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Heart of a clematis in The Fairy Garden!
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Cygnus is such a beautiful constellation, it is a neverending source of deep sky objects, whatever your focal length or experience level is.
this time it is the filament nebula, containing also the witches broom on top of the image. to me it seemed every minute of extra exposure time added more filaments to it, maybe i could have done even more time (well, enough is never enough :)), though i had to dismiss approx 4 hours of data due to occasional thin clouds.
camera: touptek ATR2600 mono
scope: skywatcher esprit 80ED
mount: skywatcher HEQ5pro
antlia v-pro 2" filters (Ha 4.5nm, RGB) and SVBony 5nm OIII filter, touptek filter wheel, ZWO eaf pro autofocus
RGB: each 20min (40x30sec) for star color
H-alpha: 100x240sec
OIII: 120x240sec
total exposure 15h40min
all at gain 100
edit in APP, siril, photoshop
shot under a bortle 5+ sky in my backyard in 5 nights (5, 8, 9, 10, 11 august)
The filaments of the pincusion protea.
Australian native flowers are so beautiful, and while some of the protea family are native to here, this one isn't and is native to South Africa.
Mrs Mail indulges herself with Australian natives including Grevillia and Waratahs, and I indulge myself with photographing them. While I joke that I don't do flowers, I remain fascinated with the graphic structure on many species and can't resist trying to show them in a way different to any other, which of course, is nigh on impossible, as it has all been done before, by many.
Except for a slight lift in lighting, this is basically SOOC using my black cloth.
Indulgence Theme
This small 2 inch circle of ceramic painting of two young children holding a umbrella in the rain with a light bulb over it for the fun of it, when I start playing with the miniature studio never know what may be the mix.
I had some light bulbs left over from when I was smashing them, the glass was shattered but the filaments were still intact. So I put them in a lamp!
Explored on January 4, 2013. Highest postition #174. Thank you!
Explore #12 01/02/2017 ... many thanks to everyone for your interest and feedback, it's very much appreciated
Afterglow - Filament like clouds catch the afterglow of sunset whilst an ash tree is silhouetted against the warm tones of the fading June twilight.
Ribble Valley, Lancashire
The G49 filament seen by ESA’s Herschel space observatory. With a total mass over 80 000 solar masses, this huge but slender structure of gas and dust extends over about 280 light-years in length, while its diameter is only about 5 light-years.
Cooler gas and dust is seen in red and yellow, with temperatures as low as –252ºC. In the densest and coolest clumps, the seeds of new generations of stars are taking shape. A brighter clump of matter is visible at the left tip of the wispy thread. This filament is about 18 000 light-years away.
The image is a composite of the wavelengths of 70 microns (blue), 160 microns (green) and 350 microns (red) and spans about 1.17x0.93º. The image is oriented with northeast towards the left of the image and southwest towards the right.
Credit: ESA/Herschel/PACS/SPIRE/Ke Wang et al. 2015
This is a scientific capture rather than an aesthetic one — acquired in H-alpha using a Lunt LS60MT with a Powermate 2.5x, from a narrow ROI (region of interest: using only a small part of your sensor (gives higher frame rate (good for lucky imagining))) and later heavily cropped. Despite the low resolution, it illustrates a key solar phenomenon: the continuity between a filament and a prominence. The structure spans across the solar disk as a dark, suspended filament and then extends beyond the limb where it becomes visible in emission as a prominence. Both are manifestations of the same magnetic structure — relatively cool plasma supported in the solar corona, seen in absorption or emission depending on the viewing angle.
A rough image, but it captures the physics — and that's it is about sometimes : Observing what you have been told, a deeper form of knowledge then you form (said Yoda).
An interesting work shop at the camera club last night. I learned how the old light bulbs work and how they release a gas when switched on. Remove the glass without damaging the element and connect it to the power and you have this capture!
I'm afraid I couldn't get in to make use of the black back ground and I also limited myself to my 24-105mm. Would have been better if I had brought my 70-200mm. Still, it's coped with a cropping and just to add a bit of mystery, I removed the wire from the switch to the light fitting!
“Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.” ~ Junichiro Tanizaki
So much beauty in something that gets less and less common.
The glowing filament of an old-style incandescent lamp, shot at f/10 and 1/8000s with a neutral density filter set at 1:128. About 1 inch across.
One purple and one blue-gelled flashes (580EX (thanks, Alan!) and 580EXII) @ 1/16 to left and right with baffles to keep the background dark, triggered via ST-E2.
The significant change compared to previous efforts was dumping the softbox and using the flash direct, which allows winding back the flash power a bit.
A-ha! No more snow, no more -20°! Here comes the Sun!
First run of the year, this time with little PST.
Acquisition time: 28.02.2016 09:04 MSK
Telescope: Coronado PST with 2x Barlow lens, mosaic of 9 panels.
Camera: TIS DMK23U274
Software: TIS IC Capture, AS!2, AstraImage PRO 3.0,
MS ICE, Photoshop.
AstraImage:
Deconvolution: Cauchy type PSF, 0,3 pixels, 9 iterations.
Wavelet pattern: 1-10-15-5-1.
PS:
High-pass filtered image (size 95 pix) was placed over the main image in "Soft Light" blending mode for more contrast.
Some problems with flat-field image, but that's ok for now.
The Sun sported a very long filament that stretched out over 500,000 miles (800,000 km) and was visible for several days (June 3-4, 2014). It broke apart and dissipated soon after the end of the video clip. Filaments are tenuous strands of plasma held above the Sun's surface by magnetic forces. They appear darker because their temperature is somewhat cooler than that of the Sun's surface. The still image, shown in a combination of two wavelengths of extreme ultraviolet light, was taken at 11:33 UT on June 4.
Credit: NASA/Goddard/Solar Dynamics Observatory
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Feeling temporarily disillusionedwith LEDs, I wired up a set of tiny filament bulbs and waved them about. But then I added some dim yellow LEDs too.
Blown around until it became entangled among the hips and thorns of a climbing rose this tuft of plastic filaments caught my eye early this morning.
The G64 filament seen by ESA’s Herschel space observatory. With a total mass of about 5000 solar masses, this huge but slender structure of gas and dust extends over about 170 light-years in length, while its diameter is only about 9 light-years.
Cooler gas and dust is seen in red and yellow, with temperatures as low as –256ºC. In the densest and coolest clumps, the seeds of new generations of stars are taking shape. A brighter clump of matter is visible at the right tip of the wispy thread. This filament is about 12 000 light-years away.
The image is a composite of the wavelengths of 70 microns (blue), 160 microns (green) and 350 microns (red) and spans about 0.66x0.40º. The image is oriented with northeast towards the left of the image and southwest towards the right.
Credit: ESA/Herschel/PACS/SPIRE/Ke Wang et al. 2015
For more images and information, please, have a look in my blog: www.astroanarchy.blogspot.fi/2015/10/filaments-of-cygnus-...
Sometimes it is good to play. Been a busy day and so had a little fun before retiring. Captured this just before the rain arrived - was suppose to be getting the washing off the line! Anyhow, haven't had much time for Flickr today so will get back on it tomorrow. Off to bed for now though to read the odd page of 'The Innocent Man' by John Grisham. I have read it before but it deserves a second outing.
BTW - anyone with an interest in photography and an hour to spare - if you have access to BBC iPlayer I can highly a programme about an amazing photographer call Vivien Maier - to see is to believe. Her story is spell binding as are her images. Also see the website
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0366jd5/imagine..._Summer_...