Astro Anarchy

Sunday, February 1, 2009

The heart & Soul Nebula as an Stereo Pair.

Ones again, I turned this image of "Heart & Soul" Nebula to a Stereo pair format by adding some volume. The result is more or less an educational guess about real 3D appearance of this formation. - Two versions, first for Parallel Vision , and the second for Cross Vision method.

I made this stereo pair to show the "real" nature of this target. The gas and stars are floating in three dimensional space forming three dimensional forms, rather than being a 2D painting on the canvas.

The "Soul" part of the Nebula (Left) seems to be closer to us

by some sources, some other sources states, that it has a same distance as

the "heart" (Right).

In this Stereo precentation the previous option is realized.

The original image and the imaging information can be found here:

http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2009/01/firs-light-for-qhy9.html

Viewing instructions, please, look for the Right hand side menu.

Saturday, January 31, 2009

APOD

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Astronomy Picture of the Day

My "Sh2-240" Supernova Remnant image was selected as an "Astronomy Picture of the Day" by the NASA. You can see the NASA page here: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090131.html

This was my second APOD, previous one can be seen here:

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap081107.html