Starship Asterisk*

van den Bergh 14 and 15 are a pair of reflection nebula located in Camelopardalis, close to Sh2-202 (which is edging into the right hand side of the frame). vdB 15 (to the south) has an interesting pinkish/yellow component to it - it provides a real challenge in getting both the colour and saturatio...

M44 - The Beehive Cluster Imaged on 2/3/4 Feb 2020 from EEYE in Extremadura, Spain. A beautiful open cluster and one of the closest to Earth, it has an apparent size approximately 3 times that of the full moon and is just visible as a faint haze to the naked eye. Details and full size image can be ...

Great picture, coatesg! Is the galaxy the small gray diffuse smear at far right? Thanks :) Yes, well spotted - it's PGC168300 glowing at mag(B) 16.2. The whole area is quite low on the number of catalogued background galaxies - maybe not surprising as we're viewing through the disc of the Milky Way.

h and chi Persei - The Double Cluster The Double Cluster (comprising NGC 869 and NGC 884) is a beautiful pairing in the constellation in Perseus, located only a few hundred light years apart. The clusters have a combined visual magnitude of 3.7 and 3.8 and are visible to the naked eye as a fuzzy pat...

LBN534 and VdB158 in Andromeda LBN534 (Gal 110-13) is a large, faint dust cloud, extending for about 1.5 degrees across northern Andromeda. It looks like a large cosmic tick in this orientation. LBN534 contains the blue reflection nebula VdB 158 , illuminated by HD222142, which is located towards t...

It is a well-known fact that the striking Coathanger itself is not a real cluster but an unrelated asterism of stars at widely different distances from us. But in your picture there is a "line" of stars "above" the Coathanger, seemingly divided into two groups, that seem to be e...

Eagle and Swan in Hydrogen Alpha
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Eagle and Swan in H-Alpha by Graeme Coates, on Flickr

Dark clouds over a Coathanger
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Collinder 399 (The Coathanger/Brocchi's Cluster/Al Sufi's Cluster), VdB 126 and surrounds by Graeme Coates, on Flickr