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The Norns – Guardians of Time
At the roots of Yggdrasil sit the three Norns.
Urðr guards the past, Verðandi spins the present, and Skuld conceals the future.
Their hands weave the threads of fate, and even the gods must bow to their work.
In the silence, the threads glow faintly – millions of lives, woven together in a pattern only the Norns can see.
Slab City, California - East Jesus
Found wood, found metal, paint; dimensions variable
BEN WOLF
It’s a collage of various architectural influences mostly gathered from an abandoned apartment complex in Inglewood LA.
The Roque de los Muchachos Observatory is is located at about 2'300m MSL on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands. The observatory site is operated by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, based on nearby Tenerife and is part of the European North Observatory.
I captured some of of the main instruments of the site under the Milky Way core during my visit of La Palma.
From left to right, the image shows:
- One of the two MAGIC telescopes (Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov Telescopes). MAGIC detects particle showers released by gamma rays, using the Cherenkov radiation, i.e. faint light radiated by the charged particles in the showers. The MAGIC telescope has a diameter of 17 meters for the reflecting surface.
- The Gran Telescopio Canarias (GranTeCan or GTC), a 10.4 m (410 in) Ritchey-Chrétien reflecting telescope. It is the world's largest single-aperture optical telescope and is used for near-infrared imaging.
- The Large Size Telescope (LST) is a 23 meter reflecting telescope to be featured in the future Northern Site of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). The prototype of the LST, called LST-1, finished construction and was inaugurated on October 10th, 2018. LST-1 is currently in the commissioning phase. Three more LSTs are planned to be built, finishing construction in mid 2024.
EXIF
Canon EOS Ra
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L ll, @ 50mm
iOptron SkyTracker Pro
Sky:
3 panel panorama, each a stack of 6 x 60s @ ISO1600, tracked
Foreground:
Stack of 6 x 60s @ ISO3200
I took this from a ridge overlook that has a view of my town and county, positioned right dab in the center of Kentucky. Comet Neowise was only visible for a few minutes before sunrise. I saw it first as a faint scratch in the sky right before the first light of dawn. It became brighter, dimmed, and then disappeared as the sun reached the horizon.
What a lovely tail it has.
Cold and stormy weather predominated today, a faint rainbow appeared as I approached the church at Happisburgh.
Looking down the Slad valley in the Cotswolds from Swift's Hill towards Stroud. The Severn estuary is faintly visible in the far distance.
Green Hairstreak, Callophrys rubi.
Wing Span; 27-34mm.
Flight period; Primarily May – June, but can be seen from late March.
Habitat; Chalk grassland, woodland rides and clearings, heathland, moorland, bogs, railway cuttings, old quarries and rough, scrubby grassland. This species occurs on a wide range of soils but is strongly associated with scrub and shrubs.
Caterpillar Foodplants; Common Rock-rose (Helianthemum nummularium) and Common Bird's-foot-trefoil (Lotus corniculatus) are used on calcareous grassland, while Gorse (Ulex europeaus), Broom (Cytisus scoparius), and Dyer's Greenweed (Genista tinctoria) are used on heathland and other habitats. Bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus) is used almost exclusively on moorland and throughout Scotland. Other foodplants include shrubs such as Dogwood (Cornus sanguinea), Buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica), Cross-leaved Heath (Erica tetralix) and Bramble (Rubus fruticosus). In fact, they have the widest range of food plants of all the British butterfly species.
Distribution; Widespread throughout Britain and Ireland. However, it is absent from the Isle of Man, Outer Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland. Also found in most of mainland Europe as well as many parts of Asia and northern Africa.
Distribution Trend Since 1970’s; -30%
The Green Hairstreak holds its wings closed, except in flight, showing only the green underside with its faint white streak. The extent of this white marking is variable, frequently reduced to a few white dots and may be almost absent. Males and females look similar and are most readily told apart by their behaviour. Rival males may be seen in a spiralling flight close to shrubs, while the less conspicuous females are more often encountered while laying eggs.
Although this is a widespread species, it often occurs in small colonies and has undergone local losses in several regions.
This butterfly, the only green butterfly in the UK, is the most widespread of our Hairstreaks. However, it is also a local species, forming distinct colonies which can be as small as a few dozen individuals, although other colonies can be much larger. Both sexes always settle with their wings closed, the brown upper sides only ever being seen in flight. The undersides, by contrast, provide the illusion of being green, an effect produced by the diffraction of light on a lattice-like structure found within the wing scales. This provides excellent camouflage as the butterfly rests on a favourite perch, such as a Hawthorn branch. This butterfly will also regulate its body temperature by tilting its wings appropriately to catch the sun's rays. This butterfly is found throughout the British Isles, partly due to the wide variety of food plants it uses and the wide range of habitats it frequents.
Males are territorial, and during the Spring will wait at their selected perching sites for a female to appear. This species has just a single brood and following mating, the females will lay their green coloured eggs singly. The eggs will hatch a week later and the young caterpillars, which are green with black markings along their backs, will feed immediately and develop rapidly. During the Summer, the caterpillars will travel to ground level to pupate and spend the Winter in the leaf litter. The following Spring the new butterflies will emerge.
The faint fragrance stays when the wind is gone,The bitter sorrow remains when the blossom falls,I breathe the last fragrance,I miss the last blooming,I stay with you in my way,I love you in my way,Love is shapeless,But the loneliness lasts forever.
☢️ COAT - NATIVE URBAN @TMD
☢️ SHOES - NATIVE URBAN @UBER
☢️ SEPTUM - CODEX @MAN CAVE
☢️ CAP - HXNOR
☢️ SHORTS - MILLO COPPERFIELD
☢️ BATS - BAMSE
☢️ BOTTLE - X. STORE
☢️ BODY - SIGNATURE GIANNI
☢️ HEAD - LELUTKA GUY
What do you do when you're bored on a Saturday night? Climb Pen Y Fan at 1am on your tod and take photos of the Milky Way :) NOT for the faint hearted! I was in complete darkness.
Thank you all for your Likes and Comments :)
'Tis the season to make merry with much jollity, and falling over, so here's where I fell over earlier.
If any of you run to music, put this on your playlist, I can guarantee you will run faster...........much faster.
One of my all time favourite shots. A faint glow of the aurora over the lone tree at Lake Minnewanka with some Milky Way above.
“The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height.
We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
texture by lenabemanna . thanks
The sun went from a large orange ball to a faint pink circle. Before the sun had set it disappeared and before it left, the light of day was long gone.
Once again, the smoke from forest fires hundreds of miles away was in the air. It left us all coffing and robbed the light but it left photographers with ample opportunity to capture rare situations.
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