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A nearby compact blue dwarf galaxy, NGC 5253 was imaged with Hubble's High Resolution Channel (HRC) on the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) to produce this image. A lot of hydrogen gas is present here and is most evident in the narrowband H-alpha filter which appears here in vivid reddish magenta. Numerous young, massive star clusters full of massive stars are visible as mottled, bright, blueish patches.
This is a very close look at the nucleus and star-forming region of the galaxy. Just enough detail is revealed for me to guess at what I'm looking at, and yet not quite enough for me to feel sure. One of the bright patches near the center is rounder and slightly yellower, causing me to suspect it is an old globular cluster. What is interesting to me is that some of the bluer clusters visually appear to have comparable diameters and densities. Pretty impressive. I suspect they contain fewer but brighter, more massive stars.
I am fond of these old ACS/HRC datasets because they are comparatively rare since the HRC stopped functioning in June 2006 and never came back online even after the servicing mission which repaired the rest of the ACS. The observations comprising this image were acquired five months prior in February 2006.
Glancing at the abstract for this paper, we might expect this to one day be observed by the James Webb Space Telescope.
Data primarily came from the following Proposal: Sizes, Shapes, and SEDs: Searching for Mass Segregation in the Super Star Clusters of Nearby Starburst Galaxies
Note: Some lower resolution ACS/WFC data from LEGUS (Proposal 10765) was used to fill in the missing data where the occulting finger was. Some older WFPC2 F656N data from Proposal 6524 was used to slightly enhance the ACS/HRC F656N data.
Red: ACS/HRC F814W + ACS/HRC F656N
Green: ACS/HRC F550M
Blue: ACS/HRC F435W + ACS/HRC F330W
North is NOT up. It is 25.4° clockwise from up.
A compact fluorescent light bulb, shot for a story explaining the benefits of CFL's over incandescent bulbs.
Creating this shot was a fairly involved process. To see how this photo was lit and shot, click here.
© 2006 David Hobby
Car: BMW 316 Compact (E36/5)
Date of first registration: 6th March 1995.
Registration region: Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.
Latest recorded mileage: 61,125 (MOT 9th November 2018).
Date taken: 19th March 2019.
Album: Street Spots
Car: BMW 316i Compact.
Year of manufacture: 1999.
Date of first registration in the UK: 20th May 1999.
Place of registration: Chelmsford.
Date of last MOT: 7th April 2021.
Mileage at last MOT: 100,621.
Last change of keeper: 9th August 2020
Date taken: 3rd June 2021.
Album: Carspotting 2021
Fujica Compact 35. Objectif Fujinon 38mm f/2.8 Vitesses 1/30 1/250.
Posemètre au sélénium qui contrôle les conditions d'éclairage correctes, en plus du mode automatique, la possibilité de régler manuellement. Synchro X sur la face avant du boîtier. Année 1967.
A very basic Compact. Top spotting points if you see one of these now.
Plate comes back to a Piaggio T5 (a scooter?)
What might look like an abstract artwork is actually a novel antenna, small enough for a minisatellite, to track global ship traffic from orbit.
Commercial vessels are mandated to transmit Automatic Identification System (AIS) signals, which are used to track maritime traffic – the oceangoing equivalent of air traffic control. The system relies on VHF radio signals with a horizontal range of just 40 nautical miles (74 km), useful within coastal zones and on a ship-to-ship basis, but leaving open ocean traffic largely uncovered.
However, in 2010 ESA fitted an experimental antenna to Europe’s Columbus module of the International Space Station, demonstrating for the first time that AIS signals could also be detected from up in orbit, opening up the prospect of global ship tracking from space.
“Based on our testing, this new prototype designs offers a four-fold increase in ship detection performance,” explains ESA antenna specialist Nelson Fonseca, overseeing the project.
“The AIS detection system on Columbus employs a low-gain ‘whip’ antenna, receiving signals within a very broad beam, with corresponding potential for signal overlap and interference.
“This antenna design combines higher-gain with a more reduced footprint, allowing more of a focus on regions of highest interest, and can also discriminate between polarisations, increasing the likelihood of detection for any individual AIS signal within the antenna field of view.”
In addition, clever engineering has shrunk the overall antenna size to a size where up to five could be hosted on a single cubic-metre minisatellite.
“Despite its name, VHF is quite a low wavelength in space terms, implying a bulky antenna of about 1 m across and half-a-metre thick to operate ideally at that frequency,” Nelson adds.
“But the patterned square-shaped structure on the underlying face of our antenna changes the signal behaviour, enabling us to shrink the design to 50 cm width and 3 cm thickness – making it suitable for hosting on a smaller platform.”
The antenna was developed through ESA’s ARTES Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems – Advanced Technology programme with Italian companies CGS as prime contractor and MVG as subcontractor in charge of the electrical design.
“CGS and MVG are highly interested in moving forward with the optimisation and environmental qualification of this outstanding antenna element,” explains Andrea Di Cintio, managing the project at CGS. “The next step will be to identify a specific mission and then optimise the design and qualification accordingly.”
“Significant reduction of antenna dimensions and weight without compromising electrical performance was challenging,” adds Andrea Giacomini, lead antenna designer at MVG. “It required a radical change in the design and validation approach. We are proud to have been involved.”
Credit: ESA–G. Porter, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
IN ENGLISH BELOW THE LINE
Les càmeres de cinema Siemens Kino de 16mm foren unes de les més complexes i compactes del món abans de la II Guerra Mundial. Oferien moltes opcions, incloent diverses velocitats o visor telemetric. També eren extraordinariament petites per a ser de format 16mm, però això era perquè feien servir casets intercanviables propis de 15m. (en comptes de les bobines usuals de 30m.) amb l’unic inconvenient de tenir menys pel•licula. Però al ser intercanviables, es podia, teoricament, anar canviant de emulsió (com després faran les càmeres Hasselblad).
El model F-II és el més evolucionat de tots, i va sortir el 1938. Es fabricà de 1938 a 1940, acabant la producció durant la guerra, i reiniciant-se breument a la postguerra, entre 1947 i 1950. Tant el model F com el F-II destacaven sobre els altres per tenir objectius intercanviables (del tipus “C”, compatibles amb la majoria de càmeres de 16mm). En aquesta càmera en concret he obtingut el objectiu standard per a les F, el Jos. Schneider Kreutznach Xenon f1.5 / 25mm. L’altre caracteristica avançada de la F-II era el visor regulable tant per paralatge (movent tot el visor depenent de la proximitat de la escena enfocada a la càmera, ja que no és reflex) com multifocal, poguent-se adaptar a objectius de entre 25 i 100 mm. De fet, per a aquesta càmera es desenvolupà el primer objectiu zoom del cinema amateur (Vario-Glaukar-Anastigmat), que es conectava al visor i movia la focal d’aquest de manera coordinada.
Aquesta càmera en concret, que venia amb diversos cassets Siemens (alguns carregats i altres buits) funciona prou bé. Com a curiositat dir que té diverses modificacions (fetes de manera profesional) al frontal i els laterals, com si es pogués conectar amb altres aparells. Per això penso que potser es va fer servir en algun tipus de laboratori o industria.
A tot això, hi ha encara una altra derivada historica rellevant d’aquest model Siemens Kino F-II, i és que fou un dels dos models de càmeres Siemens que emprà Eva Braun, la “amiga intima” del Führer (i esposa per menys de 24h) per a les filmacions casolanes del entorn de Hitler. Filmacions que varen sobreviure a la guerra i que son una molt interesant vista al dia a dia del dictador sobretot en l’idilic entorn del Berghof del Obersaltzberg. Pel que he pogut investigar per internet, sobretot amb les fotos que es conserven, sembla que Eva Braun va fer servir una Siemens C des del 1934 fins 1938, any en que canvià a una Siemens F-II fins al final. Les dues serien logicament regals de Hitler.
www.vintagecameras.fr/siemens/type-f-ii
www.bitacora.com.uy/auc.aspx?7257,7
www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jan/27/hitler-home-movies-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HZEr9qCBVc
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Siemens Kino 16mm film cameras were some of the most complex and compact in the world before World War II. They offered many options, including various speeds or rangefinder viewer. They were also extraordinarily small for 16mm format, but that was because they used proprietary 15 m. interchangeable cartridges. (instead of the usual 30 m. reels) with the only drawback of having less film. But being interchangeable, it was possible, theoretically, to change the emulsion (as the Hasselblad cameras will later do).
The Model F-II is the most advanced of all, and came out in 1938. It was manufactured from 1938 to 1940, ending production during the war, and restarting briefly in the postwar period, between 1947 and 1950. Both the Model F like the F-II stood out from the others for having interchangeable lenses (of the “C” type, compatible with most 16mm cameras). On this particular camera I got the standard lens for the Fs, the Jos. Schneider Kreutznach Xenon f1.5 / 25mm. The other advanced feature of the F-II was the adjustable viewfinder for both parallax (moving the entire viewfinder depending on the proximity of the scene focused on the camera, since it is not reflex) and multifocal, being able to adapt to objectives of between 25 and 100 mm. In fact, the first amateur cinema zoom lens (Vario-Glaukar-Anastigmat) was developed for this camera, which was connected to the viewfinder and moved its focal point in a coordinated manner.
This particular camera, which came with several Siemens cassettes (some loaded and some empty) works well enough. As a curiosity to say that it has several modifications (made professionally) on the front and the sides, as if it could be connected to other devices. That's why I think that maybe it was used in some kind of laboratory or industry.
In addition to all this, there is still another relevant historical derivative of this Siemens Kino F-II model, and that is that it was one of the two Siemens camera models used by Eva Braun, the "intimate friend" of the Führer (and wife for less of 24h) for the home filming of Hitler's entourage. Footage that survived the war and is a very interesting view of the dictator's day-to-day life, especially in the idyllic surroundings of the Berghof in the Obersaltzberg. From what I've been able to research online, especially with surviving photos, it appears that Eva Braun used a Siemens C from 1934 until 1938, when she switched to a Siemens F-II until the end. Both would logically be gifts from Hitler. There are photos of her with both models:
www.google.com/imgres?q=Eva%20Braun%20movie%20camera&...
www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gettyim...
www.vintagecameras.fr/siemens/type-f-ii
www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jan/27/hitler-home-movies-...
My first pass at the building was only three stories, then I added an additional three. If I had to fit the building in a more compact space or if looked out of place in a layout, I could go back to three.
I will be using this camera in week 325 of my 52 film cameras in 52 weeks project:
www.flickr.com/photos/tony_kemplen/collections/72157623113584240
The best words to describe HK's cityscape.
Recently fall in love with the skyscrapers and cityscape, I spent few weekends on wandering around Central to Wan Chai. Look up and look for sth fun!! :)
From where I sit at this moment, Orkney seems so remote. It's easy to forget that it sits just off John o' Groats and was a bit of Scotland nibbled away and submerged at the end of the Last Glacial Period. Prior to that, the lowered sea levels left Doggerland high and dry — a convenient stepping stone for humans to repopulate Britain from the rest of Europe. Yes, I've been to the very north of the archipelago, to North Ronaldsay. Today I'm away to South Ronaldsay — ironically juxtaposed at opposite ends from its northern namesake. This won't take me to Orkney's most southerly isle, Stroma, which to be honest has less water between it and Scotland that it has between itself and the rest of Orkney.
Here's a reminder of how compact these islands are. This is the northern tip of Glimps Holm looking back across Lamb Holm to Mainland. By now I've crossed two of the causeways constructed as navigation barriers in WWII. There are what appears to be military installations, there on the cliffs of Lamb Holm. In the middleground lie relics of the block ships sunk here early in WWI. I think this was the SS Numidian, an almost 5000 ton steel hulled steamer scuttled here on 30 December 1914. She was sunk in the company of SS Aorangi, SS Thames and SS Minieh with, I think, Numidian in the shallow water near this spot. I could be wrong. If you need a better answer there's a kind of trainspotters' guide to the wrecks of Scapa Flow.
Orkney is so user-friendly. It's a small place, compact, packed to the gunwales with history; so much that with sea level rise its, Plimsoll line is in peril of disappearing beneath the waves. Getting about is quick and easy; all that and it has a village named Twatt.
Not many if any places to see a pair of SD35's running now days in the US, here GLC 383 and 384 work the interchange with the Ann Arbor RR at Osmer siding just north of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Nice compact packages these SD35's seen from above, if only EMD had cataloged an SD30, that would have been a pretty swell looking unit - August 23, 2024.
The Foxtrot fighter is a modified GARC viper. She's equipped with 2 short-range ballistic guns and 4 low-frequency phase cannons for shield dampening. Though she's low on firepower, she makes up for it with sheer speed. All this coupled with the ability to compact into a small cargo bay makes her a bounty hunter's best friend.
This has got to be my absolute favorite out of all the fighters I have built for the 14x14x6 starfighter challenge because it's just so fun to convert, and it's pretty dang swooshable too.
A V-22 Osprey unfolds it's rotors as the crew preps the aircraft for departure from the California International Air Show.
Arca-Swiss F-Metric Field w/MicroOrbix 4x5 + Rodenstock APO-Sironar-S 150mm f/5.6 + Ilford FP4+. Developer: Ilford Ilfotch DDX, SP-445 Compact 4x5 Film Processing System. Scan: Epson V850.
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