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Investigating in front of the house.
In this first walk, Lola was close to Chico all time, minding so that Rubio doesn't bother him.
Posted for the Happy Caturday theme "Feline Investigations".
Happy Caturday to everybody !!
Il existe encore des situations où la mise au point manuelle est nécessaire !
Pourquoi les outils MF Assist n'ont-ils pas évolué avec le reste de la technologie de l'appareil photo ?
There are still situations where manual focusing is needed.
Why have MF Assist tools not evolved along with the rest of camera tech ?
Imaginez que vous regardiez la photo ci-dessus représentant un rang de gardes du palais de Buckingham et que vous essayiez de vous concentrer sur un au milieu.
Le système AF de détection de visage est désespérément confus, et le pic de mise au point CDAF régulier en décrit trop…
Mais avec AI/PD MF Assist, il vous suffit de tourner l'anneau lorsque le contour saute d'un visage à l'autre jusqu'à ce que seule la joue rouge droite soit délimitée, et de prendre la photo parfaite … merveilleux n’est-ce pas !
Imagine you’re looking down a rank of Buckingham Palace guards and trying to focus on one in the middle. The face detect AF system is hopelessly confused, and regular CDAF focus peaking is outlining too much.
But with AI/PD MF Assist you just turn the ring as the outline hops from face to face until only the right ruddy cheek is outlined, and snap the perfect shot…
Spring is finally here! Amusement park season has started!
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Playing piano in the house of a friend.
A very bad old photo but I just wanted to remember and to share it with you.
from a photo logistics perspective she always sets herself in the sunlight ...............if there is any sunlight!
Overseer Olaf
As a very young cat, Olaf is the overseer of the house. He is curious, playful, funny and he has to check everything.
Posted for the Happy Caturday theme "One word about your cat", 2025, February 8th.
I wish you all a wonderful and very Happy Caturday !!
Like Taj Mahal, Statue of Liberty is one of most beautiful man made structure which is amazingly beautiful to look at from any side and any angle. A photographer is enthusiastic even after a hundred shot.
Picture of Statue from different side and different is also posted. Please view them too. Thanks
A California Scrub-Jay pauses amid a patch of clover flowers. Known for their striking blue feathers and sharp intelligence, these bold birds are common sights in California’s open spaces and backyards.
creative commons by marfis75
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...na, just playing around with new processing.
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Another shot from a late night meeting.
We have offices on Pier 9 in San Francisco. An odd camera shot from the conference room with lots of inside reflections.
Pretty sad that two of my shots this week are from meeting rooms.
Today is day 195 of Project 365 (Wednesday).
Snakebit? Maybe not literally, but indeed unfortunate.
DeKalb County (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
8 August 2020.
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A spectacular head-on collision between two galaxies, known as Arp 143, has fueled the unusual triangular-shaped star-formation frenzy as captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
The interacting galaxy duo Arp 143 contains the distorted, star-forming spiral galaxy NGC 2445, at right, along with its less flashy companion, NGC 2444, at left. Their frenzied collision takes place against the tapestry of distant galaxies, of which some can be seen through the interacting pair.
Astronomers suggest that the two galaxies passed through each other, igniting the uniquely shaped firestorm of star formation in NGC 2445, where thousands of stars are bursting into life. This galaxy is awash with new stars because it is rich in gas, the raw material from which stars are made. However, it hasn’t yet escaped the gravitational clutches of its partner at left. The pair is waging a cosmic tug-of-war, which NGC 2444 appears to be winning. That galaxy has pulled gas from NGC 2445, forming the oddball triangle of newly minted stars.
NGC 2444 is also responsible for yanking strands of gas from its partner, stoking the streamers of young, blue stars that appear to form a bridge between the two galaxies. These streamers are among the first in what appears to be a wave of star formation that started on the galaxy’s outskirts and continued inward. Researchers estimate the streamer stars were born between 50 million and 100 million years ago. But these infant stars are being left behind as NGC 2445 continues to pull slowly away from NGC 2444.
Stars no older than one million to two million years old are forming closer to the centre of NGC 2445. Hubble’s keen vision reveals some individual stars, the brightest and most massive in the galaxy. Most of the brilliant blue clumps are groupings of stars and the pink blobs are glowing gas clouds enshrouding young, massive star clusters.
Although most of the action is happening in NGC 2445, it doesn’t mean the other member of the interacting pair has escaped unscathed. The gravitational tussle has stretched NGC 2444 into an odd shape, yanking gas far from the galaxy. NGC 2444 contains old stars and no new starbirth because it lost its gas long ago, well before this galactic encounter.
Aside from the star formation in NGC 2445, another interesting feature that Hubble has uncovered is the dark filaments of gas in the starburst galaxy’s bright core. Those features may have been formed by outbursts of material. Radio observations reveal a powerful source in the core that may be spearheading the outbursts. The radio source may have been produced by intense star formation or a black hole gobbling up material flowing into the centre.
It’s not uncommon for star formation to occur in the cores of galaxies, driven by interactions. Plenty of gas from galactic encounters flows into the centre, which can trigger the birth of new stars. Outflows from these stars can drive material out, but the dust created by these outbursts blankets the core and other regions throughout NGC 2445, making it difficult for Hubble to study in visible light.
However, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope will have the infrared vision to peer through the dust covering these regions to reveal the young star clusters that are hidden from view in visible-light images. In this way, Hubble and Webb will provide the full census of stars in NGC 2445. The census will help astronomers answer questions such as what the star-formation rate is, how long it takes for stars to form, and whether the starburst in NGC 2445 is fading or just heating up.
Studying young, massive star clusters still embedded in their dust and gas cocoons is important for understanding how star formation affects the evolution of galaxies. Massive stars that explode as supernovae enrich their environment with chemical elements heavier than hydrogen and helium.
The Arp 143 system is listed in a compendium of 338 unusual-looking interacting galaxies called the “Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies” published in 1966 by astronomer Halton Arp.
Credits: NASA, ESA, STScI, and J. Dalcanton (Center for Computational Astrophysics/Flatiron Inst., UWashington); CC BY 4.0