V1331 Cygni

Today some geek stuff. Some time ago I framed a sky fragment that contains several small bright and dark galactic fuzzies. Later I found out in the…


Monochromatic way of imaging

Narrowband imaging is a nice way to fight light pollution. Event under suburban sky it is possible to achieve decent outcome. Here are two narrowband…


Great Bear's fleece

I meant to picture IFN (Integrated Flux Nebula) with Great Bear's galaxies, but eventually I pictured galaxies with traces of IFN :) Dark sky in…


Orion the Hunter

Probably many of you heard and saw Orion Nebula - there is not much to add in this area actually. I also wanted to have it pictured, but last year…


Floating in the hydrogen sea II

About a month ago I wrote a blog entry with NGC6914 nebula floating in the hydrogen see - Floating in the hydrogen sea . And I just wanted to make…


Eleven hours with Little Fox

Vulpecula is latin name for Little Fox constellation. It is little and contains no bright stars. It is placed nearby Swan constellation in the pretty…


Bubble friends

In the border of Cepheus and Cassiopeia constellations some interesting objects can be found. The most famous is probably Bubble Nebula (NGC7635 aka…


Floating in the hydrogen sea

As already mentioned in the previous entry Swan nebulaes strikes back most nebulas are emission or reflection. Large, red hydrogen clouds are the…


Swan nebulaes strikes back

Cygnus (The Swan) constellation is filled with hydrogen clouds that are ionized and radiate massively in red light (656nm that is hydrogen alpha…


Scorched astrojuly expositions

Literally. I got rid of my cooled camera Atik 314 (small chip size) and got regular Canon 450D that is not cooled, so its matrix gets hot during…