STAR and SUN
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This is an imperfect panorama merge, but shows an interesting phenomenon I didn't realize at the shooting time. The original intent was to get a Milky Way shot at our camp site. But due to various limits, I couldn't tell where the Milky Way was on the star-full sky, and couldn't step out the camp site into the wild park to avoid light and get more sky. So the Milky Way was not obvious in the stacked shot.
As a last try, the 200+ shots were merged into this star trail panorama, it took me a while to realize what I was staring at. This Samburu Reserve is almost at the Equator, so the trails turned into two half circles, one around the south pole, the other the north pole. And the trails over the Equator split in the middle, i.e., at the celestial equator. Even the shots and merge were very poor, I learned something new.
Samburu National Reserve, Kenya.
Il "Marco do Equador" è un punto turistico che segna la linea dell'Equatore, una divisione immaginaria che separa l'emisfero nord boreale dall'emisfero sud australe.
The "Equator Monument" is a tourist spot that marks the Equator line, an imaginary division that separates the northern hemisphere from the southern hemisphere.
0°00'00"S 6°31'20"E
Gong Xi Fatt Choy !... Well my friends, my first sunset shot of 2011...Wishing my Chinese friends all over, Happy Chinese new year...May the year of the rabbit brings good fortune and health. As usual, it's a 2-day holidays in Malaysia. People of various races and religion are going around visiting their chinese friends and neighbors in the malaysian unique culture of an "Open House" concept.
Nikon D700 + Nikon 80-200mm f/2.8 AF-D + Handheld
At the Celestial equator the stars are almost at the same distance from both celestial poles so they seem to travel in a straight line. The South Celestial pole is towards the top left of the photo. The North Celestial pole is below the horizon towards the bottom-right.
Startrails on a 3 hours exposure. The region at the left(straight trails) belongs to the celestial equator. Celestial equator is a projection of the Earth's equator on the celestial sphere.
Mangled marbles.
Next time you’re flying across the equator make sure you are standing by a draining sink. You should see the direction of rotation of the swirling water plummeting down the plughole reverse as you go over the equator… in theory :)
Depending on which hemisphere you are in the water swirls clockwise (Northern) or anticlockwise (Southern). This is due to the Coriolis effect which arises from an interaction between gravity and the spinning spheroid on which we sit… or fly. The same effect also causes weather effects like anticyclones being high pressure areas in one hemisphere and low pressure in the other, and vice versa for cyclones.
This image is the result of merry mangling for Sliders Sunday. It reminded me a bit of water going down a plughole in two directions at once, hence the title.
The basic approach was to start with a brightly coloured image (I’ll link it as I normally do in the first comment), radially blur it and then copy the resulting layer. Use the same twirl distortion in different directions on the two copies and then blend them using blend ranges. You can find instructions for this sort of effect using Google, but this is the first time I have tried it. I can’t help but think the next attempt will be better! Fun was had which is the main thing...
Thank you for taking time to look. I hope you enjoy the image! Happy Sliders Sunday :)
[1. Chose bright starting image (would have been better with more variation).
2. Radial Blurred
3. Copied layer.
4. Twirled layers in different directions.
5. Copied top layer and moved it down to layer 3.
6. For each layer added HSL adjustment and played with them.
7. For top two layers blended them with Blend Ranges, lowered opacity and Blend types to taste (!)
8. Moved the layers about with Move tool.
9. Cropped; added dark vignette and depth of field blur to blur outer edges.
10. Added frame.
I started out in Photoshop, but moved it to Affinity Photo which allowed much more subtle adjustments to blend ranges and previewed blend types.]
FUGRO EQUATOR [IMO 9627411 , MMSI 311065700 ], 1,929 gt, 65.74 loa, is a research vessel built 2012 in Singapore at the Oakwell Shipbuilding Engineering & Construction Pte Ltd shipyards. She sails under the Bahamas flag, is owned by Fugro NV of the Netherlands and is managed by Fugro Survey Pte Ltd of Singapore.
The FUGRO EQUATOR has been involved in the search for the missing Malaysian Airlines plane, flight MH370 and has been a regularly visitor to Fremantle during the search. She was photographed here arriving in Fremantle on February 9, 2016 having been at sea participating in the search.
FUGRO EQUATOR [IMO 9627411 , MMSI 311065700 ], 1,929 gt, 65.74 loa, is a research vessel built 2012 in Singapore at the Oakwell Shipbuilding Engineering & Construction Pte Ltd shipyards. She sails under the Bahamas flag, is owned by Fugro NV of the Netherlands and is managed by Fugro Survey Pte Ltd of Singapore.
The FUGRO EQUATOR has been involved in the search for the missing Malaysian Airlines plane, flight MH370 and has been a regularly visitor to Fremantle during the search. She was photographed here arriving in Fremantle on February 9, 2016 having been at sea participating in the search.
The latest reports suggest she will be involved in the search into the early part of 2017 [source: www.airlineratings.com/news/863/mh370-search-extended-to-...]
Equator - IMO 9363766
Bulk Carrier
Flag: Marshall Islands
Built: 2008
Length: 140 m
Beam: 25 m
Passing Erith. Heading out from the Tate & Lyle Thames Refinery, Silvertown to Tilbury.
25.3.23.
Crater Gauss is the large crater near the center of the terminator. The sight line of this view is roughly along the lunar equator looking eastward toward the lunar terminator. (A. Ruki 16)
ZWO ASI178MC
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)
Losmandy G11
4,000 frames captured in Firecapture
Best 600 frames stacked and sharpened in PSS
Finished in Photoshop
My wife and myself at the equator. This little monument with a rotating wire-frame globe is exactly on the equator, and a popular tourist spot. Safari cars stop here for taking pictures, and the locals try to sell arts and crafts.
En route to Lake Naivasha
D07-0051-X3004044
Ahead of the upcoming Ariane 5 launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Kourou – home to Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, an overseas department of France.
Located around 60 km northwest of the French Guianese capital Cayenne, Kourou is a coastal town in the north-central part of the country and is visible in the lower right of the image. The town lies at the estuary of the Kourou River which, after its journey of 144 km, empties into the Atlantic Ocean. Its muddy waters appear brown most likely due to sediments picked up from the surrounding forest.
Long, white sandy beaches line the town’s ocean coast, while the riverbank and inland area consists mostly of mangrove and dense tropical rainforest. The surrounding area’s economy is largely agricultural, with coffee, cacao and tropical fruits being grown.
Just northwest of Kourou lies Europe’s Spaceport – chosen as a base from which to launch satellites in 1964 by the French Government, and currently home to ESA-developed rocket families Ariane and Vega.
As Kourou lies just 500 km north of the equator, it makes it ideally placed for launches into orbit as the rockets gain extra performance thanks to a ‘slingshot effect’ from the speed of Earth’s rotation. In addition, there is no risk of cyclones or earthquakes. This launch base and the jungle that surrounds it covers 690 sq km and protects an abundance of wildlife and plants.
From here, the largest and most powerful telescope ever launched into space – the James Webb Space Telescope – is scheduled for launch. After liftoff, it will embark on a month-long journey to its destination, around one and a half million kilometres from Earth.
Following the footsteps of the Hubble Space Telescope, Webb is designed to answer questions about the Universe and to make breakthrough discoveries in all fields of astronomy. The telescope will be able to detect infrared light generated by galaxies as they formed more than 13.5 billion years ago, in the aftermath of the Big Bang. Webb will see farther into our origins – from the Universe's first galaxies, to the birth of stars and planets, to exoplanets.
In the first month after launch, Webb will unfold its sunshield, which is around the size of a tennis court, and deploy its 6.5-metre primary mirror. This will be used to detect the faint light of distant stars and galaxies with a sensitivity of a hundred times greater than that of Hubble.
Webb is a joint project between NASA, ESA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). Find out more about Webb in ESA’s launch kit and interactive brochure.
This image is also featured on the Earth from Space video programme.
Credits: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2020), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO