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Inside the Vertical Integration Facility near Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Centaur stage for NASA’s Lucy mission is lowered onto the Atlas V first stage on Sept. 16, 2021. Lucy is scheduled to launch no earlier than Saturday, Oct. 16, on a ULA Atlas V 401 rocket from Pad 41. NASA’s Launch Services Program based at Kennedy Space Center is managing the launch. Over its 12-year primary mission, Lucy will explore a record-breaking number of asteroids, flying by one asteroid in the solar system’s main belt and seven Trojan asteroids. Additionally, Lucy’s path will circle back to Earth three times for gravity assists, making it the first spacecraft ever to return to the vicinity of Earth from the outer solar system. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
Carina Nebula, 15 hours and 20 minutes of integration in SHO with Planewave CDK24 610/3962 f 6/5 telescope, QHY 600M Pro camera, are 171 shots of which in Ha 17x600 seconds-32x300 seconds and 15x120 seconds, in OIII 9x600 seconds, 30x300 seconds and 15x120 seconds, in SII 8x600 seconds, 30x300 seconds and 15x120 seconds, processing with Pixinsight and Photoshop. All data and shots were captured with Telescope Live. The Carina Nebula (also known as the Eta Carinae Nebula or by the catalog designations NGC 3372 and C 92) is an emission nebula located in the heart of the southern Milky Way, in the constellation Carina. It is perfectly visible even to the naked eye, although its observation is limited to the regions of the Earth's southern hemisphere and the northern tropics; it was first catalogued by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1751, during his stay in Cape Town.
It is one of the largest known H II regions within our Galaxy: the nebula has real dimensions that reach 260 light years and surrounds several open clusters, as well as one of the most massive stars known, the variable η Carinae. Some star formation phenomena are active within it, although to a lesser extent than in other similar nebulae: this would be an indicator of the high degree of evolution of this nebula. Its distance is estimated at 7500 light-years from us.
As evidence that star formation in the astronomically recent past has been quite intense, there are a large number of open clusters and stellar associations, all composed of very hot, blue young stars, which excite the gas of the nebula and perturb it with their strong stellar wind. Within the nebula there are also well-known substructures, such as the Homunculus Nebula, which surrounds the star η Carinae and the Keyhole Nebula, whose name was assigned to it by John Herschel in the first half of the nineteenth century.
The inaugural flight Vega-C launcher integration process began with the P120 solid rocket stage being delivered to the Vega Launch Zone (Zone de Lancement Vega) ZLV at Europe's Space Port in Kourou, French Guiana on 15 April 2022.
On the wave of Vega’s success, Member States at the ESA Ministerial meeting in December 2014 agreed to develop the more powerful Vega-C to respond to an evolving market and to long-term institutional needs.
Vega-C increases performance from Vega’s current 1.5 t to about 2.2 t in a reference 700 km polar orbit, covering identified European institutional users’ mission needs, with no increase in launch service and operating costs.
The participating states in this development are: Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.
Vega-C will also accommodate the flight-proven Small Spacecraft Mission Service (SSMS) dispenser, which further reduces cost-to-orbit by enabling rideshare missions, with or without a large, primary payload.
Credits: ESA - M. Pedoussaut
This is an integration of 25 panels of the Orion constellation region imaged over the last 2 years. I had intended to add some more integration to the outer regions to bring out more details but got involved in other projects that consumed my night sky imaging time. I will complete this project later this year when Orion is back in the sky with enough time. Processing and editing the image must have been the hardest one so far as there are various regions with variant illuminations mainly the Orion Nebula area and other.
Nikon Z6II - Stock
Nikon z6II - Modified
Rokinon 135mm f/2
Sky Guider Pro
Fornax Lightrack II
Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer
IDAS NGS1
Optolong L-Pro
938×180″ -46h 54′
(Updated on May 10, 2025)
Looking northwestward. Taken along Puerto Blanco Drive, either at the Pinkley Peak picnic area, or a little south of it.
The title makes more sense if you connect it to the Part 1 header and are familiar with 1 Corinthians 13:12.
This portrait-format shot, my second featuring Pinkley Peak, is one of the slides on this Ektachrome roll that turned out, by my standards at least, normally.
In this case I think I was concentrating on the magnificent Sonoran Desert plant life. Along with the relatively young and still-unbranched Saguaros (Carnegiea gigantea) in the middle ground there are a number of Ocotillos, Fouquieria splendens. Their very dark color is due to their being in full leaf. I wish they'd been in full flower, too, because in that state they are a sight to behold.
Also present, of course, are the Creosote Bushes (Larrea tridentata), whose inevitable presence is signaled by the lighter green foliage and light-gray stems. Right by the road they are fighting for lebensraum with the Ocotillos.
The modifier "ubiquitous" doesn't begin to describe the role of the Creosote Bush in Mexico and the American Southwest. A key player in all three of this continent's desert regimes—the Mojave, Sonoran, and Chihuahuan—it forms slowly expanding clonal rings that are some of the oldest living creatures on Earth. For example, the famous "King Clone" in California is about 11.7 ka old.
But of course that big mass of geology in the background deserves some mention as well. As mentioned in Part 1, Pinkley Peak is of decidedly volcanic origin, and is composed of a nipplelike summit of the dark Childs Latite, with Pinkley Peak rhyolite and associated yellow tuff below it. All of that dates to early in the Miocene epoch. At that point, as Basin and Range crustal stretching and faulting took place, magma from deep underground found numerous ways to reach the surface.
Pinkley Peak stands on the eastern side of the upthrust Puerto Blanco Mountains horst block, much of which is made instead of Jurassic metamorphic rocks.
To see the other photos and descriptions in this set, visit my my Integrative Natural History of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument album.
6 hours integration
Sharpless 101 (Sh2-101) is a H II region emission nebula located in the constellation Cygnus. It is sometimes also called the Tulip Nebula because it appears to resemble the outline of a tulip when imaged photographically. It was catalogued by astronomer Stewart Sharpless in his 1959 catalog of nebulae. It lies at a distance of about 6,000 light-years (5.7×1016 km; 3.5×1016 mi) from Earth.
Sh2-101, at least in the field seen from earth, is in close proximity to microquasar Cygnus X-1, site of one of the first suspected black holes. Cygnus X-1 is the brighter of the two stars (lower star) in close vertical proximity just to the right of Sh2-101 in the image presented here.
INTEGRATION-LIEBE-LABSKAUS
Dinge, die Hamburg ausmachen.
..gesehen an einer Mauer, die für allerlei Aufkleber, meist politisch-anarchistisch, herhält
KORF (Norfolk International Airport) - 16 SEP 2018
"Coast Guard Two Thousand Five" from Elizabeth City Regional Airport (KECG) rolling out on RWY 5 after landing.
The USCG has been flying HC-130J aircraft since the first aircraft was delivered in 2003 and went into initial operational capability in 2008. There are currently eleven HC-130J aircraft in the USCG inventory with an additional three on order through the manufacturer (at the time of this photo). All operational aircraft are based at the air station in Elizabeth City, NC, and operate primarily off the eastern seaboard. The HC-130J aircraft are worldwide deployable and can often be found supporting counter-narcotics operations in the Eastern Pacific, long range Search and Rescue in the Atlantic, or marine safety missions operating International Ice Patrol from Newfoundland, Canada.
The HC-130J aircraft has a unique mission system suite installed on the aircraft. The mission system suite includes a two operator workstation on the flight deck, a nose-mounted EO/IR pod, a belly-mounted surface search radar, as well as other communication and surveillance sensors.
The HC-130J is a major upgrade from the legacy C-130’s employed by the USCG since 1959. The cockpit avionics upgrades, coupled with more efficient engine and propeller designs, allow the aircraft to fly higher, get on scene faster, stay on scene longer and fly safer than any other fixed wing aircraft in the USCG inventory. This allows for significant savings in terms of operational and logistical costs.
Air Station Elizabeth City has 8 "missionized" HC-130Js in the fleet to meet long-range maritime patrol requirements in areas that cannot be patrolled efficiently by medium range surveillance aircraft or cutters. The Long Range Surveillance (LRS) aircraft also provides heavy air transport for maritime safety and security teams, port security units and the National Strike Force personnel and equipment.
The Coast Guard accepted CGNR 2005, an HC-130J Super Hercules long range surveillance aircraft retrofitted with the Minotaur Mission System Suite, at the L3 Technologies Inc. Integrated Systems Platform Integration Division in Waco, Texas, June 14, 2018.
This photo from Northrop Grumman's clean room in Redondo Beach, California shows the start of the integration process of the James Webb Space Telescope. The telescope is seen hanging from a crane, in the process of being moved over the sunshield.
Here's a recent video about the recent successful assembly of Webb into its final form: youtu.be/Trh9ohPo-cE
Image credit: Northrop Grumman
In the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 52-53 crewmembers Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency (left), Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, center) and Randy Bresnik of NASA (right) pose for pictures in front of their Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft July 17 as part of their fit check dress rehearsal activities. The trio will launch July 28 on the Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft for a five-month mission on the International Space Station. Credit: Andrey Shelepin/Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center
Inside the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex 3 at Vandenberg Space Source Base in California, workers help secure the interstage and assembly second stage adapters to the Centaur second stage of the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket for NASA's Landsat 9 mission on July 14, 2021. Landsat 9 will launch atop the Atlas V rocket from Vandenberg in September 2021. The launch is being managed by NASA's Launch Services Program based at Kennedy Space Center, America's multiuser spaceport. The Landsat 9 satellite will continue the nearly 50-year legacy of previous Landsat missions. It will monitor key natural and economic resources from orbit. Landsat 9 is managed by the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The satellite will carry two instruments: the Operational Land Imager 2, which collects images of Earth's landscapes in visible, near infrared and shortwave infrared light, and the Thermal Infrared Sensor 2, which measures the temperature of land surfaces. Like its predecessors, Landsat 9 is a joint mission between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey. Photo credit: USSF 30th Space Wing/Pedro Carrillo
The latest update on the Nova in Sagittarius (designation PNV J18365700-2855420). Magnitude dropped now to around 7.8 at this point. This is a combination of two data runs one night after the other as I accidentially reserved myself twice on the iTelescope T9 system and as a result the longer integration time makes for a little more space noise!
It's taken me a few days to put this together as I was messing about heavily with analysis in Astrometrica, approx 6-7 moving objects found within all the Green & Blue fits data over 2 nights, one of which I believe to be asteroid Lydina (1028) at 97km diameter found at 10 o'clock to the Nova, the other Seijin-Sanso (11442) found bottom lower left of image, both main belt asteroids. There are a few possibilities in the FOV with so many moving points of light over all these fits files. Astrometrica JPG data reductions for the two are here www.flickr.com/photos/76699751@N07/18763480968/in/datepos... and here www.flickr.com/photos/76699751@N07/18328581544/in/datepos...
Imaged using T9, iTelescope at Siding Spring Observatory, Australia.
Telescope details for T9:
CCD: SBIG ST8 XME
FOV: 13.6 x 20.4 arc-mins
Telescope Optics
OTA: RCOS 12.5"
Optical Design: Ritchey-Chrétien Cassegrain
Aperture: 317mm
Focal Length: 2331mm
F/Ratio: f/7.4 (Focal Reducer)
Guiding: External
Mount: Paramount PME
CCD + Focal Reducer
9 x 60 sec Luminance
10 x 60 sec Red
10 x 60 sec Green
9 x 60 sec Blue
2 frames rejected from Lum & Blue
Aligned & combined in Maxim DL
Processed in CS5
even different lives lived by a countless individuals...is unified in one spirit...for peace in Humanity...
Das ist Integration:
Mustafa, neben mir: "Ich ess ja auch schon mal Schweinefleisch."
Nachbar: "Mustafa - du bist doch Moslem?"
Mustafa: "Ich bin Deutscher."
Two U.S. Air Force Rockwell B-1B "Lancers" assigned to 37th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron, deployed from Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota, fly alongside two Koku Jieitai (Japan Air Self-Defense Force) F-15s over the vicinity of the East China Sea, Sept. 9, 2017. Following the end of the operation, one B-1B flew to Misawa Air Base, Japan, to be a static display for the Misawa Air Festival, while the other B-1B returned to Andersen AFB, Guam. The integration of our aerial platforms with our allied nations advance and strengthen the long-standing military-to-military relationships in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region.
Leica MP
Leica Summilux 35mm f/1.4 II
Fuji Neopan 400
Tetenal Ultrafin Plus 1+4
7 min 30 sec 20°C
Scan from negative film
The Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV) flight model during integration at Thales Alenia Space, Torino, Italy, on 12 February 2014.
It will be launched by ESA in 2014 on Vega, Europe’s new small launcher, into a suborbital path. It will reenter the atmosphere as if from a low-orbit mission, testing new European reentry technologies during its hypersonic and supersonic flight phases.
Credit: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2014
More than 250 friends and supporters joined EHMC Foundation for “Be Integrative,” a spectacular evening reception to benefit The Center for Integrative Medicine at EHMC.
Velo Nebula, 60 minutes of integration in SHO with Takahashi FSQ-106EDX4 196/382 f 3/6 telescope, QHY 600M Pro CCD camera, are 6 shots of which in Ha 2x600s, in OIII 2x600s and in SII 2x600s, processing with Pixinsight and Photoshop. All data and shots were captured with Telescope Live. The Veil Nebula (also known by the Caldwell Catalogue acronyms C 33 and C 34) is a large diffuse nebula visible in the southeastern part of the constellation Cygnus.
The distance of the nebula is not known with certainty; data from the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) indicate a distance of about 1,470 light-years. This intricate system of nebulae is visible with binoculars with 80-90mm objectives or with a small telescope as long as you have a dark sky, even better if you use a filter (UHC, OIII): it is best revealed in long exposure photos (even with a CCD camera it takes several minutes). The object will appear to be made up of three very delicate nebulous filaments, arranged to form a sort of circumference. The brightest part is the easternmost part, known as NGC 6992. Increasing magnification reveals that each filament is actually made up of a network of other, smaller, thinner filaments.
The discovery of this object was the work of William Herschel, who in 1784 described it as follows: "Extended; go through 52 Cygni... about 2 degrees in length"; The western part of the nebula has a description of its own: "Branching nebulosity... The next part splits into a few currents that are still gathered to the south."
Taken near the cliffside trail on the western side of the Middle Falls.
This photo complements the Part 19 image, and like it shows one of the park's predominant tree species, Arbor Vitae (Thuja occidentalis) hanging on for dear life on the edge of an outcrop of North Shore Volcanic Group basalt. This igneous extrusive rock is a small part of the immense outpouring of mafic lava that accompanied the development of the late-Mesoproterozoic Midcontinent Rift.
While usually not quite this visible, roots are amazing structures and one of the most geologically significant evolutionary adaptations in the whole history of life.
Before plants developed substantial roots systems, for both better anchoring and vastly more effective uptake of water, oxygen, and nutrients, the Earth was a world where the force of erosion more frequently predominated over the process of weathering.
But as rooted plants spread over larger and larger areas of our planet's surface, they created positive feedback loops ultimately involving the development of true soils, an increase of carbon sequestration in the ground, and an increase in the atmosphere's free-oxygen content. All these things had further dramatic effects on climate, rock formation, and the development of other living communities.
So when did roots first evolve? Most paleobotanists think that plants had developed them by the early Devonian period, approximately 400 Ma ago. That may seem an ancient date indeed, but keep in mind that the basalt to which this tree clings is, at 1,100 Ma, almost three times as old.
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my Integrative Natural History of Minnesota's North Shore album.