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To the lamp of love: may it burn brightest in the darkest hours and never flicker in the winds of trial. ~Author Unknown
Faster than thought ... series
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Corner, of my eye
Corner, of my eye
There's no ignoring you
The lovable, kind, the magnated truth
Always across the room
Faster than thought
Distance is nothing for you
Well I've noticed that your star shines brightest
When seen out of the corner of my eye
And when I look at you,
You vanish
Maybe I'm just blinded by your light,
Maybe I'm just blinded by your light.
Somewhere, forever in sight,
If I cannot see
Then I'm blind as the night
North star, steady and true,
If I'm seeing blurred,
It's me that is spinning 'round you.
But I've noticed that your star shines brightest
When seen out of the corner of my eye
And when I look at you,
You vanish
Maybe I'm just blinded by your light,
Maybe I'm just blinded by your light.
Corner, of my eye
(Corner Of My Eye, Roo Panes, 2015)
These are the 17 brightest meteors out of 45 or so that I captured that night before the peak night. It was a total PITA to create this composite, so we'll see if I get around to doing the one from the peak night! Sorry that the ruins are so badly distorted. I used a 14 mm lens to capture a lot of the sky. I arrived after dark, didn't bring a bright-enough headlamp, and they don't let you clamber around on the walls (no complaints). So in the pitch black, I set up and hoped for the best.
Base sky background made from 41 light frames (captured with a Canon camera) with 5 dark frames by Starry Landscape Stacker 1.6.2. Algorithm: Median
Set along a serene lakeshore, Lantern Lake is designed for intimate, relaxed celebrations under the night sky. The gentle reflection of lantern light on the water creates a tranquil, cinematic setting for your vows, toasts, and dances. It’s simple, soulful, and effortlessly romantic.
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Taken from Coral Towers Observatory using a Skynyx 2-2 high speed camera and 16-cm Astrophysics Apochromatic Refractor at F/16 on a software bisque PME mount.
“The brightest light moving away from us, unless it be reflected, is darkness to us.”
Early reflections at Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia.
Have a blessed week ahead.
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American Red Squirrel.
Between 10 5/8 and 15 1/4 inches long. The smallest tree squirrel in its range. Rust-red to grayish red above, brightest on sides; white or grayish-white below. In winter black lines separate reddish back from whitish belly. Tail is similar to back color, but is outlined with broad black band edged with white. In summer its coat is duller. In winter has prominent ear tufts.
They are often abundant in any kind of forest: natural coniferous forests, pine plantations, mixed or hardwood forests; often around buildings.
They range throughout much of Alaska and Canada; in the continental United States south through the Rocky Mountain states and east from Iowa to north Virginia. They are also in the Alleghenies.
Kensington Metropark, Livingston County, Michigan
Largest, brightest and best known Australian lorikeet. Extremely common on the east coast of the continent and happy to co-exist with humans. Noisy and belligerent, they seem to know the whereabouts of of nectar, pollen and fruit in bushland and also suburban gardens.
The Christmas Comet.
This is only a single 10 second shot. I'd like to have 20 or so and stack them. I hope to do better if the weather clears up ... but it doesn't seem likely. The early morning hours of December 6th and 7th would be the prime time. At that time, you'll find it between the last star in the handle of the Big Dipper and the bright star Arcturus to its right.
If you are interested, here's some information:
earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/comet-leonard-might-bec...
Alnitak, the 5th brightest star in the Constellation Orion, is the star to the left (from our view) of the triad of stars in the belt. It has two large nebulae, the Flame Nebula and the Horsehead Nebula. The Horsehead Nebula is a cloud of dark, cold gas seen against the large Orion molecular cloud complex. The Flame Nebula is an emission nebula--it absorbs energy from nearby stars, which releases an electron from gaseous hydrogen atoms. When an electron is replaced, light is emitted, causing the cloud of hydrogen atoms to glow.
Forty photos were taken (ISO 10,000, 560 mm, f/8.0, 60 sec) with the aid of an Ioptron SkyGuider to track the stars. Starry Sky Stacker was use to rotate the stars to reduce streaking and minimize long exposure and high ISO artefacts. Photoshop and Topaz Denoise AI were used in processing.
Shot from the McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area in western Colorado.
You found the light in me that I couldn't find
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji2QhY4kAdI
I have seen your darkest nights and brightest days
And I want you to know that I will be here forever loving you in dusk.
Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild
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This sun was just a bit bright for my lens... Here in Iceland we have had a decent summer..even breaking heat records over the country...25-30° C...!!!
Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
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i arrived home tenthirtyish and looked up at the moon -- i saw a reddish-orange star next to it and wondered if mars was so close to the moon, as i'd been aware that the red planet is exceptionally close to the earth these days.
neil degrasse tyson's tweet clinched it -- the moon and mars were, indeed, close, and both exactly opposite the sun, so very, very full. i got out my little white, set the tripod on the balcony, connected the camera to the computer, launched EOS utility and shot a few.
i tried a long exposure and got quite a cool effect and a lovely halo on the moving clouds. fast shutter speeds intensified the clouds' haunting shapes and framed the moon nicely.
i had to take two separate exposures for this shot as the full moon is an unusually bright object -- so the slow image got the clouds and mars, the fast one, the face of our satellite.
later, the sky cleared up and i got a minimalist image of the pair.
i stayed up till moonset and slept all morning today.
btw, have you seen the xkcd webcomic about rover? so sad... rover did a very good job. i hope we recover it someday.
The brightest ray of sunshine
Lights up the dullest day
A heart of pure emotion
Illuminates the way
Delicate as porcelain
Just as easy to break...
Explore #25, 22.01.2016
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Most days here lately have been so very dark and dismal. The only bright thing to photograph has been our garden robin who is a glowing cheerful presence amidst all the depressing gloom.
Crescent Moon and brightest Venus frame the sculpture 'In My Hands' by Rodney Carroll. Commissioned in honor of the city's 125th Anniversary (2008) and its theme "People. Pride. Promise." at Berglund Center where lights are blue to honor our front line and health workers www.terryaldhizer.com
“I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.”
Dali Lama
Somewhere lost but happy in the winter in Switzerland
"Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?"
~Chris Rock
The brightest part of the Heart nebula (a knot at its western edge) is separately classified as NGC 896, because it was the first part of the nebula to be discovered. The nebula's intense red output and its morphology are driven by the radiation emanating from a small group of stars near the nebula's center. This open cluster of stars, known as Collinder 26 or Melotte 15, contains a few bright stars nearly 50 times the mass of our Sun, and many more dim stars that are only a fraction of our Sun's mass.
Equipment:
Scope: Lacerta 72/432 F6 0.85x reduktorral (367mm F5.1)
Mount: Skywatcher EQ-5 Pro Synscan Goto
Guide scope: Orion 50mm mini
Guide camera: ZWO ASI120mm Mini
Main camera: ZWO ASI183MM-Pro cooled monochrome camera
Accessories:
ZWO ASIAIR Pro
Lacerta Dew-heater 20cm
Lacerta Dew-heater 30cm
Programs:
PixInsight
Adobe Photoshop CC 2020
Details:
Camera temp: -15°C
Gain: 200
Astronomik 6nm Ha: 96x300s
Astronomik 6nm O3: 36x300s
Autumn
Thou comest, Autumn, heralded by the rain,
With banners, by great gales incessant fanned,
Brighter than brightest silks of Samarcand,
And stately oxen harnessed to thy wain!
Thou standest, like imperial Charlemagne,
Upon thy bridge of gold; thy royal hand
Outstretched with benedictions o'er the land,
Blessing the farms through all thy vast domain!
Thy shield is the red harvest moon, suspended
So long beneath the heaven's o'er-hanging eaves;
Thy steps are by the farmer's prayers attended;
Like flames upon an altar shine the sheaves;
And, following thee, in thy ovation splendid,
Thine almoner, the wind, scatters the golden leaves!
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
George Raymond Richard Martin, also known as GRRM, is an American novelist and short-story writer, screenwriter, and television producer. He is the author of the series of epic fantasy novels A Song of Ice and Fire, which was adapted into the Emmy Award-winning HBO series Game of Thrones.
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Following on from a recent image looking towards the towering spectacle of the Shard, I thought it might be fun to come back to the view from the top of the Shard, this time looking east beyond Tower Bridge and towards the Docklands. Having used my annual pass to photograph sunsets and evenings in every other direction from the Shard's viewing gallery, this was the final view I wanted to capture, and in some ways the one that resonated the most with me, as the route from Tower Bridge, both north of the Thames towards Canary Wharf and south of the river towards Rotherhithe, is the one that sparked my interest in photographing cityscapes.
As with another recent capture from the top of the Shard, this was taken with my camera perched precariously on top of my satchel, adhering to the building's no-tripod policy while allowing me to extend the shooting time and shutter speed. My aim with this image was to capture a hint of the dusk light striking the buildings as the sun went down, as well as the vibrant lights across the city during blue hour and into the early evening. Nine bracketed exposures were captured in short succession a few minutes after the sun had gone down, with an additional nine about half an hour later. Tower Bridge is conspicuously derelict while it's closed for maintenance works, but one of London's City Cruisers sped beneath the bridge while I was capturing my second batch of exposures, and it seemed to add a nice sense of momentum to the final image, guiding the eye along the sinuous path of the Thames and towards the Docklands in the distance.
The two batches of exposures were separately blended in Photoshop using luminosity masks, then selectively merged using a combination of Lighten, Soft Light and Overlay blend modes. This allowed me to preserve the brightest and cleanest possible finish in the shadows between the buildings, as well as providing a high level of control over the intensity of the city lights. This was beneficial for toning down the highlights in two particular areas of the image: the busy A1203 road north of St Katharine Docks, where the longer exposures were producing light trails, and the lights at the tip of the Canary Wharf skyscrapers.
Colour-grading was fairly straightforward: using Apply Image to target and mask separate portions of the image, I used Colour Balance, Curves and Hue/Saturation adjustment layers, as well as two low-opacity Colour Lookups set to Soft Light -- Night from Day, and Futuristic Bleak -- to enhance the chilly futuristic ambience. After this, I used Silver Efex Pro to selectively lower the midtone and shadow structure within the Thames -- smoothing out its texture -- and a sparing amount of the Pro Contrast filter in Colour Efex Pro to add some definition to the image.
The final adjustments were to bring out the intricate detail within the cityscape. The D800 does a remarkable job of capturing every nuance, even through the Shard's glass windows, but I added a minimal amount of Colour Efex Pro's Detail Extractor to the buildings, as well as adjusting the tone and radius of the Shadow detail using a Highlights/Shadows adjustment in Photoshop. The final result hopefully brings to life the spectacular view from the top of the Shard, but it was also a fun image to shoot and edit considering how many of the buildings in this view I've photographed from a ground-level view.
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The Webb Telescope Images are nearing reveal.
"Was there a time that we know peace; when all the children had a place to sleep when rhetoric was not enough? Was there a time we weren't at war when we knew what our hearts and hands were for?"
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HAIR by Sintiklia - Jane
HEAD by Genesis Lab
SKIN by Genesis Lab
EYES by Avi-Glam
BODY by Maitreya
DRESS by Vinyl - Frankie
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Not the brightest bird, but one of the prettiest. (Who am I to disparage this beauty? After all, there are 400 million in North America and the ratio can't be any better.) Right now, it's mating season and they're the most vocal in the two second courtship and mating "ritual." Just wish they'd be a little quieter, but not at the expense of never visiting my back patio again. But, hey, at 4 AM...
The brightest night of the year in Iceland, 2012. Photo was taken at 23:39 (11.39 pm)
Photo tonemapped in Photomatix Pro 4.2.
This was the brightest event I've ever seen, the pillars looked liked search lights on the horizon.
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The largest and brightest region of star formation in the Local Group of galaxies, including the Milky Way, is called 30 Doradus (or, informally, the Tarantula Nebula). Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small neighbor galaxy to the Milky Way, 30 Doradus has long been studied by astronomers who want to better understand how stars like the Sun are born and evolve.
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has frequently looked at 30 Doradus over the lifetime of the mission, often under the direction of Dr. Leisa Townsley who passed away in the summer of 2022. These data will continue to be collected and analyzed, providing opportunities for scientists both now and in the future to learn more about star formation and its related processes.
This new composite image combines the X-ray data from Chandra observations of 30 Doradus with an infrared image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope that was released in the fall of 2022. The X-rays (royal blue and purple) reveal gas that has been heated to millions of degrees by shock waves — similar to sonic booms from airplanes — generated by the winds from massive stars. The Chandra data also identify the remains of supernova explosions, which will ultimately send important elements such as oxygen and carbon into space where they will become part of the next generation of stars.
The infrared data from JWST (red, orange, green, and light blue) show spectacular canvases of cooler gas that provide the raw ingredients for future stars. JWST’s view also reveals “protostars,” that is, stars in their infancy, just igniting their stellar engines. The chemical composition of 30 Doradus is different from most of the nebulas found in the Milky Way. Instead it represents the conditions in our galaxy that existed several billion years ago when stars were forming at a much faster pace than astronomers see today. This, combined with its relative proximity and brightness, means that 30 Doradus provides scientists with an opportunity to learn more about how stars formed in our galaxy in the distant past.
Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Penn State Univ./L. Townsley et al.; IR: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/JWST ERO Production Team
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The brightest and most impressive display of Noctilucent cloud so far this summer from Aberdeenshire, covering more than half the sky for a time and visible from around 2230 until 0200 UTC. This has been an exceptional summer for Noctilucent clouds in the northern Hemisphere, with the clouds visible as far south as Italy, Spain, and what used to be thought of as relatively rare, is now pretty much common place. Nevertheless, they are still a beautiful sight during the twilight hours, and this strong display was well worth staying up for. This panorama was taken at Dunnideer Castle near Insch, it’s a bit of a steep climb to get up there, but worth the effort with expansive views over Aberdeenshire, not to mention the castle, which was surrounded by Cow Parsley.
If you are reading this, you have viewed my picture "OUR BRIGHTEST STAR". Shine as bright as you can, all day, and every day.. thank you for viewing------and shining !!!
The brightest meteor of the year for me, think its a random. For all the action from this eventful night, please view my time lapse on Youtube.
“Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime.” – Charles Dickens.
The theme for the 18th of December “Looking Close… on Friday” is “one single candle”. Lighting candles at Christmastime is special for me, not only because it casts a beautiful warm glow, but also because we have a European tradition in our family that when we light a candle on Christmas Eve, we remember those who are no longer here. Then, because they are alive in my heart, they are with me to celebrate my most favourite time of the year.
As this is the last “Looking Close… on Friday” before Christmas, I should just like to wish everyone in the group a very happy Festive Season. It may be a different one this year, and there may be more people to remember in our hearts, but may it be filled with happiness and joy for you all.
For Christians, a candle is lit at Christmastime to represent the Star of Bethlehem, guiding the Magi to the stable where Jesus was born. For those of Jewish faith, a menorah in the window is a Jewish custom symbolising the miracle of Chanukah (when a single jug of oil burnt for eight days).
Centaurus A is the fifth brightest galaxy in our skies. It is located in the constellation of Centaurus, the Southern Hemisphere. The bright central bulge and unique dust lane are excellent targets for amateur visual astronomy observations as they can be seen in finder scopes and with large binoculars. If you are lucky enough to get to a very dark location with the right conditions, it is visible to the naked eye. However, to truly study all of the beautiful details within, astrophotography is the weapon of choice.
I was fortunate enough to have Connor Matherne contribute an additional 15 hours of Ha data to the 77 X 1200 sec subs of Ha I had committed to this project. It certainly helped with the very noisy Ha component of the data set.
I imaged this target five years ago with the same scope. The only difference was that I would rip everything out of my home observatory in the city and head bush. That was a three-hour task to rip apart, and three hours to assemble, then polar align, calibrate AO and guiding etc, image, and then rip apart and reassemble at home and recalibrate.
I find the differences between the photos interesting. There are many more stars with this version, and that funky collection of jets are an excellent addition. Mind you, five years ago I only managed to grab 5 hours of data. If your interested, this was my result, mobile setup.
live.staticflickr.com/8758/18318174186_922fbfc8b5_k.jpg
And setting up my rig:
www.flickr.com/photos/97807083@N00/22402735436/in/photost...
I wanted to retain that bight dirty brown halo extending around the galaxy, and not push it too far and have it become distracting from it’s more natural look. I can just see the lobs of that galaxy halo against the background at both the 1 o’clock and 7 o’clock positions. The jets were difficult as they are very dim and noisy. They seem to have a three-dimensional luminescent quality as they blast outwards into the cosmos.
Oh I forgot, fun facts,
•About 12 million light-years away.
•Peculiar massive elliptical galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its heart.
•The supermassive black hole is estimated to be of 55 million solar masses.
•It has an active nucleus which means that matter falls into the supermassive black hole, it then shoots electrons from its poles at the half the speed of light, creating massive jets that spread thousands light years into space.
•Has the distinction of being the most prominent radio galaxy in the sky.
•Has active star forming areas along the bluish ridge like areas.
Exposure Details:
Lum 58 X 900 Binned 1X1
Red 20 X 450 Binned 2X2
Green 24 X 450 Binned 2X2
Blue 22 X 450 Binned 2X2
Ha 77 X 1200 RCOS / 33 X 1800 extra hours from Tak TOA (Connor Matherne) 42.1 Hours Ha
Total time: 62.7 Hours
Instruments
Telescope: 10" Ritchey-Chrétien RCOS
Camera: SBIG STL-11000 Mono
Mount: Astro-Physics AP-900
Focal Length....... 2310.00 mm
Pixel size ........ 9.00 um
Resolution ........ 0.82 arcsec/pix
Thanks for looking
Terry