Astro Anarchy

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Who need Stars?

This is a just a test. Large gas clouds are located usually in dense star fields and bright stars are dominating the image, even in narrowband images. Sometimes it's difficult to see actual target from stars. In this test I removed stars from images by using several PS filters, like Minimum, Dust & Scratches and some other star reducing methods. - I think, in this way the actual targets and they forms are more visible.

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"Bubble Nebula"

"Elephants Trunk"

The core of the "Heart Nebula"

"Andromeda Galaxy"

IC1936

"North America Nebula"

"Flaming Star Nebula"

Part of the IC1848 "Soul Nebula"

Sh2-240

"California Nebula"

"Rose Nebula"

"Hart and Soul"

Wwil Nebula Western part

Weil Nebula Eastern part

Friday, July 4, 2008

More repocessed material

M82 with H-alpha light to show massive outburst of hydrogen gas

from galaxy core.

Details in original post.

IC1848 (Part of the Soul nebula) in H-alpha light + RGB data trough UHC-s filter.

Details in original post.

M106, details in original post.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

California Nebula Reprocessed

This version is combined from two images of the same target.Images are taken with different optical configurations. First was taken with SW 80ED refractor and second with Canon EF 200mm f2.8 camera lens. CCDstack software was used to combine those two images and here is the result.

Monday, June 30, 2008

Reprocessed material from winter 2007-08

Here in northern Finland we have now a mandatory pause for astro imaging doe the high latitude.

Now is good time to reorganize image archives and improve processing skils. Few new images was found from my HD, like material for M45 image. I just place images here with they name. Imaging details can be found from original posts.

All the images are taken with QHY8 camera trough various optical conficurations.

Note! Some fo the images are in high resolution.

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