Canon 550D with Smart EQ

Canon 550D astrophotography - first light

Back to the basics – it has been already eight years since I shoot astroimages with modified Canon cameras: Canon 20D and sometime later Canon…


Merrill's Star and Minkowski 1-67 nebula

WR124 is a Wolf-Rayet star in the Sagitta (Arrow) constellation. It is surrounded by a nebula of expelled material known as Mi1-67 or Sh2-80. The…


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…


Stars overflow

Palomar catalogue is a set of fifteen globular clusters discovered during POSS program. Few of them are pretty obscured with Milky Way dusts, and one…


Yet another starfield

Yesterday between dusk and astronomical night I shot a few warm up frames. One of them was Messier 71 globular cluster in Sagitta constellation. It…