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LE PREMIER MATIN
C’était un matin comme aucun autre. C’était le premier. L’horizon se déployait devant nous et l’aube, en nous. L’histoire n’avait pas encore trouvé sa conclusion. Et le mouvement m’habitait, comme il habite tous les vivants de notre monde et toutes les manifestations de l’Univers…
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Tout est mouvement, évolution, transformation, destruction et création. Un mouvement lent et linéaire ou, parfois, rapide et imprévisible, de l’ordre de la rupture et de la création. Tout est transitoire, éphémère. À l’échelle humaine du temps, nous ne pouvons qu’en percevoir les conséquences momentanées, les formes que prennent les phénomènes en transition durant ce très court laps de temps que dure la vie humaine. Dans ce monde chatoyant, les certitudes ne valent qu’un temps.
Si l’énigme de la vie nous est cachée, nous savons que c’est en elle - sous toutes ses formes - que réside le merveilleux, ici dans ce monde vivant, la Terre. D’où notre responsabilité en tant qu’humain, de le co-habiter avec respect et égards envers toutes les autres formes de vie qui ont fait ce que nous sommes. * Après quoi et seulement après, nous pourrons rejoindre les étoiles à la recherche d’autres formes de vies.
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… Le vent connaît les secrets du temps qui passe. Il m’interpella par mon nom comme il le fit pour toutes les formes de vies marquées d’une même origine et inextricablement liées à ce monde vivant : le temps était venu d’entreprendre cette Odyssée vitale, ici et maintenant.
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© Extraits de Poësia, Une Odyssée vitale, (à paraître), Patrice photographiste 2023
* Baptiste Morizot, Manières d’être vivants, Acte Sud, 2020
N.B Mes images ne sont pas conçues ou générées par des Intelligences artificielles. Il s'agit d'un travail artisanal dont je suis l’auteur.
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THE FIRST MORNING
It was not a morning like any other. It was the first. The horizon unfolded before us and the dawn within us. The story had yet to find its conclusion. And the movement inhabited me, as it inhabits all the living beings of our world and all the manifestations of the Universe…
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Everything is movement, evolution, transformation, destruction, and creation. A slow and linear movement or, sometimes, fast and unpredictable, of the order of rupture and creation. Everything is transient, ephemeral. On the human scale of time, we can only perceive the momentary consequences, the forms taken by the phenomena in transition during this very short period of time that human life lasts. In this shimmering world, certainties are only worth a moment.
If the enigma of life is hidden from us, we know that it is in it - in all its forms - that the marvelous resides, here in this living world, the Earth. Hence, our responsibility as humans is to co-inhabit our World with respect and consideration for all the other forms of life that have made us who we are. * After which, and only then, we will be prepared to reach the stars in search of other forms of life.
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… The wind knows the secrets of passing time. He called out to me by my name, as he did for all forms of life marked by the same origin and inextricably linked to this living world: the time had come to undertake this vital Odyssey, here and now.
© Extracts from Poësia, A Vital Odyssey, (to be published), Patrice Photographiste 2023
* Baptiste Morizot, Ways of Being Alive, Polity, 2022
N.B. My images are not designed or generated by artificial intelligences. This is an artisanal work of which I am the author.
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The Atacama desert at 4,000 meters (13,123.36 ft) above sea level.
Licancabur is a stratovolcano on the border between Bolivia and Chile, south of the Sairecabur volcano and west of Juriques. Part of the Andean Central Volcanic Zone, it has a prominent, 5,916-metre (19,409 ft)-high cone.
A 400-metre (1,300 ft) summit crater containing Licancabur Lake, a crater lake which is among the highest lakes in the world, caps the volcano. Three stages of lava flow emanate from the volcano, which formed on Pleistocene ignimbrites.
A lone tree in the northern suburb of Soc Trang near the Buu Son Tu temple. It is probably a monkeypod tree.
I noticed after coming back to Japan that there is a large water body behind the tree. It may be a Baray, a Khmer architectural tradition for irrigation and/or for recreating the Sea of Creation surrounding Mt. Meru according to the Hindu cosmology, judging from its square shape.
West of South America, the Nazca Plate subducts beneath the South America Plate at rates of 9–7 centimetres per year (3.5–2.8 in/year). This subduction process along with that of the Antarctic Plate beneath the South American Plate farther south is responsible for volcanism in the Andean Volcanic Belt.
Volcanic activity in the region of the Central Volcanic Zone has been ongoing for 200 million years, but with temporal and local variations; 25 million years ago for example it was centered farther east and later moved west. About 23 million years ago, large scale ignimbritic activity commenced in the region with the emplacement of the Oxaya Formation, followed by the Altos de Pica Formation 17-15 million years ago. However, effusive activity of andesitic composition dominated volcanism until the late Miocene.
West of South America, the Nazca Plate subducts beneath the South America Plate at rates of 9–7 centimetres per year (3.5–2.8 in/year). This subduction process along with that of the Antarctic Plate beneath the South American Plate farther south is responsible for volcanism in the Andean Volcanic Belt.
Volcanic activity in the region of the Central Volcanic Zone has been ongoing for 200 million years, but with temporal and local variations; 25 million years ago for example it was centered farther east and later moved west. About 23 million years ago, large scale ignimbritic activity commenced in the region with the emplacement of the Oxaya Formation, followed by the Altos de Pica Formation 17-15 million years ago. However, effusive activity of andesitic composition dominated volcanism until the late Miocene.
Cerro Toco is a stratovolcano located in the eastern part of the Atacama desert in Chile's II Region (Antofagasta), approximately 6 km (4 mi) south of the border between Bolivia and Chile and 12 km (7 mi) SE of the Juriques and Licancabur volcanoes. It conforms the north eastern extreme of the Purico Complex, a pyroclastic shield made up by several stratovolcanoes, lava domes and a maar.
Cerro Toco is located in the Chajnantor Scientific Reserve, as is most of the Purico Complex. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope and the Huan Tran Telescope are located on the western side of the mountain at approximately 5,200 m (17,100 ft).
Although it is 320 meters less high and far less spectacular of a sight than it´s famous neighbour Licancabur, Cerro Toco still provides rewarding hiking opportunities. Novices can get a gentle introduction to high altitude climbing, while the views from the summit to the surrounding volcanos such as Licancabur and Lascar and beyond the Bolivian border to Laguna Blanca are breathtaking. For more experienced climbers this is still a good summit to get acclimatised for trips to one of the nearby higher mountains.
Cerro Toco has two routes:
The Southern Route has an elevation gain of about 600 meters and takes 2 to 3 hours up, 45 min down.
The Northern Route is longer with an elevation gain of about 1000 meters, taking 4 hours up.
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On top of the mountains, you will see the Apachetas, piles of stones, which are offerings to Pachamama, Mother Nature. Each stone represents a problem that, when taken up the mountain, lies behind. In a pile, there are many problems of different people. Interesting is the analogy of pilasters that serve as a bridge between the sacred and the profane, between two worlds, such as church towers, totems, minarets (travel associative in travel ...).
Cerro Toco is a stratovolcano located in the eastern part of the Atacama desert in Chile's II Region, approximately 6 km south of the border between Bolivia and Chile and 12 km SE of the Juriques and Licancabur volcanoes. It conforms the north eastern extreme of the Purico Complex, a pyroclastic shield made up by several stratovolcanoes, lava domes and a maar.
Cerro Toco is located in the Chajnantor Scientific Reserve, as is most of the Purico Complex. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope and the Huan Tran Telescope are located on the western side of the mountain at approximately 5,200 m.
The highest point of this volcano and I feel so fine.
Elevation: 5,604 meters (18,386 ft) above sea level.
13th. highest elevation around San Pedro de Atacama, Chile.
Chile's highest peak is the Nevado Ojos del Salado, at 6.891,3 meters or 22,615 ft, which is also the highest volcano in the world.
1st. Mount Everest - 8,848 m or 29,025 ft.
***Aconcagua with a summit elevation of 6,960.8 metres (22,837 ft), is the highest mountain in both the Southern and Western Hemispheres. It is located in the Andes mountain range, in the Mendoza Province, Argentina, and lies 112 km (70 mi) northwest of its capital, the city of Mendoza, about five km (3.1 mi) from San Juan Province and 15 km (9.3 mi) from the international border with Chile. The mountain itself lies entirely within Argentina, immediately east of Argentina's border with Chile. Its nearest higher neighbor is Tirich Mir in the Hindu Kush, 16,520 kilometres (10,270 mi) away. It is one of the Seven Summits.
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Cerro Toco
Al sur de los tutelares volcanes Lickankabur (*) y Juriques, y luego del portezuelo por donde asciende la Ruta Internacional que une San Pedro de Atacama con el Paso de Jama que conduce hacia el país vecino de Argentina, se alza el cerro Toco.
Antiguo volcán activo, al igual que la mayoría de los cerros y volcanes de la zona, hoy está extinto y es reconocido como uno de los más accesibles y fáciles de ascender en las cercanías de San Pedro de Atacama. El volcán se ubica a cerca de 60km hacia el sureste de San Pedro de Atacama (aprox. 160km desde Calama); dirigiéndose hacia el Paso de Jama, que se ubica un poco más al norte que la ruta que va hacia Toconao, para acceder al Toco se debe tomar un camino secundario hacia el sur (derecha), a aproximadamente 20km antes del paso.
Hasta hace unos 20 años atrás se explotaba en su base uno de los principales yacimientos de azufre, mineral utilizado en ese entonces en los procesos mineros de Chuquicamata, entre otros importantes usos. De la antigua azufrera aún quedan vestigios en la base del volcán, donde también se ubican las instalaciones del proyecto astronómico Atacama Cosmology Telescope.
Laguna blanca
Laguna Blanca es una laguna alto-andina situada dentro de la Reserva Nacional de Fauna Andina Eduardo Abaroa, en el suroeste de Bolivia, en el departamento de Potosí. Presenta un color blancuzco en sus aguas debido al alto contenido de minerales y es por ello que recibe el nombre de Laguna Blanca. Se encuentra en la zona de la Puna, presenta un clima seco, tiene unas dimensiones de 5,6 kilómetros de largo por 3,5 kilómetros de ancho y una superficie de 10,9 km² a una altura de más de 4.000 m s. n. m., está unida a la Laguna Verde por un pequeño estrecho. La laguna tiene un perímetro costero de 22 kilómetros.
Fuente:Andes handbook,wikipedia
Juriques and Licancabur Volcanoes.
White Lagoon on the right.
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"We do not stumble in the great mountains, but in the little stones."
Augusto Cury
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San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. City where we are.
Cerro Toco is where we were when we took the picture.
Licancabur Volcano is on the left.
Juriques Volcano is on the right.
Juriques is a stratovolcano on the border between Bolivia and Chile. It is located immediately southeast of Licancabur volcano. Its summit is at 5,704 m (18,714 ft) with a crater 1.5 km (0.93 mi) in its longest diameter. Laguna Verde lies at the foot of this volcano.
Licancabur is a stratovolcano on the border between Bolivia and Chile, south of the Sairecabur volcano and west of Juriques. Part of the Andean Central Volcanic Zone, it has a prominent, 5,916-meter (19,409 ft) -high cone. A 400-meter (1,300 ft) summit crater containing Licancabur Lake, a crater lake which is among the highest lakes in the world, caps the volcano.
San Pedro de Atacama is a Chilean town and commune in El Loa Province, Antofagasta Region. It is located east of Antofagasta, some 106 km (60 mi) southeast of Calama and the Chuquicamata copper mine, overlooking the Licancabur volcano.
The town lies at an average of 7,000 feet (2,100 m), and visitors often experience mild altitude sickness such as dizziness, lethargy and headaches.
El famoso templo Jain en Ranakpur está dedicado a Tirthankara Rishabhanatha.
Dharna Shah, un empresario local jainista, comenzó la construcción del templo en el siglo XV siguiendo una visión divina. El templo honra a Adinath, el primer Tirthankar del presente semiciclo (avasarpiṇī) según la cosmología jainista. La ciudad de Ranakpur y el templo llevan el nombre del monarca gobernante provincial, Rana Kumbha, quien apoyó la construcción del templo.
El mármol de color claro se ha utilizado para la construcción de este gran templo que ocupa un área de aproximadamente 60 x 62 metros. El templo, con sus cúpulas distintivas, shikhara, torrecillas y cúpulas, se eleva majestuosamente desde la ladera de una colina. Más de 1444 pilares de mármol, tallados en exquisitos detalles, sostienen el templo. Los pilares están todos tallados de manera diferente y no hay dos pilares iguales. También se dice que es imposible contar los pilares. También todas las estatuas se enfrentan a una u otra estatua.
The renowned Jain temple at Ranakpur is dedicated to Tirthankara Rishabhanatha.
Dharna Shah, a local Jain businessperson, started construction of the temple in the 15th century following a divine vision. The temple honors Adinath, the first Tirthankar of the present half-cycle (avasarpiṇī) according to Jain cosmology. The town of Ranakpur and the temple are named after the provincial ruler monarch, Rana Kumbha who supported the construction of the temple.
Light colored marble has been used for the construction of this grand temple which occupies an area of approximately 60 x 62 meters. The temple, with its distinctive domes, shikhara, turrets and cupolas rises majestically from the slope of a hill. Over 1444 marble pillars, carved in exquisite detail, support the temple. The pillars are all differently carved and no two pillars are the same. It is also said that it is impossible to count the pillars. Also all the statues face one or the other statue.
Wikipedia: The Erawan Shrine, formally the Thao Maha Phrom Shrine, is a shrine in Bangkok, Thailand, which houses a statue of Phra Phrom, the Thai representation of Brahma, the Hindu god of creation. The name might also refer to Mahabrahma, the ruler of the Brahma realm in Buddhist cosmology.
The deity is popularly worshipped outside of a Hindu religious context, but more as a representation of guardian spirits in Thai animist beliefs, nevertheless the shrine shows an example of syncretism Between Hinduism and Buddhism. The shrine often features performances by Thai dance troupes who are hired by worshippers in return for seeing their prayers answered at the shrine.
The Erawan Shrine was built in 1956 as part of the government-owned Erawan Hotel to eliminate the bad karma believed caused by laying the foundations on the wrong date.
The hotel's construction was delayed by a series of mishaps, including cost overruns, injuries to laborers, and the loss of a shipload of Italian marble intended for the building. Furthermore, the Ratchaprasong intersection had once been used to put criminals on public display.
An astrologer advised building the shrine to counter the negative influences. The Brahma statue was designed and built by the Department of Fine Arts and enshrined on 9 November 1956. The hotel's construction thereafter proceeded without further incident. In 1987, the hotel was demolished and the site used for the Grand Hyatt Erawan Hotel.
A young lady offers worship and prayer requests at the Erawan Shrine.
Wikipedia: The Erawan Shrine, formally the Thao Maha Phrom Shrine, is a shrine in Bangkok, Thailand, which houses a statue of Phra Phrom, the Thai representation of Brahma, the Hindu god of creation. The name might also refer to Mahabrahma, the ruler of the Brahma realm in Buddhist cosmology.
The deity is popularly worshipped outside of a Hindu religious context, but more as a representation of guardian spirits in Thai animist beliefs, nevertheless the shrine shows an example of syncretism Between Hinduism and Buddhism. The shrine often features performances by Thai dance troupes who are hired by worshippers in return for seeing their prayers answered at the shrine.
The Erawan Shrine was built in 1956 as part of the government-owned Erawan Hotel to eliminate the bad karma believed caused by laying the foundations on the wrong date.
The hotel's construction was delayed by a series of mishaps, including cost overruns, injuries to laborers, and the loss of a shipload of Italian marble intended for the building. Furthermore, the Ratchaprasong intersection had once been used to put criminals on public display.
An astrologer advised building the shrine to counter the negative influences. The Brahma statue was designed and built by the Department of Fine Arts and enshrined on 9 November 1956. The hotel's construction thereafter proceeded without further incident. In 1987, the hotel was demolished and the site used for the Grand Hyatt Erawan Hotel.
Taman Ayung, meaning "beautiful garden", is the second-largest temple in Bali. It is a World Heritage Site as one of the five sites defined by UNESCO in the Subak cultural landscape of Bali. Taman Ayun Temple is unique, both in aesthetics and as an essential part of the local irrigation system, or subak.
The tall, multi-tiered shrines with black thatched roofs are called Meru. They are built in odd-numbered tiers (3, 5, 7, 9, or 11), symbolizing the sacred Mount Meru in Hindu and Buddhist cosmology. These shrines honor different gods and ancestral spirits. Balinese temples, known as pura, are not only places of worship but also vital cultural centers. The layout often follows mandala principles, with inner and outer sanctums. Rituals, offerings (canang sari), and temple festivals are central to Balinese Hinduism, which blends indigenous animism with Indian Hindu influences.
The Chascon dome is constructed by lava flows and has a well preserved summit crater, while Cerro Purico is a stratovolcano and also known as Cerro Toco.
We took the iron locks on the soles of the high boots to descend the volcano.
The Southern Route takes 45 min down.
A re-process of the Heart and Soul nebula mosaic that I've not looked at for over 2 years.
For interest the original can be seen here www.flickr.com/photos/swag72/9855898385
I'd welcome your thoughts on the comparison.
An interesting title you may think and you may wonder why I have written artistic impression........
Firstly let me say that the raw data for this 'experiment' is all mine and has been recently acquired. There is nothing new there. What I have then done is considered the processing and have coined a term 'Monochrome channel mapping'. What this means is that this image has been 'created' using ONLY Ha data, there is nothing more in there.
This is an experimentation processing technique that will horrify some and perhaps please others that this can be obtained by only having to acquire Ha data - In fact lets not be so prescriptive, the same could be done with any single filter data if the signal was sufficient.
So I hope that you enjoy this experiment and the debate that it may bring within yourself. I hope that I won't get burnt at the stake for heresy........
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M: Avalon Linear Fast reverse
T: Takahashi FSQ85 0.73x
C: QSI683 ws-g with Astrodon 3nm Ha filter
39x900s in Ha totalling 9h45m of exposure.
Low angle perspective looking upwards along the wall and towards the ceiling, emphasizing the grandeur and height of the reliefs and incised hieroglyphs carved into the stone walls.
Above the walls, a vibrant blue ceiling with horizontal bands, represent a starry blue sky. The blue paint shows signs of age and wear. The vibrant 'Egyptian blue', the first synthetic pigment created by humans symbolized the sky and the primordial waters of creation, crucial elements in Egyptian cosmology. .
Shot from the magnificent temple of Ramses III at Medinet Habu, Luxor.
Atacama Cosmology Telescope on Cerro Toco, just north of the Llano de Chajnantor.
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) is a six-metre telescope on Cerro Toco in the Atacama Desert in the north of Chile, near the Llano de Chajnantor Observatory. It is designed to make high-resolution, microwave-wavelength surveys of the sky in order to study the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB). At an altitude of 5,190 metres (17,030 ft), it is one of the highest permanent, ground-based telescopes in the world.
Erected in the (austral) autumn of 2007, ACT saw first light on 22 October 2007 with its science receiver, the Millimeter Bolometer Array Camera (MBAC), and completed its first season in December 2007. It began its second season of observations in June 2008.
The project is a collaboration between Princeton University, Cornell University, the University of Pennsylvania, NASA/GSFC, the Johns Hopkins University, the University of British Columbia, NIST, the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Cardiff University, Rutgers University, the University of Pittsburgh, Columbia University, Haverford College, West Chester University, INAOE, LLNL, NASA/JPL, the University of Toronto, the University of Cape Town, the University of Massachusetts Amherst and York College, CUNY. It is funded by the US National Science Foundation.
NGC4565 (also known as the Needle galaxy or Caldwell 38) is an edge-on spiral galaxy about 30 to 50 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices.
It is known as the Needle Galaxy for its narrow profile. First spotted in 1785 by Sir William Herschel (1738–1822), it is one of the most famous examples of an edge-on spiral galaxy.
NGC4565 is a giant spiral galaxy more luminous than the Andromeda Galaxy and it has been proposed that if it were viewed face-on, it would be the most spectacular of the galaxies of its type in the nearby Universe.
Details
M: Mesu 200
T: ODK10
C: QSI683 with Baader LRGB filters
50x1800s Luminance
24x600s for Red, green and blue filters
Total exposure 37 hours 30 minutes.
Volcanic activity after the eruption of the ignimbrite has been subdivided into the older andesitic Purico group and the younger Chascon group.
The first includes Cerro Negro, Cerro Purico, Putas and Cerro Toco which assume the structure of polygenetic volcanoes, while the latter is taken to include Aspero, El Cerillo/Chajnantor and El Chascon which are lava dome-lava flow structures. The Chascon group of domes is also the only one which contains mafic xenoliths.
The 4 meters deep and with perimeter of around 5 km, the moat of Angkor Wat, besides the life-giving and purifying qualities also serves as earthly models of the ocean that surrounds the world according to Khmer cosmology
Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge. Baboquivari Peak Wilderness, Tohono O'Odham Nation, Southwest Arizona, USA.
Full frame. No crop. No post processing.
Baboquivari Peak is the most sacred place to the Tohono O'odham people. It is the center of the Tohono O'odham cosmology and the home of the creator, I'itoi. According to tribal legend, he resides in a cave below the base of the mountain.
This mountain is regarded by the O'odham nation as the navel of the world – a place where the earth opened and the people emerged after the great flood. Baboquivari Peak is also sometimes referred to as I'Itoi Mountain. In the native O'odham language, it is referred to as Waw Kiwulik, meaning "narrow about the middle". The O'odham people believe that he watches over their people to this day.
Baboquivari Peak was mentioned in the journals of Jesuit missionary Padre Kino, who made many expeditions into this region of the Sonoran Desert, beginning in 1699, establishing Spanish Missions in the area.
Cerro Toco has two routes:
The Southern Route has an elevation gain of about 600 meters and takes 2 to 3 hours up, 45 min down.
The Northern Route is longer with an elevation gain of about 1000 meters, taking 4 hours up.
NGC 1333 is the currently most active region of star formation in the Perseus molecular cloud. It was first discovered by Eduard Schonfeld in 1855 and is a bright reflection nebula in the western portion of the Perseus molecular cloud. The star BD +30◦549 illuminates NGC 1333 and was found to be a B8 spectral type. It is approximately 1000 light years away and is about 15 light years in diameter.
I rarely capture data on LRGB targets, so this has been a baptism of fire for me!!
Details
M: Avalon Linear Fast Reverse
T: Orion Optics ODK10
C: QSI683 with Baader LRGB filters
Luminance 60x600s
Red, Green and Blue 30x600s for each filter
Totalling 25 hours of exposure.
Mingun - Hsinphyumae o Myatheindan pagoda
La pagoda bianca costruita nel 1816 in uno stile architettonico che richiama il mitico Monte Meru, la montagna sacra della cosmologia Induista, Jainista e Buddista, considerata il centro dell'universo fisico, metafisico e spirituale.
Mingun - Hsinphyumae o Myatheindan pagoda
The white Pagoda, built in 1816 with a distinctive architectural style modelled after the mythical Mount Meru, the sacred mountain in Hindu, Jain and Buddhist cosmology considered to be the center of all the physical, metaphysical and spiritual universes.
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Situated 7500 light years away in the ‘W’-shaped constellation of Cassiopeia, the Heart Nebula is a vast region of glowing gas, energized by a cluster of young stars at its centre. The image depicts the central region, where dust clouds are being eroded and moulded into rugged shapes by the searing cosmic radiation.
Details
M: Avalon Linear fast reverse
T: AT 8" RC CF
C: QSI690-wsg with 3nm Ha and OIII filters
17x1800s Ha
9x1800s OIII
This is a reprocess of data that I have never been happy with - I hope to tackle this target again sometime soon :)
The Pinwheel Galaxy (also known as Messier 101, M101 or NGC 5457) is a face-on spiral galaxy distanced 21 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major, first discovered by Pierre Méchain on March 27, 1781.
M101 is a large galaxy comparable in size to the Milky Way. With a diameter of 170,000 light-years it is roughly equal the size of the Milky Way. It has a disk mass on the order of 100 billion solar masses, along with a small central bulge of about 3 billion solar masses.
Details:
Mount: Mesu 200
Telescope: ODK10
Camera: QSI683 withBaader RGB filters and 3nm Ha Astrodon filter
Luminance 54x1800s
RGB 25x600s in each filter
Ha 17x1800s
This is 48 hours worth of data.
Juriques and Licancabur Volcanoes.
"The beautiful landscape of the Atacama desert, with the two iconic volcanoes: Licancabur (5920 meters, considered as being a holy mountain) and Juriques (5705 meters)."
M.E.
Our second base.
Cerro Toco is a stratovolcano located in the eastern part of the Atacama desert in Chile's II Region, approximately 6 km south of the border between Bolivia and Chile and 12 km SE of the Juriques and Licancabur volcanoes. It conforms the north eastern extreme of the Purico Complex, a pyroclastic shield made up by several stratovolcanoes, lava domes and a maar.
Cerro Toco is located in the Chajnantor Scientific Reserve, as is most of the Purico Complex. The Atacama Cosmology Telescope and the Huan Tran Telescope are located on the western side of the mountain at approximately 5,200 m.
So many mural.s everywhere .Here is one I saw in Vancouver in 2020. Not sure of the meaning of this one. What do you think ?
*Street mural by Paige Bowman, Yama and Mara- located on Industrial Avenue by Main.* is the info I found on the web about this painting. 281 Industrial Avenue. "Mural depicting two figures from Tibetan Buddhist cosmology, Yama the guardian of the underworld, and Mara, the embodiment of bad behaviour. Yama is pictured victorious over Mara, wide-eyed and sneering as they display an expectation for one to do good, and to practice humility, respect and service in their life. "
Tant de peintures murales partout. En voici une que j'ai vue à Vancouver en 2020. Je ne suis pas sûre de la signification de celle-ci. Qu'en penses-tu ?
The Crescent Nebula (also known as NGC 6888, Caldwell 27, Sharpless 105) is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus, about 5000 light-years away. It was discovered by Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel in 1792. It is formed by the fast stellar wind from the Wolf-Rayet star WR 136 (HD 192163) colliding with and energizing the slower moving wind ejected by the star when it became a red giant around 250,000 to 400,000 years ago. The result of the collision is a shell and two shock waves, one moving outward and one moving inward. The inward moving shock wave heats the stellar wind to X-ray-emitting temperatures.
Details
M: Mesu 200
T: Orion Optics ODK10
C: QSI683 with 3nm Ha and OIII filter, Baader RGB filters
50x1800s in Ha
51x1800ss in OIII
15x300s in each RGB
Totalling 54hrs 15 mins
60 x 13 seconds
ISO 4000
f1.8
35mm
Stitched in MS ICE.
It's getting close to the end of the Milky Way season and the weather here in Perth has been terrible since the last time I managed to get out in early July. I don't normally get out on weekdays because of work but I couldn't pass up the opportunity of some rare clear skies!
Lake Clifton is famous for its thrombolites, called living fossils, but they were all submerged after the winter rains! Oh well. Most of my MW photos have the core rising from the east but this one has the core setting towards the west, over the nearby Indian Ocean, which explains the green air glow to the right as opposed to the reddish orange air glow common over land areas that you can see to the left.
This panorama originally came in at 320 megapixels (300MB) but Flickr rejected the upload so I was forced to resize it to fit within the 200MB limit. Pro users should have no limit Flickr!! :-)
This image has been labelled as an artistic impression as the colours has been artifically added using only one channel of data.
IC 2177 is a region of nebulosity that lies along the border between the constellations Monoceros and Canis Major. It is a roughly circular H II region centered on the Be star HD 53367.This nebula was discovered by Welsh amateur astronomer Isaac Roberts and was described by him as, "pretty bright, extremely large, irregularly round, very diffuse."
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M: Avalon Linear Fast Reverse
T: Takahashi FSQ85 0.73x
C: QSI683 ws-g with 3nm Astrodon Ha filter
28x900s in Ha totalling 7 hours of exposure time
This is a single channel monochrome channel mapping (MCM) image that has NO scientific basis with regards to colour separation. More information on this method can be read on my website swagastro.weebly.com/artistic-one-channel-processing.html
I welcome all thoughts that you have on the principles of this type of processing.
In honor of the camera phone Takeover Day in Explore, I’ll share one more photo of this hole in the ground. Several of these monitor wells in the vicinity, to measure … something … for the benefit of the people who pass over them without taking notice.
30 Nov 2021; 09:50 CST; SOOC.
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The Vivid Festival is an annual festival in Sydney, Australia in which buildings such as the Opera House are illuminated.
This year six Aboriginal artists designed the artwork projected onto the Opera House's sails. Unless you film in video you do not get a real impression of what the projections look like in real time as they constantly change from one image to another. I have picked these four static images to give a feeling for the variety of the artwork.
The stylised human figures in two of the photos are of Wanjinas. In Aboriginal culture they are cosmological Beings represented in the rock art of the central and northern Kimberley region of Western Australia. Evidence suggests that Wanjina rock paintings were made at least as far back as 4000 years ago and continue to be made and renewed today.
Images of Wanjina Beings are usually characterised by halo-like headdresses and mouthless faces with large round eyes, fringed with eyelashes, set either side of an ovate nose. Most Wanjina images found as rock art are depicted without a mouth, although on some more recent works on bark, boards, or canvas the mouth and teeth are indicated. From: www.kimberleyfoundation.org.au/akerman
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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 cluster and nebula lie at a distance of some 5,000 light-years from Earth 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.
Details
M: Avalon Linear Fast reverse
T: Takahashi FSQ85 0.73x
C: QSI683 ws-g with Astrodon 3nm Ha and OIII filters
39x900s in Ha
22x900s in OIII
totalling 15h 15m of exposure.
Located within the Cygnus constellation, the Gamma Cygnus nebula is not often imaged on it's own as it's part of a much larger complex,
The dark nebula in here looks like ink and shows the turmoil in the area.
Details:
M: Mesu 200
T: Orion Optics ODK10
C: QSI683 with 3nm Astrodon Ha, OIII and SII filters
47x1800s Ha
30x1800s OIII
30x1800s SII
Total of 53 hours and 30 mins exposure.
This is data that is about 18 months old .... It was shouting out for a reprocess!!
The North America Nebula (NGC 7000 or Caldwell 20) is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus. The remarkable shape of the emission nebula resembles that of the continent of North America, complete with a prominent Gulf of Mexico. The North America Nebula is large, covering an area of more than four times the size of the full moon; but its surface brightness is low, so normally it cannot be seen with the unaided eye. The North America Nebula and the nearby Pelican Nebula, (IC 5070) are in fact parts of the same interstellar cloud of ionized hydrogen. The distance of the nebula complex is though to be approx 1800 light years away.
Details
M: Avalon Linear Fast reverse
T: Takahashi FSQ85 0.73x
C: QSI690-wsg with 3nm Ha filter
This is a 2x2 pane mosaic
29x1800s in Ha
30x1800s in OIII
Total exposure time 29 hours and 30 minutes
I've posted photos of Asparagus flowers - Asparagus officinalis -
and Triangle Hoverfly - Melanostoma mellinum - here before and even of Marmalade Hoverfly - Episyrphus balteatus - feeding on Asparagus pollen. But this time my subject is neither the pretty, petite flower nor the tongueing insect. Olymp expertly focused on that little green globe just under Insect's forewing.
That small, wonderfully green appendage - there's one on either side of Hoverfly - is called a haltere (plural: halteres). Entomologists are today not yet entirely sure of their working except to say that they intricately play an important part in stabilising Fly flight.
The first naturalist to draw attention to these halteres was one William Derham (1657-1735). Derham was an English clergyman, naturalist and scientist, and he sought to combine all of that in an as-it-were cosmological theology, in which the Book of Nature played as important a part as the Book of Revelation in the demonstration of a Creator. He writes about halteres in his Physico-theology: or, a Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God from his Works of Creation, being the Substance of Sixteen Sermons delivered in 1711-1712, p. 316. There he waxes precisely eloquent on his observation of what he calls 'poises' or 'pointells', without which - yes! he experimented insecto-surgically - diptera such as hoverflies can't fly. Obviously for him this, too, demonstrates the God of Nature's precise engineering.