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My attitude to the village I have been living in for more than a decade is ambivalent. Sometimes, I need to get away from its self-absorption and self-satisfaction.
Featured Image from Sonata Series
Sonata concentrates on seeing rather than looking. In our waking-state, we look at things all the time but consciously unless chosen to do we make the effort to see. This on-going series concentrates on the elements of design ; color, line, shape texture form and pattern. Each image composes of a singular point of interest to achieve photographic satisfaction. Here the visible, mundane & overlooked has its moment.
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Chance Nkosi Gomez known initiated by H.H Swami Jyotirmayanda as Sri Govinda walks an integral yogic path in which photography is the primary creative field of expression. The medium was introduced during sophomore year of high school by educator Dr. Devin Marsh of Robert Morgan Educational Center. Coming into alignment with light, its nature and articulating the camera was the focus during that time. Thereafter while completing a Photographic Technology Degree, the realization of what made an image “striking” came to the foreground of the inner dialogue. These college years brought forth major absorption and reflection as an apprentice to photographer and educator Tony A. Chirinos of Miami Dade College. The process of working towards a singular idea of interest and thus building a series became the heading from here on while the camera aided in cultivating an adherence to the present moment. The viewfinder resembles a doorway to the unified field of consciousness in which line, shape, form, color, value, texture all dissolve. It is here that the yogi is reminded of sat-chit-ananda (the supreme reality as all-pervading; pure consciousness). As of May 2024 Govinda has completed his 300hr yoga teacher training program at Sattva Yoga Academy studying from Master Yogi Anand Mehrotra in Rishikesh, India, Himalayas. This has strengthened his personal Sadhana and allows one to carry and share ancient Vedic Technology leading others in ultimately directing their intellect to bloom into intuition. As awareness and self-realization grows so does the imagery that is all at once divine in the mastery of capturing and controlling light. Over the last seven years he has self-published six photographic books, Follow me i’ll be right behind you (2017), Sonata - Minimal Study (2018), Birds Singing Lies (2018), Rwanda (2019), Where does the body begin? (2019) & Swayam Jyotis (2023). Currently, Govinda is employed at the Leica Store Miami as a camera specialist and starting his journey as a practitioner of yoga ॐ
Flickr Lounge ~ Relax
Our Daily Challenge ~ Tabletop Photography
Most days I'll work through a Sudoku puzzle. It keeps the 'little grey cells' working and I find the absorption in working out a solution to be quite relaxing.
Thank you to everyone who pauses long enough to look at my photo. Any comments or Faves are very much appreciated.
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
In addition to being beautiful, lotus is an impressively useful plant. The rhizomes, pips (the lotus version of the pistil?) 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
The Ayurvedic Sanskrit name of rock salt is “Saindhav lavan” . It is also known as “Halite”, which is a mineral of Sodium chloride.
It is rich in minerals. The benefits of rock salt have been described here.
Halite forms isometric crystals. The mineral is typically colorless or white, but may also be light blue, dark blue, purple, pink, red, orange, yellow or gray depending on the amount and type of impurities. It commonly occurs with other evaporite deposit minerals such as several of the sulfates, halides, and borates.
This salt enhances the taste of recipes in which it has been used.
Rock salt supplies minerals which are required by our body. Salt enhances water absorption, maintains PH and helps in movement of nutrients between tissue fluid and cells.
Apart from these functions, rock salt stabilizes blood pressure and also acts as an anti-oxidant.
It pacifies all the three doshas and is considered the healthiest form of salt in ayurveda.
I've never seen a group come up with an extended solar panel like this one. At first I was a bit concerned to think I had not gotten across that light travels in STRAIGHT lines! I knew they did not put a mirror in the tube to angle the light. Fortunately when I asked about their design they said it was to heat the air in the tube and send it into the box. I did not discuss the fact that heat rises... we'll review that another day!
« Ce fut comme une immense maturation du cœur dans l’absorption d’une constante contemplation du vide et de sa blancheur. » (C.L.-C.)
Légère variante d'une autre.
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Many species of mushrooms seemingly appear overnight, growing or expanding rapidly. In reality all species of mushrooms take several days to form primordial mushroom fruit bodies, though they do expand rapidly by the absorption of fluids.
from Wikipedia
Nikon D700 + Nikon 105mm f/2.8G AF-S VR + Ring Flash + Handheld.
Discovery!
The inaugural voyage of the S.P.I.D.E.R. Drone reveals substantial evidence for life on Mars, but Benny isn't so sure he wants to know much more about these lifeforms!
_((( Head left for COMIC w/detail shots!!! )))_
Full Description :
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).
Watch my video for a hands-on with the features: youtu.be/Q3HC0IzGPfc
Work-In-Progress shots, and more on my Insta @LEGO_stud
Thanks for checking it out, I hope you enjoy it!
P.S. It only has six legs because my wife has a limit to how many legs my robots can have ;) (it's got those arms, though!)
FR : Sur mon balcon avec une guêpe de compagnie.
Boire du Bandol dans un verre à whisky porte désormais malheur !
Conséquence directe du Brexit, le rosé de Provence n'est plus compatible avec les verres à whisky.
Conclusion : Ne buvez plus de whisky, et compensez par l'absorption sans modération de vins français dans des verres français !
L'Europe vous en sera reconnaissante !
EN: At home with a private wasp (only one, because two bees or not two bees is not a question)
Bad experience of drinking cool Bandol rosé wine in a whisky glass...
Sad consequence of Brexit : Provence wines are no more compatible with whisky glasses.
Conclusion : Don't drink any more whisky, but drink much more French wines in French glasses!
Thanks in advance for Europe sake... and for your health!
to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger
because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.
-Jack Kerouac
An early morning snap across a low tide inlet in the Dingle Harbor (end of March) at the outset of what would-be an after-breakfast clockwise drive around Slea Head Drive.
This false-color view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows clouds in Saturn's northern hemisphere. The view was produced by space imaging enthusiast Kevin M. Gill, who also happens to be an engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The view was made using images taken by Cassini's wide-angle camera on July 20, 2016, using a combination of spectral filters sensitive to infrared light at 750, 727 and 619 nanometers.
Filters like these, which are sensitive to absorption and scattering of sunlight by methane in Saturn's atmosphere, have been useful throughout Cassini's mission for determining the structure and depth of cloud features in the atmosphere.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission, click here.
Juni 2021
Karl weiß sich schon früh in Szene zu setzen, ist immer um Aufmerksamkeit bemüht und schaut selbstverliebt in die Kamera. Er wird später mal ein namhafter Aerosolforscher werden! - Karl knows how to put himself in the limelight at an early age, is always looking for attention and looking at the camera with self-absorption. He will later become a renowned aerosol researcher!
Really beautiful object catalogued as 881 on the Lynds' Catalogue of Dark Nebulae.
It's one of the jewels that you could find on gamma Cygni nebula, on SADR region of Cygnus, one of my favorites regions of the sky.
"A dark nebula or absorption nebula is a type of interstellar cloud that is so dense that it obscures the visible wavelengths of light from objects behind it, such as background stars and emission or reflection nebulae. The extinction of the light is caused by interstellar dust grains located in the coldest, densest parts of larger molecular clouds." (wiki)
It was necessary to integrate more than 70 hours to show all faint and nice details on the estructure.
Here was captured using the HSO palette, please also check my natural palette on this link:
Technical card
Imaging telescopes or lenses:Teleskop Service TS Photoline 107mm f/6.5 Super-Apo , Altair Astro RC250-TT 10" RC Truss Tube
Imaging cameras:ZWO ASI183MM-Cool , ZWO ASI1600MM-Cool
Mounts:Skywatcher EQ6R Pro , Mesu 200 Mk2
Guiding telescopes or lenses:Celestron OAG Deluxe , Teleskop Service TSOAG9 Off-Axis Guider
Guiding cameras:ZWO ASI174 Mini , ZWO ASI290 Mini
Focal reducers:Riccardi Reducer/Flattener 0.75x , Telescope-Service TS 2" Flattener
Software:Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight , Seqence Generator Pro
Filters:Astrodon O-III 36mm - 5nm , Astrodon S-II 36mm - 5nm , Astrodon R Gen.2 E-series 36mm , Astrodon G Gen.2 E-series 36mm , Astrodon B Gen.2 E-series 36mm , Astrodon HA 36mm - 5nm , Astrodon L Gen.2 E-series 36mm
Accessory:ZWO EFW , MoonLite NiteCrawler WR30 , TALON6 R.O.R , MoonLite CSL 2.5" Focuser with High Res Stepper Motor
Dates:July 21, 2020 , July 22, 2020 , July 25, 2020 , July 26, 2020 , July 28, 2020 , July 29, 2020
Frames:
Astrodon B Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 90x30" (gain: 75.00) -15C bin 1x1
Astrodon G Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 90x30" (gain: 75.00) -15C bin 1x1
Astrodon HA 36mm - 5nm: 205x600" (gain: 200.00) -15C bin 1x1
Astrodon O-III 36mm - 5nm: 110x600" (gain: 183.00) -15C bin 1x1
Astrodon R Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 90x30" (gain: 75.00) -15C bin 1x1
Astrodon S-II 36mm - 5nm: 111x600" (gain: 183.00) -15C bin 1x1
Integration: 73.2 hours
Avg. Moon age: 5.35 days
Avg. Moon phase: 33.86%
Astrometry.net job: 3811511
RA center: 20h 18' 42"
DEC center: +39° 43' 1"
Pixel scale: 1.007 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 90.555 degrees
Field radius: 0.403 degrees
Resolution: 2308x1724
Locations: AAS Montsec, Àger, Lleida, Spain
Data source: Own remote observatory
Remote source: Non-commercial independent facility
Sunset tonight looking north towards the Tiwis. There seems to be a faint green band going from the top right of the cloud to the left . It is in all the shots I took.
Possibly got something to do with this? I don't know.
optics.kulgun.net/GreenClouds/green_clouds.shtml
........The idea is that water is blue because is absorbed red light. If a thunderstorm contains enough water and is illuminated by sunlight which is reddish because the blue component has been scattered, such as at sunset, then the absorption of red light by the water will result in a green colour.
IPod Touch
Zen. Brush App
From life/observation
<=15 minutes
Although I drew a few times on long distance trains (and planes) I realized about halfway through my trip that I wasn't drawing on city Metro systems., Alhough theoretically it would have been interesting to compare posture, interaction and attitude between countries, I was never confident enough about my intended destination to let myself get absorbed in drawing.
I must say I was favorably impressed with how easy it was to navigate all three major metro systems I was on: London, Paris & Brussels.
In any event, back to the familiar commute, where I confess, I have occasionally missed my stop due to over-absorption in my subject.
Total lunar eclipse in 720nm infrared, nearing moon set, from Westborough, MA, 2022 November 08th. In visible/visual light, the moon here was almost not visible, but the IR absorption of the blue sky darkens the sky and enhances moon to background contrast.
If you look closely, you'll see the swooshing lines of the car that backed out of the driveway on the left as I was taking this shot. Man, I thought the people in the car were gonna break their necks... swivelling and staring and glaring all suspiciously. They even stopped at one point, turned on their headlights, and pointed them at me for a few long seconds... (this was around 2pm.. not like I was skulking in the darkness; sheesh). I just stood there rolling my eyes, figuring "Oh well, I can always do another exposure after... or IF... they ever freakin' leave."
Turns out I liked this one just fine. Except for the big blob of overexposed fence on the left. That's where they shone their wretched headlights.
(Sometimes I wonder... in a fit of self-absorption.. why the rest of the world can't just FRO and let me shoot in peace.)
Alter Ego: Hope
Name: Callum Hammer
Allegiance: Hero
Powers:
* Super Strength and a mild healing factor
* Can absorb energy and project it from his body via beams he expels from the palms of his hands (he can also do this without energy absorption).
* He can blast the beams from his hands in a unique way which allows him to fly and run fast.
Weapons: None
Key Weakness: He relies quite heavily on his powers in combat, without them he's just a regular teenager.
Origin:
Callum was born with his parents abilities and often used them to flaunt and boast about at school, one day however he was overheard by a criminal working for the villain called "Plague" bragging about how powerful his beams of energy were. He was then abducted by a gang of crooks that took Callum to their underground fight club called "Brawlers" ran by Plague. He was then pinned to fight against other meta humans and was kept captive for weeks as their "Champion" until he broke out and fled. He then decided he'd take down Plague and help fellow meta humans by being a costumed hero calling himself Hope, which was the only thing that got him through Brawlers, hope that he would one day get revenge on Plague and save those still being held captive.
CN L550 switches the west end of Aldershot on a muggy, hazy Sunday morning with a trio of GP9Rm's bracketing recent arrival GMTX 2254. CN has leased a number of GP38-2's from GMTX, in part to assist with the absorption of the GEXR (Guelph Sub.) and the SOR back into the CN network in the next couple of months.
A collection of bright star clusters and colourful nebulas on the border of Cassiopeia and Cepheus.
The prominent star cluster at left is Messier 52. The emission nebula to the lower right of it is NGC 7635, aka the Bubble Nebula; above and to the right of it is the small but intense nebula NGC 7538. At upper right of the frame is Sharpless 2-155, aka the Cave Nebula. The diffuse nebula at bottom is Sharpless 2-157, aka the Lobster Claw Nebula, with the small star cluster NGC 7510 near the end of one of its claws. The small star cluster at lower right made yellow by interstellar dust absorption is NGC 7419.
This is a stack of 8 x 8-minute exposures through the Borg 77mm f/4 astrograph and with the Canon EOS Ra red-sensitive mirrorless camera, at ISO 800. Stacked, aligned and processed in Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop 2020. No nebula or light pollution reduction filter was employed in taking the images. I shot this from home November 25, 2019 on a very fine if frosty autumn night. No special star masks were employed in processing to enhance star colours or process them separately.
Paul Cézanne -
Still-life with apples and peaches [1905] -
Washington NGA AN 1959.15.1
"The eye must grasp, bring things together," Cézanne said, "The brain will give it shape." In a still life, where the artist also creates the world he paints, each object, each placement, each viewpoint represents a decision. Cézanne painted and repainted the objects pictured here many times. The table, patterned cloth, and flowered pitcher were all props he kept in his studio. Every different arrangement was a new exploration of forms and their relationships.
Here the table tilts unexpectedly, defying traditional rules of perspective. Similarly, we see the pitcher in profile but are also allowed a look down into it. Paradoxically, it is Cézanne's fidelity to what he saw that accounts for this "denial" of logic and three–dimensional space. It is not so much that he is deliberately flattening space. Rather he is concentrating on the objects themselves instead of the perspectival scheme—the "box of air"—in which they exist. Cézanne worked slowly and deliberately. Over the course of days, he would move his easel, painting different objects—or even the same one—from different points of view. Each time, he painted what he saw. It was his absorption in the process of painting that pushed his work toward abstraction.
“He’s a small one,” the blue Piraka muttered.
“Might have to throw him back.”
Volatile, Relentless, Afflicted;
Once an expert marauder renowned for his cunning, everything was torn away from him by the Spear of Fusion – only the beast remained.
Though he retained his harpoon, Impact Vision, power absorption and heightened agility, Vezok now relies on instinct, striking hard and fast with the desperate fury of a wounded animal.
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[ Hakann, the Explosive ] [ old version ]
[ Vezon, the Disaster (Spear) ] [ (Scythe) ]
[ Toa Kongu, the Wrangler ] [ old version ]
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Vezok's (somewhat tragic) backstory gave me lots to work with!
His missing leg, hand, eye and teeth are meant to show physical loss from that incident, while introducing a pirate theme I was happy to double down on!
To distinguish him from the other Piraka I also added a larger tail, horns, and more animalistic proportions befitting 'The Beast'.
More photos are available on my:
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“What’s the matter?” Hakann said, smiling. “Afraid I’ll get rid of you so there’s one less to share the loot with? Actually, come to think of it, that’s not a bad –”
A bolt of energy shot from the point of the spear, striking Vezok. Startled, Hakann dropped the weapon.
Vezok screamed. His body felt like it was being torn in two, reassembled, and then ripped apart again. He fell to the floor in agony. The other Piraka stood and watched, not sure what to do or whether they wanted to be bothered to help.
In the time it takes a heartlight to flash once, it was over.
Vezok lay on the ground, groaning.
And beside him, another being was rising to its feet. He had not been there a second ago, but now he stood and looked down at Vezok with contempt.
“Get up,” he said.
“If I can, you can – after all, I am you and you are me, and won’t that be interesting? Of course, it would be easier if there were just one of us… maybe I should die? No, no, I have that wrong – maybe you should die.”
Vezok’s eyes flared to life. Thok met them and saw immediately that his fellow Piraka had changed.
Gone was the cold intelligence that had kept Vezok alive all these years, replaced by white-hot anger. (...)
This sparkling starfield, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys, contains the globular cluster ESO 520-21, a densely packed, roughly spherical collection of stars. The cluster, also known as Palomar 6, lies close to the center of the Milky Way, where interstellar gas and dust absorb starlight and make observations more challenging.
Interstellar absorption affects some wavelengths of light more than others, causing astronomical objects to appear redder than they actually are. This process, called “reddening,” makes it difficult to determine the properties of globular clusters close to the galactic center.
ESO 520-21 lies in the constellation Ophiuchus, near the celestial equator. Ophiuchus was one of the 48 constellations included in the writings of the second-century Egyptian astronomer Ptolemy, all of which are among the 88 constellations officially recognized by the International Astronomical Union today.
Image Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA, R. Cohen
Update 11/17/2021: this image was featured by NASA's APOD! You can view their write up here: theastroenthusiast.com/ngc-3314-from-hubble/
A full write-up is on my website here: theastroenthusiast.com/ngc-3314-from-hubble/
This object is not one but two – two galaxies seeming to overlap by mere chance. The spiral galaxy in front is viewed nearly face-on, its pinwheel shape defined by young, blue, bright star clusters. Against the glow of the background galaxy, dark swirling lanes of interstellar dust appear to dominate the face-on spiral structure. The dust lanes are surprisingly pervasive, and this remarkable pair of overlapping galaxies is one of a small number of systems in which absorption of light from beyond a galaxy’s own stars can be used to directly explore its distribution of dust.
Website: theastroenthusiast.com/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/the_astronomy_enthusiast/
Hidden Beasts Incorporated
Exec Line, Æ-50 "Hard Case"
The Hard Case was developed to give the Æ-50 a more comfortable and easy to use platform. When it comes to engaging wood apes or the like, accuracy and speed is key. The stock incorporates a sophisticated recoil absorption system to make the strong .50 AE recoil more manageable. Unfortunately this system necessitates that the spent casings be ejected from the top. The front end of the kit gives the Æ-50 a muzzle brake to cut down on recoil. A high end, 1,000 lumen flashlight has been built in so you can blind the dirty primates while you blast away. A RDC-2 is included with the package to supplement the iron sights.
MSRP for conversion kit: $800
This is the full PCC conversion kit for the PCC comp
Pentax 67II, 105mm F2.4, KODAK PORTRA 400, developed by FRAME*
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For previous generations, the film camera was simply taken for granted. Everyone loaded their cameras, got their films developed and photos printed by photo studios. It was an era when people poured their energy into photography for its own sake.
However, while the number of snapshots has increased due to the spread of digital cameras and mobile phones, I feel that we are gradually losing that experience of absorption in photography itself. Recent cameras have become ever easier for people to use and have a wide variety of functions besides just taking photos. If it becomes no longer necessary even to focus my camera on an object with my own hands, I wonder what the photography of the future will be.
In film photography, you will certainly experience a feeling of excitement while you wait for your photos to develop. Perhaps you fear that you may not have taken the photo skillfully. Therefore, waiting to know if you succeeded or not is inconvenient and troublesome. But this waiting time is necessary. That is to say, it is a stance we take toward photography.
The reason we like film cameras is that film somehow creates an appealing atmosphere. At the same time, however, digital cameras are convenient and have many useful functions. Both approaches are valid are worthwhile. But this is not exactly what I want to talk about here. I do not simply want to revisit the now-familiar debate over film vs. digital photography.
Photography has the potential to capture the amount of time and conscious effort we put into it. It has nothing at all to do with analogue vs. digital methods. It depends on what you want to take pictures of, and what you aim to do. But if you enjoy photography, I may have a hint for how to think of it and spend your time doing it.
Even when we use digital cameras, we may later notice something different if we can just break the habit of looking at the photos as soon as we have taken them. This is neither meant as criticism of digital cameras, nor as praise of film cameras. I just think that we need to take the time to think deeply about the process of taking photos.
When I see decades-old photos which anonymous people took and left behind, I obtain a definite feeling of "something existed there". Today as well, when I release the shutter, I hope to take photos like those.
(Translated by Tetsuro Nohara, Peter McCamus)
TECHNICAL DATA:
"FarLightTeam" robotic remote observatory located in “E-EYE Entre Encinas y Estrellas” (Fregenal de la Sierra) Badajoz, Spain.
Team: José Esteban, Jesús M. Vargas, Bittor Zabalegui, Marc Valero
Telescope: Takahashi FSQ106 ED 530mm f/5
Camera: Atik Apx60 ( 9576 x 6388 )
Filters: Astrodom Halpha-OIII
Mount: 10 micron GM1000 HPS
Imaging Software: Voyager
Processing software: PixInsight
IMAGE DATA:
Date: August 2024
47 x 600" Ha
41 x 600" OIII
Total 15 hours of Lights
Calibration shots: Darks, Flats, Bias
Processed by: Jesús M. Vargas
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WR 134 is a Wolf–Rayet variable star located about 6,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus , surrounded by a faint bubble nebula driven by the star's intense radiation and fast wind. It is five times the radius of the Sun, but due to a temperature exceeding 63,000 K it is 400,000 times more luminous than the Sun .
WR 134 was one of three stars in Cygnus observed in 1867 that had unusual spectra consisting of intense emission lines rather than the more normal absorption and continuum lines. These were the first members of the class of stars that came to be called Wolf–Rayet stars (WR stars) after their unusual appearance was discovered by Charles Wolf and Georges Rayet. It is a member of the nitrogen sequence of WR stars, while the other two (WR 135 and WR 137) are members of the carbon sequence that also have OB companions. WR 134 has a spectrum with N III and N IV emission between two and five times stronger than NV, leading to the assignment of a WN6 spectral type. The spectrum also shows strong He II emission and weaker He I and C IV lines.
WR 134 is classified as an Algol-type eclipsing variable and has been given the designation V1769 Cygni, but the variation is not strictly periodic and brightness changes occur on timescales of hours to days.
Both hard and soft X-rays have been detected from WR 134, but their origin has not been fully explained. The emissions do not correspond to any star of the expected temperature, they are not sufficient to generate winds that would cause two hot stars to collide, and any compact source, such as a neutron star or a cold dwarf, would be in an unlikely orbit.
Macro of a cut slab of labradorite seems to mimic the deep space images as seen from the various space telescopes. The light entering the feldspar crystals is reflected back out after absorbing all but the colors we observe in the mineral.
Poem.
The mercury greys, the tree-lined ebony silhouettes, deep indigo and silver-coated marbling, gleaming, beaming off the cloud-reflected bay-
Dazzles and spell-binds.
That precious God-given ambience of early dawn blinds us but etches blurred images of heavenly proportions to our senses.
The mesmerising light, the near-silent water’s edge only broken by the lilting call of the oyster-catcher or the muffled comments of stirring sailors aboard their dreamy yachts.
These familiar sounds, the salt-laden odours of a near-calm bay and the silent, gentle absorption of the sun’s rays rouses and energises a myriad of life-forms to a glorious new day.
To witness this scene is pure bliss.
To hear, feel and sense it, is almost indescribable.
The Atacama desert provides one of the purest starry skies on Earth. The sky is so clear and dark that rare phenomena can actually be observed. For example, in this picture taken from Cerro Paranal Observatory (home to the Very Large Telescope), we clearly see two separate sources of natural light:
- The Zodiacal light: a white tilted cone of light which comes from the diffusion of sunlight by dust particles located in space (within the inner orbital plane of the solar system).
- The Airglow: an orange/red veil of light covering almost the whole sky. Airglow is a chemiluminescence process that results in the production of light after UV sunlight interacted with molecules/atoms of the upper layers of the atmosphere. The absorption of UV light by the atmosphere is only temporal and ends by remitting energy under the form of visible light.
This view was taken from Paranal Residencia located about 2 kilometers away from Cerro Paranal which you can spot in the middle of the image: a flat mount on top of which four tiny rectangular domes are installed: they are the four telescopes forming one of the most powerful astronomical infrastructure of the world: the Very Large Telescope or VLT.
TECHNICAL DETAILS
📷 Canon 6D + Sigma Art 14 mm + Standard Tripod
→ Single 20 seconds exposure
→ ISO 6400
→ 14 mm
→ f/1.8
Softwares: Dxo Optics pro 9 for noise reduction / Photoshop/Lightroom for all the edits.
The southbound DM&E Belle Fourche turn rounds a curve and passes above the city streets of Sturgis, SD on July 10, 2008.
The commodity producing the dust visible in this scene is bentonite. This substance has many industrial usages, including being a bonding agent in the production of taconite pellets, and in sand molds for iron and steel casting. Its absorptive properties are also used in clumping cat litter. This commodity is quarried in northwestern South Dakota, which makes it a major source of the DM&E's traffic.
Diergaarde Blijdorp (Zoo)
June 2012
The Netherlands
Urban life in the Netherlands
Ricoh GRD IV
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.
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On my trip throughout Africa our team was given an amazing four day holiday in the Ngala National Park in South Africa. It was my first safari and I just couldn’t fathom the silence and the beauty of this massive national park. Those four days disappearing from society and witnessing such breathtaking animals so close was an experience that will never be forgotten.
Real Name: Walter "Wally" Larson
Height: 5'10 ft
Weight: 130 lbs
Powers/Abilities: Kinetic Energy Absorption, Radioactive Energy Absorption, Superhuman Durability, able to fire concussive blasts and Flight. (Enhanced Strength and Speed when Kinetic Energy is forced out)
Backstory or Bio or whatever:
Wally Larson always had powers. His parents died at a young age, so he was sent to an orphanage. At the orphanage, he was often bullied. However, he never felt pain. He was punched, kicked, pushed down the stairs, nothing. Maybe a bruise, but that's it. When he reached 15, the kinetic energy in his body filled up and it burst a huge blast the exploded the orphanage and killed over 50 children. He ran away and stole clothing and armor from sporting good stores. He made his armor and fought crime. Now, he has payed off his debt and continues to fight crime to this day.
Alias: Syphon
Real Name: Vissia Burrows
Gender: Female
Allegiance: Villain
Backstory: The mother of Detonator, and Turbokiller, she's also the arch nemesis of the first Burnout. She starts out as a lowlife thief, knocking over small grocery stores. As time went on, she decided to do bigger crimes. Eventually, she ended up joining Mayhem. Years later, she would have Naomi, who would become the psychotic Turbokiller, along with Nathan, who would become the destructive force known as Detonator.
Edit: So I decided to go with Multi Sharp's idea. While her head definitely does lean itself towards sound, the energy absorption is similar to Turbokiller syphoning energy to survive, and the redirection could be seen as somewhat explosive depending on the size/scale. Also, I do already have a really cool sound manipulator in Siren (I mean it's just one of her many cool abilities.)
Status: Alive and at large. Works for Mayhem.