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традиционный список лучших альбомов — места и теги условны, забытые герои найдутся чуть позже.

 

Всех с Новым годом! | Happy New Yea!

 

#shoegaze

 

01. Hum - Inlet

02. Ringo Deathstarr - Ringo Deathstarr

03. Shedfromthebody - A Dead and Aimless Hum

04. Animal Ghosts - Will

05. Nothing - The Great Dismal

06. Fog - Fogesque

07. Circus Trees - Delusions

08. Machine+ - Saṃsāra

09. Lavender Blush - The Garden of Inescapable Pleasure

10. bdrmm - Bedroom

11. Kairon; IRSE! - Polysomn

12. Luster - Turbulence

13. Zoon - Bleached Wavves

14. Total Rubbish - Triple Negative EP

15. Iress - Flaw

16. Holy Fawn - The Black Moon EP

17. Velveteen - Bluest Sunshine EP

18. A Shoreline Dream - Melting

19. Star Horse - No Memories Before This

20. Floral Tattoo - You Can Never Have a Long Enough Head Start

 

(honorable mentions)

 

A Place to Bury Strangers - Rare Meat: Demos And Rarities 2003-2017

Cerronegro - Fuera de todo (demo)

My Guitar Is Trying To Kill Me - One Day I Will Hope Again

Sciflyer - The Illusion of Unlimited Choice

Ray - Pink

Lovesliescrushing & Fiorella16 - Extrañas Letanías

Sicayda - Caught in the Rain - Single

Airhockey - Walkthrough

Sea Dweller - May call'em rarities

이상의날개 - Stream of Consciousness (2016)

 

 

#dreampop

 

01. Widowspeak - Plum

02. Spool - Cyan / Amber

03. Postcards - The Good Soldier

04. Ultra Material - EP3

05. Sexores - Salamanca

06. Laveda - What Happens After

07. Deserta - Black Aura My Sun

08. Parlour Club - Parlour Club

09. Soft Blue Shimmer - Heaven Inches Away

10. Pia Fraus - Empty Parks

11. Wednesday - I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone

12. I Break Horses - Warnings

13. ThunderStars - Number Stations

14. Wilsen - Ruiner

15. Tapeworms - Funtastic

16. Away Forward - Catching the Sun

17. Sweam - Lounge Music For Cat People

18. Just Like Honey - Into The Wild

19. White Poppy - Paradise Gardens

20. Winter - Endless Space (Between You & I)

 

(honorable mentions)

 

The Know - Wearetheknow EP

Star Horse - No Memories Before This

Ellis - Born Again

Poppy - I Disagree

Gleemer - Down Through

Juliper Sky - Visions of a New Age EP

Neiti Olga - Minä, aina

Lights That Change - Finding You EP

The Radio Dept. - The Absence of Birds - Single

Flowerbed - Hollow EP

Keeley Forsyth — Debris

 

 

#electronic

 

01. Kelly Lee Owens - Inner Song

02. Rafael Anton Irisarri - Peripeteia

03. E.M.M.A. - Indigo Dream

04. Sarah Davachi - Cantus, Descant

05. Ana Roxanne - Because of a Flower

06. Rosa Anschütz - Votive

07. KMRU - Peel

08. Crystal Geometry - Senestre

09. Autechre - Sign

10. Ulla - Tumbling Towards a Wall

11. Ela Minus - Acts of Rebellion

12. Actress - Karma & Desire

13. Ian William Craig - Red Sun Through Smoke

14. Simon Scott - Migrations

15. Public Memory - Ripped Apparition

16. Max Richter - Voices

17. William Basinski - Lamentations

18. Nicolas Jaar - Cenizas

19. Roger Eno, Brian Eno - Mixing Colours

20. Reka x Imperial Black Unit - Todo Avaricia EP

 

(honorable mentions)

 

Ólafur Arnalds - Some Kind Of Peace

William Basinski - Hymns Of Oblivion

Boris Brejcha - Space Diver

Windy & Carl - Allegiance and Conviction

Rone - Room With A View

Wanderwelle - A State Of Decrepitude

36 & zakè - Stasis Sounds for Long-Distance Space Travel

Oneohtrix Point Never - Magic Oneohtrix Point Never

 

 

#postpunk

 

01. Culk - Zerstreuen über Euch

02. Protomartyr - Ultimate Success Today

03. Red Mishima - Red Mishima

04. Jonnine - Blue Hills

05. Houses Of Heaven - Silent Places

06. Lebanon Hanover - Sci​‐Fi Sky

07. No Age - Goons Be Gone

08. Public Practice - Gentle Grip

09. A Certain Ratio - ACR Loco

10. Burden - Give Up to Failure

11. Plaie - Plaies

12. Maud The Moth - Orphnē

13. All Hits ‎- Men And Their Work

14. Spectres - Nostalgia

15. Porridge Radio - Every Bad

16. The Serfs - Sounds of Serfdom

17. Sweeping Promises - Hunger for a Way Out

18. Civic Center ‎- The Ground Below

19. Soft Kill - Dead Kids, R​.​I​.​P. City

20. Garden Krist - Garden Krist

 

(honorable mentions)

 

Medicine Boy - Take Me With You When You Disappear

Rope Sect - The Great Flood

Mrs. Piss - Self-Surgery

White Boy Scream — BAKUNAWA

House of Harm ‎- Vicious Pastimes

Gum - Out In The World

 

 

#psychedelic

 

01. The Soft Pink Truth - Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase?

02. Mood Taeg - Exophora

03. The Kraken Quartet and Adobo - Backdrop

04. Grand Veymont ‎- Persistance & Changement

05. Anna von Hausswolff - All Thoughts Fly

06. Holy Fuck - Deleter

07. Offermose - Stilhedens Tårn

08. Die Wilde Jagd - Haut

09. The Asteroid No.4 - Northern Songs

10. Pin Park - Doppelganger

11. Purple Heart Parade - Desolation Angel EP

12. Memnon Sa - World Serpent

13. Sei Still - Sei Still

14. Radar men from the Moon - The Bestial Light

15. The Warlocks - The Chain

16. Ellen Fullman & Theresa Wong - Harbors

17. Black Helium - The Wholly Other

18. The Necks - Three

19. Hey Colossus - Dances / Curses

20. Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - Patchouli Blue

 

(honorable mentions)

 

Ellen Fullman - In The Sea

Ulver - Flowers of Evil

Yellow Swans - Being There [Reissue]

 

 

#postmetal

 

01. Jesu - Terminus

02. Sumac - May You Be Held

03. Grin - Translucent Blades

04. Mountaineer - Bloodletting

05. Auðn - Vökudraumsins Fangi

06. Ingrina ‎- Siste Lys

07. Nite - Darkness Silence Mirror Flame

08. Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin kynsi

09. Death. Void. Terror. ‎- To The Great Monolith II

10. Boris & Merzbow - 2R0I2P0

11. Lamp of Murmuur - Heir of Ecliptical Romanticism

12. Paysage d'Hiver - Im Wald

13. Vide - Hanging By The Bayou Light

14. I Hear Sirens - Stella Mori

15. Void Rot - Descending Pillars

16. Ovtrenoir - Fields Of Fire

17. VoidOath ‎– Illumination Through Necromancy EP

18. Decoherence - Unitarity

19. Pothamus ‎- Raya

20. Briqueville ‎- Quelle

 

(honorable mentions)

 

Lares - Towards Nothingness

Ulcerate - Stare Into Death And Be Still

My Dying Bride - The Ghost of Orion

Crown of Ascension - Twixt Zero and Infinity EP

Cryptae - Nightmare Traversal

Imperial Triumphant - Alphaville

Sky Pig - Hell is inside you

M.S.W. ‎- Obliviosus

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Viscerals

Pg.lost ‎- Oscillate

Primitive Man - Immersion

Autumn Nostalgie - Esse Est Percipi

Ceremonial Bloodbath ‎- The Tides Of Blood

Urfaust - Teufelsgeist

Atramentus - Stygian

Massemord - Blut Des Nordens

Deadlight Sanctuary - Thaumaturgical Rites of the Damned

 

 

#rock

 

01. The Strokes - The New Abnormal

02. Mogwai - ZeroZeroZero

03. Bailter Space - Concret

04. Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts V: Together / Ghosts VI: Locusts

05. A.A. Williams - Forever Blue

06. Hexvessel - Kindred

07. Steve Von Till - No Wilderness Deep Enough

08. Thurston Moore - By The Fire

09. Spotlights - We Are All Atomic

10. SPC ECO - 2020 series

11. Wire - Mind Hive

12. Metz - Atlas Vending

13. Deerhoof - Future Teenage Cave Artists

14. The Bread Scientists - Clouded

15. Triángulo de Amor Bizarro - Triángulo de Amor Bizarro

16. Purity Ring - Womb

17. A Beautiful Machine - King Tide

18. Morrissey - I Am Not a Dog on a Chain

19. Gorillaz - Song Machine: Season One, Strange Timez

20. The Killers - Imploding the Mirage

 

(honorable mentions)

 

Einstürzende Neubauten - Alles In Allem

Pearl Jam - Gigaton

The Smashing Pumpkins - CYR

Special Interest - The Passion Of

...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - X: The Godless Void and Other Stories

Hällas - Conundrum

 

 

#indie

 

01. Peel Dream Magazine - Agitprop Alterna

02. Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus - Songs of Yearning

03. Big Black Delta - 4

04. Moon Attendant - One Last Summer

05. Sault - Untitled (Black Is / Rise)

06. MJ Guider - Sour Cherry Bell

07. Alison Cotton - Only Darkness Now

08. Julianna Barwick - Healing Is A Miracle

09. Jarv Is… - Beyond The Pale

10. Dottie - Single

11. Beths - Jump Rope Gazers

12. White Boy Scream - Bakunawa

13. No Joy - Motherhood

14. Huit Nuits - Entre Deux Mondes

15. The Microphones - Microphones in 2020

16. Mint Julep - Stray Fantasies

17. Lanterns On The Lake - Spook The Herd

18. Lost Horizons - In Quiet Moments

19. Snarls - Burst

20. Cindy Lee - What's Tonight To Eternity

 

(honorable mentions)

 

Tim Burgess - I Love the New Sky

Marla Hansen - Dust

Holy Motors - Horse

Clarys - De là

Big Baby - Fizzy Cola EP

Courtney Marie Andrews - Old Flowers

Midwife - Forever

Tame Impala - The Slow Rush

The Entire Cast - On Holiday

Wild Nothing - Laughing Gas EP

Tennis - Swimmer

Sweeping Promises - Hunger For A Way Out

 

 

#pop

 

01. Phoebe Bridgers, Ethan Gruska, Tony Berg - Punisher

02. Alexandra Savior - The Archer

03. Eartheater - Phoenix: Flames Are Dew Upon My Skin

04. Taylor Swift, Aaron Dessner (The National), Jack Antonoff - Folklore

05. Róisín Murphy - Róisín Machine

06. Korine ‎- The Night We Raise

07. Helena Deland - Someone New

08. Jonathan Bree - After the Curtains Close

09. Klô Pelgag - Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs

10. Karina [Karin Mäkiranta, Helmi Tikkanen] - 2

11. Soko - Feel Feelings

12. Marie-Ange - Le plein de réconfort EP

13. Marie Davidson & L’Œil Nu — Renegade Breakdown

14. Mint Julep - Stray Fantasies

15. Hazel English - Wake Up!

16. 유키카 [YUKIKA] - 서울여자 (Soul Lady)

17. Agnes Obel - Myopia

18. La Roux - Supervision

19. The Orielles - Disco Volador

20. Grimes - Miss Anthropocene

 

(honorable mentions)

 

Juliette Gréco - L'essentielle

Snarls - Burst

Big Fox - See How the Light Falls

Sugar High - Love Addict

They/Live ‎- Ablation

Naëli - Parce Que C'est Nous

Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia

Hayley Williams - Petals For Armor

Selena Gomez - Rare

Lianne La Havas - Lianne La Havas

Lady GaGa - Chromatica

Kaash Paige - Teenage Fever

Frances Quinlan - Likewise

Phantogram - Ceremony

Chandeen - Mercury Retrograde

Régina Demina - Hystérie!

Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure?

Caribou - Suddenly

 

 

#Russia

 

01. Хадн дадн - Ностальгия

02. Луни Ана - Назад

03. Shimmerance - Shimmerance

04. Sestrica - Soft Power EP

05. Katya Yonder - Multiply Intentions

06. Theodor Bastard - Волчья Ягода

07. krasochnobledno - Всё хорошо

08. Мерцание - Всё что осталось

09. Весна Весна - Когда рядом огни

10. Sleep Overload - Singles

11. Whimpers - Цветы в волосах EP

12. Комсомольск - Ближний свет

13. Деревянные киты - Поле чудес EP

14. Neonic Sundrive - Lies Paradise

15. Kate NV - Room for the Moon

16. WYYM - ! EP

17. Dead Blonde - Пропаганда

18. Sobranie 8 18 - Sobranie 8 18

19. Cosmic Letdown - Pustoid

20. Teletape - Завтра здесь будет новая жизнь

 

(honorable mentions)

 

21. ГШ - Гибкий график

22. Silent Run - Side A EP

23. Shoe Shine Six - '96 EP

24. Spring Winds - Alpine Vic - Single

25. Phurpa - Hymns of Gyer

26. А в голове море - Салюты EP

27. Lucidvox - Мы есть

28. Olhava - Ladoga

29. Качели - Фото на память

30. Mental Map - Unsealed Light EP

31. Gaarden - The Fall

32. Melasse - Когда дерево станет камнем

33. Сивый Яр - Горе

34. Gdeto - What Will Take Away the Pain Sunshine EP

35. Краснознаменная дивизия имени моей бабушки - Катакомба

36. Мать Тереза - Образы

37. Show Me a Dinosaur - Plantgazer

38. Sonic Death - После нас тишина

39. Ил - Ересь

40. The Rûah - Well, this shall pass too

41. Gena - Чур Меня

42. Flynotes - The Goddess Of Sunrise

43. Сияние - Во сне EP

44. Låska - Strangers

45. Мегаполис - Ноябрь

46. Atariame - Completeness

47. Grave Disgrace - Rest in Peace

48. DoppelgängeR - Mercy and Eternity

49. Аукцыон - Мечты

50. Жанна Агузарова - Королева Сансета

 

(honorable mentions 2)

 

Lovozero - Descend

Peach Gardens - Peach Gardens EP

Гречка - Из доброго в злое

Стереополина - Институт культуры и отдыха

Dvory - Включение

Конец Электроники - Техника Безопасности

федортолстой - demo

Usssy - Po krugu

Ciolkowska - Психоделия

Antethic - Mythographer

Lava Lite - So Sweet, So Cold

Луч - Сквозь горизонт EP

Tapenight - Новый мир

Reverbcore - Warble

Один в оленьем парке - Один в оленьем парке

IC3PEAK - До Свидания

Sphecidae - Rear Echelon Mother Figure

Увула - Ничего сверхъестественного EP

Юлия Савичева - CLV

Винтаж - Навсегда

 

 

The Best Live Shows Of 2020

 

по сравнению с прошлыми годами — кот наплакал, тем не менее снова хотелось бы отметить Стереолето и PPF, которые прошли с овераншлагами, при отличной погоде и полном отсутствии забугорных хэдлайнеров — пожалуй два главных светлых пятна в этом сумрачном году

 

1. Земфира, Хадн Дадн, Деревянные киты, Ploho, СБПЧ, Трипинадва, Союз @ Стереолето, Петербург, 06.09.2020

 

2. Shadowax (Ishome), Nina Kraviz, Sofia Rodina, Void of Gene, PTU, Vladimir Dubyshkin @ PPF, St Petersburg, Russia, 11.09.2020

 

3. Blankenberge @ Mod, St Petersburg, Russia, 12.01.2020

 

4. Crystal Geometry (Maxime Fabre), Viktor Kalima @ RAF25, St Petersburg, Russia, 08.02.2020

 

5. Giuseppe Verdi - Don Carlos @ Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg, Russia, 29.02.2020

 

6. Лето в городе (Влад Паршин, Motorama/Утро), Kito Jempere, Timofey, Fanick @ K-30, St Petersburg, Russia, 08.08.2020

 

7. Ил @ Ласточка, Петербург, 14.11.2020

 

 

The Best Movies of 2020

 

[in progress]

 

The Gentlemen (2019) / Джентльмены, 8/10

 

Ford v Ferrari (2019) / Ford против Ferrari, 8/10

 

Alita: Battle Angel (2019) / Алита: Боевой ангел, 7/10

 

Seberg (2019) / Опасная роль Джин Сиберг, 7/10

 

Knives Out (2019) / Достать ножи, 7/10

 

Ready or Not (2019) / Я иду искать, 6/10

 

Inheritance (2020) / Тёмное наследие, 6/10

 

Bad Boys for Life (2020) / Плохие парни навсегда, 5/10

 

Downton Abbey (2019) / Аббатство Даунтон, 4/10

 

Tenet (2020) / Довод, 4/10

 

здесь как обычно есть 2019, т.к. у нас в прокате они прошли только в начале 2020, а потом стало совсем не до кино, небольшой список в процессе: later

 

 

total recall:

 

2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014

 

2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006

 

 

videos | pics

 

The End.

 

#top2020 #best_of_2020 #deepskyobject

Image en fausses couleurs, reproduisant la palette du téléscope spatial Hubble.

 

Données techniques :

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The Neighbourhood of Omega Centauri

 

Omega Centauri or NGC 5139, the largest globular cluster of our milky galaxy nearly 15000 LY away and containing more than 10 million stars. (Seen at the centre of the picture)

 

Accompanying it are few other deep sky objects as listed:

 

1. NGC 5128 or Centaurus A Galaxy

2. NGC 4945 or The Tweezers Galaxy

3. NGC 5286 Globular Cluster

 

This is a single exposure cropped shot from Canon 700D/50mm F1.8 tracked on AstroTrac.

Exif: 60secs/F2.8/ISO1600

English below, followed by Portuguese.

 

The Messier 8 (aka Lac III-13, NGC 6523, BCA 237 or Sh 2-25), is definitely the protagonist of this rich nebular and stellar field in the Sagittarius constellation, near the centre of our galaxy.

With approximate apparent dimensions of 45’x30’ and a distance of about 4-5 thousand light-years, this very bright emission nebula has a real extension of nearly 100 light-years, factors that make it visible to the naked eye even in suburban areas, and a good target for binoculars or small telescopes, although it takes a somewhat big telescope (10-inch would be very fine) in a dark sky site to fully reveal its splendour to a visual observer – as I had the unforgettable opportunity to witness via a 11-inch SCT from a Bortle 2 sky site.

 

But the Lagoon Nebula, as it is popularly known, is surrounded by several other nebulae and HII regions, such as Sh 2-29, Sh 2-31, and Sh 2-32, to the bottom left, and M8 itself also encompasses a bright open star cluster, NGC 6530 as well as the famous Hourglass Nebula, at its luminous core, and some dark nebulae showing themselves as beautiful dark filaments cutting through their way along the field, partially blocking our view of the shimmering nebula behind.

 

This colour combination is the renowned Hubble Palette or SHO (Sulphur-Hydrogen-Oxygen), by which the narrowband SII captured data is assigned to the Red channel, the H-alpha data to Green, and the OIII to Blue. I also used the H-alpha as Luminance channel for this image.

Curiously, this SHO palette, at least in my opinion, makes the “Lagoon Nebula” an even more appropriate name for this object, perhaps because of the blue huge central region surrounded by the golden/brown border.

 

Please enjoy the view!

 

Cloudy weather in several moonless nights and processing turned this a work of multiple months.

 

This image was accomplished with the collaboration of my dear friend Romualdo Caldas.

 

And, being my inaugural image in narrowband and the first one processed in part with PixInsight, I would like to thank some other people who helped me in those regards: Rafael Compassi, Maicon Germiniani, Ernande Júnior, Gabriel Santos and Luiz Duczmal.

 

Equipment:

 

Telescope: SkyWatcher Esprit 80ED Super APO Triplet

Mount: SkyWatcher HEQ5

Camera: ZWO ASI1600MM-Cool

Accessories:

-SkyWatcher Field Flattener

-ZWO Electronic Filter Wheel

Filters and respective integration:

-Optolong H-alpha 1.25" 7nm: 54x300" (gain: 139.00) -15C bin 1x1

-Orion Extra Narrowband Filter OIII 1.25": 38x300" (gain: 139.00) -15C bin 1x1

-Starguider SII 10 nm: 36x270" (gain: 139.00) -15C bin 1x1

Total: 10.4 hours

Darks: 33

Bias: 100

 

Acquisition Software: Astrophotography Tool (APT)

 

Stacking and calibration software:

Deep Sky Stacker (DSS)

 

Post-Processing:

PixInsight and Photoshop

  

Português:

 

A Nebulosa da Lagoa em Hubble Palette (SHO) e adjacências

 

A Messier 8 (M8, também conhecida como Lac III-13, NGC 6523, BCA 237 ou Sh 2-25) é definitivamente a nebulosa a protagonizar esse rico campo estelar na constelação do Sagitário, próxima ao centro da nossa galáxia. Com as dimensões aparentes aproximadas de 45’x30’ e uma distância de 4 a 5 milhares de anos-luz da Terra, essa brilhante nebulosa de emissão tem uma extensão real de quase 100 anos-luz, fatores que a tornam visível a olho nu desde até mesmo áreas suburbanas de grandes cidades, e um bom alvo de observação para binóculos e pequenos telescópios, embora seja desejável um telescópio um tanto maior (10 polegadas seria bem razoável) e num céu escuro, para revelar totalmente seu esplendor a um observador visual – como eu mesmo tive a inesquecível oportunidade de testemunhar via um telescópio SCT de 11 polegadas em um local de céu Bortle 2.

 

Mas a Nebulosa da Lagoa, como é popularmente conhecida, é cercada de várias outras nebulosas e regiões HII, como as Sh 2-29, Sh 2-31 e Sh 2-32, vistas em grupo no região inferior esquerda da imagem. E a própria M8 também hospeda um brilhante aglomerado aberto de estrelas, o NGC 6530, bem como a Nebulosa da Ampulheta, que lhe serve de radiante núcleo, além de algumas nebulosas escuras que se apresentam como belos filamentos negros cortando seu caminho ao longo do campo de visão, parcialmente bloqueando nossa visão da fulgurante nebulosa logo atrás.

 

Essa combinação de cores é a conhecida Hubble Palette (ou Aquarela do Hubble – ficando assim famosa por ser empregada pelos processadores de imagens do famoso telescópio espacial), ou SHO (Enxofre-Hidrogênio-Oxigênio, na sigla em latim e inglês). Nessa combinação, os dados capturados em banda estreita de SII são atribuídos ao canal Vermelho do conjunto RGB (Vermelho-Verde-Azul), enquanto as capturas na faixa do Hidrogênio-alfa vão para o canal Verde, e as em Oxigênio-III vão para o Azul. Para essa imagem, eu também usei o H-alfa como canal de Luminância.

 

Curiosamente, esta aquarela SHO – ao menos na minha opinião – torna o nome “Nebulosa da Lagoa” ainda mais apropriado para este objeto, talvez pelo fato de tornar a imensa região central azul, e cercada pelas margens em tons marrons/dourados.

Por favor, desfrute da imagem em alta resolução.

 

Tempo nublado em muitas noites e o longo período de processamento fizeram deste um trabalho de múltiplos meses.

 

Essa imagem foi possível devido à colaboração do caro amigo Romualdo Caldas.

 

E, sendo minha imagem inaugural em banda estreita e a primeira processada com auxílio parcial do PixInsight, eu gostaria de agradecer a outras pessoas que me ajudaram nesse processo: Rafael Compassi, Maicon Germiniani, Ernande Júnior, Gabriel Santos e Luiz Duczmal.

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天鵝座廣角

 

這一次用 50mm 來拍拍廣角一點的天鵝座一帶。照片近中央有北美和塘鵝星雲;藍白色的光星是夏季大三角之一,也是天鵝座最亮的天津四,左上角也隱約看得到東西面紗星雲。這一帶的星星又密又多,對於 50mm 鏡頭好像有點太擠迫了…大家有興趣也可看看早前張貼過的 135mm 照片比較一下。

 

Photo by - Michael Leung

 

日期:2015-10-17 梅州陰那山

相機:Canon 650D mod.

鏡頭:Nikkor 50mm/1.8 AIS

追星儀:Kenko Skymemo RS

設定:ISO800 f/2.8, 240s x22

 

香港拍攝難度:★★ (五星最難)

建議鏡頭焦距:50 ~ 200mm

適合拍攝月份:8 月 ~ 11 月 (香港)

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天上的一顆心

 

心臟星雲 (Heart Nebula, IC1805),是銀河系英仙臂的星雲,星雲深處其實有很多值得拍攝的細節,可惜拍攝時間有限,未能將更多細節重現。心臟星雲在東北方向上升,最高只會升至 60 度左右,在香港的重光害環境下可能會較難拍攝,需借助光害濾鏡的幫忙才能事半功倍。

 

Photo by Timmy Wong @星明天文台

 

日期:2013/11 至 2013/12

相機:SBIG STL11000M

鏡頭:Takahashi FSQ106N

追星儀:Sky-Watcher NEQ6 (+EQMOD)

濾鏡: RGB + Ha + SII + OIII

 

香港拍攝難度:★★★ (五星最難)

建議鏡頭焦距:200 ~ 300mm

適合拍攝月份:8月 ~ 12月 (香港)

大概方向:東北至西北

Seagull Nebula (IC 2177)

 

A broad expanse of glowing gas and dust presents a bird-like visage to astronomers from planet Earth, suggesting its popular moniker - The Seagull Nebula. This portrait of the cosmic bird covers a 1.6 degree wide swath across the plane of the Milky Way, near the direction of Sirius, alpha star of the constellation Canis Major. Of course, the region includes objects with other catalog designations: notably NGC 2327, a compact, dusty emission region with an embedded massive star that forms the bird's head (aka the Parrot Nebula). Dominated by the reddish glow of atomic hydrogen, the complex of gas and dust clouds with bright young stars spans over 100 light-years at an estimated 3,800 light-year distance.

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Location: Amboy Crater National Natural Landmark, Amboy, California, USA (Bortle 2)

Date: March 5, 2022

Moon: Waning Crescent (12%)

Camera: ZWO ASI6200MC Pro

Telescope: William Optics ZenithStar 61II APO f/5.9

Flattener/Reducer: William Optics FLAT61A Field Flattener

Filter: Antlia ALP-T

Focuser: ZWO EAF

Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro

Guide Camera: ZWO ASI120MM Mini

Guide Scope: William Optics UniGuide 32 f/3.75

Controller: ZWO ASIAIR Pro

Battery: Jackery Portable Power Station Explorer 300

Camera Settings: Gain 100 | f/5.9 | 300 sec

Acquisition: 23 x 5 min Lights | 30 Darks | 30 Bias

Integration Time: 1 hrs 55 min

Software: PixInsight, Topaz Labs Denoise AI, Adobe Lightroom Classic

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Copyright © 2022 Steven K. Wu Photography. All Rights Reserved.

M 78, NGC 2064, NGC 2067, NGC 2068, NGC 2071

 

Imaging telescopes or lenses: Explore Scientific 127 ED APO Carbon

 

Imaging cameras: ZWO ASI1600MM Pro

 

Mounts: SkyWatcher EQ6-R Pro

 

Guiding telescopes or lenses: SkyWatcher Guidescope EVOGuide 50ed

 

Guiding cameras: Orion Starshoot Autoguider Orion Starshoot

 

Software: PixInsight · N.I.N.A · PHD2

 

Filters: ZWO LRGB 1.25" Filters

 

Accessory: Pegasus Astro Pocket Powerbox Advance · Pegasus Astro Focus Cube2 · ZWO EFW 1,25"

 

Frames:

ZWO LRGB 1.25" Filters: 53x180" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 2x2

ZWO LRGB 1.25" Filters: 17x600" (gain: 600.00) -20C bin 1x1

 

Integration: 5.5 hours

 

Darks: ~75

 

Flats: ~50

 

Flat darks: ~50

 

Bias: ~100

 

Avg. Moon age: 15.94 days

 

Avg. Moon phase: 3.85%

 

Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 4.00

 

Temperature: -15.00

Hey! This is my first time capturing The Andromeda Galaxy (M31), I’m pleased with the results even that the Galaxy is too big to my telescope. Equipment: Celestron 6SLT , Canon 60D, Celestron Focal reducer 6.3. Software processing: Sequator and Lightroom. Imaging information: light frames 30@30” flat frames 30/30” dark frames 30@30” bais frames 30@30”

The Leo Triplet is a group of galaxies a mere 35 million light-years away in the constellation Leo (not surprisingly). It consists of galaxies M65, M66, and NGC 3628.

 

Had a lot of trouble with this. My recently overhauled mount, which I was so proud of, decided to go back to how it was before, or worse, so I had to bin 32 of the 60 subs I took. Also had terrible amp glow so this is quite severely cropped to get rid of it. For some reason the darks didn't do their job. Anyway, not a bad result considering the short exposure.

 

Reprocessed here

 

24 March 2011

200p, EQ5 unguided

Nikon D70 full spectrum prime focus

28 x 60sec, iso 1600

darks (useless ones), bias and flats.

Stacked in DSS processed in CS5

 

This image was taken using my skywatcher 127 telescope and my canon 550d. This is just a single image with no stacking. Not focused the best, think I can improve but I am pleased to take my first photograph of the nebula.

This is my most "professional" astrophoto so far - I've never done HDR before.

Date: Oct 12th, 2018

Location: Sugag (Alba), Romania

Technical details: Canon 750D & Stellarvue 80ED + flattener

ISO 1600

25x60 sec

60x30 sec

21x15 sec

Flats, darks and bias

Messier 26 open star cluster, at right, a bright binocular/telescopic star cluster, along with the fainter and small globular star cluster NGC 6712 at upper left, which itself is paired with the faint planetary nebula IC 1295, the greenish spot left of NGC 6712. All are in the constellation of Scutum, embedded in the rich Scutum Starcloud. The bright red star at top is S Scuti.

 

This is a stack of 8 x 6 minute exposures at f/4.4 with the Canon 6D at ISO 800 and TMB 92mm Apo refractor with the Borg 0.85x flattener/reducer. Taken from the winter home near Silver City, New Mexico.

Only Lovers Left Alive / Выживут только любовники (Jim Jarmusch, 2013).

 

Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska, John Hurt.

 

По-моему Джармуш снял шедевральное произведение! Правда, возможно предназначенное для определённой аудитории (декаденствующих эстетов)) - фильм-сон, где богиня по имени Тильда (в смысле Ева), скользит со своим возлюбленным (его совершенно случайно зовут Адам) сквозь пространство-время, созерцая красоту мира под космический drone/ambient - очень люблю подобные работы, за их символизм-минимализм и красоту, думаю - не маловато ли ему будет проставленных 9/10?

 

Кстати, саундтрек к этому фильму выиграл приз в Каннах, а музыку написали совместно голландский композитор Jozef Van Wissem и Jim Jarmusch, проект носит название SQÜRL — так что послушайте хотя бы музыку: FLAC, раз не хотите сам фильм посмотреть.

 

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n this clear capture you can see the galactic center above the hills of "El cajon del Maipo", observing towards the constellation of the Scorpion, Lupus and Norma you can find part of the disk of the Milky Way, rich in stars, dust and interstellar gas, matter and dark energy and endless astronomical objects.

 

In the "Astro-Selfie", you can see 3 Astrophotographers, member of @ astronomia_nova_austral, from left to right, Mario Poblete, Diego Tapia and Manuel Tobar.

 

Author: Mario Poblete.

 

En esta nítida captura se puede apreciar el centro galáctico por encima de los cerros de “El cajon del Maipo”, observando hacia la constelación del Escorpión , Lupus y Norma se puede encontrar parte del disco de la Vía láctea, rica en estrellas, polvo y gas interestelar, materia y energía oscura y un sin fin de objetos astronómicos.

 

En la “Astro-Selfie”, se puede apreciar 3 Astrofotografos, miembro de @astronomia_nova_austral, de izquierda a derecha, Mario Poblete, Diego Tapia y Manuel Tobar.

 

Autor: Mario Poblete.

Rosette Nebula as seen on Nov 25 and 26 over two nights of capturing in the back yard. I was testing flexure fixes and needed a target that would be useful. This object is near the equator and thus any issues with RA would show up best here.

 

Equipment used for this effort:

Stellarvue SV4

Full spectrum modified Pentax K10D camera with cooler (Camera temps ranged from 6 to 9 C)

SSF6 flattener with IDAS LPR filter

Losmandy G11 with Gemini 2 and PEC turned on

Guided with Maxim and SSAG on SV70ED

 

Data set:

32 lights, 45 darks, 256 bias, 35 flats

 

I've also learned a few new things about the peculairities of the image data I capture. Because I'm using a cooled, full spectrum converted CCD based DSLR, the noise profile is a bit strange. There is amp glow that is non-linear. So far, I've learned that Maxim DL is the best tool for me to use to calibrate the source files. This does a nice job of removing the amp glow, although sometimes it does not do a great job on the hot pixels. It gets nearly all of them, but the biggest ones still come through.

 

I've been stacking the FIT files from Maxim using Deep Sky Stacker 3.3.3 beta 47. It does a great job of catching the hot pixels and does the right job of debayering the FIT files. I've recently found that my color settings for the debayer process were off by a large margin. I found that by reducing the blue level significantly and bumping up the red level the resulting cyan colored ringing on the brightest stars all but disappears. This has significantly helped the next step of processing in Pix Insight.

 

Stacked in DSS with Sigma Clip settings of Kappa 2 with 5 iterations on the best 90% giving 28 lights. This gives 4 hours and 40 minutes of integration time. Exported as 32 bit FIT file.

 

In PI, now that the data is in much better condition, I've had better results with using the basic tools. In order, I run:

Dynamic Crop to trim bad areas from the mosaic from DSS

Assisted Color Calibration

DBE with large sample areas

Masked Stretch script to get to a higher median level

Removed green using SCNR

Histogram Stretch to spread out the results

ADCNR with the built-in masking (I've tried using it twice with good results)

Unsharp Mask on the Luminance CIE Y to tighten up the stars

One more pass on the Assisted Color Calibration with a strong saturation boost value of 3

Dark Structure Enhance script did a nice job of increasing the contrast

 

Final export to TIFF and then into LR3. There I added a value of 1 to the blacks and 10 to the Clarity, Vibrance, and Saturation each. In the past, I've done Sharpness and Noise Reduction. I don't think this is necessary for this example. I also touched up a spot left from a missing set of flats - I missed getting flats after the first day's data and there was a big dust mote on the CCD.

 

Here's the platesolve output from PI:

 

Referentiation Matrix (Gnomonic projection = Matrix * Coords[x,y]):

-0.000012772342 +0.000530587853 -0.582410522327

-0.000530583963 -0.000012822386 +0.981665095443

+0.000000000000 +0.000000000000 +1.000000000000

Resolution ........ 1.911 arcsec/pix

Rotation .......... -88.619 deg

Focal ............. 655.28 mm

Pixel size ........ 6.07 um

Field of view ..... 1d 56' 4.4" x 1d 12' 42.0"

Image center ...... RA: 06 31 37.009 Dec: +04 59 06.77

Image bounds:

top-left ....... RA: 06 29 16.500 Dec: +05 57 59.17

top-right ...... RA: 06 29 05.715 Dec: +04 01 57.74

bottom-left .... RA: 06 34 08.743 Dec: +05 56 13.63

bottom-right ... RA: 06 33 57.099 Dec: +04 00 12.52

 

All in all, I'm happy with this image. The data is reasonably good and I've learned a lot.

The Bubble Nebula is a beautiful emission nebula in the constellation Cassiopeia. The bubble is caused by stellar winds coming from its central star. Check out this Hubble closeup of part of the bubble.

 

Looks MUCH better on a dark background in the light box.

 

Technical info about the image:

Object: NGC 7635, The Bubble Nebula

Sky: LM ~5

Mount: CGEM

Imaging scope: C9.25 at f/6.3

Imaging FL: 1480mm

Imaging camera: SBIG ST-4000XCM

Lights: 100x180s (5h)

Calibration: 7 sky flats, 36 darks

Guide scope: Orion 9x50 finder scope

Guide camera: Meade DSI I (2s intervals)

Other details: Images acquired with CCDOPS v5, guided with PHD (using GPUSB), calibrated and stacked using Deep Sky Stacker, post-processed in Photoshop CS5.

 

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Processed as 'LRGBHSO' in APP.

In the constellation of Auriga.

 

M: iOptron EQ45-Pro

T: William Optics GTF81

C: ZWO ASI533MM-Cooled

F: L,R,G,B,Ha,Oiii & Sii

G: PHD2 & Baader FlipMirror

GC: ZWO ASI120mini

RAW16; FITs

Temp: -10 DegC

Gain 101;

L 5 x Exp 200s

R 5 x Exp 200s

G 5 x Exp 200s

B 5 x Exp 200s

Ha 5 x Exp 400s

Oiii 5 x Exp 400s

Sii 5 x Exp 400s

Frames: 30 Lights; 0 Darks; 6 flats

100% Crop

Capture: SharpCap

Processed: APP; PS

Sky: 80% Gibbous moon, breezy, minimal cloud, cold, fair seeing.

 

3.477 light years distant.

 

Nikon D5600

300mm

stacked 18 light frames 3 dark frames

William Optics Zenithstar 73 Apo doublet refractor

Zwo ASI294MC-Pro

Optolong L-Pro broadband filter

14 - 240 second light frames

No darks frames

No calibrations frames

Stacked in Deepsky Stacker

Edited in Adobe Photoshop CC 2021

 

Couldn't resist this. Only found out about this last night (tonight) and as it was clear I felt obliged!

 

For those that don't know - or don't care :) - a supernova is a star that has come to the end of its life and exploded

 

On the left is the image I took on 3 May, and to the right is the quick and dirty image I've just taken. The supernova is kind of obvious (more so with the yellow lines pointing to it!)

 

The "surrounding" stars are in our galaxy, probably just thousands of light years away. The supernova, equally as bright, is in M51, the Whirlpool Galaxy, and is about 31 million light years away. Which also means of course that it went supernova 31 million years ago. Fascinating stuff. :)

telescope: Vixen ED102S 920mm

tracker: GPD + skysensor 2000

camera: Canon EOS 6D (astro-modified)

parameters: ISO 6400, 4min*5

total exposure 20min

 

with dark & flat.

 

2021/5/15

Sh2-155 s a diffuse nebula in the constellation Cepheus, within a larger nebula complex containing emission, reflection, and dark nebulosity. At an estimated distance of 725 parsecs (2400 ly), Sh2-155 is an ionized H II region with ongoing star formation activity.

 

SkyWatcher 80ED, IDAS NBZ dual-narrowband filter

112 * 300s lights

128 darks, flats and bias calibration frames

 

At 9hr20 the OIII signal was still very weak and tricky to process, requiring a lot of noise-reduction trickery. I'll definitely have to return to this target again.

 

The colour palette is particularly weird. Normal HOO tends to be strident reds and blues; HaHOO makes for paler yellow-gold and cyan colours. After a bit of playing around, this formula of my own gives excellent cold blue-green tonality instead.

 

Available as prints, cards and more via the website: shiny.photo/photo/Sharpless-Sh2-155---The-Cave---Nebula-6...

The Sunflower Galaxy, M63 aka NGC 5055 is in the constellation Canes Venatici. It's about 37 million light years away and is part of the M51 Group which, not surprisingly, includes M51.

 

This was an absolute pig to process. It's not hugely bright and needs a lot more than the 50 minutes I was able to give it. Still - I can cross it off the list now! :)

 

4 June 2011

200p, EQ5 unguided

Nikon D70 full spectrum prime focus

50 x 60sec

iso 1600

darks, bias and flats.

Stacked in DSS processed in CS5

The Draco Group (aka, the Draco Triplet) is a striking trio of galaxies in the constellation Draco.

 

Looks MUCH better on a dark background in the light box.

 

Technical info about the image:

Object: The Draco Group

Sky: LM ~5

Mount: CGEM

Imaging scope: C9.25 at f/6.3

Imaging FL: 1480mm

Imaging camera: SBIG ST-4000XCM

Lights: 90x180s (4.5h)

Calibration: 7 sky flats, 36 darks

Guide scope: Orion 9x50 finder scope

Guide camera: Meade DSI I (2s intervals)

Other details: Images acquired with CCDOPS v5, guided with PHD (using GPUSB), calibrated and stacked using Deep Sky Stacker, post-processed in Photoshop CS5.

 

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традиционный список лучших альбомов, места и теги условны, забытые герои найдутся чуть позже!

 

Happy New Yea! 💟

 

#shoegaze #reverb

 

01. Spool - Spool

02. Whirr - Feels Like You

03. DIIV ‎- Deceiver

04. Tokyo Shoegazer - Moondiver

05. Ride - This Is Not A Safe Place

06. Westkust - Westkust

07. Radio Supernova - Tähtiin

08. Idi Et Amin - Texas Rose

09. Dead Horse One - The West Is The Best

10. Eddyevvy - Eddyevvy

11. Iris - Slowly, Forever

12. Fleeting Joys - Speeding Away To Someday

13. Drowse - Light Mirror

14. Echodrone - Everything Starts To Be A Reminder EP

15. Bethany Curve - Murder!

16. Tennis System - Lovesick

17. Rev Rev Rev - Kykeon

18. Palm Haze - Rêve Bleu

19. Black Nite Crash - Conflict Of Disinterest

20. Static Daydream - Cracked Inside

 

(honorable mentions)

 

Bad Visuals - Petaluma

Burning House - Anthropocene

Ceremony - Candy

Dear Eloise - They Slipped Away From My Mind Just Like This

Greet Death - New Hell

Medicine - Scarred for Life

Rei Clone - Greetings From Somewhere

The Meeting Places - You And I EP

Dead Swords - Enders

The Telescopes - Exploding Head Syndrome

True Sleeper - Life Happened

Rubur - Evening Sitsown Vision

 

 

#dreampop #ethereal

 

01. Blushing - Blushing

02. Piroshka - Brickbat

03. Somesurprises - Somesurprises

04. Star Horse - You Said Forever

05. Death and Vanilla - Are You A Dreamer?

06. Paulina Cassidy - Phantom Gardens

07. Lorelle Meets The Obsolete - De Facto

08. Dreams of Empire - Nothing's Ever Finished

09. Desperate Journalist - In Search of the Miraculous

10. Autumn's Grey Solace - Englelícra

11. Bodywash - Comforter

12. Tallies - Tallies

13. Vicious Blossom - Solace

14. Tribes of the City - Rust and Gold

15. The Stargazer Lilies - Occabot

16. Molly - All That Ever Could Have Been

17. Be Forest - Knocturne

18. Froth - Duress

19. Cigarette - Light Blues

20. Youth - Garden EP

 

(honorable mentions)

 

Deep Cut - Different Planet

Lightning Bug - October Song

Sambassadeur - Survival

Silver Bars - Center of the City Lights

Sunlotus - This Old House

Tiny Blue Ghost - Mend Again

 

 

#electronic #lofi #ambient

 

01. Hildur Guðnadóttir - Сhernobyl OST

02. Trentemøller - Obverse

03. Biosphere - The Senja Recordings

04. Kali Malone - The Sacrificial Code

05. Rafael Anton Irisarri - Solastalgia

06. Félicia Atkinson - The Flower and the Vessel

07. Sofie Birch - Planetes

08. Carla dal Forno - Look Up Sharp

09. Caterina Barbieri - Ecstatic Computation

10. Steve Hauschildt - Nonlin

11. Eye - Metamujer

12. Zahn / Hatami / McClure - Ypsilon

13. Loscil - Equivalents

14. Plaid - Polymer

15. VTSS - Identity Process

16. Bristlecone - Byesweetheart

17. Saalvia - Zionphar

18. Into The Pale Abyss - Without Light EP

19. I Hate Models - L'Âge Des Métamorphoses

20. Lindstrøm - On A Clear Day I Can See You Forever

 

(honorable mentions)

 

36 - C45 Dreamloops

As One - Communion

Aythar - Cosmic Resonances

Bibio - Ribbons

Bochum Welt - Seafire

Clark - Kiri Variations

Cosey Fanni Tutti - Tutti

Drøn - Ultramarine Sun

Driftmachine - Driftmachine Plays Marien van Oers

Ellen Allien - Alientronic

Empusae - Iter In Tenebris

Fennesz - Agora

Future Sound Of London - Yage 2019

Hauschka - A Different Forest

HVOB - Rocco

Jaakko Eino Kalevi - Dissolution EP

Kelly Moran - Origin EP

M83 - Un couteau dans le cœur [Knife + Heart] OST

Machinefabriek - With Voices

Sote (Ata Ebtekar) - Parallel Persia

Synkro - Images

Underworld - Drift Series 1

 

 

#postpunk #darkwave #minimalwave

 

01. Rakta - Falha Comum

02. Hante. - Fierce

03. Ritual Howls - Rendered Armor

04. MNNQNS - Body Negative

05. Skemer - Benevolence

06. Lunacy - Age Of Truth

07. Kap Bambino - Dust, Fierce, Forever

08. Minuit Machine - Infrarouge

09. Sólveig Matthildur - Constantly In Love

10. She Past Away - Disko Anksiyete

11. Ragana - We Know That the Heavens Are Empty

12. Boy Harsher - Careful

13. Ison - Inner / Space

14. Gold - Why Aren't You Laughing?

15. Missing - The Miserablist

16. Chelsea Wolfe - Birth of Violence

17. VR SEX - Human Traffic Jam

18. Over - To The Teeth

19. Silence In The Snow - Levitation Chamber

20. FTR - Manners

 

(honorable mentions)

 

All Your Sisters - Trust Ruins

Beat Obsolete - Beat Obsolete

Bestial Mouths - Inshroudss

Black Marble - Bigger Than Life

Communions - Flesh And Gore, Dream And Vapor EP

Drab Majesty - Modern Mirror

Enola Gay - S​/​T EP

Isolated Youth - Warfare

Primitive Knot - Puritan

Subversive Rite - Songs For The End Times

 

 

#psychedelic #kraut #jazz

 

01. L'Épée - Diabolique

02. Vanishing Twin - The Age Of Immunology

03. A-Sun Amissa - For Burdened And Bright Light

04. GoGo Penguin - Ocean In A Drop EP

05. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Infest The Rats' Nest

06. Moon Duo - Stars Are the Light

07. Duster - Duster

08. Peel Dream Magazine - Up And Up EP

09. Ulver - Drone Activity

10. Swans - Leaving Meaning.

11. Papir - VI

12. Celeste - Il Risveglio Del Principe

13. Magma - Zëss : Le jour du néant

14. Pond - Tasmania

15. The Twilight Sad - It Won/t Be Like This All the Time

16. Heilung - Futha

17. The Comet Is Coming - Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery

18. Temples - Hot Motion

19. Toy - Happy in the Hollow

20. Próchno - Próchno

 

(honorable mentions)

 

Allah-Las - Lahs

Ashinoa - Sinie Sinie

Black To Comm - Seven Horses For Seven Kings

Domkraft - Slow Fidelity

Pharmakon — Bestial Burden

Singapore Sling - Killer Classics

Vaura - Sables

 

 

#postblack #drone #doom #postmetal

 

01. Sunn O))) - Life Metal

02. Laster - Het wassen oog

03. Obsequiae - The Palms of Sorrowed Kings

04. Brutus - Nest

05. Profetus - The Sadness of Time Passing

06. Big ‡ Brave - A Gaze Among Them

07. Imperial Cult - Spasm Of Light

08. Ultha - Belong

09. Exulansis - Sequestered Sympathy

10. Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard - Yn Ol I Annwn

11. Il Vuoto - Vastness

12. Blut aus Nord - Hallucinogen

13. Misþyrming - Algleymi

14. Blood Of Sokar - Ruina I & II

15. Opeth - In Cauda Venenum

16. Hagzissa - They Ride Along

17. Waste of Space Orchestra - Syntheosis

18. A Swarm of the Sun - The Woods

19. Teitanblood - The Baneful Choir

20. Disrotted - Cryogenics

 

(honorable mentions)

 

11 Paranoias - Asterismal

A Swarm of the Sun — The Woods

Alunah - Violet Hour

Asphodèle - Jours Pâles

Avatarium - The Fire I Long For

Black Cilice - Transfixion Of Spirits

Candlemass - The Door to Doom

Chrome Ghost - The Diving Bell

Clouds Collide - They Don't Sleep Anymore

Crawl - Necrotic Fear

Darkthrone - Old Star

Dead To A Dying World - Elegy

Earth - Full Upon Her Burning Lips

Global Despair - Fortress of Discord [Kazakhstan]

Hermóðr - Forest Sky

Inter Arma - Sulphur English

Misertus - Daydream

Orso - Paninoteca

Pharmakeia - Pharmakeia

Sadness - I Want to Be There

Sanguine Eagle - Shores Of Avarice / Storm Mysticism

Swallow the Sun - When a Shadow Is Forced Into the Light

Windswept - The Onlooker

 

 

#rock #raw

 

01.Lingua Ignota - Caligula

02.PJ Harvey - All About Eve

03.Amyl and the Sniffers - Amyl and the Sniffers

04.Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Ghosteen

05.LCD Soundsystem - Electric Lady Sessions

06.Angel Olsen - All Mirrors

07.Ladytron - Ladytron

08.65daysofstatic - Replicr

09.Wolcensmen - Fire in the White Stone

10.American Football - LP3

11.Kim Gordon - No Home Record

12.Boris - LφVE & EVφL

13.She Luv It - S/T

14.Spotlights - Love & Decay

15.Shellac - The End Of Radio

16.Mono - Nowhere Now Here

17.Lightning Bolt - Sonic Citadel

18.Alcest - Spiritual Instinct

19.Syberia - Seeds of Change

20.We Lost The Sea - Triumph & Disaster

 

(honorable mentions)

 

All The Saints - Look Like You're Going Somewhere

Belle and Sebastian - Days of the Bagnold Summer [OST]

Dayflower - Honeyspun

Deerhunter - Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?

Feels - Post Earth

Foxes in Fiction - Trillium Killer

Have a Nice Life - Sea of Worry

Iggy Pop - Free

Jenny Hval - The Practice Of Love

L7 - Scatter the Rats

Mercury Rev - Bobbie Gentry's The Delta Sweete Revisited

Morrissey - California Son

Pixies - Beneath the Eyrie

Soen - Lotus

Tindersticks - No Treasure But Hope

Ty Segall - First Taste

 

 

#indie

 

01. Men I Trust - Oncle Jazz

02. Aldous Harding - Designer

03. Automatic - Signal

04. Marissa Nadler & Stephen Brodsky - Droneflower

05. Niights - Hellebores

06. Patience - Dizzy Spells

07. Kwiaty - Kwiaty

08. Clairo - Immunity

09. HTRK - Venus in Leo

10. Vivian Girls - Memory

11. SPC ECO - Fifteen

12. Mini Dresses - Heaven Sent

13. Agent Blå - Morning Thoughts

14. Rocketship - Thanks to You

15. Cigarettes After Sex - Cry

16. Marble Arch - Children Of The Slump

17. Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow

18. Flower Crown - Sundries

19. Comet Gain - Fireraisers Forever!

20. The Soft Cavalry - The Soft Cavalry

 

(honorable mentions)

 

(Sandy) Alex G - House Of Sugar

Amber Clouds - Here’S To Feeling Good All The Time

Cashfire Sunset - Get The Starts

Collection D'Arnell-Andréa - Another Winter

Crane Like The Bird - Crane Like The Bird

Foreign Television - Foreign Television

Girlpool - What Chaos Is Imaginary

Jay Som - Anak Ko

Léonie Pernet - The Craving Tape EP

Misty Coast - Melodaze

Night School - Disappear Here

Sasami - Sasami

Tęskno - Mi (2018)

The Coathangers - The Devil You Know

Unloved - Heartbreak

Valley Gals - Real Rock

 

 

#pop #synthwave

 

01. Billie Eilish - When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go

02. Lucy Rose - No Words Left

03. Clio - Déjà Venise

04. Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising

05. The Chemical Brothers - No Geography

06. Pomme - Les Failles

07. Yma - Par De Olhos

08. Corine - Un Air de Fête

09. Alice Phoebe Lou - Paper Castles

10. Ana Frango Elétrico - Little Electric Chicken Heart

11. Solange - When I Get Home

12. Louise Lemón - A Broken Heart is an Open Heart

13. Aurora - A Different Kind of Human (Step II)

14. Rhye - Spirit EP

15. Caroline Polachek - Pang

16. Chasms - The Mirage

17. Chromatics - Closer To Grey

18. Ariana Grande - Thank U, Next

19. Taylor Swift - Lover

20. M83 - DSVII

 

(honorable mentions)

 

Bat For Lashes - Lost Girls

Broods - Don'T Feed The Pop Monster

Cate Le Bon - Reward

Évelyne Brochu - Objets perdus

Hælos - Any Random Kindness

Hatchie - Keepsake

Heather Woods Broderick - Invitation

Marie-Flore - Braquage

Marika Hackman - Any Human Friend

Marina - Love + Fear

Sigrid - Sucker Punch

Stealing Sheep - Big Wows

Tegan And Sara - Hey, I'M Just Like You

Two People - First Body

Tamaryn - Dreaming The Dark

 

 

#Russia

 

01. Акульи слёзы - Опыт очарования

02. Луговые Мари - Тӱня / Тӱня 2000 / Луговые Мари EP

03. Хадн Дадн - Лаоакын

04. Весна Весна - Перемены настроения

05. Пати Баскет - В курилке детской библиотеки

06. Blankenberge - More

07. Молодые Люди Пройдёмте - Как Тебе?

08. Spring Winds - Sway EP

09. Ploho - Пыль

10. Life on Venus - Odes to the Void

11. Verbludes - Album

12. Moon Far Away - Athanor Eurasia

13. Самое большое простое число - Наверное, точно

14. Gnoomes - Mu!

15. Voditel Dlya Vera - Ты (Вход в пустоту) EP

16. Kedr Livanskiy - Your Need

17. Увула - Нам остается лишь ждать

18. Dreaming Wizard - Full Moon

19. Трипинадва - Всегда

20. The Bleak Engineers - New Frontiers

 

(honorable mentions)

 

21. Soft Blade - тысячелетний EP

22. Вскрытый Потенциал - Девушка ветров (feat. Райли)

23. PTU - Am I Who I Am

24. Англия - Тепло от холодных рук

25. Svalka x6 - Для свадеб, банкетов и корпоративов

26. Деревянные киты - Супер

27. А в голове море (В Пути) - Шёпотом (Single)

28. Mirèle - Renaissance

29. Messer Chups - Twin Peaks Twist EP

30. Volnolom - Volnolom EP

31. Chkbns - Autwik

32. Нobo - Токсичный десерт

33. Kikok - Sauna

34. Ладья - ЛО (Single)

35. Сумеречный cад - Беги

36. Сияние - Желания EP

37. Regular Citizen - Sleeping Unique

38. Kira Lao - Тревожный опыт

39. Кис-Кис - Юность в стиле панк

40. Shortparis - Так закалялась сталь

41. Tired Up - Now I Feel It

42. Polnalyubvi - Элегия

43. Сёстры - Окна EP

44. Gigillas - Pretty Girls, Shitty Songs

45. Dottie Danger - О, Упырь

46. Мартовские Иды - Вертиго

47. Angelic Milk - Divine Biker Love

48. Flowers In Your Eyes - Nega

49. Grima - Will Of The Primordial

50. Алиса - Посолонь

51. Pavel Milyakov - La Maison De La Mort

52. Atariame - Voiceless

53. Арсений Креститель - 23

54. Спасибо - Спасибо

55. Шлем - Шлемодержавие

56. Ил - Образ Пустоты EP

57. Антоха MC - Про меня

58. Orange Plasticine - Marshmallow

59. Йоль - Заповеди

60. дора - Младшая сестра

 

 

The Best Live Shows Of 2019

 

1. Lingua Ignota, Rakta, Mono & The Jo Quail Quartet, Heilung, Hexvessel, Malokarpatan, Pharmakon, Crowhurst, Midnight, Emma Ruth Rundle, Molasses, Twin Temple @ Roadburn, Tilburg, 11.04.2019

 

2. Stereolab, Jarvis Cocker, Róisín Murphy, Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares feat. Lisa Gerrard, Kali Uchuns, Rosalía, Shellac, Primal Scream, June of 44, Drab Majesty @ Primavera, Barcelona, 01.06.2019

 

3. Triptykon & Metropole Orkest: Requiem, Anna Von Hausswolff, Loop, Grails, Messa, A.A.Williams, Black Bombaim & Peter Brötzmann, Thou & Emma Ruth Rundle, Lingua Ignota (Skatepark), Seven That Spells (pt 1), At The Gates, Fauna, Vile Creature (Skatepark), Drab Majesty, Bosse-de-Nage @ Roadburn, Tilburg, 12.04.2019

 

4. The Cure, Stereolab, Lena Willikens & Vladimir Ivkovic, Iisa Pykäri [ex- Regina], Modeselektor, Dustin Muchuvitz, Огни, Father John Misty @ Flow Helsinki, 11.08.2019

 

5. Sleep, MJ Guider (Melissa Guion), Imperial Triumphant, Marissa Nadler, Thou, Mats Gustafsson's The End, Bismuth (Skatepark), Cave, Nusquama (Turia, Laster, Fluisteraars), Mord‘A’Stigmata, Crowhurst & Gnaw Their Tongues, Lucy In Blue, Have A Nice Life, Coilguns, Fear Falls Burning @ Roadburn, Tilburg, 14.04.2019

 

6. Low, Robyn, Julia Holter, Tame Impala, Swervedriver, Aldous Harding, Suede, Piroshka, Kali Uchis, Me and the Bees play The Breeders, Janelle Monáe, Built To Spill @ Primavera, Barcelona, 31.05.2019

 

7. Godspeed You! Black Emperor @ Aurora, SPb, 27.11.2019

 

8. Demdike Stare, Pinkshinyultrablast, Abelle, Modeselektor, Ellen Allien, Andrew Weatherall, Ya Tosiba (Zuzu Zakaria + Mesak), Azymuth, Axel Boman, Chikiss, Mesak, Snork25 @ Present Perfect, SPb, 26-27.07.2019

 

9. Uran GBG, Wolvennest, Turia, GlerAkur, Henrik Palm, Laster, Cave In, Morne, Louise Lemón, Have A Nice Life, Sumac, Maalstroom, Terzij de Horde, Jaye Jayle @ Roadburn, Tilburg, 13.04.2019

 

10. Rafael Anton Irisarri, Lucy Railton, Samuel Kerridge, The Exaltics, Surgeon, Lutto Lento, Sobranie 8 18, PRCDRL, Monekeer + Lovozero, Peter Kirn, Dax J @ Gamma, SPb, 13.07.2019

 

11. Anna Von Hausswolff + Gyða Valtýsdóttir @ Opera, SPb, 15.05.2019

 

12. Merzbow @ Zal, SPb, 22.05.2019

 

13. Driftmachine, Igor Starshinov, Eartheater (Alexandra Drewchin), Margenrot, Classic Electric, Digital Moss @ Electro-Mechanica, SPb, 09.11.2019

 

14. Lisa Stenberg, Shell15, Abjective, Symphocat @ GEZ-21, SPb, 07.02.2019

 

15. Kamasi Washington @ New Holland, SPb, 06.06.2019

 

16. Хладна и Колояр [Hladna Dreved], Smehopilorama, Дядя Коля и звуковзрыватели, Надя Серкова и диафильм-студия "Кибер-рыбы", Pinacoid @ Ubezhische, SPb, 08.11.2019

 

17. Carbon Based Lifeforms @ Planetarium 1, SPb, 14.02.2019

 

18. Church of Misery @ SPb, Mod, 29.10.2019

 

19. Michael Rother @ New Holland, SPb, 28.08.2019

 

20. Ishome (Mirabella Karyanova) @ Morze, SPb, 01.11.2019

 

21. Claudio Simonetti's Goblin, Ceeys, Blurt, Thomas Azier, Miyeon & Park Je Chun, Yegor Zabelov @ SKIF-XXIII, SPb, 17.05.2019

 

22. Olga Karpova @ Jaani Kirik, SPb, 17.11.2019

 

23. Blood Red Shoes @ Opera, SPb, 08.03.2019

 

24. Trna, Show Me A Dinosaur @ Mod, SPb, 10.02.2019

 

25. Blankenberge, Акульи слёзы, Sonic Death, Катины слёзки / Сияние, Рука дочери @ Artplay, SPb, 24-25.08.2019

 

26. Primal Scream @ Morze, SPb, 26.06.2019

 

27. Kedr Livanskiy @ Lumierre Hall, SPb, 30.10.2019

 

28. Glosoli @ Down Town, SPb, 08.03.2019

 

 

The Best Movies of 2019

 

1. Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood (2019) / Однажды в Голливуде @ Quentin Tarantino, 10/10

Apocalypse Now (1979) [Redux extended version] / Апокалипсисегодня @ Francis Ford Coppola, 10/10

2. Gisaengchung (2019) / Паразиты @ Joon-ho Bong, 9/10

3. A Rainy Day in New York (2019) / Дождливый день в Нью-Йорке @ Woody Allen, 9/10

4. Motherless Brooklyn (2019) / Сиротский Бруклин @ Edward Norton, 9/10

5. PJ Harvey: A Dog Called Money (2019) / Собака по кличке деньги @ Seamus Murphy, 9/10

Loro (2018) / Лоро @ Paolo Sorrentino, 9/10

 

6. Ford v Ferrari (2019) / Ford против Ferrari @ James Mangold, 8/10

High Life (2018) / Высшее общество @ Claire Denis, 8/10

At Eternity's Gate (2018) / Ван Гог. На пороге вечности @ Julian Schnabel, 8/10

Green Book (2018) / Зелёная книга @ Peter Farrelly, 8/10

Free Solo (2018) / Фри-соло @ Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, 8/10

7. Ad Astra (2019) / К звёздам @ James Gray, 7/10

8. Knives Out (2019) / Достать ножи @ Rian Johnson, 7/10

9. Seberg (2019) / Опасная роль Джин Сиберг @ Benedict Andrews, 7/10

10. Alita: Battle Angel (2019) / Алита: Боевой ангел @ Robert Rodriguez, 7/10

Okja (2018) / Окча @ Joon-ho Bong, 7/10

The Seagull (2018) / Чайка @ Michael Mayer, 7/10

 

11. Jumanji: The Next Level (2019) / Джуманджи: Новый уровень @ Jake Kasdan, 6/10

12. Berlin Bouncer (2019) / Берлинский фейсконтрольщик @ David Dietl, 6/10

Aquarela (2018) / Акварель @ Viktor Kosakovskiy, 6/10

13. Serenity (2019) / Море соблазна @ Steven Knight, 5/10

14. The Dead Don't Die (2019) / Мертвые не умирают @ Jim Jarmusch, 5/10

15. Joker (2019) / Джокер @ Todd Phillips, 5/10

16. Downton Abbey (2019) / Аббатство Даунтон @ Michael Engler, 4/10

17. Glass (2019) / Стекло @ M. Night Shyamalan, 3/10

18. It Chapter Two (2019) / Оно 2 @ Andy Muschietti, 2/10

  

...

 

[planned]

 

Midsommar @ Ari Aster

The Souvenir @ Joanna Hogg

Little Women @ Greta Gerwig

Portrait de la jeune fille en feu @ Céline Sciamma

Pain and Glory @ Pedro Almodóvar

Un couteau dans le cœur @ Yann Gonzalez

The Art of Racing in the Rain @ Simon Curtis

Varda by Agnès @ Agnès Varda

The King @ David Michôd

The Irishman @ Martin Scorsese

High Flying Bird @ Steven Soderbergh

Climax @ Gaspar Noé

Hustlers @ Lorene Scafaria

The Farewell @ Lulu Wang

La belle époque @ Nicolas Bedos

Honeyland @ Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov

An Elephant Sitting Still @ Hu Bo

Love, Antosha @ Garret Price

Apollo 11 @ Todd Douglas Miller

A Dog's Journey @ Gail Mancuso

Togo @ Ericson Core

The Lighthouse @ Robert Eggers

Doctor Sleep @ Mike Flanagan

 

 

total recall:

 

seen live (all time)

 

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flickr:

 

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#top2019 #best_of_2019 #deepskyobject

Radian Raptor 61 F/4.5 Apo triplet

Optolong L-eXtreme dual band filter

Zwo ASI2600MC Pro

25-360 second subs

Sharpcap

DeepskyStacker

Adobe Photoshop CC 2021

My second attempt at Pleiades, this time with about 3 hours total integration time, one hour each of ISO 400, 800, and 1600 with my Nikon D7000 and Tamron 150-600mm lens at f6 and 450mm.

M39 (ou NGC 7092) est un amas ouvert situé dans la constellation du Cygne. Il a été découvert par Charles Messier en 1764.

 

Cet amas est relativement lâche, il comprend une trentaine d'étoiles environ dans un volume de 7 années-lumière de diamètre, il est situé approximativement à 825 années-lumière du système solaire

 

Newton SkyWatcher 200/1000

Monture EQ6-r pro

Canon 1000D défiltré partiel

Correcteur de coma Baader MPCC Mk III

Autoguidage OAG + ZWO ASI 290mm mini

ZWO EAF

ASIAIR Pro

 

Traitement Pixinsight + Photoshop CC

  

Prise le 03/11/2020 :

32*300" => 2h40'

ISO 800

I've taken a lot of recent lessons learned and applied them to this data set. The original lights were captured on the night of Aug 24, 2011. At the time, I tried working with them and could only get some burned out images out of them. Over time, I learned about getting temperature matched darks for my DSLR and then about working with groups in DSS. With all this effort, I've been able to bring this shot to life.

 

There are still problems with flawed flats, but there's not much I can do about them since I didn't take flats that evening. I still had not learned the lesson to do that every night. Also, you can barely see some amp glow along the top of the frame. This may be something that I could remove with some better darks or by doing the stacking in PI.

 

Color balance was reset when I stacked, as I did not have the white balance set properly for the filter at the time I did the shots. I'm not sure if I like the burgundy look of the nebula. I did tweak the balance a bit in LR but at this point it's all aesthetics.

 

Used a full-spectrum modified Pentax K10D camera with a Stellarvue SV4 scope. Guiding with PHD by Orion SSAG on the Stellarvue SV70ED all on Losmandy GM8 mount. SV flattener used with Baader Moon and Skyglow filter.

 

3 frames (ISO: 200) - total exposure: 15 mn 0 s with 4 darks

2 frames (ISO: 200) - total exposure: 20 mn 4 s with 2 darks

4 frames (ISO: 200) - total exposure: 40 mn 8 s with 4 darks

 

Grouping like this was done to keep the lights and darks temperature matched. Stacking was done in DSS.

 

Processing done in PI. Mostly masked stretch, histogram stretch, sharpening, deringing, noise reduction, black structure enhance. Brought the image into LR to do spot fixes and a final stretch, sharpen, and denoise for the web.

Andromeda Galaxy first attempt (telescope not used)

Total exposure: 26 mins

57 light frames

Data acquisition : 4 days

2.5 million light years away from Earth

Première photo astro!

 

M27 Nébuleuse de l'Haltère. Constellation du Petit Renard

Cette relique d’étoile, une bulle de gaz expulsée il y a 20 000 à 30 000 ans, est particulièrement brillante. Sa forme a inspiré ses surnoms de Dumbbell (le battant de cloche), de l’Haltère ou encore du Trognon de pomme.

 

Prise le 27/07/2019

Newton SkyWatcher 200/000 sur N-EQ5

Canon EOS 1300D

93 poses de 30 secondes => 46'30"

ISO 800

25 darks, 31 offsets, 23 flats

Traitement Siril + Photoshop

The Veil Nebula is a cloud of heated and ionized gas and dust in the constellation Cygnus.

It constitutes the visible portions of the Cygnus Loop, a supernova remnant, many portions of which have acquired their own individual names and catalogue identifiers. The source supernova was a star 20 times more massive than the Sun which exploded between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago. At the time of explosion, the supernova would have appeared brighter than Venus in the sky, and visible in daytime. The remnants have since expanded to cover an area of the sky roughly 3 degrees in diameter (about 6 times the diameter, and 36 times the area, of the full Moon). While previous distance estimates have ranged from 1200 to 5800 light-years, a recent determination of 2400 light-years is based on direct astrometric measurements. (The distance estimates affect also the estimates of size and age.)

The Hubble Space Telescope captured several images of the nebula. The analysis of the emissions from the nebula indicate the presence of oxygen, sulfur, and hydrogen. The Cygnus Loop is also a strong emitter of radio waves and x-rays.

Taken 7/8-9-2021, Capture : 4hrs 10 mins - 600sec L - L Exstreme - 15D - 50F - 50FD - 100 Bias - stacked in DSS - post in LR & PS.

Equipement : WO Z61 II - Zwo ASI294MC Pro - L-Exstreme filter - SWNEQ6-R-Pro - WO slide 200mm guide scope - Zwo Asi 1200 mini guide cam - Zwo filter wheel & focuser.

APT & Stellarium, PH2.

Auto meridian flip did not work in APT so had to flip manually.

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天蝎座 / Constellation of Scorpius

 

天蝎座鄰近銀河中心,可算是各種天體雲氣比較豐富的一帶。圖左可看到藍馬頭和星空調色盤;右邊則有班節蝦星雲、貓爪星雲、和龍蝦星雲。熟悉星座的朋友可能會留意到左邊藍馬頭多了顆亮星。那是因為這圖是攝於今年四月, 土星剛好移到馬鼻的位置上…

 

這圖用上兩幅不同相片拼接並加以疊合,處理時花了一番氣力但也實在有趣… 希望下次再挑戰多幾幅的拼接試試。

 

Photo by Michael Leung

 

日期:2015/04/23 @ New Zealand - Lake Pukaki

相機:Canon 650D mod.

鏡頭:Canon EF 50/1.8 @ f/4

追星儀:Kenko Skymemo RS

設定:ISO 1600, 120sec x 18 x 2

 

香港拍攝難度:★★★ (五星最高) (部分在香港位處仰角比較低位置)

建議鏡頭焦距:35 ~ 135mm

適合拍攝月份:4月 ~ 8月 (香港)

大概方向:東南昇、西南落

A closer crop (and reprocess) of the original image (with the stars tweaked!)

  

3 May 2011

200p, EQ5 unguided

Nikon D70 full spectrum prime focus

58 x 60sec

iso 1600

darks, bias and flats.

Stacked in DSS processed in CS5

 

And yet another version here! :)

The Astronomical Society of Southern Africa

 

Winners:

Advanced Category:

Image entry number: AD-17

Stefanus Potgieter's Keyhole Nebula. (Prize: Celestron NexImage 5 Solar System Imager donated by G&L Agencies).

Beginner Category:

Image entry number: BE-03

Tiaan Niemand's Leo Triplets. (Prize: Celestron Power Tank donated by ScopeX).

Cellphone Category:

Image entry number: CE-08

Grant Peterson's Parade of the Planets. (Prize: Celestron NexYZ Smartphone adapter donate by G&L Agencies).

 

Special mentions:

Cellphone: Ani Vermulen (Milky Way & Windmill nightscapes).

Beginner: Peter Dunsby (Running Man & Orion core nebulae).

Advanced: Lafras Smit (SALT alignment tower startrails).

 

Astrophotography - Advanced Category:

 

AD 01

SALT alignment tower vs. South Pole

Lafras Smit

 

Canon 200D & Sigma 10 - 20mm lens @ 10mm

315 images of 30 seconds exposure each @ ISO 3200, f/3.5

Stacked with StarStax then processed in Light room.

 

AD 02

Fighting Dragons of Ara & Dragon's Egg (NGC 6164 / 6165)

John Gill

 

APM 107/700 telescope + 0.75 Focal Reducer on Celestron CGX mount. ZWO ASI1600 mono cooled camera + ZWO Ha, Sii & Oiii Filters

Exposures of 300 seconds for 5h00m total exposure time

Gain 150. Processed in PixInsight

 

AD 03

Messier 20 and Messier 8

Ryan Hill

 

Samsung NX500 DSLR on Williams optics telescope + focal reducer for 330mm focal length

2 hour stack of 2minute sub. Processed in Pixinsight.

 

AD 04

RIM Nebula (NGC6188)

Otto du Plessis

 

QHY183C through Edge HD 8 + Hyperstar focal reducer & STC Astro-MultiSpectra light pollution filter on Celestron AVX mount. Guiding : QHY Mini GuideScope 130mm

150 Minutes Integration Time @ Gain 11 Offset 5 (Unity gain).

Processed with Sequence Generator Pro, PHD2, Deep Sky Stacker, Startools, PS CS6 with Astronomy Tools Actions

 

AD 05

Eagle Nebula (Messier 16)

John Gill

 

ZWO ASI1600 mono cooled camera with ZWO, Ha, Sii & Oiii Filters through APM 107/700 telescope + 0.75 Focal Reducer on Celestron CGX mount

300-second individual exposures for total exposure time of 7h30m at Gain 300 and 235. Processed in PixInsight.

Imaged over two nights.

 

AD 06

The Carine nebula

Lafras Smit

 

Canon 6D at primary focus through Sky-Watcher 10 inch telescope on Skywatcher EQ6 mount

50 images of 1minute exposure each @ ISO 3200,

stacked with DeepSky Stacker and processed with Lightroom.

 

AD 07

SALT Panorama lit by the setting Moon

Lafras Smit

 

Canon 6D with 24 - 105mm lens @24mm

15 images of 25 seconds each at ISO 6400, f/4. Stitched with Microsoft Image Composite Editor (ICE) then processed in Lightroom.

 

AD 08

Red Stone Hills Moonlight

Wim Filmalter

 

Nikon D5100 with 18-55mm lens @ 18mm on tripod

6x 15sec portrait exposures @ ISO 6400 & F/3.5. Panorama stitched with ICE Image Composite Editor. Foreground illuminated by the rising last quarter Moon from behind at midnight.

 

AD 09

Lagoon Nebula (M8)

Otto du Plessis

 

QHY183C Camera through Edge HD 8" OTA + Hyperstar Focal Reducer & STC Astro-MultiSpectra light pollution filter, on Celestron AVX Mount guided by QHY Mini GuideScope 130mm

Gain 11 Offset 5 (Unity gain) exposure of 179 Minutes total Integration Time. Processed with Sequence Generator Pro, PHD2, Deep Sky Stacker, Startools, PS CS6 with Astronomy Tools Actions

 

AD 10

Red Stone Hills Milky Way

Wim Filmalter

 

Nikon D5100 with 18-55mm lens @ 18mm on tripod

6x 30sec portrait exposures at ISO 6400 & F/3.5, stitched with ICE Image Composite Editor.

 

AD 11

Lagoon Nebula (Messier 8)

John Gill

 

ZWO ASI1600 mono cooled camera with ZWO, Ha, Sii & Oiii Filters through APM 107/700 telescope + 0.75 Focal Reducer on Celestron CGX mount

Exposures of 300 seconds each at Gain 235 and 300, for total exposure time of 10h30m. Processed in PixInsight

Imaged over two nights.

 

AD 12

Cat’s Paw Nebula (NGC6334)

Otto du Plessis

 

QHY183C camera with STC Astro-MultiSpectra light pollution filter, through Edge HD 8" + Hyperstar Focal Reducer on Celestron AVX Mount, guided by QHY Mini GuideScope 130mm

455 Minutes total Integration Time at Gain 11 Offset 5 (Unity gain). Processed with Sequence Generator Pro, PHD2, Deep Sky Stacker, Startools, PS CS6 with Astronomy Tools Actions

 

AD 13

Southern Cross and Coal Sack

Ryan Hill

 

Samsung NX500 DSLR with 50mm kit lens

2 hour stack of 2minute subs, Processed in Pixinsight.

 

AD 14

Red Stone Hills Milky Way

Wim Filmalter

 

Nikon D5100 with 18-55mm lens @ 18mm on tripod

6x 30sec portrait exposures @ ISO 6400, F/3.5

Panorama stitched with ICE Image Composite Editor

 

AD 15

Eta region

Ryan Hill

 

Samsung NX500 with 85mm prime lens, Tracking on EQ6 mount

90minute stack of 2 min subs @ F4.

Processed in Pixinsight

 

AD 16

Gabriela Mistral Nebula (NGC3324)

Stefanus Potgieter

 

Unmodified Canon 60D camera through Celestron EdgeHD 8” telescope (f/10, FL = 2130mm) on Celestron Advanced VX mount, Guided with Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 auto guiding camera via Lacerta Thin Off-Axis-Guider. Alignment via QHY Polemaster.

51 Light frames, 51 dark frames, 73 flat frames, 40 Bias frames;

each with Shutter speed of 4minutes @ ISO 1600.

Controlled via Backyard EOS for Canon, PHD2, Stellarium Scope.

Processed with DeepSkyStacker & Photoshop CS6.

 

AD 17

Key-Hole Nebula (NGC 3372)

Stefanus Potgieter

 

Unmodified Canon 60D camera through Celestron EdgeHD 8” telescope (f/10, FL = 2130mm) on Celestron Advanced VX mount, Guided with Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 auto guiding camera via Lacerta Thin Off-Axis-Guider. Alignment via QHY Polemaster.

65 Light frames, 51 dark frames, 73 flat frames, 40 Bias frames;

each with shutter speed 4minutes @ ISO 1600.

Controlled via Backyard EOS for Canon, PHD2, Stellarium Scope.

Processed with DeepSkyStacker & Photoshop CS6

 

AD 18

Trifid Nebula (Messier 20)

Stefanus Potgieter

 

Unmodified Canon 60D camera through Celestron EdgeHD 8” telescope (f/10, FL = 2130mm) on Celestron Advanced VX mount, Guided with Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 auto guiding camera via Lacerta Thin Off-Axis-Guider. Alignment via QHY Polemaster.

47 Light frames, 51 dark frames, 73 flat frames, 40 Bias frames;

each with shutter speed 4minutes @ ISO 1600.

Controlled via Backyard EOS for Canon, PHD2, Stellarium Scope.

Processed with DeepSkyStacker & Photoshop CS6

 

Astrophotography - Cellphone Category:

 

CE 01

Waxing Gibbous Moon

Hiral Naik

 

Huawei P20 light cellphone through a 130mm diameter

K-way Celestial telescope & 20mm eyepiece

Shutter speed (1/50s), ISO (50)

 

CE 02

Kicking up StarDust

Ani Vermeulen

 

Huawei Mate 20 Pro (LYA-L29), with Leica Vario Summilux -H Tri-camera, Selfie clamp, tripod.

f/1.8 30sec 5,58mm ISO3200 5 May 2019

Post-processing: cropping and contrast.

 

CE 03

Saturn

Calvin Gloster

 

Huawei P20 light mounted to eyepiece with 3D printed mount. Eyepiece projection.

Exposure compensation = 0; Auto Focus Continuous mode. Video recording 1280x720 @30fps.

PIPP (planetary imaging PreProcessor) to extract and crop 200 frames, Auto Stakkert 2 to Stack images, RegiStax6 to adjust wavelets and RGB balance.

 

CE 04

Moon by day

Hiral Naik

 

Huawei P20 light cellphone through a 130mm diameter K-way Celestial telescope and 20mm eyepiece

Shutter speed (1/244s), ISO (50)

 

CE 05

Dark Perspectives

Ani Vermeulen

 

Huawei Mate 20 Pro (LYA-L29), with Leica Vario Summilux -H Tri-camera, Selfie clamp, tripod.

f/1.8 30sec 5,58mm ISO3200 5 May 2019

Post-processing: cropping and contrast.

 

CE 06

Jupiter

Calvin Gloster

 

Huawei P20 light mounted to eyepiece with 3D printed mount. Eyepiece projection.

Exposure compensation = 0; Auto Focus Continuous mode. Video recording 1280x720 @30fps.

PIPP (planetary imaging PreProcessor) to extract and crop 200 frames, Auto Stakkert 2 to Stack images, RegiStax6 to adjust wavelets and RGB balance.

 

CE 07

International Space Station

Grant Petersen

 

Standard 8" Skywatcher dobsonian - Samsung Galaxy S8 - Solomark Smartphone adapter - 7mm Celestron Excel LX eyepiece and 2 x Orion shorty Barlow. Manually tracked.

Frame from an ISS flyby over Johannesburg on 2018/11/11

Video in Pro Mode ISO 800 EXP 1/2000 sec at 60FPS. Screengrab of 1 x single frame, touched up in Lightroom for Android

 

CE 08

Parade of Planets 2018/19

Grant Petersen

 

Standard 8” Skywatcher Dobsonian – Samsung Galaxy S8 – Solomark Smartphone adapter – 7mm Celestron Excel LX eyepiece – 2 x Orion shorty Barlow

Gather about 1 min of video footage, run through PIPP and stack best % of frames with registax. Touched up with Lightroom for Android. Final image is composite of Planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus captured between 2018 and 2019

 

CE 09

Natural Glow, Unnatural Glow Below

Ani Vermeulen

 

Huawei Mate 20 Pro (LYA-L29), with Leica Vario Summilux -H Tri-camera, Selfie clamp, tripod.

f/1.8 30sec 5,58mm ISO3200 5 May 2019

Post-processing: cropping and contrast.

 

CE 10

Full Moon August 2019

Hiral Naik

 

Huawei P20 light cellphone through a 130mm diameter K-way Celestial telescope and 20mm eyepiece

Shutter speed (1/100s), ISO (64)

 

CE 11

Occultation of Saturn by the Moon

Grant Petersen

 

Standard 8" Skywatcher dobsonian - Samsung Galaxy S8 - Solomark smartphone adapter - 7mm Celestron Excel LX eyepiece.

5 sec video using the Cinema FV-5 app - ISO 200, Exp Compensation 2. Run through PIPP and stacked with Registax, touched up in Lightroom for Android.

 

Astrophotography - Beginner Category:

 

BE 01

Milky Way in Red

Coert Welman

 

Canon EOS 77D with Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 DX Lens @ 12mm & Hoya Red Intensifier filter, on Tripod

Aperture f/2.8, Exposure 25s, ISO 3200

Basic editing done in Canon Digital Photo Professional 4

 

BE 02

The Rosette Nebula

Peter Dunsby

 

ASI1600MC Cool camera on Photoline 60mm f/6 telescope.

ZWO ASI1600MM Pro camera on Teleskop Service ED 80 telescope operating at f/5.6 through ZWO Narrow Band filter set.

42 X 30 sec RBB using the ASI1600MC Cool one-shot colour camera & the Photoline 60mm telescope. 156 X 5 min Ha using the ASI1600MM Pro & the ED80 telescope. Images combined & processed using Pixinsight, assigning Ha to the Red channel.

 

BE 03

Leo Triplets

Tiaan Niemand

 

Canon 750D through Meade LXD75 SN10 guided via Orion 50mm guide scope and QHY5-II mono camera.

Lights x61 + Darks x10 + Flats x10 + Bias x10

Exposures 90 seconds each at ISO 3200

Stacked and processed in Nebulosity 4.2 and final touches in GIMP

 

BE 04

Lagoon Nebula (M8, NGC 6523)

Phillip du Plessis

 

Canon 80D through Williams Optics Zenithstar-80 II ED F6.8 Refractor on Sky-watcher HEQ5 Pro mount. Guided by ZWO ASI120MC-s through Orion Mini Guidescope 50mm

Total integration time 11h 44min (L392 D69 F41 B87). Guiding via PHD2, image capture via AstroPhotography Tool (APT). Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker (DSS), processed with StarTools & Lightroom.

 

BE 05

Centaurus A

Peter Dunsby

 

ZWO ASI1600MM Pro camera through Celestron Edge HD 800 operating at f/7 and ZWO LRGB filter set, on Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro mount

30 X 60 sec Red, 39 X 60 sec Green, 39 X 60 sec Blue, 180 X 10 sec Lum at Gain/Offset 75/15. Image processed using Pixinsight

 

BE 06

Church Circles

Coert Welman

 

Canon EOS 77D with Canon EF-S 24mm f/2.8 STM Pancake lens and Hoya Red Intensifier filter, on tripod.

Aperture f/3.2, Exposure 140 frames of 30sec each @ ISO 200

Stacked using Startrails, basic editing done with Photos (Win 10 SW))

 

BE 07

Trifid Nebula (Messier 20)

Phillip du Plessis

 

Canon 80D camera through Williams Optics Zenithstar-80 II ED F6.8 Refractor on Sky-watcher HEQ5 Pro mount, guided via ZWO ASI120MC-s through Orion Mini Guidescope 50mm

1h 45m, ISO200 300s (L22 D0 F24 B50)

8h 36m, ISO200 120s (L272 D57 F20 B94)

28m, ISO400 120s (L15 D21 F40 B24)

57m, ISO200 180s (L20 D35 F20 B44)

Total integration time = 11h 46min. Guiding via PHD2, captured via AstropPhotography Tool (APT). Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker (DSS), processed with StarTools & Lightroom

 

BE 08

Lagoon Nebula (M8)

Tiaan Niemand

 

Canon 750D through Meade LXD75 SN10.

Guided via QHY5-II mono camera through Orion 50mm guide scope.

Lights x26, Darks x10, Flats x10, Bias x10 frames; each exposure 90 seconds at ISO 3200

Stacked and processed in Nebulosity 4.2 and final touches in GIMP.

 

BE 09

Omega/Swan nebula (M17)

Tiaan Niemand

 

Canon 750D through Meade LXD75 SN10.

Guided via QHY5-II mono camera through Orion 50mm guide scope.

Lights x57, Darks x10, Flats x10, Bias x10 frames; each exposure 180 seconds at ISO 1600.

Stacked and processed in Nebulosity 4.2 and final touches in GIMP.

 

BE 10

The Running Man & Orion Nebula core

Peter Dunsby

 

ZWO ASI1600MM Pro camera with ZWO Narrow Band filter set, through Teleskop Service ED 80 telescope operating at f/5.6 & PhotoLine 60mm f/6 telescope, on Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro mount

26 hours of integration time combining Narrow Band data from two telescopes. 120 X 5 min Hydrogen Alpha, 96 X 5min OIII and 96 X 5 min SII at Gain/Offset 75/15.

Processed using Pixinsight assigning Ha, OIII and SII to RGB as follows. 0.5 X SII + 0.5 Ha to Red, Ha to Green and OIII to blue.

 

BE 11

Ecliptic lines

Coert Welman

 

Canon EOS 77D & Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 DX @ 12mm, with Hoya Red Intensifier & 2-stop ND soft grad filters, on tripod.

175 frames at 30 sec exposure each @ f/2.8, ISO 400. Stacked using Startrails.exe Basic editing done with Photos (Windows 10 software)

 

BE 12

Heavens Above

Kanti Narsing

 

Canon 5D MkIII camera, 14mm lens, on Equatorial mount

32sec exposure @ ISO 3200, f/2.8

 

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Martin Heigan - ASSA Astrophotography Section Director.

 

150 Best Movies of All Time @ deepskyobject [in progress]

на память, в хронологическом порядке

 

Gone with the Wind (1939)

Ninotchka (1939)

Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

Roman Holiday (1953)

東京物語 [Tokyo Story] (1953)

雨月物語 [Ugetsu][Tales of Moonlight and Rain] (1953)

Rear Window (1954)

To Catch a Thief (1955)

Vertigo (1958)

North by Northwest (1959)

Some Like It Hot (1959)

À bout de souffle [Breathless] (1960)

L'Avventura [The Adventure] (1960)

Psycho (1960)

La dolce vita (1960)

L'année dernière à Marienbad [Last Year in Marienbad] (1961)

Человек-амфибия [The Amphibian Man] (1961)

Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

Goldfinger (1964)

Paris - When It Sizzles (1964)

Repulsion (1965)

Cul-de-sac (1966)

Blow-Up (1966)

The Chase (1966)

Андрей Рублёв [Andrei Rublev] (1966)

Masculin féminin [Male Female] (1966)

Кавказская пленница, или Новые приключения Шурика [Kidnapping Caucassian Style, or Shurik's New Adventures] (1966)

Нежность [Tenderness] (1967)

Belle de jour (1967)

Дубравка [Dubravka] (1967)

Barbarella (1968)

Rosemary's Baby (1968)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Бриллиантовая рука [The Diamond Arm] (1968)

Белое солнце пустыни [White Sun of the Desert] (1969)

Солярис [Solaris] (1972)

Семнадцать мгновений весны [Seventeen Moments of Spring] (1971-1973)

Калина красная [Red Arrowwood] (1973)

Иван Васильевич меняет профессию [Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future] (1973)

Зеркало [The Mirror] (1974)

La gifle [The Slap] (1974)

Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

12 стульев (Twelve Chairs) (1976)

Barocco (1976)

In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden [In a Year of 13 Moons] (1978)

Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht [Nosferatu the Vampyre] (1978)

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Alien (1979)

Il bisbetico domato [The Taming of the Scoundrel] (1980)

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo [Christiane F.] (1981)

Das Boot (1981)

Possession (1981)

Innamorato pazzo [Madly in Love] (1981)

Приключения Шерлока Холмса и доктора Ватсона [The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson] (1981-1986)

The Thing (1982)

Blade Runner (1982)

Liquid Sky (1982)

L'été meurtrier [One Deadly Summer] (1983)

Star Wars: Return Of The Jedi (1983)

Ghostbusters (1984)

Dune (1984)

Paris, Texas (1984)

Subway (1985)

Back to the Future (1985)

Nine 1/2 Weeks (1985)

Blue Velvet (1986)

Кин-дза-дза! [Kin-dza-dza!] (1986)

Курьер [Courier] (1986)

АССА [ASSA] (1987)

Собачье сердце [Heart of a Dog] (1988)

Heathers (1988)

Le grand bleu [The Big Blue] (1988)

Cry-baby (1990)

Total Recall (1990)

Prayer of the Rollerboys (1990)

Twin Peaks (1990-1991)

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

The Linguini Incident (1991)

The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 (1992)

Basic Instinct (1992)

Blown Away (1992)

Groundhog Day (1993)

Trouble Bound (1993)

ソナチネ [Sonatine] (1993)

True Romance (1993)

Bullets Over Broadway (1994)

Léon: The Professional (1994)

Pulp Fiction (1994)

Forrest Gump (1994)

Braveheart (1995)

I.D. (1995)

Hackers (1995)

Cafe Society (1995)

攻殻機動隊 [Ghost in the Shell] (1995)

The Doom Generation (1995)

Trainspotting (1996)

Breaking the Waves (1996)

The English Patient (1996)

Fargo (1996)

Deconstructing Harry (1997)

The Brave (1997)

Nowhere (1997)

Брат [Brother] (1997)

Boogie Nights (1997)

Buffalo '66 (1997)

Fear and Loathing in LV (1998)

Lost Highway (1997)

L.A. Without a Map (1998)

Fight Club (1999)

The Matrix (1999)

Requiem for a Dream (2000)

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-2003)

Donnie Darko (2001)

24 Hour Party People (2002)

Fálkar [Falcons] (2002)

Lost in Translation (2003)

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (2004)

Lords of Dogtown (2005)

A Scanner Darkly (2006)

Factory Girl (2006)

This is England (2006)

The Cake Eaters (2007)

La môme [La Vie en Rose] (2007)

Control (2007)

The Go-Getter (2007)

Into The Wild (2007)

The Dark Knight (2008)

Flashbacks of a Fool (2008)

(500) Days of Summer (2009)

Moon (2009)

The Damned United (2009)

Enter The Void (2009)

Welcome to the Rileys (2010)

The Runaways (2010)

Inception (2010)

Oslo, 31. august (2011)

Café de Flore (2011)

Django Unchained (2012)

Jeune & jolie [Young & Beautiful] (2013)

La grande bellezza [The Great Beauty] (2013)

Interstellar (2014)

Only Lovers Left Alive (2014)

B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989 (2015)

The Neon Demon (2016)

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

Loving Vincent (2017)

Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

Le Redoutable (2017)

 

...

 

150 лучших фильмов всех времён (в процессе)

 

photo:

Delphine Seyrig @ L’année dernière à Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961)

 

#films #topfilms #mustseebeforeyoudie #фильмы #кино #bestof #topmovie #лучшиефильмы

Top 200 of 2021 @ deepskyobject

 

традиционный список лучших альбомов — места и теги условны, забытые герои найдутся чуть позже!

 

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#shoegaze #reverb

 

01. Crystal Canyon - Yours With Affection and Sorrow

02. Flyying Colours - Fantasy Country

03. Vollam - Mirror EP

04. Lucid Express - Lucid Express

05. 김민하 [BrokenTeeth] - 편지​(​The Letters)

06. 93MillionMilesFromTheSun - Why Do We Fall Apart

07. Fleeting Joys - All Lost Eyes And Glitter

08. Kraus - View No Country

09. Stomp Talk Modstone - Linger in Someone's Memory With a Lurid Glow

10. Radio Supernova - Takaisin

11. Sugardrop - Eventually

12. 파란노을 [Parannoul] - To See the Next Part of the Dream

13. A Place To Bury Strangers - Hologram EP

14. Heathermint - Flority

15. Deafheaven - Infinite Granite

16. Citrus Clouds - Collider

17. Slow Crush - Hush

18. The Telescopes - Songs Of Love And Revolution

19. Cold Venus Revisited - Eternal Dystopia EP

20. Coaltar of the Deepers - Revenge of the Visitors

 

(honorable mentions)

 

Lilys - A Brief History of Amazing Letdowns [1994][2021]

Beat-Trip - I Still Hate This Place

Echodrone - Resurgence

파란노을 / Asian Glow / Sonhos Tomam Conta - Downfall of the Neon Youth

All Under Heaven - Collider EP

揺らぎ [Yuragi] - For You, Adroit It But Soft

The Stargazer Lilies - Purple Sunshine - Single

Last Tourist - Black Raven - Single

Overself - Ingress

Color Crush - Infinite Connection EP

 

 

#dreampop #ethereal

 

01. TRPP - TRPP

02. The Splashers - Homesick EP

03. Tape Waves - Bright

04. Still Corners - The Last Exit

05. White Flowers - Day By Day

06. Pia Fraus - Now You Know It Still Feels the Same [compilations]

07. Margaritas Podridas - Margaritas Podridas

08. Piroshka - Love Drips & Gathers

09. Fawning - Illusions of Control

10. Slow Connection - Cinema Renoir

11. Sungaze - This Dream

12. A Ritual Sea - A Ritual Sea

13. Lightning Bug - A Color of the Sky

14. Blue Tomorrows - Future Proof

15. Heligoland - This Quiet Fire

16. Pale Blue Eyes - Motionless / Chelsea EP

17. Tambourina - Tambourine Dream

18. White Flowers - Day By Day

19. Blushing - Blame (feat. Miki Berenyi) - Single

20. Rosa Vertov - Day In Day Out

 

(honorable mentions)

 

Mute Swan - Only Ever

Saccades (The KBV) - Flowing Fades

Mildred Maude - Sleepover EP

Fritz - Pastel

 

 

#avantprog #psychedelic #minimalism #darkjazz

 

01. Trigg & Gusset - Black Ocean

02. Shamblemaths - Shamblemaths 2

03. BadBadNotGood - Talk Memory

04. Elephant9 - Arrival of the New Elders

05. Space Afrika - Honest Labour

06. Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime

07. Ill Considered - Liminal Space

08. Wild Up - Julius Eastman Vol. 1: Femenine

09. Aquaserge - The Possibility of a New Work for Aquaserge

10. The Notwist - Vertigo Days

11. Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8

12. Dictaphone - Goats & Distortions 5

13. Badge Epoch - Scroll

14. Darkside - The Question Is To See It All

15. Jane Weaver - Flock

16. Black Midi - Cavalcade

17. Brandee Younger - Somewhere Different

18. Yoo Doo Right - Don't Think You Can Escape Your Purpose

19. Slowly Rolling Camera - Where the Streets Lead

20. Pino Palladino and Blake Mills - Notes With Attachments

 

(honorable mentions)

 

The Lovecraft Sextet - In Memoriam

Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises

Miho Hazama - Imaginary Visions

Robohands - Shapes (2020)

 

 

#electronic #drone #ambient

 

01. Biosphere - Angel's Flight

02. Alessandro Cortini - Scuro Chiaro

03. Seefeel - St / Fr / Sp [unreleased]

04. Leila Abdul-Rauf - Phantasiai

05. Ora Clementi - Sylva Sylvarum

06. Robin Guthrie - Pearldiving

07. Mapstation - My Frequencies, When We

08. Lustmord & Karin Park - Alter

09. Vitalic - Dissidænce (Episode 1)

10. Vanessa Rossetto / Lionel Marchetti - The Tower (The City)

11. Grouper - Shade

12. Moritz Von Oswald Trio - Dissent (feat Laurel Halo)

13. Skee Mask - Pool

14. Colleen ‎- The Tunnel And The Clearing

15. DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ - The Makin' Magick II Album

16. Loscil - Clara

17. The Black Dog - Music For Photographers

18. Olan Mill - Citation Index

19. John Carpenter - Lost Themes III: Alive After Death

20. Perturbator - Lustful Sacraments

 

(honorable mentions)

 

Emile Mosseri - Minari [OST]

BD1982 - Distance Vision

Schneider TM - The 8 Of Space

Jon Hopkins - Music for Psychedelic Therapy

Ulrich Schnauss & Mark Peters - Destiny Waiving

 

 

#postpunk #darkwave #newwave

 

01. Nation of Language - A Way Forward

02. Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg

03. Encarta 98 - Lo Que Extrañas Ya No Existe

04. Kælan Mikla - Undir Köldum Norðurljósum

05. Kraków Loves Adana - Follow The Voice

06. Balvanera - Courses of Action

07. Minuit Machine - Sainte Rave

08. Nuovo Testamento - New Earth

09. Autumn's Grey Solace - XIII

10. Xeno & Oaklander - Vi/deo

11. Home Front - Think Of The Lie

12. Hante. - Morning Tsunami

13. Cold Cave - Fate In Seven Lessons

14. Schröttersburg - ד [Dalet]

15. Hours Of Worship - Fading Away To An Empty Nothingness

16. Sculpture Club - Worth

17. Kill Shelter & Antipole - A Haunted Place

18. Cathedral Bells - Ether

19. Provoker - Body Jumper

20. Aurat - Zeher

 

(honorable mentions)

 

Whispering Sons - Several Others

Fairground Of Tears - Execution

Primitive Knot - A New Golgotha

SPC ECO - Day By Day

Veil Of Light - Landslide

Gost - Rites Of Love and Reverence

 

 

#doom #sludge #drone #postblack #postmetal

 

01. Divide and Dissolve - Gas Lit [doom]

02. Ethereal Shroud - Trisagion [atmospheric black]

03. Suffering Hour - The Cyclic Reckoning [black, death]

04. BRUIT ≤ - The Machine is burning and now everyone knows it could happen again [post-rock, drone]

05. Vessel of Iniquity - The Doorway [death, industrial]

06. Spectral Wound - A Diabolic Thirst [black]

07. Big ‡ Brave - Vital [post-metal, drone]

08. Thy Catafalque - Vadak [progressive]

09. Blodet - Vision [post-rock]

10. King Woman - Celestial Blues [sludge]

11. Mare Cognitum - Solar Paroxysm [atmospheric black]

12. Mono - Pilgrimage of the Soul [post-rock]

13. Kjeld - Ôfstân [black]

14. Sugar Horse - The Live Long After [post-metal, sludge]

15. It Is Dead - A Place Of Darkness [sludge, drone]

16. Panopticon - ...​And Again Into The Light [atmospheric black]

17. Nadja / Disrotted - Split [drone]

18. Papangu - Holoceno [avant-garde, progressive]

19. Lionoka - Tides of Triumph [post-black]

20. Âge Ⱡ Total - Âge Ⱡ Total [post-metal]

 

(honorable mentions)

 

Darkthrone - Eternal Hails [doom]

Cult Of Occult - Ruin [sludge, doom]

Converge, Chelsea Wolfe - Bloodmoon: I [sludge, gothic]

Amenra - De Doorn [sludge, doom]

Monolord - Your Time To Shine [doom]

Wolves in the Throne Room - Primordial Arcana [atmospheric black]

Real (Bart Desmet) - A Barst AV Experience [drone]

Liar - At Our End [doom]

Paysage d'Hiver - Geister [atmospheric black]

 

 

#rock

 

01. Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend

02. Amyl and The Sniffers - Comfort To Me

03. Mogwai - As The Love Continues

04. Midwife - Luminol

05. Damon Albarn - The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows

06. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - La Panthère des Neiges OST

07. New Candys - Vyvyd

08. Amusement Parks On Fire - An Archaea

09. Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get Ready

10. Viagra Boys - Welfare Jazz

11. Knifeplay - Hurt Someone EP

12. Chubby and the Gang - The Mutt's Nuts

13. Genghis Tron - Dream Weapon

14. Thurston Moore - Screen Time

15. Horte - Maa antaa yön vaientaa

16. Year Of No Light - Consolamentum

17. Low - Hey What

18. Gary Numan - Intruder

19. Wardruna - Kvitravn

20. Willie Dunn - Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies [Anthology]

 

(honorable mentions)

 

Turnstile - Glow On

The Bawl Slant - Dirty Hair EP

Xasthur - Victims of the Times

Maybeshewill - No Feeling Is Final

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d’s Pee At State's End!

The Killers - Pressure Machine

Cecilia::Eyes - Sore Memories Always End

Ovlov - Buds

King Dude - Beware of Darkness

Genghis Tron - Dream Weapon

The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings

The Antlers - Green To Gold

Constant Smiles - Paragons

Norman Westberg & Jacek Mazurkiewicz - First Man in the Moon

 

 

#indie

 

01. Stereolab - Electrically Possessed [Switched On vol. 4]

02. Goat Girl - On All Fours

03. Drug Store Romeos - The World Within Our Bedrooms

04. Dummy - Mandatory Enjoyment

05. Wednesday - Twin Plagues

06. Men I Trust - Untourable Album

07. La Luz - La Luz

08. Julie - Pushing Daisies EP

09. Lapêche - Blood In The Water

10. Requin Chagrin - Bye Bye Baby

11. The Limiñanas, Laurent Garnier - De Película [OST]

12. Mint Julep - In a Deep and Dreamless Sleep

13. Desperate Journalist - Maximum Sorrow!

14. Lunar Vacation - Inside Every Fig Is a Dead Wasp

15. Beachy Head - Beachy Head

16. Horsegirl - Ballroom Dance Scene / Sea Life Sandwich Boy - Singles

17. Saint Etienne - I've Been Trying To Tell You

18. Postcards - After the Fire, Before the End

19. Circuit Des Yeux - -io

20. Marissa Nadler - The Path of the Clouds

 

(honorable mentions)

 

Pom Pom Squad - Death of a Cheerleader

No Joy - Can My Daughter See Me From Heaven EP

NewDad - Waves EP

Deerhoof - Actually, You Can

Lost Girls [Håvard Volden, Jenny Hval] - Menneskekollektivet

Adult Books - Grecian Urn

For Tracy Hyde - Ethernity

Emma Ruth Rundle - Engine of Hell

Teenage Wrist - Earth Is A Black Hole

The Raft - Summerheads And Winter Beds

Massage - Still Life

Hayden Casey - Calamities

Suzanne Kraft - About You

Soft Blue Shimmer - Heaven Inches Away (2020)

 

 

#pop

 

01. Jarvis Cocker - Chansons D'Ennui Tip-Top

02. Françoiz Breut - Flux Flou de la Foule

03. Faye Webster - I Know I'm Funny Haha

04. Alice Phoebe Lou - Glow

05. Olivia Rodrigo - Sour

06. Clairo - Sling

07. Catherine Moan - Chain Reaction

08. Magdalena Bay - Mercurial World

09. Bratty - Tdbn

10. Angèle - Nonante-Cinq

11. Sweet Trip - A Tiny House, In Secret Speeches, Polar Equals

12. Arlo Parks - Collapsed In Sunbeams

13. death's dynamic shroud.wmv - Faith in Persona

14. The Marías - Cinema

15. Small Black - Cheap Dreams

16. Arooj Aftab - Vulture Prince

17. Raissa - Herogirl

18. Spellling - The Turning Wheel

19. Fredrika Stahl - Natten

20. Marina - Ancient Dreams In A Modern Land

 

(honorable mentions)

 

Ian Sweet - Show Me How You Disappear

Linn Koch-Emmery - Being The Girl

Class Actress - Sense Memory EP

London Grammar - Californian Soil

Riki - Gold

The Umlauts - Ü EP

Erika De Casier - Sensational

Hayley Williams - Flowers for Vases / Descansos

Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee

Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever

Adele - 30

Lana Del Rey - Blue Banisters

 

 

#Russia

 

01. Черноплодь/Чернохор - И З Г О Р А [drone]

02. НОМ - МАЛГИЛ [Посвящается ОБЭРИУ] [avantgarde]

03. Soft Blade - Softic [minimal wave]

04. Blankenberge - Everything [shoegaze]

05. Космос на потолке - Маленькая Луна [dream pop]

06. Комсомольск - Ретро [indie]

07. Verbludes - Ау [indie]

08. Звёздная Грань - Метель [shoegaze]

09. Sleep Overload - Horror Film / Demon Lights - Singles [shoegaze]

10. Valentina Goncharova - Recordings 1987-1991, vol. 1,2 (2020-2021) [musique concrète]

11. KIKOK - Speedway [electronic]

12. Nttrl, Vanden - Импульсивность [pop]

13. The Bleak Engineers - Edits & Cuts Series [rare 80's wave]

14. Menk. - II [psychedelic]

15. Шыша feat. Fruit Machine 777 - Сельдь с картошкой (Single)

16. Люди на холме - Дикие Цветы [darkfolk]

17. Silent Run - Side B EP [shoegaze]

18. Мерцание - Блеск ЕР [dreampop]

19. Motorama - Before The Road [indie]

20. А в голове море - Сновидения [dream pop]

 

21. Шалфея Листья - После Дождя - Single [dream pop]

22. Весна Весна - Детские игры EP [dreampop]

23. Whimpers - Тихонько / Moon song - Singles [shoegaze]

24. Ладья - ЛО - Single [darkwave]

25. Sonic Death - Ночь длинных баллад [garage]

26. Ищейка - Слоудайв - Single [dreampop]

27. мс улыбочка [Veronika Steklova] - Реальная магия [hypnagogic]

28. Ploho - Фантомные чувства [post-punk]

29. Увула - Устойчивая непогода [indie]

30. Kedr Livanskiy - Liminal Soul [electronic]

31. LowXY - Unequal [synthwave]

32. Спасибо - Терпение [post-hardcore]

33. Твин Пикс - По Шанхайским подвалам [indie]

34. Trna - Istok [blackgaze]

35. Утро - Другое за другим [post-punk]

36. акварель (Беларусь / Россия) - Лес [indie]

37. Tequilajazzz - Камни [alternative]

38. Mind Flowers - Might Walks [indie]

39. Pententacles - A Supposedly Quiet Night [doom]

40. Электрофорез - 505 [synthpop]

41. Mental Map - Places / Polarized - Singles [dream pop]

42. Olhava - Frozen Bloom [blackgaze]

43. Vespero - Sonĝo [progressive]

44. Kauan - Ice Fleet [post-rock]

45. Цветы Детей - Психоделическая Юность [indie pop]

46. Lermontov - Broken Arrow [ambient]

47. Рожь - Вечное [black metal]

48. Acryl Madness - Kaidan [darksynth]

49. Гралица [Gralitsa] - Little Mosquitoes Are Sleeping This Night [dark jazz]

50. ooes - Мои (твои) тёмные желания [art pop]

 

(honorable mentions)

 

Panda In Shell - Radio Silence (2015) [soviet analog synth]

X.Y.R. - Waves Tapes [ambient]

Карма - Восходит Солнце EP [blackgaze]

Hoavi - Invariant [idm]

Аня Аниме - Drama Queen [pop]

Nytt Land - Ritual [darkfolk]

Perila - How Much Time It Is Between You and Me? [electroacoustic]

 

 

Best Concerts of 2021

 

Ishome @ Манеж, 23.09.2021

Sobranie 8 18 @ Сердце, 15.04.2021

Moon Far Away, Люди На Холме, Codex Occvlta @ Сердце, 25.04.2021

Dottie Danger, Панк Фракция Красных Бригад @ Fish Fabrique Nouvelle, 11.12.2021

ГШ @ K-30, 28.03.2021

Mystic Storm, Electric Crown @ Сердце, 12.12.2021

Алексей Борисов @ Музей звука, 16.04.2021

 

 

Best Movies of 2021

 

Хелене (2020) / Helene, 10/10

Дюна (2021) / Dune: Part One, 7/10

Laurent Garnier: Off the Record, 7/10

Матрица: Воскрешение (2021) / The Matrix Resurrections, 5/10

Дальний космос (2021) / Stowaway, 5/10

Отряд самоубийц: Миссия навылет (2021) / The Suicide Squad, 2/10

 

прошлых лет:

 

Девочка со спичками (2013) / Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern, 10/10

Бриллианты навсегда (1971) / Diamonds Are Forever, 9/10

Первая любовь (1978) / Primo amore, 9/10

Безумный Макс (1979) / Mad Max, 8/10

Как отделаться от парня за 10 дней (2003) / How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, 8/10

Ворчун (1986) / Il burbero, 8/10

Благосердная ночь (2020) / Yö armahtaa, 6/10

Гагарин. Первый в космосе (2013), 5/10

Ужасающий / Terrifier (2016), 4/10

Охотники за разумом (2004) / Mindhunters, 4/10

 

 

в планах / in progress

 

Не смотрите наверх / Don't Look Up (2021)

Дом Gucci / House of Gucci (2021)

Рука бога / È stata la mano di Dio [The Hand of God] (2021)

Французский вестник / The French Dispatch (2021)

Прошлой ночью в Сохо / Last Night in Soho (2021)

Память / Memoria (2021)

C'mon C'mon / Камон Камон (2021)

Hytti nro 6 [Compartment No. 6] / Купе номер 6 (2021)

Кислород / Oxygène (2021)

Шумахер / Schumacher (2021)

Вихрь / Vortex (2021)

Последнее письмо от твоего любимого / The Last Letter from Your Lover (2021)

Случайность и догадка / Guzen to sozo (2021)

Мой волк / Mystère (2021)

Лакричная пицца / Licorice Pizza (2021)

Бо Бёрнэм: Дома / Bo Burnham: Inside (2021)

Без резких движений / No Sudden Move (2021)

Гнев человеческий / Wrath of Man (2021)

Красная ракета / Red Rocket (2021)

Последняя дуэль / The Last Duel (2021)

Худший человек на свете / Verdens verste menneske [The Worst Person in the World] (2021)

The Sparks Brothers (2021) [Music Documentary]

The Velvet Underground (2021) [Rockumentary]

Спенсер / Spencer (2021)

Событие / L' événement [Happening] (2021)

Легенда о Зелёном рыцаре / The Green Knight (2021)

Власть пса / The Power of the Dog (2021)

Чёрный ящик / Boîte noire [Black Box] (2021)

Титан / Titane (2021)

Свинья / Pig (2021)

Вестсайдская история / West Side Story (2021)

Поступь хаоса / Chaos Walking (2021)

Шан-Чи и легенда десяти колец / Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)

Не время умирать / No Time to Die (2021)

Улица страха. Часть 2: 1978 / Fear Street Part Two: 1978 (2021)

Никто / Nobody (2021)

Ок, зумер / I Am Gen Z (2021)

Королевская игра / Schachnovelle (2021)

Ледяной драйв / The Ice Road (2021)

Я создан для тебя / Ich bin dein Mensch (2021)

Раскопки / The Dig (2021)

Красное уведомление / Red Notice (2021)

Тихий омут / Stillwater (2021)

Неуловимый аромат любви / Love Hard (2021)

Жар-птица / Firebird (2021)

Бунтарка / Moxie (2021)

Финч / Finch (2021)

Иваново счастье (2021)

Вечные / Eternals (2021)

Белый снег (2021)

 

 

total recall:

 

seen live (all time)

 

Albums of the Year:

 

flickr:

 

2024 | 2023

 

2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017

 

last - blogspot:

 

2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013

 

livejournal:

 

2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006

 

shoegazers:

 

2025

 

2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018

 

2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012

 

2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007

  

The End.

 

#top2021 #best_of_2021 #deepskyobject #albums_of_the_year_2021

Moon up there, and not a lot of dark, so thought I'd reprocess something, as you do.

 

More definition and colour in this version I think. Not sure if the colours are correct, but it looks nice!

 

Original image

 

24 March 2011

200p, EQ5 unguided

Nikon D70 full spectrum prime focus

28 x 60sec, iso 1600

darks, bias and flats.

Stacked in DSS processed in CS5

 

This galaxy is one of my favourite deep sky objects. Located in the constellation of Virgo, M104 is famous for its near

edge-on profile featuring a broad ring of obscuring dust. The dust lane is seen in silhouette against an impressive

central bulge of stars, which gives it a broad brimmed hat-like appearance, leading to its popular name of The Sombrero Galaxy. About 50,000 light-years across and 28 million light-years away, M104 is host to a central supermassive black hole.

Old data again - just humour me, I'm addicted to this stuff. This is from my scope days ;)

 

Parts of this came out a rather putrid shade of green the last time I did it. :)

 

SW 200p, EQ5 unguided

Nikon D70 modded, iso1600

58 x 60sec

darks, bias and flats.

Stacked in DSS and processed in CS5

   

日期:2015/10/16 @ 梅州陰那山

相機:Sony A6000

鏡頭:Samyang 135 mm f/2.0 ED UMC

追星儀:Kenko Skymemo RS

設定:ISO 1600, 300s x1 (30s x1 地景)

28-30 APR 2017, Coonabarabran, N.S.W., Australia.

Nikon D810A, Takahashi FSQ-85, EM-11.Lights x 55 x 180s, ISO1000 ; Darks x 100; Flats x 26, Bias x 200.

 

My first (and probably last) attempt at a cluster. They come with their own challenges it seems. This is 29 minutes (because there are so many stars even the slightest tracking error screams at you!)

 

M13 aka NGC 6205 is about 25K light years away, and is about 145 light years in diameter. It contains several hundred thousand stars. Must be a pretty spectacular sight if you live on a planet orbiting one of those stars. Apparently we sent a message to M13 in 1974 - haven't had a reply yet though! :)

 

25 May 2011

200p, EQ5 unguided

Nikon D70 full spectrum prime focus

29 x 60sec

iso 1600

darks, bias and flats.

Stacked in DSS processed in CS5

  

Flame Nebula and Horsehead Nebula as seen from the back yard.

 

This is a sum of 11 subs taken in the back yard as a part of testing. I didn't expect to get any results, so I'm pleased with the stack as it stands. There are some blown out stars resulting in color shifts that are difficult to control. Also, there are some flares on the filter that are also hard to control.

 

Still, this is a good exercise in using Pix Insight to control noise, so I'm learning.

 

Shot details:

Stellarvue SV4 on Losmandy G11

Full spectrum Pentax K10D with Baader Moon & Skyglow and UV/IR filters

11 total subs of 10 minutes at 400 ISO.

Calibrated with Maxim

Stacked in DSS

Processed with PixInsight: DBE, MT, Masked Stretch, ADCNR, Unsharp Mask. Exported to LR3 for final touch and upload.

 

Here's the platesolve results:

Referentiation Matrix (Gnomonic projection = Matrix * Coords[x,y]):

-0.000071543889 -0.000525864299 +0.821218890956

+0.000525889163 -0.000071501271 -0.922355430350

+0.000000000000 +0.000000000000 +1.000000000000

Resolution ........ 1.911 arcsec/pix

Rotation .......... 82.257 deg

Focal ............. 655.31 mm

Pixel size ........ 6.07 um

Field of view ..... 2d 2' 56.8" x 1d 22' 43.7"

Image center ...... RA: 05 40 46.628 Dec: -02 18 48.26

Image bounds:

top-left ....... RA: 05 44 03.995 Dec: -03 14 07.23

top-right ...... RA: 05 42 57.425 Dec: -01 12 19.37

bottom-left .... RA: 05 38 35.627 Dec: -03 25 16.40

bottom-right ... RA: 05 37 29.518 Dec: -01 23 27.58

 

I'll be returning to this location in the future to see what more I can get, especially in a darker location and with different filters.

English below

 

In alto NGC4631, nota anche come Galassia Balena, è una galassia a spirale, appena in alto NGC4627 una ellittica nana, entrambe con una distanza stimata attorno ai 12 milioni di anni luce. Risulta più distante la galassia a spirale barrata NGC4656/7 evidente sulla sinistra.

 

Foto realizzata con pose guidate da 10 minuti per un'integrazione totale di 16 ore e mezza con Newton 150/600, correttore 0.95x, camera Tecnosky Vision 571C, montatura GEM45, elaborata interamente in Pixinsight.

  

At the top NGC4631, also known as the Whale Galaxy, is a spiral galaxy, just above NGC4627 is a dwarf elliptical, both with an estimated distance of around 12 million light years. The barred spiral galaxy NGC4656/7 evident on the left is more distant.

 

Photo taken with guided exposures of 10 minutes for a total integration of 16 and a half hours with Newton 150/600, corrector 0.95x, Tecnosky Vision 571C camera, GEM45 mount, processed entirely in Pixinsight.

The Whirlpool Galaxy M51 (also known as Messier 51a, M51a, or NGC 5194) is a spiral galaxy located approximately 31 million light-years from us in the constellation Canes Venatici. The blob on the end is a companion galaxy designated NGC 5195. This was the first galaxy to be recognised as a spiral galaxy.

 

Had less of my recent mount troubles with this having done a bit of work on it, so managed to retain 58 subs for 58 minutes total exposure (58 minutes 28 seconds according to DSS for some obscure reason). May have another crack at processing this later.

 

There is a closer crop here.

Reprocessed here.

 

3 May 2011

200p, EQ5 unguided

Nikon D70 full spectrum prime focus

58 x 60sec

iso 1600

darks, bias and flats.

Stacked in DSS processed in CS5

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