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Hi Folks,
I just published a new imaging project on my website.
Messier 101 - The Pinwheel Galaxy with the recently discovered supernova - SN2023ixf!
This target is located 21 Million light-years away in the constellation of Ursa Major.
This was about a 3-hour exposure in LRGB using my widefield Askar FRA400 Platform.
Everybody and their brother seems out there shooting images of this galaxy with its supernova.
And who's to blame them? Supernovae are amazing events. At the end of its life, a star explodes, releasing as much energy in one second as our Sun will emit in its entire lifetime!
This does not happen every day, and to have one in a galaxy as beautiful as the Pinwheel is worth shooting.
But with so many images of this out there - why should I shoot it tool. Do I think I can do better than everyone else? Hardly!
This is such a cool event that I did want to have one captured in my portfolio.
But during my last imaging session, my widefield Askar FRA400 Platform was the only scope that was untasked. During galaxy season, there are relatively few large targets to shoot. So I pointed it at M101 and decided to go for it!
My expectations were very low, though:
- A widefield scope shooting a galaxy - that will be a problem!
- I was only able to get 3 hours of integration - my last shot of M101 had 11 hours - so that's going to be a problem
- I am shooting with some thin smoke from the Alberta Wildfires in the air - that IS a problem.
So why shoot it at all?
- Supernovae are one the coolest events in our night sky - I wanted to capture an image of that - even a poor one!
- I saw this as an opportunity to dive into what supernovae were all about and describe that in my web write-up
- I have the twisted part of my personality that likes the challenge of getting a better image out of compromised data
I drizzle processed, then cropped like mad, and took advantage of BlurXTerminator and NoiseXTerninaor to help improve a dicey image.
The final result is not wonderful, but it is not horrible either!
The full story of this imaging project, and some cool info on supernovae, can be found here:
cosgrovescosmos.com/projects/m101-sn2023xif
Thanks,
Pat
Thank you Linda (Sienna62) for your Green Gauze texture
The man whispered, "God, speak to me" and a meadowlark sang.
But the man did not hear.
So the man yelled, "God, speak to me!" and the thunder rolled across the sky.
But the man did not listen.
The man looked around and said, "God, let me see you." and a star shined brightly.
But the man did not notice.
And the man shouted, "God, show me a miracle!" and a life was born.
But the man did not notice.
So, the man cried out in despair, "Touch me, God, and let me know you are here!"
Whereupon, God reached down and touched the man.
But, the man brushed the butterfly away and walked on.
~unknown
"Don't miss out on a blessing because it isn't packaged the way that you expect."
Aristocratic Expectations.
Anased Wünsche Eroberer Dichter Musters Fronten Stoßrahmen Bodenvorräte spannende Gefahren wehleidige Feinde wankenden Ideen,
stravični planovi divlji rezultati miješali misli uništavanje oteklina ingram bogatstvo uzbuđivanje krvi urođeno uznemirene strasti mračenje bolesti,
bűnös ellenőrzések gonosz lélegzetek tudatlan rítusok fenyegető tanácsadók sietős sír titokzatos tömegek türelmetlen csalás megvethető hazugságok,
vendetta casa crudele cuori nascosti sorridenti crimini occhiate sublime desideri desiderosi esposti termini pugni criminali gravi che bruciano rabbia,
tromper les gardes délices bousculer folie pauvres perdants tourmenter les démons conseils différents imputés convictions scandant sagesse lumière,
意気揚々とした反抗した時代の偉大な措置を忍び寄る忍び寄る方法感傷的な感情邪悪なキャプテンズ怒っている労働者が倒れる.
Steve.D.Hammond.
I attracted the attention of this flock of swans while I was admiring the late afternoon view over Charnwood Water while holding a white plastic bag filled with Indian goodies that I'd been given by a lady whose Ring doorbell system I'd just helped to configure the way she wanted. The spicy goodies went home with me; they definitely wouldn't have been good for the swans.
“Until a man has expressed his emotion, he does not yet know what emotion it is. The act of expressing it is therefore an exploration of his own emotions. He is trying to find out what these emotions are.”
-R.G. Collingwood, Principles of Art (New York: Oxford University Press, 1958), 111.
What we love we shall grow to resemble.
-St. Bernard of Clairvaux
Visitors seem to be interested in this story, so I've lifted it from my comments, which have become hidden below:
I was walking on South Bank trying to get shots on the embankment without too many tourists in the frame but eventually gave up and took the staircase up to the footbridge to walk back across the river to Charing Cross. As I did that, I looked down and saw this 'couple' and the hoarding behind them and thought there might just be a story here.
They seemed oblivious to the world around them - deeply engaged in conversation. I was waiting for one of them to make some hand gestures but, all of a sudden, the girl got up and walked to the edge of the hoarding where she leaned back and made some very provocative gestures to her companion, still seated on the curb. Lord knows what was said between them, but I just thought the image said it all - such possibilities!
Quote 13: "'So,' said Estella, 'I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me." Chapter 38, pg. 356
Charles Dickens
Circle Dance: Shinnecock Reservation, L.I., NY: Labour Day Pow Wow, September 2006.
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Shinnecock Tribe
Rte 27-A, Montauk Hwy
Southhampton, NY 111968
631-283-6143
State recognized; (no BIA office liason - seriously ridiculous!)
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Shinnecock Indian Nation: An Ancient History and Culture.
Since the beginning, Shinnecock time has been measured in moons and seasons, and the daily lives of our people revolved around the land and the waters surrounding it. Our earliest history was oral, passed down by word of mouth from generation to generation, and as far back as our collective memory can reach, we are an Algonquin people who have forever lived along the shores of Eastern Long Island.
Scientists say we came here on caribou hunts when the land was covered with ice. But our creation story says we were born here; that we are the human children of the goddess who descended from the sky. It was she, the story goes, who caused the land to form beneath her feet from the back of Great Turtle, deer to spring forth from her fingertips; bear to roar into awakening, wolf to prowl on the first hunt. It was she who filled the sky with birds, made the land to blossom and the ponds and bays to fill with fish and mollusks. And when all was done, the Shinnecock, the People of the Shore, appeared in this lush terrain. We are still here.
As coastal dwellers, we continue to prize the bounty of the sea, the shellfish, the scaly fish, which for thousands of years provided the bulk of our diet. We were whalers, challenging the mighty Atlantic from our dugout canoes long before the arrival of the big ships, long before the whaling industry flourished in the 19th century.
In the 1700's, we became noted among the northeastern coastal tribes for our fine beads made from the Northern quahog clam and whelk shells. The Dutch, who arrived on our shores before the English, turned our beads (wampum) into the money system for the colonies.
The Shinnecock Nation is among the oldest self-governing tribes of Indians in the United States and has been a state-recognized tribe for over 200 years. In 1978, we applied for Federal Recognition, and in 2003, we were placed on the Bureau of Indian Affairs' "Ready for Active" list.
Traditionally, decisions concerning the welfare of the tribe were made by consensus of adult male members. Seeking to shortcut the consensus process in order to more easily facilitate the acquisition of Indian lands, the Town of Southampton devised a three member trustee system for the Shinnecock people. This system of tribal government was approved by the New York State legislature in February of 1792. Since April 3, 1792, Shinnecock Indians have gone to the Southampton Town Hall the first Tuesday after the first Monday in April to elect three tribal members to serve a one- year term as Trustees. In April of 2007, the Shinnecock Indian Nation exercised its sovereign right as an ancient Indian Nation and returned to one of its basic Traditions: it bypassed the Southampton Town Hall and for the first time since 1792 held its leadership elections at home, where they will remain.
The Trustee system, however, did not then and does not now circumvent the consensus process, which still remains the governing process of the Shinnecock Indian Nation. Major decisions concerning the tribe are voted yea or nay by all eligible adult members, including women, who gained the right to vote in the mid-1990s. Also in that period, the Shinnecock Nation installed a Tribal Council, a 13 member body elected for two years terms. The Council is an advisory body to the Board of Trustees.
Today, we number over 1300 people, more than 600 of whom reside on the reservation adjacent to the Town of Southampton on the East End of Long Island. While our ancestral lands have dwindled over the centuries from a territory stretching at least from what is known today as the Town of Easthampton and westward to the eastern border of the Town of Brookhaven, we still hold on to approximately 1200 acres.
With modest resources, we have managed to build a community to help us better meet the demands of an ever expanding and intrusive world. In addition to the Shinnecock Presbyterian church building and its Manse, our infrastructure includes a tribal community center, a shellfish hatchery, a health and dental center, a family preservation and Indian education center, a museum, and playgrounds for our children. Also on our list of recent achievements is the design and development of an official Shinnecock Indian Nation flag and an official seal.
Our skilled craftspeople and fine artists find employment within the Tribe as well as the surrounding area. The number of tribal members holding advanced degrees in law, business, medicine, social sciences and liberal arts continues to grow, and tribal members hold positions of responsibility in all areas, including teaching, banking and counseling, both within and outside the Shinnecock community.
One of the earliest forms of economic development that the Shinnecock Nation undertook was to lease Reservation acreage to local area farmers for their crops, mainly potatoes and corn. While the project did bring in a small income for the Tribe, the resulting damages from pesticides leaking into the ground water and polluting our drinking water supply were enormous. We had great expectations for our shellfish hatchery (Oyster Project) but brown tide and general pollution forced it to close before it had the chance to develop into the business enterprise it was planned to be. In the summer of 2005, the Tribe began reseeding parts of its waterways with oysters, and celebrated a renewal harvest of Shinnecock chunkoo oysters at the Tribal Thanksgiving Dinner, November 2006.
At the present moment, the Shinnecock annual Powwow is the economic development project of record for the Shinnecock Nation. Revived in 1946 as a benefit for our church, the Powwow has evolved into an event that hosts thousands of visitors. But we are at the mercy of the weather. For the past two years, rainstorms have forced us to drastically revise our budgeting plans. We are now exploring Indian Gaming as a means of attaining the much needed self-sufficiency that will enable us to perform the sacred duties laid out for us by the Ancestors — to protect, manage and maintain the Shinnecock Indian Nation.
By Bevy Deer Jensen
Shinnecock Nation Communications Officer
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For more information on the Shinnecock Nation, please visit: www.shinnecocknation.com/
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photography: a. golden, eyewash design, c. 2006.
Explored - Highest position: #99 on Saturday, January 14, 2017.
Magic moment, expectations are high......
Looking forward to the next rendezvous with these beauties..
Seen through the sweet Soligor C/D 135mm f2
Photo captured along the shores of Turtle Lake via Minolta MC Tele Rokkor-X 300mm F/4.5 lens. Spokane Indian Reservation. Selkirk Mountains Range. Okanogan-Colville Xeric Valleys and Foothills section within the Northern Rockies Region. Inland Northwest. Stevens County, Washington. Late September 2018.
Exposure Time: 1/400 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-250 * Aperture: F/4.5 * Bracketing: None * Color Temperature: 3600 K * Plug-In: AutumnLightCC19
This is a repost of a picture I took on our first trip to Portland, Maine. It's the "Portland Head Light Lighthouse" just outside Portland, and one of the most famous lighthouses in America.
Adam and I spent quite a bit of time, waiting to catch the rotating light at the moment it cast it's light out over the water, but the results were.. underwhelming.
Another one of those cases where the reality doesn't quite live up to the expectations we have in our minds. Like the 'sea monkeys' they used to sell in the back of the comic books, or the toys they advertise on TV with the disclaimers about 'items sold separately' (or not available at all)..
So I 'enhanced' the light in the lighthouse to more closely reflect the image I'm sure we both had in our minds while we were shivering and waiting in the dark. So sue me.. (grins..)
All I know is if I was approaching the rocky shoreline in the fog, I would hope the lighthouse put out a scorching, penetrating beam of light like this one.