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You could be forgiven for thinking "I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here" (not that I watch it you understand). The Tropical House at Tatton Park.
Once done with early dinner back at Havasupai Campground, we headed for Havasu Falls. We wanted to spend some time by the large pool at the bottom of the falls. One of the most beautiful waterfalls in America looked quite epic. As was the same at Mooney Falls, the roaring sound of water falling was quite deafening. Not too long ago a bunch of youngsters filmed their crazy jumps from the top of the falls into the pool. This YouTube video went viral, and as dangerous as it is, it glamorized the whole experience of visiting the waterfalls. Mind you, it is about 100 feet high. It is definitely not for the faint-hearted. Because the top of the falls via a dirt path was quite close to the main trail, we saw quite a few people came in and out of sight at the top although no one jumped. Luckily there were some moments where no one was around either at the top or near the bottom of the falls.
A garden shed in the allotments between Oberrad and the river, with the European Central Bank in the background.
Voigtländer Perkeo I and its Color Skopar 80mm f/3.5, Rollei 400 S in Rodinal 1+50 for 24 min @ 18°C and digitalized using kit zoom and extension tubes.
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Close up Baka girl in typical orange cloth, faint tattoos on face; Baka Pygmy village near Pokola, Ouesso, Sangha Region, Republic of Congo (Brazzaville) 1996
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Lighting
We wanted to keep the lighting fairly simple in these images in order to show off the detail of the beetles, but not become a distraction. It is also important that while the key light is almost directly straight on, that shadow and highlight definition are maintained. If you use a light source that is too large at such a close distance you will wind up with images that don't have a clear boundary between highlight and shadow.
For the key we used an 11-inch Long Throw reflector, usually reserved for point lights. Because it was so close to our subject, and only a small area needed to be lit, the falloff was not an issue here. This harsh light provides nice highlight detail while also producing shadows.
For the background we used 2 strip lights pointed towards a white seamless. The lights hit the seamless, exposing it properly and because the surface is white, it allowed a lot of light to be reflected. Some of this reflected light came back and hit the back side of the model, giving a faint rim light.
The "Soap Bubble Nebula" is the common name for the planetary nebula PN G75.5+1.7. This nebula was only discovered by amateur astronomer Dave Jurasevich on July 6th, 2008. It was independently confirmed and reported by Keith Quattrocchi and Mel Helm on July 17th, 2008.
PN G75.5+1.7 is situated in the constellation of Cygnus, very near the Crescent Nebula (NGC 6888). It is embedded in a large diffuse nebula which, in combination with its low surface magnitude, is the reason it was not discovered until recently.
NGC 6888, also known as the Crescent Nebula, is a cosmic bubble about 25 light-years across, blown by winds from its central, bright, massive star. This image uses narrow band image data that isolates light from hydrogen and oxygen atoms in the wind-blown nebula. The oxygen atoms produce the blue-green hue that seems to enshroud the detailed folds and filaments. Visible within the nebula, NGC 6888's central star is classified as a Wolf-Rayet star (WR 136). The star is shedding its outer envelope in a strong stellar wind, ejecting the equivalent of the Sun's mass every 10,000 years. The nebula's complex structures are likely the result of this strong wind interacting with material ejected in an earlier phase. Burning fuel at a prodigious rate and near the end of its stellar life this star should ultimately go out with a bang in a spectacular supernova explosion. Found in the nebula rich constellation Cygnus, NGC 6888 is about 5,000 light-years away. (source: APOD)
I decided in 2015 that I wanted to see if I could catch this very faint nebula with my 9.2 cm refractor. I started working on imaging this in 2015, but then I only got 4 images before weather interrupted the imaging sequence. In 2016 I was able to catch more data of this region to see what would come out. In August 2016 I took for 5 days in a row images of this nebula in H-alpha and OIII. In 2018/2019 I decided to expand the Ha dataset further and succeeded in the course of these two years to gather much more Ha-data.
Equipment:
Telescope: TMB92SS
Camera: QSI583ws
Mount: Skywatcher NEQ6
Exposures:
H-alpha: 115x900s (29h)
OIII: 32x1200s (11h)
Total: 40 hours
Evening picture! Mars 2025, Arvidsjaur, Lapland, Sweden!
Faint Northern Lights during the evening!
Lens: Samyang 14 2,8 MF.
Well Its another shot from whiterock! I just love this place it is fantastic for landscape! Unfortunately I just don't have as much time for photography as I would like at the moment! Still I'm just about to hit 100,000 so I can't complain!
Whiterock, Co.Dublin, Ireland
The “Coalsack Loop” is a 10 degree diameter ring of visible emission nebulosity centred on the Coal Sack dark cloud, which is seen in projection against the Loop’s centre. It was discovered in 1998.
This image is a 6 pane mosaic- each pane consisting of an integration of 9 ten minute sub-exposures
Total integration therefore represents 9 hours of data
REPROCESSED to tone down background and emphasise the loop itself - which is still very very faint
Equipment
EQ6/ Samyang 135 mm/ L Extreme/ ASI 183MC/ ASIAIR
Software
ASIAIR/ AstroPixel Processor/Photoshop CS6/ Topaz AI/Starnet ++ v2/ Planning in Telescopius
Conditions
Panes 1-2 were shot through thin clouds which later presented considerable challenges in processing due to varying intensity
Seeing was poor throughout but this data was collected over three nights in the middle of a La Nina event when clear nights are hard to come by
Processing notes
AAP/ my computer struggled with constructing a mosaic with all the data in one hit- with LNC turned on it took over 18 hours and even then the stacking was poor
Stacked each pane separately as normal and then constucted a mosaic using the following settings:
Registration :
Mosaic
Scale stop : 15
Dynamic Distortion : ON
Projective Regsitration
Normalisation :
Advanced
Neutralise background : ON
Integration:
LNC 2 degrees , three iterations
MBB 17 %
This unusual lenticular galaxy, known as NGC 1947, has lost almost all the gas and dust from its signature spiral arms, which used to orbit around its centre. Discovered almost 200 years ago by James Dunlop, a Scottish-born astronomer who later studied the sky from Australia, NGC 1947 can only be seen from the southern hemisphere, in the constellation Dorado (The Dolphinfish).
Residing around 40 million light-years away from Earth, this galaxy shows off its structure by backlighting its remaining faint gas and dust disc with millions of stars. In this picture, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the faint remnants of the galaxy’s spiral arms can still be made out in the stretched thin threads of dark gas encircling it. Without most of its star-forming material, it is unlikely that many new stars will be born within NGC 1947, leaving this galaxy to continue fading with time.
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Rosario
Acknowledgement: L. Shatz
Presenting an image of vdB 152, also known as CED 201, a reflection nebula located approximately 1400 light years away in the constellation Cephus. Dominating the center of the image is a dark, dusty pillar-like structure that reflects the light of nearby stars, giving it a faint, bluish glow.
Total: 79hrs 20mins of integration
More details can be found here: astrob.in/2qq7t9/0/
Akaishi river, Mt.Kurodake, Kamikawa, Hokkaido.
Pentax MZ-M, SMC Pentax-M 28mm F3.5, negative ISO 100 from Fuji, exposed as ISO 100, developed with reversal processing as described before, scanned with Plustek OpticFilm 120 + VueScan, edited with GIMP.
Grand Haven Lighthouse in Michigan. A warm and windy day at the lake which was just perfect for a long exposure. If you look extra closely, you can see a faint horizontal line above the horizon where a yacht was coming into the canal from a distance.
Tulips by A.E. Stallings
"The tulips make me want to paint,
Something about the way they drop
Their petals on the tabletop
And do not wilt so much as faint," -- excerpt from Poetry Magazine
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Alone...
Water Drifting...
Thinker Self Reflection..
Location : Hikone , Shiga Prefecture , Japan
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