Cassiopeia and Cepheus widefield

Cassiopeia and Cepheus

As you may already know Cassiopeia was a queen of Aethiopia and wife of king Cepheus. These mythological characters were put together also in the…


M8 and M20 nebulae close up

Lagoon and Trifid in hydrogen sea

We can find these two clouds of interstellar matter in probably the most prominent area of Milky Way in the constellation of Sagittarius. Under dark…


M57 - The Ring AD2019

If you are interested in more details about Messier 57 The Ring nebula, you can look for some earlier entries about it. It is one of the objects I…


Messier 51 Whirlpool AD2019

I have already imaged M51 galaxy several times. I think it is actually my most often imaged galaxy (though it may be M82 as well :) ) But it is no…


Distant clusters around M82

M82 Cigar Galaxy is well object known to astronomy amateurs. If you are visual observer, then you most probably have already seen it. If you are…


M85 and NGC4394

M85 and NGC4394 galaxies are a nice pair, apparently close to each other, but quite far away in real. Messier 85 (larger, to the right) is a…


IC1795 Fish Head

This year January was a really cloudy time. That's why I was even more surprised by sudden clear night that occurred on January, 19th. Conditions…


1304 Arosa photometry

1304 Arosa asteroid is yet another main belt object that orbits the Sun in 5 years and 9 months. Arosa diameter is estimated to 40km, and it is…


NGC281 Pacman explored

I already captured this well known nebula over four years ago. This time I wanted to go a little bit deeper to interesting interior of NGC281 Pacman…


M74 Phantom Galaxy

M74 Phantom galaxy is located in constellation of Pisces. Distance to this grand design spiral galaxy is 32 million light years. There are about 100…


IC4954 and Roslund 4

There are many places in the space where new stars are born. Reflection nebulae IC4954 (near center) and 4955 (lower left) is one of them. These…


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…