Sunday, January 24, 2010
IC 410 and IC 405 as a Zoomin Movie.
I have shot this area back in 2008 with a 300mm camera lens. In this movie the latest image of IC 410 is embeded in an older wide field image and animated to a still motion movie. By this way, I can show both, wide field and a high resolution in a same image.
Klick HERE to see this movie in YouTube, please, klick the HD-symbol at lower Right corner to see it in HD-resolution.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
IC 410 as a 3D Stereo pair
NEW!
For those who has difficulties to see Stereo images, there is a new service http://www.start3d.com/
This clever service turns Left and Right images, from a stereo pair, to an animated image.
Please, have a look:
http://www.start3d.com/4500142351/0001/1139333978770550
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Parallel vision
Cross vision
NOTE! This is a personal vision about forms and shapes, based on some known facts and artistic impression. Viewing instructions can be found from a Right hand side menu.
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Here you can find an Anaglyph, Red/Cyan, Stereo image.
You'll need Red/Cyan Eyeglasses to be able to see images right. Note, if you have a Red and Green filters, you can use them! Red goes to Left eye.
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NEW ADDITION!
An Anaglyp Still Motion movie
Klick HERE to see this movie in YouTube, please, klick the HD-symbol at lower Right corner to see it in HD-resolution.
Friday, January 22, 2010
IC 410, a cosmic fertilization
HST-palette
Natural color composition from Narrowband channels.
After many technical and weather problems I managed to get enough data for this image.
IC 410 is a beautiful object next to a "Flaming Star Nebula", IC 405, in Auriga.
Ambient temperature was about -21 celsius degrees and the transparency was good.
Seeing was really bad all night long, about 5 FWHM, so I shot H-alpha frames binned 2x2 to have a image scale of 1,5 arcseconds/pixel.
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Processing work flow:
Image acquisition, MaxiDL v5.07.
Stacked and calibrated in CCDStack.
Deconvolution with a CCDSharp, 30 iterations.
Levels, curves and color combine in PS CS3.
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Telescope, Meade LX200 GPS 12" @ f5
Camera, QHY9
Guiding, SXV-AO @ 8Hz
Image Scale, 1,5 arcseconds/pixel
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Exposures:
H-alpha 7x1200s Binned 2x2
O-III 4x600s, binned 3x3
S-II 3x600s, binned 3x3
A starless image of the IC 410. This looks now like a Rococo painting, very 3D!
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Frustration
I mentioned about hardware problems in this post. Problems I ment are in a telescopes electric, not in my camera. I like to clear this up.
QHY9 will have soon a software update and it'll work without flaws in my extreme conditions too.
Bottom line.
QHY9 has been a bigest upgrade for my equipments ever!
We have now clear up here 65N and temperature is nice -30 celsius (-22 Farenheit).
Seeing looks good, transparency is not too good though.
Can't do any imaging since my equipments are not working due many hardware issues.
I have spend countles hours fixing things and now there is only couple of issues left.
I just have spend six hours to do some power measurements to pinpoint failure(s), three hours of them outside.
I feel really frustrated to be unable to use clear night(s)... what a shame.
NOTE
I made a small face lift to my Blog. There is now larger preview images and both columns are wider, hope you'll like!
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