Wednesday, March 11, 2015
A start of the new imaging project, NGC 2174, the "Monkey Head Nebula"
At March 9 I managed to exposure about four hours of H-alpha light for NGC 2147.
I'll shoot more exposures for this soon to have more signal and colors.
There seems to be some rarely imaged faint looped shapes at bottom of the object, I haven't seen them before.
NGC 2174, the Monkey Head Nebula in Orion
A starless version
An inverted image to show the bottom filaments better
Monday, March 9, 2015
The heart of the Heart nebula, melotte 15
A new photo from the night of 20. February and 6, March, Melotte 15 in the IC 1805, the Heart nebula.
Melotte 15
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Image is in mapped colors from an emission of the ionized elements. Golden areas
are from emission of sulfur and hydrogen, bluish hues are from ionized oxygen.
And even closer
INFO
An experimental starless image
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This experimental starless photo shows the object in light of an ionized hydrogen alone.
Image in visual colors
Natural color composition from the emission of ionized elements, R=80%Hydrogen+20%Sulfur, G=100%Oxygen and B=85%Oxygen+15%Hydrogen to compensate otherwise missing H-beta emission. This composition is very close to a visual spectrum.
Melotte 15
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are from emission of sulfur and hydrogen, bluish hues are from ionized oxygen.
A closeup
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A closer closeup
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And even closer
INFO
The open cluster centered in this image is known as Melotte 15 . Melotte 15 is embedded within a central portion of the much larger glowing nebula identified as IC 1805.
The interesting structure in the image is a giant area of ionized hydrogen, it's caused to glow by the intense ultraviolet radiation from the massive stars of the Melotte 15 star cluster.
Dust and gas clouds are twisted by the pressure of the intense radiation, the solar wind.
This formation is estimated to be 7,500 light years away from Earth, North is up.
An experimental starless image
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Image in visual colors
Orientation in an older wide field image of the area
The Heart and Soul nebulae, IC 1848 and 1805, in constellation Cassiopeia. Area of interest is marked as a white rectangle.
Technical details
Processing workflow
Image acquisition, MaxiDL v5.07.
Stacked and calibrated in CCDStack2.
Deconvolution with a CCDStack2 Positive Constraint, 27 iterations, added at 50% weight
Color combine in PS CS3
Levels and curves in PS CS3.
Imaging optics
Celestron Edge HD 1100 @ f7 with 0,7 focal reducer for Edge HD 1100 telescope
Cameras and filters
Imaging camera Apogee Alta U16 and Apogee seven slot filter wheel
Guider camera, Lodestar x2
Astrodon filter, 5nm H-alpha
Exposure times
H-alpha, 12 x 1200s = 4h
O-III and S-II channels are from an older wide field photo of this area.
A single un cropped, calibrated and stretched 20 min. H-alpha frame as it comes from the camera
Sunday, March 8, 2015
IC 417, the "Spider Nebula"
My latest photo from March 6, IC 417, an emission nebula in Auriga.
IC 417
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Image is in mapped colors from an emission of the ionized elements. Golden areas
are from emission of sulfur and hydrogen, bluish hues are from ionized oxygen.
A closeup
Click for a large photo
INFO
Image in visual spectrum
Natural color composition from the emission of ionized elements, R=80%Hydrogen+20%Sulfur, G=100%Oxygen and B=85%Oxygen+15%Hydrogen to compensate otherwise missing H-beta emission. This composition is very close to a visual spectrum.
An experimental starless image
There is an interesting looking round formation at one o'clock position upper right.
Looks like a crater in a gas. It doesn't seem to be a planetary nebula since there is no O-III emission visible.
Image in H-alpha light alone
IC 417
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are from emission of sulfur and hydrogen, bluish hues are from ionized oxygen.
A closeup
Click for a large photo
INFO
The cosmic spyder, IC 417, locates in constellation Auriga at a distance of about 10 000 light years.
A cluster of young stars around IC 417 makes elements in the gas glow and the stellar wind shapes the gas in various forms.
Image in visual spectrum
An experimental starless image
Looks like a crater in a gas. It doesn't seem to be a planetary nebula since there is no O-III emission visible.
Image in H-alpha light alone
Orientation in an older wide field photo
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
Color combine in PS CS3
Levels and curves in PS CS3.
Imaging optics
Celestron Edge HD 1100 @ f7 with 0,7 focal reducer for Edge HD 1100 telescope
Cameras and filters
Imaging camera Apogee Alta U16 and Apogee seven slot filter wheel
Guider camera, Lodestar x2
Astrodon filter, 5nm H-alpha
Astrodon filter, 3nm O-III
Astrodon filter, 3nm S-II
Exposure times
H-alpha, 12 x 1200s = 4h
O-III, 4 x 1200s = 1h 20 min.
S-II, 5x1200s = 1h 40 min.
Total 7h
A single un cropped, calibrated and stretched 20 min. H-alpha frame as it comes from the camera
Thursday, March 5, 2015
IC 410 "tadpoles", a detail form a large photo
I reprocessed the photo of IC 410, I think the colors turned out better this time and overall detail level is better.
Tadpoles
A detail from IC 410 emission nebula, click for a large image.
The whole photo of IC 410, with a technical details, can be found HERE
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