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Friday, February 25, 2022

4K HYPER Zoom to the Milky Way and a Bubble Nebula

I have made couple of 4K videos out of my massive 145 degree Milky Way panorama. In the video you can see the actual resolution of this massive image. This time I'm zooming into the Bubble Nebula in cassiopeia at distance of about 12.000 light years.


Super Zoom to The Bubble nebula (44 seconds)

Best seen as a full screen and better yet, with a 4K display, direct link to the YouTube: 
https://youtu.be/HZrcwxeFLYs



Info about the large panorama of the Milky Way
(Click the image to enter)

Over a decade, 1500 exposure hours and 301 individual frames visible in one image
NOTE, image of the Full Moon as a scale in lover left corner.


Info about the Bubble Nebula
(Click the image to enter)





Thursday, February 24, 2022

4K zoom in the Milky Way

 I made a 4K video out of my massive 145 degree Milky Way panorama. In the video you can see the actual resolution of this massive image when it zoom in to IC 1396 in constellation Cepheus


Super Zoom to IC 1396

Best seen as full screen and 4K display, direct link to the YouTube: 
https://youtu.be/weeA-jEzezA



Info about the large panorama of Milky Way:

Wednesday, February 23, 2022

It's beautiful because it's true

 


My deepest motivation to keep doing this slow artform


Super Zoom to my photo, the Grand Mosaic of the Milky Way Revision 2




4K Super Zoom to my photo
Grand Mosaic of the Milky Way Revision 2

Super Zoom to the Milky Way, note, best to see in full screen

It took over 12 years to finalize this massive photo of Milky Way
Blog post with a zoomable image, please, have a look here: https://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2021/10/grand-mosaic-of-milky-way-is-now-large.html

IMAGE SPECS
  • Panorama spans 145 x 22 degrees of sky (Full Moon covers 0,5 degrees of sky)
  • Resolution 120.000 x 18.000 pixels
  • Photos has 2.2 gigapixels in it, the spatial resolution is equal to 8.8 gigapixel image from color camera since all the channels are in native resolution.
  • There are least nine confirmed supernova remnants in this panorama
  • About 25 million stars are visible in the photo
  • Distance to the nebulae in the image between 350 to 20.000 light years
  • Exposure time over 1500 hours between 2009 - 2021
  • 301 individual images are stitched together seamlessly 
  • It took about 12 years to finalize this photo
  • Narrowband image from light of ionized elements,    hydrogen = green, sulfur = red and oxygen = blue
  • Processing time for the whole panorama, way too large part of my life