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Showing posts with label Astronomical Art. Show all posts
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Monday, July 19, 2021

Voices of Apollo 11

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"The Ultimate Tribute To The Fallen Heroes Who Took Us To Moon"

"Metsavainio has created a ‘voices of Apollo 11’ artistic masterpiece to immortalize the mission and its target forever."


The Voices of Apollo 11

 are now part of the Moon forever

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Image shows the full Moon made entirely out the text of the transcript of the onboard voice conversations of the Apollo 11 mission. There is nothing else in this photo-based image. Just letters. 

A close up of the top of the artwork shows just letters from the authentic voice transcription of Apollo 11 Command Module recorder data.


The Voices

I downloaded NASA's original full transcript of Apollo 11's onboard voice conversations. The idea was to turn this text into an image of the Moon. After a few weeks of intense work at a feverish pace my tribute was ready. Now the Moon is made up entirely of Apollo 11 voice transcription letters. 

This is also a tribute to the entire Apollo 11 team: Commander Neil A. Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot 
Edwin E. Aldrin Jr.

WHY?

I was most gratified and deeply moved when Michael Collins —the Apollo 11 & Gemini 10 astronaut, author, explorer and artist— tweeted following kind words about my work on April 19th, 2021: https://twitter.com/AstroMCollins/status/1384194949009211393  

The news of his passing, just nine days later, hit me all the harder — a very emotional moment for me. Out of the blue, I got inspired to create this artwork. I absolutely had to do it right away, which I did. 

Michael Collins was affectionately referred to as “the loneliest man in history” for being the command module pilot who flew solo in space behind the Moon and without radio contact with anyone while his colleagues, Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong, set foot on the Moon for the first time in history. Michael was also an artist. His iconic photos made from Moon orbit are true art and part of mankind's greatest cultural heritage treasure.

A similar solitude gripped me while I was creating this tribute image. For being an astronomical photographer and a visual artist often is a very lonely job. Especially this time as I was deeply emotional throughout my creative process for this artwork. Even though I never met him personally, the end of his Earthly mission meant more to me than I was prepared for. I needed to make this photo-based artwork to process the inner storm of my thoughts and feelings.


The Landing Site

The Apollo 11 landing site is marked by two red letters.


4K VIDEO

1-minute 4K video about the "Voices of Apollo 11" artwork. Please watch in full screen for the best viewing experience.
The music "Fly me to the Moon"

Frank Sinatra's 1964 recording of "Fly Me to the Moon" became closely associated with NASA's Apollo space program. A copy of the song was played on a Sony TC-50 portable cassette player on the Apollo 10 mission which orbited the Moon,[44] and also on Apollo 11 before the first landing on the Moon.[45] Source Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_Me_to_the_Moon




Material used for the artwork


Apollo 11 onboard voice transcription



Click to download the PDF-document, 5.5 MB


My photo of a Full Moon
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I used my twenty-year-old photo of the Full Moon to create this text based artwork.









Thursday, May 6, 2021

4K videos about the Grand Mosaic of the Milky Way

The only photo in the World showing the Northern Milky Way in this accuracy and depth.

ABOUT THE 4K-VIDEOS

 I made two videos showing my very large imaging project, the Grand Mosaic of the Milky Way.
Original photo has so high resolution, that's impossible to show over the web, I made those videos to bring out even some of the accuracy of the original photo.

Please, use a 4K-display or the TV-set to watch the video, if possible.
It does play nicely in normal HD-display but you'll get much more out of this by using the 4K-display.


4K-VIDEO 1




4K-VIDEO 2





Panoramic photo of the Northern Milky Way


Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Just for fun, a rocket launch seen from my hometown Oulu, Finland



I made this image manipulation to show the actual scale of the Saturn rocket in everyday environment.
Image shows my hometown from the marketplace and there is a map attached showing the locations.
The Height of the Apollo rocket is around 110m. The church, seen at left  in the image, is about 54m high.


A Saturn V launch from Oulu
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I think, the city is pretty much gone after the launch...


The Map


PS.

Other well known landmarks seen in Oulu at scale

Cheops Pyramid
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The Empire State Building
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Saturday, October 12, 2013

Visions XIII



VISIONS XIII

One of my artworks based on an original astronomical photograph shot by me.
Image belongs to a large series of unpublished images called  Visions.


Note. Image is manipulated but all the elements in it are from a real astronomical object.

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An original astronomical image used for the artwork above


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Technical details and more images in this blog post




Thursday, October 10, 2013

Visions of Space XII



VISIONS XII

One of my artworks based on an original astronomical photograph shot by me.
Image belongs to a large series of unpublished images called  Visions.
Note. Image is manipulated but all the elements in it are from a real astronomical object.


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An original astronomical image of IC 1340
Only the channel of ionized Oxygen is used for the artwork above


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Edit. Sorry, I made a double posting by mistake. I have published this image some time ago.
I let it be here, since it's a nice image.

Technical details and more images of IC IC 1340 in this blog post




Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Visions of Space XI



VISIONS 

One of my artworks based on an original astronomical photograph shot by me.
Image belongs to a large series of unpublished images called  Visions.
Note. Image is manipulated but all the elements in it are from a real astronomical object.

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An original astronomical image of IC 405 and 410
This image is used for the artwork above

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Technical details and more images of IC 405 and 410 in this blog post




Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Visions of Space X


We might have some clear weather after Thursday in this week! I haven't been able to open up this season yet and I'm waiting to start imaging again!

VISIONS 

One of my artworks based on an original astronomical photograph shot by me.
Image belongs to a large series of unpublished images called  Visions.
Note. Image is manipulated but all the elements in it are from a real astronomical object.

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This image is based on my original astronomical image of  Melotte 15, in the Heart Nebula.
Blog post about the Melotte 15 can be seen HERE.

An original astronomical image of Melotte 15
This image is used for the artwork above

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Technical details and other info about my Melotte 15 image HERE




Monday, October 7, 2013

Visions of Space IX


One of my artworks based on an original astronomical photograph shot by me.
Image belongs to a large series of unpublished images called  Visions.
Note. Image is manipulated but all the elements in it are from a real astronomical object.

Vision

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This image is based on my original astronomical image of  Pickering's Triangle, in Veil Nebula SNR.
Blog post about the Pickering's Triangle can be seen HERE.

Other versions made from a same target

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Just a O-III (Ionized Oxygen) channel
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Original astronomical image of the Pickering's Triangle

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Sunday, October 6, 2013

Visions of Space VIII



One of my artworks based on an original astronomical photograph shot by me.
Image belongs to a large series of unpublished images called  Visions.
Note. Image is manipulated but all the elements in it are from a real astronomical object.

Vision

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This image is based on my original astronomical image of  Pickering's Triangle, in Veil Nebula SNR.
Blog post about the Pickering's Triangle can be seen HERE.





Saturday, October 5, 2013

Visions of Space VII


This is one of my artworks based on an original astronomical photograph shot by me.
Image belongs to a large series of unpublished images called  Visions.
Note. Image is manipulated but all the elements in it are from a real astronomical object.

Vision

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This image is based on my original astronomical image of  Pickering's Triangle, in Veil Nebula SNR.
Blog post about the Pickering's Triangle can be seen HERE.




Friday, October 4, 2013

Visions of Space VI


This is one of my artworks based on an original astronomical photograph shot by me.
Image belongs to a large series of unpublished images called  Visions.
Note. Image is manipulated but all the elements in it are from a real astronomical object.

Vision

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This image is based on my original astronomical image of  NGC 1499, the California Nebula.
Blog post about the NGC 1499 can be seen HERE.





Thursday, October 3, 2013

Visions of Space V



This is one of my artworks based on an original astronomical photograph shot by me.
Image belongs to a large series of unpublished images called  Visions.
Note. Image is manipulated but all the elements in it are from a real astronomical object.

Vision

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This image is based on my original astronomical image of  IC 1340 in Eastern Veil Nebula.
Blog post about the IC 1340 can be seen HERE.




Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Visions of Space IV



This is one of my artworks based on an original astronomical photograph shot be me.
Image belongs to a large series of unpublished images called  Visions.
Note. Image is manipulated but all the elements in it are from a real astronomical object.

Vision

Please, click the image image and see it in full screen it's 1600 pixels wide.

This image is based on my original astronomical image of  Witch's Broom Nebula in Veil nebula supernova remnant  .
Blog post about the object can be seen HERE.




Visions of Space III



This is one of my artworks based on an original astronomical photograph shot be me.
Image belongs to a large series of unpublished images called  Visions.
Note. Image is manipulated but all the elements in it are from a real astronomical object.

Vision


This image is based on my original astronomical image of  Tarantula Nebula .
Blog post about the object can be seen HERE.





Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Visions of Space II



This is one of my artworks based on an original astronomical photograph shot be me.
Image belongs to a large series of unpublished images called  Visions.
Note. Image is manipulated but all the elements in it are from a real astronomical object.

Vision



This image is based on my original astronomical image of  Pickering's Triangle in Eastern Veil Nebula.
Blog post about the object can be seen HERE.



Monday, September 30, 2013

Visions of space



This is one of my artworks based on an original astronomical photograph shot be me.
Image belongs to a large series of unpublished images called  Visions.


Vision

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This image is based on my original astronomical image of  IC 1340 in Eastern Veil Nebula.
Blog post about the IC 1340 can be seen HERE.





Sunday, September 29, 2013

Three experimental starless Oxygen emission images of the Veil nebula



I played with my older material, since the weather doesn't allow new projects.

This time I'm publishing three images of light emitted by an ionized Oxygen, O-III.
Images are closeups from the large supernova remnant in a constellation Cygnus, the Veil Nebula.
I wanted to see and show the actual structure of the nebula, due to that, stars are removed from each image.

Blue Lightning
Filaments in the Western Veil, Witch's Broom Nebula

A starless O-III channel. There is a one bright star left behind due to composition reasons.
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Blue Wing
A detail of the Veil Nebula, The Pickering's Triangle

A starless O-III channel
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An electric Nike of Samothrace
IC 1340 in Eastern veil Nebula

A starless O-III channel. Why the name "Nike of Samothrace"? Please have a look HERE.
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Original images with all the data


Witch's Broom Nebula

Image is in visual spectrum from  from the emission of ionized elements.
A light emitted by the ionized Oxygen can be seen as blue hues.
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The Pickering's Triangle

Image is in mapped colors, from the emission of ionized elements, R=Sulfur, G=Hydrogen and B=Oxygen.
A light emitted by the ionized Oxygen can be seen as blue hues.
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IC 1340

Image is in mapped colors, from the emission of ionized elements, R=Sulfur, G=Hydrogen and B=Oxygen.
A light emitted by the ionized Oxygen can be seen as blue hues.
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Orientation

The areas of interest are marked as a white rectangle. The circle, size of the full Moon, shows the apparent scale in lower right corner.
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