I was walking the dogs a couple of weeks ago ( I should clarify that they do get walked daily, not just fortnightly) and I was struck by the sheer natural beauty that surrounds us, so I thought I would share a few simple iPhone photos with you.

I wonder how many people just wander around oblivious to all of this, they’re possibly more preoccupied with the dilemma of having an extra shot in their Straciatella or whatever you call a posh coffee these days, or whether the latest edition of ‘Investors Chronicle’ will be waiting for them on the doorstep when they arrive back home.

How can you miss the simple beauty of a wildflower, the warm varied colours of a newly unfurled oak leaf or the apparent deception of a Wildebeest masquerading as a Birch tree? I’m sure so many people miss this.

One of the things about photography is that it makes us open our eyes and appreciate what is around us, it also makes me realise that maybe I should give Martha further clarification on the principles of Hide and Seek!

There is a lot of construction going on. Streets are pretty torn up and traffic has been bottled down to one lane each way in places and some streets have been closed completely. So during all the maneuvering to avoid the traffic jams. I went thru areas I normally stay out of. Let me clarify what I am about to say. I worked in Detroit for around 14 years ( actually in Dearborn Mi right across the street from the Ford World H.Q. ) My travels around the city were not limited to just Dearborn. I am not in any way exaggerating what I am about to say. There are areas in the city of Detroit that look like a war had been fought in them. There are gutted and crumbling buildings all over the place , Trash is piled up on the curbs and you can drive for blocks and it is like this. Some areas of the city are to dangerous to even go in ! ( I had a bullet ricochet off the top of my truck cab coming home from there after work on night. I still lived in Toledo at that time and was on 75 south just before the rouge bridge when that happened. Had the bullet trajectory been a little steeper it would have penetrated the cab and I would have been shot. Instead it just put a crease in the roof of my truck (about 7 inches long. ) I was passing through one of Detroit's more dangerous neighborhoods.

The point I am making here is that while I was creeping through traffic in downtown Toledo I noticed boarded up buildings , crumbling buildings ( the bricks from the upper front of the building were laying on the sidewalk ) Buildings that a few years ago were home to business ( now vacant some with all the windows busted out ) will probably meet the same fate as those in Detroit. Gone ! Today about a third of what used to be the richest city in the U.S. is gone. Toledo seems to be headed right down the same path as Detroit. ( Yes if you are wondering....democrats are running the show in both places )

Following the ensuing debate over my use of the word 'judicious', I would like to clarify. ;-) I have to confess to some 'judiciously gratuitous' use of contrast, brightness and grain here. I was trying to rescue a blurred image and make it a little more translucent and ethereal....?

One day, I may yet master the close-up use of my little P&S.

Up to #367, Dec 6, 2008.

I think I have to clarify that this work is based on two shots, taken in difference focus

the basis is the normal one, which is the substrate..

the second shot, which is totally off focus to produce the bokeh, overlayed on the first one..

I use f/4 to my analog 24mm-f/2.8 lens here to produce those hexagonal bokeh marks.

using photo shop in a simple way to change the painting. Often they are both puzzling me as much as they clarify the image and paint.

On the nudist beaches should one or two masks be used?

¿En las playas de nudistas se debe usar una o dos mascarillas?

Whether human made artefacts / are resembling physics of their makers / or whether the spectator / is build to see its own origin / in such elements / has not been clarified.

The interest of these walkers in an invisible horizon point can only be clarified by a textual explanation. Before reading it, and this is the whole point of photographic practice, you can imagine a whole host of possible situations: a ship approaching the shore, the activity of a commercial port, the silhouette of a distant shoreline or rock, the contrast of a horizon line between sky and sea... For once, I'm going beyond the potential of the imaginary and giving you the real explanation behind the curiosity of the walkers on the quays of Saint-Jean-de-Luz: a dolphin had been spotted in the immediate vicinity of the beach, and all those who had been informed were trying to locate its fin so that they could follow the animal's movements. For my part, my curiosity as a street-watcher led me to observe the humans.

Finally got around to adding a cockpit for one of these. Nothing fancy, but it gets the job done, and helps clarify the intended scale.

Awful but inevitable pun-sorry not sorry.

Also regarding the hideous cushion, just to clarify lest anyone thinks I have had an appalling lapse in taste, this is not taken at Roe Towers....but in a bar in Bristol. Inevitably, the entire flickr community will now rise as one to inform me that they either a} own or even b} designed the self same cushion. As a result of this awful insult, I will doubtless be tracked down to my safe house in Antwerp and forced to eat seafood every day for a month whilst perusing magazines extolling the aesthetic joys of HDR .

You'd never know that there were five dog beds in the house.

HFF!

Edit: To clarify...TWO dogs...FIVE beds..not counting the human ones...

And thanks for the good wishes..my birthday's not until tomorrow!

and here is what I found out about it (summarised from wiki entry):

In 1859, Robert Chesebrough, a chemist who formerly clarified lamp oil from sperm oil, was losing business as whale oil was replaced by coal oil. He travelled to the oil fields in Titusville, Pennsylvania to research what new materials might be created from this new fuel. There he learned of a residue called rod wax that had to be periodically removed from oil rig pumps. The oil workers had been using the substance to heal cuts and burns. Chesebrough took samples back to Brooklyn, extracted the usable petroleum jelly, and began manufacturing a medicinal product he called Vaseline, from German Wasser (water) and Greek elaion (oil).

The Chesebrough Manufacturing Company merged with Pond's in 1955 and was purchased by Unilever in 1987.

Vaseline is used as a topical moisturizer which prevents evaporation of water from the outermost skin layer and seals out external water. It is intended for external use only, to manage and relieve atopic dermatitis and eczema in adults.

When we were teenagers, my friends and I put Vaseline on our eyelashes at night, thinking it would make them grow longer and thicker. It didn't.

I should have clarified....this picture is a tribute to a dear friend of mine who just finished chemotherapy/radiation yesterday. She is my hero.

I forgot to ask the owner so I'm only guessing it's a -55 or -56 but at the end of the day, I have no clue! ;) I'm sure some of you experts will clarify! =)

For Ottergoose and others this shows the layout at Cardigan Jct. and how the operator accessed the depot. This is Soo Train 2 heading east at Cardigan Jct. on June 10, 1978.

For me, it's hard to say that people I meet in Second Life are "friends". I see them usually only as acquaintances. Perhaps here I will be able to clarify my views on what I believe a friend is and is not.

A friend is so much more than what we are capable of having in Second Life. A friend is someone that will stand beside you through the good and the bad times of life. They share a genuine interest and a physical presence in your life. You can reach out and touch them physically if you need that shoulder to cry on or their arms to hold you in a hug. We know where each other lives and our phone numbers. A friend is a physical presence in your life, not just a Second Life cohort.

Second Life is a virtual platform. We engage with avatars from around the world with different cultures, but how "real" are they, and just how "real" can they ever be? How much can you involve yourself in their lives when most of the time we know them only by their avatar's moniker? How much can you invest emotionally in these "friendships" and actually get beyond the pixels? Usually, we don't even know their real names and have limited accessibility outside. Most often distance is a huge factor. I do know and realize that Second Life friendships and love relationships have carried over to our real lives and even real-life weddings occur. Those are the exceptions to the norm.

I know from personal experiences how vulnerable you can make yourself to these "friends" by exposing your true personalities and real-life aspects. It can be too much real information becomes too much ammunition against you if you were to find yourself with issues and those SL "friends" ignore you or worse yet stab you in the back, betray your trust, kick you to the curb, and distance themselves from you either by unfriending you or by creating another alt avatar and going their separate way. Once they break your trust in this virtual world, you are more watching your back and careful about what you share and with who you share it. From then on what happens in SL is friendship Role Play. Romantic relationships and Second Life marriages are just Role Playing. So, unless you have met this person face to face and real to real it's hard to say they are your friend.

I think that in Second Life you can only take it so far, so unless I had a close relationship with somebody in both worlds that accepts me for who I am and what I stand for I cannot consider them second-life friends and not definitely not real friends. They have to earn my trust and not break it. Thanks to Asarith I have started to believe friendship may be possible again when we talk or practice

our samurai routines.

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oposes: -R.Bento- -Samurai Bento static

obackground: Red Dragons - Mada Koko - The Bearded Guy

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Friend: Asarith

The original photo was taken early this morning in the Canley area of Coventry. The view is looking out across the field of Prior Deram Park at a nice golden sunrise.

The photo was taken using the app ExposerGL on my iPhone 6.

First I used the app Snapseed to edit the picture. I cropped the image and applied the Tonal Contrast preset. I then boosted the Contrast, Saturation, Ambiance and Shadows. I also decreased the Highlights a little. After this I used the app Mextures to apply the formula called Dead by Dawn by Tony Detroit. Next I used PicsArt to apply the Artistic Oil Painting preset. Finally I used PhotoToaster to add the Clarify preset and the Red/Blue Process FX. I then applied the Stucco texture and the Leather frame.

winter bare

“Red is the great clarifier bright and revealing. I can't imagine becoming bored with red it would be like becoming bored with the person you love.” Diana Vreeland (1903-1989)

I think it's fun to make a playful way photos and clarify things including this one ..

Resort Rangers are very helpful with this sign. It was ambiguous at first, but someone clarified with further instruction… Photographed in Kicking Horse Mountain Resort, near Golden BC Canada

The image today was taken late this Afternoon in the Spon Street area of Coventry. The view is one of what is thought to be the oldest pair of Semi Detached houses in England. The buildings date back to the 15th Century and were restored between 1969 - 1970. The restoration of these houses marked the beginning of the ambitious Spon Street conservation and relocation project.

The photo was taken using the app ExposerGL on my iPhone 6.

First I used the app Handy Photo to delete a couple of Ballards and an Advertisement sign from the front of the building. After this I used Snapseed to further edit the picture. I cropped and Straightened the image and applied the Tonal Contrast preset. I then boosted the Contrast, Saturation, Warmth and Shadows. I also decreased the Highlights. After this I used the app Mextures to apply the formula called Bleu by Cora Edwards. Next I used the app DistressedFX to add the Stirred Overlay and the Bliss Texture. Finally I used PhotoToaster to add the Clarify preset, the Drama FX and a Large dark vignette. I then applied the Old Paper preset and the Leather frame.

The Siq (Arabic: السيق‎, transliterated al-Sīq, transcribed as-Sīq,[a] literally 'the Shaft') is the main entrance to the ancient Nabatean city of Petra in southern Jordan. Also known as Siqit, the main entrance in Petra is a dim, narrow gorge (in some points no more than 3 metres (10 ft) wide) winds its way approximately 1.2 kilometres (0.75 mi) and ends at Petra's most elaborate ruin, Al Khazneh (the Treasury). A wide valley outside leading to the Siq is known as the Bab as-Sīq (Gateway to the Siq).

Unlike slot canyons like Antelope Canyon, which are directly shaped by water, the Siq is a natural geological fault split apart by tectonic forces; only later was it worn smooth by water. The walls that enclose the Siq stand between 91–182 metres (299–597 ft) in height.]

The entrance to the Siq contains a huge dam, reconstructed in 1963 and again in 1991, designed to bar the mouth of the Siq and reroute the waters of Wadi Musa. The dam is a fairly true reconstruction of what the Nabataeans did to control Wadi Musa between the 1st century BC and the beginning of the 1st century AD. The entrance also contains the remnants of a monumental arch, of which only the two abutments and some hewn stones of the arch itself have survived. The arch collapsed in 1896 following an earthquake, but its appearance is known from the lithographs of Matthew Boulby and David Roberts.

The Siq was used as the grand caravan entrance into Petra. Along both walls of the fissure are a number of votive niches containing baetyli, which suggest that the Siq was sacred to the Nabatean people. In 1998, a group of statues were uncovered when digging was conducted to lower the road by more than six feet. Although the upper part is greatly eroded, it is still possible to recognise the figures of two merchants, each leading two camels. The figures are almost twice lifesize.

Along the Siq are some underground chambers, the function of which has not yet been clarified. The possibility that they were tombs has been excluded, and archaeologists find it difficult to believe that they were dwellings. The majority consensus is that they housed the guards that defended the main entrance to Petra.

Each day, while on my way to and from work, I pass a tree in the distance. Set against the backdrop of the not-so-distant mountains, I find myself looking to see what clouds are coming in from the coast or to see how much fog there is, or to check out what kind of sunset we're having today.

Well, this day I decided not to allow another passing to go by without at least trying to capture something of what makes that tree always pull on my attention so strongly. I got out of my car, parked along the road, and I walked back and forth shooting it from different angles until I settled upon this angle and composition that I most liked.

It was in post-processing, though, that this sort of "vintage" feel emerged, helping me clarify what I feel while moving daily through this space in Northern California where I live. It occurred to me that the landscape I see every day reminds me of the history of this region in particular and of California more generally. The impermanence of agriculture and the built environment, which will someday pass away, revert to its original state, or evolve into something new and not yet seen, all remind me of the relative permanence of the trees, the mountains, and the sky. Sometimes I look with envy at the photos of people who live in places like Europe and elsewhere, but today I realize just how much I love the "spectacular everyday-ness" of this magnificent place I call home.

I am always looking to invite a contemplative quality into my photography practice, making it an extension of my daily meditative practice. To be sure I do not always achieve it, but this image represents––at least for me––what it looks like when I do.

This is... me.

maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Netherfield%20Forest/99/18...

Just a quick upload....I tried to clarify this photo a little, but it did not help due to all of the salt water spray in the air. I just wanted to give you an idea of what Hurricane Bill is causing on the East Coast. Even though it's 1000 miles off shore....it's causing some major beach erosion here in NC. But the Surfers love it!! 14 foot waves today....Surfing pics to follow : ))

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!!

just so you all know, all of my film is sooc with the exception of changing the photograph b&w

idk, I think I needed to clarify that. If you have questions, just ask.

my kitty cat.

Today's image was taken earlier this evening in the Canley Ford community Wild Flower Meadow. The view is of a Metallic Sculpture called Kestrel. The sculpture made by Walenty Pytel stands at the northern edge of Meadow.

The photo was taken using the app ProCamera on my iPhone 6.

First I used the app Snapseed to edit the picture. I cropped the image and applied the Tonal Contrast preset. I then decreased the Highlights and boosted the Ambiance, Warmth and Saturation. Next I used the app Lens Light to apply the Cool colour filter to the image plus I added the Solar Rays light flare to the eye of the Kestrel along with the Ice Ring light surround flare. Finally I used PhotoToaster to add the Clarify preset, the Vibrant FX and a Medium Dark Vignette. I then added the Stucco texture and the Charcoal frame.

House of the Rising Sun

The Animals

I only mention the title, because as you will see far my picture of the meaning of the letter, but would fail to my essence if not clarified, about this title.

My mother, she was a tailor

Sewed these new bluejeans

My father was a gamblin 'man

Way down in New Orleans

My mother, she would look at me

She said, they are, you've got a long road ahead

They are, some may roll and make you crazy

But do not forget these words I said

And do not forget what your name is

And know what the game is

From the North coast to the South coast

From country to country

Mind to mind

Generation to generation

From time to time

And to sniff across your mind

To go downtown

And to hang around

The House of The Rising Sun

Mother was a tailor

Sewed these new blue-jeans

Father was a gamblin 'man, yea yea

Way down, way down, in New Orleans

And the only thing a gambling man needs

Is some cash, ooh lord, and a trunk

And the only time he's satisfied, already

Is when ...

Ya-aah, board and bought, oh no

To where, I do belong

I'm wandering back

To earn my pays, in The House

They call, the Rising Sun

Mother tell your baby children, yea yea

Do not do the things that I've done

Spend your life in without and misery

In The House, they call, the Rising Sun

Ohh

House, of The Rising, Sun

I think few understood the lyrics. speaks of a brothel, game house, ...

This is a sad song ........ those who have been walking out of the "house of the rising sun" in 5 am with empty pockets, fake dreams and lots of debts .... and straight to the end of the rope or under a train ... or those who have been lucky enough to have some kind of support, family or friends and managed to escape the terrible destiny but still scarred for the rest of their life ... there is a saying : king at midnight, beggar at dawn .... kids..don't go down that road ... the house always wins .....

The peony is a flowering plant in the genus Paeonia, the only genus in the family Paeoniaceae. They are native to Asia, Europe and Western North America. Scientists differ on the number of species that can be distinguished ranging from 25 to 40,although the current consensus is 33 known species.[The relationships between the species need to be further clarified

Hidden almost out of sight, just off the Huron Street bridge in downtown Stratford, Ontario lies the Shakespearean Gardens. This well manicured English garden offers a formal setting with boxwood hedges,stone walkways, benches and gazebo yet comes alive with the brilliant colour of an amazing array of flowers, herbs, shrubs and trees.

The views from the garden are just as impressive with the historic Perth County Courthouse to one side and the gently flowing Avon River on the other side. Stone steps and a pathway along the Avon River lead you underneath the old Huron Street bridge and towards the Shakespeare Festival.

Litlte Wild Bee took advantage of the Sun, out for a couple of hours this morning. She's lading up with the bright yellow pollen of Sanguisorba officinalis., Great Burnet. The English name - referring to the brown-red of the flower - belies its use which the Latin clarifies: Official - that is to say, sold by apothecaries in their 'offices' - Blood Stauncher.

After a long, long wait for the ownership of the land underneath the pantograph charging infrastructure to be clarified and the equipment fitted, the 358 has at last started operating its ie-trams, classified IEs by Metrobus. Today got to see the filthiest weather London could throw at them, plus massive crowds, as the 358 is a lot busier than when it started. In fact, it could benefit from being split in half, say across Bromley with the 261 restored to Orpington. This particular bus had a sticky front door and the first pushchair that got on couldn’t get between the first row of seats, so those problems will need addressing. They are also unabashedly weird-looking, but distinctive enough to attract attention, even from civilians, which doesn’t normally happen!

However, the place that can be relaxed only by clarifying the sitting ear there.

Tokyo-Japan

I was walking around my neighborhood, trying to catch some interesting evening light, when I suddenly found this flare in my viewfinder.

I simply shot to see what I could get.

I want to clarify that it is not the light emanating from any supernatural being, nor the powerful light emanating from any UAP's (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena), which is what the usual UFOs are currently called.

(Photo taken with a Nikon Z8 camera and a Meyer-Optik Görlitz Biotar 75mm F1.5 II lens, which is a fully manual focus lens, which has no communication pins with the camera, so the exposure information that appears on this page, although partially corrected, it could contain some erroneous exposure data.)

SÓLO UN SIMPLE DESTELLO, 2023

Estaba paseando por mi barrio, para pillar alguna luz interesante del atardecer, cuando de pronto encontré este destello en mi visor.

Simplemente, disparé a ver qué me salía.

Quiero aclarar que no se trata de la luz emanada de ningún ser sobrenatural, ni tampoco la potente luz emanada de un FANI (Fenómeno Anómalo no Identificado), que es como actualmente se llama a los OVNIS de siempre.

(Foto hecha con una cámara Nikon Z8 y una lente Meyer-Optik Görlitz Biotar 75mm F1.5 II, que es una lente de enfoque totalmente manual, que no tiene pines de comunicación con la cámara, con lo que la información de exposición que aparece en esta página, aunque corregida parcialmente, podría contener algunos datos erróneos de exposición.)

Referring to:

www.flickr.com/photos/46724328@N07/4956792981/in/photostream

One thing I've learned about photography, sometimes you have to go off of your gut feelings. Just basically saying, you know what, I'm going out into the field regardless of the outcome. This particular outing with my buddy Paul Rojas, we had plans on heading to central Utah. This was a trip that we had planned months in advance, but had to change our plans at the VERY last minute due to horrible weather conditions in the area. We changed our plans and decided to head Trona Pinnacles.

Here's where the adventure begins. I've driven in adverse conditions before, but this....this was some other level stuff. The minute I hit the park boundary of Death Valley heading to Trona, it was a torrential downpour. The roads were starting to flood the further into the valley I went. I was hydroplaning all over the place. I had my windshield wipers going at the highest speed and it wasn't doing a damn thing. At this point I contemplated turning around several times, and starting questioning myself, what the hell am I doing driving in the middle of the desert, in a storm, at 3am? Who does that? And to further clarify my statements about the torrential rain, this was the weekend that Death Valley got hit with all the flash floods.

By time I arrived at Trona, my brain was completely fried from all the white knuckle driving I had been doing for the past 2 1/2 hours. When it was all said and done, In the end we were blessed with a Toyota 4 Runner stuck in clay/mud(Paul and I playing in the mud AGAIN...another story) and absolutely killer conditions. It was worth all the stress and tight butt cheeks....would do it again? Yes, in a heartbeat!

Peace and Love

Nu Earth is gearing up for the fall season with a new SL Home Decor Weekend Sale release, Homemade Banana Bread.

Taxi: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Tuvali/135/178/23

Another new species, the Eastern Ribbon Snake. I should clarify…its more than likely a newly, properly identified species as I am sure that I caught many in my youth and just assumed that they were Common Garter Snakes.

While walking a maintenance road at Muscatatuck NWR back on 16 May, I had one dart across the path just a foot or so in front of my extended right foot. As I stood there, a bit startled and thinking that it was a garter, I was flooded with memories of how our childhood summer months were filled with snakes, toads and frogs…and the excitement the capture of each and every one represented.

I walked a few yards further down the path to see this fellow sunning on the gravel just ahead. It was its slender length that made me realize that it might well be a different species so I approached slowly to capture this shot. Based on my motion, it never moved a muscle until I decided to touch it. It took off like it was shot out of a canon…I assumed they don’t like that much!

In a 20-minute timeframe I spotted three non-venomous snakes, make this a must-see location for my grandson on one of his photography days!

If you look close, you can see me in his eye.

The 10-point white-tail buck quickly clarifies who's the boss.

The relationships between the species need to be further clarified

Hidden almost out of sight, just off the Huron Street bridge in downtown Stratford, Ontario lies the Shakespearean Gardens. This well manicured English garden offers a formal setting with boxwood hedges,stone walkways, benches and gazebo yet comes alive with the brilliant colour of an amazing array of flowers, herbs, shrubs and trees.

The views from the garden are just as impressive with the historic Perth County Courthouse to one side and the gently flowing Avon River on the other side. Stone steps and a pathway along the Avon River lead you underneath the old Huron Street bridge and towards the Shakespeare Festival.

I don't normally post animals, but I thought I would make an exception. Hardly the expert on animals, the running joke on this trip was that I could not recall which were Mountain Sheep, and which were Mountain Goats. I finally gave up and called them all Mountain Sheepgoats. However, for this post, I clarified that this is indeed a Mountain Goat. We found this medium sized fella all alone on a trail near Logan's Pass in Glacier National Park. The elusive Mountain Goat was on the top of my wife's list of must see's for the trip, so at every turn on every trail we asked those coming down the hill if they had seen any.

The crowds alone should have been enough to tell where they could have been. There was a mob scene where this guy was. I pulled out my biggest lens and started shooting away. Some gal next to me with a point and shoot said that it was cheating using lenses like mine, because that's not what we actually saw. I chuckled and said that when you lug these heavy lenses up a mountain, you earn the right to use them.

The air was still quite smokey which gave this unique color cast to the skylight that made it through the smoke. The colors in this image are not that exaggerated, the smoke was boosting the color with odd orange and other almost ghostly colors. I tried to normalize them a little, but I was actually quite pleased with what was left.

Enjoy!

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

tones: AllEdges and Bärbel's PS/PSE actions

texture: flypaper

from yesterday, sorry it's late.

almost sooc.

The Sandy path back to Aberlady Bay through the dunes. Not HDR but PSP's Clarify filter, hence the incidental desaturation. Explored

Messier 27 Overview:

M27, commonly referred to as the Dumbbell Nebula, is classified as a planetary nebula. This type of nebula is formed when a star reaches the latter stages of its life cycle and expels its outer layers. It is essential to clarify that the term "planetary nebula" is somewhat misleading, as these nebulae do not have any direct association with planets. The nomenclature derives from their resemblance to planets when observed through early telescopes. M27, also known as NGC 6853, was officially included in the New General Catalogue (NGC) in the late 19th century.

Key characteristics:

Discovery: Messier 27 was the first planetary nebula ever discovered, spotted by French astronomer Charles Messier on July 12th, 1764. Also of note - Messier 27 was the first ever planetary nebula to be discovered. Charles Messier found it on July 12, 1764, and described it as a "nebula".

Location: It's located in the constellation Vulpecula (The Fox) in the Orion Arm of the Milky Way galaxy.

Distance: Estimates vary, but it's roughly 1,360 light-years from Earth.

Shape: It gets its popular name, the Dumbbell Nebula, from its distinctive twin-lobed shape, resembling a dumbbell or hourglass. It's also sometimes called the "Apple Core Nebula".

Size: It spans about 2.8 light-years across, and its apparent size is roughly 8.0 x 5.7 arcminutes. For reference, the full moon is about 30 arcminutes in diameter.

Brightness: With an apparent magnitude of +7.5, M27 is one of the brightest planetary nebulae in the sky, making it a popular target for amateur astronomers.

Visibility: It is easily visible with binoculars and small telescopes, especially during summer and early autumn in the Northern Hemisphere.

Imaging Telescopes:

Celestron EdgeHD 8″

Imaging Cameras:

ZWO ASI183MC Pro

Dates: August 15th, 21st, 23rd, 24th, and 25th 2025 - September 25th, 26th, and 27th 2025

Just found the "clarify" filter :)