12.41 billion years away
It has been already over four years since I started to "hunt" for distant worlds (usually it is quasar) at my images. The area around M101 galaxy…
Deep sky colors
I have been asked several times if the colors presented at astroimages are natural, or they are just an effect of processing and author imagination.…
M31 and Mayall II
M31 galaxy in Andromeda is both very large and also close to us. It makes it a hard fit into field of view of medium and large scale setups. That's…
NGC4565 Needle Galaxy
I already made an attempt to NGC4565 Needle Galaxy here with 6" newtonian and Atik314L+ camera, and it was long time ago. It is magnificent object,…
M106 after four years
It's been already four years when I imaged M106 galaxy for the first time, however not much changed in this area. Then it was made with 6 inches…
Hamburger mono
Few days ago starry night caught me unprepared. Out of nowhere stars appeared in the sky, and weather forecast said it would be for about three…
Messier double three
It is already my third attempt to M33 spiral galaxy in Triangulum :) I really do not feel comfortable with processing of this magnificent target, I…
Boring elliptical
There is not much fun in seeing elliptical galaxies. Mostly they are symmetrical fuzzy blobs with no detail at all. Sometimes in the same field of…
Needle galaxies
There are a whole lot of galaxies in Virgo, and among them there are nice although small spiral one - NGC5364. This one and its neighbours I have…
Mixed location Whirlpool
160 minutes of luminance made in Zatom. 120 minutes of RGB made in Nieborowice. Some time for processing, and here it is - M51 - Whirlpool galaxy.…
Whale plays hockey again...
It's already been three years when I pictured the same galaxies with Atik314 camera Whale plays hockey . Now a little larger sensor, a little bit…
Butterfly drama in Zatom
Here is 4h of LRGB frames I have made in Zatom at spring Star Party. Unfortunately I had tilted focuser when exposing G and B channels and it was…