC4762 (left) is edge-on galaxy. Was considered to be a barred spiral galaxy before. Galaxy... Read More
Pillars in M16 Eagle Nebula
It is maybe worth to mention at the beginning, that M16 Eagle nebula was discovered neither by Messier nor by Herschel (as usual 🙂 ), but by Jean-Philippe de Chéseaux in 1745 or 1746. This region ... Read More
One more Needle
I have imaged NGC4565 already here and here, but on last Zatom astroparty I took a look onto this galaxy and could not resist to picture is again with 10″ telescope. Needle Galaxy is a kind of m... Read More
The Ring – M57
Messier 57 is a planetary nebula with all the consequences. It was formed about 7,000 years ago, when a dying red giant star expelled its shell of ionized gas to form the nebula. And this star then be... Read More