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One of a short series of close-ups on the Moon using my 482MC planetary camera, 742 nm long pass filter and a 4x Powermate.
Peter
19 December 2007, 18:50 UT
Vixen SP-102 refractor
Tele Vue 2.5x Powermate
Canon EOS 350D DSLR
Exposure time 1/100 sec, ISO 400, mirror lock-up on
46 photos, stacked and sharpened in Registax V4
Final touches in Photoshop
Taken on a bitterly cold night in December - I won't be doing that again!
Best viewed very large.
Nicolaus Copernicus' "De revolutionibus" (1543) showing his diagram of the heliocentric model of the solar system.
The Nicolaus Copernicus Monument in the home town of astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) was erected in 1853 by a "monument committee" of the city's residents.
Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) lived in Thorn (Toruń), then in the Kingdom of Poland, for many years.
Nicolaus Copernicus (/koʊˈpɜːrnɪkəs, kə-/; Polish: Mikołaj Kopernik; German: Nikolaus Kopernikus; Niklas Koppernigk; 19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance- and Reformation-era mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe, likely independently of Aristarchus of Samos, who had formulated such a model some eighteen centuries earlier.
The publication of Copernicus' model in his book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), just before his death in 1543, was a major event in the history of science, triggering the Copernican Revolution and making an important contribution to the Scientific Revolution.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus
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From 1230 to 1283 the Teutonic Order conquered the entire territory of the Slavic Prussians. In 1243 the bishop of Warmia received 1/3 of the territory of his diocese for his maintenance. The town was founded in 1353 under the name of Allensteyn by the chapter of the cathedral of Warmia on its territory. At that time, the castle was already under construction.
In 1454 the town joined the Prussian Confederation against the Teutonic Order. The townspeople captured the castle and recognized the sovereignty of the Polish king, but a year later the town was reconquered by the Teutonic Order. During the war the town was in flames several times. By the peace treaty in 1466, Olsztyn and the entire Duchy of Warmia came under Polish sovereignty.
For centuries the city was an important centre of trade, crafts, science and administration in the Warmia region.
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 - 1543) was a canon of the prince-bishopric of Warmia as well as an astronomer and physician who also devoted himself to mathematics and cartography.
In his main work "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium" of 1543, he describes a heliocentric view of the world, according to which the Earth is a planet, rotates on its own axis and also moves around the Sun like the other planets. The reception of the work led to the "Copernican turn", which in science is one of the caesuras marking the transition from the Middle Ages to the modern era.
Nicolaus Copernicus resided from 1516 to 1521 in the Zamek Kapituły Warmińskiej (Olsztyn Castle).
A smoke plume from the Yosemite National Park wildfire was visible from space on the afternoon of 11 July (top-left), via the Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellite's Ocean and Land Colour Instrument.
The Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellite's OLCI instrument captured these clouds over the west coast of Africa early yesterday morning on 01.12.21.
Edited Copernicus Sentinel/NASA-JPL visualization of blast damage from the explosion in the Port of Beirut on 4 August 2020. Color/processing variant.
Image source: earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/147098/scientists-map-be...
Original caption: On August 4, 2020, a devastating explosion rocked the port area around Beirut, Lebanon. After the event, scientists used satellite radar imagery to map the extent of the damage and help identify areas where people may need assistance.
According to the Associated Press, a fire near the port ignited a large nearby store of ammonium nitrate, a highly explosive chemical often used in fertilizer. At least 135 people died, about 5,000 were wounded, and at least 300,000 people were left homeless. Losses from the blast are estimated to be at least $10 to $15 billion, according to news reports.
The image above is a damage proxy map created by scientists affiliated with NASA’s Advanced Rapid Imaging and Analysis (ARIA) team and the Earth Observatory of Singapore (EOS). Dark red pixels represent the most severe damage, while orange and yellow areas are moderately or partially damaged. Each colored pixel represents an area of 30 meters by 30 meters (about the size of a baseball infield).
The team at ARIA (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory) and EOS examined synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data collected before and after the explosion, mapping changes in the land surface and built structures. SAR instruments send pulses of microwaves toward Earth’s surface and listen for the reflections of those waves. The radar waves can penetrate cloud cover, vegetation, and the dark of night to detect changes that might not show up in visible light imagery. When Earth’s crust moves due to an earthquake, when dry land is suddenly covered by flood water, or when buildings have been damaged or toppled, the amplitude and phase of radar wave reflections changes in those areas and indicates to the satellite that something on the ground has changed.
Though other U.S. and international agencies play more immediate roles in response to disasters, NASA plays a role in providing observations and analysis. Over the past decade, NASA has actively built its capacity to share Earth observations that can improve the prediction of, preparation for, response to, and recovery from natural and technological disasters. For instance, NASA often responds to calls for data and imagery from the International Charter for Space and Major Disasters.
“We look at areas of likely exposed populations and fragile infrastructure, as well as areas subject to social stresses and crises. We model and map risks, while also tracking emissions, debris, infrastructure damage, and other effects from things like volcanic eruptions, fires, industrial accidents, earthquakes, and floods,” said David Green, head of NASA’s Disasters Applications team. “Our observations and analyses can help our partners increase their situational awareness of systemic risks and of real-time events, leading to better-informed decisions and early action.”
NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2020) processed by ESA and analyzed by Earth Observatory of Singapore (EOS) in collaboration with NASA-JPL and Caltech, Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey, and data from OpenStreetMap. Story by Esprit Smith, NASA's Earth Science News Team, and Michael Carlowicz.
Copernicus Sentinel-5 integrated into the MetOp-SG-A satellite in the cleanroom at the Airbus facilities in Toulouse, France.
While not a satellite in the traditional sense, Sentinel-5 is a Copernicus mission carried on the MetOp Second Generation A-type weather satellites. With its 2700 km-wide swath, Sentinel-5 will offer full global coverage every day to measure the distribution of atmospheric trace gases such as ozone, nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide, formaldehyde, glyoxal, carbon monoxide, and methane, as well as aerosols. These gases can not only affect the air we breathe, but also our climate.
Credits: ESA - S.Corvaja
This bronze statue of Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (Mikołaj Kopernik) is located on Krakowskie Przedmieście, in front of the Staszic Palace, the seat of the Polish Academy of Sciences. It was designed by Bertel Thorvaldsen in 1822 and completed in 1830. The monument was funded by the scientist and philosopher Stanisław Staszic as well as donations from the general public.
Soon after the German occupation of Warsaw began in 1939, they placed a large plaque over the statue’s pedestal, proclaiming Copernicus to have been German....
On 11th February 1942, a "minor sabotage" operation was carried out by Maciej Aleksy Dawidowski (code name “Alek”), a young Polish resistance fighter from the “Szare Szeregi” organisation, who removed and hid the German plaque.
Minor sabotage: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_sabotage
The Germans responded by removing the Jan Kiliński statue from Krasińskich Square and hiding it in the vaults of the National Museum. Dawidowski and his comrades in the Szare Szeregi retaliated by daubing the museum with graffiti which stated: "People of Warsaw - I am here - Jan Kiliński", and adding a new plaque to the Copernicus monument on which they had written the following words: "For the removal of the Kiliński statue I am extending winter by two months - Kopernik"....
Szare Szeregi: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_Ranks
The statue was damaged during the Warsaw Uprising, after which the Germans knocked it off its pedestal and subsequently stole it as they were evacuating Warsaw. It was later found in the town of Nysa, restored and replaced in its original location in 1949.
In 2007 a representation of Copernicus’ solar system, modelled after an image in his “De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium”, was embedded in the square in front of the monument.
In 2017 a plaque commemorating Dawidowski’s action was placed next to the monument.
There are replicas of the Copernicus monument in Montreal and Chicago....
At an event in Paris on 9 February, 2016, CEO of Thales Alenia Space, Jean-Loïc Galle, and Director of ESA’s Earth Observation Programmes, Volker Liebig, signed a €450 million contract to build two more satellites for the Sentinel-3 mission.
From left to right: Jean Jacques Juillet, European Programme Director, Thales Alenia Space; Volker Liebig, Director of ESA’s Earth Observation Programmes; Jean-Loïc Galle, CEO of Thales Alenia Space; Jan Woerner, ESA Director General; Peter Breger, Deputy Head of Copernicus Unit, EC DG GROW; Joël Barre, General Director CNES; and Guido Levrini, Copernicus Space Segment Programme Manager, ESA, attended the contract signature ceremony.
Credit: ESA–Nadia Imbert-Vier 2016
Sentinel-1D has been transported from the cleanroom in Cannes, France, via Turin, Italy, all the way to French Guiana. The launch campaign is now underway to prepare the satellite for liftoff on an Ariane 6 rocket at the end of 2025.
The fourth satellite of the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission will continue the critical task of delivering key radar imagery of Earth’s surface for a wide range of Copernicus services and scientific applications.
Credits: ESA/CNES/Arianespace/Optique vidéo du CSG–C. Gallo
The Liberian Registered & Norwegian Owned Tanker " Copernicus" seen arriving at King George Dock Hull,
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite takes us over Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. Famous as a resort on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, this coastal strip along the Red Sea is peppered with bars, restaurants and hotels. The ancient Greeks and Romans are thought to have taken their holidays in Egypt as long ago as the 4th century BC.
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This striking true-colour image shows the Gulf of Aqaba at the top centre, feeding into the Red Sea – home to some of the hottest and saltiest seawater in the world. The Red Sea is connected to the Mediterranean Sea via the Suez Canal, one of the world’s busiest waterways.
Usually an intense blue-green, as captured in this image, the Red Sea is known, on occasion, to turn reddish-brown owing to algal blooms, which change the colour of the sea when they die off.
The area offers many opportunities for diving. In the centre of the image we can see a series of coral reefs, which host rich marine life. The variations in the colour of the water surrounding the islands and in the right of the image represent the depth of water – the lighter areas show more shallow waters than the vast expanse of deep blue, which dominates the image.
In the top-right of the image we can see the western tip of mainland Saudi Araba – the beautiful and uninhabited sandy cape of Ras Al-Sheikh Hameed. Here, the red colour represents areas with higher levels of moisture in an arid, desert landscape, whilst the white colour represents salt.
Sentinel-2 is a two-satellite mission for land monitoring, providing imagery of soil and water cover, inland waterways and coastal areas, for Europe’s Copernicus environmental monitoring programme.
This image, which was captured on 11 April 2017, is also featured on the Earth from Space programme.
Credits: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2017), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
EUMETSAT and Copernicus services holding the "Copernicus Byte".
More information about this event: bit.ly/1l2XrsS
Copyright: 2014 EUMETSAT
The huge tidal range (over 10 m) in the Mont-Saint-Michel Bay, France.
Sentinel-2 L1C imagery processed with Sentinel Hub and #eolearn. Clear observations (< 5% cloud coverage) between January 2017 and May 2020. The images were sorted based on water coverage (not chronological), where water was detected via NDWI.
Author: Matic Lubej
This spectacular LROC mosaic of Copernicus Crater (~93 km diameter) on the Moon shows multiple examples of impact melt on the crater’s northern wall. Copernicus, located at 9.6°N, 20.1°W, is one of the youngest large craters on the Moon, and defines the Copernican period of lunar stratigraphy.
One particularly interesting flow of impact melt can be seen at the left of this image, where channelized flows can be seen. The floor of the crater can be seen at the bottom of the image, where several hummocks, possibly part of the original floor, peak through the veneer of impact melt.