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A quick shot of the Orion Nebula (M42), one of my favourite celestial objects and a really satisfying target. I've been waiting a year for an opportunity to image this nebula again, this time with a polar alignment and guiding to enable much longer exposures than the 15 second subs I took last time and with a lower ISO to reduce noise. The next project with this is to either stitch two shots together or, better still, rotate the camera in order to fit both the Orion Nebula and the nearby Running Man Nebula into one frame.
13 x 4 minute exposures at 400 ISO
8 x dark frames
10 x flat frames
21 x bias/offset frames (subtracted from flat frames only)
Total exposure time - 52 minutes
Guided with PHD
Processed in Nebulosity, Maxim DL and Photoshop
Equipment
Celestron NexStar 127 SLT
GoTo AltAz mount with homemade wedge
Orion 50mm Mini Guide Scope
ZWO ASI120 MC guiding camera
Canon EOS 700D DSLR
[Wikipedia] The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976) is a diffuse nebula situated in the Milky Way, being south of Orion's Belt in the constellation of Orion. It is one of the brightest nebulae, and is visible to the naked eye in the night sky. M42 is located at a distance of 1,344 ± 20 light years and is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth. The M42 nebula is estimated to be 24 light years across. It has a mass of about 2000 times the mass of the Sun. Older texts frequently refer to the Orion Nebula as the Great Nebula in Orion or the Great Orion Nebula.
The Orion Nebula is one of the most scrutinized and photographed objects in the night sky, and is among the most intensely studied celestial features. The nebula has revealed much about the process of how stars and planetary systems are formed from collapsing clouds of gas and dust. Astronomers have directly observed protoplanetary disks, brown dwarfs, intense and turbulent motions of the gas, and the photo-ionizing effects of massive nearby stars in the nebula. [Wikipedia]
A beautiful rainbow in Athens yesterday- I was coming through town during a downpour! At home, it was dry as a bone. :)
Wiedehopf / Hoopoe
Der etwa drosselgroße, aber bedeutend größer wirkende Vogel (durchschnittlich 28 cm vom Schnabel bis zur Schwanzspitze) ist unverkennbar und auch in Mitteleuropa allgemein bekannt, obgleich ihn hier wohl nur sehr wenige Menschen in freier Natur beobachten konnten. Charakteristisch sind die kontrastreich schwarz-weiß gebänderten Flügel mit deutlichen gelben Einschlüssen, der lange, gebogene Schnabel und die etwa fünf bis sechs Zentimeter lange aufrichtbare Federhaube, deren Enden in einem weiß-schwarzen Abschluss auslaufen. Der Schwanz ist schwarz mit einer breiten weißen Binde etwa im letzten Schwanzdrittel und einer weißen Zeichnung auf der Schwanzwurzel. Der übrige Körper ist rostbraunrot. Charakteristisch ist auch der wellenförmige, schmetterlingsartig gaukelnde Flug, bei dem die breiten, tief gefingerten Flügel nach jedem Schlag fast angelegt werden. Auf mehrere lange, durchgezogene Flügelschläge erfolgen einige kurze, flatternde, so dass der Flug instabil und ungleichmäßig erscheint. Die Geschlechter sind einander sehr ähnlich; die Weibchen sind etwas kleiner und eine Spur matter gefärbt. Während der Nahrungssuche und in Erregungssituationen ist das ständige Kopfnicken sehr auffallend.
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Candid eye contact street photography from Glasgow, Scotland. Another timeless outfit on the streets of the city and looking a little 'flapper' glamorous in 20-30s style. Enjoy!
The area that was to become West Palm Beach was settled in the late 1870s and 1880s by a few hundred settlers who called the vicinity "Lake Worth Country." These settlers were a diverse community from different parts of the United States and the world. They included founding families such at the Potters and the Lainharts, who would go on to become leading members of the business community in the fledgling city. The first white settlers in Palm Beach County lived around Lake Worth, then an enclosed freshwater lake, named for Colonel William Jenkins Worth, who had fought in the Second Seminole War in Florida in 1842. Most settlers engaged in the growing of tropical fruits and vegetables for shipment the north via Lake Worth and the Indian River. By 1890, the U.S. Census counted over 200 people settled along Lake Worth in the vicinity of what would become West Palm Beach. The area at this time also boasted a hotel, the "Cocoanut House", a church, and a post office. The city was platted by Henry Flagler as a community to house the servants working in the two grand hotels on the neighboring island of Palm Beach, across Lake Worth in 1893, coinciding with the arrival of the Florida East Coast railroad. Flagler paid two area settlers, Captain Porter and Louie Hillhouse, a combined sum of $45,000 for the original town site, stretching from Clear Lake to Lake Worth.
On November 5, 1894, 78 people met at the "Calaboose" (the first jail and police station located at Clematis St. and Poinsettia, now Dixie Hwy.) and passed the motion to incorporate the Town of West Palm Beach in what was then Dade County (now Miami-Dade County). This made West Palm Beach the first incorporated municipality in Dade County and in South Florida. The town council quickly addressed the building codes and the tents and shanties were replaced by brick, brick veneer, and stone buildings. The city grew steadily during the 1890s and the first two decades of the 20th century, most residents were engaged in the tourist industry and related services or winter vegetable market and tropical fruit trade. In 1909, Palm Beach County was formed by the Florida State Legislature and West Palm Beach became the county seat. In 1916, a new neo-classical courthouse was opened, which has been painstakingly restored back to its original condition, and is now used as the local history museum.
The city grew rapidly in the 1920s as part of the Florida land boom. The population of West Palm Beach quadrupled from 1920 to 1927, and all kinds of businesses and public services grew along with it. Many of the city's landmark structures and preserved neighborhoods were constructed during this period. Originally, Flagler intended for his Florida East Coast Railway to have its terminus in West Palm, but after the area experienced a deep freeze, he chose to extend the railroad to Miami instead.
The land boom was already faltering when city was devastated by the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane. The Depression years of the 1930s were a quiet time for the area, which saw slight population growth and property values lower than during the 1920s. The city only recovered with the onset of World War II, which saw the construction of Palm Beach Air Force Base, which brought thousands of military personnel to the city. The base was vital to the allied war effort, as it provided an excellent training facility and had unparalleled access to North Africa for a North American city. Also during World War II, German U-Boats sank dozens of merchant ships and oil tankers just off the coast of West Palm Beach. Nearby Palm Beach was under black out conditions to minimize night visibility to German U-boats.
The 1950s saw another boom in population, partly due to the return of many soldiers and airmen who had served in the vicinity during the war. Also, the advent of air conditioning encouraged growth, as year-round living in a tropical climate became more acceptable to northerners. West Palm Beach became the one of the nation's fastest growing metropolitan areas during the 1950s; the city's borders spread west of Military Trail and south to Lake Clarke Shores. However, many of the city's residents still lived within a narrow six-block wide strip from the south to north end. The neighborhoods were strictly segregated between White and African-American populations, a legacy that the city still struggles with today. The primary shopping district remained downtown, centered around Clematis Street.
In the 1960s, Palm Beach County's first enclosed shopping mall, the Palm Beach Mall, and an indoor arena were completed. These projects led to a brief revival for the city, but in the 1970s and 1980s crime continued to be a serious issue and suburban sprawl continued to drain resources and business away from the old downtown area. By the early 1990s there were very high vacancy rates downtown, and serious levels of urban blight.
Since the 1990s, developments such as CityPlace and the preservation and renovation of 1920s architecture in the nightlife hub of Clematis Street have seen a downtown resurgence in the entertainment and shopping district. The city has also placed emphasis on neighborhood development and revitalization, in historic districts such as Northwood, Flamingo Park, and El Cid. Some neighborhoods still struggle with blight and crime, as well as lowered property values caused by the Great Recession, which hit the region particularly hard. Since the recovery, multiple new developments have been completed. The Palm Beach Mall, located at the Interstate 95/Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard interchange became abandoned as downtown revitalized - the very mall that initiated the original abandonment of the downtown. The mall was then redeveloped into the Palm Beach Fashion Outlets in February 2014. A station for All Aboard Florida, a high-speed passenger rail service serving Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, and Orlando, is under construction as of July 2015.
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I love them, they last at least 2 weeks in a vase. Beauties.
Alstroemeria, the genus named after the Swedish baron Alströmer who brought them back from a trip to South America in 1753.
Also called the Peruvian Lily or Inca Lily, is a South American genus of about 50 species of flowering plants.
Almost all of the species are restricted to one of two distinct centers of diversity, one in central Chile, the other in eastern Brazil.
Species of Alstroemeria from the Atacama Desert of Chile are winter-growing plants while those of Brazil are summer-growing.
The flower, which resembles a miniature lily, is very popular for bouquets and flower arrangements in the commercial cut flower trade.
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Eigentlich erwartete ich eine Kastenzehner am IC 183 nach Zürich, dem an Sonntagen inzwischen ersten Gäubahn-IC nach Süden. Die etwas ungepflegte Bügelfalte 115 346 war ein guter Trost für den Ausfall der 101er.
We found this inquisitive stray puppy in a small village in central Nepal, the ticks on his eyes didn't seem to stop him from wanting to play!
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An old homestead in Carp (Ottawa), Ontario, Canada.
The farm at the end of this dead end road was established in 1851, so this may perhaps give us a clue as to the age of this homestead and farm.
As a historical note, The Great Famine, or the Great Hunger, was a period in Ireland between 1845 and 1849 of mass starvation, disease, and emigration. So before and after The Great Famine, numerous Irish folks thankfully were able to make their way and settle down in Canada.
This old homestead is located on Peter Robinson Road.
About Peter Robinson:
In 1823, Peter Robinson brought almost 500 settlers to the Ottawa area on two ships, the Hebe and the Stakesby. They sailed from County Cork. There are many thousands of descendants in the Ottawa area today.
These early settlers were mostly from the poorest part of Ireland - the southwest - mainly from County Cork and County Tipperary.
They were brought to Upper Canada, in part, to help reduce the numbers of poor Irish Catholic tenants on several large Irish estates - Lord Doneraile's property for example. Sending these people to Canada was expected to reduce the average level of poverty in Ireland and at the same time give a "leg-up" to selected emigrants, all of whom had good character references and were expected to become self-sufficient in Canada.
After the end of the Napoleonic Wars (1815) the British government was amenable to government-assisted emigration.
Flying with a helicopter in Brazil.
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Voando de helicóptero perto de Ilhabela - SP.
Picture of the Day at PowerShot User WebSite on February 2nd 2005.
Looks like a brown morph female? A flyover right above me so hard to see! Taken at Rye Harbour on Sunday
In 1992-93, Amtrak tested the Swedish-built X2000. The train was built by Kalmar Verkstad, and leased to Amtrak, who tested the train and then used it in revenue service for a few months in early 1993. From May to July 1993, the train was taken on a national tour and displayed around the Amtrak system. Here, the high-speed train negotiates the Soo Line (former Milwaukee Road) trackage past Cut Off Tower in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on June 28, 1993. The train will clear the interlocking and then back to Milwaukee’s downtown Amtrak station. It was a very wet year (remember the flooding?) and this with the combination of leaking grain cars makes Cut Off look a bit more green than usual!
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On the beach just as it was starting to go dark, Presthaven sands Wales in June it was brilliant weather all week
Sunset in the Crete Senesi area, Asciano, Siena, Tuscany, Italy.
Tramonto dalle ombre lunghe nelle Crete Senesi
In 1862, the Countess of Ripon commissioned Sir George Gilbert Scott to build this church in memory of the first Earl, her husband, on their estate at Nocton, near Lincoln. This was completed in 1863 in an elaborate Early English style in Ancaster stone, with plate tracery and a 130 foot steeple. The builder was Mr W Hudleston. Scott also designed a monument to the Earl in 1859, the effigy by Noble in 1862, executed by Farmer, to go in the completed church.
In the village, Scott designed terraces of partly three storey stone houses (for example, 18-21 Main Road) in an asymmetrical style, a lodge to Nocton Hall, and a Gothic style school. Her son, the new Marquis of Ripon, who became Lord President of the Council during Gladstone’s first administration (1868–73), would have further dealings with Scott.
Pevsner, N., Harris, J. and Antram, N., Lincolnshire, Buildings of England (Penguin Books, London, 1989), pp. 577-8.
Sophie is my new best cat friend at the barn. Suddenly, she has decided to get in on the petting and attention action that Puzzle's been having. Sophie seems fascinated with Penny, too, though not quite sure about being touched by a big horse nose. BTW, Sophie was the snowmobile rider.
In bird in flight photography, we should focus on birds’ eyes and heads, and them being in good focus and sharp. The other parts of the bird need to be sharp too, but if the eyes and heads aren’t sharp, we should delete the picture mostly. Zoom in 100% in on the pictures and see if they are sharp in the eyes and head. I didn’t change the background because I like the way the picture was taken. Have a great day!
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I was originally enrolled into the GETTY IMAGES collection as a contributor on April 9th 2012, and when links with FLICKR were terminated in March 2014, I was retained and fortunate enough to be signed up via a second contract, both of which have proved to be successful with sales of my photographs all over the world now handled exclusively by them.
On November 12th 2015 GETTY IMAGES unveiled plans for a new stills upload platform called ESP (Enterprise Submission Platform), to replace the existing 'Moment portal', and on November 13th I was invited to Beta test the new system prior to it being officially rolled out in December. ESP went live on Tuesday December 15th 2015 and has smoothed out the upload process considerably.
These days I take a far more leisurely approach to my photographic exploits, and having moved from professional Nikon equipment to consumer bodies and lenses, I travel light less constraints and more emphasis on the pure capture of the beauty that I see, more akin to my original persuits and goals some five decades previously when starting out. I would like to say a huge and heartfelt 'THANK YOU' to GETTY IMAGES, and the 22.893+ Million visitors to my FLICKR site.
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This photograph became my 3,019th frame to be selected for sale in the Getty Images collection and I am very grateful to them for this wonderful opportunity.
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**** This frame was chosen on August 7th 2018 to appear on FLICKR EXPLORE (Highest Ranking: #80. This is my 103rd photograph to be selected, which for me is both amazing and exciting, as I never view my images as worthy compared to some of the awesome photography out there. EXPLORE is Flickr's way of showcasing the most interesting photos within a given point in time -- usually over a 24 hour period.
Flickr receives about 6,000 uploads every minute -- That's about 8.6 million photos a day! From this huge group of images, the Flickr Interestingness algorithm chooses only 500 images to showcase for each 24-hour period. That's only one image in every 17,000!..... so I am really thrilled to have a frame picked and most grateful to every one of the 17.950 Million people who have visited, favourite and commented on this and all of my other photographs here on my FLICKR site. *****
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Fifty seven metres at 10:29am on Wednesday February 28th 2018 off Woolwich Road and Treetops Close in the grounds of Abbey Wood open space in Bexleyheath, Kent, England.
'The beast from the East', a Siberian cold front and weather phenomenon, has swept across the United Kingdom duringh the past few days, and last night was Kent's turn to brace herself for the deluge of snow.
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Nikon D7200 10mm 1/40s f/11.0 iso100 Exposure Compensation +1.3EV RAW (14 bit Lossless compressed) Image size 6000 x 4000). Colour space RGB. Handheld. AF-C focus 51 point with 3-D tracking. Manual exposure. Matrix metering. Auto white balance. Auto Active D-lighting. Nikon Distortion control on. Vignette control on.
Nikkor AF-S DX 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5G ED DX. Phot-R ultra slim 77mm UV filter. Nikon EN-EL battery. Hoodman H-EYEN22S soft rubber eyecup. Matin quick release neckstrap. My Memory 32GB Class 10 SDHC. Lowepro Flipside 400 AW camera bag. Nikon GP-1 GPS module.
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LATITUDE: N 51d 29m 9.90s
LONGITUDE: E 0d 8m 14.60s
ALTITUDE: 57.0m
RAW (TIFF) FILE: 69.10MB
PROCESSED (JPeg) FILE: 38.40MB
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We can shoot the maples on the tree.
We can shoot the maples on the ground.
We can shoot the maples in the water!
I believe water is always friend to photographers as it creates many possibilities of composition including reflection and long expsoure etc.
These are maples in the small creek at Queen Elizabeth Park taken this afternoon.
Happy weekend!
In the photo:
Outfit and hand fan: UwU Kawaii Store - Orientaru Outfit (New Release 50% OFF Fatpack and L$50 each color. Promotion valid only in SL19B event)
Strass eye accessory: MIURA - Beltegeuse Liner Pearls (Event Gift SL19B)
Hair: theMARS - Hair Hensley : L$180 (Discounted item at SL19B event)
Tattoo: - Watercolor - SL19B BOM Tattoo (SL19B Event Gift)
Bracelets and necklace: by Bogostick( Leslie)
Bag: Momoko
Sun glasses: Barbie
Dress and head band: by me
An entry for the group 52 in 2015 challenge, #16 Magical.
An entry for the challenge group 115 in 2015, #13 Superstition.
As it so often happens in the late evening, as the sky clears after a period of rain and showers, there is always the promise of an interesting sunset. With this in mind, I took my camera (and Kizzy for moral support) and went for a walk up our favourite fen road,hoping that disappointment would not be all that I got.
It was in fact quite an interesting walk, and we had everything from bright sunshine, sharp showers and even a beautiful rainbow. This shot (looking over cornfields) of the rainbow, with a flock of Greylag geese flying off to their roosting grounds (after a feed up on a nearby field of peas), was taken about 90 minutes before sunset.
I have submitted it for both groups an the basis that seeing a brilliant rainbow is a magical experience, and also because of the superstition of being able find a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
With deadlines coming up,
the overwhelming numbing sensation
is oddly alarming
If only time could cease to be.
I need 6 photos to put in my portfolio in which relate to a theme. I was thinking maybe "conceptual" as a theme...
any ideas?
no graphics please! they'll be deleted. comments are more than welcome :) encouraged, even.
Explored # 43
This shot was taken in early January upstream from Low Force after an early start to catch the sunrise on the Durham Coast.
Really glad that my guide (thanks Justin) had previously made the walk up the Pennine Way and had found this great spot.
I'm currently without camera and my Mac is giving me grief so a strange place to be. Hoping for an upgrade on the camera soon and a fix on the computer as I have plenty to catch up on.
Thanks as ever for looking :)
After visiting the ruins of castle, we were walking a little in the village Asklipio :)
Asklipio is a small village on Rhodes island, located 64 km southeast of Rhodes capital. This lovely mountainous village is built amphitheatrically and stands out for its unique natural surroundings. The most important feature of Asklipio is the Medieval Castle which was built in 1479 by the Knights Hospitaller to protect the southern part of the island. In the Byzantine period, during the time of the Knights, the castle also offered the inhabitants of the surrounding villages protection against enemy attacks. It had rectangular bulwarks and two massive towers. Its only gate leads to the south-east corner tower. Two construction stages can be distinguished. Inside the castle there are preserved ruins of buildings and two tanks. From the walls of the castle there is a beautiful view on surroundings. At the center of the village stands also a lovely church of Virgin Mary built in 1060 A.D and right next to it is the old olive press whereas today it has become a Folklore Museum.
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Po obejrzeniu ruin zamku poszliśmy sobie jeszcze na spacer po Asklipio :)
Asklipio to niewielka miejscowość w Grecji, położona w południowo-wschodniej części wyspy Rodos. Jednym z ciekawszych zabytków są tu usytuowane na malowniczym wzgórzu ruiny średniowiecznego zamku. Warownia wzniesiona została w XV wieku, kiedy to wyspa znajdowała się pod rządami zakonu joannitów. Głównym zadaniem zamku miała być ochrona mieszkańców Asklipio przed najazdami z zewnątrz. Z tej niegdyś imponującej twierdzy do czasów obecnych zachowały się jedynie ruiny w postaci bramy wejściowej oraz murów wewnętrznych. Ponadto obejrzeć można tu także wybudowane przez Włochów dwie wieże. Na terenie ruin uwagę przyciągają także dawne otwory po studniach. Jeden z nich stanowił niegdyś rzekomo wejście do podziemnego tunelu, gdzie mieszkańcy miasteczka skrywali się gdy wyspa najeżdżana była przez piratów. Z murów zamku rozpościera się przepiękna panorama okolicy. Odwiedzając Asklipio warto także zobaczyć gruntownie odrestaurowany XI wieczny kościół Zaśnięcia Najświętszej Marii Panny.