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Balanced rock work by John Ceprano, Remic Rapids, Ottawa. Koni-Omega Rapid, Wide Omegon 58mm f5.6, Rollei IR400 with Hoya R72 filter. D76 1:2 15.5min at 20C
Not my tidiest work. The Moon was pretty bright and Venus wasn't visible until well into the dawn. I couldn't see Mercury at all, but it's hiding in the sunlight below Venus.
This is the exact "Triple lignment" example with Super Blue Moon 2024.
From this particular Thread & Needle Spot, the Trans-America Pyramid Building Tip can be seen sitting inside the North Tower of Iconic Golden Gate Bridge. According to PlanIt App, there are only 4 times in 10 years that Full Moon cab be appeared to be link with the North Tower of the Bridge. 8/18/2024 was the 1st one in the next 10 years.
We were so lucky to have a clear sky when the supermoon was rising right at sunset. So this image can be taken in one shot with one expose.
Timelapse of this moonrise: youtu.be/XbnnCTpm6cM
A Southern Pacific Brakeman muscles the bridge of the gallows-style, "Armstrong" turntable into perfect alignment as his crew prepares to turn Locomotive #18 in the yard at Laws, California.
This image was made during a March, 2023 photo shoot at the Laws Museum, near Bishop, California, which featured Southern Pacific, Baldwin 10-wheeler #18 on her second visit to the property since the completion of her restoration in 2017.
We're being treated to a nice show in the night sky right now! From left to right, Mars, the the Galactic Center of the Milky Way, and Jupiter are all in alignment earlier in the night. Pluto and Saturn are in there too, but Pluto is too small to see, and Saturn is to the left and up from the Lagoon Nebula in the Galactic Center. It was dumb luck that I caught this scene, I was vaguely aware of the planetary alignment happening but I've been so busy with projects and preparing for teaching workshops that I had no idea I was going to capture such a beautiful sight until I was out shooting, so needless to say I was pleasantly surprised when I was able to get this composition of Mars and Jupiter flanking the Galactic Center!
Nikon D850, Nikon 14-24mm lens @ 14mm, f/2.8. The sky is a star stacked blend of 7 shots for low noise and pinpoint stars, stacked in Starry Landscape Stacker for macOS, but you can do this in Sequator for Windows (or other programs but those are the easiest for star stacking landscape astro images). The 7 shots were each at ISO 6400, 10 seconds. The foreground is from a 20 second shot taken less than 2 minutes before I took the exposures for the sky. The tide was going out and on the mudflats it goes out really fast, so the 20 second shot had more water in the foreground on the mudflats, so the reflection of the stars was better, and it was also a sharp reflection since the star stacking was just for the sky, so the star reflections in the water were not aligned with each other and thus blurred in the stacking. I could have done a separate stack for the water in Starry Landscape Stacker to line up the reflections and get low noise, but the 20 second shot had more water and a better reflection. I aligned the foreground star reflections with the reflections of the star stacked image in Photoshop, and masked in the foreground. Noise reduction in Lightroom (before sending the foreground to Photoshop) and Adobe Camera Raw (in Photoshop, which is the same underlying raw editor as Lightroom) was used to reduce the noise on the water.
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Planetary alignment in the dawn of June 24, 2022. Mercury (as expected) is lost in the twilight (even if, with a lot of imagination and a little good will, one might see a tiny dot of light in the right place in the original RAW files), the rest of the planets are visible "in the correct order", i.e. corresponding to the actual distance from the Sun. The Moon (with visible Earthsine!) represents the Earth-Moon-system in this row: Mercury (Merkur) - Venus - Moon (Mond) - Mars - Jupiter - Saturn.
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That time of year when the sun sets perfectly behind Wembley Stadium from my favourite vantage point across Brent Reservoir. One of those sunsets that just kept getting better
The current day KCS Artesia Sub mainline track alignment thru West Point looks like something right out of a model railroad. West Point originally was served by the GM&O, IC, and Columbus and Greenville; but consolidation by ICG following the 1972 merger led to the current zig-zag routing. Coming south into town from Tupelo, it uses the former GM&O (originally Mobile & Ohio) main until just north of downtown. From there, they pick up a few miles of the old IC Aberdeen Branch until CGRR Connection on the southwest side of town. Then a new connection track built by ICG takes the tracks due east, where they pick back up the GM&O main heading to Artesia and Meridian.
Here the nightly Saltillo Turn is easing back south at a leisurely 10 mph on the ICG-built connection track, as the whole distance thru West Point is under yard limits. They've got a healthy train of traffic from Counce, Corinth, and Tupelo in tow on this fine winter morning.
Looking up at the sun coming through the trees. Cropped and digitally mirrored so the sun and trees appear to be looking back.
Perfect Full Hunter's Moon alignment with the Lion's Lighthouse at Shoreline Village in Long Beach, CA! Taken last night on October 10, 2022. Full Moon alignment found and planned with Planit Pro, a great Photographers' Ephemeris App!
Jupiter, Saturn and Venus lining up in the evening sky above the Tihany peninsula (Lake Balaton, Hungary)
- www.kevin-palmer.com - The two brightest objects in the night sky appear side by side in front of the milky way in a rare alignment. Venus is the blue object, and the yellow object is the moon. Even though the moon was only an 8% crescent, it was brighter than Venus. The band of yellow along the horizon is from the last colors of twilight before it was completely dark. This incredible sky is framed over the Colorado River in Utah. The 2000 foot deep canyon is part of Canyonlands National Park. But this view was actually shot from the edge of a cliff at Dead Horse Point State Park.
To get this shot I combined 2 exposures. The canyon was shot at 8 minutes, f/4, iso 1600. The sky was a 4 minute, f/5.6, iso 1600 exposure. I used an iOptron Skytracker to track the stars for a longer exposure.
White, red, and now yellow and GitD opaque make a nice little team. It would be awesome to find a torso, they're surely out there.
"When the Moon is in the seventh house
And Jupiter aligns with Mars,
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars"
~ From the song 'Aquarius'
For those of you who follow astrological events, at dawn on February 14th Valentine's Day, a rare and auspicious planetary alignment took place. I included a link from Jude Currivan, Ph.D. explaining the configuration and it's spiritual significance.
www.judecurrivan.com/media-articles/articles/the-aquarian...
With the Sun having risen in all its glory, an interesting play of light and shadow sets up across the vast, perfectly flat expanse of a flooded Badwater. Before us, the more than two mile high wall of the Panamint Range abruptly rises on the western side from alluvial fans to sheer mountain cliffs coated by recent snow. 11,049 foot tall Telescope Peak takes center stage here glistening in the sun. And a comparatively very short distance behind this photographer the Black Mountains rise even more abruptly more than a mile high. While the Sun has traveled all the way down the face of the Panamints, the vast saltwater lake here remains in shadow from the Black Mountains. As a result the salty water is reflecting nothing but deep blue sky and the salty ridges that stick up remain dark. By chance I found myself presented with an uncanny alignment of a salt ridge that very closely echoes the profile of the Panamint Mountain reflection. The dark, shadowed salty mud traces the contour pretty well, complete with a dip to account for Telescope Peak's tallest reflection.
I don't think these are particularly good shots and I probably wouldn't have posted them except for the fact that I was shocked how well they lined up. Not only the angle but the wheel wells also. I wasn't even trying to do this. Funny how things like this happen. Maybe it says something about our internal levels. Or it's just random.
I find it easy to imagine the people building this church, which was finished in 1903, using the line of the rising Milky Way to set the angle for their little building’s roof gable. There wouldn’t have been as much man-made dust in the air nor light pollution to dim their view back then, giving the locals an unobstructed vista of the heavens on a cloudless night.
Mind you the air was clear and the night quite dark when I visited the small sanctuary in April of 2019, evidenced by how much of the fine details in the Milky Way’s dust lanes my photo has captured. The colours of a number of the nebulae in the star-forming region of Rho Ophiuchi have also shown up nicely in the photo. Not visible in the photo, and certainly lost to my eyes on the night, is the cap for one of my lenses, dropped as I was stumbling through the darkness, looking for an interesting composition to shoot. Perhaps if I make the 400+ kilometre round-trip back there one day, I might find my piece of protective plastic still laying in the grass.
I used nine separate overlapping photos to create this composite “vertical panorama” image. My Canon EOS 6D Mk II camera, fitted with a Yongnuo 50mm f/1.4 lens @ f/1.8, using an exposure time of 6.0 seconds @ ISO 6400, did a splendid job of sucking as much light out of the sky as possible to record each of those nine frames.