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…


Messier double three

It is already my third attempt to M33 spiral galaxy in Triangulum :) I really do not feel comfortable with processing of this magnificent target, I…


Messier 35

Almost two years ago I made some wide field pictures, and caught in the same time Messier 35 open cluster. This time M35 and its tiny neighbour…


WeBo1 and Mel15

Do you remember december molecular trophies? There were hydrogen alpha only band of Melotte 15 open cluster in the middle of the Heart nebula…


V0799 Aur photometry

Last night again I pointed telescope to a variable star for 120 minutes. This time it was V0799 Aur variable (…


Barnard 150

Barnard 150 - Dark SeaHorse

Barnard 150 Dark SeaHorse is kind of lost nebula - I collected photons to this frame in September, 2016, then processed them, and forgot to blog it…


Crazy Egeria

Last night I spent on (13) Egeria asteroid photometry. It is large and irregular object that rotates with period of 7.045 hours, so during winter…


December molecular trophies

Over December I collected some significant amount of photons - mainly narrowband ones. Now I need to process them somehow to create pretty pictures,…


Crab in the mist - update

Two days ago day after wet day it came pretty clean evening. However it quickly changed to ubiquitous myst. That plus crescent Moon made very poor…


Perseus in California

Well, actually it is vice versa - California nebula in Perseus constellation. It is large emission nebula, it spans almost 2.5 degree long over the…


Rosette one more time

I pictured NGC2244 Rosette nebula almost three years ago. It was 6" newtonian then and CCD camera. A few days ago again it came to my field of view -…