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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 planetary nebula in Cassiopeia
KjPn8 is not well known planetary nebula in Cassiopeia, though probably many of astroimages contain this object, because it is quite close to famous NGC7635 Bubble nebula and M52 open cluster (I alrea... Read More
Dumbbell M27 – deeper look (IOTD)
M27 Dumbbell (aka Apple Core Nebula) was the first planetary nebula to be discovered (in 1764 by Charles Messier). From his notes he reports: I have worked on the research of the nebulae, and I have d... Read More
NGC4762 and 4754 lenticular galaxies
NGC4762 and NGC4754 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... 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 NGC4565 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
Active M106 galaxy
Messier 106 is intermediate spiral galaxy in Canes Venatici. It was discovered by Pierre Mechain in 1791 and is located about 22 million light years from Earth. M106 is quite bright galaxy available f... Read More