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Fun with the California nebula in HaRGBL&OIII
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Ha was added to the Red channel then combined to produce an RGB image. Then Ha + OIII was used a luminance layer and OIII colour blue was layered though a masking process in Ps to create separation.
Imaging telescopes or lenses: Vixen VSD
Imaging cameras: Starlight Express SXVR-H18
Mounts: MX
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Vixen VSD
Guiding cameras: sx loadstar
Software: PixInsight 1.8, Sequence Generator Pro, Photoshop CS5, PHD, Main Sequence Software
Filters: Baader H-alpha 3.5 Nm, Baader O III 8.5nm
Accessories: Starlight Xpress USB filter wheel
Frames:
Baader Ha 3.5nm: 10x1800"
Baader O III 8.5nm: 20x1800"
Integration: 15 hours
Plus RGBL 400x 10 in each
Locations: Home observatory, Valencia, Spain
Colourful 'Peruvian lily'.. 'Alstroemeria'.. & 'Corcrosmia Lucifer'.. 'Montbretia'..
Have a wonderful day.. thanks for looking..
For Macro Monday, Aug 14
Theme: high key
I'm deeply saddened by the events over the weekend and felt the need to speak of love in a visual art form, so I combined the MM theme with the message.
Love,
Dee
A little fairy tale from the Wild Garden ..
Once upon a time a little girl who lived in the Wild Garden loved the Canterbury Bells so much so that she decided to live with them. There she became an Elf and was never seen again. But it is known that she lived happily together with all the flowers and animals of the Wild Garden .....
Can you spot her face ???
[Dedicated to CRA (ILYWAMHASAM)]
Set up of two photos, combined in one collage, added a swirl, a sperical shape, gave both the photos a persepctive shape; and framed it - ready to upload for the group
ƒ/3.2
107.8 mm
1/125 Sec
ISO 100
This is a combination of two captures taken one after the other. The bottom half was captured at 30 seconds smoothing out the whipped up water from the intense wind at sunset with the passing front, and I liked the 30 seconds exposure, but also want to roughly freeze the motion of the clouds, as they were extremely pretty there in the sky to, but moving very fast. Having the 9 Stop ND on for the long exposure, I did not want to waste time taking the ND filter off, so just quickly changed the aperture to f/4 and then captured the scene at 4 seconds. Thus the top half of the exposure (the sky) is at 4 seconds.
"Arbutus unedo is an evergreen shrub or small tree in the family Ericaceae, native to the Mediterranean Basin and Western Europe. The tree is well known for its fruits, the arbutus berry, which bear some resemblance to the strawberry, hence the common name strawberry tree. However, it is not closely related to true strawberries of the genus Fragaria"
A recipe:
Strawberry Tree Crumble Cake
For the Cake:
1/3 cup butter, room temperature
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 large egg
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup sour cream room temperature
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
1 teaspoon lemon zest
1 & 1/2 cups strawberry plant berries, sliced
For the Crumble Topping:
3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 cup butter melted then cooled
Preheat oven to 350 degrees and liberally grease an approx. 8 x 8 sized pan.
Beat together butter and sugar on high speed for 4-5 minutes until light and fluffy.
Add in egg and mix until combined. Slowly add in flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda until just combined then add sour cream, vanilla extract and mix until combined – but don’t over-mix!
Evenly spread the cake batter in pan then top with sliced strawberry plant berries.
For the Crumble Topping:
Whisk together flour, both sugars, salt, and cinnamon until mixed. Drizzle butter over flour mixture and using a fork, stir together until crumbs form.
Sprinkle crumbs over strawberries. Bake cake for 35-40 minutes OR until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Allow the cake to cool for at least 20 minutes.
This German manufactured Claas "Europa" Combine dates from 1961 ....It was seen at the Steam & Vintage Fair at Driffield in East Yorkshire .
I have two main passions in my life, my photography and my love of the game of golf. It is very very seldom that I combine the two but here perhaps I had an opportunity. This was taken on my iPhone on a foggy morning on the golf course where I am a member. For once I really would have rather been out with my camera in a woodland somewhere than on the course with my clubs but I tried to make the best of it with this phone shot.
The modern combined harvester, or simply combine, is a versatile machine designed to efficiently harvest a variety of grain crops. The name derives from its combining four separate harvesting operations—reaping, threshing, gathering, and winnowing—into a single process. Among the crops harvested with a combine are wheat, rice, oats, rye, barley, corn (maize), sorghum, soybeans, flax (linseed), sunflowers and rapeseed. The separated straw, left lying on the field, comprises the stems and any remaining leaves of the crop with limited nutrients left in it: the straw is then either chopped, spread on the field and ploughed back in or baled for bedding and limited-feed for livestock.
Experimenting with combining RGB, hydrogen alpha and UHC filter data on the Carina nebula, this has approx 10 hours of data in it, RGB data from Hawker, Ha mostly from Adelaide, UHC from Hawker. I used Astro Pixel Processor to extract OIII from the UHC data which was used to add to the blue of the RGB, the Ha was used as luminance. Final tweaking in Photoshop. Mostly 10 minute exposures, D810A, APT camera control software, 600mm VR lens at f/4, Celestron CGEM II EQ mount, PHD2 guiding, Astronomik 12nm HA and UHC filters. I like the blue in this but the centre of the nebula has been blown out...
CSX K025 reverses against their train after grabbing empty ethanol train K623 in Teaneck, NJ with CSX SD40-2 8365 leading. Never thought seeing SD40s leading widecabs up the River Line in 2021 would still be a thing.
Yeah....20,000 iso. Grab shot...stopped on the road...grabbed the camera that had the 100-400 on it...and fired off three frames. I had it set on manual with auto iso for bird photography from a couple of days ago. Traffic was coming up behind me, so I had to hurry. I think it came out alright. Near Utica, Il.
Monogram is one of Robert Rauschenburg's finest examples of his "Combines",a hybrid of painting,sculpture,and assemblage.
Robert Rauschenburg (1925-2008)
Monogram (1955-1959)
-oil paper,fabric,printed reproductions, metal,wood,rubber,shoe-heel,tennis ball, on two conjoined canvases with oil on taxidermied Angora goat,with brass plaque and rubber tire on wood platform mounted on wood casters
This link explains the different meanings interpreted for the work.Sexual metaphor or a religious offering?An abstract or a joke?
www.phaidon.com/agenda/art/articles/2016/december/06/the-...
Mt Sangthang སང་ ཐང་ 6430 m.
Almost 85 km distance away.
Mount Sangthang is located on the border with India and Tibet.
Before knowing the weather condition of the Himalayan region we should understand its geography. The Himalayan region covers an area of 2,250 km with an average width of 200 km.
The forest belt of the Himalayan region consists of Oak, Rhododendron, Birch, Pine, Deodar, and Fir. And the monsoon season in this region lasts for mid June till the end of September. The Himalayas influences the meteorological conditions in the Indian subcontinent to the south and in the Central Asian highlands to the north to a great extent. It acts a climatic divider circulating the air and water system to a great extent. Because of its altitude and location it blocks the passage of the cold winds coming from the north to the Indian sub continent thereby making India's climate much more moderate. It also influences the rainfall pattern in India. The combined effect of rainfall, latitude and altitude largely influences the forests belts in the Himalayan region. The rainfall is mostly recorded during the monsoon time of June to September but it decreases as you travel from east to west. The snow-capped ranges of the Himalayas stretch 2, 250 km from the Namcha Barwa to Nanga Parbat on the Indus. The range extends from east to west up to central-Nepal and then takes a southeast to northwest direction.
www.himalaya2000.com/himalayan-facts/climate-of-himalayas...
IC 4604 and friends. The Ro Ophiuchi Nebula
This is officially my first RGB picture without using narrowband filters. Taken from a bortle 2 zone during the new moon in the little town of Tolmie in country Victoria, Australia. This is about 15h of data across 2 panels. My FOV does not allow me to capture the whole of the Rho Ophiuchi complex, so this is the best I could do with the time I had.
Funny enough I did not combine the luminance channel with this data as I found that it washed out of a lot of the details in the blue channel, detail that just was not really visible in the luminance channel, no matter how hard I have tried to pull it out, so this is a straight RGB picture
Astrobin: www.astrobin.com/ln5irs/B/
Imaging Telescopes:
William Optics Zenithstar 73
Imaging Camera:
ZWO ASI 1600MM-Pro
Mount:
Skywatcher EQ-6r Pro
Software:
Nina, PHD2, Photoshop, Pixinsight, RC astro NoiseXterminator.
Frames:
Antlia Pro Blue: 60x300" (5h) (gain: 139.00) f/5.9 -10°C bin 1x1
Antlia Pro Green: 60x300" (5h) (gain: 139.00) f/5.9 -10°C bin 1x1
Antlia Pro Red: 60x300" (5h) (gain: 139.00) f/5.9 -10°C bin 1x1
Integration:
15h
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale:
2.00
Dieses Gebäude mit den Backsteineinfassungen passt auf den ersten Blick nicht in die moderne Architektur des Neuen Medienhafens in Düsseldorf. Im oberen Teil des Fotos ist allerdings eine moderne Glasfassade zu sehen. Auch hier wurde alte Bausubstanz mit moderner Architektur geschickt kombiniert. Das schöne Gebäude wird aktuell von einer Modefirma für die Präsentation der aktuellen Kollektionen genutzt. Diese Fassade konnte ich nur mit Hilfe meiner Weitwinkel Brennweite so ablichten. Verzerrungen musste ich bei der anschließenden Entwicklung mit LrC ausgleichen.
Mehr Fotos und Berichte von meinen Fotowalks, Touren und Reisen:
At first glance, this building with the brick surrounds does not fit into the modern architecture of the New Media Harbor in Düsseldorf. In the upper part of the photo, however, a modern glass facade can be seen. Here, too, old building fabric was cleverly combined with modern architecture. The beautiful building is currently used by a fashion company for the presentation of the current collections. I was only able to photograph this facade with the help of my wide-angle focal length. I had to compensate for distortions with LrC during the subsequent development.
More photos and reports from my photo walks, tours and trips:
7 Years ago we find CMQ 3812 North hauling the Pan Am OCS from Northern Maine Jct to BVJ, then west across the Moosehead and Sherbrooke Subs to Farnham, Quebec.
At Farnham a VTR GP40-2 was added and the train ran down to East Deerfield where the VTR power was cut off and the train continued back to Maine.
The intent of the trip was to open up a new gateway, with Pan Am's successful bid to get trackage rights to White River Jct. Along with VTR's Washington County RR and the CMQ, the plan was to reopen the embargoed Saint-Guillaume Sub which hadn't seen a train since the MMA days, to connect with CN at Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec.
The plan was for freight to be interchanged with CN then, run to Farnham, down to Newport, then to White River Jct over WACR, to Pan Am at WRJ, then to East Deerfield and points south. Ideally, competing with SLR, NECR, CP and to some extent CSX's routing. However things never panned out.
The following year Fortress sold CMQ to CP which had little interest in the plan. Pan Am was sold in 2020 to CSX and taken over in 2022. Effectively putting an end to the proposed route.
Central Maine and Quebec Railway
Train: 3812 North
1/28/2018
Glenburn, ME
CMQ Bangor Subdivision
Combine near McBaine in Boone County, Missouri. Photography by Notley Hawkins. Taken with a Canon EOS R5 camera with a Canon RF15-35mm F2.8 L IS USM lens at ƒ/2.8 with a 192-second exposure at ISO 50. Processed with Adobe Lightroom Classic.
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Combined elements create potholes in the sandstone, then collects water from passing storms. Captured before sunrise near Toroweap Overlook, Grand Canyon National Park (North Rim).
The sounds of a Summer night are interrupted briefly by a RS5T horn as CSX "Spirit of Law Enforcement" ES44AC-H 3194 heads through Matthews, NC with a combined F700/Q037. As always seems to be the case when something cool runs, various issues kept the train from departing Pinoca yard in Charlotte till well after midnight