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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.

Steveston, Richmond, BC. January 27, 2019.

Camelia japónica "Ciudad de Vigo".

Original de Portugal, color rojo maculado de blanco. Entre 12 y 20 pétalos y entre 6 y 16 petaloides. Estambres que forman un haz central de filamentos amarillo pálido con anteras mas oscuras, entremezclados con los petaloides.Forma semidoble (en ocasiones peonía) y está a plena floración entre los meses de enero y marzo.

¡Feliz jueves con flores!.

 

Camellias in my garden, 2016.

Camellia japonica 'City of Vigo'.

Original of Portugal, maculado red color of white. Between 12 and 20 petals and petaloid 16 and 6. Stamens that form a central beam of pale yellow anthers filaments more dark, interspersed with the petaloid.Semi-double form (occasionally Peony) and is a full bloom between the months of January and March.

Happy Thursday with flowers!.

 

Galicia. España.

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: NASA/SDO

 

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Seed head of Purple Salisfy taken on the windowsill in my studio with only natural light.

Unknown filament binds together two blades of grass awaiting the tiny performer.

Parece un diagnóstico médico, pero no lo es.

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!

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

Canon EOS 760D + EF 70-200 1:4 L IS USM

Macro shot of a light bulb from a Scentsy warmer

Feu d'artifice - 1er essai en mode scène pré réglée

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.

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.

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

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