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Saturday, September 26, 2009

NGC 6888 in National Geographic's "Daily Dozen"


My image of the "crescent Nebula", NGC6888, was selected in a "Daily Dozen" of National Geographic Magazine's webpage.
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This was the selected image. Original post with details can be found HERE.


The Pelican Nebula as a Stereo Pair

Parallel Vision Cross Vision - -
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. - Original 2D-image and details, HERE



Friday, September 25, 2009

Pelican Project, Grande finale



Nebula in HST-palette, S-II = Red, H-alpha = Green and O-III = Blue
A Grop from the bigger image

Nebula in natural colors, mixed from narrowband channels.
H-alpha + 20%S-II = Red, O-III = Green and O-III + 15% H-alpha = Blue
Nebula in H-alpha light (Ionized Hydrogen)
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Now I have S-II (Ionized Sulfur) and O-III (Ionized Oxygen) channels, so making fullcolor image is possible
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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, 6h, 20 min subs Baader O-III 8,5nm 1h, 10 min. subs binned 3x3 S-II 1h 40, 10 min subs binned 3x3 - Note. a special technique of mine is used to balance weaker channels with Hydrogen alpha. Information about that tech. can be found HERE

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Pelican project continues



Last night I was able to capture more lights for the target.
Now there is 18 x 1200s H-alpha filteret light, Six hours.
I place here a small preview gropped from the image.
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Next I'll shoot O-III and S-II channels for the color image,
Weather doesn't look too good now though.
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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 Exposures 18x1200 s.