Sometimes you decide to make an image of a region of the sky and it just comes out exactly as you had hoped for. This was one of these moments for me. I decided a while back to image the Gamma Cygni Nebula around the star Sadr in the constellation of Cygnus. I knew …
This image shows Lynds Dark Nebula 1251 in the constellation of Cepheus. The image was taken from my holiday location in Steinborn-Daun in Germany. We were planning to leave home on Sunday, but the forecast for that night was so good that we decided to stay one night longer, as it was also almost …
This colorful skyscape features the dusty, reddish glow of Sharpless catalog emission region Sh2-155, the Cave Nebula. About 2,400 light-years away, the scene lies along the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy toward the royal northern constellation of Cepheus. Astronomical explorations of the region reveal that it has formed at the boundary of the massive …
This is a continuation of a project I started about 2,5 years ago when I worked on a mosaic of Messier 106, made using images of the Hubble Space Telescope. In 2015 I found some new data sources on the internet, including some huge telescope databases with data from professional telescopes. That’s when I decided …
This image shows one of the toughest objects I have ever imaged. This is PuWe (Purgathofer-Weinberger) 1 (also known as PGN 158.9+17.8), a very weak planetary nebula in the constellation of lynx. The nebula was discovered in 1980 (original discovery paper: http://goo.gl/fW6TQB) by Purgathofer and Weinberger on the Palomar Deep Sky Survey prints. The nebula …
This image is a continuation of an image I made in 2014 of the M81/82 galaxy group. I made the images and found signals of integrated flux nebula surrounding the galaxies. Soon after that I got in touch with Neil Fleming who had a splendid image of the IFN in this region on his website …
Stars are forming in the Soul of the Queen of Aethopia. More specifically, a large star forming region called the Soul Nebula can be found in the direction of the constellation Cassiopeia, who Greek mythology credits as the vain wife of a King who long ago ruled lands surrounding the upper Nile river. The …
A few months ago I was crawling through the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) data and found this very nice dataset of the Draco Triplet. I decided to download it for later use. Now I processed the data and this is the result of the processing. As far as I know this is the image of the …
Two weeks ago I was imaging the Milky Way in Austria. When processing I found something unique (I think). In four of the images a meteor strike with after that an expanding plasma cloud was clearly visible: After combining the first two images I noticed also a possible breakup event that released a blue plasma …
Recently I enjoyed my holidays in Vandans, Austria. Just before this holiday I could pick up a Nikon D810a from Nikon HQ to try it out for 3 weeks. Of course I don’t say no to that. This is a brand new camera that was handpicked and calibrated manually by Nikon (a so-called QC model). …