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If i remember correctly, my classmates and I got this pin at the airshow in 1983 the exhibitor.
I actually texted my classmates if they remembered this. One of them still has it, the other one lost it. We agreed that was a fun outing.
Petronas Twin Towers and colloquially the KLCC Twin Towers, are an interlinked pair of 88-storey supertall skyscrapers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, standing at 451.9 metres.
Cost to build was USD 1.6b. Completed in 1996, June.
Also in the frame is Plaza OSK where Bank of China main branch is located.
The new owners have decided that they would improve the access to the laundry by installing a new sidewalk which they stopped work on Saturday due to a nice all-day rain we'd been needing.
There will be no connectors to the individual patios. There won't even be a connector to the parking lot so the folks in the other building won't have to trudge through the grass to get to it. The building that the old laundry room was attached to was originally a single home and the plan was to expand the external laundry room, but they are now splitting it in half to expand the laundry. The thing is, the management company never took care of the old laundry, so we can't expect they will do any better with the new one. I'll keep taking my clothes to the place I've used for the last 25 years.
I didn't think I was going to be able to see any of this occultation. It had been cloudy most of the day, but the clouds started to thin in the evening. Because of the forecast, I hadn't planned to go to campus to try to photograph it from there. Instead, as I saw I might be able to get something, I got my Coulter Optical 10" Dobsonian out of the garage and held my Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra up to the eyepiece. The eyepiece was a 14 mm ultra-wide FOV from Meade. I started taking video, trying to hold my phone in place while nudging the scope along.
There were plenty of parts of that video that were unusable, and there were still a lot of high clouds. After chopping up the video to get segments to run through AutoStakkert, I settled on these four times. From left to right, these represent the view at 2023-01-31 043346 UT, 043505 UT, 043600 UT, and 043601 UT. The first two are stacks of about 100 frames, while the last two images are stacks of about 10 frames. That makes the longer stacks a bit over 3 times less noisy than the shorter ones. Compare the details in the craters and mountains in the first two images with the last two.
The two most prominent craters in the image are Copernicus in the south (toward the bottom) and Plato in the north. We also get about half of Mare Imbrium and half of Mare Serenitatis. One thing that stood out to me is the one illuminated mountain beyond the terminator. It looks like this is Promontorium Laplace, a 2.6 km high peak at the edge of Sinus Iridum.
After stacking, I did sharpening in PixInsight, then used Photoshop to align the images in this arrangement.
Lunation: 9.32 days
Illumination: 74.5%
Distance: 393300 km
Altitude: 75°
The landscapers removed a total of four trees to make room for the laundry room expansion and leveled off all the dips left over from the sewer repairs. But they didn't reseed the area for some reason. Maybe later, as contractors seem to work on their own schedule or tend to forget some details.
They've been spending time sitting up and surveying the area when the mother is gone, but as soon as I get within 15 feet of the nest they hunker down.
Well, it was actually the Saturday of the holiday weekend, but very apropos. The guys down at the NRHS (National Railway Historical Society) were busy removing an overhead water tank from one of their passenger cars which had totally rusted out over the many years it had been in storage.
The tank itself was quarter inch steel about eight feet long by five feet wide by a foot and a half deep, of which six inches were taken up by rust. If you look closely, you can see the damage it did to the channels alongside where the tank was located. They were cutting it into smaller pieces to facilitate getting it out of the car.
The car itself has a varied history, starting out as a coach, then converted into a diner for Maintenance of Way (MoW) crews, then once more into a mobile MoW classroom. One can still make out some of the Pullman fine striping on what is left of the original panels between the windows.
Found this in an antique store today. Rick Oleson recently posted about one of the tools, and how he made a replacement part for his.
Found this in an antique store today. Rick Oleson recently posted about one of the tools, and how he made a replacement part for his.
Could be four little Purple Finch babies in there. I missed getting a photo when they were still in the shell as I thought the mother had abandoned the nest since I expected it to be larger like a House Finch nest. But one day when I came home the mother flew off as I was approaching our front door, so then I knew it was at least occupied.
They probably hatched out two or three days ago. I moved the settee out from below the nest so it doesn't get all pooped on.
On the Mossy Cave Trail in Bryce Canyon National Park. Everett got behind the waterfall and took a bunch of pictures.
This year the Purple Finches have come to our front porch light to build a nest for their brood. It's been nine years since a nest has been built there, and then they were House Finches.
It's a very different style of nest, much more decorative than the woven dry twigs the house finches made. The female did all the work while the male stood guard, and she pulled some material from the old seat cushions from the settee below the light to line the interior.
What the nest of 2013 looked like:
The statue of Queen Elizabeth II on the west front of York Minster. It was intended to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee and was completed in August 2022, a month before her death. It was unveiled by King Charles III on 9 November 2022.
At the Head Of The Rocks Overlook in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument on Route 12 east of Escalante.
On the Mossy Cave Trail in Bryce Canyon National Park. Everett got behind the waterfall and took a bunch of pictures.
On the Mossy Cave Trail in Bryce Canyon National Park. Everett got behind the waterfall and took a bunch of pictures.
I hope this vulture that was surveying the area from the rooftop next door isn't planning on hanging around or inviting any of its family to join it.
Not sure if this is a black headed vulture or a juvenile red headed, as they tend to look alike, and the detail is sort of lacking due to this being a phone image with digital zoom employed. There is a roost of the black heads within a mile of us and it has been disturbed by the construction of a new auto dealership.
Hopefully we don't have the kind of trees they prefer to roost in.