Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Sh2-129, the Supernova Remnant
False color h-alpha
An unseasonal target from last night.
A Starless version to show the nebulosity.
An unseasonal target from last night.Sh2-129 is loacated in Cepheus, next to IC1396.
The field of view is about five degrees wide.
At this time of year it's in Northern sky but can be imaged doe my high
latitude location (65N).
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It's a dim Supernova Remnant and there is not too many images about it.
I haven't seen any HST-palette versions of it.
If weather allows, I'll shoot O-III and S-II channels to see if there is any signal.
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This is first image after I fixed the orthogonality problem with my optical configuration.
Now the whole area is flat and stars are pin points from edge to edge.
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Details;
-Camera, QHY9
- Optics, Canon EF 200mm f1.8 @ 1.8
- Guiding, QHY5 and PHD-guiding
- Platform, LX200 GPS 12"
- Exposures, 5x1200s with 7nm H-alpha filter from Baader,
Darks, Flats and Bias frames calibrated.
A Starless version to show the nebulosity.There is couple of dark nebulae in lower and upper part of the image.
Sh2-129, as a Stereo Pair
I made a Stereo precentation to show how I see this object.Viewing instructions can be found from a Right hand side menu.
Astro Anarchy in National TV
A screen shot from the News.-
Yesterday TV2 presented my work in areal news of National TV.
There is a story in the "YLE" newsroom as well.
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You can read the story here, it's in Finnish though.
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TV program can be seen here:
The Astro story is in last 2,5 minutes.
It's in finnish as well, but there is many images and an animation.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
An undesignated Planetary Nebula in NGC1499 image?
I have left a report to IAU about this possible undesignated Planetary Nebula.
I spotted this Nebula candidate from my image of NGC1499, the California Nebula,
at 25.02.2009.
The original post can be seen here:
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Many thanks to Keith B Quattrocchi to help me out with this.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
7. Universe Today article
Image credits, Hubble Heritage Team.
- You can read the article from here:
Parallel Vision
Cross Vision
M31- as a Stereo Pair
Parallel Vision 
Cross Vision - - I think, this stereo pair reveals something about shape of our neighbour Galaxy. It's more or less round, like our home Galaxy. - Original image is taken in 2007. NGC4565 as aStereo Pair
Parallel Vision 
Cross Vision - Due the bad weather, no new material can be shot. Instead I turned this Galaxy image from April 2. 2008 to a spatial format. Viewing istructions, please, look for a Right hand side menu. - Original image and imaging details: http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2008/04/ngc-4565.html Monday, March 9, 2009
Saturday, March 7, 2009
2009 Imaging Competition JANUARY WINNER
My two panel mosaic image of Rosette and Cone Nebula is a January winner
in Northern Galactic, an international astronomy community for professional and advanced astronomers, scientists, astrophotographers and science writers.
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The image is now in the running for the 2009 Grand Prize.
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Here is the image:
Details and more versions here:
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