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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Comet Lulin animation

Click the image to see it animated.
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Animation of Comet Lulin shows its movement in an one hour.
25 x 100s exposures with UHC-s filter.
Colors are imaged with H-a, S-II and O-III filters and HST-palette is used.

Saturday, February 21, 2009

5. Universe Today article

A new article by Tammy Plotner in Universe Today:
I turned this Hubble Heritage image of the "Ring Nebula" to the Spatial format.



Cross Vision version
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Distances and shapes in 3D-image are visualizations, since we don't have enough information to buil an accurate model. However, the 3D-model of the target is not only a lucky guess as there is many known "anchor points" in the image, witch can be used to estimate the actual forms and the relative distances.
Parallel Vision version

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Cone Nebula area, NGC2264

This H-alpha narrowband image from last night, shows a large area around
the "Cone Nebula". Lots of nebulosity around there.
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Cone Nebula, H-alpha

Note the "Hubble's Variable Nebula" at Five a clock position.

(A small cometlike dot in the image)

A Starless version to show the nebulosity better.
False color H-alpha version.
A grop from the center. This lens is very sharp, even full open @f1.8
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Weather in this winter has been #&%@$£2 and last night was no exception.
After four hours I managed to save four 20 min. exposures,
others were ruined by the speeding clouds.
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IMAGING DETAILS:
Optics, Canon FD 200mm f1.8 @ 1.8
Camera, QHY9 astro camera
Guiding, QHY5 and PHD-Guiding on LX200 GPS 12"
Exposures, 4x1200s +darks, bias and flats
Filter, Baader 7nm H-alpha

Monday, February 16, 2009

IC443 in HST-palette

Last night was clear for a long time, I used it to shot
IC443 Supernove remnant. This was a first light for my new Observatory,
POD (Personal observatory Dome).
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The O-III signal is weak. After some extreme stretching of the data
there was plenty of it after all. I have not noticed before how far it continues
outside of the Hydrogen alpha area. O-III can be now seen at seven a
clock from the main formation and some faint areas in upper left corner with H-alpha.
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Exposures: -H-alpha 8x1200s binned 1x1
-S-II 4x600s binned 2x2 -O-III 5x600s binned 2x2 Optics: Tokina 300mm TX f2.8 @ f2.8 Camera: QHY9 @ -50 C Guiding: Lx200 GPS 12" + LQHY5 and PHD-Guiding
Grop from the center, not bad details for a 300mm camera lens. IC443 as a natural color version, mixed from narrowband channels. H-alpha 100% + 35%S-II = RED, O-III = GREEN and O-III 100% + 30%H-alpha = BLUE.
A Starless version to show the nebulosity better.
Note an extended Triple Ionized Oxygen outburst in lover left from main feature in middle.