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Thursday, May 20, 2010

M 83, the "Southern Pinwheel"








16" RCOS ja Apogee U9000 camera. 
LRGB combo.
 Luminance 6x300s, Red 4x300s, Green 3x300s and Blue 3x300s. Dark calibrated, no flats.
Raw data is shared with Petri Kehusmaa and J-P Metsavainio

Processing workflow:
Image acquisition, MaxiDL v4.xxx
Stacked and calibrated in CCDStack.
Deconvolution with a CCDSharp, 30 iterations.


Levels, curves and color combine in PS CS3.


Wednesday, May 19, 2010

M16, the "Eagle nebula"









Images are in natural broadband colors, boosted with H-alpha and an O-III.
provides great views to a Southern skies in Australia.
Technical details:

16" RCOS ja Apogee U9000 camera. HA:O-III and LRGB combo.
H-a 5x1200s, O-III 1x1200s, and 15x300s, Red 2x300s, Green 2x300s and Blue 2x300s. Dark calibrated, no flats.

Processing workflow:
Image acquisition, MaxiDL v4.xxx
Stacked and calibrated in CCDStack.
Deconvolution with a CCDSharp, 30 iterations.


Levels, curves and color combine in PS CS3.


In this version, only RGB and the Luminance data is used, no H-alpha nor O-III.

Saturday, May 15, 2010

M20, the Triffid nebula as a 3D-stereo pair





Parallel vision



Cross vision

Other 3D-formats can be found here:

Original 2D-image:

NOTE! This is a personal vision about forms and shapes, based on some known facts and an artistic impression.
Viewing instructions can be found from a Right hand side menu.


M20, the Triffid nebula as an anaglyph Red/Cyan 3D





You'll need Red/Cyan Eyeglasses to be able to see this movie right.
Note, if you have a Red and Green/Blue filters, you can try them out! Red goes to Left eye.





Other 3D-formats can be found here:

Original 2D-image:

NOTE! This is a personal vision about forms and shapes, based on some known facts and an artistic impression.
Viewing instructions can be found from a Right hand side menu.