


I like the central part of Auriga very much. Besides the huge Messier open clusters many tiny but spectacular open clusters and a variety of diffuse nebulae are hiding here. This is a very suitable place for small aperture wide field drawings where you can compose beautiful fields like this one. A tiny gem, NGC 1907 is hiding in the shadows of M 38. The small open cluster is elogated but shows no signs of resolution due to the small enlargement. Two diffuse nebulae fit into the field: the compact and brighter NGC 1931 and the bigger but still not that faint IC 417.

Volans galaxy
Interacting ring galaxy in Volans

Carina diffuse nebulae
Highly structured emission nebula complex in Carina

Norma diffuse nebula
Really unique diffuse nebula in Normában

Vela planetary nebula
Planetary nebula in the thick Mily-Way fields of Vela

Phoenix galaxies
Entangled interacting galaxies in Phoenix

Virgo galaxies
Arp 271 interacting galaxies in Virgo