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Calvin Klatt
Oct 23, 20222 min read
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...
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Calvin Klatt
Aug 10, 20221 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...
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Calvin Klatt
Aug 10, 20222 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...
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Calvin Klatt
May 8, 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...
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Calvin Klatt
Dec 27, 20212 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...
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Calvin Klatt
Nov 19, 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...
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Calvin Klatt
Nov 13, 20213 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...
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Calvin Klatt
Nov 9, 20212 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,...
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Calvin Klatt
Nov 7, 20211 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...
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Calvin Klatt
Oct 31, 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...
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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...
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