Search found 213 matches
- Tue Nov 06, 2012 10:40 pm
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Recent Submissions: 2012 November
- Replies: 180
- Views: 126373
The elephant trunk
Recently I have been working on reprocessing old imagery using new software and techniques. This image improved a tremendous amount in noise and star colors... This image is the result of the cooperation between three observers. Images were made with different equipment and combined to get this deep...
- Mon Nov 05, 2012 8:32 pm
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Recent Submissions: 2012 November
- Replies: 180
- Views: 126373
M27 in a different way
Here is an image of M27 I took last year and which I reprocessed using pixinsight. This way you don't see M27 very often...
- Wed Oct 31, 2012 7:38 pm
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Recent Submissions: 2012 October
- Replies: 212
- Views: 137233
Re: Recent Submissions: 2012 October
Recently got a trial for pixinsight and started reprocessing some recent images. This is NGC7822 or Cederblad 214 in hubble palette...
Takahashi FSQ106
16x1800s Ha
6x1800s OIII
4x1800s S2
Full resolution
Takahashi FSQ106
16x1800s Ha
6x1800s OIII
4x1800s S2
Full resolution
- Tue Oct 30, 2012 8:49 pm
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Recent Submissions: 2012 October
- Replies: 212
- Views: 137233
Re: Recent Submissions: 2012 October
Here is my latest version of Melotte 15 in the Heart nebula. For the image 12.5 hours of data was used...
9x1800s Ha (4,5nm)
11x1800s OIII (3nm)
10x300s R,G,B each for the star colors
TEC140
NEQ6
SXV-H9 CCD camera
Full resolution
9x1800s Ha (4,5nm)
11x1800s OIII (3nm)
10x300s R,G,B each for the star colors
TEC140
NEQ6
SXV-H9 CCD camera
Full resolution
- Mon Oct 29, 2012 8:42 am
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Recent Submissions: 2012 October
- Replies: 212
- Views: 137233
Re: Recent Submissions: 2012 October
The sun had some great filaments yesterday. They went over more than 1/4th of the sun and continued over the edge as can be seen in this image.
- Sun Oct 14, 2012 9:42 pm
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Recent Submissions: 2012 October
- Replies: 212
- Views: 137233
Re: Recent Submissions: 2012 October
Recently I have been working some more on the Heart Nebula. This is my result for now...
Full resolution
Full resolution
- Thu Oct 11, 2012 7:51 am
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Recent Submissions: 2012 October
- Replies: 212
- Views: 137233
Re: Recent Submissions: 2012 October
Last night I used the TEC-140 to record an entire night IC1805 (Heart nebula). I imaged from about 12 midnight to 6 in the morning while I was sleeping. Results was 11 images of 30 minutes in OIII. I combined these with my earlier H-alpha images. Then I created a synthetic green channel from the H-a...
- Mon Oct 08, 2012 8:35 am
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Recent Submissions: 2012 October
- Replies: 212
- Views: 137233
- Mon Sep 10, 2012 7:46 am
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Recent Submissions: 2012 September
- Replies: 230
- Views: 157920
Re: Recent Submissions: 2012 September
Here is the latest and I think best version of my NGC7822 image. Stars have much improved since the previous version:
Full resolution
Full resolution
- Sat Sep 08, 2012 8:38 pm
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Recent Submissions: 2012 September
- Replies: 230
- Views: 157920
Re: Recent Submissions: 2012 September
Last night I finally was able to gather more data to finish my NGC7822 image in hubble palette.
The image was made using a Tak FSQ106 with SXV-H9 ccd. A DMK618 was used for autoguiding on a NEQ6...
Ha: 16x1800s 4,5nm
OIII: 6x1800s 3nm
S2: 4x1800s 5nm
full resolution
The image was made using a Tak FSQ106 with SXV-H9 ccd. A DMK618 was used for autoguiding on a NEQ6...
Ha: 16x1800s 4,5nm
OIII: 6x1800s 3nm
S2: 4x1800s 5nm
full resolution
- Fri Aug 24, 2012 10:31 pm
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Hubble's Hidden Treasures Contest 2012
- Replies: 147
- Views: 16100
Re: Hubble's Hidden Treasures Contest 2012
Congrats to you to! I didn't directly make the link between geckzilla and Judy ![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
- Mon Aug 20, 2012 8:57 pm
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Recent Submissions: 2012 August
- Replies: 182
- Views: 75023
Re: Recent Submissions: 2012 August
I also made a starless version of my Cygnus mosaic. This clearly shows the beauty of the nebulas in this region:
Full resolution:
link
Full resolution:
link
- Sun Aug 19, 2012 9:46 pm
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Recent Submissions: 2012 August
- Replies: 182
- Views: 75023
Re: Recent Submissions: 2012 August
In the last few days I was able to finish my mosaic of the Cygnus region in H-alpha. I used 4 nights for this, partly because of shifting manually the field between exposures (using thesky6 to help me). The images are made with a Canon 100mm lens @ F2.8, a geoptik adapter and my SXV-H9 camera. I use...
- Sun Aug 19, 2012 12:43 pm
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Video Submissions
- Replies: 711
- Views: 2544997
Re: Video Submissions
Click to play embedded YouTube video.
- Thu Jul 26, 2012 9:59 pm
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Recent Submissions: 2012 July
- Replies: 162
- Views: 99493
What if we could see h-alpha radiation?
How would the sky look like if we could see h-alpha radiation with our own eyes? This image comes close. It was made from 9 images made from my backyard using a 100mm Canon lens with a SXV-H9 ccd camera. It's the tail of the Swan (Cygnus). cygnuspanorama_cropweb.jpg The full scale can be found here:...
- Tue Jul 24, 2012 11:47 am
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Recent Submissions: 2012 July
- Replies: 162
- Views: 99493
Ngc 7000 widefield
Last few days I have been experimenting with my Canon 100mm lens on my CCD camera. This to gain experience for imaging during my holidays in Austria. In the end I used 3 nights for this image. The experimenting took its time, but I think this could have been done in one night. At least now I know ho...
- Sun Jun 03, 2012 6:47 pm
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Recent Submissions: 2012 June
- Replies: 146
- Views: 107449
Re: Recent Submissions: 2012 June
The sun is getting ready for the transit. Activity is rising, so let's hope for some nice imaging opportunities...
- Mon May 07, 2012 10:51 am
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Hubble's Hidden Treasures Contest 2012
- Replies: 147
- Views: 16100
Re: Hubble's Hidden Treasures Contest 2012
A nice dark nebula in the constellation of Taurus, IRAS 5437
Datasets:
HST_10536_71_ACS_WFC_F606W
HST_10536_71_ACS_WFC_F814W
![Image](http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5333/7005887234_c2d7e0f822_z_d.jpg)
And Mars as seen from Hubble in 2003:
![Image](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7265/7152232757_153786457e_z_d.jpg)
Datasets:
HST_10536_71_ACS_WFC_F606W
HST_10536_71_ACS_WFC_F814W
![Image](http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5333/7005887234_c2d7e0f822_z_d.jpg)
And Mars as seen from Hubble in 2003:
![Image](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7265/7152232757_153786457e_z_d.jpg)
- Sun May 06, 2012 8:20 pm
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Hubble's Hidden Treasures Contest 2012
- Replies: 147
- Views: 16100
Re: Hubble's Hidden Treasures Contest 2012
Another nice galaxy with a lot of h-alpha activity near the center NGC 3256: http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7210/7003662318_3266166cd1_z_d.jpg Datasets used: HST_9735_21_ACS_WFC_F555W (green) HST_9735_22_ACS_WFC_FR656N (red) HST_10592_34_ACS_WFC_F435W (blue + lum) HST_10592_34_ACS_WFC_F814W (red + lum)
- Thu May 03, 2012 10:03 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: M106 Close Up (2012 May 03)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3339
Re: APOD: M106 Close Up (2012 May 03)
I'm not sure about that. But when I look at the original hubble images it looks like there is indeed a sort of a pit there with less density.... It looks like the galaxy is thinner in the central part in stead of having a bulge, but I can't explain why. Maybe an astronomer can?
- Thu May 03, 2012 4:43 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: M106 Close Up (2012 May 03)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3339
Re: APOD: M106 Close Up (2012 May 03)
Wow, I never dared to hope for this..
A full zoomable 35 megapixel version of the image can be found here:
http://zoom.it/zOeR
A full zoomable 35 megapixel version of the image can be found here:
http://zoom.it/zOeR
- Mon Apr 30, 2012 2:51 pm
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Hubble's Hidden Treasures Contest 2012
- Replies: 147
- Views: 16100
Re: Hubble's Hidden Treasures Contest 2012
I succeeded in upgrading my M106 image with Ha data from the Hubble. This makes the red signal better detailed and improves the quality of the image in my opinion:
![Image](http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8023/7126067795_11667b7c83_b.jpg)
Full resolution:
http://zoom.it/mS6j
![Image](http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8023/7126067795_11667b7c83_b.jpg)
Full resolution:
http://zoom.it/mS6j
- Thu Apr 26, 2012 7:37 pm
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Hubble's Hidden Treasures Contest 2012
- Replies: 147
- Views: 16100
Re: Hubble's Hidden Treasures Contest 2012
Here is the final result of my M106 hubble processing. Unfortunately the F435W and F814W data were not clean enough to generate a good color image. So I decided to combine the Hubble data with groundbased data. This is comparable with what was done with the famous Eta Carina image of Hubble where al...
- Thu Apr 26, 2012 7:35 pm
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Recent Submissions: 2012 April 23-26
- Replies: 24
- Views: 9703
M106 most detailed image ever... (35 megapixels)
Here is the final result of my M106 hubble processing. Unfortunately the F435W and F814W data were not clean enough to generate a good color image. So I decided to combine the Hubble data with groundbased data. This is comparable with what was done with the famous Eta Carina image of Hubble where al...
- Mon Apr 23, 2012 11:01 pm
- Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
- Topic: Hubble's Hidden Treasures Contest 2012
- Replies: 147
- Views: 16100
Re: Hubble's Hidden Treasures Contest 2012
I just started with a 180 megapixel mosaic of M106 of the hubble data. Here is the first layer (555nm), which is still under progress. The image in the link is 50% of the original size (it's huge!).
Full image
Full image