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.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
IC 410 as a 3D Stereo pair
NEW!
For those who has difficulties to see Stereo images, there is a new service http://www.start3d.com/
This clever service turns Left and Right images, from a stereo pair, to an animated image.
Please, have a look:
http://www.start3d.com/4500142351/0001/1139333978770550
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Parallel vision
Cross vision
NOTE! This is a personal vision about forms and shapes, based on some known facts and artistic impression. Viewing instructions can be found from a Right hand side menu.
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Here you can find an Anaglyph, Red/Cyan, Stereo image.
You'll need Red/Cyan Eyeglasses to be able to see images right. Note, if you have a Red and Green filters, you can use them! Red goes to Left eye.
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NEW ADDITION!
An Anaglyp Still Motion movie
Klick HERE to see this movie in YouTube, please, klick the HD-symbol at lower Right corner to see it in HD-resolution.
Friday, January 22, 2010
IC 410, a cosmic fertilization
HST-palette
Natural color composition from Narrowband channels.
After many technical and weather problems I managed to get enough data for this image.
IC 410 is a beautiful object next to a "Flaming Star Nebula", IC 405, in Auriga.
Ambient temperature was about -21 celsius degrees and the transparency was good.
Seeing was really bad all night long, about 5 FWHM, so I shot H-alpha frames binned 2x2 to have a image scale of 1,5 arcseconds/pixel.
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Processing work flow:
Image acquisition, MaxiDL v5.07.
Stacked and calibrated in CCDStack.
Deconvolution with a CCDSharp, 30 iterations.
Levels, curves and color combine in PS CS3.
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Telescope, Meade LX200 GPS 12" @ f5
Camera, QHY9
Guiding, SXV-AO @ 8Hz
Image Scale, 1,5 arcseconds/pixel
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Exposures:
H-alpha 7x1200s Binned 2x2
O-III 4x600s, binned 3x3
S-II 3x600s, binned 3x3
A starless image of the IC 410. This looks now like a Rococo painting, very 3D!
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Frustration
I mentioned about hardware problems in this post. Problems I ment are in a telescopes electric, not in my camera. I like to clear this up.
QHY9 will have soon a software update and it'll work without flaws in my extreme conditions too.
Bottom line.
QHY9 has been a bigest upgrade for my equipments ever!
We have now clear up here 65N and temperature is nice -30 celsius (-22 Farenheit).
Seeing looks good, transparency is not too good though.
Can't do any imaging since my equipments are not working due many hardware issues.
I have spend countles hours fixing things and now there is only couple of issues left.
I just have spend six hours to do some power measurements to pinpoint failure(s), three hours of them outside.
I feel really frustrated to be unable to use clear night(s)... what a shame.
NOTE
I made a small face lift to my Blog. There is now larger preview images and both columns are wider, hope you'll like!
Monday, January 4, 2010
Cloudynights forum October 2009 winner
My image of Bubble Nebula was a "Cloudy Nights Imaging and Sketching Contest - CCD Imaging & Processing's" winner.
This post is somehow late, since I noticed this just now.
Original image and technical details can be found HERE.
Friday, January 1, 2010
Three new Zoomout Movies
Tulip Nebula Zoomout.
Klick HERE to see this in YouTube, please, klick a HD-symbol to see this in HD-format.
Klick HERE to see this in YouTube, please, klick a HD-symbol to see this in HD-format.
Klick HERE to see this in YouTube, please, klick a HD-symbol to see this in HD-format.
I have found out, that with this tech. I can combine a high resolution details to a wide field experience.
Seeing the "big picture" helps the orientation and shows the context.
Heart Nebula Zoomout
I made a Zoomout video from a Heart Nebula as well.
Klick HERE to see this in YouTube, please, klick a HD-symbol to see this in HD-format.Movie is made by stitching together a wide field image and a detail image from a same target, in this case the heart (Melotte 15) of the heart nebula.
Original images can be found here:
http://astroanarchy.zenfolio.com/p62690868/h2254fd41#h2254fd41
http://astroanarchy.zenfolio.com/p1072219942/h12bae2d9#h12bae2d9
Bubble Zoomout
Bubble Nebula and a Sh2-157
This video shows the Bubble Nebula in a larger context.Klick HERE to see this in YouTube, please, klick a HD-symbol to see this in HD-format.
Movie is made from two images stiched to gether. Image of the Bubble Nbula is atken with a Meade LX200 12" telescope and a QHY9 astro camera, larger field of view image of Sh2-157 and a Bubble is taken with a Tokina 300mm lens and a QHY8 astro camera.
Bubble details:
http://astroanarchy.zenfolio.com/p1072219942/h3b6799c6
Sh2-157 details:
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2008/11/sh2-157.html
Thursday, December 31, 2009
All my images from a Autumn season 2009
I made a Slide Show about all my Autumn 2009 Astro Images. Not too many of them due the weather problems up here 65N.
To see full page Show, please, maksimize your Browser and klick HERE
Here you'll find a Still Motion Movie about the same material. Klick HERE to see this in YouTube, please, klick a HD-symbol to see this in HD-format.
Happy New Year to All!
To see full page Show, please, maksimize your Browser and klick HERE
Happy New Year to All!
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
An anaglyph Still Motion collection
You'll need Red/Cyan Eyeglasses to be able to see images right. Note, if you have a Red and Green filters, you can use them! Red goes to Left eye.
Anaglyph Still Motion movies
You'll need Red/Cyan Eyeglasses to be able to see images right. Note, if you have a Red and Green filters, you can use them! Red goes to Left eye.
This was an interesting test. I tested how 3D-anaglyph images might work as a Still Motion movie files.
'They simply work! This will give a new life to 3D-images, it'll kind of adds a "fourth dimension" to images.
I used a Sony Vegas evaluation version to add the Zoom & Pan feature to still images.
How ever, there was a problem with video conversion in YouTube. For some reason it courses chosting in the movie. Original version has no chosting effect at all.
Other samples:
Full Moon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj8oqbH3Ftc
Butterfly Nebula.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPuLp09E9R8
IC 1396.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXpfCAHNpj8
M27
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGMupR68GY0
Zoom in movie test.
Bubble Nebula Zoom in movie.
Klick HERE to see this animation in YouTube, please, klick a HD-symbol in lower Right corner to see it in HD-format.
Heart & Soul Nebulae, zooming to a Soul detail.
Zoomed image is a composition of a wide field image of H&S and a high resolution detail image of a Soul Nebula.
Klick HERE to see this animation in YouTube, please, klick a HD-symbol in lower Right corner to see it in HD-format.
I tested an evaluation version of Sony Vegas video editor to create this effect.
Windows movie maker is a free option to do this, but effects are not parametric, so there is not enough user control for a good result.
This is a good way to show actual resolution of a picture, there is not much point to publish full resolution version of an image due the huge size.
Original images with details can be found here:
Bubble Nebula: http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2009/10/bubble-nebula-finalized.html
Heart & Soul Nebulae: http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2008/10/heart-soul.html
Soul Nebula detail: http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2009/11/soul-nebula-closeup-finalized.html
Sunday, December 27, 2009
3D-conversion testing
Here is some tests, that I found interesting.
I have done lots of stereo pair and anaglyph Red/Cyan conversions from my 2D-astro images.
This time I have animated those three stereo image types to a 3D-animations.
First the 2D-animation of the Soul Nebula.
Klick HERE to see this animation in YouTube, please, klick a HD-symbol in lower Right corner to see it in HD-format.
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Secondly a 3D-animation in Parallel vision and Cross vision formats
A Parallel vision movie
Klick HERE to see this in YouTube, please, klick a HD-symbol to see this in HD-format
A Cross vision movie.
Klick HERE to see this in YouTube, please, klick a HD-symbol to see this in HD-format.
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A third version is in Anaglyph format. Red/Cyan eyeglasses are needed to see the movie right.
Note you can use a Red and Green filters instead to see video! Red goes to Left eye.
Klick HERE to see this in YouTube, please, klick a HD-symbol to see this in HD-format.
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The original 2D-image with imaging details can be seen HERE.
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NOTE! This is a personal vision about forms and shapes, based on some known facts and artistic impression.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Happy Saturnalia to all!
Hyvää Saturnalia kaikille!
Happy Saturnalia to all of you!
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Ok, it's a Christmas time, but Saturnalia was there first.
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EDIT:
This image get published in UNIVERSE TODAY.
Many thanks to Tammy Plotner and merry Christmas!
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Tuesday, December 22, 2009
An Anaglyph animation test
I made this funny 3D-video from a Veil Nebula. It shows how it might be formed from a Supernova explosion. Movie is very short though.
You'll need Red/Cyan Eyeglasses to be able to see the movie right.
Note, if you have a Red and Green filters, you can use them! Red goes to Left eye.
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Original 2D-image can be found HERE.
A Stereo pair version can be found HERE.
Saturday, December 19, 2009
NGC 281, the "Pac-Man nebula" as a stereo pair
Parallel Vision 
Cross Vision -
NOTE! This is a personal vision about forms and shapes, based on some known facts and artistic impression. Viewing instructions can be found from a Right hand side menu.
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Here you can find an Anaglyph, Red/Cyan, Stereo image.
You'll need Red/Cyan Eyeglasses to be able to see images right. Note, if you have a Red and Green filters, you can use them! Red goes to Left eye.
Friday, December 18, 2009
NGC 281, the "Pac-Man Nebula"
This image has coused a lots of trouble to me. At one point I was thinking what's the point of doing this!
Let's face it, my equipments are a big pile of crap. Everything is faling a parts and I'm spending more time to fixing things than actually imaging.
It's not a picnic to spend two hours outside and soldering when it's very windy and temperature drops to -26 celsius. (-15F). I really need better instruments if I'm going to continue this "hobby" (read addiction) now everything is put to gether from self made solutions and cheapest possible parts.
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Ok, here is a image after all, not a perfect one though. I started this project at the end of the last month and I collected last photons 16.12. I collected 42 x 1200s of H-alpha light, that's a 14 hours.
Due the technical problems I was able to use only 6 x 1200s, Two hours, of them!
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Images are in my Portfolio with less compression, Please, have a look HERE.
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Processing work flow:
Image acquisition, MaxiDL v5.07.
Stacked and calibrated in CCDStack.
Deconvolution with a CCDSharp, 30 iterations.
Levels, curves and color combine in PS CS3.
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Telescope, Meade LX200 GPS 12" @ f4.65
Camera, QHY9
Guiding, SXV-AO @ 11Hz
Image Scale, 0,8 arcseconds/pixel
Exposures:
H-alpha 6x1200s Binned 1x1
O-III 3x600s, binned 3x3
S-II 4x1200s, binned 1x31
Saturday, December 12, 2009
A new version of the Veil animation.
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Original video can be downloaded from HERE
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This video is done by splitting the original 2D-image to a layers by type under a PS. Layers are then projected to a real 3D-sufaces in a 3D-modeling SW, in this case the TrueSpace.
The resulting 3D-model is the animated to a movie file.
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NOTE! This is a personal vision about forms and shapes, based on some known facts and artistic impression. The original 2D-image can be found HERE
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Stereo animation of birth of the Veil Nebula, http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2008/10/veil-nebula-supernova-animation-in.html
In this vsualization a massive Star ends its life to a explosion, known as a Supernova!
An older, no HD, version of the Animation can be found HERE
Friday, December 11, 2009
Closeup of the Soul Nebula, a monthly winner
The Soul nebula was selected as a Monthly winner in imaging competition at MyAstroimages site.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
A new version of Anaglyph Veil Nebula
You'll need Red/Cyan Eyeglasses to be able to see images right. Note, if you have a Red and Green filters, you can use them! Red goes to Left eye.
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NOTE! This is a personal vision about forms and shapes, based on some known facts and artistic impression.
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I made this new version with a colors. Looks like the narrowband color scheme is very suitable for Red/cyan Anaglyph format, since Red color can't be seen that way and images are Grayscale ones with dominating Red.
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Original 2D-image with details can be found here:
Klick the image to see original one.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Astro anarchy gets published
The finnish "Tähdet ja Avaruus" (Stars and Space) magazine pulished a large panoramic image of my high resolution, NGC 6888, the Crescent Nebula image.
Image is in HST-palette.
Sunday, December 6, 2009
North America & Pelican Nebula as a stereogram
Parallel Vision 
Cross Vision -
NOTE! This is a personal vision about forms and shapes, based on some known facts and artistic impression. Wieving instructions can be found from a Right hand side menu.
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Here you can find an Anaglyph, Red/Cyan, Stereo image.
You'll need Red/Cyan Eyeglasses to be able to see images right. Note, if you have a Red and Green filters, you can use them! Red goes to Left eye.
Saturday, December 5, 2009
NGC 7000 & IC 5070, The North America & Pelican Nebulae
I found this older image from my HD, this was my very first narrowband color image!
The original post from September 2008 can be found HERE.
I noticed, that I haven't done a Natural color version from the data, so here it is.
Technical details with the original post.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Astro Anarchy gets published
Monday, November 30, 2009
A NEW FEATURE
I have added a New Feature to my Portfolio!
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QUALITY: All images are in very high resolution! (Up to the 7000x9000 pixels) This makes possible to print out extremely high quality results. Prints are real photographic prints, not an inkjet, or similar ones.
PRICES IN EUROPE:
The price level is from 11x15cm and 1,95€ to a Poster size 51x76cm 49,95€
NOTE, since European products are delivered from inside EU,
NO CUSTOMS COSTS are added!
NO CUSTOMS COSTS are added!
PRICES IN USA:
4" x 5" and 2$ to a Gigant Poster 24" x 36" for 97,95$
(NOTE, US and Canada only Supplier)
Please, have a look, http://astroanarchy.zenfolio.com/p1072219942
If you have any suggestions, just let me know by leaving a comment here or in a Portfolio!
(NOTE, US and Canada only Supplier)
Please, have a look, http://astroanarchy.zenfolio.com/p1072219942
If you have any suggestions, just let me know by leaving a comment here or in a Portfolio!
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