Rosette emission

NGC2244 Rosette emission nebula is extreme, it is actually a complex that consists of hot, young stars (about 2500 of them are there), molecular…


High clouds Barnard 174

This is Barnard 174 (lower right) and Barnard 173 (top and little right from the center) dark nebulae. Small dark blob in the upper right corner next…


Messier in the Arrow

Is there any Messier object in the Sagitta constellation? Maybe not everyone can tell immediately, but there is. Placed at the Milky Way stars there…


Auriga blobs

A few days ago forecast was very kind - starting from midnight there will be clear sky - it said. Well, not this time. Clouds slowly broke up around…


QHY163M fine tuning side effects

Well, nothing really happened fortunately :)  "Side effects" here means only one more target that I was able to picture last night, when I have been…


QHY163M fine tuning with haze

Yesterday out of nowhere some stars stroke me after cloudy day. But the joy was short-lived, soon humidity reached 99% and some haze came out.…


QHY163M camera with medium size CMOS sensor

QHY163M first light, first impressions

Camera and wheel unpacking A few days ago I have received one of the first QHY163M cameras for test and review. This is the…


QHY163M a few more pictures

Weather is far from being perfect, so I am not really able to shot any pretty pictures with new camera. Plus I had a little miscollimated refractor…