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Île de Maguelone (Hérault), vieilles vignes arrachées, provisoirement remplacées par des fleurs sauvages (Diplotaxis fausse roquette). A l'arrière, la Méditerranée.
Maguelone (Magalona en occitan) est un lieu-dit appartenant à la commune de Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone. C'est une ancienne île volcanique connectée actuellement au continent par des cordons littoraux. Le site est notamment occupé par la cathédrale Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul ainsi que par un centre d'aide par le travail.
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maguelone_
oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magalona
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplotaxis_fausse_roquette
Island of Maguelone (Hérault), old vines uprooted, temporarily replaced by wild flowers (White rocket, Diplotaxis erucoides). In the background, the Mediterranean sea.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplotaxis_erucoides
Maguelone (Magalona in Occitan) is a locality belonging to the municipality of Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone. It is an ancient volcanic island currently connected to the mainland by coastal strips. The site is occupied by the Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul Cathedral as well as a centre to help people with disabilities integrate into the workforce.
IC 1396 in a new light!
moonrocksastro.com/index.php/2015/11/01/cepheus/
It is named after Cepheus, King of Aethiopia in Greek mythology. It was one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy, and remains one of the 88 modern constellations. Its brightest star is Alpha Cephei with an apparent magnitude of 3.5. Delta Cephei is the prototype of an important class of star known as a Cepheid variable. RW Cephei, an orange hypergiant, together with the red supergiants Mu Cephei, VV Cephei and V354 Cephei are among the largest stars known. In addition, Cepheus also has the hyperluminous quasar S5 0014+81, hosting an ultramassive black hole in its core at 40 billion solar masses, about 10,000 times more massive than the central black hole of the Milky Way, making it the most massive black hole known in the universe.
This two panel mosaic has an Integration of 45.0 hours
Imaging telescopes or lenses: Vixen VSD
Imaging cameras: Starlight Express SXVR-H18
Mounts: Sky-Watcher NEQ6 Pro
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Vixen VSD
Guiding cameras: sx loadstar
Software: Sequence Generator Pro, PixInsight 1.8, Photoshop CS5, PHD, Main Sequence Software
Filters: H-alpha 3.5 Nm, Baader SII 8.5nm, Baader O III 8.5nm
Accessories: Starlight Xpress USB filter wheel
Resolution: 4542x3208
Dates: Oct. 20, 2015, Oct. 21, 2015, Oct. 22, 2015
Frames:
Ha 8.5nm: 30x1800"
O III 8.5nm: 40x1800"
SII 8.5nm: 20x1800"
Integration: 45.0 hours
Locations: Home observatory, Valencia, Spain
Comments are always welcome and favs most appreciated.
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I like anything that is like an obstruction, something that I have to act through is good. -- Peter Sarsgaard
For Macro Mondays "Numbers" theme. A mechanical integrator is a complex device that was used to calculate ship's stability before digital computers became practical. The complete device is similar to this image: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mechanical_integrator_CHM...
The lens used was an old manual Zuiko 80mm f/4 macro on a sliding extension tube and micro 4/3's adapter, in spite of what the exif info states. Four Olympus high res shots were stacked in Photoshop. I would of liked to gotten one more but ran of focus adjustment.
10 hours integration time. Bortle 3.5.
ZWO AM5 mount.
AstroTech EDP60 scope.
AsiAir Plus
2600 Duo (imaging and guiding camera)
Ambien T 20F
Moon waxing crescent 28%
Darks/Blats/Bias applied
Stacked in Astropixel Processor
Processing in Pixinsight
Crop and sig in PScc
Location: West Midlands, UK
Scope: Coronado SM60 II / BF10 / Teleview 2.5x Powermate
Camera: ASI 178MM
Mount: CEM60-EC
Integration: best 200 of 2000 frames with a sigle frame overlay of the plane
Acquisition: Sharpcap Pro
Processing: Autostakkert 3.1 / ImPPG / Photoshop
The photo was placed in magazine ( ABWAB )
and also This Photo was placed in Newpaper Al Qabas >>> www.alqabas.com.kw/Article.aspx?id=448127&date=16112008
February 2008
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This picture was filmed in the sea opposite the Council of the Nation
I am pleased to see constructive criticism on this work and thank you .. : )
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Lens FishEye Nikkor 10.5 - 2.8
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January 14 2008
Nikon .. always .. Super Nikon
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Remember always that all rights and publishing, distribution and printing reserved photographer ( Mishari Mohammed )
If you want to use one of my photos please authorization to me and I would be happy to give you my work and I am fully satisfied with satisfaction and Thank you for your kind cooperation .
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Blushing at this end from the joy of reading your latest epistle. Twas cool. Improving toward Perfection is a life time goal of many. Never achieved but trying, right? Some need so much help. If we each do our part, maybe Hades will be a little less full during that long eternal party without air conditioning.
Though at any party on this planet, I do not hang with every body. I stay in the corner, spy a few prior acquaintances or friends, and talk the night away. I am not too much on meeting and making great new friends from a large crowd. In fact, few parties do I attend. Who needs that or them? I am busy partying on Flickr.
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Scripture Needs to Be Read Spiritually, Says Preacher
Delivers Final Lenten Meditation for Pope and Curia
ROME, MARCH 14, 2008 (Zenit.org).- Scripture is not only inspired by God, but also "breathes forth God," that is, the Holy Spirit inhabits Scripture and animates it, says the preacher of the Pontifical Household.
Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa said this today in the Lenten meditation he delivered to Benedict XVI and the Roman Curia in the Redemptoris Mater Chapel of the Apostolic Palace.
The sermon was the last in a series of meditations the preacher gave this Lent.
The series, titled "The Word of God Is Living and Effective," reflects the theme of the next Synod of Bishops on the word of God, to be held in October.
Father Cantalamessa spoke about the two meanings implied by 2 Timothy 3:16 "all Scripture is inspired by God."
He explained that the more common meaning is the "passive" one, referring to the way that God directed the writers of the holy texts.
The second meaning, the preacher explained, is "active": Scripture, is not only "inspired by God" but also "spirates God." "After having dictated the Scripture, the Holy Spirit is in a way contained within it; he ceaselessly inhabits it and animates it with his divine breath."
Setting him free
Father Cantalamessa then asked, "How do we approach the Scriptures in a way that they truly 'free' the Spirit that they contain?"
He said that "in Scripture, the Spirit cannot be discovered if not by passing through the letter, that is, through the concrete human vesture that the word of God assumed in the different books and inspired authors. In them the divine meaning cannot be discovered, if not by beginning from the human meaning, the one intended by the human author, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Luke, Paul, etc. It is in this that we find the complete justification of the immense effort in study and research that surrounds the book of Scripture."
But, Father Cantalamessa affirmed, there is a "tendency to stop at the letter, considering the Bible an excellent book, the most excellent of human books, if you will, but only a human book. Unfortunately we run the risk of reducing Scripture to a single dimension."
The Pontifical Household preacher pointed to a sign of hope: "That the demand for a spiritual reading of Scripture and one guided by faith is now beginning to be felt by some eminent exegetes."
The Capuchin urged a furthering of this "spiritual reading."
He explained: "To speak of the 'spiritual' reading of the Bible is not to speak of an edifying, mystical, subjective, or worse still, imaginative, reading, in opposition to the scientific reading, which would be objective. On the contrary, it is the most objective reading that there is because it is based on the Spirit of God, not on the spirit of man.
"Spiritual reading is therefore something that is quite precise and objective; it is the reading that is done under the guidance of, or in the light of, the Holy Spirit that inspired Scripture. It is based on a historical event, namely, the redemptive act of Christ which, with his death and resurrection, accomplishes the plan of salvation and realizes all of the figures and the prophecies, it reveals all of the hidden mysteries and offers the true key for reading the Bible."
Toward all truth
Father Cantalamessa said that this "spiritual reading" of Scripture applies to both the Old and New Testaments.
"Reading the New Testament spiritually means reading it in the light of the Holy Spirit given to the Church at Pentecost to lead the Church to all truth, that is, to the complete understanding and actualization of the Gospel," he said.
The preacher affirmed that spiritual reading both integrates and surpassed scientific reading: "Scientific reading knows only one direction, which is that of history; it explains, in fact, that which comes after in light of that which comes before; it explains the New Testament in the light of the Old which precedes it, and it explains the Church in the light of the New Testament.
"Spiritual reading fully recognizes the validity of this direction of research, but it adds an inverse direction to it. This consists in explaining that which comes before in the light of that which comes after, prophecy in the light of its realization, the Old Testament in the light of the New and the New in the light of the tradition of the Church."
Father Cantalamessa contended, then, that "that which is necessary is not therefore a spiritual reading that would take the place of current scientific exegesis, with a mechanical return to the exegesis of the Fathers; it is rather a new spiritual reading corresponding to the enormous progress recorded by the study of 'letter.' It is a reading, in sum, that has the breath and faith of the Fathers and, at the same time, the consistency and seriousness of current biblical science.
The Pontifical Household preacher ended his reflection with a word of hope regarding a return to a spiritual reading like that of the Church fathers.
The Capuchin said "from the four winds the Spirit has begun unexpectedly to blow again" and we "witness the reappearance of the spiritual reading of the Bible and this too is a fruit -- one of the more exquisite -- of the Spirit."
"Participating in Bible and prayer groups, I am stupefied in hearing, at times, reflections on God's word that are analogous to those offered by Origen, Augustine or Gregory the Great in their time, even if it is in a more simple language," he said. "Let us conclude with a prayer that I once heard a woman pray after she was read the episode in which Elijah, ascending up to heaven, leaves Elisha two-thirds of his spirit.
"It is an example of spiritual reading in the sense I have just explained: 'Thank you, Jesus, that ascending to heaven, you do not only leave us two-thirds of your Spirit, but all of your Spirit! Thank you that you did not give your Spirit to just one disciple, but to all men!'"
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EXPLORE # 298, 381, 432 on 3-17-2008, after being on initial list on Sunday, March 16, 2008.
NGC 6910 is an open star cluster set amidst clouds of gas and dust near the bright star Sadr in the constellation Cygnus.
Subframes for this image were accumulated over 4 different nights, some under dark skies near Goldendale, WA and others from within Seattle city limits. RGB data for the stars was combined with narrowband data for the gas and dust, with Ha assigned to R. In an effort to maintain a "natural" appearance, only modest amounts of SII and OIII data were added to the G and B channels, respectively.
Telescope: Celestron EdgeHD 8" with 0.7x Reducer
Camera: QSI 683wsg
Mount: Astro-Physics Mach1 GTO
Integration: 30 min (6 x 5 min) each RGB, binned 1x1 | 300 min (30 x 10 min) Ha, binned 1x1 | 100 min (10 x 10 min) SII, binned 2x2 | 120 min (12 x 10 min) OIII, binned 2x2.
NGC 6820 is a small reflection nebula near the open cluster NGC 6823 in Vulpecula. The reflection nebula and cluster are embedded in a large faint emission nebula called SH2-86. The whole area of nebulosity is often referred to as NGC 6820. Open star cluster NGC 6823 is about 50 light-years across and lies about 6,000 light-years away. The center of the cluster formed about two million years ago and is dominated in brightness by a host of bright young blue stars.
Image captured over 8 nights; 2022-09-21, 24, 25, 26, 27 & 30, 2022-10-01, & 03
20 hours 50 minutes total integration
Ha subs: 28 * 1,200 sec = 9 hours 20 min
OIII subs: 12 * 1,200 sec = 4 hours
SII subs: 18 * 1,200 sec = 6 hours
Red subs: 15 * 120 sec = 30 min
Green subs: 15 * 120 sec = 30 min
Blue subs: 15 * 120 sec = 30 min
Imaging Equipment:
SharpStar 140PH Triplet 910mm focal length
Mesu 200 MKII mount,
ZWOASI2600MM Pro camera
SHO 3.0nm filters
RGB fliters
NGC 5128
28h total integration LRGBHa masters from a PlaneWave CDK17, provided by www.martinpughastrophotography.space/remote-imaging-and-t...
Bicoclor narrowband image (HOO) acquired with a QHY600 camera, along three nights (17.5 hours of integration), showing the intriguing NGC 6164, "under the wing" of one of the dragons.
Telescope: Orion EON 130mm ED Triplet APO Refractor
Mount: Losmandy GM811G
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI 2600MC Pro
Filter: Optolong L-Pro Filters
Site: Elk Grove, California, USA
Calibration Files: None
Guiding: ZWO ASI 174mm mini/Orion 60mm Guidescope/PHD2
No of Frames: 51
Sub Exposure Time: 180sec
Integration Time: 2h 33m
Bortle Zone: Class 6
Date Taken: Apr 19, 2022
This is a bi-color image (Ha and OIII) of the Witch's Broom Nebula a.k.a. Western Veil Nebula.
I wanted this to be an HSO image, but my laptop ran out of battery after only two SII frames. So I decided to make this a bicolor.
Equipment details:
- Mount: Astro-Physics Mach1 GTO
- Imaging scope: Explore Scientific 102mm Apochromatic Refractor
- Imaging camera: ZWO ASI1600MM-Cool
- Guide camera: QHY5III178M
- OAG: ZWO OAG
- Other: HoTech SCA Field Flattner
- Filter wheel: ZWO EFW
- Focuser: MoonLite MiniV2 motorized focuser
- Filters: Astrodon 5nm Ha, 3nm OIII filters
Actuisition details:
- Camera set to -17C at Unity Gain
- Lights:
-- Ha: 25 x 240s Bin: 1x1
-- OIII: 27 x 240s Bin: 1x1
- Darks: 40 x 240s Bin: 1x1
- Biases: 100x Bin: 1x1
- Flats: 25x per filter
Software:
- Acquisition: Sequence Generator Pro
- Mount Control: ASCOM, Stellarium, Stellarium Scope
- Guiding: PHD2
- Drift Alignment: PHD2 Drift Align
- Processing: PixInsight
Channel mapping:
- R: Ha
- G: 70% OIII + 30% Ha
- B: OIII
Total integration time (approx): 3.5 hours
While the broken clay pipe used to protect the shoreline along this section of Lake Ontario makes somewhat unsure footing to walk on I loved the contrast it created.
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Préparation du marché folklorique d'Echallens du 7 juillet 2016
Echallens, Switzerland
Explored July 13, 2016
Highest position : 204 on July 14, 2016
Stars Integration
Planet BŮ
Interplanetary Travel
Youtube: 4K | Plutonia - Interplanetary Travel (Tunisia 🇹🇳)
"4K" Road Trip in Tunisia - Visiting Tunisia "2019"
Camera: Canon EOS Kiss X7i
Photograph by Yusuf Alioglu
Location: Outer space (space)
IC 1396 wide field from the backyard (Las Vegas Bortle 9). This is 45 hours and 15 minutes of exposure, my new record!
This was fun, the framing was really tight but just right with the Meade 70mm APO.
My OIII data looked terrible so I really wish I grabbed that from the desert, but I don't have the will to work on this again so maybe in a couple of years.
Better quality image + to see the difference between 26 and 45 hours of total integration time: www.galactic-hunter.com/post/ic-1396-the-elephant-s-trunk...
Sakrisøy, Moskenesøya, Lofoten Islands, Norway
The famous yellow cabin at Sakrisøy in Norway’s Lofoten Islands is the epitome of the Scandinavian approach to architecture and design. Characterised by the tenets of simplicity, minimalism, functionality and integration with nature, this modern reworking of the classic fisherman’s rorbu has been positioned perfectly in line with the imposing Olstinden peak behind. The result is a sublime triangular synergy of architecture and nature – and a delightful composition for photographers.