Astro Anarchy: The end, all of my photos from the Winter season 2015-2016

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

The end, all of my photos from the Winter season 2015-2016

This is a collection of my photos from the past Winter season, Autumn 2015 and Spring 2016. We are now out of astronomical darkness for about six months due to high latitude, 65N. As every time, it's hard to give up imaging the beauty of the deep sky.

The season was very cloudy as usually. We had many months a solid cloud cover this winter and clear nights just now and then. The good side is, that I have been forced to develop new imaging and processing methods to be able to finalise maximum number of photos. The "Tone mapping" method and a new unpublished "VARES" (Variable Resolution imaging method) are very powerful tools for astrophotography. I'll publish the VARES.method in a year or so, after I have tested it well enough.

A poster format collection from all of my photos, Spring season 2016

Please, click for a large image, 2200 x 3000 pixels, ~4MB

Autumn season 2015

Please, click for a large image, 2200 x 2500 pixels, ~4MB

Photos from the Winter season 2015 - 2016 in chronological order, oldest first

Autumn season 2015

Pickering's Triangle, http://www.astroanarchy.blogspot.fi/2015/09/pickerings-triangle-my-first-light-for.html (NASA APOD)

Elephant's Trunk Nebula, http://www.astroanarchy.blogspot.fi/2015/10/elephants-trunk-nebula-in-ic-1396.html

Witch Broom Nebula, http://www.astroanarchy.blogspot.fi/2015/10/a-new-image-witchs-broom-nebula.html

Filaments of Cygnus, http://astroanarchy.blogspot.fi/2015/11/filaments-of-cygnus.html

Filaments of Cygnus, http://www.astroanarchy.blogspot.fi/2015/10/filaments-of-cygnus-project-continues.html

Sharpless 112, http://www.astroanarchy.blogspot.fi/2015/10/sharpless-112-sh2-112-in-cygnus.html

Filaments of Cygnus, http://www.astroanarchy.blogspot.fi/2015/10/filaments-of-cygnus-ring-of-fire.html

Filaments of Cygnus, http://www.astroanarchy.blogspot.fi/2015/11/more-filaments-of-cygnus-and-couple-of.html

Filaments of Cygnus, http://www.astroanarchy.blogspot.fi/2015/10/filaments-of-western-cygnus.html

Sharpless 114, http://www.astroanarchy.blogspot.fi/2015/11/sharpless-114-sh2-114-flying-dragon.html

IC 1396, http://www.astroanarchy.blogspot.fi/2015/11/ic-1936-closeup.html

Spring Season 2016

Detail of NGC 1499, http://astroanarchy.blogspot.fi/2016/01/ngc-1499-california-nebula.html

Filaments of central Cygnus, http://astroanarchy.blogspot.fi/2016/01/my-first-photo-for-year-2016-filaments.html

NGC 1499 mosaic, http://astroanarchy.blogspot.fi/2016/02/ngc-1499-california-nebula-project.html

Supernova remnant CTB1, http://astroanarchy.blogspot.fi/2016/01/abell-85-ctb1-dim-galactic-supernova.html

Lower's Nebula, http://astroanarchy.blogspot.fi/2016/03/the-lowers-nebula-in-visual-colors.html

Supernova remnant Sharpless 224, http://astroanarchy.blogspot.fi/2016/03/supernova-remnant-sharpless-224-in.html

Sharpless 124, http://astroanarchy.blogspot.fi/2016/03/a-new-photo-sharpless-124-emission.html

Lower's Nebula, http://astroanarchy.blogspot.fi/2016/03/a-new-image-lowers-nebula.html

Planetary Nebula PuWe1, http://astroanarchy.blogspot.fi/2016/04/the-last-imaging-project-of-season-puwe1.html

All photos above have been taken with this setup

My humble thanks to the supporters, they made my work possible once again!

ASTROSWEDEN, STARLIGHT XPRESS and CELESTRON.UK

All companies are offering the first class products and service!

This setup was possible due to great support!

Mount, 10-micron 1000
Optics, Celestron Edge HD 1100
Camera, Apogee U16 D09 with KAF16803 chip, 4096x4096 9 microns pixels, 36,8x36,8mm
Filter Wheel, Apogee, seven square slots 50x50mm
Focuser, FeatherTouch with MicroTouch control unit
Heater, Dew Buster
Active Optics Unit, SXV AO LF from Starlight Xpress + OAG
Guider, an ultra sensitive Lodestar X2, also from Starlight Xpress
Focal Reducer, Celestron reducer 0.7 for Edge 1100
Finder, Telrad
Filters, Astrodon, H-alpha 5nm, O-III 3nm, S-II 3nm. R, G, B and L

Some highlights from the season past

Exhibition in Mikkeli Center of Photography

http://astroanarchy.blogspot.fi/2016/03/astro-anarchy-gets-published-exhibition.html

APOD by NASA (Astronomy Picture of the Day)

Cooperation with David Lane

This photo get published by WIRED and CNET

I was a one of the speakers in Panhellenic Conference of Astronomy in Sparta, Greece

Dr.Ioannis - Hugh Seiradakis Professor of the Physics Department of AUTH
J-P Metsavainio Finnish astrophotographer

The Dr.Fiori Anastasia Metallinou is an associate of the Institute of Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing of the National Observatory of Athens.

Dr.Kosmas gauze is Lecturer of the Department of Astrophysics, Astronomy and Mechanics, University of Athens

A gallery exhibition in Helsinki, Finland, Galleria Kajaste

An art exhibition in Oulu, Finland

Concert, thousand year old vocal music with my astronomical photos

Two concerts with two vocal ensemble Cappella pro Vocale from Oulu and Punctum from Rovaniemi. Thousand year old vocal music with my astronomical photos turned to be a timeless combination.

My imageshow was matched with music and it was projected on the walls and ceiling with four power projectors. Concert took place in two places, first one was in Oulu, Finland at the Church of St Thomas, the second one took place in Rovaniemi in Northern Finland at the Chapel of Korkalovaara.