Jacob Donley - Sound Zones

Jacob Donley is currently a research scientist at Meta Reality Labs Research (fka Oculus Research) in Redmond, WA with previous experience lecturing Signals and Systems at the University of Wollongong. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering Honours (Computer) and his PhD research focused on Digital Signal Processing (DSP) aimed at improving the reproduction of personal sound in shared environments. Jacobs research interests are in signal processing, speech enhancement, machine learning, array processing (microphone and loudspeaker), beamforming and multi-zone sound field reproduction. He also has experience with multimedia perception, room acoustics, spatial audio, eye tracking, electroencephalography (EEG), 2D and 3D image analysis and image registration. Jacob has been the recipient of an Australian Postgraduate Award, Global Challenges PhD scholarship, Telstra scholarship and has been included in the UOW faculty Dean’s Merit list. Jacob is an active member of the IEEE and IEEE Signal Processing Society.

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Revisiting the North American Nebula (NGC 7000) an $Revisiting the North American Nebula (NGC 7000) and Pelican Nebula (IC 5070). With all the non-stop clouds at the end of last year, I decided to reprocess some old data I had and see what I could do with just new techniques in post-process. The data used for these images is from my first deep sky image of the North American and Pelican nebula. I tried to see if I could create a faux Hubble palette look (the gold and blue version) using the RGB data. While I don't think I can pull out more fine-detail in the reprocess, I did manage to get more of the neighbouring nebulosity to come out in the wide-field shot. I'll aim for higher resolution another night using a refractor or maybe even a reflector. The bright star up the top is Deneb, it lies around 2615 light years away, and the North American Nebula lies around 2590 light years away. Deneb was proposed to be the ionizing star for the nebula in the region by Edward Hubble but the likely home of the true ionizing star lies behind the dark dust clouds between the North American nebula and the Pelican Nebula, visible in the infrared wavelength. 120 x 30” subs (1hr), ISO 400 EOS T8i, Rokinon 135mm F/2.0, Star Adventurer PixInsight Bortle 4 Skies Imaged Aug. 19, 2021 #northamericannebula #ngc7000 #pelicannebula #ic5070 #astrophotography #cosmos #moon #stars #galaxy #nebula #solarsystem #astrophysics #nightsky #universetoday #spaceart #milkyway #cosmology #astro #astronomy #telescope #nightphotography #natgeospace #astrophoto #OPTeam #nasa #canon$

A saturated blend of data of the California Nebula

A short exposure of the Orion Nebula (M42). Unfort

Another image of the Heart and Soul Nebula (IC 180

A wide field image of the Flaming Star, Tadpoles a

The beautiful Pleiades. Truly wonderful to see in

The Heart Nebula (IC 1805) is 7500 light years awa

What do you think the name of this nebula is? If y $What do you think the name of this nebula is? If you think it’s NGC 281, you’d be correct! You’d also be correct if you thought it was called the Pacman Nebula. This is another bright hydrogen rich emission nebula that I decided to image. The Pacman Nebula is estimated to be around 9200 light years away. It is quite small and probably too small for my telephoto lens. I snapped this with my new triplet refractor telescope. It was a good first test but I think I can do better still. The telescope is a bit heavy for the mount but distributing the weight better should help. This was also my first attempt at guiding with a guide scope and my first foray into PixInsight. Lots of new tools, methods and techniques I needed to learn for this one. 106 x 120” subs (3hr 32’), ISO2000 EOS T8i, WO GT71, WO UniGuide 50mm, ZWO ASI290MM, Optolong L-eNhance, Star Adventurer APT, PHD2, DSS, PixInsight Bortle 8 Skies Imaged Oct. 8, 2021 #astrophotography #cosmos #moon #stars #galaxy #nebula #solarsystem #astrophysics #nightsky #universetoday #spaceart #milkyway #cosmology #astro #astronomy #telescope #nightphotography #natgeospace #astrophoto #OPTeam #nasa #pacman #pacmannebula #ngc281 #williamoptics$

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