IC 239 is a low surface brightness spiral that is considered part of the NGC 1023 group. NGC 1023 is Arp 135 and is located about 45 minutes of arc east of IC...

Barnard 23 is a dark nebula in northern Taurus. I find very little on it. It is listed as being opacity 5 in which 6 is the most opaque. Not in a dense...

NGC 7042 and 7043 are a pair of spiral galaxies in southwest Pegasus just above Equuleus and east of Delphinus about 220 million light-years distant. Both are...

NGC 337 is a strange looking, possibly barred, spiral located in Cetus 60 to 70 million light-years distant. I measure its size at about 50,000 light-years. ...

HCG 23 contains 5 galaxies and is located in northwestern Eridanus. Unfortunately it is quite low in my sky. In the fall warm water and cold air above...

NGC 1807 is a star group just west of much larger NGC 1817 in southern Taurus just above Orion. It was first noted by John Herschel on January 25, 1832. It...

NGC 7593 is an asymmetrical spiral in Pegasus below the Great Square. It also appears sloshed though I don't find a likely cause. The core is well west of...

I keep having to repost this as the Space Banter keeps removing it but never tells me they are or why. It's no different than my other posts yet keeps being...

NGC 7132 is a somewhat disturbed appearing spiral about 50 minutes of arc northeast of Enif, the nose of Pegasus. Redshift puts it 360 million light-years...

NGC 7261 is an open cluster in southern Cepheus located about 5500 light-years away according to WEBDA. They place its age at only 47 million years making it...

NGC 129 is an open cluster in Cassiopeia about 5300 light-years distant. Distances to open clusters are often hard to come by. Not for this cluster. The...

The planetary nebula Abell 69 is a very faint planetary in Cygnus about 60% of the way from NGC 6888 (the Crescent Nebula) and M29 so embedded in weak...

Due to high clouds and a near full moon lighting them up something awful I was unable to catch this piece of a comet at closest approach, about 2.2 million...

NGC 7282 is a low surface brightness galaxy in southern Lacerta about 190 million light-years from us by redshift and 180 million light-years by the median of...

The WBL685 galaxy group is one name for some of these galaxies. Another is the USGC U820 galaxy group or the PPS2 004 galaxy group or the CGCG 514-081 galaxy...

scNGC 799 (top) and NGC 800 are two probably interacting galaxies in north central Cetus about 260,000 light-years distant by red_shift. The pair are just...

Repost after SpaceBanter lost the original Berkeley 29 is considered the most distant known open cluster residing nearly 72,000 light-years from our galaxy's...

Repost after the original was lost by SpaceBanter I break my usual rule of not retaking an object when changes are happening, thus I try to revisit variable...