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Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Tucanae 47, a Globular cluster, reprocessed









LRGB image of Tucanae, NGC 104, globular cluster in constellation Tucana.16700 light years away from Earth and 120 light years across. Image field is about 30' x 30', half a degrees.

I did reprocessed this image, since at the time I didn't have good and functional calibration files.

RCOS ja Apogee U9000 camera. 

LRGB combo.
Luminance 12x300s and 8x150s, Dark and Flat calibrated.
Red 5x300s, Dark calibrated 
Green 5x300s, Dark calibrated 
Blue 5x300s, Dark calibrated 

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, 10 iterations
Levels, curves and color combine in PS CS3.

Monday, October 11, 2010

Horse Head Nebula, an annoying preview






Horse Head Nebula, Barnad 33 and IC 434, is a dark nebula in constellation Orion. Image is taken from "down under". In Australia this nebula has a higher elevation, than here at 65N. 

Why annoying?

This image is a composition of 3 x 1200s H-alpha light. With this modest exposure time, image is far better, than I have managed ever taken up here with a longer integration time, that's annoying!


A false color H-alpha

We will shoot more data for this object in near future. LRGB and more H-a, maybe some O-III and S-II to see, if there is any.


The telescope and technical information:

16" RCOS ja Apogee U9000 camera. 
LRGB combo.
H-alpha 3x1200s, Dark, Flat and bias calibrated.
Raw data is shared with "Team Finland"

Processing workflow:
Image acquisition, MaxiDL v4.xxx
Stacked and calibrated in CCDStack.
Deconvolution with a CCDSharp, 30 iterations added 50% to non convoluted data
Levels, curves and color combine in PS CS3.



Saturday, October 9, 2010

NGC300 as a 3D stereo pair





Parallel vision




Cross vision

Other 3D-formats can be found here:

Original 2D-image and details:


NOTE! This 3D-study is a personal vision about forms and shapes, based on some known facts and an artistic impression.

NGC300 as an anaglyph Red/Cyan 3D







Other 3D-formats can be found here:

Original 2D-image and details:



NOTE! This 3D-study is a personal vision about forms and shapes, based on some known facts and an artistic impression.