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What an amazing spray of delightful tiny five-petaled flowers! With long sweeping filaments that glisten in the morning sunlight! A floral pagoda indeed!
An erect, open semiwoody shrub with large evergreen leaves and huge showy clusters of orange-red or scarlet flowers held above the foliage. The bush sometimes has multiple stems and gets to be 3-5 ft tall and 2-3 ft across. The handsome, tropical leaves can be as large as 12 in across, they have heart shaped bases; lower leaves are lobed and upper leaves entire. They are arranged in opposite pairs along the fast growing stems which often branch from the roots rather than from a single trunk.
The flowers are funnel shaped with long tubes. The flowers within the pyramid-shaped cluster are tiered like a Japanese pagoda. The showy display lasts from summer through autumn with sporadic flowering throughout the year in frost free climates.
Clerodendrum paniculatum, Verbenaceae
Pagoda Flower, Orange Tower Flower, Clerodendron
Wings of the Tropics, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami FL
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shot with a fujifilm x-s10 and fujinon 55mm f2.2 screw-mount lens, with helicoid adapter
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my review of this lens: www.aarondesigns.org/Fujinon55mmf22Review/
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'...damaged by hurricane Irma in 2017. Strategic remedial pruning is made to minimize additional damage and encourage growth.'
A long time, I have not imaged a globular star cluster. And the hercules cluster is one of the most beautiful clusters in the northern hemisphere. I took this picture right after I finished my M81 exposures. The telescope was pointing just a bit over the roof. Seeing was quite poor.
EQUIPMENT
Camera: SBIG STF-8300
Filters: Astrodon LRGB
Telescope: TS ONTC 10"
Mount: Astro-Physics 1100 GTO
Guiding: Starlite Xpress Lodestar X2, TS 80/500 Triplet Apo
DETAILS
Date: 07.04.28
Location: My backyard
Exposures:
L: 12 x 120s
RGB: 6 x 60s each
Binning: 1x1
CCD Temp: -20°C
SOFTWARE
Acquisition: Sequence Generator Pro
Guiding: PHD2
Processing: Pixinsight, Fitswork
shot with an olympus om-d e-m10 mark ii—720nm infrared converted—and a 7artisans 35mm f1.2 mark i lens
This plant produces abundent blossoms that cluster like a popcorn ball. We enjoy theis color which is not so common, Oregon seems to have excellnet conditions for rhodedendrons, some on campus are several stories tall. The only better rhodedenron display we have seen is Inverewe Garden in Poolewe, Scotland. It looks out on Loch Ewe which opens out to the isle of Lewis. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverewe_Garden
Kruger National Park
Small succulent tree, Adenium Multiforum , also called Sabi star, Kudu, Mock azalea or Desert rose.
Uploaded for the weekly theme "Tell a Story" in The Flickr Lounge .
"We have been invited to tell a story by using Diptychs and or Triptychs. It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words and our stories can be told with two or three pictures grouped together."
Created with GIMP.
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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.
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.
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I love looking closer how different flowers grow.
These tiny flowers are maybe 3 mm and altogether they for these clusters gathered on the branches and when the shrub is in full bloom it looks like it is snow-covered.
A joy in the morning, seen from my kitchen window.
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“only a free person knows that the true meaning of existence is experienced in giving, in endowing, in meeting a person face to face, in fulfilling other people’s needs” (MNA 214) and that “some are guilty, all are responsible.”
-Heschel, “Moral Outrage,” 50.
Clustered bonnet (Mycena inclinata) mushrooms growing on a tree stump.
Grzybówki mydlane (Mycena inclinata) rosnące na pieńku.
Cortinarius sp.
** I am an amateur naturalist and not an authority on mushrooms. Although I always welcome identification suggestions, please do not rely on my identification attempts for the purpose of determining edibility.**
Cluster fly with glowing edges applied.
Sliders Sunday
cluster fly - Pollenia species
These overwinter in nooks and crannies especially inside the seal of vellux windows where they gather in groups and the sleepy flies fall out onto the floor if the window is opened. The larvae are parasites of earthworms.
The Martinis - Flyer