Thursday, October 1, 2015
A new image, the Witch's Broom Nebula
This is my second photo for this season from my observatory. It's a detail of the veil nebula supernova remnant, as was my first light photo for this Autumn season, the Pickering's Triangle. This is a two frames mosaic image, exposed on several nights between September 10. - 27. 2015. Total exposure time is about 11h.
NGC 6960, the Witch's Broom Nebula
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S-II = Red, H-alpha = Green and O-III = Blue.
Close up images
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A starless image
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Visual colors
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This composition is very close to a visual spectrum.
Witch's broom in light of an ionized oxygen only
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A wide field photo of the Veil Nebula supernova remnant
The Witch's Broom Nebula can be see at three o'clock position.
My blog post about this older wide field shot can be seen HERE.
Technical details
Processing work flow
Image acquisition, MaxiDL v5.07.
Stacked and calibrated in CCDStack2.
Deconvolution with a CCDStack2 Positive Constraint, 21 iterations, added at 25% weight
Color combine in PS CS3
Levels and curves in PS CS3.
Imaging optics
Celestron Edge HD 1100 @ f7 with 0,7 focal reducer for Edge HD 1100 telescope
Mount
10-micron 1000
Cameras and filters
Imaging camera Apogee Alta U16 and Apogee seven slot filter wheel
Guider camera, Lodestar x2 and SXV-AOL
Astrodon filter, 5nm H-alpha
Astrodon filter, 3nm O-III
Astrodon filter, 3nm S-II
Exposure times
H-alpha, 15 x 1200s = 5h
O-III, 36 x 1200s binned = 5h (Autumn 2014)
S-II, from my older wide field photo of the Veil Nebula = 1h
Total 11h
Friday, September 25, 2015
Astro Anarchy gets published
The Cnet published an article about Messier 31, the Great galaxy of Andromeda, photo.
Photo of Messier 31 is produced by collaboration between David Lane and me.
You can read the Cnet article by Michelle Starr from
The Wired noticed us too
Ten must-read articles for 25 September
Our photo is number five on the list
Thursday, September 24, 2015
Messier galaxies, M81-M82, with integrated flux nebula
A new collaboration image with David Lane. Beside beeing a deep sky astrophotographer he is also a master of landscape astrophotographing, please, have a look at his homepage: http://www.davelaneastrophotography.com/
Image acquisition is made by David Lane. He sent a massive amount of data to me to process and here is the result, Messier galaxies 81 and 82 with a large amount of dim integrated flux nebula at front of them.
Total exposure time is around 40 hours with the William Optics GT81 telescope and SBIG STL-1100 3 CCD-camera.
Total exposure time is around 40 hours with the William Optics GT81 telescope and SBIG STL-1100 3 CCD-camera.
Messier 81 and 82 with an integrated flux nebula
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So dusty, don't they ever clean up there...
An experimental starless photo
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Brighter dots in this starless image are more distant galaxies
A horizontal composition
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A better resolution photo
Technical details
Data acquisition, David Lane
Image processing, J-P Metsavainio
Processing workflow
Deconvolution with a CCDStack2 Positive Constraint, 27 iterations, added at 33% weight
Color combine in PS CS3
Levels and curves in PS CS3.
Imaging optics
William Optics GT81
Camera
SBIG STL-1100 3 CCD
Exposure times
Total ~40h
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Messier 31, M31, the Great Galaxy of Andromeda
Another collaboration image, this time with David Lane. He is also a master of landscape astrophotographing, please, have a look at his homepage: http://www.davelaneastrophotography.com/
Image acquisition is made by David Lane. He sent a massive amount of data to me to process and here is the first result, the Great Galaxy of Andromeda with 37 hours of exposure time.
Messier 31, M31, the Galaxy of Andromeda
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A deep H-alpha boosted LRGB exposure of the Galaxy of Andromeda
Large resolution detail from the image above
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Dust lanes of Andromeda
A starless view
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A vertical composition of M31
A poster format view to the M31
INFO
The Andromeda Galaxy, also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224, is a spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light years from Earth. It is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way.
The Milky Way and Andromeda are expected to collide in 3.75 billion years, eventually merging to form a giant elliptical galaxy or perhaps a large disk galaxy.
At 3.4, the apparent magnitude of the Andromeda Galaxy is one of the brightest of any of the Messier objects, making it visible to the naked eye on moonless nights even when viewed from areas with moderate light pollution. It has an apparent diameter of six times as wide as the full Moon
An experimental test
This funny looking image is just stretched vertically to try to show the actual round shape of the galaxy.
It looks like a barred spiral to me.
Technical details
Data acquisition, David Lane
Image processing, J-P Metsavainio
Processing workflow
Deconvolution with a CCDStack2 Positive Constraint, 27 iterations, added at 33% weight
Color combine in PS CS3
Levels and curves in PS CS3.
Imaging optics
William Optics GT81
Camera
SBIG STL-1100 3 CCD
Exposure times
Luminance, 18h
H-alpha, 1h
Red = ~6h
Green = ~6h
Blue = ~6h
Total 37h
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