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晨露Early morning Dew
The absorption picture book is the joyful question must define
other people to like not having to invite
“Give up your selfishness, and you shall find peace; like water mingling with water, you shall merge in absorption.” - Sri Guru Granth Sahib
Casa Cavassa, a refined Renaissance residence in the historic heart of Saluzzo, was transformed in the late 15th century by Marquis Michele Antonio di Saluzzo into an elegant urban palace blending medieval structure with Renaissance elegance. Today home to the Civic Museum Casa Cavassa, it preserves original frescoes, stuccoes, and period furnishings, offering a rare glimpse into the domestic life and artistic tastes of the noble elite in the Marquisate of Saluzzo. Its harmonious courtyard and richly decorated interiors reflect the cultural flourishing of this independent Piedmontese state before its absorption into the Duchy of Savoy.
Total lunar eclipse in infrared, 720nm. In visible light, this moon was barely visible as it was setting, but the absorption of IR by the clear sky, kept the contrast high!
The sun was close to rising, therefore there was ample residual light on the surroundings.
Westborough, MA, a little after 6 a.m., 08 November 2022.
Manufacturer: Società Anonima Fratelli Innocenti, Lambretta / Milan - Italy
Type: Mini Cooper 1300 MK 4 Minimatic
Production time: mid-year 1971 - mid-year 1975
Production outlet: unknown
Engine: 1275cc straight-4 BMC Austin A-series 1275
Power: 76 bhp / 5.800 rpm
Torque: 108 Nm / 3.200 rpm
Drivetrain: front wheels
Speed: 157 km/h
Curb weight: 649 kg
Wheelbase: 80 inch
Chassis: front and rear subframes with all-steel unibody
Steering: rack & pinion
Gearbox: semi-automatic (clutchless) manual four-speed transmission / II, III and IV synchronized / floor shifter
Clutch: not relevant / single dry plate spring spacer on manual gearbox
Carburettor: twin SU HS2
Fuel tank: 36 liter
Electric system: 12 Volts
Ignition system: distributor and coil
Brakes front: powered Lockheed hydraulic discs
Brakes rear: Lockheed hydraulic drums
Suspension front: independent double wishbones with composite suspension (hydrolastic) with rubber spring cushion, damping valve controlled by connecting liquid, torsion bars for the longitudinal and transverse stabilization + telescopic shock absorbers
Suspension rear: trailing arms with composite suspension (hydrolastic) with rubber spring cushion, damping valve controlled by connecting liquid, torsion bars for the longitudinal and transverse stabilization + telescopic shock absorbers
Rear axle: live
Differential: spiral bevel
Wheels: 3J-10 inch
Tires: 145 SR 10
Options: four-speed manual gearbox
Special:
- The Mini (ADO15) was designed by Sir Alec Issigonis (who also designed the Morris Minor over 10 years earlier) and is generally considered one of the most important milestones in automotive history.
- Based on the 2-door Mini John Cooper (racecar constructor of Formula 500, Formula 3 and Formula 1 cars and a friend of Sir Alec Issigonis) developed a sporty model: the Mini Cooper.
- In Italy in the years 60-70 it often was too expensive, due to high import duties, to purchase an imported car, so that most Italians opted for an Italian car. BMC England signed an agreement with Innocenti Milan (famous for the production of Lambretta) and from 1965 Innocenti was allowed to built the Mini 850 for the Italian market. Since 1971, the Mini Cooper was also built under license.
- It is equipped with a unique "Hydrolastic" shock absorption system, invented by famous British rubber engineer Alex Moulton, in which the various fluid-filled shock absorbers, by means of conduits, are in communication with each other.
- The Innocenti was faster and more luxurious (interior with more accessories and better finished) than the British Mini and nowadays very popular in the USA, Canada and Europe.
- Many details of internal and external were produced by Italian brands (IPRA for the radiators, Carello and Altissimo for the headlights), so especially for the Innocenti Mini Cooper 1300 spare parts are hard to find.
I have a relative, in Canada, who's always recommending these, so decided to experiment. The recipe calls for Graham Crackers and the closest UK equivalent is digestive biscuits. I think the difference has thrown off the butter absorption, in the base. Recipe definitely needs tweaking!
I was trying to compose some "copper screw"-like picture of the setting Moon by capturing it 105 times in every ten seconds. I slightly underestimated the atmospheric absorption so that the final lunar crescents are barely visible here. During the 20 minutes I had to reallign my camera four times.
2019.02.06. Mogyoród, Hungary
Canon EOS 5D Mark II + Tamron EF 150-600 @600 mm
105 x 1 sec, F6.3, ISO 250
A 180° panorama of the classic arc of the auroral oval across the northern sky, shot at the Churchill Northern Studies Centre, Churchill, Manitoba, March 1, 2022. From this longitude the auroral oval is usually centred due north, as it is here.
Guests from the Learning Vacations aurora group are outside taking in the display, which was fairly weak this night, with this arc being almost the best it appeared. It shows the classic colours, with the main oxygen green topped by weaker oxygen reds. The arc turns more yellow toward the horizon due to atmospheric absorption.
Polaris is just left of centre at top, and marks due north. Capella is at top left; Vega is a right of centre above the trees; Arcturus is at far right. The Milky Way runs across the sky at left in the west. Wind chills were about -40° this night.
This is a 3-section panorama with the TTArtisan 11mm fish-eye lens at f/2.8 for 30 seconds each with the Canon R6 at ISO 1600. Stitched with PTGui.
Excerpt from www.destinationontario.com/en-ca/attractions/algonquin-th...:
The first performance at the Algonquin Theatre took place on May 14, 2005 and was very warmly received by the community.
The Algonquin Theatre is located at 37 Main Street East in Huntsville.
Housed in Huntsville’s Civic Centre, it’s easy to spot the Algonquin Theatre. At the front of the theatre is a bronze statue of Tom Thomson, the wonderful Canadian painter. This statue was created by renowned and beloved Huntsville artist Brenda Wainman Goulet. The Little Free Library — an adorable collection of books available to the public — is a noticeable landmark beside the entrance of the theatre.
Besides theatrical productions, the Algonquin Theatre also hosts rock concerts, movie nights, tribute bands, comedy shows, live performances and even local elementary school productions.
Theatregoers love the wide, comfortable chairs and the eco-friendly lighting and state-of-the-art technology. Patrons and performers both appreciate the exceptional sound absorption, which improves the overall acoustic experience.
In 2018, Gord Downie used Algonquin Theatre’s space to secretly rehearse for his Secret Path tour. Other past performers at Algonquin Theatre include Ron Sexsmith, Jill Barber and Natalie MacMaster. Younger Canadian audiences will be delighted to know that Sharon and Bram (famous Canadian children’s musicians) have also graced the stage of the Algonquin Theatre.
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“the moment with its absorption being the thing”
ex George Madden Martin, her Made in America (1935) : 22
The rising of the nearly Full Moon, the Harvest Moon of 2020, on September 30, from a site near home in Alberta, looking just south of due east this night. Refraction distorts the disk and atmospheric absorption reddens the disk toward the horizon.
This is a multiple exposure composite of 6 images with the Canon 6D MkII through the 80mm A&M apo refractor at f/6 without field flattener. Taken as part of a time-lapse sequence with images every 2 seconds. The frames for this blend were taken 2 minutes apart, so selected from every 60 frames out of the sequence. All were at 1/8 second at ISO 100. Images stacked in Photoshop and blended with Lighten mode. The ground comes from the first image.
A telescopic close-up of the full Harvest Moon rising over the Badlands of Dinosaur Provincial Park on September 20, 2021.
This is a single 0.8-second exposure taken as part of a time-lapse sequence, shot through a 76mm f/4.4 refractor telescope for an effective focal length of 335mm using the Canon R6 at ISO 100. Luminosity masks created with TKActions v8 applied to enhance the contrast of the foreground. A mild Orton glow added with Luminar AI.
Six years after absorption into the Union Pacific system, nothing but MoPac blue and screamin' eagles can be seen in this view of a transfer run arriving in downtown St. Louis.
This shot, and its post processing are an ode to Kibayashi, a fellow flickerite who i allways find tremendously inspiring when it comes to post and composition. He is a true wizzard when it comes to post processing and finding strong, uncompromising and graphically compelling compositions by making use of the interplay between human subjects and urban geometry.
Check out his stream and see for yourself: www.flickr.com/photos/60870509@N08/
Please do not reproduce or use this picture without my explicit permission.
If you ask nicely I will probably say yes, just ask me first!
If you happen to be in one of my frames and have any objections to this.
Please contact me!
Please no glossy awards, scripted comments and big thumbnails back to your own work.
I will remove them..
Iron deficiency, or sideropenia, is the state in which a body lacks enough iron to supply its needs. Iron is present in all cells in the human body and has several vital functions, such as carrying oxygen to the tissues from the lungs as a key component of the hemoglobin protein, acting as a transport medium for electrons within the cells in the form of cytochromes, and facilitating oxygen enzyme reactions in various tissues. Too little iron can interfere with these vital functions and lead to morbidity and death.[1]
Total body iron averages approximately 3.8 g in men and 2.3 g in women. In blood plasma, iron is carried tightly bound to the protein transferrin. There are several mechanisms that control iron metabolism and safeguard against iron deficiency. The main regulatory mechanism is situated in the gastrointestinal tract. The majority of iron absorption occurs in the duodenum, the first section of the small intestine. A number of dietary factors may affect iron absorption. When loss of iron is not sufficiently compensated by intake of iron from the diet, a state of iron deficiency develops over time. When this state is uncorrected, it leads to iron-deficiency anemia, a common type of anemia.[1] Before anemia occurs, the medical condition of iron deficiency without anemia is called latent iron deficiency (LID).
Anemia is a condition characterized by inadequate red blood cells (erythrocytes) or hemoglobin. When the body lacks sufficient amounts of iron, production of the protein hemoglobin is reduced. Hemoglobin binds to oxygen, enabling red blood cells to supply oxygenated blood throughout the body. Women of child-bearing age,[2] children, and people with poor diet are most susceptible to the disease. Most cases of iron-deficiency anemia are mild, but if not treated can cause problems like an irregular heartbeat, pregnancy complications, and delayed growth in infants and children that could affect their cognitive development and their behavior.[3]
Taconite has a lot of Iron. Eat a lot of taconite.
164 of 365 - Lego wizard absorbing energy from damned souls.
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Once again, I was the one idiot on the beach tonight. Let's talk about about the weather. LA is a weird place when it comes to inclement weather both in terms of how it's viewed by people and how weather services describe it. It's hard to avoid hearing about the drought in one way or another on a daily basis, and I found even I would do an old man snicker when I'd see an apartment building with sprinklers working at 2am on a wednesday, almost like they were trying to be sneaky in an attempt to have slightly less dead greenery than neighboring buildings. Don't they know California has negative water? It's always about the drought...until it begins to rain.Then it's panic. Granted, rain here is slightly more dramatic than other places i've lived in the sense that it's usually pretty heavy, accompanied by higher winds and it doesn't take long for the dry land to reject absorption and flood streets and storm drains. I for one, am all for some rain to rinse off some of the filth. Scotch has had 4 different bacterial infections in LA (which is 4 more than he had in the first 11+ years of his life on the East Coast) and I can't help but think it's from all the dirt, waste and trash that cover the grass and pavement in and around Hollywood. Without rain, it just accumulates. That's my working theory on how he's getting those infections. He doesn't eat at Chipotle so what else can it be?
This past week was mostly cloudy with some rain mixed in and it's been a 50/50 chance it seems on whether I will see a nice sunset or not. It could be great or it could stay gray and never get any other color until dark falls. I missed a few really amazing cloudy crimson sunsets--twice returning from the vet--and wished I knew of some places around Hollywood with interesting views facing West. I generally give myself a minumum of 1 hour before sunset to be in the car with a destination set or I skip it since that's about how long it would take during normal traffic to get to Venice or Malibu. I'd rather not drive an hour to see a sunset out of car window with no where to stop. Anyway, even with rain in Hollywood, it cleared a bit in the early afternoon and when I checked the weather channel app on my phone, saw that rain was expected here at 3pm with a 60-90% chance of rain through the evening. When I checked Venice however, it showed some rain at 3 but also only a 5-10% chance of rain between 4-6pm. I figured I'd take the chance and got in the car in the drizzle a little after 3 and began the drive to Venice. Venice Pier sits at the end of Washington Blvd and once I turn onto that road, I'm about 15 minutes away with the destination in sight. It heads straight towards the ocean and this is generally about when I know for sure what I can expect for the evening. Sure enough, I veer onto this 4 mile stretch and see gray with a bit of blue and yellow light above and immediately know I will not be getting the big, colorful sunset I was cautiously optimistic about.
Still, I was counting on that 5-10% the "up to the minute" weather report had offered earlier and since it was dry when I arrived, off I went in the wind for the beach. It's about a 4 minute walk from where I park to where I shoot and I only saw a handful of people wandering around, wearing raincoats and furry Ugg boots on the damp sand and wet boardwalk pavement. Clearly only the survivalists brave enough to tackle this weather were out. I got to the shore, lowered the tripod a few inches off the ground and stepped back in case some audacious water tried to get me when I wasn't looking. It was windy, the surf mostly choppy and it was difficult to focus. With the tripod as low to the ground as it can go, I was hoping to at least get some interesting streaks of water in the foreground as close to the camera as possible. The color wasn't really there but it wasn't all that bad and the clouds in front of me got more and more dramatic as sundown approached. I hadn't been there all that long before the wind picked up more and a few raindrops fell and it wasn't long after that when it began to pour. In the span of about 3 minutes, I went from dry to trying to keep my windproof umbrella from going inside out while I covered my camera and ran to the car. I'm no meteorologist--and no offense to any weather people here on Flickr--but I do have functioning eyeballs and despite what I saw before leaving, during the drive and once I arrived, I still trusted that weather report. This storm (which is literally still happening outside) doesn't just sneak up on you. If I hadn't seen that 5-10% chance for rain, I would've guessed more like 99-100%. At least I got into my car before it started to absolutely pour.
**An experpt from when I picked up dinner for me and my brother on the way home from Venice tonight:
1st person: "I was going to get christmas gifts today but then it rained and it's supposed to rain tomorrow. I may have to write family letters explaining the gifts will be late.
me: ummm, I'm sure they'll understand. Afterall, it's raining here, so...Why not just go on Amazon? People still shop in stores? Why?"
1st person: "I guess I like to have the gift first and wrap it."
me: what's the point of gift wrap? I don't get it. People spend time creasing all the corners and getting all the sides smooth and for what? the recipient doesn't care. They don't even notice it as it's ripped off with reckless abandon and discarded piece by piece right there on the floor. If it's in a box, that's good enough. If it's not and you gift wrap it...the surprise is gone. I can see the blender you got me without taking off the wrapping. it's a blender. you know what I mean? Plus Amazon will gift wrap for like a dollar. I like the box idea. Put all the gifts in a giant unmarked box and draw a question mark on it. That'll be way more suspenseful than wrapping paper.
[enters 2nd person]
other person: "people suck at gift wrapping anyway.
me: I should be an LA weatherman, it's the easiest job I can think of and you never have to take responsibility for any mistakes. Basically all summer, they cut to you and you say "hot and sunny" and then in the winter, you can just mix in a few cloudy, rainy days and if you're wrong, blame it on some freak unpredictable weather occurrence. 'A ground pepper spill at a very crowded resort restaurant in Papua New Guinea caused a massive sneezing attack that changed the course of a cold front and subsequently, the domino effect brought 40mph winds, heavy rainfall and flooding to LA. It wasn't something our radar picked up...until it was too late. Also, Hawaii is no more. Was right in the path and never had a chance."
1st person: I don't know how I'm going to get home tonight...I rode my bike to work."
[awkward silence]
me: [with a look of shock]: didn't you check the weather report before you left?
[awkward silence]
THE END
WHEN & WHERE
Venice Beach
Venice, California
December 23rd, 2016
SETTINGS
Canon T4i
EF-S 18-135mm IS STM
18mm
ISO 100
f/14
1 second
CPL
Originally used as an immigrant absorption center, this 3-story cluster construction is pre-fab. Living space per apartment is crowded, walls are thin, and you hear your neighbors. This is Gilo on the southeast axis of Jerusalem.
This star-studded image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope depicts NGC 6717, which lies more than 20 000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius. NGC 6717 is a globular cluster, a roughly spherical collection of stars tightly bound together by gravity. Globular clusters contain more stars in their centres than their outer fringes, as this image aptly demonstrates; the sparsely populated edges of NGC 6717 are in stark contrast to the sparkling collection of stars at its centre.
The centre of the image also contains some interlopers from closer to home. Bright foreground stars close to Earth are surrounded by criss-cross diffraction spikes formed by starlight interacting with the structures supporting Hubble’s secondary mirror.
The area of the night sky which contains the constellation Sagittarius also contains the centre of the Milky Way, which is filled with light-absorbing gas and dust. This absorption of light — which astronomers refer to as extinction — makes studying globular clusters near the Galactic centre a challenging endeavour. To determine the properties of NGC 6717, astronomers relied on a combination of Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 and the Advanced Camera for Surveys.
Credits: ESA/Hubble and NASA, A. Sarajedini; CC BY 4.0
The Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33) is a famous, dark absorption nebula in the constellation Orion, located approximately 1,375–1,500 light-years from Earth. Situated just south of Alnitak in Orion's Belt, this dense, cold cloud of gas and dust (roughly 3.5 light-years across) is silhouetted against the bright emission nebula IC 434.
NGC2170, known as the Angel Nebula is a reflection nebula in the constellation of Monoceros. The nebula formed about 6 million years ago and lies at a distance of 2700 light-years. It was discovered on October 16, 1784 by William Herschel.
In this image are bluish reflection nebula, a red emission nebula and many dark absorption nebula.
Color image taken at the remote observatory from the E-Eye site in Spain. The image is composed of 14 hours of exposure time with the ZWO ASI-2600MC color camera using a Takahashi Epsilon 180-ED Astrograph, riding a unguided 10Micron GM2000.
For synopsis read pt1 otherwise you’ll be confused
Figs-
Thomas Cruz- was always skeptical of the gadget and ability. Former movie stunt double ended up running for Vice President. Questionable tactics, early 40’s
President Leonardo Belfort- former neighbor of Malcom Tarantino (seen in pt1), told by his vp not to purchase an ability or gadget, ex navy seal, corrupt politician, early 50’s
Martin waine- purchased arm gadget, gang leader pre-takeover, can use gadget for hacking, mid 20’s
Sharon Belfort- Presidents’ daughter, law school student pre-takeover, purchased energy absorption ability, got a side-job as dr. Prints assistant, early 20’s
Members of the the anti-ability anonymous society- the a.a.a.s. Is a hate group that committed crimes pre-takeover to eliminate anyone that has purchased a ability or gadget as they say dr. Print had been playing God.The members don’t know who anyone else in the society is as people are referred each other to by a number. After the takeover they target anyone not apart of their group claiming they could have stopped the takeover from happening.
Well that’s all. What do you all think?
For this Picture of the Week, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope turned its powerful eye towards an emission line galaxy called NGC 3749.
When astronomers explore the contents and constituent parts of a galaxy somewhere in the Universe, they use various techniques and tools. One of these is to spread out the incoming light from that galaxy into a spectrum and explore its properties. This is done in much the same way as a glass prism spreads white light into its constituent wavelengths to create a rainbow. By hunting for specific signs of emission from various elements within a galaxy’s spectrum of light — so-called emission lines — or, conversely, the signs of absorption from other elements — so-called absorption lines — astronomers can start to deduce what might be happening within.
If a galaxy’s spectrum shows many absorption lines and few emission lines, this suggests that its star-forming material has been depleted and that its stars are mainly old, while the opposite suggests it might be bursting with star formation and energetic stellar newborns. This technique known as spectroscopy, can tell us about a galaxy’s type and composition, the density and temperature of any emitting gas, the star formation rate, or how massive the galaxy’s central black hole might be.
While not all galaxies display strong emission lines, NGC 3749 does! It lies over 135 million light-years away, and is moderately luminous. The galaxy has been used a “control” in studies of especially active and luminous galaxies — those with centres known as active galactic nuclei, which emit copious amounts of intense radiation. In comparison to these active cousins, NGC 3749 is classified as inactive, and has no known signs of nuclear activity.
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Rosario et al.; CC BY 4.0
It rained for about a week straight across the Midwest in August 1990, but on the 24th the sun peeked out in Chicagoland long enough to illuminate Soo Line SD60 duo 6005-6016 running on the Indiana Harbor Belt at LaGrange IL with merchandise freight from Bensenville yard. The minimalist but classic Chinese Red and white paint scheme would soon start to disappear under Canadian Pacific's absorption of the old Soo.
Csikszentmihalyi (1991) describes engaged reading as a state of total absorption and completely focused motivation. It is a single-minded immersion and represents perhaps the ultimate in harnessing the emotions in the service of performing and learning.
A shaft of sunlight put to good use in one of my local coffee shop.
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has made its stunning yearly observations of the Solar System’s giant planets, to reveal atmospheric changes.
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has completed its annual grand tour of the outer Solar System. This is the realm of the giant planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune — extending as far as 30 times the distance between Earth and the Sun. Unlike the rocky terrestrial planets like Earth and Mars that huddle close to the Sun’s warmth, these far-flung worlds are mostly composed of chilly gaseous soups of hydrogen, helium, ammonia, and methane around a packed, intensely hot, compact core.
Though robotic spacecraft have sent back snapshots of their visits to these four monster planets over the past 50 years, their swirling, colourful atmospheres are constantly changing. Fulfilling the role of a weather forecaster, every time Hubble’s sharp cameras revisit these worlds there are new surprises, offering fresh insights into their wild weather, driven by still largely unknown dynamics taking place under the cloudtops.
Hubble’s snapshots of the outer planets reveal both extreme and subtle changes rapidly taking place in these distant worlds. Hubble’s sharp view gleans insights into the fascinating, dynamic weather patterns and seasons on these gas giants and allows astronomers to investigate the very similar — and very different — variables that contribute to their changing atmospheres.
Jupiter
This year’s Hubble observations of Jupiter track the ever-changing landscape of its turbulent atmosphere, where several new storms are making their mark and the planet’s equator has changed colour yet again.
Hubble’s 4 September photo puts the giant planet’s tumultuous atmosphere on full display. The planet’s equatorial zone is now a deep orange hue, which researchers are calling unusual. While the equator has departed from its traditional white or beige appearance for a few years now, scientists were surprised to find a deeper orange in Hubble’s recent imaging, when they were expecting the zone to cloud up again.
Just above the equator, researchers note the appearance of several new storms, nicknamed “barges.” These elongated, deeply structured red cells can be defined as cyclonic vortices, which vary in appearance. Whilst some of the storms are sharply defined and clear, others are fuzzy and hazy. This difference in appearance is caused by the physical properties within the clouds of the vortices.
Researchers also note that a feature dubbed “Red Spot Jr.” (Oval BA), below the Great Red Spot where Hubble just discovered winds are speeding up, is still a darker beige colour, and is joined by several additional white, cyclonic storms to the south.
Hubble’s crisp views of Jupiter in 2020 was one of the most popular ESA/Hubble photo releases to date.
Saturn
Hubble’s new look at Saturn on 7 September 2021 shows rapid and extreme colour changes in the bands in the planet’s northern hemisphere, where it is now early autumn. The bands have varied throughout Hubble observations in both 2019 and 2020. Hubble’s Saturn image catches the planet following the southern hemisphere’s winter, evident in the lingering blue-ish hue of the south pole.
Uranus
Hubble’s 25 October view of Uranus puts the planet’s bright northern polar hood in the spotlight. It’s springtime in the northern hemisphere and the increase in ultraviolet radiation from the Sun seems to be causing the polar region to brighten. Researchers aren’t sure why. It could be a change in the opacity of atmospheric methane haze, or some variation in the aerosol particles. Curiously, even as the atmospheric hood gets brighter, the sharp southernmost boundary remains at the same latitude. This has been constant over the past several years of Hubble observations of the planet. Perhaps some sort of jetstream is setting up a barrier at that latitude of 43 degrees.
Neptune
In observations taken on 7 September 2021, researchers found that Neptune’s dark spot, which was recently found to have reversed course from moving towards the equator, is still visible in this image, along with a darkened northern hemisphere. There is also a notable dark, elongated circle encompassing Neptune’s south pole. The blue colour of both Neptune and Uranus is a result of the absorption of red light by the planets’ methane-rich atmospheres.
Notes
These new Hubble images form part of yearly maps of the entire planet taken under the Outer Planets Atmospheres Legacy programme, or OPAL. The programme provides yearly Hubble global views of the outer planets to look for changes in their storms, winds, and clouds.
Note: The planets are not shown to scale in this image.
Credits: NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), and M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley) and the OPAL team; CC BY 4.0
I could enjoy processing of old data taken just before COVID-19 era.
Hydrogen-alpha 656.3nm red and Oxygen-III 500.7nm greenish blue were dominant here. Bluish reflection of gas was faint but wide, which is usually invisible in imaging with narrow-bad pass filters.
Those colors were not homogeneous due to overlapping dust and gas. Strong hydrogen-alpha red area tends to change into striking color near genuine Red, when it is overlapped by relatively dense brownish dust and gas due to stronger absorption of shorter wavelength light by the dust and gas. I love all of those colors.
Here is a frame taken at the same site in Hawaii January 2012:
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equipment: Takahashi FSQ-130ED, F3 Reducer 0.6x, and Canon EOS R-sp4II, modified by Seo-san on Takahashi EM-200 Temma 2 Jr, autoguided at a star nearby with Fujinon 1:2.8/75mm C-Mount Lens, Pentax x2 Extender, Starlight Xpress Superstar Autoguider, GPUSB, and PHD2 Guiding
exposure: 3 times x 30 minutes, 4 x 15 min, 4 x 4 min, and 4 x 1 minute at ISO 1,600 and f/3.0
site: 11,000 feet or 3,280m above sea level at lat. 19 32 31 North and long. 155 34 00 West near Mauna Loa Observatory in The Big Island Hawaii
Bridge #150, Leeds-Liverpool Canal, between Foulridge and Salterforth ('Hatter's Bridge' - So named because Foulridge had a flourishing cottage industry of felt hat making from the 17th century.)
The term "mad as a hatter" comes from the use of mercury in the production of felt hats in the 18th and 19th centuries, where absorption of mercury through the skin can cause neurological disorders.)
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In addition to being beautiful, lotus is an impressively useful plant. The rhizomes, pips, seeds, stems and leaves are all edible. They can also be used in water treatment, remediating pollution, including sequestration of heavy metals (reductions from 80 to more than 90% has been observed in just one week). Those plants used for water treatment should probably not be eaten. They also soak up excess nitrogen, thereby suppressing algae growth and improving the oxygenation of the water in which they grow.
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aka sacred lotus and Indian lotus
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photographed on my way to the Juneteenth Celebration last month
A zoomed-out look at the S.P.I.D.E.R. Drone on the Lunar landscape :) Last pic for now. Features video on YouTube: youtu.be/Q3HC0IzGPfc
Work-in-progress shots, and more on my Instagram @LEGO_stud as well. Full description below <3 :
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The Solar-Powered Interstellar Drone for Extraterrestrial Research (S.P.I.D.E.R.) is finally completed at the 'Moonbase Celebration 50'.
With onboard intelligence, a formidable assortment of tools, and unlimited renewable power, this endlessly useful companion is sometimes referred to as 'GRAMPS' - Giant Robotic Assistant & Mobile Power Station (especially by arachnophobic astronauts).
Future missions will be accompanied by these units, to aid in planetoid habitability investigation and geo/bio research. Manipulator arms, coupled with highly advanced sensors allow this drone to examine samples, move debris, haul equipment, and even carry out rescue operations for astronauts in danger.
Fully capable of traversing uneven terrain, and repelling into crevaces with it's winch, this robotic research assistant can go just about anywhere on atmospheric and non-atmospheric terrestrial landscapes.
Prepare to give Space exploration a leg-up (or six!) and take your celestial crew to a whole new level of awesome adventure with a giant (robot) S.P.I.D.E.R. on board!
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This MOC has been a journey, developing a seamless transition through System and CCBS/Bionicle elements. With adjustable Greebles to simulate actuators. Fully articulated through each leg, the model is stable, poseable, and quite dynamic.
The features include: adjustable solar arrays, whiskers, and rear hitches, poseable manipulator arms (3), legs with up to 12+ points of articulation each + working shock absorption, opening hatch to reveal central core, storage for a large assortment of space tools, and a working winch (which can support the full weight of the build).
Thanks for checking it out, I hope you enjoy it!
De Trudo Toren Eindhoven
Dit appartementengebouw is zo bijzonder omdat er bomen en planten op de balkons staan.
Een stukje tekst van Google:
Verticaal bos
– Doordat elk appartement een balkon met groene plantenbakken heeft, biedt de Trudo Toren in totaal plaats aan maar liefst 125 volwassen bomen (sommige tot 6,5 meter hoog).
– Meer dan 5.200 struiken en planten, klimplanten en hangers groeien en bloeien in en rond de toren. Hierdoor ontstaat een groene oase van wel 70 meter hoog.
– Al deze bomen, struiken en planten zijn goed voor 50.000 kilo CO2-opname en 13.750 kilo zuurstof op jaarbasis.
– In 2018 zijn de bomen van de Trudotoren aangekocht. Hierdoor konden de wortels in een kleinere ruimte wennen aan de toekomstige omgeving. Alle bomen en planten zijn zorgvuldig geselecteerd dankzij een samenwerking tussen Laura Gatti (Italiaanse botanicus), Dupré Groenprojecten en boomkwekerij Van de Berk in Sint-Oedenrode.
– In mei 2021 werd het eerste vogelnest gesignaleerd in de bomen van de Trudotoren. In Bosco Verticale in Milaan nestelen zo'n twintig vogelsoorten in de bomen.
English:
This apartment building is so special because there are trees and plants on the balconies.
A piece of text from Google:
Vertical forest
– Because each loft has a balcony with green planters, the Trudo Tower offers a total of space for no less than 125 mature trees (some up to 6.5 meters high).
– More than 5,200 shrubs and plants, climbers and pendants grow and bloom in and around the tower. This creates a green oasis of up to 70 meters high.
– All these trees, shrubs and plants are good for 50,000 kilos of CO2 absorption and 13,750 kilos of oxygen on an annual basis.
– The trees of the Trudo Tower were purchased in 2018. This allowed the roots to get used to the future environment in a smaller space. All trees and plants have been carefully selected thanks to a collaboration between Laura Gatti (Italian botanist), Dupré Groenprojecten and tree nursery Van de Berk in Sint-Oedenrode.
– In May 2021, the first bird's nest was spotted in the trees of the Trudo Tower. In Bosco Verticale in Milan, about twenty bird species nest in the trees.
This is the total eclipse of the Moon of March 3, 2026, captured close to the time of the start of totality, or "U2.," with the Moon's southeastern limb still bright near the edge of the umbral shadow. The bright edge shows a band of blue, usually created by ozone absorption in Earth's upper atmosphere.
This was near "second contact" and so is sort of a "lunar diamond ring!"
This was from home in southern Alberta at about 4:04 am MST. The field is 3.8º by 2.5º. The Moon was in Leo and some of the field stars show up though none were bright near the Moon. The brightest is 56 Leonis at left at 6th magnitude.
However, it was about this time that high clouds were moving in from the west beginning to dim the Moon and dull the colours. Thus the glow around the Moon. Eventually the clouds won out and the Moon disappeared before the end of totality.
Technical:
This is a blend of 5 exposures from 1/2-second to 8 seconds, taken in rapid succession with Auto Exposure Bracketing, and blended with luminosity masks. This preserved detail in the bright limb while bringing out the darkened disk. All with the stock Canon R5 at ISO 400 on the Astro-Tech CFT90 refractor at f/6 (for 540mm focal length) with the First Light Optics 1x Flattener, and on the Sky-Watcher EQM-35 mount.
In this version of Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) image of Neptune, the planet’s visible moons are labeled. Neptune has 14 known satellites, and seven of them are visible in this image. Triton, the bright spot of light in the upper left of this image, far outshines Neptune because the planet’s atmosphere is darkened by methane absorption wavelengths captured by Webb. Triton reflects an average of 70 percent of the sunlight that hits it. Triton, which orbits Neptune in a backward orbit, is suspected to have originally been a Kuiper belt object that was gravitationally captured by Neptune.
Credit:
NASA/ESA/CSA and STScI
This is a narrow 2 panels mosaic from DSW with a Takahashi FSQ106EDXIII and QSI683.
S: 16x1800s + 17x1800s
H: 16x1800s + 18x1800s
O: 18x1800s + 16x1800s
Copyright: R. Colombari
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Messier 52 (also known as M 52 or NGC 7654) is an open cluster in the Cassiopeia constellation. It was discovered by Charles Messier in 1774. M52 can be seen from Earth with binoculars.
Due to interstellar absorption of light, the distance to M 52 is uncertain, with estimates ranging between 3,000 and 7,000 light years. One study identified 193 probable members of the cluster, with the brightest member being magnitude 11.[1]
NGC 7635, also called the Bubble Nebula, Sharpless 162, or Caldwell 11, is a H II region[1] emission nebula in the constellation Cassiopeia. It lies close to the direction of the open cluster Messier 52. The "bubble" is created by the stellar wind from a massive hot, 8.7[1] magnitude young central star, the 15 ± 5 M☉[4] SAO 20575 (BD+60 2522).[7] The nebula is near a giant molecular cloud which contains the expansion of the bubble nebula while itself being excited by the hot central star, causing it to glow.[7] It was discovered in 1787 by William Herschel.[5] The star SAO 20575 or BD+602522 is thought to have a mass of 10-40 Solar masses.
Source: Wikipedia
Gyulbudaghian's Nebula(in left- bottom corner) is a little-known variable reflection nebula, similar to Hubble's variable nebula.
t the heart of the Herbig-Haro object lies the variable Herbig AbBe pre-main sequence star PV Cep. This is a newly formed star that is surrounded by a rotating disk of material. At right angles to this disk are two jets of material, streaming away from the star at high speeds. We see the effects of one of these jets on the north side of PV Cep as the stream of material meets the surrounding gas in the interstellar medium. The jet to the south is obscured by a dark nebula (producing an absorption of over 3 magnitudes) (text: www.skyhound.com/observing/archives/oct/GM_1-29.html )
This picture was photographed during 2015 August in Petrivske village, Ukraine.
Equipment: home assembled reflector 10 in., f/3.8
Mount WhiteSwan-180 with a control system «Eqdrive Standart», camera QSI-583wsg with Paracorr-II. Off-axis guidecamera QHY5L-II.
LRGB filter set Baader Planetarium.
L = 46* 900 seconds, RGB = 15 * 600 seconds in each filter, bin.1. Total of 23 hours.
FWHM source (in the filter L) 2.26″-3.14″, Sum in L channel - 2.60"
The height above the horizon from 72 ° to 52 °, scale = 1.01"/ pixel.
Processed Pixinsight 1.8 and Photoshop CS6
10 November 2020: Update on The Corona Pandemic – The corona restrictions are beginning to pay off, with the number of hospitalisations dropping and the number of new infections going down strongly. Last week, 597 patients had to be taken to hospital each day on average, coming from 656 the week before. Yesterday's figure came in at 400, while 294 patients were allowed to return home again. The best news we’ve heard in a long time came from Pfizer announcing yesterday that an early analysis of its coronavirus vaccine trial suggested the vaccine was robustly effective in preventing Covid-19. A first analysis of the data found that the vaccine that they developed together with the German pharma company BioNTech was more than 90 percent effective in preventing the disease among trial volunteers. If the results hold up, that level of protection would put it on par with highly effective childhood vaccines for diseases such as measles. Other interesting reading was the outcome of a study of 186 coronavirus patients at a Belgian hospital revealing that a lack of sufficient vitamin D on admission can be linked to increased risk of severity and death from a Covid-19 infection. I knew that Vitamin D stimulates the absorption of calcium and magnesium but did not know that it strengthens and regulates the immune system. Fully loaded with vitamins and supplements I continue my search for eye-catching scenes in my hometown. On display today is the old post office on the Korenmarkt – Korenmarkt, Ghent, Belgium.
Another perspective to see how to raise the musculature for a better absorption of the falls in the ring :D
A friendly neighbourhood black-headed python. The head is black for better heat absorption and they tend to keep their bodies under cover and just have their heads out for warming them up
The rising of the Full "Hunter's Moon" of October 9, 2022, with the Moon reflected in the calm waters this night at Crawling Lake Reservoir in southern Alberta. The Moon appeared very pink as it rose into the clear sky near the horizon.
This is a single image with the RF70-200mm lens at 200mm and Canon R5. There is also a composite time-lapse version of this, as this was one frame from a set of 110 frames taken this night as the Moon rose.
The incredible vibrance of many Birds-of-paradise is in part due to the deep black feathers which make their more colorful plumage simply ‘pop’. A recent study looking closely at these black feathers found that they had a unique nanostructure that is super-efficient in light absorption. This results in one of the darkest blacks found in nature, rivaling those of highly specialized synthetic materials. Here, a Vogelkop Superb Bird-of-paradise (Lophorina niedda) waits at his display (a fallen log) for the arrival of a female. West Papua, Indonesia (New Guinea).
For this image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope turned its powerful eye toward an emission-line galaxy called NGC 3749.
When astronomers explore the contents and constituent parts of a galaxy somewhere in the universe, they use various techniques and tools. One of these is to spread out the incoming light from that galaxy into a spectrum and explore its properties. This is done in much the same way as a glass prism spreads white light into its constituent wavelengths to create a rainbow. By hunting for specific signs of emission from various elements within a galaxy’s spectrum of light —so-called emission lines — or, conversely, the signs of absorption from other elements — so-called absorption lines — astronomers can start to deduce what might be happening within.
If a galaxy’s spectrum shows many absorption lines and few emission lines, this suggests that its star-forming material has been depleted and that its stars are mainly old, while the opposite suggests it might be bursting with star formation and energetic stellar newborns. This technique, known as spectroscopy, can tell us about a galaxy’s type and composition, the density and temperature of any emitting gas, the star formation rate, or how massive the galaxy’s central black hole might be.
While not all galaxies display strong emission lines, NGC 3749 does. It lies over 135 million light-years away and is moderately luminous. The galaxy has been used as a “control” in studies of especially active and luminous galaxies — those with centers known as active galactic nuclei, which emit copious amounts of intense radiation. In comparison to these active cousins, NGC 3749 is classified as inactive, and has no known signs of nuclear activity.
Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Rosario et al.
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The Leeds-Liverpool Canal near Salterforth
Taken from Bridge #150, 'Hatter's Bridge'. So named because Foulridge was famous for hat-making from the 17th Century.
The term "mad as a hatter" comes from the use of mercury in the production of felt hats in the 18th and 19th centuries, where absorption of mercury through the skin can cause neurological disorders.
Salterforth, Lancashire, UK
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