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Perseus constellation along with its intriguing surroundings The constellation containing many fascinating objects, many of which are hidden beneath a deep layer of stars or dust. This time, a frame that showcases this area of the sky along with its entire intriguing surroundings. Single night sess...

The sun, marked by sunspots, setting behind Śnieżka in the Karkonosze Mountains One of my most challenging daily photography trophies this year. Hopefully everything worked fine, perfect for such frames - weather, hazy sky working as perfect ND filter, time estimations, no equipment failure, SD car...

The Center of the Milky Way and its surroundings. Four days of gathering material, 12 heavily overlapping panels, 475 exposures of 120 seconds each, and the stunning southern sky over South Africa. My focus was not on saturating the H-alpha regions but rather on showcasing the "interplay of pl...

Large Magellanic Cloud June is certainly not an ideal month for capturing the LMC, but its mesmerizing vastness made me feel compelled to try. It was an intriguing object because it appeared twice each night—right after dusk, when it quickly descended towards the horizon, and before dawn, when it r...

Dusty Centaurus Treasures Maybe less colorful, but in its own way interesting. The photo shows Omega Centauri - the largest globular cluster observed in the Earth's sky, and the very distinctive galaxy Centaurus A. There are many photos that show these objects separately, but very few photos show t...

Crux and Coalsack on fire The Coalsack dark nebula and the Southern Cross against the backdrop of the Milky Way, adorned with hydrogen nebulae that belong to the so-called Coalsack Loop. It looks a bit as if someone placed this Coalsack on embers - hence probably all the dust around it. Nikon D610m...

Eta Carina, Lambda Centauri and Southern Pleiades Eta Carina's brightness, that pink color visible to the naked eye in the band of the Milky Way in the southern sky, is hypnotizing and captivating. It couldn't have been any other way - it was one of the first shots taken during the first expedition...

Vela and Red Master of Puppis A wide area of glowing hydrogen, the remnant of a supernova in the Vela constellation, stretching across (in the shown part, as there's an upper part too) the constellations Vela and Puppis. A very vast area, the image is theoretically 2x3 panels from a Samyang 135mm w...

Apus and Chameleon dancing in the South Pole's dust Experiencing the southern sky had been one of my dreams for a long time. It finally came true. It was a few wonderful and incredibly busy nights and a few fantastic days spent in full contact with nature. First up, the dusty area between the Chame...

Moon, Seven Sisters, Jupiter and Mercury Conjunction. Picture taken in South Africa's Waterberg/Limpopo region near Bela Bela in a morning of 5th June 2024. It was a great ending of a very beautiful astronomy night under the southern sky. _IPF2187.jpg Credit: Ireneusz Nowak Author Astrobin link: ht...

Another Friday Aurora... ;) Two of the panoramas taken at night from Friday to Saturday, near Wrocław/PL. Emotions were high, at times I lacked a cool head and not everything went as planned, but it was probably the most beautiful aurora I've ever seen - so different - than the Icelandic ones, but o...

Unceasing struggle of red, blue, and dust for the heart of Cygnus The Heart of the Cygnus - with the North America, Pelican, Butterfly, Propeller, Crescent, and dozens of other objects - an unending symphony of hydrogen reds blended with the blue of oxygen, delicately veiled by clouds of dust and s...

C/2022 E3 (ZTF) Comet visiting Auriga It hid under the clouds for a long time, and when it cleared up, she hid in the moonlight, finally managed to catch this one hour of the dark, cloudless sky - and is - in the beautiful company of hydrogen beauties from Auriga. The frame was taken with Samyang 13...

From Zeta to Rho Ophiuchi As the Rho Ophiuchi is a well known celebrity itself in the sky I'm most impressed with the complexity of the Zeta Ophiuchi nebula (Sh2-27) which I thought to be just a powerful field of ionized red-glowing hydrogen only, and it turned out to be an interesting festival of ...

Rho Ophiuchi Rho Ophiuchi region - in my opinion, one of the most beautiful objects in our sky - there is almost everything here, dust lit by various stars, hydrogen nebulae, and bright globular clusters. It's hard to find more beautiful object for DSLR astrophotography. The frame was taken with Sa...

Hyades Hyades - one of the largest open clusters in our sky, creating a characteristic pattern with the guest star Aldebaran. The whole thing is slightly obscured by dust clouds in Taurus, which, by scattering the light of the surrounding stars, make up a fantastic composition, big enough to become...

Trapped into Barnard's Loop Orion - is a constellation that never gets boring and it is probably the most anticipated area of the winter sky. An astrophotographer and a visual stargazer will be tempted to do so... I do not remember how many times I have stayed most of autumn stargazing night longer...

The dark dusts of Taurus subtly iluminated by stars A typical astrophotographic fall-winter classic - the California Nebula, Pleiades and countless amounts of dust on the border of the constellations of Taurus and Perseus, subtly illuminated by bright stars, with the super-bright Aldebaran just beh...

Milky Way's sisters surfing the IFN I dreamed about this frame for a long time - the two closest to us spiral galaxies - M31 and M33 in a wide field. I have already approached this frame many times, this time from the Bieszczady Mountains and finally successful - I mainly cared about this background...

MILKY IN THE DUST About 4 years ago I've incidentaly took a picture of Lyra region which drived to the verifying if the dust I got on a picture is really present there. This drove me to this mosaic which is a result of i.a 30-35h of imaging time during three years and about a year of trying to find ...

Ann wrote: ↑Wed Nov 13, 2019 5:10 am
Great picture, Ireneusz!

Ann

Thanks Ann for your comment. I'm glad you like the picture

Orion Orion - the hunter surrounded by glowing hydrogens and tons of dusts. In Summary 176 frames per 120s each, combined in 2x2 mosaic, collected with moddified Nikon D610 and Samyang 135mm. Copyright: Ireneusz Nowak http://iro.net.pl/astrophoto/orion-c.jpg WebPage: https://www.astrobin.com/users/...

Dusty Perseus and Taurus, please find my quite aggressive approach to dusty region between Taurus & Perseus. The picture was taken at the last day of August in southwestern Poland. It's a combination of 60x120s expositions taken with modded Nikon D610, Samyang 135 and aggresive processing for re...

Compilation of different moments collected during many observation nights during last 12 months.
The sky quality is quite average (as in any town crowded locations), timelapse technique is far from perfection, but I hope you can feel the ambience of night observations.