From Montsant to the Andromeda Galaxy

From Montsant to the Andromeda Galaxy

The night of the 28th of June 2025 I climbed up to the Serra Major de Montsant, a mountain range located some 100km south from Barcelona, very close to my home village, Prades. My goal was to capture the arch of the Milky Way above the Mare de Déu del Montsant...
Montsant Natural Park

Montsant Natural Park

This weekend we’ve organized a new Astro Landscape Workshop at Parc Astronòmic Muntanyes de Prades. It’s been an honor to share this days with Ferran Galeote and David de la Cruz, both from my home region, Tarragona province. The image was captured the...
The Rho Ophiuchi Colorful Region

The Rho Ophiuchi Colorful Region

The Rho Ophiuchi nebula is one of the most beautiful and colorful star-forming regions in the night sky, located about 400–460 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Ophiuchus. It’s actually a complex of different types of nebulae — reflection, emission, and...
Omega Centauri Globular Cluster

Omega Centauri Globular Cluster

The Omega Centauri globular star cluster, NGC 5139, is the largest and brightest globular cluster in the Milky Way galaxy. It is located about 15,000 light-years away in the constellation Centaurus and contains about 10 million stars much older than the Sun into a...
Clouds of Hydrogen and IFN around NGC 281

Clouds of Hydrogen and IFN around NGC 281

The Pacman Nebula, NGC 281, is surrounded by clouds of gas and dust that can be detected by the use of deep integrations. This work aims to show a new view of this popular target by the use of broadband band filters (LRGB) and a super narrow band Hydrogen filter (3nm...
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