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Sunday, June 6, 2010

An experimental M8, the "Lagoon nebula"




M8 in HST-palette, 50% broad band luminance used at top of the NB image, 100% for the Stars.


M8 in natural color narrow band composition, 50% broad band luminance used at top of the NB image, 100% for the Stars.

Original pure narrow band compositions can be found here:
Technical details are behind the link above.

Star colors are not RGB-colors! 
They are mixed from O-III and H-alpha stars by using a scientifically "wrong" method as a form of artificial Green channel. 

Luminance information, 7x300s, dark calibrated.










Saturday, June 5, 2010

An other Southern globular cluster, NGC 6752





NGC 6752, a globular cluster in constellation Pavo. Distance from Earth about 13000 light years.



100% crop from the core of NGC 6752

The telescope and technical information:


16" RCOS ja Apogee U9000 camera. 
LRGB combo.
Luminance 7x300s and 8x150s, Dark and Flat calibrated.
Red  1x300s, Dark calibrated 
Green 1x300s, Dark calibrated 
Blue 1x300s, Dark calibrated 
Raw data is shared with Petri Kehusmaa and J-P Metsavainio


Processing workflow:
Image acquisition, MaxiDL v4.xxx
Stacked and calibrated in CCDStack.
Deconvolution with a CCDSharp, 10 iterations
Levels, curves and color combine in PS CS3.

Tucanae 47, a Globular cluster




LRGB image of Tucanae, NGC 104, globular cluster in constellation Tucana.
16700 light years away from Earth and 120 light years across.

Less compressed images here: 
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Image field is about 30' x 30', half a degrees.
A new project, from Northern galactic remote telescope in Australia.

100% crop from the core of Tukanae 47.

The telescope and technical information:


16" RCOS ja Apogee U9000 camera. 
LRGB combo.
Luminance 12x300s and 8x150s, Dark and Flat calibrated.
Red  5x300s, Dark calibrated 
Green 5x300s, Dark calibrated 
Blue 5x300s, Dark calibrated 
Raw data is shared with Petri Kehusmaa and J-P Metsavainio


Processing workflow:
Image acquisition, MaxiDL v4.xxx
Stacked and calibrated in CCDStack.
Deconvolution with a CCDSharp, 10 iterations
Levels, curves and color combine in PS CS3.

Friday, June 4, 2010

M8, the "Lagoon nebula"




HST-palette from the emission of ionized elements, R=Sulfur, G=Hydrogen and B=Oxygen


Natural color composition from the emission of ionized elements, R=80%Hydrogen+20%Sulfur, G=100%Oxygen and B=85%Oxygen+15%Hydrogen to compensate otherwise missing H-beta emission.
This composition is very close to a visual spectrum.

Less compressed images here: 
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M8, the "Lagoon nebula" in Constellation Sagittarius.
Image field is about 30' x 30', half a degrees.
A new project, from Northern galactic remote telescope in Australia.
The Lagoon nebula, M8, in ionized light from the Three elements, H-alpha, O-III and S-II.

100% crop from the image of M8

The telescope and technical information:


16" RCOS ja Apogee U9000 camera. 
LRGB combo.
H-alpha 4x1200s, Dark and Flat calibrated.
O-III x1200s, Dark calibrated 
O-III x1200s, Dark calibrated
Raw data is shared with Petri Kehusmaa and J-P Metsavainio


Processing workflow:
Image acquisition, MaxiDL v4.xxx
Stacked and calibrated in CCDStack.
Deconvolution with a CCDSharp, 30 iterations
Levels, curves and color combine in PS CS3.

Edit 05.06.2010

Here is a Starless version of M8, I like to do some tricks with the images and the results are experimental in nature. Actual nebula can be seen better here.