Astro Anarchy

Now that our Moon is once again at the centre of global attention—driven by the Artemis mission’s journey around it—I feel compelled to share this artwork again.

The imaging season of 2026 is soon coming to an end here at 65°N.

This winter has been extremely cloudy up here at 65°N, but I managed to use those few clear moments to capture enough data for a new cosmic artwork from our night sky.

This came as a complete surprise.

This is my final image of the year 2025: The Flying Dragon Nebula, Sharpless 114 (Sh2-114).

Location: Hallituskatu 12 — just beside Oulu City Hall Open daily from 13:00 to 18:00 until 23 December 2025.

This beautiful and symmetric planetary nebula drifts in the constellation Cygnus at a distance of about 4,000 light-years from us.

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I have been an astrophotographer for about thirty years, and for almost as long, I have been converting my photographs into various three-dimensional formats.

In this image, I have combined my new shot of the Witch’s Broom Nebula with my recent photo “ICARUS, the Final Flight” to form a two-frame mosaic.

My latest photo shows a small portion of the Veil Nebula supernova remnant in Cygnus.

This is my first-light image for the autumn season 2025.

While waiting to get back to imaging, I completed an artwork commissioned by the Art Museum of Oulu.

PuWe 1 is one of the largest and faintest planetary nebula known to exist.

I published yesterday a detail picture of the Soul nebula, IC 1848.

Soul nebula, IC 1848, has been my target many times during the years.

This is one of the targets I’ve been imaging for decades using various equipment—from camera lenses (150–300mm) to large reflecting telescopes ranging from 11" to 14".

I just published an image of the unnamed pillar-like formation inside the Heart Nebula.

This is an object in the Heart Nebula that I have captured from time to time.

I have shot this emission nebula in Perseus several times during the years and every time felt that I got more out of it.

This is a new photo of this beautiful emission area in Cassiopeia.

I shot material for this new photo back in February, 10 hours of exposures total for three narrowband color channels.

I managed to get 17 hours of H-alpha light for the HFG1 and now I'm able to do color photo out of it.

I made a new composition out of my new NGC 281 material, the original composition and technical details can be seen here: https://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2025/01/new-photo-of-ngc-281.html This new poster format composition brings out the dynamic nature…

This is a new photo of the Soul Nebula in Cassiopeia.