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Sunday, March 16, 2008

NGC 4216 & friends

This image is from same night than M51. In this area, there is so many dim edge on galaxys for some reason. At the time I shoot this group, the elevation was low, between 24-30 degrees. That has some effect to the sharpness, but there is still some details visible in central galaxy. Just above NGC 4216, there is a Bluish object. I was not able to recodnice it. It could be a comet? At the time span of 2h 45min. it does not appear to move, or it moves very small amount. (I think there is some minor trailing visible in the closeup image) Exposures: 11 x 900s = 2h 45min. + Flat and Bias farmes Telescope: LX200 GPS 12" + FR f6.4 Guiding: SXV-AO and LodeStar guider Object I ment in previous text is marked here with lines UPDATE: This is fast! I just uploaded the image to the Cloudy Nights forum and right a way FrankZ posted information about this object! "TheSky 6 tells me that this is IC 771 (PGC 39176)! Type is spiral galaxy. Found in the Catalog of principal galaxies (PGC)." Thanks a lot Frank!

Saturday, March 15, 2008

M51, Whirlpool Galaxy

M51 is a bright (as a deepsky object) galaxy located in Canes Venatici. Distance from my home town Oulu is about 23 miljon light-years.
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I had hard time with dimmer parts doe the light pollution, IDAS LP filter helpped some, tough. Image is scaled down 50%.
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Exposures: 12 x 900s =3h
- Telescope: Meade LX200 GPS 12"
- Guiding: SXV-AO, active optics unit and LodeStar guider.

Friday, March 14, 2008

M13, Stereo pair

As a SH2-240, Globular Cluster M13 is too a three dimensional object floating in space.
This image pair shows the "true" nature of this object.
Read viewing instructions from previous post.
Parallel vision Stereo Pair
Cross vision Stereo Pair

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Sh2-240, Stereo pairs

Objects in the space are three dimensionals, but doe the huge distance we see them
flat, without 3D appearance.
To reveal "true" nature of this object I made 3D-stereo image pair from it.
This supernova remant now looks like an expanding sphere in the deep space.

Parrallel vision image pair
Cross vision image pair
PARALLEL VISION ISTRUCTIONS:
In parallel freeviewing the image for the left eye is on the left and the image for the right eye is on the right. You stare into the screen so that your eyes are aimed (more or less) parallel. As you stare into the screen you will get double vision as each eye sees the L & R images separately. When you are staring in at the right distance the middle two images will overlap and become 3d. The outer two images will remain and will still be 2d.
CROSS VISION INSTRUCTIONS:
In cross eye freeviewing the image for the left eye is on the right and the image for the right eye is on the left. You stare at a point about 1/2 way to the screen so that your eye's gaze is crossing at the half way point. Thus the left eye sees the correct image which is on the right. As you cross your eyes the image will go double. When your eyes are crossed the correct amount the middle images will overlap and be in 3d. The two outer images will remain and will be in 2d.