Sharpless 188 is an unusual planetary nebula located in the constellation Cassiopeia, about 850 light-years from Earth; it reaches its annual culmination at astronomical midnight and is best observed in mid October.
Category: Astrophoto
A single, crystal-clear evening. I felt like taking out my VC200L with the reducer and capturing another Caldwell object that was still missing from my collection.
Caldwell 28, also known as NGC 752 and Melotte 12, is an open star cluster located in the constellation Andromeda, about 1,500 light-years away; it reaches its annual culmination at astronomical midnight and is best observed in late October.
Another comet for my collection. Once again it was a very close call – I had almost given up hope of getting a photo of it.
Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon is a bright, long-period comet discovered on January 3, 2025, that will reach its closest point to the Sun (perihelion) on November 8, 2025, making it a promising and accessible target for astrophotographers due to its potential naked-eye visibility and photogenic tail structure.
The “supermoon” in November 2025 — captured at the end of a rather late comet session.
Sh2-147, Sh2-148 and Sh2-149 compact H II patches in Cepheus roughly 4,500 light-years away. Sh2-152 and Sh2-153: Two adjacent H II regions in Cassiopeia about 4,500 light-years away. Those are best observable in September.
The Andromeda Galaxy as an intermediate project. I still had 5 hours of luminance data from September, which I combined with the RGB data from 2021. Thanks to my current workflow, it looks really good.
NGC 7082 is a moderately bright open star cluster located in the constellation Cygnus at a distance of about 4,700 light-years from Earth. This cluster reaches its annual culmination at astronomical midnight and is best observed in mid August.
NGC 7062 is a compact open star cluster in the constellation Cygnus, located about 4,800 light-years away, reaches its annual culmination at astronomical midnight and is best observed in mid August in the Northern Hemisphere, when Cygnus is high in the sky.