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Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Astro Anarchy gets published




I have been chosen to receive a recognition in astrophotography by the Universo Mágico / Magical Universe, www.universomágico.com



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Wednesday, January 2, 2019

All my photos from the year 2018


A poster format collection of my photos from the year 2018. The Spring season 2018 was very cloudy, the Autumn season 2018 was kind of good and I was able to finalize couple of long imaging projects.

All my photos are taken with my current setup, the main instrument is an excellent imaging scope Celestron EDGE HD 1100 with a 0.7 focal reducer from Celestron. That's simply a best reducer I have ever used!  (Some optical testing can be seen HERE)
The mount from 10-micron is a top performer too. All images are taken with Apogee Alta U16 astronomical camera and Astrodon narrowband filter set, H-alpha 5nm, S-II 3nm and O-III 3nm.

I do purely narrow band imaging since my observatory is located at downtown of the City Oulu.
So far the light pollution has been massive in this industrial city with about 200 000 inhabitants but it used to be mostly from narrowband light sources, like old sodium and mercury lamps. Now the most of the light sources have been updated to LED-technology and it makes the light pollution much worse, since LEDs are emitting light at full spectrum. The broad band light from LEDs is practically impossible to filter out. I need to find a new location to my observatory during the Summer season 2019.

All my photos from the year 2018
Click for a full size image it's worth it (3000 x 5500 pixels)



Image details

  1. Dark nebulae of NGC 7000, https://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2018/11/dark-dust-in-cygnus.html
  2. Bow Tie of LBN 251, https://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2018/10/this-new-photos-shows-lbn-251-and.html
  3. Gian Cosmic Squid, Au4, https://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-giant-cosmic-squid-nebula-au4-new.html
  4. Clouds of Swan, https://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2018/10/clouds-of-swan.html
  5. The Cygnus Shell, W63, NASA APOD, a supernova remnant, https://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2018/10/a-very-rare-photo-cygnus-shell.html
  6. LBN 239 and 243, https://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2018/11/lbn-239-and-243.html
  7. Clouds of Cygnus, https://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2018/11/clouds-of-cygnus.html
  8. North America and the Pelican nebula, https://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2018/11/deep-photo-of-north-america-pelican.html
  9. LBN 243, https://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2018/11/lbn-243.html
  10. The Sky on Fire, https://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-sky-on-fire-filaments-of-western.html
  11. Sharpless 224, https://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2016/12/extremely-dim-supernova-remnant-in.html
  12. A detail of IC 1396, https://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2018/01/ic1396-detail-image.html
  13. Sharpless 157, https://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2018/02/sharpless-157-in-cassiopeia-project.html
  14. Sharpless 188, https://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2017/02/a-new-photo-sharpless-188-sh2-188-in.html






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Monday, December 10, 2018

Astro Anarchy gets published, the cover picture of an Official Vatican Observatory calendar 2019



My photo of the Sharpless 115 (Sh2-115) and a planetary nebula Abell 71 get selected as a cover photo of an Official Vatican observatory Calendar for the year 2019.

A Square Degree of Birth and Death

This photo shows  about one square degree of sky from the constellation Cygnus. In this photo, there are both, birth and the death. 
The blueish area at middle up is a stellar nursery, new stars are born there as an ongoing process. 
The blue dot at lower left is a planetary nebula Abell 71. The star has consumed all of its hydrogen resources and then blowed out its outer layers.

Sharpless 115 and Abell 71
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Image is in mapped colours, from the emission of ionized elements, R=Sulphur, G=Hydrogen and B=Oxygen.


More info about this photo

https://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2014/11/sharpless-115-and-planetary-nebula.html







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Saturday, December 8, 2018

The Giant Cosmic Squid, Ou4, scale in the sky and a zoom in series

Sometimes it's hard to understand the actual scale and locations of cosmical objects from a photograph. I tend to shoot same objects with a very different focal lengths usually from 200mm up to 3000mm. Form that image material I'm able to build "zoom in series" of the cosmical objects. By that way it's easier to understand the actual scale and location in the sky.

Zooming in to the Ou4, the Squid Nebula in Cepheus
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More info and images about Ou4, the Squid nebula

INFO CAN BE SEEN HERE
https://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-giant-cosmic-squid-nebula-au4-new.html







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