Starship Asterisk*

NGC 2841 - Massive nearby spiral galaxy toward the constellation of Ursa Major. Copyright: Velimir Popov, Emil Ivanov With a diameter of about 150 000 light-years, NGC 2841 is larger than our own Milky Way galaxy. NGC 2841lies about 46 million light-years away and the disk of the galaxy shows no ev...

NGC 891: an edge-on unbarred spiral galaxy in Andromeda Copyright: Velimir Popov, Emil Ivanov The galaxy NGC 891 is a nearby analog to the MilkyWay in terms of luminosity, color, and morphology with an apparent diameter of 40 kpc, and a rotation velocity of about 210 kms−1 (Oosterloo et al. 2007). ...

Great conjunction Jupiter - Saturn on December 21st 2020
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Comet C/2020M3 (ATLAS) on 9.12.2020 between IC 405 and IC 410
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Two comets encounter
Comet C/2017T2 (PANSTARRS) in the tail of C/2020F3 (NEOWISE)
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Open cluter, globular cluster and comet Comet C/2020F3 (NEOWISE) on 6.08.2020 between the globular cluster M 53 and open cluster NGC 5053 Copyright: Velimir Popov, Emil Ivanov Irida Observatory http://irida-observatory.org/CCD/C2020F3_20.08.06/C2020F3_20.08.06_1800.jpg More info and hi-res images o...

Comet C/2020F3 (NEOWISE)
on 12.07.2020
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A Cosmic Geyser
Comet C/2020F3 (NEOWISE) rising on July 11th. 2020
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Comet C/2020F3 (NEOWISE)
11.07.2020
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Comet C/2020F3 (NEOWISE)
July 10th. 2020
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Comet C/2020F3 (NEOWISE) rising
July 9th. 2020
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Comet C/2020F3 (NEOWISE) starts showing an ion tail
July 9th. 2020
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Comet C/2020F3 (NEOWISE)
on July 8th. 2020
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Comet C/2020F3 (NEOWISE)
on July 8th. 2020
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Comet C/2020F3 (NEOWISE)
on July 8th. 2020
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Supernova SN 2020jfo in a weakly-barred spiral galaxy NGC 4303 (M61) Copyright: Velimir Popov, Emil Ivanov The supernova SN 2020jfo was discovered by The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF; Bellm et al. 2019; Graham et al. 2019) in a weakly-barred spiral galaxy NGC 4303 (M61) on 6-th of May 2020. ZTF r...

Comet C/2017 T2 (PANSTARRS) on 23.05.2020 near M 82 and M81

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NGC 7510 (Little Jewel Box) - an open cluster towards constellation Cepheus Only 36 min exposure time in RGB Copyright: Velimir Popov, Emil Ivanov Little Jewel Box NGC 7510 is an open cluster, pretty rich, pretty compressed, with pretty bright stars. In IRIDA Observatory we decided to name it Littl...

М1 - Crab Nebula (NGC 1952, SN 1054) in Taurus 17 hours exposure time in Ha-OIII-SII-L-R-G-B Copyright: Velimir Popov, Emil Ivanov The Crab Nebula, Messier 1 (M1, NGC 1952, SN 1054), is the most famous and conspicuous known supernova remnant, the expanding cloud of gas created in the explosion of a...

NGC 4382 (also known as Messier 85, M85, UGC 07508, PGC 40515), NGC 4394, IC 3292 in the Coma Berenices 12 hours exposure time to reveal the shell structure of the galaxy Copyright: Velimir Popov, Emil Ivanov NGC 4382 (M85) is a S0 galaxy with an interacting companion NGC 4394, which together with ...

The Great Nebula in Orion: M42 (NGC 1976, LBN 974, Messier 42) and M43 (NGC 1982, Messier 43, de Mairan's Nebula) Copyright: [url=mailto://info@irida-observatory.org] Velimir Popov, Emil Ivanov [/url] Detailed view of the central part of The Great Nebula in Orion one of the most imaged celestial ob...

Further fragmentation of Comet C2019 Y4 (ATLAS) on April 12th 2020 at 22:00 UT Copyright: Milen Minev (Bulgarian Institute of Astronomy and NAO Rozhen), Velimir Popov, Emil Ivanov (Irida Observatory) http://www.irida-observatory.org/CCD/C2019Y4_2020.04.13/C2019Y4_20.04.13_1100px.jpg For detailed in...

Fragmentation of Comet C2019 Y4 (ATLAS) on April 10th 2020 at 1:00 UT Copyright: Milen Minev (Bulgarian Institute of Astronomy and NAO Rozhen), Velimir Popov, Emil Ivanov (Irida Observatory) http://irida-observatory.org/CCD/C2019Y4_2020.04.11/C2019Y4_20.04.11_1100px.jpg This image is obtained by co...

Comet C/2017 T2 (PanSTARRS) near the double cluster in Perseus Proper motion between Jan 20th and Jan 30th 2020 Copyright: Velimir Popov, Emil Ivanov @ Irida Observatory http://www.irida-observatory.org/CCD/C2017T2_2020.01.20-30_mosaic/C2017T2_20.01.20-30_1100px_annot.jpg More info and hi-res image...

Sunset with transiting Mercury
Copyright: Velimir Popov, Emil Ivanov Irida Observatory Varna, Bulgaria, November 11th at 15:42 UT
Canon 70D camera, 300 mm Canon lens @ F/25, x2 teleextender, exp. 1/4000 sec, ISO-200