Forsaken clusters

NGC2394 and NGC2355 - these two open clusters are not very impressive. But they have their own stories. First one is not proved to be cluster at…


M1 Crab HORGB crop

M1 Crab nebula - born in 1054

M1 Crab nebula - first item in the Charles Messier catalogue. Messier was a comet hunter who created catalogue of fuzzy objects in the sky, so they…


Winter open clusters

NGC1662 and NGC2420 are two open clusters of stars. Both are present on the winter sky, and both are not very popular targets - neither visual, nor…


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…


Owl

Nope, no M97 this time. Its NGC457 star open cluster in Cassiopeia. Plus NGC436 little sister. Both are relatively young clusters - first one is…


Caroline's Rose

This open cluster has been called after the Caroline Herschel. It is also known as The White Rose or Caroline's Haystack (according to…


The Hole in the Cluster

There is some open star clusters in Cygnus.Joke!There is whole lot of open clusters in Cygnus! NGC6811 is one of them, pretty large, pretty old (1…


Messier 48 lost-and-found

Messier 48 is a star open cluster in the constellation of Hydra. It spans over almost one degree in the sky and contains about 80 stars placed about…


Kite in the sky

NGC1664 Kite is a star open cluster you can find in Auriga constellation. This one is about 3700 light years away and apparently it is visible in the…


Classical way of imaging

Around last year Xmas I put here a blog entry with HaRGB picture of Soul Nebula. Here it is the same frame with only RGB channels - no additional…


Medusa in stars

Abell 21 - that's how Medusa Nebula is named in the planetary nebulae catalog created by George O. Abell. It is quite old nebula, already pretty…