Saturday, September 19, 2009
NGC 6888 as a Stereo Pair
A Parallel Vision version 
A Cross Vision version -
NOTE! This is a personal vision about forms and shapes, based on some known facts and artistic impression. Wieving instructions can be found from a Right hand side menu.
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Original 2D-image and details, HERE
Friday, September 18, 2009
NGC 6888 in HST-palette
Last night I got S-II (ionized Sulfur) for the NGC 6888, the Crescent Nebula.
Now it was possible to compose a HST version (Hubble Space Telescope palette).
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Camera QHY9,
Optics Meade LX200 GPS 12" forced to @ f4.65
Guiding with SXV-AO active optics unit 11Hz
Filters
Baader H-alpha 7nm, 4.5h 20min subs
Baader O-III 8,5nm 2h 40min 20min subs binned 2x2
S-II 1h 5 min subs binned 3x3
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Note. a special technique of mine is used to balance weaker channels with Hydrogen alpha.
Information about that tech. can be found HERE
Thursday, September 17, 2009
NGC 6888 in H-alpha and O-III light.
This was hard to process...
I have problems to have images calibrated with Flats, Bias and Darks, so much extra work there to have images balanced.
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O-III, ionized Oxygen, really add forms to this image.
I will shoot S-II, even though there is much that in the Crescent itself.
I'll like to make this image to HST-palette as well.
- Camera QHY9, Optics Meade LX200 GPS 12" forced to @ f4.65 Guiding with SXV-AO active optics unit 11Hz Filter Baader H-alpha 7nm
H-alpha 4.5h 20min subs
O-III 2h 40min 20 min subs
A new project, NGC 6888
I have started a new project with the NGC 6888.
So far there is 4,5h of H-alpha.
Image going to be a three band narrowband image, I have allready 4,5h O-III light for this.
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Camera QHY9,
Optics Meade LX200 GPS 12" forced to @ f4.65
Guiding with SXV-AO active optics unit 11Hz
Filter Baader H-alpha 7nm
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
M27 as a Stereo Pair
Parallel Vision version 
Cross Vision version - NOTE! This is a personal vision about forms and shapes, based on some known facts and artistic impression. Wieving instructions can be found from a Right hand side menu. Sunday, September 13, 2009
M27 in two palettes
Natural colors 
I was able to shoot data for other channels and more lights for H-alpha, last night.
Same data than H-alpha version in last post.
Additional two hours for H-a, now 4,5h together,
6x600s, binned 2x2, for O-III and 2x600s, binned 3x3, for S-II.
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More information about the target HERE.
O-III channel is very strong. Note. there is interesting looking shadow at three a clock position.Hint of an other shadow can be seen in a nine a clock position too.
Friday, September 11, 2009
Firs light for the new season
M27, Planetary nebula, was my first target for this new season.
After a long mandatory pause, I feel like a novice.
My location is not good for this object, since it stays under 40 degrees from horizont.
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At last season I shot lots of shor focal lenght images.
this time I like to shoot some smaller targets with longer FL.
I have a wonderfull device from Strarlight Express, SXV-AO, active optics unit.
It makes my LX200 GPS 12" Meade work like a 20.000€ mount!
Guiding error was between 0.1 -0.2 pixels all the time at Focal lenght 1500mm and frequency 13Hz.
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Unfortunatetly I was able to soot only 2,5 h of lights doe the clouds.
I'll shoot more H-alpha and other channels later.
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Outer shell can be seen even now.
A close up
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Details;
-Camera, QHY9
- Optics, Meade LX200 GPS 12" @ f4.65
- Guiding, Lodestar and SXV-AO @ 13Hz
- Exposures, 4x1200s with 7nm H-alpha filter and 7x600 Binned 2x2 . - image scale is 0.8 arcsecond/pixel
Active otics and Meade LX200 GPS 12"
I have made some experiments wirh SXV-AO and QHY9.
Since QHY9 has a very small pixels, 5,4microns, there will be serious over sampling with LX200.
I do have a f6.3 reducer/flattener but even eith f6.3 image scale is oversampled.
I tested to increase the distance between QHY9 and a reducer, it seems that I'm able to
go up to f4.65 focal lenght by this method!
There is some wignetting, but not very serious. Some distortion with stars can be seen in outer corners, but I'm able to live with that.
I didn't think it's possible to turn f10 telescope toreltively fast f4.65 scope.
QHY9 has a lightly smaller chip than APS-size in QHY8, that heps a litle.
Images, taken with this imaging configuration, can be seen here:
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.fi/search/label/Images%20with%20Active%20Optics%20%28SXV-AO%29
Click "Older Posts" at the end of the page to see more.
Images, taken with this imaging configuration, can be seen here:
http://astroanarchy.blogspot.fi/search/label/Images%20with%20Active%20Optics%20%28SXV-AO%29
Click "Older Posts" at the end of the page to see more.
Saturday, August 8, 2009
California Nebula get published in S&T
In July 2009 issue of Sky & Telescope magazine's Gallery, in page 78,
is a full page image of NGC 1499, the "California Nebula" by me.
Total exposure time is 18 hours.
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The original post can be seen HERE.
Monday, July 6, 2009
"Elphants Trunk Nebula" as a Stereo Pair.
Parallel Vision 
Cross Vision -
I turned an older image, from 2007, to a Spatial format. As usally, this is a personal vision about forms and shapes, based on some known facts and artistic impression. Viewing istructions can be found in Right hand side menu.
Friday, July 3, 2009
13. Universe Today article
"Fly me to the Moon" An article by Tammy Plotner, based on my experiments with animatedstereo pairs of the Moon.
Monday, June 8, 2009
Moon Surface Movie from 2D-image
One full resolution (1280x720)frame from the HD-movie-
New test, this time more relief effect on the Moon surface.
It's nice to see how much information there is in simple 2D-image!
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To see this video in HD, please klick This LINK and select the HD option from the player.
HINT!
To see a smooth video in HD, please, press a pause button and let the movie load before play it.
3D-stereo Movies!
An other experiment.
I have done many Stereo Pair visualizations about astronomical targets.
This time I did the same thing with moving image.
Here are two examples, first is a Moon animation and the second one about M31, the Andromeda Galaxy.
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Viewing istructions can be found from the Right hand side menu.
This type of Stereograms can be difficult to see right away but they should work after some practise.
Note, Movie is for the Parallel Vision method only.
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Moon Fly in Parallel Vision Stereo Movie
Large Movie here.
- M31 in Parallel Vision Stereo Movie
Large Movie here.
More experiments with a 3D-transform.
I did some new test videos with a 3D-transform technique.
The same 2D-moon image has been used as previous posts.
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Wider view flight over the Termintor Zone from Pole to Pole. To see this video in HD, please klick This LINK and select the HD option from the player. HINT!
To see a smooth video in HD, please, press a pause button and let the movie load before play it.
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Closeup flight over the Terminator Zone.
To see this video in HD, please klick This LINK and select the HD option from the player. HINT! To see a smooth video in HD, please, press a pause button and let the movie load before play it
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
LPOD, "TWIRLING WORLD"
My movies about the Lunar 3D-transform was selected as a "Lunar Photo Of the Day"
An article by Chuck Wood.
Klick the image to see the article in LPOD.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
12. Universe Today article
An Article by Tammy Plotner.
This time my Stereo Image of the "Bubble nebula" is used.
Link to the Article:
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My normal 2D-Narrowban image of the "Bubble Nebula" can be found here.
Parallel Vision
Cross VisionMoon images.
Images here are Screen Shots from the HD-movies in this post.
There is links provided to download the full resolution HD-movies.
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NOTE
The Moon can not be seen like this from the Earth, but all the needed information is
visible to create images like ones here!
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Two images above are made from the image belowby moving the observation point three dimensionaly in Space.
The Full Moon image above is made from image below.
The real shape of the craters can be now seen.
Monday, June 1, 2009
How to, 3D-Moon movie.
This vide shows how to 3D-transform is made from a 2D-image of the Moon.
The image is reprojected back to spherical 3D-surface.
It makes possible to see details from a limb area of the Moon, otherwise burried by the perspective distortion.
Real shape of the craters can now be seen.
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In the Video, there is first a normal, high resolution, image of the Full moon.
Secondly the image is projected back to a sphere.
After that, the vantagepoint can be freely selected from the Space, as long as the target stays at the area visible in the original 2D-image!
To see this video in HD, please klick This LINK and select the HD option from the player. HINT! To see a smooth video in HD, please, press a pause button and let the movie load before play it. You can download the original HD wmv movie from HERE. The original 2D image can be seen HERE.
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As I mentioned some ealier post, I have done this kind of experiments few years back.
At the time I did only still images.
One of them was selected as a LPOD (lunar Picture Of the Day).
this was my very first LPOD.
It can be found here:
Thursday, May 28, 2009
New Video material from astrotargets
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All Videos are now in HD format! To see the video in HD, please, use the YouTube Link. Or Download the Video in true 1280x720 pixels format from the links provided.
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This material is made by reprojecting 2D-images to a 3D-surface.
Then this 3D-model is animated to a movie file.
In the result, we can select an other vantage point from the Space
and see an old target from a new perspective!
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NOTE
Only original, high resolution, 2d images are used to make videos.
Nothing has been added or removed from them!
Only our vantagepoint in a Space has been manimuplated.
You really should download the full resolution HD-movie
from the link provided to see it in full glory!
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A JOURNEY TROUGH THE STARS OF OUR HOME GALAXY TO A DIRECTION OF THE ANDROMEDA
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To see this video in HD, please klick This LINK and select the HD option from the player.
HINT! To see a smooth video in HD, please, press a pause button and let the movie load before play it.
You can download the original HD wmv movie from HERE.
The original 2D image can be seen HERE.
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THE HALF MOON, FLIGHT AROUND THE RIM To see this video in HD, please klick This LINK and select the HD option from the player.
HINT! To see a smooth video in HD, please, press a pause button and let the movie load before play it.
You can download the original HD wmv movie from HERE.
The original 2D image can be seen HERE.
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- THE MOON, FLIGHT OVER THE TERMINATOR ZONE FROM POLE TO POLE To see this video in HD, please klick This LINK and select the HD option from the player.
HINT! To see a smooth video in HD, please, press a pause button and let the movie load before play it. You can download the original HD wmv movie from HERE. The original 2D image can be seen HERE. - -
THE FLIGHT AROUND THE RIM OF THE FULL MOON
To see this video in HD, please klick This LINK and select the HD option from the player.
HINT! To see a smooth video in HD, please, press a pause button and let the movie load before play it.
You can download the original HD wmv movie from HERE.
The original 2D image can be seen HERE.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
A trip to Andromeda
I did an other simple animation from 2D-image, this time the Great Galaxy of Andromeda.
The idea is to show how this Galaxy looks like if we are able to travel outside of our home Galaxy.
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Resolution of this online movie is reduced by the video codec,
please, if you'll like to see a full resolution movie, it can bedownloaded from HERE.
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The original 2D-image can be seen HERE.
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The speed in the animation is many many times of the speed of light.
The real distance to Andromeda Galaxy is about two million Light Years.
Fly me to the Moon!
I recently bought a private Lunar orbiter to shoot some videos from the Moon!!!
It's much like a KAGUYA (SELENE) orbiter but more advanced.
Not really, animations here are made by reprojecting 2D-Moon image to a 3D-ball.
Animation is then calculated in 3D-software (TrueSpace from Galigari)
In this animation we are flying over the terminator zone of the half Moon.
On the Left side the Earth shine effect can be seen as a Bluish hue.
The online Video quality is very low doe the compression algorithm,
please, download a high resolution video to see it in full glory.
A higher resolution Video can be downloaded from HERE.
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An other video from the same 2D-material.
In this Video we are flying closer to a surface of the termintor zone.
A higher resolution Video can be downloaded from HERE.
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The original 2D-image can be seen HERE.
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Full Moon as an animation
In this animation we are flying 360 degrees around the termination zone of the Full Moon.
A higher resolution Video can be downloaded from HERE.
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Original 2D-image of the Full Moon can be seen HERE.
Monday, May 18, 2009
Stella Arcti Award 2009
I was onored by the Stella Arcti award in a category of amateur astronomy: by the Finnish National Amateur Astronomy association URSA.
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Other two winners are Petri Kehusmaa and Mikko Päivinen in a category of astronomical discovery of the year, the Supernova 2008im.
Image: Mikko SuominenKlick the image to see an article in "Tähdet ja Avaruus" Magazine (in finnish).
"Yours truly" at Left.
Monday, May 11, 2009
11. Universe Today article
An Article by Tammy Plotner.
This time I turned more familar object to a Stereo Pair, The Moon.
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My original image of the Moon can be seen HERE.
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Cross VisionWednesday, May 6, 2009
10. Universe Today article
A new article in Universe Today, by Tammy Plotner, using the
Hubble Heritage image volumized by me.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Astro Anarchy in Ten o Clock News
04.05.2009 Ten o Clock News in MTV3 showed Astro Anarchy in national News.
You can see the clip by klicking the Image belowe.
It's in Finish but plenty of images there to see and my observatory.
Please, let the video load first, there might be some adds before it starts, sorry.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
9. Universe Today atricle
A new article in Universe Today, by Tammy Plotner, using theHubble Hertage image volumized by me.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
8. Universe Today article
Tammy plotner has wrote an other article.
This time NGC 602, from Hubble Heritage team, is turned to a spatial format by me.
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Read the article from here.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
NEAIC
NOTE
There is now a new version of Tone Mapping, TM v2.0
It can be found here:
http://www.astroanarchy.blogspot.fi/2014/04/tone-mapping-v20-my-lecture-at-neaic.html
I was one of the speakers in NEAIC conference in Suffern NY , what a wonderfull experience!
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A very special thanks to Bob Moore for all you hard work!
.I made a promise to publish the content of my speech, so here we go;
Download link for TM work flow:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24702393/Tone%20Mapping.pdf
Secondly the 2D to 3D work flow, a download link:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24702393/3D-stereo%20from%20a%202D-astro%20image.pdf
The GIF-animation in PSD doesn't work, you can see it by klicking the image belowe.
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In this image you can see the whole "Tone Mapping" procedure at ones.
Friday, April 10, 2009
Thursday, April 9, 2009
The Bubble Nebula in HST-palette
I relized yesterday, that I actually shot Narrowband colors for the Bubble Nebula!
The colors are from a small part of the wide field image belowe. I marked it there.
This image of Sh2-157 is shot November 10 2008. The original image and data can be found
The original Bubble nebula, from 2007, is Shot with much higher focal lenght. It can be found HERE.-
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It's amazing how litle and low resolution color information is enough to build HST-palette image.
The signal from S-II and O-III channels is carefully mixed to a H-a channel.
Then the O-III and S-II boosted H-a channel is used as a luminance.
I must try this tecnique with some other, older , narrowband images as well!
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