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Thursday, August 25, 2011

APOD





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Astronomy Picture of the Day
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My Image of the "Pac man Nebula", NGC281, was selected as an "Astronomy Picture of the Day" by the NASA.
You can see the NASA page here: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110825.html
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This was my Fourth APOD, previous ones can be seen here:



Potrait of NGC281


Original blog post, with the technical details and more images, can be seen here:

3 comments:

Steve W said...

Hi J-P,

Congrats on the APOD. I've loved your work on this, and so many other, images. I'm particularly intrigued by your narrowband approach to 'true color.' You recently commented on a 'new improved' technique and indicated that you hoped to post an expanded tutorial. I've been hoping to follow your lead.... My system, a Tak FSQ-106 w/QSI-583, is waiting on a new mount: a new Paramount MX, should be here "any day").

Again, Congrats. Looking forward to your work, once you get night again!

Cheers,

Steve W
Tucson, AZ

J-P Metsavainio said...

Hi Steve,

Thanks!

The "natural" color composition is originally published by Richard Crisp,
http://www.narrowbandimaging.com/synthetic_rgb_page.htm

I wrote a small study about the color chemes used in my images:
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2009/11/colors-in-astro-images.html

I'm very sorry about the delay with the tutorial for "Tone mapping v2.0"
This is a only documentation so far (at end of the page):
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2011/03/cedic-11-central-european-deepsky.html
We'll have astronomical darkness after the first week of September.

ή διδαξε ή μαθε ή φυγε said...

BRAVO BRAVO BRAVO