Friday, October 14, 2011
Dark dust of Cygnus in H-alpha light, a new project
I will shoot other two emission lines as soon as the weather permits.
This area is just below the "North America and Pelican Nebulae". The bright area at upper middle Right, is known as IC 5068. I selected this as a target, since there is a beautiful dark dust line blocking light at front of the ionization zone.
Area of interest can be seen in this image as a gray scale rectangle.
This has been a very frustrating Autumn...
First my observatory PC died. After installing a new computer and all the software, my camera stopped to work. (I'm shooting now with an older model, fixed by soldering and duct tape)
Two days ago, the filter wheel started to act like a lottery machine, now I have to rotate it manually.
Top of that, last night my trusted temperature compensating focuser, TCF-s, refused to work at all.
After five hours of trying to fix it, I did focus manually as well as I could. (At f2.8, the critical focus zone is 17 microns... that's 17/1000mm) Lots of work is done and money spend, just for couple of images. Sometimes I feel, best solution is quit and sell my gears, who ever going to buy this expensive pile of junk. Maybe I feel better tomorrow, after some sleep...
Technical details:
Processing work flow:
Image acquisition, MaxiDL v5.07.
Stacked and calibrated in CCDStack2.
Deconvolution with a CCDStack2 Positive Constraint, 33 iterations,
added at 50% weight in final image.
Levels, curves and color combine in PS CS3.
Optics, Tokina AT-X 300mm camera lens at f2.8
Camera, QHY9
Guiding, Lodestar and Meade LX200 GPS 12"
Image Scale, 3,5 arcseconds/pixel
Exposures H-alpha 19x1200s, binned 1x1
Total exposure time so far 6h 20min.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Astro anarchy gets published
My image of the "Wizard Nebula", NGC 7380, get published in the Discovery Magazine.
In October 2011 issue, there is an article about multiverse, and they did use my image with it. Images can be found from a table of content , page 2, and in the story, page 31.
This is the used image. Original blog post, with a technical details, can be found HERE.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
An image, just for a fun...
This is a computer generated image, I don't have a wall full of my images.
I used older frames and wallpaper since some of my images loos like old oil paintings.
Ps.
Photographic prints from my images can be bought from my portfolio:
Just click an image and there will be a list of sizes and prices at Right, like bellow.
A4 print, 15€
A3 print, 21€
20" x 16", 31€ (50 x 41 cm)
30" x 20", 49,95€ (76 x 50 cm)
Many other sizes and shapes are available too.
NOTE. Prints are real photographs in Fujicolor paper.
If you don't like to buy online, just leave me a message at my e-mail:
astroanarchy@gmail.com and I will take care of rest.
sama suomeksi
Valokuvavedoksia kuvistani voi ostaa portfoliostani:
Klikkaa kuvaa niin sen oikealle puolelle avautuu koko ja hintalista, kuten alla.
A4 print, 15€
A3 print, 21€
20" x 16", 31€ (50 x 41 cm)
30" x 20", 49,95€ (76 x 50 cm)
Monia muita kokoja ja muotoja on myös saatavilla.
HUOM. Kuvat ovat oikeita valokuvia Fujicolor valokuvapaperille.
Jos et halua käyttää verkkokauppaa, niin jätä minulle viesti osoitteeseen:
astroanarchy@gmail.com , niin hoidan tilauksen puolestasi.
Monday, October 10, 2011
Series of panoramas
Images in this post are trying to show, how they looks, if hanging on the wall
I made a small series of panoramas for a printing purposes for a customer. They turned to be so nice looking, that I publish them here too.
Some of the images are meant to be printed as two framed copy, like a sample above, and then placed side by side.
Some of the printed images will be huge, about 200cm x 80cm / copy! Final two frames panoramic pair will be over four meters wide... luckily there are enough resolution for that , with most of my images.
For an example, a price for a high quality framed canvas will be about 300-350€ / one square meter, 100 x 100 cm. ( = ~3.3 x3.3 feet) There are many other framing and media options.
Few sample images on a wall
Click for large images
Click for large images
Bubble Nebula
California Nebula
Butterfly and Crescent Nebulae
Sharpless 119
Sombrero Glaxy, M104
Ps.
I will open up soon a collection of framed samples, in my portfolio. It will make easier to see, how my images might look on the wall.
Any of images in my portfolio, can be ordered as a print, practically in any size.
Imagination is only limit with printing and framing options.
Portfolio: http://astroanarchy.zenfolio.com/p1072219942
Ps.2
BTW. No matter, where you live, since I'm able to use a nearest printing service to your location, to minimize delivery and customs costs.
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