Monday, September 30, 2013
Visions of space
This is one of my artworks based on an original astronomical photograph shot be me.
Image belongs to a large series of unpublished images called Visions.
Vision
This image is based on my original astronomical image of IC 1340 in Eastern Veil Nebula.
Blog post about the IC 1340 can be seen HERE.
Sunday, September 29, 2013
Three experimental starless Oxygen emission images of the Veil nebula
I played with my older material, since the weather doesn't allow new projects.
This time I'm publishing three images of light emitted by an ionized Oxygen, O-III.
Images are closeups from the large supernova remnant in a constellation Cygnus, the Veil Nebula.
I wanted to see and show the actual structure of the nebula, due to that, stars are removed from each image.
Blue Lightning
Filaments in the Western Veil, Witch's Broom Nebula
A starless O-III channel. There is a one bright star left behind due to composition reasons.
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Blue Wing
A detail of the Veil Nebula, The Pickering's Triangle
A starless O-III channel
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An electric Nike of Samothrace
IC 1340 in Eastern veil Nebula
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Original images with all the data
Witch's Broom Nebula
Image is in visual spectrum from from the emission of ionized elements.
A light emitted by the ionized Oxygen can be seen as blue hues.
A light emitted by the ionized Oxygen can be seen as blue hues.
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Image is in mapped colors, from the emission of ionized elements, R=Sulfur, G=Hydrogen and B=Oxygen.
The Pickering's Triangle
A light emitted by the ionized Oxygen can be seen as blue hues.
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IC 1340
A light emitted by the ionized Oxygen can be seen as blue hues.
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Orientation
The areas of interest are marked as a white rectangle. The circle, size of the full Moon, shows the apparent scale in lower right corner.
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Friday, September 27, 2013
Cygnus Trio
Since the weather dosen's support imaging, I extracted an other individual image out of the large Cygnus mosaic. This image shows the same area, than my first ever APOD image, back from the year 2008.
Cygnus Trio
Butterfly, Crescent and the Tulip Nebula
Image is in mapped colors, from the emission of ionized elements, R=Sulfur, G=Hydrogen and B=Oxygen.
Image is shot with the Canon EF 200mm f1.8 camera optics, QHY9 a cooled astrocam and the Baader narrowband filter set, H-a, S-II and O-III. There are four individual panels, each panel is shot three times with different filter for the color image. Total exposure time is around 20h.
An experimental starless image
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Autumn season 2013 opened finally!
Last night I was able to open up my imaging season. After six months mandatory summer pause, it's great to be back!
As usually, this first light for the season is more like a test shot. I need to re collimate my optical path and fine tune my gears for optimal image quality.
A closeup of the Butterfly Nebula
First light for the Autumn season 2013
Image is in mapped colors, from the emission of ionized elements, R=Sulfur, G=Hydrogen and B=Oxygen.
Image in visual spectrum
Orientation
Area of interest is marhed with a white rectangle. More info about this image in HERE.
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 33 % weight
Levels, curves and color combine in PS CS3.
Optics, Meade LX200 12"
Camera, QHY9
Guiding, Starlight Express active optics unit, SXV-AO, and lodestar guider.
Image Scale, ~0,75 arcseconds/pixel
H-alpha 7x1200s, Binned 1x1 = 3h 20min.
O-III and S-II channels are from an older wide field image HERE.
A single calibrated 20min. H-alpha light frame
Image is calibrated with darks and a bias corrected flats. No other processing but nonlinear stretching.
A single calibrated 20min. H-alpha light frame
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