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Wednesday, April 29, 2009

9. Universe Today atricle

A new article in Universe Today, by Tammy Plotner, using the
Hubble 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


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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'll write a review about NEAIC and NEAF later.

.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

Bubble Nebula in a Stereo Pair format

Parallel Vision
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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!

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

All my Astro Images from a season 2008-09

To see this SlideShow in full screen maximize your browser and Klick this link:

FULL SCREEN

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It's over up here, 65N !
In a two days here will be no astronomical darkness anymore, until Sptember.
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In this Slide Show, there is all my Astroimages from this season.
They are in reversed chronological order from 11.09.2008 to 02.04.2009.
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There is about 28 individual images from this season, my personal record!
All the images, with higher resolution and details, can be found from this Blog.
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Please, use the Right hand side menu to see different image groups.

My Old astroimages, 2005-2008

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Since I know now how to make a Slideshow, I made one about my older images as well.
Images in this presentation are shot between 2005-2008.
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FULL SCREEN Slideshow, klick this link and maximize you browser;
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Nebula images are taken with a UHC-filter or are H-a RGB-compositions,
so they are in natural colors.
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I posted a slideshow about my astroimages from this season, 2008-09, ealier, it can be seen here:

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Moon, an inspiration and passion.

This image of Full Moon is litle different now!
Klick to see it in full scale.
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The original Moon image and the others can be found here:
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The text is borrowed from various scientific publications, about the Moon, around the web.

A grobbed part of the poster, to see the text.

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Sh2-223, 224 and 225 lightened up






I found some old H-alpha light frames, for this object, from my HD!
There was 15 x 1200s from 03.11.2008, I totally frogotten, that I had
shot them.
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You can compare how additional Five hours of H-a hellped by looking two previous versions.
First, there is only Two hours of H-a:
Really bad looking and noisy,
Secondly there was 11 hours of H-a, looks much better:
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This is a really dim Supernova Remnant pair, with fast, f1.8, optics
it has taken 16h of H-alpha light to get in this version.
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Details; -Camera, QHY9 - Optics, Canon EF 200mm f1.8 @ 1.8 - Guiding, QHY5 and PHD-guiding - Platform, LX200 GPS 12" - Exposures, 7x1200s with 7nm H-alpha filter and 13x2400s, 5x300s O-III Binned 4x4 and 5x300s. S-IIBinned 4x4 .
Additional 15x1200s of H-a added, imaged with QHY8 and Tokina AT 300mm f2.8 @2.8
03.11.2008
Darks, Flats and Bias frames calibrated. Total exposure time for H-alpha line is 16h!