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Saturday, May 15, 2010

NGC 4945 as a stereo pair





Parallel vision


Cross vision


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NOTE! This is a personal vision about forms and shapes, based on some known facts and an artistic impression.
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NGC 4945 as an anaglyph Red/Cyan 3D





You'll need Red/Cyan Eyeglasses to be able to see this movie right.
Note, if you have a Red and Green/Blue filters, you can try them out! Red goes to Left eye.


NOTE
You'll find a complete collection of my astronomical images from my portfolio:
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All of my 3D-material is behind "Volumetric 3D images", at a middle of the page.



Other 3D-versions





NOTE! This is a personal vision about forms and shapes, based on some known facts and an artistic impression

Friday, May 14, 2010

M20, the "Triffid nebula"




M20, the "Triffid Nebula" in constellation Sagittarius. Distance about 7600 light years.

Actually this is my firs image of a reflection nebula from a dark location, what a difference!
Image above is only Ten minutes exposure (Luminance channel)
Ten minutes was all I could do due the speeding clouds, I'll continue with this later.
I couldn't believe, that anything can be done from so thin data but here we go, nothing beats great instruments and a dark location!
Ones again, this is a preview image, since I don't have yet all the calibration filesa nd the exposure time is a way too short.

Details:

NGC 4945




NGC 4945 in Centaurus 
Beautiful and relatively large edge-on spiral galaxy.
Distance from Earth, about 12 million light years.

My second light for the Northern Galactic groups members telescope under the Australian dark skies.
This galaxy is not imaged too commonly, due the proximity of famous targets, Centaurus A and M86.

Ones again, this is a preview image, since I don't have yet all the calibration files.

Details:
Camera, Apogee U9000
Exposures, 24x300s for the Luminance and 4x300s for each RGB channel.
Darks, NO Flats.