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Friday, October 17, 2008

Veil Nebula 3D + animation

Parallel Vision image Cross Vision image -
I tested GIF-animation in previous post.
This time I use it to add litle surprise to this stereo image.
Again, two versions. One for Parallel Vision method
and the other for Cross Vision.
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Click the image to start, look at the image in stereo, after few
seconds something small going to happend.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Star removal technique


Star removal example animation (kilck to start)
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In narrowband color imaging star control is essential.
I have developed some time now starremoval technique.
It turned to be very accurate.
Please note, that this is a GIF-animation and image has a lower quality, than original.
Nebula in dense starfield can seen better without stars and
more faint details and large forms comes visible.
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Images details, please, look previous posts.

Monday, October 13, 2008

Heart & Soul in "natural color"

This version is with more natural colors.
Ionized Hydrogen emits Red light.
The Green channel is synthesized from O-III and H-alpha.

The Heart & Soul in narrowband colors

This beautiful pair is located in Cassiopeia.
Real names are IC1848 and IC1805, but sometimes
they are called "Heart and Soul"
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Narrowband color image shows different areas in different colors.
Hydrogen can be seen as Green, Sulfur as Red and Oxygen as Blue.
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Here is couple of links to the Wikipedia, if you like to know
more of those objects.
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This image has a long and narrow shape becouse
Image is a two panel mosaic.
Unfortunatetly This Blog has a limit with image hight,
image here is a very small version of original high resolution one.
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Imaging data:
Camera, QHY8 -
Filters,
Baader 7nm H-alpha, Baader 8,5nm O-III and Baader 8nm S-II -
Optics,
Tokina AT-X 300mm @ f2.8 -
Exposures, 14X 1200s H-alpha, 6 X 1200 O-III and 6X1200s S-II + flats and bias
(exposures are divided between both images in mosaic) - Guiding, LX200 GPS 12" + PHD-guiding and Lodestar