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Light?
Have you ever wondered from where light came
If the wondering of light is just a game
If light is playing a trick on our eyes
If light is just a bunch of lies
If light has a temperature cold as ice
If light is actually hot as rice
If light can run around the room
If light will lead us to our doom
If light can catch a traveling ball
If light can hear our pleading call
If light needs us to seeing the dark
If light can produce a menacing bark
If light can flow as fast as sound
If light is only on earth bound
If light can take a human form
If light can get caught up in a storm
I often wonder what light can do
but its secrets are not for me and you
sam ridley
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Nothing is better to me than being up close with a lightning bolt so you actually see all the filaments you might miss from being further away. Taken on July 27th north of Sierra Vista along Highway 82.
Astrobin Top Pick
DeHt5 (Dengel-Hartl 5) is a large faint ancient planetary nebula in the constellation Cepheus. It is estimated to be one of the closest planetary nebulae at a distance of 1300-1600 light years.
The faint red filaments at the top right hand corner of the image are the supernova remnant called SNR 110.3+11.3.
Astrodon Blue: 19x300"
Astrodon Green: 19x300"
Astrodon Lum: 20x600"
Astrodon Red: 20x300"
Astrodon Ha: 25x1800s bin 2x2
Astrodon OIII: 26x1800s bin 2x2
Total Integration: 34 hours
Captured on my dual rig in Spain.
Scopes: APM TMB LZOS 152 (6" aperture 1200mm focal length)
Cameras: QSI6120wsg8
Mount: 10Micron GM2000 HPS
A collage of a Filamented devilfish with detail of the inside of its pectoral fins. Beauty of the beast. Also called "The Red Sea Walkman, Two-stick Stingfish, Sea Goblin and Demon Stinger."
It uses its pectoral fins to "walk" along the sea bed. It flashes its pectoral fins as a warning and its spines are highly venomous.
This is the second, new to me, species I saw in the Red Sea on my latest dive trip.
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.
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).
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!
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
A bright solar prominence rose up from the Sun and twisted around in about a six-hour period (Apr. 21, 2015). While some of the material broke away into space, much of it fell back into the Sun. The images were taken in a wavelength of extreme ultraviolet light. At its greatest height, the plume extended out many times the size of Earth, allowing numerous amateur astronomers to observe this event with their solar telescopes. Credit: Solar Dynamics Observatory, NASA.
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.
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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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.
Please, visit my blog for more info about my photo, www.astroanarchy.blogspot.fi/2015/11/filaments-of-cygnus-...
Natural color composition from the emission of ionized elements.
This palette is very close to a visual spectrum.
As usually, I reprocessed the two frame mosaic of Cygnus filaments. The color balance and stars are better now and more details are visible. This area in Western Cygnus is rarely imaged since it has a low surface brightness and more attractive targets are nearby.
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-...