This is a medium-field image of the Veil nebula in Cygnus.  A beauiful example               The Veil vs. Our Moon
                                                       of a what a planetary nebula looks like thousands of years after it 'central star'
                                                       has  gone nova.  The bright star on the right is 52 Cygni.

Hubble Narrow-Band (HBN) Palette - IC5070- The  Pelican Nebula - Incredible Rosette Nebula !!!  March 12, 2011
                                                                                M1 (The Crab Nebula),  IC1396_The Elephant's Truck,  NGC6888

       Meteors Wide Fields - Leonids 2001 in Orion !!    NEW !!    March 12, 2011

    Comets  - Machholtz c/2004 Q2, Hyakutake_2.jpg

    Moon - Full Moon August 24, 2010, Gibbous Moon fromMarch 24, 2010

    Eclipses -   Solstice Total Lunar Eclipse Dec. 21, 2010  NEW !!   Total Lunar Feb. 20, 2008, Annular SolarAug. 28, 2007

    Planets - Saturn_1, Jupiter_2

    Planetary Nebula - M27 in Bi-Color, M1 in Hubble Narrow-Band Palette
      Nebulosities -  VDB142 in IC 1396 (Hubble Palette), IC1805 (Bicolor) NEW !! March 12, 2011, NGC 7380, IC5146 CocoonOct. 26, 2011
                                    Bi-color - NGC 7635, /M52, NGC 8911, NGC 6992.

  Open Clusters - M45- The Pleiades,               New!!  March 12, 2011

    Globular Clusters - M2, M22, M15, M13, M92 Dec. 3, 2010     M10 (Globular Season) May 24, 2010,  M12  May 23, 2010

    Galaxies - M81 (filtered), M33_2_filtered, Stephen's Quntet, NGC7331 and The Deer-Lick Group, Dec. 17, 2010
                           NGC 8911 WF- edge-on dark lane , NGC6946 WF  Face-on Sprial

    The Zoo -  A galaxy seen through a comet tail