Friday, September 17, 2010
NGC 7000, the "North America" nebula closeup, second round
Image is composed from O-III and H-a narrowband channels to a bi-color image.
This palette is close to a visiblel spectrum.
I'll shoot more O-III and S-II for this, to build a HST-palette image, later.
I'll shoot more O-III and S-II for this, to build a HST-palette image, later.
I managed to solve the orthogonality problem between the optical path and the CCD. Now stars are as good as they can in my imaging system. I have reduced Meade LX200 GPS 12" f10 to f5 by misusing a Celestron f6.3 reducer by placing it at longer distance from CCD and hence grove the reduction factor.
The price is coma at both ends of the image but I can live with it. This system gives me about 30* field and a spatial resolution of 0,75 arc seconds/pixel.
An experimental starless image. Stars are removed in one processing step and placed back with zero data lost. Sometimes I publish an image with a reduced stars to show the actual nebula better. It looks kind of nice, or spooky, that's a matter of taste.
Processing work flow:
Image acquisition, MaxiDL v5.07.
Stacked and calibrated in CCDStack.
Deconvolution with a CCDSharp, 30 iterations.
Levels, curves and color combine in PS CS3.
Telescope, Meade LX200 GPS 12" @ f5
Camera, QHY9 Guiding, SXV-AO @ 6Hz
Image Scale, 0,75 arcseconds/pixel
Exposures H-alpha 15x1200s, binned 1x1=5h
O-III 1x1200s binned 3x3
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
NGC 55, irregular galaxy in constellation Sulptor
Note. Color balance edited 16.09.
NGC 55, barred irregular galaxy in constellation Sculptor. Distance about 7 million light years.
When I was stacking the Luminance channel of NGC55, I noticed two moving objects in a field.
I made animations of them to show the movement. It could be nice to know, what they are. When I'll find out,
I'll post the information here!
I'll post the information here!
UPDATE
A friend in Finnish astronomical group, "Astronetti", found the information for objects by using the "Minor Planet Checker" Here is the information for both objects:
Object designation R.A. Decl. V Offsets Motion/hr Orbit Further observations?
(20031) 1992 OO 00 14 06.8 -39 17 11 15.7 9.0W 5.4S 20- 35- 12o None needed at this time.
(20031) 1992 OO 00 14 06.8 -39 17 11 15.7 9.0W 5.4S 20- 35- 12o None needed at this time.
2005 UD530 00 13 51.8 -39 13 53 19.7 11.9W 2.1S 33- 0+ 3o Desirable between 2010 Sept.
15-Oct. 15.
Animated areas are marked in this single 600s luminance frame.
Information:
Location, Brisbane Australia
Date, 14.09.2010
Time Zone, UTC +10h
The animation has13 x 600s frames, taken between 10:25 and 13:31 UTC.
The whole field animated showing both moving objects. First object at Two a clock position and the second one at Eight a clock position.
Closeup animation of first object.
An animated closeup of the second object.
It's always fascinating to see something moving in a deep space! An other part of fun is trying to find out, what it might be.
Technical details:
16" RCOS ja Apogee U9000 camera.
LRGB combo. An Australian remote telescope
13x600s for the Luminance and 3x600s / RGB-channel . Dark, Bias and Flat calibrated.
Raw data is shared by Petri Kehusmaa and J-P Metsavainio
Processing workflow:
Image acquisition, MaxiDL v4.xxx
Stacked and calibrated in CCDStack.
Deconvolution with a CCDSharp, 30 iterations.
Levels, curves and color combine in PS CS3.
A general note:
Seeing was really bad during the imaging sequence, FWHM varied between 8" -5,5"
A general note:
Seeing was really bad during the imaging sequence, FWHM varied between 8" -5,5"
Sunday, September 12, 2010
NGC 613 as a 3D stereo pair
Parallel vision
Cross vision
Other 3D-formats can be found here:
Original 2D-image and details:
NOTE! This 3D-study is a personal vision about forms and shapes, based on some known facts and an artistic impression.
Viewing instructions can be found from a Right hand side menu.
Viewing instructions can be found from a Right hand side menu.
NGC 613 as an anaglyph Red/Cyan 3D
You'll need Red/Cyan Eyeglasses to be able to see this image right.
Note, if you have a Red and Blue filters, you can use them! Red goes to Left eye
NGC 613 3D-experiment
Other 3D-formats can be found here:
Original 2D-image and details:
NOTE! This 3D-study is a personal vision about forms and shapes, based on some known facts and an artistic impression.
NGC 253, the "Silver Dollar" galaxy as a 3D-stereopair
Parallel vision
Cross vision
Other 3D-formats can be found here:
Original 2D-image and details:
NOTE! This 3D-study is a personal vision about forms and shapes, based on some known facts and an artistic impression.
Viewing instructions can be found from a Right hand side menu.
Viewing instructions can be found from a Right hand side menu.
NGC 253, the "Silver Dollar" galaxy as an anaglyph 3D
You'll need Red/Cyan Eyeglasses to be able to see this image right.
Note, if you have a Red and Blue filters, you can use them! Red goes to Left eye
NGC 253, 3D-experiment
Other 3D-formats can be found here:
Original 2D-image and details:
NOTE! This 3D-study is a personal vision about forms and shapes, based on some known facts and an artistic impression.
NGC 7000 closeup as an animation
Animations are made by creating artificial parallax to an image. Then two images are animated together by using conversion web service, Start3D. There can be some artifacts in images, due the experimental nature of this work! The volumetric models are based on some known facts and an artistic impression.
Please, let the images load for few seconds to see them animated!
Other 3D-formats can be found here:
Original 2D-image and details:
NOTE! This 3D-study is a personal vision about forms and shapes, based on some known facts and an artistic impression.
NGC 7000 closeup as a 3D-stereopair
Parallel vision
Other 3D-formats can be found here:
Original 2D-image and details:
NOTE! This 3D-study is a personal vision about forms and shapes, based on some known facts and an artistic impression.
Viewing instructions can be found from a Right hand side menu.
Viewing instructions can be found from a Right hand side menu.
NGC 7000 closeup as an anaglyph Red/Cyan 3D
You'll need Red/Cyan Eyeglasses to be able to see this image right.
Note, if you have a Red and Blue filters, you can use them! Red goes to Left eye
NGC 7000 as an anaglyph 3D-study
Other 3D-formats can be found here:
Original 2D-image and details:
NOTE! This 3D-study is a personal vision about forms and shapes, based on some known facts and an artistic impression.
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Saturday, September 11, 2010
NGC253, 3D transform test
Galaxy NGC 253 2D/3D transformation.
This is a small experiment to show the internal spiral structure of "Silver Dollar" galaxy better. This is simply done by stretching the galaxy image under the PhotoShop. Resulting frames are then animated to a movie file.
Original image of NGC 253 and technical details can be seen here:
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2010/09/ngc-253-silver-dollar-galaxy.html
NGC 253, the "Silver Dollar" galaxy
A spiral galaxy in constellation Sculptor.
This galaxy is undergoing a period of intense star formation. Areas with a Blueish hue, are most active regions of the star formation. This is a nearby galaxy, distance is "only" about 11 million light years.
Largish target, apparent dimensions are, 27,5' x 6,8'. Longer axis is almost as wide as a full Moon (30')
A closeup to show the actual resolution. Note. there is hundreds of dim background galaxies in the image.
Technical details:
16" RCOS ja Apogee U9000 camera.
LRGB combo. An Australian remote telescope
14x600s for the Luminance and 2x600s / RGB-channel . Dark, Bias and Flat calibrated.
Raw data is shared by Petri Kehusmaa and J-P Metsavainio
Processing workflow:
Image acquisition, MaxiDL v4.xxx
Stacked and calibrated in CCDStack.
Deconvolution with a CCDSharp, 30 iterations.
Levels, curves and color combine in PS CS3.
Friday, September 10, 2010
Opening image of the Autumn season 2010
Close up of the NGC 7000, the "North America" nebula.
Image is composed from O-III and H-a narrowband channels to a bi-color image.
This palette is close to a visiblel spectrum.
Last night we had about three hours of astronomical darkness, up here 65N.
I'll shoot more H-alpha and the S-III channel later.
An experimental starless version to show the actual nebula
Processing work flow:
Image acquisition, MaxiDL v5.07.
Stacked and calibrated in CCDStack.
Deconvolution with a CCDSharp, 30 iterations.
Levels, curves and color combine in PS CS3.
Telescope, Meade LX200 GPS 12" @ f5
Camera, QHY9 Guiding, SXV-AO @ 6Hz
Image Scale, 0,75 arcseconds/pixel
Exposures H-alpha 7x1200s, binned 1x1
O-III 1x1200s binned 3x3
Notes.
I had some problems with the camera orthogonality. Due that, stars at to and bottom are stretched.
I'll re shoot this material again after I have fixed the problem.
I had some problems with the camera orthogonality. Due that, stars at to and bottom are stretched.
I'll re shoot this material again after I have fixed the problem.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Galaxy NGC 613
NGC 613, barred spiral galaxy in southern constellation Sculptor.
Distance is about 65 million light years. Image is a broadband LRGB-composition.
This target has a smallish angular diameter, about 5,5' x 4,2'. I might try this one again with a better seeing, at this time seeing was about 3,5" FWHM.
The telescope:
Close up
Technical details:
16" RCOS ja Apogee U9000 camera.
LRGB combo.
9x600s for the Luminance and 1x600s / RGB-channel . Dark and Flat calibrated.
Raw data is shared by Petri Kehusmaa and J-P Metsavainio
Processing workflow:
Image acquisition, MaxiDL v4.xxx
Stacked and calibrated in CCDStack.
Deconvolution with a CCDSharp, 30 iterations.
Levels, curves and color combine in PS CS3.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
A collection of astronomical movies from my images
All movies are published before in this blog. There has been very few viewers for them though, so I think reposting might be a good idea.
DEEP SKY TARGETS
Veil nebula as a 3D-transformation:
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2009/12/new-version-about-veil-animation.html
Zoom in movies of Bubble and Soul nebulae:
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2009/12/zoom-in-movie-test.html
Bubble nebula zoom out movie:
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2010/01/bubble-zoomout.html
Heart nebula zoom out movie:
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2010/01/hear-nebula-zoomout.html
Zoom out movies from Tulip and Crescent nebulae and Moon:
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2010/01/three-new-zoomout-movies.html
IC410 and IC405 zoom in movie:
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2010/01/ic-410-and-ic-405-as-zoomin-movie.html
M27 as a 3D-transformation movie:
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2010/04/m27-experimental-3d-videos.html
Soul nebula 3D-conversion test:
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2009/12/3d-conversion-testing.html
THE MOON
All Moon movies are made by re-projecting 2D-Moon image to a sphere. After that, the observation location can be freely selected, as long the area of interest stay on the visible area. I like this technique a lot, since the original image stays unprocessed!
Experimental Moon movies:
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2009/05/new-video-material-from-astrotargets.html
(There is a movie of Andromeda galaxy as well)
A movie about principle of making Moon movies from 2D-material:
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-to-3d-moon-movie.html
Moon movie experiments:
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2009/06/more-experiments-with-3d-transform.html
Moon surface fly over movie:
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2009/06/moon-surface-movie-from-2d-image.html
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
The "Bug Nebula", NGC6302 as an animation
The animation is made by splitting the original 2D-image to a layers by the image content. Layers are then taken to a 3D-modeling software, "TrueSpace", and projected to a 3D-surfaces and animated to a movie file.
Stars are placed to Z-axel by apparent brightness , brighter ones are closer.
Original images and imaging details can be found here:
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2010/07/ngc-6302-bug-nebula.html
Transformed 2D-image of NGC6302.
Friday, July 23, 2010
Images from the NG members remote Australian telescope, 06.05 - 21.07.2010
Here is a small slideshow about all the images taken with the Northern Galactic members remote telescope, 16"RCOS, in Australia between 06.05 and 21.07.2010
Image of the instrumentation can be seen HERE.
All my astronomical images, normal and some experimental 3D work, can be found from my portfolio:
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
IC 5150, a Planetary Nebula
IC 5150, a Planetary Nebula in constellation Grus.
This rarely imaged southern planetary is dimmish, magnitude about 12. Due the full Moon, it's imaged with narrow band filters. Only H-a and O-III are used to compose the natural bi-color version.
This object will be better imaged with a broad band LRGB, since it emits some strongish continuous spectrum but as mentioned, the full Moon prevent me to do so.
I haven't seen any narrow band color images of this earlier!
The telescope and technical information:
16" RCOS ja Apogee U9000 camera.
LRGB combo.
H-alpha 3x1200s, Dark and artificial Flat calibrated.
O-III 3x1200s, Dark and artificial Flat calibrated.
Raw data is shared with "Team Finland"
Processing workflow:
Image acquisition, MaxiDL v4.xxx
Stacked and calibrated in CCDStack.
Levels, curves and color combine in PS CS3.
Monday, July 19, 2010
NGC 6302, the "Bug Nebula"
Natural color composition from the emission of ionized elements, R=80%Hydrogen+20%Sulfur, G=100%Oxygen and B=85%Oxygen+15%Hydrogen to compensate otherwise missing H-beta emission.
This composition is very close to a visual spectrum.
HST-palette from the emission of ionized elements, R=Sulfur, G=Hydrogen and B=Oxygen
NGC 6302, the "Bug Nebula", (also called the "Butterfly Nebula") is a bipolar planetary nebula in the constellation Scorpius. The central star is one of the hottest of its kind, about 200.000 K. The central star can't be seen due the dense equatorial disc composed of gas and dust. The disc might be the reason for the bipolar structure of this bright planetary nebula Distance is about 3500 light years.
The telescope and technical information:
16" RCOS ja Apogee U9000 camera.
LRGB combo.
H-alpha 5x1200s, Dark and artificial Flat calibrated.
1xO-III 1200s, Dark and artificial Flat calibrated.
1xO-III 1200s, Dark and artificial Flat calibrated.
Raw data is shared with "Team Finland"
Processing workflow:
Image acquisition, MaxiDL v4.xxx
Stacked and calibrated in CCDStack.
Deconvolution with a CCDSharp, 30 iterations
Levels, curves and color combine in PS CS3.
NGC 6302, the "Bug Nebula" as an animation
Animations are made by creating artificial parallax to an image. Then two images are animated together by using conversion web service, Start3D. There can be some artifacts in images, due the experimental nature of this work! The volumetric models are based on some known facts and an artistic impression.
Please, let the images load for few seconds to see them animated!
Original 2D-image with the technical details:
Other 3D-formats:
NOTE! This is a personal vision about forms and shapes, based on some known facts and an artistic impression.
Original 2D-image
Original 2D-image
NGC 6302, the "Bug Nebula" as a 3D Stereo Pair
Parallel vision, nebula in Natural colors.
Cross vision, nebula in Natural colors.
Other 3D-formats can be found here:
Original image and the imaging details can be found here:
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2010/07/ngc-6302-bug-nebula.html
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2010/07/ngc-6302-bug-nebula.html
Stereo pairs in HST-palette
Parallel vision
Cross vision
NOTE! This 3D-study is a personal vision about forms and shapes, based on some known facts and an artistic impression.
Viewing instructions can be found from a Right hand side menu.
Viewing instructions can be found from a Right hand side menu.
NGC 6302, the "Bug Nebula" as an anaglyph Red/Cyan 3D
You'll need Red/Cyan Eyeglasses to be able to see this image right.
Note, if you have a Red and Blue filters, you can use them! Red goes to Left eye.
The Bug Nebula, NGC 6302 as an anaglyph Red/Cyan 3D-study.
Other 3D-formats can be found here:
Original 2D-image and details:
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2010/07/ngc-6302-bug-nebula.html
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2010/07/ngc-6302-bug-nebula.html
NOTE! This 3D-study is a personal vision about forms and shapes, based on some known facts and an artistic impression.
Thursday, July 8, 2010
NGC 6752 as a Stereo pair 3D
Parallel vision
Cross vision
Original 2D-image and details:
Other 3D-formats can be found here:
NOTE! This is a personal vision about forms and shapes, based on some known facts and an artistic impression.
Viewing instructions can be found from a Right hand side menu.
Viewing instructions can be found from a Right hand side menu.
NGC 6752 as an anaglyph Red/Cyan 3D
Original 2D-image and details:
Other 3D-formats can be found here:
NOTE! This 3D-study is a personal vision about forms and shapes, based on some known facts and an artistic impression.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Tucanae 47, a Globular cluster as a stereo pair
Parallel vision
Cross vision
Other 3D-formats can be found here:
original 2D-image and details:
NOTE! This is a personal vision about forms and shapes, based on some known facts and an artistic impression.
Viewing instructions can be found from a Right hand side menu.
Viewing instructions can be found from a Right hand side menu.
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