Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Just for fun, a rocket launch seen from my hometown Oulu, Finland
I made this image manipulation to show the actual scale of the Saturn rocket in everyday environment.
Image shows my hometown from the marketplace and there is a map attached showing the locations.
The Height of the Apollo rocket is around 110m. The church, seen at left in the image, is about 54m high.
A Saturn V launch from Oulu
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The Map
PS.
Other well known landmarks seen in Oulu at scale
Cheops Pyramid
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The Empire State Building
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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
Saturday, April 18, 2015
B&W space, Winter 2014-15
As astronomical cameras are usually cooled grayscale CCD-cameras, color images are made by shooting each color channel through a filter. For broad band RGB images usually four filters are used Luminance and RGB-filters. Due to massive light pollution in my location, I'm specialized to a narrowband imaging, it's very effective method to shoot emission nebulae, since they are emitting light in well known wavelengths. All other light can be then filtered out and let just the right wavelength pass through. I'm using the most common combination of emission lines, a light from ionized hydrogen (H-alpha), sulfur (S-II) and oxygen (O-III).
The strongest emission line is usually the H-alpha, it has most of the details also. I'm publishing here a collection of H-alpha images from the Winter season 2014-15. Sometimes B&W images can be very beautiful.
A collection of selected B&W H-alpha nebulae, Winter 2014-15
click for a large imagePelican Nebula
Pickering's Triangle in O-III light only
NGC 281
Sharpless 132
Tulip Nebula
IC 405
IC 410
IC 1805
Melotte 15
NGC 1795
NGC 1795, a blog post HERE
NGC 2175
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Exhibition in Galleria Kajaste, Oulu, Finland
My first art gallery exhibition in Oulu, Finland.
April 8. - 26.
Wed. - Fri. 14 -19
Sat. - Sun. 12-16
Welcome!
More info about exhibition (In Finnish)
Tietoa näyttelystä suomeksi
http://www.galleriakajaste.fi/galleria/nykyinen-nayttely/
Info about the photo above
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.fi/2015/02/ic-405-flaming-star-nebula.html
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