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 -…
Rosette emission
NGC2244 Rosette emission nebula is extreme, it is actually a complex that consists of hot, young stars (about 2500 of them are there), molecular…
High clouds Barnard 174
This is Barnard 174 (lower right) and Barnard 173 (top and little right from the center) dark nebulae. Small dark blob in the upper right corner next…
Auriga blobs
A few days ago forecast was very kind - starting from midnight there will be clear sky - it said. Well, not this time. Clouds slowly broke up around…
Cepheus star nursery
NGC7822 is star-gas-dust cloud in Cepheus constellation. As you probably already know these are perfect conditions for star forming, and that is also…
Hydrogen Phantom Mask
This one is HII molecular hydrogen cloud in Perseus arm of our Galaxy. It's Sharpless number is Sh2-173, and can be found in Cassiopeia close to…
QHY163M fine tuning side effects
Well, nothing really happened fortunately :) "Side effects" here means only one more target that I was able to picture last night, when I have been…
Minkowski double
In the frame below big blue blob is epsilon Cephei star. It is variable of type Delta Scuti, varies between 4.15 and 4.21mag with period of 59…
Cave in the sky
Cepheus attacks again - this time with the Cave nebula (aka Sh2-155 or Caldwell 9). It is beautiful object in LRGB, but requires dark sky for this…
Codename Sh2-124
Not much can be said or read about Sh2-124 molecular hydrogen cloud in the north-east Cygnus frontiers. It is pretty large emission nebula, but not…
Enchanting hydrogen
Today's gem nickname is Wizard, due to its shape that resembles medieval magician. The official Wizard nebula symbol is Sh2-142 at Sharpless…
