The Ursa Minor Dwarf Galaxy is a faint dwarf galaxy in the constellation Ursa Minor, lying roughly 326,000 light-years away, and reaches its annual culmination at astronomical midnight and is best observed early May.
Category: Galaxy
My second attempt at the same object in May 2026. This time at a focal length of just 590 mm.
Ursa Minor Dwarf Galaxy in the 1800mm version, photographed with the Vixen VC200L.
Across 5 sessions during an unusually long stretch of good weather, the new cooled system (UHC filter plus first light of the ultra-narrowband H-alpha filter) produced my deepest and highest-quality image of Messier 101 to date.
On the edge of the final adjustments to my camera, this image was created.
StellaVita and SkyEye24AC First Light/Night part 2.
First light for my Touptek SkyEye24AC and initial functionality test of the Touptek StellaVita.
The Hidden Galaxy is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Camelopardalis, lying about 13.4 million light-years away, and reaches its annual culmination at astronomical midnight and is best observed mid November.
The last color astrophotograph taken with my Canon EOS R?
C 3 is a galaxy located in the constellation Draco at a distance of 14.4 million light-years, reaches its annual culmination at astronomical midnight and is best observed late March.