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What Light Through Yonder Telescope Breaks? Part 1: Composition of the Milky Way
Messier 33 or the Triangulum Galaxy, a galaxy similar to our home Milky Way, composed of stars, gas and dust. In a series of posts I will...
Calvin Klatt
Oct 23, 20222 min read


Recent Observations: The Wizard Nebula
Image 1: Wizard Nebula, July 31, 2022, Lac Teeples I have imaged the Wizard Nebula several times, but I've not been terribly satisfied...
Calvin Klatt
Aug 10, 20221 min read


Recent Observations: The Cocoon Nebula
Image 1: The Cocoon Nebula by Calvin Klatt. Apologies, dear reader: Few new images have appeared in recent weeks. There are two reasons...
Calvin Klatt
Aug 10, 20222 min read


Recent Observations: Owl Nebula & Surfboard Galaxy
This is my first good image (May 2022) of two spectacular objects in the Northern sky. The Owl Nebula (Messier 97) is relatively near to...
Calvin Klatt
May 8, 20222 min read


Recent Observations: The Crab Nebula, a Supernova Remnant
The Crab Nebula is the first entry in Charles Messier’s famous catalog of objects that look like comets but are not comets. Messier...
Calvin Klatt
Dec 27, 20212 min read


Recent Observations: NGC6914
A colorful nebula in Cygnus. The entire Cygnus (the Swan) region seems to glow red in a large telescope. The constellation forms a...
Calvin Klatt
Nov 19, 20212 min read


Catch the wave: Spiral Galaxies
What are those spiral patterns we observe in galaxies and what causes them? Do they represent a stable pattern of differing star/nebula...
Calvin Klatt
Nov 13, 20213 min read


Recent Observations: IC342
The galaxy named IC342 is located along the plane of the Milky Way galaxy as viewed from Earth. It is located vastly beyond our galaxy,...
Calvin Klatt
Nov 9, 20212 min read


Recent Observations: Bubble Nebula
I think this is a really spectacular image of NGC7635, the Bubble Nebula. It was captured on October 6, 2021 at the Lac Teeples Deep Sky...
Calvin Klatt
Nov 7, 20211 min read


Hallowe'en 2021: Ghostly Nebulae
Witches flying on their brooms are not the only thing we expect on Halloween. Perhaps more common are ghosts (or at least children...
Calvin Klatt
Oct 31, 20211 min read


Hallowe'en 2021: the Witch's Broom
We are nearly at Halloween and I have some Astro-images to share… Halloween is one of the “cross-quarter points” in the calendar, six...
Calvin Klatt
Oct 31, 20211 min read
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