Monday, January 2, 2017
Astro Anarchy, the year 2016
HAPPY NEW YEAR
This post is about all of my astronomical photos from the Autumn season of the year 2016
All my photos from the Spring and Autumn seasons of 2016 are taken with my new imaging setup. Celestron Edge HD 1100 with 0.7 reducer at 10-micron mount. Apogee Alta U16 camera with Astrodon filters and an active optics unit, SXV AO LF, from Starlight Xpress.
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The Autumn season of the year 2016 as an image poster
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Links to an individual photos, with the technical data and additional images
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Eastern part of the Veil Nebula supernova remnant
A detail from the North America nebula, part I
A detail from the North America nebula, part II
A detail from the North America nebula, part II
KjPn8 (PN G112.5-00.1)
Filaments of the Veil Nebula, part I
Filaments of the Veil Nebula, part II
Filaments of the Veil Nebula, part III
Dark clouds in Cygnus, part I
Dark clouds in Cygnus, part II
Dark filaments of Cygnus, part I
Dark filaments of Cygnus, part II
The Great Wall of Cygnus
Sharpless 224
Bright nebulae of the central Cygnus, part I
Bright nebulae of the central Cygnus, part II
Bright nebulae of the central Cygnus, part III
Sunday, January 1, 2017
Bright nebulae of the central Cygnus, a seven panel mosaic
My last photo for the year 2016 is a seven panel mosaic of the central Cygnus. I shot last panels for this mosaic at 30.12. 2016.
Bright nebulae of the central Cygnus
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The photo is in mapped colors from the light emitted by an ionized elements,
red=sulfur, green=hydrogen and blue=oxygen. A mosaic image with seven panels. Original image has a resolution of 12.000 x 9000 pixels. Image spans about three degrees of sky horizontally.
Orientation
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Technical details
Processing work flow
Image acquisition, MaxiDL v5.07.
Stacked and calibrated in CCDStack2.
Deconvolution with a CCDStack2 Positive Constraint, 21 iterations, added at 25% 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
Canon EF 200mm f1.8 camera optics (For S-II and O-III channels)
Mount
10-micron 1000
Meade LX200 GPS 12" (For S-II and O-III channels)
Cameras and filters
Imaging camera Apogee Alta U16 and Apogee seven slot filter wheel
Guider camera, Lodestar x2 and SXV-AOL
QHY9 (For S-II and O-III channels)
QHY9 (For S-II and O-III channels)
Astrodon filter, 5 nm H-alpha
Baader filter, 8,5 nm O-III
Baader filter, 8 nm S-II
Exposure times for all seven panels
H-alpha, 27 x 1200 s binned 2x2
O-III, 18 x 1200 s binned 4x4 =
S-II, 18 x 1200 s binned 4x4 =
Tuesday, December 27, 2016
Bright nebulae of the central Cygnus
I had about six hours of clear sky at night between 23.- 24.12. That was just enough to shoot this relatively bright emission area in constellation Cygnus.
Bright nebulae of Cygnus
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The photo is in mapped colors from the light emitted by an ionized elements,
red=sulfur, green=hydrogen and blue=oxygen.
An experimental starless view
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Mosaic
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Older image. with technical details, can be found HERE
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Orientation
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Technical details
Processing work flow
Image acquisition, MaxiDL v5.07.
Stacked and calibrated in CCDStack2.
Deconvolution with a CCDStack2 Positive Constraint, 21 iterations, added at 25% 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
Canon EF 200mm f1.8 camera optics (For S-II and O-III channels)
Mount
10-micron 1000
Meade LX200 GPS 12" (For S-II and O-III channels)
Cameras and filters
Imaging camera Apogee Alta U16 and Apogee seven slot filter wheel
Guider camera, Lodestar x2 and SXV-AOL
QHY9 (For S-II and O-III channels)
QHY9 (For S-II and O-III channels)
Astrodon filter, 5 nm H-alpha
Baader filter, 8,5 nm O-III
Baader filter, 8 nm S-II
Exposure times
H-alpha, 9 x 1200 s binned 2x2
O-III, 4 x 1200 s binned 4x4 =
S-II, 4 x 1200 s binned 4x4 =
Wednesday, December 21, 2016
Dark filaments in Cygnus, project finalized
This winter season I have been shooting some well known and relatively bright objects in Cygnus, My purpose was show them little differently by selecting some less imaged details to show.
This time my target was an area in North America Nebula, NGC 7000. There are some interesting looking formations of dark nebulae.
Dark filaments of Cygnus
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B&W image
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Orientation
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This wide field photo of the North America and Pelican Nebulae was shot with Canon EF 200 mm f1.8 camera lens, QHY9 astrocam and Baader narrowband filters.
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 @ f10 with 0,7 focal reducer for Edge HD 1100 telescope
Mount
10-micron 1000
Cameras and filters
Imaging camera Apogee Alta U16 and Apogee seven slot filter wheel
Guider camera, Lodestar x2 and SXV-AOL
Astrodon filter, 5nm H-alpha
Astrodon filter, 3nm O-III
Astrodon filter, 3nm S-II
Exposure times for both image panels
H-alpha, 30 x 1200 s = 10 h
S-II, 6 x 1200 s binned 2x2 = 2 h
O-III, 6 x 1200 s binned 2x2 = 2 h
O-III, 6 x 1200 s binned 2x2 = 2 h
A single uncropped, calibrated and stretched 20 min. H-alpha frames used for the mosaic image
Left side of the mosaic image
Right side of the mosaic image
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