Saturday, November 23, 2024
Astro Anarchy get published
After about three years without shooting new material from the night sky I'm finally back in business.
I had some health issues and after three operations I'm starting to be good as new again. I have also built a new imaging system, it took about two years to get it up and running.
I was really amazed about the amount of publicity my work got after I publish my first photos from the new setup. Here are some of the publication, couple of them are in finish only, sorry.
My TV-interview in a live talk show,
Arto Nyberg
You can see the show here: https://areena.yle.fi/1-70235645
PETA PIXEL
World's leading independent photography, videography, and imaging technology publication
"This Astrophotographer Captures the Universe Unlike Anyone Else"
JEREMY GRAY
You can read the article here:
MY MODERN MET
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"Remarkable Astrophotography Captures the Sublime Beauty of Universe"
Jessica Stewart on November 11, 2024
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AN INTERVIEW BY RADIO KALEVA
"Olemme kaikki supernovien lapsia"
"Olemme kaikki supernovien lapsia"
Haastattelun voi kuunnella täältä sivun lopusta:
https://www.kaleva.fi/olemme-kaikki-supernovien-lapsia-oululainen-tahtik/11396012
https://www.kaleva.fi/olemme-kaikki-supernovien-lapsia-oululainen-tahtik/11396012
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Kuva: Maiju Pohjanheimo
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Methuselah Nebula, MWP1, project finalized
Planetary Nebulae are like candy of the cosmos, small and colorful treats to the eye.
MWP1 is a Planetary Nebula in constellation Cygnus, the Swan, it's rarely imaged and now I know why.
This is a unusually old, unusually shaped and unusually large planetary nebula, it also was one of the most difficult targets I have captured so far.
When I saw the first 20 min. exposure, it looked like there is plenty of nothing in the frame, this is dim to an extreme. I have added full size 20 min sub frames of H-alpha and O-III at the end of this blog post so you can see yourself how much data there is.
MWP1, Methuselah Nebula
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Click for a full size image
Photo is in natural color palette from the light emitted by an ionized hydrogen (H-alpha)
and an ionized oxygen (O-III)
MWP1 in O-III light only
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The structure of MWP1 in light of an ionized oxygen (O-III)
INFO
This is one of the largest planetary nebulae known, it spans about 15 light-years. Based on its expansion rate the nebula has an age of 150 thousand years, a cosmic blink of an eye in the 10 billion year life of a sun-like star. But planetary nebulae represent a very brief final phase in stellar evolution, as the nebula's central star shrugs off its outer layers to become a hot white dwarf. In fact, planetary nebulae ordinarily only last for 10 to 20 thousand years.
The central star of the nebula is on of the hottest stars known. It's so hot that it's producing large amounts of X-rays
Source NASA APOD
Scale in the Sky
The white circle show the apparent size of the Moon in the same scale, this is a large object as a Planetary nebula. Moon has a angular dimension of 30 arcminutes, that's 0.5 degrees.
Animation
Technical details
Processing workflow
Image acquisition, MaximDL
Stacked and calibrated in CCDStack2.
Deconvolution with a CCDStack2, Positive Constraint, 27 iterations, added at 50% weight
Color combine in PS CS3
Levels and curves in PS CS3.
Imaging optics, Celestron EDGE 14" with 0.7 Focal reducer
Mount, MesuMount Mark II
Cameras, Imaging camera Apogee Alta U9000M and Apogee seven slot filter wheel
Guider camera, Lodestar x 2 and SXV-AO Active Optics @ 5hz
filters, Astrodon 5nm H-alpha and 3nm O-III
Total exposure time 24h
H-alpha, 21 x 1200 s, binned 1x1 = 8 h
O-III, 48x 1200 s, binned 1x1 = 16h
A single, full size, 20 min H-alpha and O-III exposure
Click for a full scale image.
Both images below are jpg photos of a single full size, 20 min. FIT-format 16 bit image.
Photos are calibrated with darks and bias corrected flats and are heavily stretched to show even a hint of the actual nebula.
H-alpha
O-III
Sunday, October 20, 2024
A start of the new imaging project, MWP1, the Methuselah Nebula
MWP1 ( Motch-Werner-Pakull 1, PN G080.3-10.4, PK 080-10.1) is a very old, dim and diffused planetary nebula in constellation Cygnus, the Swan. It's one of the largest planetary nebula known, it spans about 15 light years of space. The apparent size in the sky is 15.52 x 13,13 arcminutes. (Full moon has a diameter of 30 arcminutes) The estimated age of the nebula is 150.000 years.
MWP1 is a very usually shaped, unusually large, and unusually old, planetary nebulae. The progenitor star is also one of the hottest stars known, so hot it is producing large amounts of X-rays. There are not very many photos out of this difficult target.
This is a start of the imaging project with my new imaging system. So far I have shot 15 hours of light from an ionized oxygen, O-III. I'll shoot two other emission lines, H-alpha and S-II, when ever the weather allows it. The triple ionized oxygen emits blueish light, in this image the O-III emission is colorized to blue. I can produce a real three band color image after I have collected enough light for ionized hydrogen and sulfur.
MWP1, the Methuselah Nebula
Click for a large image
MWP1 planetary nebula in light of an ionized oxygen only.Technical details
Processing workflow
Image acquisition, MaximDL v5.07.
Stacked and calibrated in CCDStack2.
Deconvolution with a CCDStack2 Positive Constraint, 27 iterations, added at 50% weight
Color combine in PS CS3
Levels and curves in PS CS3.
Imaging optics, Celestron EDGE 14" with 0.7 Focal reducer
Mount, MesuMount Mark II
Cameras, Imaging camera Apogee Alta U9000M and Apogee seven slot filter wheel
Guider camera, Lodestar x 2 and SXV-AO Active Optics @ 5hz
filters, Astrodon 3nm O-III
Total exposure time
O-III, 45x 1200 s, binned 1x1 = 15h
A single full scale 20 min O-III exposure
Click for a full scale image.
Friday, October 18, 2024
NOCTURNE EXIHIBITION
First exhibition for a while, this time in my home town Oulu.
A new Art Gallery, AudioGalleria, has it's second exhibition build around my photos.
The exhibition starts at Saturday19.10 with opening party at 18.00 - 20.00, you all are welcome to enjoy my cosmic nature photographs and complimentary sparkling wine!
Ps.
At Fathers day, Sunday 10.11 at 16.00 I will give a public presentation about my work in Valvesali at down town Oulu. All fathers and other guests are welcome.
After the dry lecture we serve complimentary sparkling wine in nearby AudioGalleria.
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