COPYRIGHT, PLEASE NOTE

All the material on this website is copyrighted to J-P Metsavainio, if not otherwise stated. Any content on this website may not be reproduced without the author’s permission.

Have a visit in my portfolio

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

-

It's over up here, 65N !
In a two days here will be no astronomical darkness anymore, until Sptember.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Please, use the Right hand side menu to see different image groups.

My Old astroimages, 2005-2008

-
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.
-
FULL SCREEN Slideshow, klick this link and maximize you browser;
-
Nebula images are taken with a UHC-filter or are H-a RGB-compositions,
so they are in natural colors.
-
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.
-
The original Moon image and the others can be found here:
-
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.
-
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:
-
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.
-
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!