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VIDEO - examples made for ASTRODVOREK at instagram

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.


Jan "Kroupa" Žehrovický
honza@astrodvorek.cz

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