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Friday, January 13, 2012

Cygnus zoom in series




Weather, up here 65N, doesn't give any support so I made an other zoom in series.
This time I'm zooming from 23x14 to 0,5x0,7 degrees of sky at the are of NGC 7000 in Cygnus.
Older series can be seen in my portfolio: http://astroanarchy.zenfolio.com/p162076373

I have shot many targets with several focal lengths. 
Due that, I will publish some of my material as an image sets, with different field of view and detail levels.
The fractal nature of our universe stands out nicely by this way and it will make the orientation more easy.

Many times, it's difficult to understand the image scale of astronomical images.
Due that, I will add a Moon circle in some of the images to show the angular scale in a sky. 
The full Moon has an angular size of ~30 arc minutes, that's equal to ~0,5 degrees.


Cygnus zoom in series, a study of the apparent scale in the sky.
Note. The apparent size of the full Moon is marked as a gray circle at lover Right corner.

Images are in mapped colors from emission of ionized elements, R=Sulfur, G=Hydrogen & B=Oxygen.

Location in the Sky, star map overlay



Images used in this series:

A giant, 18-panels, mosaic of the Cygnus constellation with 200mm canon EF at f1.8:
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2011/12/cygnus-mosaic-18-panels-and-22-x-14.html

North America and Pelican Nebulae with 300mm Tokina AT-X at f2.8:
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2011/11/ngc-7000-north-america-pelican-nebulae.html

Closeup of North America Nebula with Meade LX 200 GPS, reduced to f5 ~2000mm:
 http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2010/09/ngc-7000-closeup-hst-palette-preview.html






Sunday, January 8, 2012

Cygnus collection as a poster




Treasures of Cygnus 


I made a collection out of my images from the Cygnus constellation.
At center lays a giant 18-panels mosaic of Cygnus nebulae as a natural color composition. Surrounding closeup images, seen in large central mosaic,  are in HST-palette. All images are shot with the Baader narrow band filter set, H-alpha, S-II & O-III. 
Original, full resolution, poster has a massive size, ~21.000 x 16.000 pixels!

All images used in this presentation, with technical details and labels, can be found from my portfolio at: 



Ps.
This mid winter has been worst I can remember up here 65N... Over two Months 100% cloud cover and it doesn't look any better in near future either. Very frustrating. 



Friday, January 6, 2012

A video from Autumn 2011 images




Autumn season 2011



Three minute video, 640x480 pixels, from my images of Autu mn 2011.
(If you have a slow connection, please, hit the pause and wait movie to load)

Here is a direct link to my main work from last Autumn, a giant 18-panel mosaic of Cygnus nebulae:
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2011/12/cygnus-mosaic-18-panels-and-22-x-14.html





Saturday, December 31, 2011

Last day of 2011, a collection of images.






Happy New Year 2012


Since this is a last day of year 2011, I have made a collection of images from the Autumn season 2011. As usually at this time of year, the weather has been very cloudy, up here 65N. Last couple of months has been blocked 100% by clouds. I managed to use every clear moment, so there are quite a few images from this Autumn, including my main work, a giant 18-panel mosaic from the Cygnus constellation.


A slideshow
click > to start


All images, in this slideshow, can be seen in my portfolio with a technical details:
http://astroanarchy.zenfolio.com/p909207080


First image for the season was the Propeller Nebula in Cygnus

Original blog post, with a technical details, can be seen here:
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2011/10/first-light-for-autumn-season-2011.html



Last image for the current season was the 18-panel mosaic from the Cygnus constellation

Original blog post, with a technical details, can be seen here:
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2011/12/cygnus-mosaic-18-panels-and-22-x-14.html