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Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Veil Nebula, Western part (reprocessed)

Veil Nebula is a supernova remnant with large angular diameter.
Located about 1400 light years away in the constellation Cygnus.
This is a reprocessed version from Autumn 2007.
ED80 + QHY8, guiding LX200+QHY5, UHC-filter 4h+flats+bias.
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Eastern part of the Nebula can be seen here:

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Who need Stars?

This is a just a test. Large gas clouds are located usually in dense star fields and bright stars are dominating the image, even in narrowband images. Sometimes it's difficult to see actual target from stars. In this test I removed stars from images by using several PS filters, like Minimum, Dust & Scratches and some other star reducing methods. - I think, in this way the actual targets and they forms are more visible.
Klick thumbnail for the large image.

"Bubble Nebula"

"Elephants Trunk" The core of the "Heart Nebula" "Andromeda Galaxy" IC1936 "North America Nebula" "Flaming Star Nebula" Part of the IC1848 "Soul Nebula" Sh2-240 "California Nebula" "Rose Nebula" "Hart and Soul" Wwil Nebula Western part Weil Nebula Eastern part

Friday, July 4, 2008

More repocessed material

M82 with H-alpha light to show massive outburst of hydrogen gas
from galaxy core.
Details in original post.

IC1848 (Part of the Soul nebula) in H-alpha light + RGB data trough UHC-s filter.

Details in original post.

M106, details in original post.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

California Nebula Reprocessed

This version is combined from two images of the same target.Images are taken with different optical configurations. First was taken with SW 80ED refractor and second with Canon EF 200mm f2.8 camera lens. CCDstack software was used to combine those two images and here is the result.