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Saturday, March 28, 2009

Sh2-223,224 and 225 as aStereo Pair

Parallel Vision
Cross Vision - This image Pair shows two Supernova remnants as I see them. Image is a visualistaion, real 2D image is turned to a spatial format by a special technique.

Friday, March 27, 2009

NGC4565

An other funny Galaxy shot from the night of 23.03. This wide field precentation, with Canon EF 200mm f1.8 @1.8, shows lots of Space around the NGC4565. Waste of space? Maybe, but I think this composition gives a feel about the dimensions of the Space. The field of view is about five degrees wide. - Same equipments, than in previous post. Exposures 7x150s.
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here is my previous image of the same galaxy, taken with a longer FL instrument.

Leo Trio

Image labeled with MaximDL planetarium
A grop from the center of the image.
Not a bad resolution for a 200mm lens.
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I shot this one 23.03 for optical configuration calibration purposes.
The 200mm les is not a right tool for tiny glaxies, this is a sharp one though.
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Image turned to be kind of nice, so I post it here.
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A Blink animation to show just Galxies.
(Klick the image to see it.)
If could see this area from outside of our home Galaxy, it'll looks like a Starless one.
All the faint dots in the supressed image, are the other Galaxies!
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Details; -Camera, QHY9 - Optics, Canon EF 200mm f1.8 @ 1.8 - Guiding, QHY5 and PHD-guiding - Platform, LX200 GPS 12" - Exposures, 17x150s with IDAS-LP filter, Darks, Flats and Bias frames calibrated.

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Sh2-129 in HST palette

Sh2-129 in HST palette, S-II = Red, H-a = Green and O-III = Blue Sh2-129 in "natural" colors, mixed from narrowband data.
I imaged H-alpha for this at night of 24.03.
It can be seen here:
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Last night I managed to shot S-II and O-III channels. The signal is extremely weak, but real.
I have never seen this target in HST palette and there is generally very few images of Sh2-129.
This is a large nebula, the field of view is about five degrees wide in the image.
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Details;
-Camera, QHY9 - Optics, Canon EF 200mm f1.8 @ 1.8 - Guiding, QHY5 and PHD-guiding - Platform, LX200 GPS 12" - Exposures, 7x1200s with 7nm H-alpha filter, 5x300s O-III Binned 4x4 and 5x300s S-IIBinned 4x4 . Darks, Flats and Bias frames calibrated.