Category: Astronomy

All photos: Lodestar Pro Mono; Starblast 114mm Autotracker; Starlight Live

The Veil nebula is the wispy remnant of a supernova that exploded somewhere between 10 and 20 thousand years ago. It...

This week’s photos in order: NGC 6781, an almost perfectly spherical planetary nebula; Barnard 143, a dark nebula that, together with...

Two classic planetary nebulae today – Messier 57, the Ring Nebula, with its central star visible, and Messier 27, the Dumbbell...

The open cluster Messier 11 and the globular cluster NGC 6760 are two nice clusters in Scutum and Aquila respectively:

Photo of a portion of Messier 24, the Small Sagittarius Star Cloud, a star-rich portion of one of the arms of...

Messier 8, commonly known as the Lagoon nebula, is a star-forming region in the constellation Sagittarius that is bright enough to...

Messier 17, also known as the Swan or Omega nebula, is a cloud of ionized gas in the constellation Sagittarius.