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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















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
click for a large image

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






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




Monday, April 13, 2015

Melotte 15, a new revision



I did some minor tweaking with the Heart nebula project.  This is a new version out of the 
Melotte 15 area at the heart of the Heart, IC 1805.


Heavenly view to the Melotte 15
Click for a large image

Image is in mapped colors from an emission of  the ionized elements, H-alpha, S-II and O-III. 


A 1:1 detail of the photo above
Click for a large image

The whole large mosaic of the Heart Nebula is at the same resolution.


The whole IC 1805 in mapped colors
Click for a high resolution photo, 2300x1900 pixels and 3MB

Melotte 15 are can be seen at the very center of the IC 1805. The original blog post about this image HERE