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Tuesday, February 3, 2009

2. Universe Today article

It looks like Tammy Plotner and I will work together for some time.
Yesterday there was a new article in Universe Today by Tammy.
This time I turned one of the Hubble Heritage images,
MGC281, to a Stereo Pair format.
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Distances and shapes in 3D-image are visualizations,
since we don't have enough information to buil an accurate model.
However, the 3D-model of the target is not only
a lucky guess as there is many known "anchor points" in the image,
witch can be used to estimate the actual forms
and the relative distances.
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You can read the article from:

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.
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The original image and the imaging information can be found here:
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Viewing instructions, please, look for the Right hand side menu.

Saturday, January 31, 2009

APOD

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Astronomy Picture of the Day

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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

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

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

Friday, January 30, 2009

1. Universe Today, article

Yesterday the Universe Today publification
use one of my stereo image, "Rosette Nebula", in they article.
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The name of the article is "a rose by any other name... would look twice as sweet!"
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The image they used in the article
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The story is written by the Tammy Plotner, an impressive Lady, http://www.universetoday.com/author/tammy/