Image of the day 04/15/2018

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    3D Fly-in -- Simeis 147 / sh2-240 / Spaghetti Nebula (HaO3RGB), Nico Carver

    3D Fly-in -- Simeis 147 / sh2-240 / Spaghetti Nebula (HaO3RGB)

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    This is an animated 3D version of my spaghetti nebula image. The third dimension data (distance from earth) for the stars was gathered by first solving and annotating the stars in PixInsight and then looking up their parallax information in the Hipparcos and Tycho catalogs on VizieR (http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR). I then separated out hundreds of stars from the 2D image manually in Photoshop, and noted their distance in light years from my spreadsheet. Finally, I translated these values to the "Z" axis in After Effects, added a "camera" moving in towards the nebula and saved it as an animated gif.

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      3D Fly-in -- Simeis 147 / sh2-240 / Spaghetti Nebula (HaO3RGB), Nico Carver
      Original
      3D Fly-in -- Simeis 147 / sh2-240 / Spaghetti Nebula (HaO3RGB), Nico Carver
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    Description: Longer and slower GIF- fly in and fly out. Warning for slower internet connections and mobile: 20MB gif.

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