Cygnus Wall fragment HORGB

Cygnus Wall and Lagoon in color

Not so long time ago two entries preseting monochromatic hydrogen alpha images appeared at my blog. These were Cygnus Wall in NGC7000 and Lagoon and…


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…


IC1396, Elephant Trunk and Garnet Star

This one is another holiday wide field capture. IC1396 Elephant Trunk nebula was the same kind of problem for me as California nebula - it never fit…


NGC1499 California

Dust in California NGC1499

NGC1499 California emission nebula is so (apparently) large, that it did not fit to any field of view of my "large" imaging setups. So I decided to…


21P Giacobini Zinner

Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner

Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner has been discovered in 1900 by Michael Giacobini for the first time. Its another approach has been missed, and in 1913 it…


Barnards 8-13 at the border

This is not quite often imaged area of the sky. It lies at the border of Perseus and Camelopardalis (Giraffe) constellations. This place is mostly…


Black Lizard Nebula

Black Lizard is a nickname for Barnard 138 dark nebula in the star rich area in constellation Aquila (Eagle). Actually this is not very well defined…


From Sadr Till Tulip (IOTD)

My next holiday target was pretty classical - Cygnus constellation (Swan) narrowband widefield, that in the late summer rises high up to the zenith…


Barnards on sale

There are few hundreds items in the Barnard catalog of dark nebulae. And significant amount of it is placed between Aquila (Eagle) head and Scutum…


Veil loop

Veil nebula in Cygnus like many other sky gems has been discovered by William Herschel. He described its western part as "Extended; passes thro' 52…


NGC7000 wide field rich field

A few nights ago clouds went out somewhere for some time, and despite of almost full Moon I decided to catch some light. I quickly placed wide field…


Supergiant star in Cygnus Heart

Nights in July are short, and long time deep sky exposures must be split into several days to achieve decent result with many-hours images. However…