This post keeps disappearing, why I don't know. So replacing it yet again. As you've likely figured out I love the strange and different. Typical looking...

Barnard 361 is a dark nebula in Cygnus about half way between the North American Nebula and M39. It's also known as LDN 970. I've seen it pitched as being a...

Barnard 361 is a dark nebula in Cygnus about half way between the North American Nebula and M39. It's also known as LDN 970. I've seen it pitched as being a...

NGC 3198 has always been among my favourites, but I never got decent colour data for this large galaxy. It was my main target for my recent trip to northern...

Another one from my recent trip to northern Germany. Of course I have imaged M88 before, but there was definately room for improvement. In the first night...

Imbedded links aren't mine. I don't appreciate the emails I've gotten blaming me for the crap SpaceBanter is doing. Yell at them not me. I show my links...

The variable star RY Tauri is the apparent light source of the reflection nebula vdB 27, also known as GN 04.18.8. Many wide field images of the region are on...

The planetary nebula Abell 80, AKA PN G102.8-05.0, is located in Lacerta. The only distance estimate I found for it puts it at 1.9 kpc (6,200 light-years)....

Abell 78 AKA PNG 081.2-14.9 and PK 081-14.1 (among many aliases) is a blue planetary nebula in eastern Cygnus. The only distance estimate I found for it puts...

SpaceBanter lost this file so am reposting it. Rick The WBL 682 galaxy group consists of 4 galaxies though one appears to be two galaxies sharing a common...

Barnard 146 is a small, very dense dark nebula in Cygnus not far, one degree northeast, from the often imaged famous Tulip Nebula, SH2-101. In fact it is seen...

I put no links in this post. Those you see are SPAM put in by SPACEBANTER after I made the post and checked it. DON'T CLICK ON THEM! UGC 2773 is a Maffei...

Don't know if M51 is in Arp's catalogue, if it is I should have mentioned that name to hide that I have been imaging what everybody does :-) I spent some...

NGC 3206 is a rather strange galaxy in UMa. Not an easy object for city skies. I needed three nights of which the first was very dusty and the other two had...

We had good weather in Berlin for the partial solar eclipse on March 20. I did a timelapse (1614 pictures in 2.5 hours) with my Coronado PST and Trius SX694...

My target for this image was NGC 615 on the far left in central Cetus. I moved it left when I saw NGC 600, a rather interesting low surface brightness barred...

Barnard 347 is a very dense dark nebula seen against the left (eastern) wing of the Butterfly Nebula beside Sadr the star at the cross point of the Northern...

The WBL 687 galaxy group is a small group of 3 galaxies in Pegasus just west of the northeastern star of the Great Square, Beta Pegasi. Red shift puts the...

PN G100.4+04.6/PM 1-333 is listed at NED as a possible planetary nebula though the most recent paper on it from 2009 considers it has proven it to be a true...

NGC 6535 is a rather obscure globular star cluster in Serpens Cauda. It is located about 22,200 light-years from earth but only 12,700 light-years from the...