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An older shot from a club photo-walk near Minions on Bodmin Moor... one of those nights where you could quite easily got lost if you didn't know where you were going!
I loved the way the wire fence skirted around the lone tree, providing nice lead-in lines, processed using the Nik Collection to convert to Black & White and also add some softness.
"Imagine what it would mean if you added positive levels of loyalty, communication, play, forgiveness, unconditional love, a positive attitude, and balance in your life!" ~Garry McDaniel, The Dog's Guide to Your Happiness
This image is a labor of love. Originally begun in 2022 and finally finished this year. It is comprised of images from 2 different telescopes, 2 different cameras, two types of binning, and 9 different exposure lengths. I had no idea how difficult it would be to marry all this data together. Finally, here it is.
Discovered in 1702 by the German astronomer Gottfried Kirch, M5 is one of the oldest globular clusters in the Milky Way galaxy. With an apparent magnitude of 6.7 and a location 25,000 light-years away in the constellation Serpens, M5 appears as a patch of light with a pair of binoculars and is best viewed during May.
A majority of M5’s stars formed more than 12 billion years ago, but there are some unexpected newcomers on the scene, adding some vitality to this aging population.
Stars in globular clusters are believed to form in the same stellar nursery and grow old together. The most massive stars age quickly, exhausting their fuel supply in less than a million years, and end their lives in spectacular supernova explosions. This process should have left the ancient cluster M5 with only old, low-mass stars.
Yet astronomers have spotted many young, blue stars amongst the ancient stars in this cluster. Astronomers think that these laggard youngsters, called blue stragglers, were created either by collisions between stars or other stellar interactions. Such events are easy to imagine in densely populated globular clusters, in which up to a few million stars are tightly packed together. Text from NASA/Goddard
Taken from Santa Rosa CA and Blue Canyon CA, May 2022 and June 2023.
Scopes: Tec 140 and Vixen VC200L (Courtesy of Larry Parker)
Cameras: QSI 683 and ASI 2600M
Mount: Paramount MYT
Processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop
L:R:G:B = 5.5h:1.5h:1.5h:1.5h:
M5 V2 is perhaps slightly better. V2 used a masked stretch, which made the stars smaller but resulted in a clouded overall look. In V3 I decided to go with a more conventional stretch for better clarity.
I love the colour and texture of the bracken in late autumn , add into the mix the amazing birch tree bark, cracked like an elephants hide along with the sprinkling of autumnal leaves with the mist makes for a varied canvas.
For the Macro Mondays theme: Made of Wood
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Adding to my album of photos with a Helios 40. I took these photos for a video review of the lens, which you can see here, if you are interested:
I overlooked adding this from yesterday's experience. Thought it would be good to show the female differences.
This is my first experience to photography steelwool and I had lot of fun. But the weather was so stormy it was hard to protect my lens, so you can see some water drop on this picture. With luck the drops is well placed and add some bokeh light just in the right place.
I will do more picture like this one, in the futur that’s sure!
sorry, my brain has switched off already after a very busy day at work.
You're more than welcome to suggest a title :)
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32. Dry
Taken at The 80's: A Topology of Sense exhibition in Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art.
Olympus XA2 + Ilford Delta 100 (Expired)
PH-ADD - deHavilland Canada DHC-8-314 Dash 8 -
InterSky
stored at Maastricht Airport (MST) since 11/2015
c/n 525 - built in 1998 (C-FDHY) -
delivered to Rheintalflug as OE-LSB -
to InterSky 2002 -
InterSky ceased operations 2015
(Photo: G. Dickmann)
The Loggia del Papa is a 15th-century Renaissance open-air arcade in the Piazza of the same name in Siena, Tuscany, on Via del Porrione. The Loggia was erected by Pope Pius II in honor of his family. Construction was commenced in 1462 and completed within a year. It was a busy period for Pius, as he had also just finished a massive reconstruction of his nearby home village and renamed it Pienza, after his good self. Next to the Loggia (on the right) is the baroque Catholic church of San Marino. It pre-dates the Loggia by several hundred years (!!), however the impressive facade was (only recently) added in 1613, with the bell tower being completed in 1738.
As you can see from my photograph, I was alone on the street. It was not long after sunrise in Autumn, so even in shadows I was getting really crisp reflected light.
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I have added Sii and more Oiii narrowband to an earlier image of this shot in HOO + L and RGB for stars. The longest capture time for me so far totalling 35.5 hours,.
The Bubble Nebula is 7 light-years across – about one-and-a-half times the distance from our sun to its nearest stellar neighbour, Alpha Centauri – and resides 7,100 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia. For perspective, I worked out that it would take a Voyager Spacecraft about 140,000 years to travel across the Bubble Nebula.
Ha, Oiii, LRGB 6 to 10 August 2022 -Moon 50% to 96% but nice and low and setting during the sessions. Sii and more Oiii 21,22,26,31 August 2022 - Moon 29% to 18%.
RGB Stars 60s x 30 for each filter
L 60s x 180 + 120s x 51
Sii 300s x 77
Ha 300s x 118
Oiii 300s x 153
35.5 hours total
Astromiks 36mm SHO 6nm Filters
30 x Darks, Flats (for each filter) and Dark Flats
ZWO ASI294MM Pro 120 gain, -10C
ZWO 7x36mm EFW
ZWO EAF
Stellalyra 8” Ritchey-Chrétien Carbon
EQ6-Pro
ASIAIR Plus
Astro Pixel Processor
Pixinsight
Photoshop 2022