The Tower of Babel that is the many catalog names for the same object got me again. Seems I entered this object on my to-do list twice, once under Gum 85...

NGC 3294 is a nice galaxy in Leo Minor. It has a decent surface brightness, so it is a viable target for city skies. I imaged it in two nights (5th and 6th of...

In his catalog van den Berg lists the surface brightness as very bright, bright, moderate, faint and very faint. #148 is listed as faint. It is listed as...

SH2-88/LBN 139 is a small nebula in Vulpecula about 2.4 kpc (7,800 light-years) distant. It contains at least three separate star forming regions in its...

VdB 111 is a reflection nebula in Ophiuchus around the star HD 156697. According to The Sky 6 the star is a rather white F0III-IV star. As the variable...

Palomar 8 is a dim globular in Sagittarius almost 42,000 light years distant and 18,000 light-years from the center of the galaxy. That means we have to...

vdB 155/LBN 524 is a reflection nebula in Cepheus just southwest of the far more famous Cave Nebula. Otto Struve,...

NGC 7086 is an open cluster in Cygnus. It was discovered by William Herschel in 1788. WEBDA gives its age as about 140 million years and puts it 4200...

NGC 6239 is a very disturbed spiral in Hercules. Redshift puts it about 42 million light-years distant but other measurements place it much further away...

We had some clear nights at the beginning of March, at last a chance to really plan an imaging run over more than one night. In the first night (1st of March)...

The planetary nebula NGC 6058 in Hercules was discovered by William Herschel on March 18, 1787. At 13th magnitude it isn't an easy object visually in my 10"...

After seeing these on the net I decided in my rush I'd pushed things a bit too much to pick up the plumes. This version may be better. Rick M65 is part of...

NGC 6871 is a very large young cluster in Cygnus about 5000 light-years distant. WEBDA gives its age as about 9 million years. I moved the cluster to the...

LDN 810 is a dark nebula in Vulpecula right on the border with Cygnus which is in the upper right of my image. Note the obscuring dust cloud continues north...

IC 4996 is a small tight open cluster in Cygnus about 5600 light years away. WEBDA puts its age at only 9 million years. So young a couple of its stars...

M65 is part of Arp 317 which also includes NGC 3628 and M 66. I imaged them individually several years ago. On March 21 a type II supernova blew in Arp 65. ...

NGC 6633 is an open cluster in Ophiuchus. WEBDA puts its distance at 1226 light years. They put its age at 426 million years while SEDS says 660 million...

M10 is a rather large, in angular size, globular in Ophiuchus about 14,300 light-years from us and about 16,000 light years from the center of the galaxy. ...

M65 was not a planned image for this spring, but the newly discovered supernova tempted me to go for it. If George Normandin was still active in this group he...

Before reading the below look at the image full image -- not the annotated one. Are the two galaxies interacting? Are they at the same distance or is one...