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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.
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Grendel Rifle, Series 01
The GR-01 is chambered in .50 Grendel as its name suggests. The rail system adds a side charging handle. The original charging handle is replaced with a cover. The stock has a recoil absorption system that acts in conjunction with the weighty rail system to dampen the heavy recoil of the Grendel round. An upside down, Osprey type integral suppressor is included.
based off of this: www.flickr.com/photos/pmguns/8233340781/in/dateposted/
Credit:
~SHC for the color idea
~Matt 0.6 for giving me the inspiration to do non-standard 0.6 colors
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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...
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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)
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
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
Train # 035A St Petersburg - Adler (Санкт-Петербург — Адлер035А фирменный «Северная Пальмира/двухэтажный состав»)
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)
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 dust and gas. I love all of those colors.
Here is a frame taken at the same site in Hawaii January 2012:
www.flickr.com/photos/hiroc/7648303232
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
West Midlands Travel Leyland Fleetline / East Lancs 6721 was the first of this batch of 40 to arrive in March 1977, the final order placed by Coventry Transport prior to its absorption into West Midlands PTE in 1974. Seen here in its home city 13 years later, series withdrawals of the batch commenced the previous year, but several others lasted long enough to receive the later version of fleet livery.
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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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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 😀🌸
Explored #493! Thanks guys!
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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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.
Delta 400.
A black and white film simulation using DxO Film Pack software.
Delta 400 uses the "core-shell crystal" tabular technology known as T-grain which is different from a conventional-grain film in the way that the film’s silver content is distributed. T-grain films have flat crystals whereas conventional-grain films (Tri-X, HP5,) have round crystals. The flatness of the crystal allows better light absorption. Theoretically, a T-grain film should provide sharper images when compared to a conventional-grain film. The Delta 400 can be used between 200 and 3200 ISO. It's one of the more flexible films for a wide range of uses in analogue photography.
The Hague
March 2012
The Netherlands
Urban life in the Netherlands
Ricoh GRD IV
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"Buddhist account of consciousness provides a new way of looking into contemplation, where absorption into meditation does not only bring in changes in the neural level but in the very personality of the individual, turning him into a good human being....."
The Yonghe Temple, also known as the Yonghe Lamasery, or popularly as the Lama Temple, is a temple and monastery of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism located on 12 Yonghegong Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing, China. The building and artwork of the temple is a combination of Han Chinese and Tibetan styles, established in 1694.
The Seestar S50 started this image at 10:00PM to 3:50 AM. During this time 976 ten-seconds subframes were taken. Of those 865 passed muster. The images were pieced together as a mosaic. Image right annotates some points of interest.
LdN refers to Lynds Catalog of Dark Nebulae. What is a dark nebula? (Wikipedia: A dark nebula or absorption nebula is a type of interstellar cloud, particularly molecular clouds, 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 in the coldest, densest parts of molecular clouds.)
Dial and meters do point the way... This is a Triplett 3256 tunable absorption-type frequency meter from 1951.
The colourful but obscure area in the Cepheus Milky Way that contains the Lion Nebula (at bottom), a region emitting both red Hydrogen-alpha light and cyan Oxygen III light. It is a nebula that only recently became popular as an astrophoto target, perhaps because of its new nickname and from the use of narrowband filters to bring it out. It is not in the popular Messier, NGC or IC catalogues but is officially labeled as Sharpless 2-132. Meanwhile at top, the brightest nebula is the even more obscure Sharpless 2-135, alongside a very faint band of nebulosity that might not have a catalogue number — I couldn't find one!
The nebulosity at top is a deeper red than the Lion Nebula, as the top area of sky contains more dark dust absorbing and reddening the nebulosity and also decreasing the star density and yellowing the sky compared to the richer, brighter and bluer region at bottom to the south around the Lion.
There is a very small (like a fuzzy red star) planetary nebula just right of centre called the Little Ring Nebula, or M2-51, from the Minkowski catalogue. Another tiny planetary in the extreme lower left corner is Abell 79. The field of view here is 5° by 3.3°, with north up.
The star at upper left is the famous variable and double star Delta Cephei. The yellow star at right is Zeta Cephei.
This is a stack of 48 sub-frames taken over two nights, all with the SharpStar 94mm EDPH refractor at f/4.4 and the Canon Ra camera:
- A stack of 16 x 8-minute exposures with a "clear" filter, an Astronomik UV/IR cut filter at ISO 800
- A stack of 16 x 12-minute exposures through an IDAS NB1 dual-narrowband filter at ISO 1600
- A stack of 16 x 16-minute exposures through an IDAS NBX dual ultra-narrowband filter at ISO 1600. This set was shot on night #2 as there was not enough time to shoot it on the same night at the other sets.
The clear filter set contributes the sky background and natural star colours. The NB1 filter set contributes most of the red H-alpha component, while the "extreme" NBX filter contributes mostly the cyan OIII emission which the Lion Nebula has in abundance, somewhat unusually for an emission nebula.
All stacked, aligned, merged and masked in Photoshop 2021. Luminosity masks with Lumenzia helped bring out the faint nebulosity.
Taken from home. Autoguided with the MGEN3 autoguider applying a dithering move between each exposure average out thermal noise when aligning and stacking. No LENR or dark frames were employed on this frosty night! At one point late on night 2 the little guidescope frosted over as the guide star was lost. Hair dryer to the rescue!
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