Astro Anarchy

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2014

The winners of the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2014 competition by the Royal Observatory Greenwich has been published today at 19.30 at UK time.

Over 2500 images from 51 countries participated this competition,
photos from best imagers, best tools and best locations around the world.

My image of IC 1340 wins the shared THIRD PLACE, "Highly Commended", in Deep space category

http://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/astronomy-photographer-of-the-year/2014-winners/deep-space

Winning images from all six categories:

https://twitter.com/ROGAstronomers/media

My placed photo, IC 340, a detail of the Veil Nebula
A supernova remnant in constellation Cygnus

A detail image of the Veil Nebula supernova remnant. Angular size about the same as full Moon.

Technical details and other information about this photo

The original blog post of the IC 1340 from Autumn 2012, with a technical details:
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.fi/2012/10/ic-1340-project-finalized.html

This photo was taken with a kind of modest tool, an old Meade LX200 GPS 12" telescope:
http://www.astroanarchy.blogspot.fi/2012/09/my-equipment.html

The Meade telescope is not in use anymore:
http://www.astroanarchy.blogspot.fi/2014/01/its-over-i-cant-do-my-loved.html
(An advice! Don't buy any Meade equipments, they are generally very poor quality)
The new imaging system is under construction at the moment.

Location of the detail image in a wide field image

Area of interest marked as a white rectangle

Location of the Veil Nebula in constellation Cygnus

Veil Nebula at most left

All of my astronomical photos can be seen in my portfolio, please, have a look:
http://astroanarchy.zenfolio.com/

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

IC 1896 reprocessed

The astronomical darkness hasn't arrived yet, up here 65N, and I don't have any equipments to continue my imaging work. Due to that, I have done some reprocessing of older material of mine. An other reason is to keep up my processing skills.

IC 1396
Click for a large image

R=Sulfur, G=Hydrogen and B=Oxygen
Technical data and more info can be seen HERE

A two frame mosaic image of IC 1396 with the Sharpless 129 and OU4, a planetary nebula candidate

A closeup of an Elephant's Trunk Nebula in IC 1396

Technical data and more info can be seen HERE

An experimental 3D-study of IC 1396 can be seen HERE

Naturally you can buy a museum quality photographic print from any of my images!
HERE is the portfolio with a shopping possibility.

Friday, August 22, 2014

35% discount from all of the photographic prints!

I have a portfolio for my astronomical images. You can buy museum quality photographic prints directly from the there,

http://astroanarchy.zenfolio.com/p1072219942

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NOTE!

This code will be valid between 22. - 29. August 2014

Friday, June 6, 2014

A collection of a starless Veil nebula shots

Sometimes I'm publishing experimental starless versions of my astronomical images. They'll show the actual nebula better and have a kind of mystique feel.
Human brains has a tendency to form some quasi logical shapes out of the cloud of random dots, like stars in this case. Without stars, the shapes in a gas cloud stands out much better.

A collection of Veil Nebula supernova remnant images without stars