A five-story pagoda has a five-story roof. It is said that it consists of earth, water, fire, wind, and sky from the bottom, each representing the five worlds of the Buddhist cosmology.

This tower is rebuilt in 2008 entirely made of wood and is 39 meters high.

Here we have a look at M95, even on a 14.5" scope this is quite a small (barred spiral) galaxy ~38Mly away. Despite the challenge, I think it is a nice example of a SB(r)b galaxy and some nice details are showing.

In order to realise the detail and keep to a decent size image I had to first ensure the scale of the image was sufficient to work out through drizzling all the data. Once complete I was able gently, through many iterations release the detail that was present. This is certainly a good example of many smaller iterations of process applications having more impact than a few larger ones. Hope you enjoy.

For the pixel peepers out there is a strange blue star towards the bottom of the image - I wondered what I had done wrong . Having reviewed this is actually correct and not an aberration, It is SDSS J104429.50+113042.0 an RR lyrae variable star - the SDSS data shows this to be the correct colour.......

HD: www.astrobin.com/332667/0/?nc=user

Crop: www.astrobin.com/332667/B/?nc=user

Imaging telescope or lens: RCOS 14.5"

Imaging camera: SBIG STX KAF-16803

Mount: Paramount-ME

Filters: Astrodon Red, Astrodon Green, Astrodon Blue, Astrodon Luminance

Resolution: 7044x6153

Dates: Jan. 14, 2018, Jan. 15, 2018, Jan. 17, 2018, Jan. 24, 2018

Frames:

Astrodon Blue: 17x1200" bin 1x1

Astrodon Green: 16x1200" bin 1x1

Astrodon Luminance: 20x1200" bin 1x1

Astrodon Red: 18x1200" bin 1x1

Integration: 23.7 hours

Locations: Deep Sky West Remote Observatory (DSW), Rowe, New Mexico, United States

De mon lit elle est aussi belle que par mon télescope finalement... 26.04.21 - Pleine Lune -> Lève les yeux au ciel, et tu verras la même chose que moi au même instant :p

#moon #space #future #generationspace #star #astronomy #cosmology #theory #observer #oneofmyhobby #sky-watcher #smile #sciences #life

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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.

This is a snapshot of a supercomputer simulation of cosmological structure formation. The simulation contains a region of space 40 million light-years on a side at 2 billion years after the Big Bang. Each step in brightness represents a factor of 10 change in density, with the brightest regions being the location of galaxy clusters. The simulation closely matches observational data, for which it is more difficult to take a visually appealing image.

Credit: Aaron Day and ENZO collaboration

Overview of Vat Phou from the sanctuary on the highest terrace.

It was a hot and hazy day. The Mekong is vaguely seen near the horizon. This photo clearly shows Vat Phou is a planned town with a central axis.

Green and red carpets are for the Vat Phou Festival that was to take place on the next day of my visit.

The two large pavilions are called Northern Place and Southern Palace although their actual functions are unknown.

The water bodies behind the palaces are reservoirs called "Baray," which is an important element of the Angkorian architecture. It is for irrigation and, more importantly, symbolises the Hindu cosmology of the Sea of Creation surrounding the Mount Meru or Sumeru, a mythical sacred mountain. In Vat Phou, Lingaparvata or Mt Phou Khao behind the citadel was regarded as Mt Meru.

Buddhism inherited the Hindu cosmology, and Mt Meru or Sumeru is called Shumisen (須弥山 or Sumeru mountain) in Japanese Buddhism. Mythical mountain beyond the ocean is a popular theme for Japanese gardens.

When the night falls I follow Juno's trajectory and stretch to reach the stars and the Moons.

With a total of 67 known Jovian Moons,I spot only Callisto,Io, Europa,and Ganymede ... Io with its volcanoes has so much in common with Santorini ...

Dedicated to NASA - Juno Spacecraft mission &

To Vangelis

Juno is a NASA space probe currently orbiting the planet Jupiter,the largest planet in the solar system.

It was launched on August 5, 2011 and entered Jupiter orbit on

July 4, 2016,after a five-year journey from Earth.She will orbit Jupiter for 20 months - 37 orbits -

and will de-orbit February 2018.

Transcendentalism & Romance in that liminal Space between what we know and what we cannot imagine ...

Which Universe are we In ?

Cosmology that fills your mind with wonder ...

Beautiful the Jovian Moons in Santorini ...

* One eye Sees the other Feels ... **

★ ★ ★ So many thanks for your visits & your red ★s

NASA's video You Tube :

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpsQimYhNkA&feature=youtu.be

Published on 4 Jul 2016

NASA's Juno spacecraft captured a unique time-lapse movie of the Galilean satellites in motion about Jupiter. The movie begins on June 12th with Juno 10 million miles from Jupiter, and ends on June 29th, 3 million miles distant. The innermost moon is volcanic Io; next in line is the ice-crusted ocean world Europa.

Music by Vangelis (Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou ... )

M78 is is the blue reflection nebula in the centre of the frame and Barnards loop is the red / pink area to the left of the frame.

The nebula Messier 78 (also known as M78 or NGC 2068) is a reflection nebula in the constellation Orion. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1780.

M78 is the brightest diffuse reflection nebula of a group of nebulae that include NGC 2064, NGC 2067 and NGC 2071. This group belongs to the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex and is about 1,600 light years distant from Earth.

Barnard's Loop (Sh2-276) is an emission nebula in the constellation of Orion.The loop takes the form of a large arc centered approximately on the Orion Nebula. The stars within the Orion Nebula are believed to be responsible for ionizing the loop. Recent estimates place it at a distance of between 518 light years and 1434 light years giving it dimensions of either about 100 or 300 light years across respectively. It is thought to have originated in a supernova explosion about 2 million years ago, which may have also created several known runaway stars.

This is another image taken with the dual rig.

Details

M: Mesu 200

T: Takahashi FSQ85 0.73x

C: QSI683 and Moravian G2-8300 with Baader RGB filters, 3nm Ha Astrodon filters and Hutech IDAS.

70x300s RGB

30x1800s Ha

45x1200s Luminance

​Total exposure time 47 hours 30 mins.

This has been blended as a simple RGB combination, then with the Ha data added into the red channel. The luminance layer was created using the luminance data and some Ha data added.

Abner conquered it.

He needed to rest a little.

* Exploring Hidden Spots to Start Shaping her Amphoras *

She was under the barbeque shed near a "Black Hole",ready to get into her private appartment.The surface under the Stone Oven looked like the surface on Mars,the Red Planet,with the Canyons and the large Olympus Volcano.

Who knows,we might live inside a "Black Hole" too,I thought to myself.Our universe may be inside a Black Hole which may even contain other universes,scientists have claimed.But,we're here to talk about Entomology,not about Cosmology ...

The great Nest Builder under the Stone Oven had other plans,she had decided to decorate our wooden door with a whole series of ceramic pots in a row,to show off her amazing skills and techniques.

*Unlocking nature's Mysteries in the garden *

*Nature heals Body & Mind ...

Hi there, this is another photo unearthed from the Rosolina archive (see the album Rosolina sunrise), dating from June 2016. It was one of the most beautiful sunrises I have ever seen - a couple of hours after a long, raging thunderstorm had ended; you can see the remains of the turmoil in the sky, and distant flocks of clouds wandering just over the horizon. The photos in the album cited above tell many detail about the place and the situation.

I picked this photo up because the earth and the heavens looked so deeply intertwined. I am thoroughly sensitive to this fascinating concept. In the past, before the Scientific revolution, people believed that the Earth and the heavens were utterly distinct - even made of fundamentally different substances. The Earth was fraught with imperfection, decay, death. Sin. The heavens, on the other distant side, were eternal and perfect - actually, made of a fundamentally different substance, the quintessence. This worldview derived from the cosmological system of Ptolemy, which derived from Aristotle’s physics, which derived from… Well, what really matters here is that in the Medieval period this cosmological system was further developed by many theologicians and the Ptolemaic system became the official worldview of the Catholic church. The parable starting with Kepler, Copernicus and Galileo up to Newton turned everything around. The crowning achievement was Newton’s universal gravitation law, which demonstrably applied in heaven and on earth. Our world were no more a place of penitence, set apart from God’s perfection: we were an integral part of the universe - although, sadly, we were not in a better condition than before but, rather, the rest of the universe was “downgraded” to our own status. I often think about how deeply shocking this breakthrough would have been: one of the most incredible revolutionary concepts, maybe the single most important one: realising that we are in a fundamental way part of the texture of the whole universe. After all, the cells of our body are made of the remains of ancient dead stars...

Well, as I was saying, this picture conveyed to me the feeling of a deep unity of the whole universe - from the most fleeting subatomic particle which just now is passing (unnoticed) through my body up to galaxies and galaxy clusters and... So I thought that this bracketing, although being sadly flawed in its exposure (some highlights were blown up even in the underexposed shot), might be worthy a try. Luckily the magic of Darktable and the blending of luminosity masks allowed me to get a decent result.

I have obtained this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-1.7/0/+1.7 EV] by luminosity masks in the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal exposure" shot), then I added some final touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4. RAW files processed with Darktable.

No Orton or similar effects; just the inverted RGB blue channel technique described by Boris Hajdukovic as a final contribution to the processing of some parts of the photo. While this technique (which, its imposing name notwithstanding, is pretty simple to implement) often holds interesting results in full daylight landscapes, its effects on a low-light capture (e.g. a sunrise) are utterly unpredictable, so at the end of my workflow I often give it a try to ascertain its possibilities.

Sacred Kauri tree, South Island, New Zealand. Tane Mahuta. Lord of the forest. You are in the presence of one of the most ancient of trees.

In Māori cosmology Tane is the son of Ranginui the Sky Father and Papatuanuku the Earth Mother. Tane tore his parents apart breaking their primal embrace, to bring light space and air and allowing life to flourish.

Messier 5 (M5 or NGC 5904) is a globular cluster of stars in the constellation of Serpens. It was discovered in 1702 by Gottfried Kirch.

Spanning 165 light-years in diameter, M5 is one of the largest known globular clusters. At 13 billion years old, M5 is also one of the eldest globular clusters in the Milky Way Galaxy. Its distance is about 24,500 light-years from Earth, and it contains more than 100,000 stars, as many as 500,000 according to some estimates

A globular cluster is a spherical collection of stars that orbits a galactic core as as satellite. Globular clusters are very tightly bound by gravity, which gives them their spherical shapes and relatively high stellar densities toward their centres.

​Details.

M: Mesu 200

T: TMB 152/1200

C: QSI683 Baader LRGB filters and the Eagle S from PrimaLuceLabs.

30x600s Luminance

30x600s Red

30x600s Green

30x600s Blue

Totalling 20 hours.

This was all taken as well during the full moon period, as Globular clusters are less affected by moonlight than other Deep Sky objects.

Cloister, Lincoln Cathedral (England, UK).

Eternal return (also known as "eternal recurrence") is a concept that the universe has been recurring, and will continue to recur, in a self-similar form an infinite number of times across infinite time or space.

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Geirskögul - Orbital Launch Platform. Acrylic on canvas 35.75" x 28.75" 9.1.2020 www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Geirsk-gul-Orbital-Launch...

The cosmos in Norse mythology consists of Nine Worlds that flank a central cosmological tree, Yggdrasil.

In the beginning, everything was a virgin forest and a wasteland. The gods cleared space and created places to be, both for themselves and people. Midgard called the people's homes - because it is in the middle of the world. And in the midst of Midgard - for people not to feel alone and left - the gods built a powerful place for themselves: Åsgard - a very gudeborg, protected by thick walls. To get there you have to ride the rainbow bifrost. Around Midgard, strong defense forces were built - for outside, in the wild and unknown, raising dark and creepy powers. Here - in Utgard and Jotunheim - live jotner and troll. This is how everything is organized: equal to three year olds. And far out - on all sides - the great ocean of the ocean waves. Here is also the Midgardsormen.

Quando torno a casa la sera, nonostante il cielo sia limpido e sereno, vedo sì e no una manciata di stelle...

Allora torno nei cassetti della memoria, al ricordo di luoghi in cui potevo ammirare il cielo stellato e la via lattea in tutto il suo splendore, da restare sbalorditi di fronte a tanta, impressionante bellezza...

Devo assolutamente rinfrescarmi la memoria... presto :)

Foto dal mio archivio, isola di La Reunion, obbiettivo fish-eye rettilineo, posa unica

#fisheye #reunion #stelle #vialattea #sagittarius #scorpius #planets #albero #tree #canon #universe #universo #cosmo #horizon #space #spazio #universe

Nikon d5100

Tokina 11-16mm @ 16mm

ISO 5000

f2.8

6 x 25 seconds

This is a 6 shot panorama, stitched in PTGui. The light pollution behind the lighthouse is from the city of Perth, Western Australia approximately 115km south of Guilderton.

IC5070 (the Pelican nebula) is located in the constellation of Cygnus at approximately 1800 light years from Earth. You can see on the right of the image a large pillar of gas and at the tip of this is a Herbig-Haro object.

Herbig-Haro 555 is a narrow jet of gas and matter, ejected by newly born stars at speeds of several hundred kilometres per second. It collides with nearby gas and dust in the interstellar medium, producing bright shock fronts that glow as the gas is heated by friction while the surrounding gas is excited by the high-energy radiation of nearby hot stars.

Details:

M: Mesu 200

T: TMB152

C: QSI683 WSG with 3nm Ha filter

26x1800s Totalling 13 hours

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After the Khmer Kingdom went into decline, the city of Angkor Thom (in Cambodia) was at one point deserted and left to the jungle. In the 19th century, the site was rediscovered by French explorers, soon after which the EFEO (the École Française d'Extrême-Orient) began clearing works and restoration of the monuments overgrown by thick jungle.

The Bayon (seen here) was the state temple of King Jayavarman VII, built at the end of the 12th century. It is a mountain temple built to represent Mount Meru, the center of the universe in Hindu and Buddhist cosmology.

The King had the temple constructed in the center of Angkor Thom, the 9 km² large capital city of the Khmer empire

(For more information, please see: www.britannica.com/place/Angkor )

Noor is quite the Earthy being, and as such, she does not refuse the rain. She embraces it as the life giver it is, celebrating its role in the process of nature.

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Taken at the Seelie Queen´s garden, her favorite location

(maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Realm%20of%20Fae/224/73/21) in the Mystic Realms!

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Credits:

♡--Headdress: LODE Head Accessory - Hellebore Crown

♡--Horns: +Half-Deer+ Aventine Horns - Cosmology

♡--Rings: . PUKI . My Rings Set

♡--Ears: BentBox Sylvan Ears (Beta 1.0)

♡--Hair: DOUX - Sophie Hairstyle

♡-- Body Jewelry: ERSCH - Bellorica {Legacy} Set

♡--Clothes: Violent Seduction - Bathory Pencil Dress -

Violent Seduction - Tainaron Antique

♡--Umbrella: YOKAI - Lemon Garden Umbrella

♡-- Flowers: [Salem] Body Flowers

♡-- Bindi: Ysoral .: Luxe Piercing Bindi Sophie:.

The original photo was of a tree on a bluff that overlooks Lake Michigan. Photofox Tiny Planet component was used to create this image.

"Yggdrasil (from Old Norse Yggdrasill) is an immense mythical tree that plays a central role in Norse cosmology, where it connects the Nine Worlds.

Yggdrasil is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson. In both sources, Yggdrasil is an immense ash tree that is center to the cosmos and considered very holy. The gods go to Yggdrasil daily to assemble at their things, traditional governing assemblies. The branches of Yggdrasil extend far into the heavens, and the tree is supported by three roots that extend far away into other locations; one to the well Urðarbrunnr in the heavens, one to the spring Hvergelmir, and another to the well Mímisbrunnr. Creatures live within Yggdrasil, including the dragon Níðhöggr, an unnamed eagle, and the stags Dáinn, Dvalinn, Duneyrr and Duraþrór." -Wikipedia

All hands on deck! The Mystic Realms is such a wide and magical plane that the cold weather faeries and creatures can use an extra help to welcome the changes of Winter!

Noor always gets the Faun Flu when Winter comes, but she will never refuse to help!

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Taken at The Mystic Realms-Winter Wildes (The Realm of The Fae)

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♡--Hair: Usagi Society - Hanni Hair

♡--Dress:Bipolar - Kris Dress

♡--Body: Legacy 1.4

♡--Headdress: *LODE* Head Accessory - Mistletoe Wreath [rare]

♡--Horns: +Half-Deer+ Aventine Horns - Cosmology

♡--Scarf: MIWAS / Star princess Scarf

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To celebrate 9 months of The Mystic Realms being open there is a new Photo contest!

Our sims are everchanging and have evolved exponentially over the past few months. So, our theme for this contest is of Change Whether it be through transformation, seasons change, magical influence, use your creativity in both story and photography and use of our sims to showcase Change.

Read more about the contest here: flic.kr/p/2nZbouT

Nikon d5100

f2.8

11mm

3200ISO

31 x 25 seconds

stitched in PTGui

This is the last of the panoramas I took on this trip. Why does this one look different? The MW is upside down! Well, as mentioned in the other panos, the MW was directly overhead so I could either photograph it facing east and looking up or I could face west and look up, which would effectively make the core look upside down in comparison. Also, this particular shot was taken from right to left, again the opposite of the others, and it captures the landscape at the other side of the falls.

The panorama consists of 31 landscape oriented shots and covers nearly 270 degrees of the night sky.

Messier 56 is a globular cluster of stars in the constellation of Lyra. It was discovered in 1779 by Charles Messier.

Spanning 84 light-years in diameter and approx 32,900 light years away it is believed to be about 13.7 billion years old, It is believed to contain around 80,000 stars.

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A globular cluster is a spherical collection of stars that orbits a galactic core as as satellite. Globular clusters are very tightly bound by gravity, which gives them their spherical shapes and relatively high stellar densities toward their centres.

​Details.

M: Mesu 200

T: TMB 152/1200

C: QSI683 Baader LRGB filters

30x600s Luminance

30x600s Red

30x600s Green

30x600s Blue

Totalling 20 hours.

Hsinbyume Pagoda, Mingun, Mandalay district, Myanmar

The Hsinbyume Pagoda from the early 19th century is built to reflect Buddhist cosmology with seven layers of terraces.

The pagoda is painted white and is modeled on the physical description of the Buddhist mythological mountain, Mount Meru.

From Mandalay is a nice short boat ride to Mingun.

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Nikon d5500

50mm + Hoya Red Intensifier filter

ISO 3200

f/2.5

Sky: 20 x 30s

Foreground: 6 x 15s

iOptron SkyTracker

This was taken about 90mins outside of Perth near the small Wheatbelt town of Boddington. The panorama was shot just outside the fenceline of a farm and captures the Milky Way as it is rising from the East.

Nikon d5500

50mm + Hoya Red Intensifier filter

ISO 3200

f/2.2

29 x 30s

iOptron SkyTracker

This is one of two full panoramas I took on this night. I took two because I was sure that the unbelievably strong wind at my back had a good chance of ruining the first so to hedge my bets I took another one. I still have yet to post the first.

Sugarloaf Rock is a popular coastal attraction near Dunsborough in the south west of Western Australia, about 200km south of Perth. The foreground was taken as the moon was setting below the horizon...so no, that's not the sun ;-)

Jaipur- Yantra Mandir /Jantar Mantar.

Brihat Samrat Yantra, equatorial sundial.

27 meters high, which allows to obtain, at the equinoxes, a measurement of the hour reaching an accuracy of 0.5 seconds.

This site was built on the order of the Mahârâja Jai Singh II in his new capital of Jaipur between 1727 and 1733.

It consists of twenty fixed instruments, built in masonry, some of which are large. It expresses the astronomical skills and cosmological conceptions acquired in the entourage of a learned prince at the end of the Mughal era.

Hidden cosmology

Situated on the Thonburi side of the Chao Phraya River , Wat Arun (“Temple of Dawn”) is one of the oldest and best known landmarks in Bangkok, Thailand. The temple is an architectural representation of Mount Meru, the center of the universe in Buddhist cosmology.

The temple derives its name from the Hindu god Aruna, often personified as the radiations of the rising sun.

Despite it’s name, the best views of Wat Arun are in the evening with the sun setting behind it.

www.touropia.com/famous-buddhist-temples/

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wat_Arun

Niflheim is one of the Nine Worlds and is a location in Norse mythology which sometimes overlaps with the notions of Niflhel and Hel.

Most of the surviving mythology centres on the plights of the gods and their interaction with various other beings, such as humanity and the jötnar, beings who may be friends, lovers, foes or family members of the gods. The cosmos in Norse mythology consists of Nine Worlds that flank a central tree, Yggdrasil. Units of time and elements of the cosmology are personified as deities or beings. Various forms of a creation myth are recounted, where the world is created from the flesh of the primordial being Ymir, and the first two humans are Ask and Embla. These worlds are foretold to be reborn after the events of Ragnarök when an immense battle occurs between the gods and their enemies, and the world is enveloped in flames, only to be reborn anew. There the surviving gods will meet, and the land will be fertile and green, and two humans will repopulate the world.

The Cone Nebula Upper left of the image) is a complex region of hydrogen gas and interstellar dust approximately 2.700 light years from Earth that interact to form a very tortured and twisted landscape. The Cone itself is formed by the interplay of ionized gas and a dust cloud.

The brightest star in the image, 15 Monoceros (within the blue reflection nebula), is part of the Christmas Tree Cluster. A grouping of about a dozen bright stars to the left of 15 Monocerotis form the triangular shape of the Christmas tree, with the top of the tree being the bright star just right of the Cone itself.

Below and to the right of 15 Monoceros is a region known to amateur astronomers as the Fox Fur Nebula.

This complete area is very dense in the Hydrogen Alpha wavelength, which is why the area has such a reddish hue.

Details.

M: Mesu 200

T: Takahashi FSQ85 0.73x

C: QSI683 and Moravian G2-8300 with Baader LRGB filters and Astrodon 3nm Ha filter.

70x300s R,G and B

15x1800s Ha

55x1200s Luminance

Totalling 43 hours and 20 minutes.

Nikon d5100

f2.8

11mm

3200ISO

15 x 25 seconds

stitched in PTGui

This panorama covers over 180 degrees of the night sky above Serpentine Falls in Western Australia. This particular site is just 35 minutes from my home in the suburbs of Perth, Australia, a city of 1.8 million. We don't have to go far for dark skies :)

Nikon d5500

35mm

ISO 4000

f/2.2

33 x 30 seconds

iOptron SkyTracker

Stitched in PTGui

This is a 280MP panorama of the Milky Way setting above Lake Ninan near Wongan Hills approximately 200km NE of Perth in Western Australia.

The light pollution on the left is from the nearby town of Calingiri, a very small Wheatbelt town with a population of just over 100.

Lake Ninan is a salt lake that runs dry in summer and fills up in winter. This was the fullest the lake has been in years.

Nighttime floodlit view of the central prang: The Khmer style Wat Chaiwatthanaram is a Royal temple that was used by the King and other members of the Royal family and is one of Ayutthaya's most impressive temples. The monastery is located opposite the South West corner of the historical island on the other side of the Chao Phraya river.

Wat Chaiwatthanaram was constructed in 1630 by King Prasat Thong. The King built the temple as a means to gain Buddhist merit and as a memorial to his mother. The monastery was looted and largely destroyed by the Burmese armies in 1767 after which it was deserted.

Wat Chaiwatthanaram was built following the concepts of the Khmer mountain temples of Angkor to symbolize the universe in Buddhist and Hindu cosmology. At the center is a 35 meter tall Khmer style prang (a corncob shaped tower). At each of its corners stands a much smaller tower. The prang represents Mount Meru surrounded by oceans. It is surrounded by eight smaller chedi connected by covered galleries that enclose a courtyard. The 25 meter tall slender towers diminish in size towards the top. In their interior are niches that each enshrined an image of the Buddha seated on a pedestal. Lining the gallery were over 100 gilded and black lacquered images of the Buddha in subduing Mara mudra. Ayutthaya Thailand

When I took this photo in the Britzer Garden- Berlin, the rings on the sundial of the calendar square had been temporarily removed for the purpose of extensive restoration work.

A crow perched about halfway up and was probably contemplating going to the top. Maybe it hesitated because the usual rings of the sundial were missing?

You can read more information on the subject of calendar space in the Britzer Garden and the original sundial in the description of the cosmological park:

www.britzergarten.de/en/education-culture/art-architectur...

Als ich dieses Foto im Britzer Garten-Berlin machte, waren an der Sonnenuhr des Kalenderplatzes die Ringe zwecks umfassender Restaurierungsarbeiten vorübergehend entfernt worden.

Eine Krähe hockte auf etwa der halbem Höhe und hat wahrscheinlich überlegt, ob sie es bis auf die Spitze wagen sollte. Vieleicht zögerte sie weil die gewohnten Ringe der Sonnenuhr fehlten?

Mehr Informationen zum Thema Kalenderplatz im Britzer Garten und ein Foto wie der originalen Sonnenuhr findet ihr in der Beschreibung des Kosmologischen Parks:

www.britzergarten.de/bildung-kultur/kunst-architektur/kos...

This is a montage of the best bits of 2016 ..... It's been an interesting year for sure and I've had some imaging fun!

2017 is already turning into an interesting year, with things in the pipeline that I am looking forward to.

There are many hundreds of hours of total exposure time in this complete montage. Some of the images have been published in magazine and one of them got a NASA APOD as well.

I hope you enjoy looking over it as much as I've enjoyed the imaging and processing time spent doing each and every image on here.

This one consists of 30 portrait oriented photos - 15 top and 15 bottom. Processed using PTGui. I light painted the foreground with a hand held spotlight.

Nikon d5500

35mm

ISO 3200

f/2.5

Foreground: 5 x 10 seconds

Sky: 23 x 30 seconds

iOptron SkyTracker

This is another shot from my recent trip to Bailup, just outside the Perth metropolitan area. The light pollution is really obvious here but stupid me forgot to shoot with my other lens that has a light pollution filter. Not sure it filters THAT much LP though :)

16 shot panorama

25 seconds

f2.8

11mm

ISO 3200

Sitched with PTGui

Lake Dumbleyung is about 215km south east of Perth. It's famous for hosting Donald Campbell's successful world water speed record attempt back in 1964. The lake was much fuller then but I was hoping for at least some water to cover the bottom of the many dead trees that line the shores, I wasn't lucky though.

This particular shot was taken an hour or so after sunset while facing west, hence the zodiacal light. It covers nearly 220 degrees of the night sky. The large and small Magellanic Clouds were rising from the SSE while the right side of the photo is approx NNE.

First stop on Chihuly installation at Fairchild Gardens in Miami, FL.

Binary stars are rarities in the universe (relatively speaking), and the communication of light from our Sun to this glass vision, this 'sole del citron', suggested this cosmological interlinking, at least as far as I'm concerned. You can almost sense the response from this fantastic glass sun-that-fell-to-Earth with its counterpart in the heavens.

I could have spent my day with this piece, but there was so much more to witness!

More to come …

sol del citron, 2014. glasswork by dale chihuly.

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p.s. this is one of those images that remind me that photography really is an art. if i had to categorize this particular image, i would call it a study. if i get the opportunity to return (before the installation is removed at the end of may,) i'll shoot this much differently i think. same angle … just much differently. ltp

This photo was taken in 2021, on a foggy morning in central New Mexico, as we passed through fairly quickly. I posted several images at that time, but this is a revised interpretation.

"The Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) is a centimeter-wavelength radio astronomy observatory in the southwestern United States built in the 1970s. It lies in central New Mexico on the Plains of San Agustin, between the towns of Magdalena and Datil, approximately 50 miles (80 km) west of Socorro.

The VLA comprises twenty-eight 25-meter radio telescopes (twenty-seven of which are operational while one is always rotating through maintenance) deployed in a Y-shaped array and all the equipment, instrumentation, and computing power to function as an interferometer. Each of the massive telescopes is mounted on double parallel railroad tracks, so the radius and density of the array can be transformed to adjust the balance between its angular resolution and its surface brightness sensitivity.

"Astronomers using the VLA have made key observations of black holes and protoplanetary disks around young stars, discovered magnetic filaments and traced complex gas motions at the Milky Way's center, probed the Universe's cosmological parameters, and provided new knowledge about the physical mechanisms that produce radio emission." [source: Wikipedia]

M51

Contains: NGC 5195, Whirlpool galaxy, M 51, NGC 5194

Here is my look at M51.

The Whirlpool Galaxy, also known as Messier 51a, M51a, or NGC 5194, is an interacting grand-design spiral galaxy with a Seyfert 2 active galactic nucleus in the constellation Canes Venatici. In the Catalogue of Named Galaxies, it is called Typhon Canum Venaticorum, after the Greek god Typhon. It was the first galaxy to be classified as a spiral galaxy. Recently it was estimated to be 23 ± 4 million light-years from the Milky Way, but different methods yield distances between 15 and 35 million light-years. Messier 51 is one of the best-known galaxies in the sky. The galaxy and its companion, NGC 5195, are easily observed by amateur astronomers, and the two galaxies may even be seen with binoculars. The Whirlpool Galaxy is also a popular target for professional astronomers, who study it to further understand galaxy structure (particularly structure associated with the spiral arms) and galaxy interactions.

I was interested to see how much detail could be found in the data. [Wikipedia]

I recently saw an article on AFP-R to maximise detail, however, it is very similar to what I already do running small iterations of LHE at different settings in PI and stacked high pass layers selectively applied in PS. Great to see some new techniques worth a look if you have not seen. I will stick with my approach for now.

Imaging telescope or lens: RCOS 14.5"

Imaging camera: SBIG STX KAF-16803

Mount: Paramount-ME

Guiding telescope or lens: RCOS 14.5"

Software: Pixinsight 1.8

Filters: Astrodon Red, Astrodon Green, Astrodon Blue, Ha 5nm, Astrodon Luminance

Resolution: 3096x3180

Dates: May 16, 2017, June 15, 2017, June 16, 2017, June 18, 2017, June 24, 2017

Frames:

Astrodon Blue: 11x1200" bin 1x1

Astrodon Green: 10x1200" bin 1x1

Astrodon Luminance: 30x1200" bin 1x1

Astrodon Red: 12x1200" bin 1x1

Ha 5nm: 17x1800" bin 1x1

Integration: 29.5 hours

Locations: Deep Sky West Remote Observatory (DSW), Rowe, New Mexico, United States

The Iris Nebula (NGC7023) is a reflection nebula approximately 1300 light years away, located in the constellation of Cepheus. On the right hand of the image is VdB 141 (The ghost nebula) so called because of it's shape. This is also a reflection nebula and is about 1500 light years away.

Details:

M: Avalon Linear fast reverse

T: Takahashi FSQ 85

C: QSI690ws-g with Lum filter and Starlight Express Trius SX25C OSC for the colour.

Luminance - 2 pane mosaic 54x600s in total

Colour - 100x600s

Totalling 25 hours and 40 minutes