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The long, dark solar filament that had been visible for many days finally lifted off and broke away into space (Sept. 2, 2014). Filaments are elongated clouds of plasma tethered above the Sun's surface by powerful magnetic forces. Filaments are notoriously unstable. They appear darker when viewed in extreme ultraviolet light because they are somewhat cooler than the underlying material. The video covers about 14 hours of activity. The still was taken about 14:00 UT. Credit: Solar Dynamics Observatory/NASA.
21 décembre 2018 je flâne dans les ruelles de Sanary sur mer (83_Fr) , j'observe une vitrine qui expose des ampoules dont une qui m’attirera particulièrement l'attention ..
Explore Aug 1, 2011 #92
I forget about this beauty until I'm overwhelmed by its captivating fragrance near the end of my walk through Fairchild Garden! Gold and orange pinwheels seem to turn in the morning sunlight. Rain drops cling to its vibrant petals and silver-tipped filaments.
This large, rounded shrub is a native to Malaysia and Indonesia. Large flowers are about 4.5 inches in diameter and open white. Flowers slowly turn orange over a several day period before falling off. The white flower photo is of a bloom that has just begun to open. The orange flower is about 2 or 3 days later. So a tree will have white, yellow and orange flowers.
Gardenia carinata, Golden Gardenia, Kedah Gardenia
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami, FL
February 14, 2026
Image by Phil Whitebloom
This Hα (Hydrogen Alpha) image shows the Sun’s chromosphere as a highly structured layer shaped by magnetic forces. Dark filaments arc across the solar disk, representing dense plasma suspended above the surface by magnetic fields. These structures often span tens to hundreds of thousands of miles and appear dark against the bright chromosphere, while the same features become luminous prominences when viewed at the solar limb.
Bright plage regions mark areas of concentrated magnetic activity and display fine internal structure. Along the limb, several prominences rise into space, with individual features extending on the order of 50,000 to more than 100,000 miles above the solar surface, illustrating the immense scale of chromospheric activity.
Capture & Processing Details
Telescope: 60 mm Lunt Hydrogen Alpha solar telescope, double-stack configuration
Optics: 2× Barlow lens
Camera: ZWO ASI294MC Pro
Capture Software: SharpCap 4.1
Date & Time: February 14, 2026, 18:33 UTC
Location: Laurel, Maryland, USA
Exposure: 122.6 ms
Gain: 256
Total Frames Captured: 45
Frames Used: Best 25% by quality
Resolution: 4144 × 2822
Format: TIFF, MONO8
Processing Notes
Frames were stacked using AutoStakkert with quality-based selection. Final tonal and structural adjustments were completed in Adobe Lightroom Classic and Adobe Photoshop to preserve fine chromospheric detail and maintain a natural observational appearance.
The glowing filaments in my bedside lamp
The Pana 14-42 II with a Raynox 150 Achromat lens makes a decent Macro.
This photo is a little darker and less colorful than I usually strive for, but was necessary under the available lighting in order to capture the unique beauty of the filament silhouettes and still retain some of their color without making them appear totally dark. Alas, photography is always a compromise! ;-)
Flowers...
They are fleeting.
They are fragile.
They require
little water.
They’ll surprise you.
They’ll remind you
that they aren’t
and they are you.
- Wendy Videlock
Parcours artistique contemporain, novateur et poétique sur un sentier de randonnée « la cascade de Razis » qui nous invitent à porter un autre regard sur un paysage pourtant familier.
A noiseless, patient spider
I mark’d, where, on a little promontory, it stood, isolated;
Mark’d how, to explore the vacant, vast surrounding,
It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself;
Ever unreeling them—ever tirelessly speeding them.
And you, O my Soul, where you stand,
Surrounded, surrounded, in measureless oceans of space,
Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing,—seeking the spheres, to connect them;
Till the bridge you will need, be form’d—till the ductile anchor hold;
Till the gossamer thread you fling, catch somewhere, O my Soul.
~ Walt Whitman
I was taking Remy for a walk and of course scanning the leaves for caterpillars. I spotted a tiny bit of "debris" on a maple leaf. Of course I have to check out anything that looks out of place and sure enough it was a tiny instar of a "Nematocampa resistaria" Horned Spanworm! One of the Filament Bearers they are an amazing and beautiful caterpillar! Ellicott City, Howard County, MD
It's a common lilly flower, what amazed me is the symmetric, asymmetric, and antisymmetric interplay between the 5 petals, 6 styles & 1 stigma, besides the fact that the petals are like reflectors that converge the reflected lights on the pollen pods. I have tried to highlight this apparently hidden aspect using selective colouring technique offered by Photoshop.
This is a first experiment with my Zomei Premium Close Up Macro Filter (+10). I got it in 67mm for the EF 70-300f4-5.6 L.