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The rage of Jupiter Copyright: Emil Ivanov http://www.emilivanov.com/Other_Images/2016_06_03_Jupiter_Lightning_3_a_m.jpg On June 3rd 2016 a strange weather came over Varna. While the sky around the zenith was clear, storm clouds hung low over the horizon. They produced a lot of beautiful lightnings...

Perseid meteor shower 2013
http://www.emilivanov.com/Other_Images/ ... rseids.htm
Copyright: Emil Ivanov, IRIDA Observatory Details and bigger size available here

C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS) at M 31
This 3 panel mosaic was taken on April 4th.

Details and hi-res image could be found here

Comet C/2011 L4 PANSTARRS From March 20th: http://www.emilivanov.com/CCD%20Images/C2011_L4_13_03_20_RGB_a.jpg The conditions were much more favorable, thus I imaged the comet in 1 x 1 binning. Nevertheless the twilight and the first quarter Moon didn’t allow again subtracting a flat frame, thus a g...

Comet C/2011 L4 PANSTARRS One from last night (March 19th): http://www.emilivanov.com/CCD%20Images/C2011_L4_13_03_19_RGB_b.jpg Interesting is the small spike barely visible at the right of the comet's nuclei. It can be seen better on the magnified crop from the stacked R-channel image: http://www.e...

Clusters and nebulae in Cassiopeia
NGC 654, NGC 663, VdB 6, LDN 1343, LDN 1344
http://www.emilivanov.com/CCD%20Images/VdB6_m.htm
Copyright: Emil Ivanov Details on the webpage, larger image here

NGC 1555 (Hind's Variable Nebula) and surroundings http://www.emilivanov.com/CCD%20Images/NGC1555_m.htm Copyright: Emil Ivanov http://www.emilivanov.com/CCD%20Images/NGC1555_LRGB_a.jpg Despite NGC 1555 is often imaged object, there are only few images showing wider FOV of this region. Initially I t...

M 50 and VdB 87 http://www.emilivanov.com/CCD%20Images/M50_VdB87_m.htm Copyright: Emil Ivanov http://www.emilivanov.com/CCD%20Images/M50_VdB87_a.jpg This is a region of the constellation Monoceros which includes the open cluster M 50 and the small reflection nebula VdB 87. Here is a magnified crop ...

IC 348 (Flying Ghost Nebula)
http://www.emilivanov.com/CCD%20Images/VdB19.htm
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M 41: open cluster in Canis Major
http://www.emilivanov.com/CCD%20Images/M41_crop.htm
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Two planetaries, one open cluster http://www.emilivanov.com/CCD%20Images/M46.htm Copyright: Emil Ivanov http://www.emilivanov.com/CCD%20Images/NGC2438_PK231_4_b.jpg This two tiny planetary nebulae appear within the borders of the open cluster M46 in constellation Puppis. In the upper right corner i...

M 34 - Open cluster in Perseus
http://www.emilivanov.com/CCD%20Images/M34.htm
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IC 1396 (wide field)
http://www.emilivanov.com/CCD%20Images/ ... mosaic.htm
Copyright: Emil Ivanov This is a two panel mosaic. Details can be found on the website, bigger size here

NGC 1491 (Sh2-206)
http://www.emilivanov.com/CCD%20Images/NGC1491.htm
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Iridescent clouds
http://www.emilivanov.com/Other_Images/ ... clouds.htm
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NGC 281 (Pacman Nebula)
http://www.emilivanov.com/CCD%20Images/NGC281_2012.htm
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NGC 1579 (The Northern Trifid)
http://www.emilivanov.com/CCD%20Images/NGC1579.html
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M 45 (The Pleiades)
http://www.emilivanov.com/CCD%20Images/M45_2.8_2012.htm
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NGC 7129 and NGC 7142
http://www.emilivanov.com/CCD%20Images/NGC7129.html
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IC5146 (Cocoon Nebula), vdB 147, B168 (LDN 1055)
http://www.emilivanov.com/CCD%20Images/ ... 8_2012.htm
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M 31
http://www.emilivanov.com/CCD%20Images/M31_2.8_2012.htm
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VdB 158 in Andromeda http://www.emilivanov.com/CCD%20Images/Vdb158.htm Copyright: Emil Ivanov http://www.emilivanov.com/CCD%20Images/VDB158_LRGB_a.jpg Bigger size available here On this image could be spotted the tiny planetary nebula PK 110-12 1 . Here is a highly magnified crop showing this nebul...

VdB 136
http://www.emilivanov.com/CCD%20Images/VdB136.html
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NGC 6357 (War and Peace Nebula)
http://www.emilivanov.com/CCD%20Images/NGC6357.html
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VdB 126 in Vulpecula
http://www.emilivanov.com/CCD%20Images/VdB126.html
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