Tuesday, December 31, 2024
My photo was selected as a cover picture of the Official Year Calendar of Vatican Observatory 2025
The Vatican observatory selected my photo of Sharpless 157 as a cover picture of an Official Calendar of the Vatican Observatory.
I have had my photos in this yearly published calendar about ten times and this is a second time my photo was selected as a cover, first time was back in 2019, the cover picture can be seen here: https://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2018/12/astro-anarchy-gets-published-cover.html
Sharpless 157, the Cover Picture of the Vatican Observatory Calendar
Here is a link to blog post about this photo there are all the technical details and more info about this target: https://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2018/02/sharpless-157-in-cassiopeia-project.html
You can buy the Vatican Observatory Calendar from here:
https://www.vaticanobservatory.org/product/2025-vatican-observatory-calendar/
All of my photos from the Year 2024
As usually, I'm publishing a poster format presentation of my photos at end of the year. This time all of the material is shot at Autumn Season 2024 since I got my new imaging platform up and running by then.
I haven't been able to produce any new material for almost three years due to some health problems. After hard times I'm back and well again.
Building a new imaging system fully functional took couple of years. It's working now very well, only some small tweaking has to be done next year, I'll do it during the mandatory Summer pause of six months.
All of my photos from the Year 2024
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A large, 8000x7000 pixel image
Photo Details
From top left to bottom right
- MWP1, https://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2024/10/methuselah-nebula-mwp1-project-finalized.html
- WR 134, https://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2024/10/wr-134-rising-phoenix.html
- NGC 7380, the Wizard Nebula, https://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2024/12/wizard-nebula-ngc-7380.html
- Sharpless 132, https://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2024/12/sharpless-132-furious-cosmic-horse-gets.html
- Pelican Nebula, https://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2024/12/sharpless-132-furious-cosmic-horse-gets.html
- Sharpless 112, https://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2024/12/pansy-of-swan-sharpless-112.html
- Tulip nebula, https://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2024/11/balck-hole-cygnus-x-1-and-tulip-nebula.html
- Sharpless 115, https://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2024/12/new-photo-sharpless-115-in-cygnus.html
The new imaging Platform
Detailed information about the new toolset here:
The Cover picture of the Official Year Calendar of Vatican Observatory
My photo of Sharpless 157 was selected as a cover picture of the Vatican Observatory Calendar
My Work in the Media, some highlights
Vatican
My TV-interview in a live talk show,
Arto Nyberg (Finnish)
You can see the show here: https://areena.yle.fi/1-70235645
PETA PIXEL
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"This Astrophotographer Captures the Universe Unlike Anyone Else"
JEREMY GRAY
You can read the article here:
MY MODERN MET
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"Remarkable Astrophotography Captures the Sublime Beauty of Universe"
Jessica Stewart on November 11, 2024
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AN INTERVIEW BY RADIO KALEVA
"Olemme kaikki supernovien lapsia"
"Olemme kaikki supernovien lapsia"
Haastattelun voi kuunnella täältä sivun lopusta: (Finnish)
https://www.kaleva.fi/olemme-kaikki-supernovien-lapsia-oululainen-tahtik/11396012
https://www.kaleva.fi/olemme-kaikki-supernovien-lapsia-oululainen-tahtik/11396012
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Monday, December 23, 2024
Sharpless 132, A closeup
I published my latest photo out of Sh-2132 emission nebula just few days ago.
Now I'm publishing a "Spinoff" image out of it. Since the photo was a very high resolution one, I'm able to cut out a new composition out of it. The cut out has a resolution of 4000x4400 pixels.
Sharpless 132, Up Close and Personal
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A mapped color image from a light emitted by an ionized elements,
sulfur=red, hydrogen=green and oxygen=blue
sulfur=red, hydrogen=green and oxygen=blue
New Processing For a Christmas
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Technical details
All the technical details can be found from the original post here:
https://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2024/12/sharpless-132-furious-cosmic-horse-gets.html
https://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2024/12/sharpless-132-furious-cosmic-horse-gets.html
Saturday, December 21, 2024
Sharpless 132, A Furious Cosmic Horse Gets Blinded by a Divine Blue Light
This is one of my favorite targets in Cepheus, Sh2-132 has an interesting structures due to massive energetic stars in it. I haven't found any explanation to the blue, jet like, structure glowing blue light of ionized Oxygen (O-III), the structure is visible also in H-alpha light.
When I shot firs photos out of this distant object about twenty years ago, I gave a longish name to it, "A Furious Cosmic Horse Gets Blinded by a Divine Blue Light" I don't usually name my photos but with some of them I simply must do so.
This is a kind of high resolution photo taken with my new imaging platform, it covers about 0.7 x0.7 degrees of sky. (Full Moon has an apparent diameter 0,5 degrees) Seeing was very good to my location, FWHM about 1.6 arcseconds, that's rare up here.
Sharpless 132
A Furious Cosmic Horse Gets Blinded by a Divine Blue Light
A mapped color image from a light emitted by an ionized elements, sulfur=red, hydrogen=green and oxygen=blue
100% Enlarged Portion of the Full Resolution Photo
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The Horse, as I see it
I borrowed a horse from the Piazza Navona Roma, it was a furious enough
INFO
Sharpless 132 (Sh2-132) is powered by two massive stars, each with a mass over 20 times greater than our Sun. Formed from shells of ionized gas that have expanded, the nebula's energetic matter not only glows, but is dense enough to contract gravitationally and form stars. The angular size of the Lion Nebula, officially named Sh2-132, is slightly greater than that of the full moon. The gaseous iconic region resides about 10,000 light years away in a constellation named after the King of Aethopia in Greek mythology.
Sharpless 132 in visual colors
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Visual color version of Sh2-115 glows mostly in red from a light emitted by an ionized elements,
sulfur=red, hydrogen=red and oxygen=blue, this combination is very close to a natural color palette.
sulfur=red, hydrogen=red and oxygen=blue, this combination is very close to a natural color palette.
Sh2-132 in a large context
Please, click for a large image
Technical details
Processing workflow
Image acquisition, MaximDL 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 14" with 0.7 Focal reducer
Mount,
MesuMount Mark II
Cameras,
Imaging camera Apogee Alta U9000M and Apogee seven slot filter wheel
Guider camera, Lodestar x 2 and SXV-AO Active Optics @ 5hz
filters,
Astrodon 5nm H-alpha, 3nm S-II and 3nm O-III
Total exposure time 11h
H-alpha, 15 x 1200 s, binned 1x1 = 5 h
O-III,9x 1200 s, binned 2x2 = 3h
S-II, 9 x 1200 s. binned 2x2 = 3h
A single calibrated 20 min exposure of H-alpha, Bin 1x1
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