Red Lion

Lion As faint as Lion has gained some color. It is only 3x40 minutes of each RGB channels added, and hydrogen light colored with red. No…


M29 - so obscured

Messier 29 is yet another open star cluster in the Cyngus constellation. Its stars belongs to the Cygnus OB1 association. Five brighters stars of…


Barnard in red

Edward Emerson Barnard was an American astronomer. Among many astronomy activities he was also pioneering astrophotographer. He cataloged a series of…


Sharpless 112

In astrophotography noone cares about sharpless pictures. However one of the astronomy catalogs is called Sharpless - it was published by the US…


Red jelly

IC443 nebula is also known as Jellyfish Nebula. It is supernova remnant (SNR) in the constellation Gemini placed about 5000 light years away. The…


Elephant in red

Elephant's Trunk nebula is a part of IC1396 complex that contains both open star cluster and surrounding nebulosity. All this goods can be found in…


Autumn is coming

And northern autumn constellations as well - Cygnus is the one quite well known. I already presented a few pictures positioned in this constellation,…


Rosette stars - blue is hot

Not so long time ago Saint Valentine's Rosette appeared in my blog. A few days later I pictured a little bit of RGB light to this frame, so it is now…


Autumn tulips

Sharpless Sh2-101 or Cygnus Star Cloud are the alternative names for the nebula presented here today. Although it is much better known under the name…


Bloody sky

Not so long time ago I presented Crescent Nebula in hydrogen alpha emission line. The picture was black and white, but in fact the color that…