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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.
The comet was drifting fast toward east in Libra.
It was low in the west at the date, and stars showed obvious spectral spread due to atmospheric dispersion. Blue and green went higher, and red went lower. Blue got weaker due to atmospheric differential light absorption, and bluish ion tail got far fainter than expected. North is up, and east is to the left.
Earth distance: 0.349 AU
Sun distance: 0.792 AU
equipment: Guan Sheng Optical Ritchey–Chrétien telescope RC-CF 10" f8, TS Extension for The Baffle Tube, TS 2.5" field flattener, and Canon EOS R-SP4II, modified by Seo-san on ZWO AM5 Equatorial Mount, autoguided at a star nearby with Fujinon 1:2.8/75mm C-Mount Lens, Pentax x2 Extender, ZWO ASI 174MM-mini, and PHD2 Guiding with comet tracking on
exposure: 3 times x 60 seconds and 5 x 15 seconds at ISO 6,400 and f/8
The exposure started at 09:34:20 UTC October 9, 2025.
This frame was cropped 1,715 x 1,069 pixels of the original 6,720 x 4,780 pixels, comparable to a frame taken with a telescope of focal length about 7,800mm.
Site: 1,450m above sea level at lat. 35 55 53 North and long. 138 27 31 East in Hirasawa Pass 平沢峠 near Yatsugatake. The site has wide and beautiful western aspect. Ambient temperature was around 9 degrees Celsius or 48 degrees Fahrenheit. Wind was mild. Atmospheric turbulence was bad, and guide error RMS was around 2.3 near the horizon. Sky was not so dark, SQML around 19.90.
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.
Astronomical Spectroscope displayed during National Science Day 26 at Raman Research institute in Bengaluru.
An astronomical spectroscope splits light from celestial objects into its spectrum to analyze their physical properties. By studying emission or absorption lines in the spectrum, astronomers determine a star’s chemical composition, temperature, density, mass, distance, and radial velocity.
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.
Sometimes it happens to notice the unusual and magic of this dream world. The shadow has no object. The observer is absorbed in the shadow itself. This is definitely something!
1. Taking pictures a tool (camera), not a photographer.
2. The choice of tool limits the possibilities.
3. Experience allows him (instrument) less and less to limit their capabilities.
4. The ability to see is given only when the observer allows ...
5. The moment of observation is the real find ...
6. Training and mastering it defies. Training leads to poor imitations of the original.
7. Often the result should ripen, like wine. Although time is the understanding of the mind, therefore it is very speculative.
8. The meaning of all this is the process!
9. Let it be!
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The mysterious planet Cyano orbits deep inside the alt process belt. It consists entirely of ferric ammonium citrate. Absorption of UV radiation by its atmosphere of gaseous potassium ferricyanide results in an enormous electron migration in the planetary crystalline lattice thereby generating a super massive magnetosphere.
f/3.5 for 2.65e13 nanoseconds
Made in-camera on Cot 320 coated with traditional cyanotype sensitizer.
We have been covered by 15.5 inches (39 cm) of dense, heavy, wet snow. I was surprised to see the inner layers had a bit of turquoise glow. We don't see this very often, our snow is typically loose and grainy.
Blue-green colors in the 'shadows' of snow is caused by the absorption of both red and yellow light, leaving light at the blue and green end of the visible light spectrum. This doesn't usually happen in 'loose' snow, but happens more often in ice and icebergs. This snow is particularly dense.
A better explanation here.
Looks like he is about to loose the viewfinder eye piece.
Ever wondered...Why are most of the telephoto lenses used
in sports and other tele-photography white or light grey?
well it's probably a Canon L series lens.
Some say it helps to reduce heat absorption, and hence heat expansion of the structure of the lens -
But more likely - I think brand recognition is about 1/2 the truth (less heat absorption being the other 1/2).
Nikon has been using black for their telephoto lenses for years. I have never heard any complaint about heat absorption or build-up.
The longest telephoto AF-S Nikkors are available in light grey via special order and Minolta and Olympus have or have had light coloured telephotos while Pentax has a metallic finish on theirs.
A dull day at the Mid Devon show 2021
Penn Central E40 electric #4977 poses in the yard at Morrisville, PA, January 23, 1976. Conrail is less than four months away from taking over the Penn Central's rail operations and thus inheriting this and it's unwanted brothers which originally came from the New Haven Railroad upon the NH's absorption into PC. The E40's were originally classed EP5s by the New Haven when they arrived in 1955 from GE. They were intended for high speed passenger operation between New York City and New Haven, CT. Teething problems from the outset were solved within a year of arrival from GE-mainly the large screened filters on the carbody sides which helped in cooling the electric motors along with the automatic blowers. What caused their downfall was the McGinnis/Alpert regime's greatly reduced maintenance on these and almost all other locomotives the NH had. The damage had been done and unfortunately they fared no better under Penn Central ownership. By the early '70s all were out of service and one even scrapped but someone at PC felt the road should rebuild three of them for freight service and so the 4977 became one of the lucky three to survive into Conrail ownership. Sadly the three never turned a revenue wheel for Conrail as that road had a lot more on it's plate to deal with than three oddball electrics of questionable reliability. The final three E40s were scrapped in 1979. This is an Ektachrome 6x6 color transparency originally marketed as a Super Slide. The film frame was mounted in a cardboard mount which allowed for projection with the proper slide carrier mounted to a projector. Unfortunately this also allowed for the image to be scratched badly.
John Stroup original.
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.
Multiple curtains of aurora appear along the curving arc of the auroral oval over the boreal forest. This is looking just a little east of due north from the second floor deck of the Churchill Northern Studies Centre, Churchill, Manitoba. Polaris is just left of top centre, with the Big Dipper at right of top centre. A meteor streaks to the left of Polaris. Vega is at lower left as a circumpolar star low in the north. The curtains appear more yellow toward the horizon due to atmospheric absorption. The curtains display the classic green tint with red upper fringes, both from transitions in oxygen.
This is how the Lights usually begin from this latitude under the auroral oval. They will then move up and south from this formation to cover the sky.
This is a 20-second exposure at f/2.8 with the 15mm full-frame fish-eye and Canon 6D at ISO 3200.
The rising Full Moon of June, dubbed the “Strawberry Moon” in the media, as seen rising over a prairie pond in southern Alberta, on June 9, 2017. At right, the glitter path from the Moon also combines on the water.
This illustrates the effect of the Moon brightening and becoming less red/yellow as it rises into clearer air above the horizon, with less atmospheric absorption of the short wavelengths.
This is a composite stack, obviously, of 15 exposures, selected to be about 2.5 minutes apart, from a time-lapse sequence of 1100 frames, with images taken at two second intervals. Shot with the Canon 6D and 200mm lens.
Just your average cryogenic superconductors, partially buried underneath the regolith for thermal isolation (and shock absorption in case of a catastrophic containment field failure, though no one will ever official admit to that).
This could be a circular set of 8 but angling the death star sphere in the center would make less sense in that case, and it's more interesting to not go for too much symmetry.
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
Inspiration comes from everywhere; anywhere. Just over a year ago while engaged in a fateful demolition of a fence Mary Radike Smith posted a picture from a project whose subject was "Home Archeology".
Lamenting the state of the weather, just the other day, Richard Harvey was tossing about the notion of the indoor sport of the still life. Obtuse as it may seem, back in January last year I was waiting for a sonographer and musing about my binoculars. Lo, and behold, what tied this altogether was an almost perfect alignment of absolutely nothing!
Actually, it's probably the weather — about which we all complain, yet do nothing. Six degrees celsius in the UK, minus 12⁰F in the USA and 333⁰K warmer in my garden, ahead of a forecast 30⁰Rø next week, has induced certain responses. Mine was to get around to my bit of Home Archaeology: a pile of stuff dug out of my soil.
Far be it from me to fling about nasturtiums on the former residents of The Estate. But I do wonder — with all of the broken bottles, crockery, and so on in the ground — whether they liked a drink, were just a bit clumsy, or a bit of both; maybe one following the other? Importantly, I had to wait this long to ask these questions because, in this season, the Sun was positioned, just so, as to enlighten this pile.
That mauve coloured object has my attention. It's like a backyard geochronometer. There was a time when small amounts of iron would give a green-cast to clear glass. Someone discovered that adding manganese in its bivalent state would counter the influence of the iron impurity. That process commenced around 1880 and was discontinued about 1915 when the manganese was replaced by selenium; or so the internet says. Roll forward until I dug up this broken neck of a soda bottle. No longer clear, the long exposure of that glass to UV light has oxidised the bivalent manganese to its trivalent or tetravalent state resulting in the colour change. Now we know. If they were a bunch of drunks, it was likely over a century ago, and I have the still life to prove it.
Absorptions.
Tra-arglwyddiaethu ar leiniau stereoteipiau di-chwaeth ymladd ynysig yn darparu ymsonau bregus sgyrsio tics geiriol swyddogaethau cymhleth dyfeisiadau siarad,
les démons de l'inexorabilité la gravité rassurant le public un monde orthodoxe sévère revendiquant des prologues une richesse urbaine infinie des mythologies mutilées,
seriøs vild humor svin spisning ritualer private vittigheder æstetik offensiver usandsynlige masker stønnende samtaler morderiskhed klokker,
deghizări demonstrații gunoi complete acte motivate mușcături extinse performanțe ticăloșie abjecții simetrice conflicte ireconciliabile,
антагонизм затраты словесные состязания символическая игра ужасающие деградации провиденциальная критика опасные рты деревенские речи,
喜び未装備の高さ不思議宝胸が失われた風に立ち向かう気分を害した指血の発見労働者の海岸の干渉用語恐ろしい丘厄介なダーツの内容が吸収された.
Steve.D.Hammond.
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.
Please contact me!
Please no glossy awards, scripted comments and big thumbnails back to your own work.
I will remove them...
Alter Ego: Sun
Name: Savannah Harrison
Allegiance: Hero
Powers:
* Can increase the intensity of light on objects and be able to essentially blind/flash bang her foes.
* Absorption & Amplification of solar energy and transmit it into searing hot energy beams.
* Immunity to heat and intense light.
Weapons:
* Two swords which she energises to be able to slice through thick plated metal and amplifies the light shined on them to blind her foes.
Key Weakness: She can only absorb solar energy no other form.
Origin:
Savannah grew up in a notorious Meta gang called "The Forgotten" with many metahumans that went down the wrong path. However they were intercepted by the hero known as "Luna" that defeated the gang but he was badly injured. Savannah hid during the battle and later emerged finding the hurt hero, rather than finish him off she rescued him and brought him home to rest. He thanked her for saving him from the gangs lair and managed to convince her to become a hero and follow a new path of heroism, over time she also became his girlfriend and partner for the crime fighting duo.
gammon and boiled beef served cold next to rice, peas, aubergine flavoured with balsamic vinegar, dal blended with garam masala, chilli powder, turmeric, cumin powder, lime, onion and sultanas and onion with servings of pear sauce, pineapple and ginger sauce and marmalade
pineapple and ginger sauce flic.kr/p/2kpFeEg
gammon cooked in the pressure cooker flic.kr/p/2kQSJyZ
pear sauce flic.kr/p/2kGWtBt
marmalade flic.kr/p/2kNodis
market buys flic.kr/p/2kPcePL & flic.kr/p/2kQjLMT
aubergine nutrition facts www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/ingredient-focus-aubergines
ghee flic.kr/p/2kGBxt9
second attempt at cooking aubergine
to decrease aubergine oil absorption soaked the aubergine in oat milk, no salt
www.thekitchn.com/4-ways-to-prevent-eggplant-from-absorbi...
... Soak the eggplant in milk. Soaking slices or cubes off eggplant in milk for one to two hours fills the porous structure studded with air pockets with milk, leaving no room for oil to be absorbed ...
ps i'm not recommending any of these cookery adventures. they suit my personal taste. photographing to encourage myself to eat more healthily ...
i've created a new group www.flickr.com/groups/cooking_is_my_hobby/ to gather ideas and encourage myself to continue with healthy eating by learning from others if you're interested in cooking, sometimes or a lot, or enjoy the cooking of others, you're always welcome ...
Name: Stefan Nicholas Rost Akerman
Villain’s name: Biocide
Age: mid-20’s
Bio: Son of a Dutch diplomat and a Swedish biological scientist, Stefan was raised in the Swiss Alps but moved to America at 6. He grew up with no friends and was always obsessed with plants and life. He had high hopes of making death and decay become life and resurrection once more. But some of experiments proved to be a failure, and did not turn out well for anyone. It was simply expensive and no one approved of what he did. Stefan turned to being a eco-terrorist after enhancing himself with more powers, but he only did that for months after Paradox Force faced him multiple times.
His long standing history with Paradox Force (mostly Grey Cop) led him devoting his time to become a mercenary. Until that, he was re hired by Hendrix and co, with thoughts of being a villain again...
Powers and abilities: Poison manipulation, generation and absorption, acid blasts/generation, create biological bombs, control plants, some pheromes, secrete biological and etc.
Weaknesses: Powers can be contained, immune against those who resist poison and toxins, control over acid that may destroy things he doesn’t intend to, some acids are limited to different kinds, bases can be used against him, rendering him neutralised and powerless. Plant life requires water and solar energy, people who are immune to his poison. Failure at his own experiments causes him to be very angry. The suit can run out of battery sometimes.
Equipment: Bio-suit with haredened armour, has solar absorption functions through battery. Biological, plant related bombs/weapons, usually carries two guns
Personality: Cunning, malicious, cruel, disdain, cold, bitter.
One of my first OCs without a specific suit/armour/costume.
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Name: Lena Kaori Dawson/Hae Eun-Kyeong (해은경)
Villain’s name: Frostwave
Age: 20s
Bio: Born in a German Air Force Base, Lena’s mother was a Japanese-Korean samurai and her father was a British-American (and 1/3 Czech, 1/4 German) ninja sorcerer. She moved between countries, resulting in her speaking notably Korean, Czech, Japanese, German and English. Young Lena would join her parent’s sect of warriors, growing up to be one of the best fighters.
During her late youth, her family competed against various organisations, notably the Yakuza and the P.E. When the Hayashi clan’s temporary truce broke, she had to fight her so called “friend”, Noriko Hayashi, the future Spectre Blade.
After her side was left in ruins and her parents dead, she decided to learn more magic and train in combat, taking on as the highest ranking leader. In a few years time, she subsequently controlled the a portion of the crime underworld and the magic side, with the water demons at her side now...
Powers and abilities: Mainly ice and water generation, she can transform into liquid form or make ice armour. Lena has the power to shoot ice blasts, make ice/water constructs (spikes, icicles, hail, giants and much more ) etc. Has the power to walk on walls, surf. She also uses dark magic, but only against magic users (or enemies, depending on powers or how strong they are). She is a skilled combatant and exceptional fighter, as well as a highly trained njnja/assassin and a sniper.
is fluent in languages (see bio for more)
Weaknesses: Dehydration (rarely), overusing dark magic leading to insanity, could be weak against stronger fire, sometimes limited to use a source for absorption and recharging, creating strong bodies of water would exhaust her, sand and oil, hatred and revenge against her enemies.
Equipment: Fiber mesh armoured suit, wears a gi around her waist down. She carries various guns around, but mainly her sniper rifle and one unbreakable silver sai around her. She also uses various ninja weapons.
Personality: Cruel. adaptable, persistent, resourceful, ambitious, aggressive.
A real live Australian Water Dragon (Physignathus lesueurii) basking at dusk on a city park red mood light, presumably to either get a nice warm glow to look hot and/or to stay warm. :) I especially like the back leg stretch and the skin's rich absorption of red colour from the light. The dragon also looks very happy with its achievements and position and made no attempt to move when I carefully approached to photograph. The really cool thing was the light changed colour every so often and so did the dragon's colour. By way of example, please see the photo below.
Thanks for stopping by. Appreciate your comments. :)
Hot Water Dragon_MG_8422 2014-03-31
Beziehungen bestimmen unser Leben in allen Bereichen. Bei Gebäuden, die für Ausstellungen geschaffen werden, ergeben sich gleich mehrere Beziehungen.
Nichts und Niemand kann für sich alleine bestehen. Ein Architekt setzt seine Gebäude in einen räumliche und kulturelle Beziehung, man könnte auch Kontext sagen. Ein Kurator setzt ein Kunstwerk in Beziehung zum Raum und anderen Kunstwerken. Der Betrachter eröffnet eine neue Beziehung durch Wahrnehmung des Vorangegangenen und bringt das Kunstwerk in Beziehung zu seinem Leben und seinen Erfahrungen und in eine Kommunikation mit sich selbst und anderen Menschen zu denen er in verschiedenen Beziehungen steht und diese geben es vielleicht weiter, unendliche Reflexionen und Absorbtionen mit all ihren Veränderungen ... und wir Fotografen treten natürlich auch, jeder auf seinen Weise zu seinen Motiven in eine Beziehung ... Gedankenspiele ... ;-) ...
Relationships determine our lives in all areas. In the case of buildings created for exhibitions, several relationships arise at once.
Nothing and no one can exist on its own. An architect places his buildings in a spatial and cultural relationship, one could also say context. A curator puts a work of art in relation to space and other works of art. The viewer opens a new relationship by perceiving what has gone before and brings the artwork into relationship with his life and experiences and into a communication with himself and other people with whom he is in different relationships and they perhaps pass it on, infinite reflections and absorptions with all their changes ... and we photographers of course also enter, each in his own way to his subjects in a relationship ... Mind games ... ;-) ...
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The overall wide field comes from Rokinon 135mm @ F2.8 + QSI583.
For Rosette and Cone nebulsa I have used higher resolution data coming from Tenerife.
L: 23x300s @ F2.8
RGB: (4, 4, 4)x300s @ F2.8
Higher resolution images:
Data: R. Colombari [DSW], E. Recurt
Processing: R. Colombari
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The Cone Nebula is an H II region in the constellation of Monoceros. It was discovered by William Herschel on December 26, 1785, at which time he designated it H V.27. The nebula is located about 830 parsecs or 2,700 light-years away from Earth. The Cone Nebula forms part of the nebulosity surrounding the Christmas Tree Cluster. The designation of NGC 2264 in the New General Catalogue refers to both objects and not the nebula alone.
The diffuse Cone Nebula, so named because of its apparent shape, lies in the southern part of NGC 2264, the northern part being the magnitude-3.9 Christmas Tree Cluster. It is in the northern part of Monoceros, just north of the midpoint of a line from Procyon to Betelgeuse.
The cone's shape comes from a dark absorption nebula consisting of cold molecular hydrogen and dust in front of a faint emission nebula containing hydrogen ionized by S Monocerotis, the brightest star of NGC 2264. The faint nebula is approximately seven light-years long (with an apparent length of 10 arcminutes), and is 2,700 light-years away from Earth.
Fox Fur Nebula is a Nebula located in Monoceros and included in the NGC 2264 Region. In the Sharpless catalog it is number 273.
This enigmatic formation of gas and dust lies in the constellation of Monoceros (the Unicorn) not far off the right arm of Orion. This is a close-up of a small section of a much larger complex, generally known as the Christmas Tree cluster. The mysterious Cone Nebula is also a part of this same cloud.
The red regions of this nebula are caused by hydrogen gas that has been stimulated to emit its own light by the copious ultraviolet radiation coming from the hot, blue stars of the cluster. The blue areas shine by a different process: they are mainly dust clouds that reflect the bluish light of the same stars.
Its popular name arises because the nebula looks like the head of a stole made from the fur of a red fox.
The Rosette Nebula (also known as Caldwell 49) is a large, circular H II region located near one end of a giant molecular cloud in the Monoceros region of the Milky Way Galaxy. The open cluster NGC 2244 (Caldwell 50) is closely associated with the nebulosity, the stars of the cluster having been formed from the nebula's matter.
The complex has the following NGC designations:
NGC 2237 – Part of the nebulous region (Also used to denote whole nebula)
NGC 2238 – Part of the nebulous region
NGC 2239 – Part of the nebulous region (Discovered by John Herschel)
NGC 2244 – The open cluster within the nebula (Discovered by John Flamsteed in 1690)
NGC 2246 – Part of the nebulous region
The cluster and nebula lie at a distance of some 5,000 light-years from Earth [3]) and measure roughly 50 light years in diameter. The radiation from the young stars excites the atoms in the nebula, causing them to emit radiation themselves producing the emission nebula we see. The mass of the nebula is estimated to be around 10,000 solar masses.
A survey of the nebula with the Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed the presence of numerous new-born stars inside optical Rosette Nebula and studded within a dense molecular cloud. Altogether, approximately 2500 young stars lie in this star-forming complex, including the massive O-type stars HD 46223 and HD 46150, which are primarily responsible for blowing the ionized bubble.[4][5] Most of the ongoing star-formation activity is occurring in the dense molecular cloud to the south east of the bubble.[6]
A diffuse X-ray glow is also seen between the stars in the bubble, which has been attributed to a super-hot plasma with temperatures ranging from 1 to 10 million K.[7] This is significantly hotter than the 10,000 K plasmas seen in HII regions, and is likely attributed to the shock-heated winds from the massive O-type stars.
Source: Wikipedia
Culture and Congress Centre – CKK Jordanki, Torún, Poland
The architecture firm Menis Arquitectos led by spanish architect Fernando Menis has designed the Culture and Congress Centre – CKK Jordanki a contemporary concert hall in Torún, Poland.
CKK Jordanki is located within a green ring around the historic city centre, overlooking the Vistula River. Therefore, special care was took in designing the orientation and height of the volumes so that the presence of the new building establishes a harmonious relationship with the natural and built environment. Thus the building occupies half of the plot, the other half being dedicated to park and the height is kept as low as possible, to avoid blocking the view over the river. The visual effect achieved is that of a natural object, a rock embedded in a gently sloping meadow.
On the other hand, the materiality refers Torun’s Gothic legacy, an UNESCO protected city, in which almost all the façades of the old town boast of red brick. CKK Jordanki’s outside is made of white concrete in contrast to the cuts in the skin that give a glimpse of the red inner lining, made of crushed brick. The use of brick in Jordanki CKK is a contemporary reinterpretation of the traditional brick, is a reference to Torun’s façades, and ultimately to its cultural heritage.
The program is characterized by a great flexibility at such extent that a building, which according to the client’s brief, was meant to be only a concerts hall, ended up being a space for all kinds of concerts and events, within the same initial budget. First of all, the theatre space is able to adapt easily to different capacities. For instance you may join two rooms to act as the main theatre by moving the walls and changing the number of the easily removable seats. It is possible to hold several separate and simultaneous events. Secondly, thanks to its dynamic ceiling, the building can be tuned to effectively absorb symphonic performances, chamber, theatre, opera, and film and meet any acoustic requirements the theatre designer requires. Finally, the concert hall can open to the outside, allowing to join the interior stage with the park outside for outdoor performances.
Picado, used in the entire building, is a mix of concrete and other materials. At CKK Jordanki, it was mixed either with reclaimed red bricks from a local factory (Ceramsus) for the sound reflection effect; either with a volcanic reddish stone from China, for its sound absorption effect. The picado is an innovative technique, conceived by Fernando Menis, consisting of mixing concrete with other materials and break it afterwards. Besides achieving a rough expression, the picado allows excellent acoustics results. The first time Menis used it, was for Magma Art & Congress (Tenerife, Canary Islands, 2005), by mixing concrete with local volcanic stones. For the CKK Jordanki, the technique has been researched further, tested and certified by the Spanish and the Polish Building Research Institute -ITB, respectively. The red brick is present almost on all the façades of the city and its use in CKK Jordanki is Menis’s contemporary reinterpretation of this traditional material while a clear reference to the town’s cultural heritage.
The definition of the auditorium space and of its shapes was made through an interactive process, always in relation to acoustics, until reaching the final shape. The plastic properties of concrete allows its use in concert halls in many different ways because it allows you to control the geometry (liquid stone) and adapt its shape to the formwork so that you can control the first sound reflections the listener received. In addition, the surface treatment of the crushed brick and concrete mix, allowed us a kind of diffusion, very difficult to achieve with other materials.
The moving parts of the auditorium have an area ranging from 80 to 140 m², having a weight that varies according to the piece, from 11 to 20 Tn. Each of the pieces can move independently from 3 to 5 m in height, allowing adjustment of the geometry and volume of the hall, depending on the needs of each moment, transforming a volume of 8,200 m3 with a time reverberation of 1.85 seconds, into a volume of 6,800 m3, with a reverberation time reduced down to 1.35 seconds. By adding additional absorption you could reach a reverberation time of 1.2 seconds, which covers the entire range of possible activities: 1.85 seconds for symphonic music, 1.6 seconds for opera and 1.2 seconds for theatre.
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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
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No HDR, just a long exposure at night. Straight out of the camera other than a white balance adjustment.
Canon 17-40L USM @ 17mm, 20 sec exposure
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This is a 200° panorama of the arch of the northern Milky Way rising over the Badlands landscape of Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta. This was the night of May 31/June 1, 2024, when from this latitude of 50° 45' N the sky is not fully dark even in the middle of the night, here at about 1:30 a.m. MDT. So the sky retains a blue tint, especially to the north at left.
So this records quite a colorful sky contrasting with the earth tones of the Badlands landscape of eroded bentonite clay hoodoos, iron-rich rocks, and sagebrush. And I like the field of white flowers mimicking the stars above.
Adding to the sky colours are bands of green oxygen airglow, especially at centre to the east, and perhaps yellow sodium airglow at right. At left to the north the horizon is tinted pink from a faint arc of aurora borealis. A Kp5 show of Northern Lights was predicted for this night but nothing of the sort materialized!
The mass of stars toward the galactic centre at right in Sagittarius and Scorpius also glow with a combined yellow light, in part due to absorption of shorter wavelengths of starlight by interstellar dust in the spiral arms of the Galaxy. It is that obscuring dust that creates the dark regions along the Milky Way, splitting the Milky Way starting in Cygnus at top and extending at right down into Serpens..
The stars also have their own colours, such as blue Vega at top and yellow Arcturus at upper right. Yellow Antares in Scorpius shines above the hoodoo at lower right.
But the most striking sky colours are the red and magenta from glowing hydrogen gas in star-forming nebulas along the MilkyWay and toward the galactic core rising at right. I emphasized those through the use of a filter that isolates that red wavelength of "hydrogen-alpha" emitted by the nebulas. The most obvious H-alpha feature is the large round nebula at right, Sharpless 2-27 surrounding the star Zeta Ophiuchi above Scorpius. The red nebulas in the Milky Way to the left of Sh2-27 are from Messier objects and other faint nebulas in Sagittarius and Serpens.
At the top of the arch is the constellation of Cygnus, filled with red emission nebulas in thespiral arm we live in, the largest and brightest being the North America Nebula near the star Deneb. To the left farther along the Milky Way in the northeast are numerous nebulas in Cepheus, Cassiopeia and Perseus, most in the next spiral arm farther out from us. Much farther away, is the Andromeda Galaxy just rising at left.
However, it takes long exposures and special techniques to bring out the colours in what to the eye would be a dim black-and-white scene.
I shot this from the Trail of the Fossil Hunters, a favourite spot of mine, on a perfect spring night — mild, no wind, no smoke, no dew, and no bugs! The trail winds off up the hill as if toward the galactic centre.
TECH DETAILS:
This is a blend of 3 different 200° panoramas, all with the red-sensitive Canon Ra camera on the MSM Nomad tracker, and with the Canon RF15-35mm lens at 15mm and wide open at f/2.8 and with the camera in portrait orientation:
- A initial pano, untracked, of 16 segments 15° apart, each 2-minutes at ISO 3200, taken at night with just starlight and ambient sky light providing the illiumination. I shot an earlier "blue hour" panorama as well, shot before I could polar align the tracker, but I did not use it, as aligning it proved too difficult!
- Immediately afterwards, I turned on the tracker motor to take another 16 segments also at 15° spacings, each 1-minute exposures at ISO 1600 with no filter.
- The final panorama was again tracked, of 8 segments only 30° apart (still with sufficient overlap for stitching to work, and speeding up the shooting), and each 2-minute exposures at ISO 6400 with a 12nm bandwidth Astronomik H-alpha filter installed in front of the sensor (a "clip-in" filter). The lens has to be refocused after installing such a filter, no easy task with the heavily filtered image so dim.
Each pano was stitched in PTGui, then blended and masked with Photoshop, requiring a lot of manual warping to align them and to get the horizons to match. I used generative AI fill to add in content to fill otherwise blank corners in the ground pano. The H-alpha sky pano contributes just the red nebulas, via BlendIf and masking. I also used the StarXTerminator plug-in to eliminate the stars from that pano. A Nik Collection Color EFX filter added an "Orton" style glow effect. Adobe DeNoise AI was applied to the ground and unfiltered raw sky segments before stitching. Topaz Photo AI applied to the ground for some further mild sharpening. Most satellite trails removed with removal tools.
Again, all frames were shot in quick sucession from the same tripod position.
Macro photography can be quite absorbing. Sort of like zen. Or flow, which is characterized by "complete absorption in what one does and the almost complete loss of sense of space and time". Flow is an innately positive experience; it is known to "produce intense feelings of enjoyment". Hence macrohappy 😀🌸
This 2004 montage shows three clusters of bright, young stars in X-ray (blue) and infrared (green) light that lie in the direction of the center of the Galaxy. Like many stars in the disk of the Galaxy, they are difficult, if not impossible, to see with an optical telescope because of interstellar dust that blocks the visible light.
Infrared and X-ray data provide evidence for a large amount of dust and gas along the line of sight to the cluster, DB01-42. Invisible to optical telescopes, it is located near the Galactic Center, about 26,000 light years from Earth. Most of the stars in the image produce infrared radiation from their surfaces which have temperatures of several thousand degrees Celsius. The X-radiation from the two bright X-ray sources near the center of the cluster requires gas with temperatures of millions of degrees.
Such extremely hot gas may be due to the collision of stellar winds from two closely orbiting stars. The two bright X-ray sources in the image are likely close binary stars with high-speed stellar winds. The diffuse X-ray glow could be caused by the combined heating of gas in the cluster by winds from many stars.
The light from the stars in the two clusters, DB00-58 and DB00-6 show much less X-ray and infrared absorption. This lower absorption, which still blocks much of the visible light, indicates that these star clusters are not in the Galactic Center, but are foreground objects. The way in which the X-rays are produced in these clusters is likely to be similar to DB01-42.
Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Northwestern U./C.Law & F.Yusef-Zadeh; Infrared: 2MASS/UMass/IPAC-Caltech/NASA/NSF
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This galaxy shows substantial dust backlit by stars and shows signs of intense star formation.
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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EP20 is equipped by the 3 power bogies produced by the NEVZ itself and presumably developed on the base of the FLEXX Power 140 RU locomotive bogie designed by Bombardie.
The bogie suspension system is consisted of coil primary suspension with a one-sided, wear-free wheelset guidance, and flexicoil secondary suspension (the support of the carbody on the bogie) realised by wear free secondary coil springs equipeed with anti-hunting and anti-rocking dampers; according to flexicoil principle the bogie on the coils can be freely deflected into vertical and horizontal directions. Tractive forces from bogie to locomotive are transferred via traction rods connected to a low lying connection at the bogie pivot centre. Mechanical braking is realized by the wheel mounted disc brakes. Electric braking is either up to 4.5MW rheostatic braking via roof mounted resistors, or up to 7.2MW regenerative braking.
The EP20 (ЭП20) is a type of 6 axle Bo'Bo'Bo' dual-system electric passenger locomotive being built from 2011 y for Russian Railways by the Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Plant (as a part of the Transmashholding), the main electric locomotive developer and producer in Soviet Union and Russia. EP20 was designed to replace of failed EP10 project by TRTrans, a joint venture between Transmashholding and Alstom by French, Belgian, and Russia based engineers to 2008 y. It is able to haul 24 coaches at 160 km/h or 17 coaches at 200 km/h and operate both on the DC and AC electrified tracks (3kV DC or 25 kV 50 Hz AC). Possibly for a first time for Russian locomotives, the cab design includes special progressive deformation steel cage for impact absorption. Due to extremal quantity of foreign components and thier high price a year production is not so big and now built 77 from 200 of ordered.
Some specifications:
Loco weight -135 t
Power output: continuous - 6600 kW /hourly - 7200 kW,
Tractive effort: 350 kN (0-74 km/h) 115 kN at 200 km/h
Motors: Bogie suspended six pole 1.2 MW (1,600 hp) asynchronous DTA-1200A with six IGBT traction converters
Transmission: Bogie mounted traction motors, via gear to hollow shaft drive, with flexible couplings
Loco brake:Rheostatic 4500 kW (DC)/ 3200 kW (AC), regenerative 6000 kW, electropneumatic wheel disc.
(information from Wiki)