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Nikon d5500
ISO 3200
f/2.8
35mm
Sky - 8 x 30 seconds
Dunes - 4 x 13 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
Stitched in MS ICE
This is a 12 shot panorama of the Milky Way rising over the Nambung Desert approximately 200km north of Perth in Western Australia. The dunes were light painted using a hand held spotlight.
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Big Kisses @ All,Who Follow Me
XoXo Blackangel
(Background not From Secondlife,Photoshop Edit)
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We're part of the moonlight
Ain't a fantasy
Can't bring you the sunlight
Gotta hide your heart
We're born to be sad, sad, sad, sad
So start to be glad, glad, glad, glad
C'mon yo moonchild, moonchild
That's supposed to be
Yeah all the pain, all the sorrow
That's your destiny, see
You know my life is like this
We gotta dance in the rain
Dance in the pain
Even though we crashed now
We gonna dance in the plane
우리에겐 누구보다 밤의 풍경이 필요해
그 어느 누구도 아닌 너만이 날 위로해 the savages
But don't you tell yourself
Moonchild you shine
When you rise, it's your time
C'mon yo
Moonchild don't cry
When moon rise, it's your time
C'mon yo
Moonchild you shine
When moon rise, it's your time
떠나도 절대 한 번도 떠나지지가 않아
죽고싶다며 그만큼 넌 또 열심히 살아댔네
떼어놓고 싶다며 또 다른 줄을 달아
생각하지 말란 생각조차 생각이잖아 you know
사실은 우리 이런 운명이런 걸 you know
끝없는 고통 속에 웃는거란 걸 you know
저유를 말허는 순간 자유는 없어 you know
Do you know
다시 그 내려오는 눈으로 저 밤하늘을 봐
너에겐 보여줄거야 너의 창 너의 시간
알고 있니 저 가로등에도 가시가 많아
저 명멸하는 빛을 자세히 한 번 쳐다봐
야경이란 게 참 잔인하지않니
누구의 가시들이 모여 펼쳐진 장관을
분명 누 군가 너의 가시를 보며 의로받겠지
우린 서로의 야경 서로의 달
우린 서로의 야경 서로의 달
우린 서로의 야경 서로의 달
우린 서로의 야경 서로의 달
C'mon yo
Moonchild don't cry
When moon rise, it's your time
C'mon yo
Moonchild you shine
When moon rise, it's your time
C'mon yo
When moon rise, it's your time
C'mon yo
A cosmic vision painted inside Qoricancha, the most important temple of the Inka Empire, located in Cusco, Peru. This artwork represents "Willka Mayu" (Sacred River), the Inka name for the Milky Way. The Inka believed that the celestial river mirrored the Vilcanota River on Earth, forming a vital part of their agricultural calendar, spiritual life, and cosmic worldview. This stunning piece captures both the mystery and vibrancy of their astronomical knowledge.
Nikon d5100
35mm
f1.8
4 x 40 x 30s
ISO 800
This is a four shot star trails photo taken at Emu Downs Wind Farm approx 220km north of Perth, Western Australia. Each shot consists of 40 individual photos stacked in startrails.exe then stitched in PTGui. Entry into the farm is restricted (it's also a cattle farm) so I was forced to take the photos from outside of the fenced area, I would have preferred to get a little closer :)
Excerpt from thewelltoronto.com/arts/dustin-yellin-emergence/:
Emergence
2023
Emergence by Dustin Yellin braids together three threads–the origin of the universe, the birth of life, and the creation of computing. The sculpture depicts a giant figure modeled from the World Tree, a mythological concept found across multiple cultures that connects the Earth to the stars. Mirroring various evolutionary hypotheses, Emergence grows out of a base plate that represents a primordial soup from which all life on Earth developed. Various vignettes and fantastical elements are scattered throughout the figure’s body: a cat with the rear of a dog stares into a toilet to see its reflection like Narcissus; an astronaut chick hatches out of a geodesic sphere; a battery-operated frog licks a Black Hole in the form of a bagel; a monkey emerges from a monkey brain held up by a large-lipped rotisserie chicken; hybrid animal/human astronauts explore the entire scene from top to bottom, making their way up to the moon.
Included among these surrealist details are many elements relating to the sculpture’s overarching themes of cosmology, mythology, and technology, interspersed with nods to Ontario, such as local flora and fauna, and major Canadian inventions. These many details add up to tell various stories of how small things come together to form more complex systems. Like an open-source code, these stories are not determined, and visitors are encouraged to decipher the artwork and construct their own narratives. More details catch the eye the longer one looks – discover the meaning behind each element by accessing the Emergence Discovery Handbook.
Nikon d5100
35mm
4 x 13 seconds
ISO 4000
f2
Hmmm, something different about this one.....oh, no Milky Way! Well technically it's all the Milky Way, except those two splotches of course, they're the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, our neighbouring galaxies 200k & 160k light years away. The LMC contains approximately 30 billion stars while the SMC contains just a few billion. These two beauties can only be seen in Southern Hemisphere skies.
The yellow/orange light pollution is caused by smoke from controlled burns around the city at the time.
Nikon d5100
35mm
f2.0
ISO 4000
8 x 13 seconds
Stitched in MS ICE
This is a mosaic of 8 35mm shots taken at a salt lake near Cataby in Western Australia. The tree was light painted using a hand held spotlight. The Milky Way is setting towards the west.
The Hsinbyume Pagoda (also known as Mya Thein Tan Pagoda) was built in 1816 by prince Bagyidaw, the son of King Bodawpaya. The prince built this impressive white pagoda to commemorate Princess Hsinbyume his late wife (whose name means the White Elephant Queen) who had passed away during childbirth. One hundred thousand emeralds were used to fund the construction of the white pagoda which can explain its other name Mye Thein Tan (Mye= emerald, Thein Tan = 100,000).
The pagoda’s architectural style is very different from other pagodas in Myamar. The base of the structure shaped like circular terraces is a representation of the seven mountain ranges surrounding Mount Meru, the center of the universe in Buddhist cosmology. The pagoda on top is said to be built after the Chulamanee pagoda in the center of the universe on top of Mount Meru. The pagoda that is topped with a gold spire enshrines a Buddha image. The seven tiered concentric base shaped like waves contains niches, some of which contain small statues of mythological figures.
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Excerpt from thewelltoronto.com/arts/dustin-yellin-emergence/:
Emergence
2023
Emergence by Dustin Yellin braids together three threads–the origin of the universe, the birth of life, and the creation of computing. The sculpture depicts a giant figure modeled from the World Tree, a mythological concept found across multiple cultures that connects the Earth to the stars. Mirroring various evolutionary hypotheses, Emergence grows out of a base plate that represents a primordial soup from which all life on Earth developed. Various vignettes and fantastical elements are scattered throughout the figure’s body: a cat with the rear of a dog stares into a toilet to see its reflection like Narcissus; an astronaut chick hatches out of a geodesic sphere; a battery-operated frog licks a Black Hole in the form of a bagel; a monkey emerges from a monkey brain held up by a large-lipped rotisserie chicken; hybrid animal/human astronauts explore the entire scene from top to bottom, making their way up to the moon.
Included among these surrealist details are many elements relating to the sculpture’s overarching themes of cosmology, mythology, and technology, interspersed with nods to Ontario, such as local flora and fauna, and major Canadian inventions. These many details add up to tell various stories of how small things come together to form more complex systems. Like an open-source code, these stories are not determined, and visitors are encouraged to decipher the artwork and construct their own narratives. More details catch the eye the longer one looks – discover the meaning behind each element by accessing the Emergence Discovery Handbook.
I was tagged by n3rdh3rd and few others I think. Maybe.
So here we go again:
1. My 15 minutes of fame happened in 1997 when me and my hubby got our photo in the book and to the wall of National Gallery of Finland. Veli Granö http://www.veligrano.info/ has documented collectors, folk artists etc. Somehow he wanted to photograph us to his book called "Esineiden valtakunta" (Tangible cosmologies). He visited our then apartment few times before photographing. He interview us about collecting, he planned the photoshoot beforehand. And when he did took the photo, he took it with ancient studio camera . He went under the hood, he warned us that he takes a pic to glass plates and how expensive it is if we move. I did of course, so he took few photos. When the book was published there were an exhibition in National Gallery of Finland - Ateneum in Helsinki. We went to see ourselfs of course... Other collectors in the book were collecting f.ex. pipes, trains, bear skulls, televisions, toy cars....
2. I still haven't told you how many cuddly apes we really have, and I won't. Lol.
Some things I really must keep a secret. You get to see them all when you walk in to our flat.
3. I got glasses when I went to school. I'm hopelessly nearsighted and well, I can live with it. I would die if I lose my glasses when outside. Well, maybe not die, but be seriously alarmed and shocked. I remember a really cold winter in 1980s when there was seriously over -30 celsius (over -22F) coldness for a days, and I wanted to bike somewhere, and biked without glasses because I was afraid I'm going to frozen them.
4. I can't sleep without cotton in my ears... I learned that habit when we lived in other side of the city. We had real problems with downstairs neighbours. First there lived a couple who always started to fight after nights out.. several times. Then there lived a young woman. She was ok, until her boyfiriend went mad one night and we woke with a heavy banging and shouting. I called the police and i was told that police is already there. The banging was caused by the police who were breaking the door down... it didn't last long, the boy shouted: "My love, they are killing me!", and police went and took him outside with handcuffs and finally the ambulance came and took him away. I think he had smoked something too much. Oh and then there were 3rd neighbour but to cut a long story short, we finally moved here a few years ago, and it's oh so quiet and nice here, but I'm still sleeping with cotton balls in my ears.
5. I'm hopeless in handcrafts. That is a shame, really. :( I have tried, but... I can sew basics, but anything a little difficult, no way! I can't , really!
6. I feel that we have enough soft toys, enough cups, enough whatever. Then it happens, there is a new Sylvanian family in my bag. Why? Why is it like that? I have a friend who doesn't have any toys. Not much stuff at all. I feel kinda sad for her. What is life without stuff? And is enough never enough? Collecting for me is to buy stuff because I like it. Not because I need to show that I can collect them all... But well, eh... I better not say anything else now.. sorry.
7. My first ever tv-hero to whom I fell in love was Manolito Montoya from High Chaparral.
I was so in love! Or something. I remember watching High Chaparral, and was so thrilled everytime Indians tried to attack Manolito, or when he saved ladies from them. It really is a shame that High Chaparral isn't available in dvd..
8. Still three to go... hmm.. well.. I have two older brothers. My mom had a miscarriage and then next year I was born. I could have a sister too. Sometimes I wonder what life could have been.
9. I can't swim. I never learned. I tried when I was a kid, but I was afraid when my head went under water... So I never did. It's a shame really.
10. My shoe size is 37 (UK size 4, USA 6,5)
If you read this far you have been tagged!!! lol!
Do this if you want, if not, don't.
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 filter
27x1800s in Ha
I will be getting the OIII data for this as soon as the weather permits.
Airgaed Ravens
Photo taken at Closed Sim
Photographer B. Ravens
Editor Ravens Studio
Seldom mentioned Alfheim was one of the Nine Realms in Norse mythology, a world inhabited by elves. There were two types of elves in Norse lore: the Ljósálfar, or “Light Elves,” and the Dökkálfar, or “Dark Elves.” Though Alfheim was never described in the sources, it may be surmised that the realm embodied the extreme luminosity and darkness characteristic of its inhabitants.
Alfheim was said to be ruled by Freyr, suggesting a deep association with the magic of the Vanir gods. Like the other realms, Alfheim hung from the branches of Yggdrasil, the world tree at the center of Norse cosmology.
I stopped at the Hopi Festival at the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff on my way home from a backpacking trip.
These are Katsinim carved by various Hopi artists.
A kachina (/kəˈtʃiːnə/; also katchina or katcina; Hopi: katsina /kətˈsiːnə/, plural katsinim /kətˈsiːnɨm/) is a spirit being in western Pueblo cosmology and religious practices.[1] The western Pueblo, Native American cultures located in the southwestern United States, include Hopi, Zuni, Tewa Village (on the Hopi Reservation), Acoma Pueblo, and Laguna Pueblo. The kachina cult has spread to more eastern Pueblos, e.g. from Laguna to Isleta. The term also refers to the kachina dancers, masked members of the tribe who dress up as kachinas for religious ceremonies, and kachina dolls, wooden figures representing kachinas which are given as gifts to children.
A kachina can represent anything in the natural world or cosmos, from a revered ancestor to an element, a location, a quality, a natural phenomenon, or a concept. There are more than 400 different kachinas in Hopi and Pueblo culture. The local pantheon of kachinas varies in each pueblo community; there may be kachinas for the sun, stars, thunderstorms, wind, corn, insects, and many other concepts. Kachinas are understood as having humanlike relationships; they may have uncles, sisters, and grandmothers, and may marry and have children. Although not worshipped,[2] each is viewed as a powerful being who, if given veneration and respect, can use their particular power for human good, bringing rainfall, healing, fertility, or protection, for example. One observer has written:[3]
The central theme of the kachina cult is the presence of life in all objects that fill the universe. Everything has an essence or a life force, and humans must interact with these or fail to survive.
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Excerpt from thewelltoronto.com/arts/dustin-yellin-emergence/:
Emergence
2023
Emergence by Dustin Yellin braids together three threads–the origin of the universe, the birth of life, and the creation of computing. The sculpture depicts a giant figure modeled from the World Tree, a mythological concept found across multiple cultures that connects the Earth to the stars. Mirroring various evolutionary hypotheses, Emergence grows out of a base plate that represents a primordial soup from which all life on Earth developed. Various vignettes and fantastical elements are scattered throughout the figure’s body: a cat with the rear of a dog stares into a toilet to see its reflection like Narcissus; an astronaut chick hatches out of a geodesic sphere; a battery-operated frog licks a Black Hole in the form of a bagel; a monkey emerges from a monkey brain held up by a large-lipped rotisserie chicken; hybrid animal/human astronauts explore the entire scene from top to bottom, making their way up to the moon.
Included among these surrealist details are many elements relating to the sculpture’s overarching themes of cosmology, mythology, and technology, interspersed with nods to Ontario, such as local flora and fauna, and major Canadian inventions. These many details add up to tell various stories of how small things come together to form more complex systems. Like an open-source code, these stories are not determined, and visitors are encouraged to decipher the artwork and construct their own narratives. More details catch the eye the longer one looks – discover the meaning behind each element by accessing the Emergence Discovery Handbook.
Kyaiktiyo Pagoda, also known as Golden Rock) is a well-known Buddhist pilgrimage site in Mon State, Burma. It is a small pagoda (7.3 metres (24 ft) built on the top of a granite boulder covered with gold leaves pasted on by devotees. According to legend, the Golden Rock itself is precariously perched on a strand of the Buddha's hair. The balancing rock seems to defy gravity, as it perpetually appears to be on the verge of rolling down the hill. The rock and the pagoda are at the top of Mt. Kyaiktiyo. It is the third most important Buddhist pilgrimage site in Burma after the Shwedagon Pagoda and the Mahamuni Pagoda. A glimpse of the "gravity defying" Golden Rock is believed to be enough of an inspiration for any person to turn to Buddhism.
The legend associated with the pagoda is that the Buddha, on one of his many visits, gave a strand of his hair to Taik Tha, a hermit. The hermit, who had tucked it in the tuft of his hair safely, in turn gave the strand to the king, with the wish that the hair be enshrined in a boulder shaped like the hermit's head. The king had inherited supernatural powers from his father Zawgyi, a proficient alchemist), and his mother, a naga serpent dragon princess. They found the rock at the bottom of the sea. With the help of the Thagyamin, the king of Tawadeintha Heaven in Buddhist cosmology, found the perfect place at Kyaiktiyo for locating the golden rock and built a pagoda, where the strand was enshrined. It is this strand of hair that, according to the legend, prevents the rock from tumbling down the hill. The boat, which was used to transport the rock, turned into a stone. This is also worshiped by pilgrims at a location about 300 metres (980 ft) from the golden rock. It is known as the Kyaukthanban Pagoda or stupa (literal meaning: stone boat stupa).
Legends also mention that pilgrims undertaking the pilgrimage by trekking from the Kinpun base camp three times consecutively in a year will be blessed with wealth and recognition.
Nikon d5500
50mm + Hoya Red Intensifier filter
Sky: 35 x 30 seconds
Foreground: 14 x 15 seconds
ISO 5000
f/3.5
iOptron SkyTracker (sky only)
This is a 215MP panorama of the Milky Way over Serpentine Dam, near Perth in Western Australia. This image was taken during the Southern Hemisphere summer months when the core is not visible at all during night time hours. The core itself doesn't align itself perpendicular with the horizon at my latitude but the 'tail end' of the galactic band does. This part of the night sky contains some interesting objects such as the magenta coloured Carina Nebula and the dark Coal Sack Nebula just below it almost in the centre of the image.
Nikon d5500
50mm with Hoya Red Intensifier Filter
ISO 5000
f/2
18 x 8 seconds
Stitched in MS ICE
Shooting tracked, 50mm full panoramas takes a lot of time. My previous image took over an hour and a half to finish. So after braving the cold night air I was glad to be heading back to my car.......not so fast. This scene with the dead trees reaching towards the core of the galaxy caught my eye and I just couldn't help myself. So out came the equipment again!
This image is a mosaic of 18 photos shot at 50mm. I had shot the trees silhouetted and light painted but ended up preferring the silhouette version.
Nikon d5500
50mm + Hoya Red Intensifier filter
Sky: 39 x 30 seconds
Foreground: 23 x 13 seconds
ISO 4000
f/2.8
iOptron SkyTracker (sky only)
This is a 380MP image of the Milky Way over The Pinnacles Desert in Western Australia. This image was taken during the Southern Hemisphere summer months when the core is not visible at all during night time hours as our planet has moved to such a position during its orbit that the sun is now directly inbetween us and the core so during the night we're actually looking away from the core. This part of the night sky still contains some interesting features, here you can see the magenta coloured Carina Nebula and the dark Coal Sack Nebula just below it almost in the centre of the image. You can also see some bands of green airglow above the horizon.
Nikon d5500
35mm
ISO 5000
f/2.8
Sky: 18 x 30s
Foreground: 12 x 10s
iOptron SkyTracker
Taken at Yenyening Lakes back in April, this is a 30 image panorama of the Milky Way rising over the salt lake system that feeds the Avon and Swan Rivers which eventually flow into Perth, Western Australia.
Temple Of HeavenThe Temple of Heaven, founded in the first half of the 15th century, is considered the most holy of Beijing's imperial temples. It has been described as "a masterpiece of architecture and landscape design".
The design of the Temple of Heaven complex, true to its sacred purpose, reflects the mystical cosmological laws believed to be central to the workings of the universe. Both the overall arrangement and the buildings themselves reflect the relationship between sky and earth, the core of understanding of the Universe at that time.
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The indigenous artists and master carvers of Haida Gwaii have created magnificent hand-split, post-and-beam cedar houses and finely carved totem poles on Canada’s Pacific northwest coast. The poles and carvings are widely appreciated both as fine art and as signifiers of an ancient and enduring Haida culture.
Construction of this late 19th-century Haida Gwaii village replica began in the late 1950s under the direction of renowned Haida artist and master carver, Bill Reid, and Kwakwaka’wakw artist, Doug Cranmer.
The village complex is situated on traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) people and now sits high on the edge of the steep Point Grey escarpment overlooking Vancouver’s Spanish Banks, Howe Sound, the ocean and beyond.
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For me these days, this is a rare single shot image of the Milky Way at 13mm as it rises over Serpentine Dam about 45mins from Perth in Western Australia.
50mm + Hoya red intensifier filter
24 x 6 seconds
ISO 3200
f/1.8
This is a mosaic of 24 shots at 50mm with a Hoya red intensifier (didymium) filter. This filter removes the orange hue from light pollution as well as enhancing red hues which is effective for making nebula in the hydrogen alpha band stand out. Here you can clearly see the Carina Nebula to the left of middle. Being a high resolution shot you can zoom in for more detail :)
Harvey Dam is approximately 125km (80mi) south of Perth in Western Australia.
Nikon d5500
50mm with Hoya didymium filter
76 x 8 seconds
ISO 5000
f/2.5
This image represents the 'leftovers' from a failed attempt at a full landscape panorama I had driven 400+ km to capture back in May. It failed for a couple of reasons, one was that my tracker had suddenly stopped working, a problem apparently common with the original iOptron Skytracker that requires a bit of loosening of some internal screws, thankfully an easy fix but not something I could have done then and there. The second reason was a large bank of cloud had begun to creep over my location which forced me to rush my shots and miss some overlap here and there that made stitching the landscape and sky nigh on impossible, despite many attempts.
Some wispy, non opaque cloud had preceded the large bank of cloud which resulted in the light from many of the more prominent stars becoming diffused. You will notice that Mars looks gigantic in the bottom left of the image! Crux (the Southern Cross) also looks quite prominent to the far right and you can easily distinguish the different spectral types that make up the constellation - from the hotter B type blue stars Alpha, Beta & Gamma Crucis to the cooler M & K type orange stars Gamma & Epsilon Crucis.
This image was captured at the Stirling Ranges National Park, near Bluff Knoll, the tallest peak in South West Western Australia, 400km (250mi) south of Perth.
Nikon d5100
50mm Nikkor Lens
f1.8
84 x 6 seconds
ISO 5000
Stitched in MS ICE
This is one of my first full panoramas shot with a 50mm prime lens. It came out of the stitching software at over one gigapixel! After some cropping I managed to get it down to 740 megapixels, so it's by far my biggest panorama to date. I had to experiment with Photoshop's save levels to try and get the final size under Flickr's 200mb limit. To be honest I can't see much difference between the highest save level of 12 and the level I saved this at, which was 9. The file size difference is huge though, 560mb vs 190mb.
This was shot at one of my favourite locations for astrophotography, The Pinnacles Desert about 2 hours north of my home city, Perth in Western Australia. This image covers more than 200 degrees of the night sky with the left side at around SSE and the right side around NNE. The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are prominent on the left side of the image just above the light pollution from Perth. The foregound was light painted using a hand held spotlight.
Ranakpur Jain temple or Chaturmukha Dharana Vihara is a Śvētāmbara Jain temple at Ranakpur dedicated to Tirthankara Rishabhanatha. The temple is located in a village of Ranakpur near Sadri town in the Pali district of Rajasthan.
Darna Shah, a local Jain businessperson, started construction of the temple in the 15th century following a divine vision. The temple honours Adinath, the first Tirthankar of the present half-cycle (avasarpiṇī) according to Jain cosmology. The Ranakpur temple is one of the largest and most important temples of Jain culture. The campus includes various temples such as Chaumukha temple, Surya temple, Suparshvanatha temple and Amba temple.
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.
Michael Belmore – Anishnaabe ( 1971 - )
The choice of copper for this large work is significant, representing a pure element of nature that is both precious and utilitarian. The medium is also culturally meaningful in Anishnaabe cosmology as copper originates from the blood of the Thunderbird.
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This is a composited image of 11 individual frames and compliments the posted video also in my gallery. Please check out the video "International Space Station Lunar Crossing over Grantham Australia - Video".
International Space Station Lunar Crossing over Grantham Australia. 22h37m41.85s. Crosses the disk of the waxing gibbous Moon (86%), Grantham, Queensland, Australia.
Transit-Duration: 0.84s, (in shadow of Earth)
Path width: 13.3km. Diameter of ISS: 44.66"
size=109.0m x 73.0m x 27.5m.
Satellite at Azimuth=328.8° NNW Altitude=36.2°
Distance=663.0 km.
Angular Velocity=37.0'/s
Ground Speed=7.504 km/s
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Luckily, a nice person stepped into the picture to provide a sense of scale at one of the face-tower gates to Angkor Thom.
The faces on the 23 m towers at the city gates (which are later additions to the main structure) take after those of the Bayon (main temple complex), and pose the same problems of interpretation. They may represent the king himself, the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, guardians of the empire's cardinal points, or some combination of these.
" Aether makes up the Heavens
Upper atmosphere where the Gods dwell
More dense than Air, finer than Water " Aristotle
Escaping to the Gates of Heaven at Full Speed ;
Slipping beneath the Flickr Radar for a while
Incurable my Wanderlust ... with a sense of Beyond ,of Timelessness ,of a World with Eternal Values ....
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No Borders, just Horizons - only Freedom ...
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A woman's Silence is wonderful to Listen to ...
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Kyaiktiyo Pagoda, also known as Golden Rock) is a well-known Buddhist pilgrimage site in Mon State, Burma. It is a small pagoda (7.3 metres (24 ft) built on the top of a granite boulder covered with gold leaves pasted on by devotees. According to legend, the Golden Rock itself is precariously perched on a strand of the Buddha's hair. The balancing rock seems to defy gravity, as it perpetually appears to be on the verge of rolling down the hill. The rock and the pagoda are at the top of Mt. Kyaiktiyo. It is the third most important Buddhist pilgrimage site in Burma after the Shwedagon Pagoda and the Mahamuni Pagoda. A glimpse of the "gravity defying" Golden Rock is believed to be enough of an inspiration for any person to turn to Buddhism.
The legend associated with the pagoda is that the Buddha, on one of his many visits, gave a strand of his hair to Taik Tha, a hermit. The hermit, who had tucked it in the tuft of his hair safely, in turn gave the strand to the king, with the wish that the hair be enshrined in a boulder shaped like the hermit's head. The king had inherited supernatural powers from his father Zawgyi, a proficient alchemist), and his mother, a naga serpent dragon princess. They found the rock at the bottom of the sea. With the help of the Thagyamin, the king of Tawadeintha Heaven in Buddhist cosmology, found the perfect place at Kyaiktiyo for locating the golden rock and built a pagoda, where the strand was enshrined. It is this strand of hair that, according to the legend, prevents the rock from tumbling down the hill. The boat, which was used to transport the rock, turned into a stone. This is also worshiped by pilgrims at a location about 300 metres (980 ft) from the golden rock. It is known as the Kyaukthanban Pagoda or stupa (literal meaning: stone boat stupa).
Legends also mention that pilgrims undertaking the pilgrimage by trekking from the Kinpun base camp three times consecutively in a year will be blessed with wealth and recognition.
For the City of Coral Springs, FL. USA. Created by artist Hanna Jubran. Was originally part of the temporary Sculpture on Sample Program in the City does biannually. After great reviews from the residents of Coral Springs the Public Art Committee purchased the sculpture. This art piece was purchased in 2012 and is located at Betti Stradling Park in C. Springs.
Borobudur, or Barabudur, is a 9th-century Mahayana Buddhist monument near Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia. The monument comprises six square platforms topped by three circular platforms, and is decorated with 2,672 relief panels and 504 Buddha statues.. A main dome, located at the center of the top platform, is surrounded by 72 Buddha statues seated inside perforated stupa.
The monument is both a shrine to the Lord Buddha and a place for Buddhist pilgrimage. The journey for pilgrims begins at the base of the monument and follows a path circumambulating the monument while ascending to the top through the three levels of Buddhist cosmology, namely Kāmadhātu (the world of desire), Rupadhatu (the world of forms) and Arupadhatu (the world of formlessness). During the journey, the monument guides the pilgrims through a system of stairways and corridors with 1,460 narrative relief panels on the walls and the balustrades.
Evidence suggests Borobudur was abandoned following the 14th-century decline of Buddhist and Hindu kingdoms in Java, and the Javanese conversion to Islam. Worldwide knowledge of its existence was sparked in 1814 by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, then the British ruler of Java, who was advised of its location by native Indonesians. Borobudur has since been preserved through several restorations. The largest restoration project was undertaken between 1975 and 1982 by the Indonesian government and UNESCO, following which the monument was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Borobudur is still used for pilgrimage; once a year Buddhists in Indonesia celebrate Vesak at the monument, and Borobudur is Indonesia's single most visited tourist attraction
Going up the stairs and steps of the Ming era Temple of Heaven sacrificial altar dedicated to the worship of Heaven for harvest productivity, leading to the beautiful and unique circular tower in splendid traditional architecture, art and decoration, a UNESCO world heritage and landmark of Beijing, China.
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Church of the Holy Saviour in Chora, Istanbul
outer narthex bay 7 dome with fragments of mosaic
the iconography here was
from the Cycle of the Infancy of Christ and of Christ's Ministry
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Chora Museum, Chora Monastery (Contantinople)
Μονή της Χώρας, Μουσείο Χώρας, Κωνσταντινούπολη
Kariye Müzesi, Kariye Camii, Kariye Kilisesi, Istanbul
"Only small fragments remain of the mosaics in the large domical vault in the seventh bay at the entrance to the parekklesion. At the south side the scene may be identified as Christ Calling Zacchaeus. As Christ passed through Jericho, the publican Zacchaeus climbed a tree in order to see him." [Luke 19]
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Nikon d5500
50mm + Hoya Red Intensifier filter
ISO 3200
Foreground: 9 x 13 seconds
Sky: 22 x 30 seconds
iOptron SkyTracker
This is a 31 image panorama of the Milky Way setting over Herron Point, about an hour south of Perth in Western Australia.
Milky Way over Canning Reservoir in Western Australia.
This is a random shot I took as I had finished my main panorama shoots for the night and was on my way back to my car.
57 x 13 seconds
ISO 3200
35mm
f1.8
This is the last of my photos from Lake Dumbleyung and it's also my biggest pano yet, coming in at 165 megapixels.
As per the above, it consists of 57 individual photos stitched in PTGui covering approximately 220 degrees of the night sky. I've never taken a full panorama with my 35mm lens, they've always covered no more than about 100 degrees. It's quite a bit more work not only because I'm taking a lot more shots but also in stitching it together.........my pc actually shut itself down at one point! As per usual, the foreground was light painted using a hand held spotlight.
I met a fellow photographer (Daisy) who is a graduate astronomy student at Cornell. Other than showing me around to take pictures of some of the beautiful architecture on campus she was kind enough to let me pick her brain on cosmology and astronomy questions.
A beautiful night - in the mid 60's yesterday!
The Hsinbyume Pagoda (also known as Mya Thein Tan Pagoda) was built in 1816 by prince Bagyidaw, the son of King Bodawpaya. The prince built this impressive white pagoda to commemorate Princess Hsinbyume his late wife (whose name means the White Elephant Queen) who had passed away during childbirth. One hundred thousand emeralds were used to fund the construction of the white pagoda which can explain its other name Mye Thein Tan (Mye= emerald, Thein Tan = 100,000).
The pagoda’s architectural style is very different from other pagodas in Myamar. The base of the structure shaped like circular terraces is a representation of the seven mountain ranges surrounding Mount Meru, the center of the universe in Buddhist cosmology. The pagoda on top is said to be built after the Chulamanee pagoda in the center of the universe on top of Mount Meru. The pagoda that is topped with a gold spire enshrines a Buddha image. The seven tiered concentric base shaped like waves contains niches, some of which contain small statues of mythological figures.
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Local dances are a big deal in Bhutan. They're usually performed during religious festivals and ceremonies, and they often involve men wearing fancy masks and costumes. I was lucky that I could snap some pics of the performers at the Six Senses resort in Paro just before their act. The masks are made out of wood and painted with all kinds of colors and designs that represent different characters from Bhutanese mythology or Buddhist cosmology. Some masks are supposed to be gods like Guru Rinpoche or Mahakala, while others were meant to be creepy demons or evil spirits – Paro, Bhutan
The Eagle Nebula (catalogued as Messier 16 or M16, and as NGC 6611, and also known as the Star Queen Nebula and The Spire) is a young open cluster of stars in the constellation Serpens, discovered by Jean-Philippe de Chéseaux in 1745-46. Both the "Eagle" and the "Star Queen" refer to visual impressions of the dark silhouette near the centre of the nebula, an area made famous as the "Pillars of Creation" photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope. The nebula contains several active star-forming gas and dust regions, including the Pillars of Creation.
This region of active current star formation is about 7000 light-years distant. A spire of gas that can be seen coming off the nebula is approximately 9.5 light-years or about 90 trillion kilometres long
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M: Mesu 200
T: ODK10
C: QSI683 with 3nm Astrodon Ha filter
28x1800s
Total exposure 14 hours
Nikon d5500
35mm
12 x 30 seconds
ISO 4000
f/2.2
iOptron SkyTracker
Another panorama from Lake Ninan taken not long before the core set below the horizon. The foreground was light painted using a hand held spotlight. The light pollution on the left is from the nearby Wheatbelt town of Calingiri.
Kyaiktiyo Pagoda, also known as Golden Rock) is a well-known Buddhist pilgrimage site in Mon State, Burma. It is a small pagoda (7.3 metres (24 ft) built on the top of a granite boulder covered with gold leaves pasted on by devotees. According to legend, the Golden Rock itself is precariously perched on a strand of the Buddha's hair. The balancing rock seems to defy gravity, as it perpetually appears to be on the verge of rolling down the hill. The rock and the pagoda are at the top of Mt. Kyaiktiyo. It is the third most important Buddhist pilgrimage site in Burma after the Shwedagon Pagoda and the Mahamuni Pagoda. A glimpse of the "gravity defying" Golden Rock is believed to be enough of an inspiration for any person to turn to Buddhism.
The legend associated with the pagoda is that the Buddha, on one of his many visits, gave a strand of his hair to Taik Tha, a hermit. The hermit, who had tucked it in the tuft of his hair safely, in turn gave the strand to the king, with the wish that the hair be enshrined in a boulder shaped like the hermit's head. The king had inherited supernatural powers from his father Zawgyi, a proficient alchemist), and his mother, a naga serpent dragon princess. They found the rock at the bottom of the sea. With the help of the Thagyamin, the king of Tawadeintha Heaven in Buddhist cosmology, found the perfect place at Kyaiktiyo for locating the golden rock and built a pagoda, where the strand was enshrined. It is this strand of hair that, according to the legend, prevents the rock from tumbling down the hill. The boat, which was used to transport the rock, turned into a stone. This is also worshiped by pilgrims at a location about 300 metres (980 ft) from the golden rock. It is known as the Kyaukthanban Pagoda or stupa (literal meaning: stone boat stupa).
Legends also mention that pilgrims undertaking the pilgrimage by trekking from the Kinpun base camp three times consecutively in a year will be blessed with wealth and recognition.
50mm
29 x 6s
ISO 3200
f/2.0
Stitched in MS ICE.
29 photo, 400 megapixel mosaic of the Milky Way behind a silhouette of gum trees near Lake Leschenaultia in Mundaring, Western Australia.
This location almost borders the Perth metropolitan area so I was a bit surprised at how dark the skies were there. This particular shot was a spur of the moment decision as I was about to put all my gear back into my car after doing a large panorama at the nearby lake.
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Angkor Thom is undeniably an expression of the highest genius. It is, in three dimensions and on a scale worthy of an entire nation, the materialization of Buddhist cosmology, representing ideas that only great painters would dare to portray.
Angkor Thom, the last capital of the Khmer Empire, was a fortified cit enclosing residences of priest, officials of the palace and military, as well as buildings for administering the kingdom. Through here all comers to the city had to pass, and in honor of this function it has been built in a style grandiose and elegant, forming a whole, incomparable in its strength and expression.
The five entry towers are among the most photographed of all the ancient Cambodian ruins. Each sandstone tower rises 23 meters (75 feet) to the sky and is crowned with four heads, one facing each cardinal direction. The faces may represent the rulers of the four cardinal points at the summit of mount Meru.
The lower half of each gate is modeled like an elephant with three heads. Their trunks, which serve as pillars, are plucking lotus flowers. The Hindu god Indra sits at the center of the elephant with an Apsara on each side. He holds a thunderbolt in his lower left hand.
Looking through the tower one can see a corbel arch, a hallmark of Khmer architecture. Inside, wooden crossbeams are visible and a sentry box stands on each side.