At right there is a photo of Saturn taken with my new DFK21 camera.28/9/2015: A quite rare event of total lunar eclipse during a "supermoon". "Deep Sky hunter" is a printable deep sky atlas designed for serious deep sky observers. 4/4/2020 - Close up photos and small panoramas of the moon made with a 300mm F/4 Newtonian telescope and ASI290MC camera. Combined database of deep sky objects was used, including Messier, NGC, IC, PGC, UGC, MGC, PK, Barnard and numerous catalogs of star clusters. In terms of scale and amount of detail "DeepSky Hunter" falls between Sky Atlas 2000 and Uranometria 2000. The most interesting entry is the Omega Centauri globular cluster (NGC 5139).
5/6/2019: Schematic visualization videos of the night sky with all 12000 planned starlink satellites, some explanation and additional projects8/7/2017: Two new spreadsheet calculators: One for planning and managing an eyepiece collection and another one for calculating numerous parameters for planetary and deep sky astrophotography 6/8/2016 - Excellent transparency conditions and dark skies in Israeli Negev desert allowed me to view and sketch some really faint galaxies in Pegasus. Note that some inconsistencies might be present, due to different catalog designations which a specific object might have.Additional download is a 20 page list of thumbnail images of ~700 best DSO. A New, comprehensive deep sky atlas, designed for serious deep sky observers. Deep-Sky Hunter Star Atlas "Deep Sky hunter" is a printable deep sky atlas designed for serious deep sky observers. If you choose to laminate the atlas - you may use a metal ring binder (see the following picture). The atlas also features 21 supplement "zoom" charts of galaxy clusters and densly populated areas, and indications of over 500 "best" objects. At right there is a timelapse video of moon rising over Cyprus coastline, during a distant thunderstorm (which was taken during my honeymoon).6/6/2012 - The Second (and the last) transit of Venus I had a chance to observe. At the bottom right you can see the WLM (Wulf Lundmark Melotte) irregular galaxy, which proved to be a real challenge to spot with it's surface brightness nearing 15m.
The list is limited to declination -60°. There has been some published (and are gone again) that went deeper, but the Uranometria has the most complete coverage of all classes of visible deep-sky objects. Since only deep sky objects down to 12.5th to 13.5th magnitude are plotted - it is possible to find almost every DSO featured in this atlas using a moderate telescope (over 8 inch) under …
Simulated views used in this article were created using real photos and astronomical sketches.
They are a good reminder that there is color in the universe hiding within the stars, and not everything is gray.10/09/2010 - I've finally managed to sketch the eastern part of the great Veil nebula (NGC 6995 and NGC 6995) - one of my favorite deep sky objects. 5/8/2011 - Results from last weekend's observing session in Borot Lutz, Negev desert. This list includes, among others, all objects which are indicated as "best DSO" in this atlas with * (star) mark.For best results print this atlas on A3 pages, in black & white, portrait orientation, at 600 dpi resolution.
As for many of you, this meant I had to bring a pile of printed star charts from Megastar to the field.
Deep-Sky Hunter atlas with a white text over black background (for night-time viewing).Detailed list of objects, images of best DSO plotted in the atlas, other versions.Detailed list of most deep sky objects plotted in this atlas (Limited to DEC -60°) Detailed list objects with a white text over black background (for night-time viewing)Images of ~700 deep sky objects, including all indicated as "best DSO" in this atlasImages of select objects with a white text over black background (for night-time viewing) 1/6/2017: A second revision of the Deep Sky Hunter atlas was released, which features labels fixes and cleanup, magnitude index for each chart, a smaller file and a "field" W/B edition.The printable Deep Sky Hunter star atlas is designed for serious deep sky observers.
The next skecth is a ring-shaped open cluster Cr21 with two neighbouring galaixes. Three clusters on top are: M2, M79, M75 - globulars which are located at different distances from us.