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Update #32 (current status: 329 drawings):

  • NGC 6742: Planetary nebula, also known as “Abell 50”

  • Messier 63: The Sunflower Galaxy with spiral arms, knots, and mottled halo

  • NGC 4217: Amazing lenticular galaxy with dust band
  • NGC 4244: Wonderful edge-on with HII regions and star cloud
  • NGC 4319: Galaxy with adjacent quasar “Mrk 205”
  • NGC 4449: Dwarf galaxy with many HII regions and knots
  • NGC 4631: Whale Galaxy with dust clouds and HII regions
  • NGC 5907: Great edge-on galaxy with hint of dust lane
  • NGC 5930: Interacting pair of galaxies

  • Shakbazian 16: Galaxy chain over 400 million light-years away

  • Abell 2218: Very well-known galaxy cluster, more than 2 billion light-years away!

  • Mrk 817: Quasar / active galaxy with SMBH of 80 million solar masses




  • Update #31 (current status: 317 drawings):

  • Messier 13: largest globular cluster in the northern sky, stunning with 20"!
  • Messier 56: smaller globular cluster in the constellation Lyra
  • Messier 92: bright globular cluster with extremely dense core

  • NGC 6765: planetary nebula in Lyra with interesting structure
  • DdDm 1: rare planetary nebula in the Milky Way halo




  • Update #30 (current status: 312 drawings)

  • Epsilon Lyrae: Quadruple star in the Lyra constellation
  • Mizar and Alcor: Eye tester in the Big Dipper

  • Picot 1: Asterism south of Arcturus with a funny shape

  • NGC 6811: Open star cluster also called "Hole in the cluster"
  • NGC 6819: Dense star cluster amidst the Milky Way in Cygnus
  • NGC 6866: Open star cluster in Cygnus
  • Stephenson 1: Star cluster surrounding the two bright stars eps Lyr 1/2, great for smaller telescopes

  • QSO "8C 1435+638": High-Redshift Quasar with a high redshift of z>2
  • QSO "J 1719+4804": Has a luminosity of 70 trillion Suns
  • QSO "KUV 16313-3931": Lies next to a variable star group (proper motion)
  • QSO "KUV 433-16": Is almost 10 billion light years away from us




  • Update #29 (current status: 301 drawings)

  • Messier 40: Double star with interesting surrounding

  • Messier 97: well-known owl nebula with two dark eyes

  • Messier 108: Surfboard galaxy with many structures
  • Messier 109: delicate barred spiral in the Big Dipper
  • NGC 6217: brightest galaxy in the constellation "Little Dipper"

  • QSO "CSO 1061": very distant quasar with a redshift of z=2.66
  • QSO "SBS 1233+594": even more distant with z=2.82!!




  • Update #28 (current status: 294 drawings)

  • Upgren 1: unspectacular asterism in the Hunting Dogs

  • Messier 14: Globular cluster with low surface brightness
  • Messier 107: Small globular cluster in Ophiuchus

  • NGC 6366: Faint globular cluster with low surface brightness
  • NGC 6426: Globular cluster at a distance of almost 70,000 light years
  • NGC 6517: Small globular cluster with high surface brightness and dense center
  • NGC 6535: Loosely concentrated globular cluster in Ophiuchus
  • NGC 6539: Faint globular cluster, in which a millisecond pulsar was found

  • IC 1276: Globular cluster whose light is strongly reddened and weakened

  • Abell 1033: Surrounding hot gas reminds of the spaceship "Enterprise"
  • Abell 1365: Galaxy cluster at a distance of 1 billion light years
  • Abell 1758: Extremely distant at a distance of 3 billion light years!




  • Update #27 (current status: 282 drawings)

  • WD 0837+199: one of the few white dwarfs in Messier 44

  • Messier 59: large, elliptical galaxy in the Virgo cluster
  • Messier 99: galaxy with beautiful, wide-open spiral arms
  • NGC 5371: great barred spiral galaxy next to two bright stars for contrast

  • IC 2431: Group of colliding galaxies

  • Abell 779: large galaxy cluster with 25 galaxies
  • Abell 1201: cD galaxy in the center has SMBH with 33 billion solar masses!

  • Mrk 231: detailed study of the nearest quasar




  • Update #26 (current status: 274 drawings)

  • Messier 53: brightest globular cluster in "Coma Berenices"

  • Messier 60: large elliptical galaxy with ultracompact dwarf galaxy "M60-UCD1"
  • Messier 84: giant elliptical in the Virgo cluster
  • Messier 86: giant elliptical in the Virgo cluster
  • Messier 94: spiral galaxy with starburst ring and extended halo
  • Messier 102: spindle galaxy with prominent dust band

  • NGC 4147: quite unknown globular cluster in "Coma Berenices"
  • NGC 5053: direct neighbor to Messier 53 but with a completely different appearance
  • NGC 5466: nice globular cluster in "Bootes"

  • NGC 4438: Markarian's Eyes in the galaxy chain of the same name

  • NGC 5350: beautiful galaxy group next to two bright stars
  • Markarian's Chain: probably the most famous galaxy chain




  • Update #25 (current status: 263 drawings)

  • Abell 1020: Galaxy cluster in a distance of 800 million light years
  • Abell 1126: Galaxy cluster, which is 1 billion light years away
  • Abell 1238: Rather unspectacular cluster, but 1.3 billion light years away
  • Abell 1367: The famous "Leo Cluster" in a 2400 pixel version!!

  • Messier 82: Exciting detailed study including Starclusters (SSC) and Superwind!
  • Messier 106: Beautiful galaxy with great spiral arms

  • NGC 3115: Bright Spindle Galaxy in the constellation Sextans
  • NGC 5981: Well-known Draco Triplet with different types of galaxies

  • NGC 3242: Planetary Nebula, also known as "Jupiter's Ghost"

  • UGC 4991: Weak and very distant galaxy group
  • UGC 5341: One of the extreme EdgeOn- Galaxies (Superthin)




  • Update #24 (current status: 252 drawings)

  • Abell 449: Galaxy cluster in a distance of 1.1 billion light years
  • Abell 564: Galaxy cluster, unfortunately more stars than galaxies ;)
  • Abell 566: Great galaxy cluster in 1.3 billion light years distance

  • Berkeley 29: Weak star cluster in a distance of 43.000 light years
  • Saurer 1: Challenge, because star cluster is extremely weak and very far away!

  • NGC 2419: Globular cluster, which is mistakenly called "Intergalactic Wanderer"

  • NGC 2537: Nice galaxy in the shape of a bear's paw
  • Malin 1: Largest, currently known spiral galaxy with a diameter of 650.000 light years!