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…
Californietto
There is plenty of interesting areas between Cassiopeia and Cepheus. Frame pictured below can be found next to famous Bubble nebula. This area…
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…
E.E. Barnard meets Beverly Lynds
Another piece of Milky Way stars and dusts. There are several non-stellar objects in the picture below. Barnard 361 is main dark nebula in the frame…
LBN vs LDN
One letter makes difference :) LBN stands for Lynds' Catalogue of Bright Nebulae, and LDN is Lynds' Catalogue of Dark Nebulae. Both have been…
V1331 Cygni
Today some geek stuff. Some time ago I framed a sky fragment that contains several small bright and dark galactic fuzzies. Later I found out in the…
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…
Boring elliptical
There is not much fun in seeing elliptical galaxies. Mostly they are symmetrical fuzzy blobs with no detail at all. Sometimes in the same field of…
Needle galaxies
There are a whole lot of galaxies in Virgo, and among them there are nice although small spiral one - NGC5364. This one and its neighbours I have…