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Thursday, December 31, 2009
All my images from a Autumn season 2009
I made a Slide Show about all my Autumn 2009 Astro Images. Not too many of them due the weather problems up here 65N.
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Astronomical Videos,
nebula,
Slide Show
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
An anaglyph Still Motion collection
You'll need Red/Cyan Eyeglasses to be able to see images right. Note, if you have a Red and Green filters, you can use them! Red goes to Left eye.
Labels:
anaglyph images and movies
Anaglyph Still Motion movies
You'll need Red/Cyan Eyeglasses to be able to see images right. Note, if you have a Red and Green filters, you can use them! Red goes to Left eye.
This was an interesting test. I tested how 3D-anaglyph images might work as a Still Motion movie files.
'They simply work! This will give a new life to 3D-images, it'll kind of adds a "fourth dimension" to images.
I used a Sony Vegas evaluation version to add the Zoom & Pan feature to still images.
How ever, there was a problem with video conversion in YouTube. For some reason it courses chosting in the movie. Original version has no chosting effect at all.
Other samples:
Full Moon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj8oqbH3Ftc
Butterfly Nebula.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPuLp09E9R8
IC 1396.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXpfCAHNpj8
M27
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGMupR68GY0
Labels:
anaglyph images and movies
Zoom in movie test.
Bubble Nebula Zoom in movie.
Klick HERE to see this animation in YouTube, please, klick a HD-symbol in lower Right corner to see it in HD-format.
Heart & Soul Nebulae, zooming to a Soul detail.
Zoomed image is a composition of a wide field image of H&S and a high resolution detail image of a Soul Nebula.
Klick HERE to see this animation in YouTube, please, klick a HD-symbol in lower Right corner to see it in HD-format.
I tested an evaluation version of Sony Vegas video editor to create this effect.
Windows movie maker is a free option to do this, but effects are not parametric, so there is not enough user control for a good result.
This is a good way to show actual resolution of a picture, there is not much point to publish full resolution version of an image due the huge size.
Original images with details can be found here:
Bubble Nebula: http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2009/10/bubble-nebula-finalized.html
Heart & Soul Nebulae: http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2008/10/heart-soul.html
Soul Nebula detail: http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2009/11/soul-nebula-closeup-finalized.html
Labels:
Astronomical Videos
Sunday, December 27, 2009
3D-conversion testing
Here is some tests, that I found interesting.
I have done lots of stereo pair and anaglyph Red/Cyan conversions from my 2D-astro images.
This time I have animated those three stereo image types to a 3D-animations.
First the 2D-animation of the Soul Nebula.
Klick HERE to see this animation in YouTube, please, klick a HD-symbol in lower Right corner to see it in HD-format.
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Secondly a 3D-animation in Parallel vision and Cross vision formats
A Parallel vision movie
Klick HERE to see this in YouTube, please, klick a HD-symbol to see this in HD-format
A Cross vision movie.
Klick HERE to see this in YouTube, please, klick a HD-symbol to see this in HD-format.
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A third version is in Anaglyph format. Red/Cyan eyeglasses are needed to see the movie right.
Note you can use a Red and Green filters instead to see video! Red goes to Left eye.
Klick HERE to see this in YouTube, please, klick a HD-symbol to see this in HD-format.
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The original 2D-image with imaging details can be seen HERE.
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NOTE! This is a personal vision about forms and shapes, based on some known facts and artistic impression.
Labels:
research and development
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Happy Saturnalia to all!
Happy Saturnalia to all of you!
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Ok, it's a Christmas time, but Saturnalia was there first.
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EDIT:

This image get published in UNIVERSE TODAY.
Many thanks to Tammy Plotner and merry Christmas!
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publications
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
An Anaglyph animation test
I made this funny 3D-video from a Veil Nebula. It shows how it might be formed from a Supernova explosion. Movie is very short though.
You'll need Red/Cyan Eyeglasses to be able to see the movie right.
Note, if you have a Red and Green filters, you can use them! Red goes to Left eye.
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Original 2D-image can be found HERE.
A Stereo pair version can be found HERE.
Labels:
anaglyph images and movies
Saturday, December 19, 2009
NGC 281, the "Pac-Man nebula" as a stereo pair


NOTE! This is a personal vision about forms and shapes, based on some known facts and artistic impression. Viewing instructions can be found from a Right hand side menu.
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Here you can find an Anaglyph, Red/Cyan, Stereo image.
You'll need Red/Cyan Eyeglasses to be able to see images right. Note, if you have a Red and Green filters, you can use them! Red goes to Left eye.
Labels:
anaglyph images and movies,
stereo images
Friday, December 18, 2009
NGC 281, the "Pac-Man Nebula"


This image has coused a lots of trouble to me. At one point I was thinking what's the point of doing this!
Let's face it, my equipments are a big pile of crap. Everything is faling a parts and I'm spending more time to fixing things than actually imaging.
It's not a picnic to spend two hours outside and soldering when it's very windy and temperature drops to -26 celsius. (-15F). I really need better instruments if I'm going to continue this "hobby" (read addiction) now everything is put to gether from self made solutions and cheapest possible parts.
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Ok, here is a image after all, not a perfect one though. I started this project at the end of the last month and I collected last photons 16.12. I collected 42 x 1200s of H-alpha light, that's a 14 hours.
Due the technical problems I was able to use only 6 x 1200s, Two hours, of them!
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Images are in my Portfolio with less compression, Please, have a look HERE.
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Processing work flow:
Image acquisition, MaxiDL v5.07.
Stacked and calibrated in CCDStack.
Deconvolution with a CCDSharp, 30 iterations.
Levels, curves and color combine in PS CS3.
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Telescope, Meade LX200 GPS 12" @ f4.65
Camera, QHY9
Guiding, SXV-AO @ 11Hz
Image Scale, 0,8 arcseconds/pixel
Exposures:
H-alpha 6x1200s Binned 1x1
O-III 3x600s, binned 3x3
S-II 4x1200s, binned 1x31
Saturday, December 12, 2009
A new version of the Veil animation.
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Original video can be downloaded from HERE
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This video is done by splitting the original 2D-image to a layers by type under a PS. Layers are then projected to a real 3D-sufaces in a 3D-modeling SW, in this case the TrueSpace.
The resulting 3D-model is the animated to a movie file.
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NOTE! This is a personal vision about forms and shapes, based on some known facts and artistic impression. The original 2D-image can be found HERE
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Stereo animation of birth of the Veil Nebula, http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2008/10/veil-nebula-supernova-animation-in.html
In this vsualization a massive Star ends its life to a explosion, known as a Supernova!
An older, no HD, version of the Animation can be found HERE
Labels:
animations,
Astronomical Videos
Friday, December 11, 2009
Closeup of the Soul Nebula, a monthly winner

The Soul nebula was selected as a Monthly winner in imaging competition at MyAstroimages site.
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publications
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
A new version of Anaglyph Veil Nebula

You'll need Red/Cyan Eyeglasses to be able to see images right. Note, if you have a Red and Green filters, you can use them! Red goes to Left eye.
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NOTE! This is a personal vision about forms and shapes, based on some known facts and artistic impression.
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I made this new version with a colors. Looks like the narrowband color scheme is very suitable for Red/cyan Anaglyph format, since Red color can't be seen that way and images are Grayscale ones with dominating Red.
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Original 2D-image with details can be found here:

Klick the image to see original one.
Labels:
anaglyph images and movies
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Astro anarchy gets published

The finnish "Tähdet ja Avaruus" (Stars and Space) magazine pulished a large panoramic image of my high resolution, NGC 6888, the Crescent Nebula image.
Image is in HST-palette.
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publications
Sunday, December 6, 2009
North America & Pelican Nebula as a stereogram


NOTE! This is a personal vision about forms and shapes, based on some known facts and artistic impression. Wieving instructions can be found from a Right hand side menu.
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Here you can find an Anaglyph, Red/Cyan, Stereo image.
You'll need Red/Cyan Eyeglasses to be able to see images right. Note, if you have a Red and Green filters, you can use them! Red goes to Left eye.
Labels:
anaglyph images and movies,
stereo images
Saturday, December 5, 2009
NGC 7000 & IC 5070, The North America & Pelican Nebulae

I found this older image from my HD, this was my very first narrowband color image!
The original post from September 2008 can be found HERE.
I noticed, that I haven't done a Natural color version from the data, so here it is.
Technical details with the original post.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Astro Anarchy gets published
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publications
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