On November 3, 2010 SN 2010jl was seen in UGC 5189a. I imaged it on the 11th low in the east. Dawn came too fast and I missed getting any blue data but...

If there is ever a freak show for galaxies this one would be the headliner. Arp 204 is a two or three galaxy mash-up in northern Camelopardalis less than 6...

UGC 5676/PGC 30871 is a very strange galaxy in Ursa Major just off the southwest corner of the bowl of the Big Dipper asterism. NED gives it the...

NGC 2170 is a mostly reflection nebula in Monoceros. It is the nebula at the upper right. To its left is GN 06.05.7.02 and in the upper left corner is NGC...

I've been following this nebula (NGC 2261) for several years now. I've since learned it can vary in only a few days but so far I've only followed it yearly....

Arp 80/NGC 2633 is located in northern Camelopardalis with a red shift distance of about 100 million light-years. Other distance estimates range from 89...

NGC 40 was my last December 2011 post. I'm ready to move into 2012 and be in the current year -- not for long obviously. Arp 78/NGC 772 is a spiral galaxy...

IC 277 is a galaxy with a large plume suggested to me by Sakib Rasool. It is about 120 million light-years distant in the constellation of Cetus. Why it has...

NGC 40 is a very red planetary nebula in Cepheus about 3000 to 3500 light-years away. The distance to these objects is hard to pin down. Papers indicate...

Weather has been awful here, both November and December only had one night suitable for imaging. My December image was NGC 1514, which I chose mainly because...

Arp 181 is a pair of NGC objects in northern Draco about 429 to 440 million light-years away. Arp put it in his category for galaxies with narrow filaments....

Arp 225/NGC 2655 is a nearby strange galaxy in Camelopardalis. Red shift puts it about 65 million light-years away though a Tully estimate says more like...

Arp 17/UGC 03972/VV 349 is located in Camelopardalis about 230 million light-years away by redshift. I found no other distance estimates. Arp included it in...

Arp 25/NGC 2276 is an interesting, many armed face on spiral. Arp put it in his category for spiral galaxies with one heavy arm. The most famous member of...

Last night (December 12, 2012 UT or 12-12-12 which my neighbor thinks it a bad omen) the asteroid (4179) Toutatis passed by us at a bit over 4.25 million miles...

Palomar 1 is in Cepheus about 36 thousand light-years from us and 56,000 light-years from the center of our galaxy. It was discovered by George Abell in...

Arp 207 is located in western Draco near the border with Camelopardalis. Redshift puts it about 100 million light-years away. Arp put it in his category...

WBL 130 is a three galaxy group in the southeast corner of Lynx. NED lists it as being about 270 million light-years away and consisting of three galaxies. ...

NGC 188 is the northernmost and one of the oldest known open star clusters. It is less than 5 degrees from the pole and over 5 billion years old. What...

Second light for the TS 80/480 triplet was the California nebula. I did not manage to find a contrasty setting without saturating the brighter parts, so it...