The picture shows the birdcage of the cargo ship EDRO III. This rusty shipwreck off the coast of Cyprus has been witnessing for nearly ten years as the Milky Way stars fall below the horizon. For a few more decades, the ship’s body will be completely devoured by nature, while the stars are still making […]
Messier 81
My image shows grand design spiral galaxy Messier 81. At first sight it seems to be a quite plane, not well detailed galaxy lacking contrast, so I decided to photograph this subject as detailed and deep as possible. For this I made luminance layer with a small pixelled monochrome camera and I reused a deeply […]
LDN 1251 Angler fish nebula
For a while now I am really interested in the dark nebula of Cepheus constellations and the LDN 1251 doesn’t make me dissatisfied. This is a really dark object. Here it is the 15 light-years wide deep sea fish which is 1000 light-years away from us, a molecular cloud in which stars are being born. […]
IC4603 – Rho Ophiuchi
This picture tells me what it feels like to discover some of the unknown parts of a well-known photographic theme. These scene is not about the common bright face of this deep-sky object, but the mysterious layers of dust that the light shines from behind, and which we will never be able to penetrate. Scope: 200/800 […]
Messier 16 -Eagle Nebula
At cloudy winter nights we offten recall good memories of great momentswe spent under the sky. Among others, there were some noteworthy moments in Namibia in 2018 when I took the photo below. At first, I wasn’t happy with it, but time has beautified it. The Eagle Nebula, also known as Messier 16, is seen […]