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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Just for fun, a rocket launch seen from my hometown Oulu, Finland



I made this image manipulation to show the actual scale of the Saturn rocket in everyday environment.
Image shows my hometown from the marketplace and there is a map attached showing the locations.
The Height of the Apollo rocket is around 110m. The church, seen at left  in the image, is about 54m high.


A Saturn V launch from Oulu
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I think, the city is pretty much gone after the launch...


The Map


PS.

Other well known landmarks seen in Oulu at scale

Cheops Pyramid
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The Empire State Building
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Monday, April 27, 2015

A video out of my astronomical photos



I made a video clip out of  my astronomical nature photographs, the movie is in full HD-format.

Please, click start and use a gear symbol at the bottom right of the video window menu, select 1080p HD quality. Then select the full screen mode by using the rightmost symbol.

BELLA NOTTE
A 14 minute movie by J-P Metsavainio


Click to start and stop the movie

Some links to my work as an astrophotographer















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Saturday, April 18, 2015

B&W space, Winter 2014-15



As astronomical cameras are usually cooled grayscale CCD-cameras, color images are made by shooting each color channel through a filter. For broad band RGB images usually four filters are used Luminance and RGB-filters. Due to massive light pollution in my location, I'm specialized to a narrowband imaging, it's very effective method to shoot emission nebulae, since they are emitting light in well known wavelengths. All other light can be then filtered out and let just the right wavelength pass through. I'm using the most common combination of emission lines, a light from ionized hydrogen (H-alpha), sulfur (S-II) and oxygen (O-III).

The strongest emission line is usually the H-alpha, it has most of the details also. I'm publishing here a collection of H-alpha images from the Winter season 2014-15. Sometimes B&W images can be very beautiful.

A collection of selected B&W H-alpha nebulae, Winter 2014-15
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Pelican Nebula

Pelican Nebula mosaic, a blog post HERE


Pickering's Triangle in O-III light only

Pickering's Triangle in O-III light only, a blog post HERE


NGC 281

NGC 281, a blog post HERE
Sharpless 132

Sharpless 132, Sh2-132, a blog post HERE
Tulip Nebula

The Tulip Nebula, Sh2-101, a blog post HERE  NASA APOD


IC 405

IC 405, the Flaming Star Nebula, a blog post HERE


IC 410

IC 410, a blog post HERE
IC 1805

IC 1805, The Heart Nebula,  a blog post HERE


Melotte 15

Melotte 15 inside IC 1805,  a blog post HERE


NGC 1795


NGC 1795, a blog post HERE


NGC 2175

NGC 2175, The Monkey Head Nebula, a blog post HERE






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Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Exhibition in Galleria Kajaste, Oulu, Finland




My first art gallery exhibition in Oulu, Finland. 

April 8. - 26.
Wed. - Fri. 14 -19
Sat. - Sun. 12-16

 Welcome!

 More info about exhibition (In Finnish)
Tietoa näyttelystä suomeksi
http://www.galleriakajaste.fi/galleria/nykyinen-nayttely/
Info about the photo above
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.fi/2015/02/ic-405-flaming-star-nebula.html




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