Forsaken clusters

NGC2394 and NGC2355 - these two open clusters are not very impressive. But they have their own stories. First one is not proved to be cluster at…


Messier 103

Messier 103

Messier 103 open cluster has been discovered by Pierre Mechain in 1781. Pierre was Charles Messier's friend and collaborator, and Charles had no…


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…


The Fox Head

NGC6819 Fox Head is a remote star open cluster in Cygnus constellation, nearby Lyra. This one is about 7200 light years away and contains not so…


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…


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…


Dark side of Coathanger

I planned to picture Collinder 399 (nickname Coathanger, or Brocchi's Cluster) for a pretty long time, but my "large" imaging setups had too small…


Barnards more and less obscured

Barnard 352 (larger) and 353 (smaller and less dense) are two dust clouds in the Cygnus constellation. Framed region is at the northern part of well…