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To get my kids or even my
grandkids to actually look at my astrophotos, I started
posting them on Instagram. Videos are more popular on social media
these days, so I tried making a few of those, too. The source
images are my galaxy photos and sunsequent
crops (varying in size and location) and
then (after resampling to 1920x1080 px) are used as frames in
the final video, which is therefore not just some figment of artificial
intelligence. Although, in the end, AI (hidden in just about
every app) does help with the whole process after all...
You can check out a few of such videos here:
Abell 2065 zoom
This is zoom into the image of
my most distant
galaxy cluster, the Corona Borealis Cluster
Abell 2065, situated more than
billion light years
away from Earth !
Abell2151_zoom_and_rot
Another rather distant (~
500 million light-years)
cluster Abell 2151, already
in the image
with
more galaxy
details (incl. e.g.
four Arps).. to see it better some rotation accompanies
zooming.
Abell2666_zoom
This intersting
smaller cluster Abell 2666 with
the giant cD elliptical
galaxy NGC 7768
is located in constellation Pegasus
"only" 340 million
light-years away.
NGC891_zoom
NGC 891 from the
Andromeda constellation is a perfect
example of an edge-on spiral galaxy
with clearly visible dust lane in
the middle.
M74_curved_approach
Messier 74 is a
fine example of a perfect face-on spiral galaxy,
situated in the constellation Pisces about 32 million light-years rom Earth.
In this case the curved approach provides much more
interesting video than the direct zoom.
NGC1530_zoom
NGC 1530 is a
distant (65 - 115 MLY, estimates vary widely)
galaxy in Camelopardis. It is a pretty barred spiral
galaxy, reminding the southern "Great Barred Spiral
Galaxy" NGC 1365.
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