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Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Frustration

EDIT.
I mentioned about hardware problems in this post. Problems I ment are in a telescopes electric, not in my camera. I like to clear this up.
QHY9 will have soon a software update and it'll work without flaws in my extreme conditions too.
Bottom line.
QHY9 has been a bigest upgrade for my equipments ever!

We have now clear up here 65N and temperature is nice -30 celsius (-22 Farenheit).
Seeing looks good, transparency is not too good though.

Can't do any imaging since my equipments are not working due many hardware issues.
I have spend countles hours fixing things and now there is only couple of issues left.
I just have spend six hours to do some power measurements to pinpoint failure(s), three hours of them outside.

I feel really frustrated to be unable to use clear night(s)... what a shame.

NOTE
I made a small face lift to my Blog. There is now larger preview images and both columns are wider, hope you'll like!

Monday, January 4, 2010

Cloudynights forum October 2009 winner


This post is somehow late, since I noticed this just now.

Original image and technical details can be found HERE.


Friday, January 1, 2010

Three new Zoomout Movies


Tulip Nebula Zoomout.
Two images was used to make this, a wide field and a high resolution image, details are with images.
Klick HERE to see this in YouTube, please, klick a HD-symbol to see this in HD-format.


Two images was used to make this, a wide field and a high resolution image, details are with images.
Klick HERE to see this in YouTube, please, klick a HD-symbol to see this in HD-format.


This technique gives a new life to an old Moon image as well!
Klick HERE to see this in YouTube, please, klick a HD-symbol to see this in HD-format.

I have found out, that with this tech. I can combine a high resolution details to a wide field experience.
Seeing the "big picture" helps the orientation and shows the context.





Heart Nebula Zoomout


I made a Zoomout video from a Heart Nebula as well.
Klick HERE to see this in YouTube, please, klick a HD-symbol to see this in HD-format.
Movie is made by stitching together a wide field image and a detail image from a same target, in this case the heart (Melotte 15) of the heart nebula.
Original images can be found here:
http://astroanarchy.zenfolio.com/p62690868/h2254fd41#h2254fd41
http://astroanarchy.zenfolio.com/p1072219942/h12bae2d9#h12bae2d9