M5 in snake's head
Globular clusters are more less all the same - bunch of a few hundreds thousands stars packed in a sphere of 50-150 light years diameter, so pretty…
Messier 46 and two bubbles
Messier 46 is an open cluster in Puppis constellation. It is pretty low above horizon at my location, so I needed to wait for convenient moment to…
To CMOS or not to CMOS
CMOS sensor based astronomy cameras are becoming more and more popular among astrophotography amateurs. What differs CMOS from CCD? Is this really…
Needle mono
It's been already over a month since I have collected photons to the picture below. It is 120 minutes of luminance only of pretty well known Needle…
Messier 48 in Hydra
Imaging targets below celestial equator is kind-of problem at my backyard. Down to declination -10 it is fairly easy, but below -10 I have many…
Samyang with two cameras at Auriga
A few days after I collected wide field H alpha frames I pointed QHY163 color camera to the same target and then merged both color and hydrogen alpha…
Samyang 135 talks to QHY163
Last days I have been preparing my wide field astroimaging setup. There have been some changes in conception and eventually I decided to give up on…
Jones-Emberson 1
This image subject is faint planetary nebula in the constellation Lynx - Jones-Emberson 1. Its total apparent magnitude is 14mag, but due to large…
Flaming Star
IC405 Flaming Star is beautiful emission-reflection nebula in constellation of Auriga. It is placed in rich area od Milky Way about 1500 light years…
Double youngsters
Double open cluster in Perseus is an object I like to get back. It is well known northern sky gem, visible with naked eye and in all sorts of…
Hamburger mono
Few days ago starry night caught me unprepared. Out of nowhere stars appeared in the sky, and weather forecast said it would be for about three…
Tadpoles in IC410
Tadpoles are twisted trails of interstellar matter in the IC410 hydrogen cloud. In the same moment these are must have in every astrophotographer…