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Thursday, December 11, 2008

Flame Nebula Animation and the bad weather

The wearher up here leads me to do experiments, since imaging is not possible.
I have done some Stero Pair images ealier, now I have made an 3D animation based on
same general idea.
Original image,
is splitted to layers and grayscale vesion of the starless nebula image is turned to Hight map.
The Hight map is the turned to 3D-surface, stars are projected to other surfaces to
create volume information.
This is a very quik test for this technique and far better results can be archived with it.
This is an animated GIF, size is about 3Mb.

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Cassiopeia A as a Stereo Pair

Weather up here at 65N has been cloudy about a month now.
I played with my image of Supernova remnant, Cassiopeia A.
(Original post, with imaging details, can be found here:
In original image, I was seeing an outer shell of hydrogen gas (Green).
In this stereo image I have tryed to bring that structure out.
Two versions, first for the Parallel Vision method and Second for
the Cross Vision method.
For viewing istructions, please, look for the Right hand side menu.

Monday, November 24, 2008

The head of the Medusa





Bernini's sculpture of Medusa's head
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I went trough my image archives and noticed some similaritys between
nebulosity near Tulip Nebula and the Medusa in Greec mythology.
I think, similarity is most noticibly in 3D-presentation.
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Original image and the imaging data can be found here:
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More information about Medusa can be found here:
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- Well..., it looks like a Sideshow Bob, from The Simpsons, too.

Sunday, November 23, 2008

IC405 & IC410 in HST (Hubble Space Telescope) Palette

Image in Hubble palette "Natural" color version -
Last night, between and trough speeding clouds, S-II and O-III channels added.
H-alpha data is from November 9, H-a details here:
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Same imaging data, than in 9.11. image.
Exposures now:
2x1200s S-II (22.11.)
2x1200s O-III (22.11.)
5x1200s H-alpha (09.11.)