Showing posts with label Astronomical Videos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Astronomical Videos. Show all posts
Friday, February 25, 2022
4K HYPER Zoom to the Milky Way and a Bubble Nebula
I have made couple of 4K videos out of my massive 145 degree Milky Way panorama. In the video you can see the actual resolution of this massive image. This time I'm zooming into the Bubble Nebula in cassiopeia at distance of about 12.000 light years.
Super Zoom to The Bubble nebula (44 seconds)
Best seen as a full screen and better yet, with a 4K display, direct link to the YouTube:
https://youtu.be/HZrcwxeFLYs
Info about the large panorama of the Milky Way
(Click the image to enter)
https://youtu.be/HZrcwxeFLYs
Info about the large panorama of the Milky Way
(Click the image to enter)
Over a decade, 1500 exposure hours and 301 individual frames visible in one image
NOTE, image of the Full Moon as a scale in lover left corner.
Info about the Bubble Nebula
(Click the image to enter)
NOTE, image of the Full Moon as a scale in lover left corner.
Info about the Bubble Nebula
(Click the image to enter)
Thursday, February 24, 2022
4K zoom in the Milky Way
I made a 4K video out of my massive 145 degree Milky Way panorama. In the video you can see the actual resolution of this massive image when it zoom in to IC 1396 in constellation Cepheus
Super Zoom to IC 1396
Best seen as full screen and 4K display, direct link to the YouTube:
https://youtu.be/weeA-jEzezA
Info about the large panorama of Milky Way:
https://youtu.be/weeA-jEzezA
Info about the large panorama of Milky Way:
Wednesday, February 23, 2022
Super Zoom to my photo, the Grand Mosaic of the Milky Way Revision 2
4K Super Zoom to my photo
Grand Mosaic of the Milky Way Revision 2
Super Zoom to the Milky Way, note, best to see in full screen
It took over 12 years to finalize this massive photo of Milky Way
Blog post with a zoomable image, please, have a look here: https://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2021/10/grand-mosaic-of-milky-way-is-now-large.html
IMAGE SPECS
- Panorama spans 145 x 22 degrees of sky (Full Moon covers 0,5 degrees of sky)
- Resolution 120.000 x 18.000 pixels
- Photos has 2.2 gigapixels in it, the spatial resolution is equal to 8.8 gigapixel image from color camera since all the channels are in native resolution.
- There are least nine confirmed supernova remnants in this panorama
- About 25 million stars are visible in the photo
- Distance to the nebulae in the image between 350 to 20.000 light years
- Exposure time over 1500 hours between 2009 - 2021
- 301 individual images are stitched together seamlessly
- It took about 12 years to finalize this photo
- Narrowband image from light of ionized elements, hydrogen = green, sulfur = red and oxygen = blue
- Processing time for the whole panorama, way too large part of my life
Monday, July 19, 2021
Voices of Apollo 11
@FORBES
"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
Click for the larger version of 2500 x 2500 pixels.
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.
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.
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 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
Click for a larger image.
Click for a larger image.
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
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
Saturday, August 20, 2016
An experimental 3D-study of the Great galaxy of Andromeda, M31
This is an experimental test with a 3D-conversion of my astronomical image. Only real elements from the original image are used, there is nothing added but the estimated volumetric information!
NOTE. This is a personal vision about shapes and volumes, based on some scientific data, deduction and an artistic impression.
Video
This is a looped video, click to start and stop. Original movie is in HD 1080p resolution.
All the foreground stars from the original image are removed. Starlike objects seen in this animation are actually globular clusters orbiting the Andromeda Galaxy. Click the YouTube logo at lower right corner to see this video in YouTube at full screen, you should set quality to HD 1080p,Original 2d-image used for this 3d-study
Info about the technique used
Due to huge distances, real parallax can't be imaged in most of the astronomical objects.
I have developed an experimental technique to convert my astropics to a artificial volumetric models.
My 3-D experiments are a mixture of science and an artistic impression. I collect distance and other information before I do my 3-D conversion. Usually there are known stars, coursing the ionization, so I can place them at right relative distance. If I know a distance to the nebula, I can fine tune distances of the stars so, that right amount of stars are front and behind of the object.
I use a “rule of thumb” method for stars: brighter is closer, but if a real distance is known, I'm using that. Many 3-D shapes can be figured out just by looking carefully the structures in nebula, such as dark nebulae must be at front of the emission nebulae in order to show up etc...
The general structure of many star forming regions is very same, there is a group of young stars, as an open cluster inside of the nebula. The stellar wind from the stars is then blowing the gas away around the cluster and forming a kind of cavitation – or a hole — around it. The pillar-like formations in the nebula must point to a source of stellar wind, for the same reason.
How accurate the final model is, depends how much I have known and guessed right. The motivation to make those 3-D-studies is just to show, that objects in the images are not like paintings on the canvas but really three dimensional objects floating in the three dimensional space. This generally adds a new dimension to my hobby as an astronomical imager.
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Astrophotography by J-P Metsavainio, a video
Last weekend I participated to a Finnish Star Party at Artjärvi, southern Finland, as a speaker. Thanks to the organizators, everything went very smoothly!
I made a small movie out of the images used in my presentation. At first, there are couple of minutes some quick info, how my photos are taken. Rest of the movie is made out of my photos taken between 2007 and 2016.
Astrophotography by J-P Metsavainio 2007 -2016
Note.
For the best impression, select HD 1080p from settings and watch in fullscreen. Music is by Tchaikovsky, enjoy!
Click to start and stop the movie
Watch in Youtube, HD 1080p:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXMaVoOvS1o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXMaVoOvS1o
You can find and follow my photos from here
- Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/jp.metsavainio?fref=nf
- Portfolio:http://astroanarchy.zenfolio.com/
- Flickr:https://www.flickr.com/photos/astroanarchy/
- Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCivFr6kAAYZqMVE2doG9uDQ/videos
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
4D video of the Veil Nebula SNR
The weather up here 65N has been cloudy for months. I played with my older images and made couple of experimental 3D animations out of them. Here is the first one, the Veil Nebula SNR in Cygnus. This is actually a 4D animation since it shows the time too... I made this just for fun, this is not an accurate model of reality but close enough for me.
4D video of the Veil Nebula supernova remnant
Click to start and stop the movie
Watch in Youtube, HD 1080p: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWt9BqAtyKIOriginal 2D image of the Veil Nebula can be seen here:
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.fi/2013/12/veil-nebula-unveiled.html
Monday, April 27, 2015
A video out of my astronomical photos
I made a video clip out of my astronomical nature photographs, the movie is in full HD-format.
Please, click start and use a gear symbol at the bottom right of the video window menu, select 1080p HD quality. Then select the full screen mode by using the rightmost symbol.
A 14 minute movie by J-P Metsavainio
Click to start and stop the movie
Some links to my work as an astrophotographer
Some links to my work as an astrophotographer
Portfolio: http://astroanarchy.zenfolio.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jp.metsavainio
Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCivFr6kAAYZqMVE2doG9uDQ/videos
Sunday, January 4, 2015
The year of Astro Anarchy as a movie
All my photos and some highlights of the year 2014 as a movie, 2min 30s.
Click to start and stop the movie
Portfolio: http://astroanarchy.zenfolio.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jp.metsavainio
Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCivFr6kAAYZqMVE2doG9uDQ/videos
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Autumn season 2012 images in 54 seconds, the movie
I made a short still motion movie out of my astronomical images from the Autumn season 2012.
The Movie
Autumn season 2012
Click to play
All my astronomical images are in the portfolio, please have a look:
http://astroanarchy.zenfolio.com/
You are welcome to follow my work in Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/jp.metsavainio
Friday, January 6, 2012
A video from Autumn 2011 images
Autumn season 2011
Three minute video, 640x480 pixels, from my images of Autu mn 2011.
(If you have a slow connection, please, hit the pause and wait movie to load)
Here is a direct link to my main work from last Autumn, a giant 18-panel mosaic of Cygnus nebulae:
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2011/12/cygnus-mosaic-18-panels-and-22-x-14.html
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
3D-study of NGC 300 galaxy
An experiment with the NGC 300. All the stars from our milky way are removed and the original 2D-galaxy image is the projected to a 3D-surface. The resulting 3D-model is animated to a movie file. The purpose is to show the actual shape of the galaxy, now distorted by a perspective.
Original 2D-image and the technical data:
Monday, October 4, 2010
NGC 1365, 3D-transformation test
An experiment with the NGC 1365, the "Great Barred Spiral Galaxy". All the stars from our milky way are removed and the original 2D-galaxy image is the projected to a 3D-surface. The resulting 3D-model is then animated to a movie file. The purpose is to show the actual shape of the galaxy, now distorted by a perspective.
Original image and the thechnical details can be found here: http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2010/10/ngc-1365-great-barred-spiral-galaxy.html
Saturday, September 11, 2010
NGC253, 3D transform test
Galaxy NGC 253 2D/3D transformation.
This is a small experiment to show the internal spiral structure of "Silver Dollar" galaxy better. This is simply done by stretching the galaxy image under the PhotoShop. Resulting frames are then animated to a movie file.
Original image of NGC 253 and technical details can be seen here:
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2010/09/ngc-253-silver-dollar-galaxy.html
Thursday, August 26, 2010
A collection of astronomical movies from my images
All movies are published before in this blog. There has been very few viewers for them though, so I think reposting might be a good idea.
DEEP SKY TARGETS
Veil nebula as a 3D-transformation:
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2009/12/new-version-about-veil-animation.html
Zoom in movies of Bubble and Soul nebulae:
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2009/12/zoom-in-movie-test.html
Bubble nebula zoom out movie:
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2010/01/bubble-zoomout.html
Heart nebula zoom out movie:
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2010/01/hear-nebula-zoomout.html
Zoom out movies from Tulip and Crescent nebulae and Moon:
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2010/01/three-new-zoomout-movies.html
IC410 and IC405 zoom in movie:
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2010/01/ic-410-and-ic-405-as-zoomin-movie.html
M27 as a 3D-transformation movie:
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2010/04/m27-experimental-3d-videos.html
Soul nebula 3D-conversion test:
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2009/12/3d-conversion-testing.html
THE MOON
All Moon movies are made by re-projecting 2D-Moon image to a sphere. After that, the observation location can be freely selected, as long the area of interest stay on the visible area. I like this technique a lot, since the original image stays unprocessed!
Experimental Moon movies:
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2009/05/new-video-material-from-astrotargets.html
(There is a movie of Andromeda galaxy as well)
A movie about principle of making Moon movies from 2D-material:
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-to-3d-moon-movie.html
Moon movie experiments:
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2009/06/more-experiments-with-3d-transform.html
Moon surface fly over movie:
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2009/06/moon-surface-movie-from-2d-image.html
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
The "Bug Nebula", NGC6302 as an animation
The animation is made by splitting the original 2D-image to a layers by the image content. Layers are then taken to a 3D-modeling software, "TrueSpace", and projected to a 3D-surfaces and animated to a movie file.
Stars are placed to Z-axel by apparent brightness , brighter ones are closer.
Original images and imaging details can be found here:
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2010/07/ngc-6302-bug-nebula.html
Transformed 2D-image of NGC6302.
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Veil nebula, Eastern part, fly trough movie
A fly trough movie of the Veil nebula.
Movie is made by dividing objects at separate layers and then the resulting 3D-model is animated to a movie file.
Original 2D-image and data:
Sunday, April 18, 2010
M27, experimental 3D-videos
I turned this original image of Planetary nebula, M27, to a 3D-movie files.
Original 2D-image of M27. Technical details can be found here:
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2009/09/m27-in-two-palettes.html
3D-animated M27, a fly trough movie as a 2D movie.
3D-animated M27, a fly trough movie as a 2D movie.
Parallel vision 3D-stereo movie.
Cross vision 3D-stereo movie.
An anaglyph Red/Cyan 3D-movie.
You'll need Red/Cyan Eyeglasses to be able to see this image right. Note, if you have a Red and Green filters, you can use them! Red goes to Left eye.
Note.
This is a personal vision about forms and shapes, based on some known facts and an artistic impression
Other 3D-formats can be found here:
Sunday, January 24, 2010
IC 410 and IC 405 as a Zoomin Movie.
I have shot this area back in 2008 with a 300mm camera lens. In this movie the latest image of IC 410 is embeded in an older wide field image and animated to a still motion movie. By this way, I can show both, wide field and a high resolution in a same image.
Klick HERE to see this movie in YouTube, please, klick the HD-symbol at lower Right corner to see it in HD-resolution.
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