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"Everybody good? Plenty of slaves for my robot colony?"
This is my recreation of the slightly sarcastic U.S. Marine Corps tactical robot from the movie Interstellar. This is my first build for the Christopher Nolan Collaborative display for Brickworld Chicago.
Yes, that's all metallic silver tiles, no I don't regret wasting my money 😁
Late night shoot at Hound tor with a capture of the Milky way. Ran into a great group the Bickington camera club who supplied us with BBQ food and tea while we shot with them.
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Story & technique:
A composition between me and my soulmate. We both love photography and we both love astronomy. I decided to compose my sky with her foreground including glorious wind turbine, because I just fell in love with the photo she took and we wanted to do some project together.
The sky is stack of 20 tracked photos, taken from Bortle 4 area. 20x30" f/2.8 ISO 6400 at 70 mm using my stock Canon EOS 6D Mark II and Canon EF 24-70 mm f/2.8 | Skywatcher Star Adventurer. Foreground is from Nikon D90
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Sky location: Taken from Butořanka, Beskydy, Czech Repubublic from ~700 meters above sea level
Wind turbine location: Petrovice, Usti nad Labem region, Czech Republic
Designed and folded October 2017 from 18 square sheets of European kraft paper.
I originally drew a sketch for this design back in 2013, and after digging it up earlier this week, I finally decided to develop the units. The neatest part of this design is the fact that it is a fractal, so the pattern can theoretically be repeated forever!
I folded 3 iterations for this particular model before the paper became too small to work with. The iterations are folded separately and can easily be assembled to one another without adhesives. The units are actually quite simple too, so I'll probably diagram this one if there is enough interest!
Overall, I'm really happy with how this one turned out! Please let me know what you think! :)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDVtMYqUAyw
“Love isn’t something that we invented. It’s observable. Powerful. It has to mean something. Maybe it means something more, something we can’t yet understand. Maybe it’s some evidence, some artifact of a higher dimension that we can’t consciously perceive.
Love is the one thing that we’re capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space.”
by Brand - Interstellar
More and more as time goes, I feel as though I am developing a style specific to me; a style that combines conceptual ideas, photo manipulation, vivid colors, and storytelling. My inspirations come from all around the Instagram and Flickr communities, books, movies, life events, and more. I couldn't be happier about this, and about the community I'm a part of. Thank you all for being a constant reminder to improve my abilities.
My entry to the Interstellar Outpost Contest.
Knor Industries, well known for their military and civilian vehicles, are now offering an Outpost Bundle that includes:
the Knor RW starfighter, which with its rotating wings can land or take off on a dime; the Knor TX tanker truck, famous for its off road capabilities; the Knor SI comm station, equipped with the latest in communication technology; and the Knor RW landing pad that doubles as a storage area for the outpost. Take advantage of this great Bundle deal while you can!
The starfighter's wings rotate with a twist of the knob on top, to switch between flight and hover/landing mode; it also has a functional landing gear. The tanker truck has working steering (also operated by the knob on top) and 'suspension'. The comm station has a full interior and the landing pad doubles as a storage area.
See lots more pics here: brickbuilt.org/Outpost.php
Built for RogueBricks’ “A Tribute to Christopher Nolan” contest.
While building this I might got really inspired by the beautiful soundtrack from Interstellar. So, I noticed some similarities between interstellar journeys and building MOCs. I mean with both you only have a vague plan, you don’t even know exactly what will come from it. The countdown just runs 3 – 2 – 1 – 0! You put the first bricks together and your journey into the infinite depths of creativity begins. Sometimes you might reach a blockade, so you go into your “Hypersleep Pod” and leave the project alone for the time being. But you should always set a wake-up date, because your work has never been idle and will always lead to a good ending, even though the journey, your building project, sometimes seems hopeless.
So don’t give up!
A wide field view of the Lagoon Nebula (M8, Messier 8 or NGC 6523), a giant interstellar cloud in the constellation Sagittarius. The Lagoon Nebula is estimated to be between 4000 - 6000 light-years from Earth in the Milky Way Galaxy, and is classified as an emission nebula.
About Emission nebulae:
Emission nebulae are glowing clouds of interstellar gas which have been excited by some nearby energy source, usually a very hot star. The red light seen in this picture is glowing hydrogen captured in the Hydrogen-Alpha (Hα) Infrared wavelength of light at 656nm.
About this image:
A few short 2 minute ISO 3200 exposures, imaged in the rural dark skies of the Waterberg, Limpopo Province, South Africa.
About the Star Colors:
You will notice that star colors differ from red, orange and yellow, to blue. This is an indication of the temperature of the star's Nuclear Fusion process. This is determined by the size and mass of the star, and the stage of its life cycle. In short, the blue stars are hotter, and the red ones are cooler.
Gear:
GSO 6" f/4 Imaging Newtonian Reflector Telescope.
Baader Mark-III MPCC Coma Corrector.
Astronomik CLS Light Pollution Filter.
Orion StarShoot Autoguider.
Celestron AVX Mount.
QHYCCD PoleMaster.
Celestron StarSense.
Canon 60Da DSLR.
Tech:
Guiding in Open PHD 2.6.1.
Image acquisition in Sequence Generator Pro.
Lights/Subs: 15 x 120 sec. ISO 3200 CFA FIT Files.
Calibration Frames:
30 x Bias
30 x Darks
Pre-Processing and Linear workflow in PixInsight,
and finished in Photoshop.
Astrometry Info:
nova.astrometry.net/user_images/1163427#annotated
RA, Dec center: 271.075576212, -24.3734034782 degrees
Orientation: 1.18536473805 deg E of N
Pixel scale: 5.47440202368 arcsec/pixel
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Illustration by Christoffer Boman / Chrieon
My LEGO model of the Endurance from Interstellar is up for sale on Creations for Charity. You can buy the complete model and the money will be used to buy LEGO sets for underprivileged children. It consists of the full Endurance at 1:500, complete with display stand and custom-printed plaque, and a Ranger and Lander each at 1:166. The model also comes with printed instruction booklets for the full building experience.
Slightly altered colour grading in the tower. Matches the overall tone better. Still just a Photoshop exercise gone slightly wild.
"We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars, Now we just look down and worry about our place in the dirt."
Coopers Dodge RAM 3500 pickup truck from the film Interstellar, ready to go chasing Indian Air Force Drones
Interstellar clouds near Rho Ophiuchi (close to IC 4603).
About this image:
A wide field view of a small section of the beautiful interstellar clouds of dust, gas and plasma around Rho Ophiuchi (close to IC 4603).
About the Interstellar cloud colors:
Fine dust illuminated from the front by starlight produces blue reflection nebulae. The atoms of gaseous clouds that are excited by ultraviolet starlight produce reddish emission nebulae. Back-lit dust clouds block light and appear dark. Antares (a red super-giant star, and one of the brighter stars in the night sky), lights up the yellow-red dust clouds. Rho Ophiuchi lies at the center of the blue nebula. Interstellar clouds are even more colorful than we can see in visible light, emitting light across a large portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
About the Star Colors:
You will notice that star colors differ from red, orange and yellow, to blue. This is an indication of the temperature of the star's Nuclear Fusion process. This is determined by the size and mass of the star, and the stage of its life cycle. In short, the blue stars are hotter, and the red ones are cooler.
Gear:
GSO 6" f/4 Imaging Newtonian Reflector Telescope.
Baader Mark-III MPCC Coma Corrector.
Astronomik CLS Light Pollution Filter.
Orion StarShoot Autoguider.
Aurora Flatfield Panel.
Celestron AVX Mount.
Celestron StarSense.
Canon 60Da DSLR.
Tech:
Guiding in Open PHD 2.6.1.
Image acquisition in Sequence Generator Pro.
Lights/Subs: 24 x 180 sec. ISO 6400 CFA FIT Files.
Calibration Frames:
50 x Bias
30 x Darks
20 x Flats
Pre-Processing and Linear workflow in PixInsight,
and finished in Photoshop.
Astrometry Info:
nova.astrometry.net/user_images/1187386#annotated
RA, Dec center: 246.597164157, -24.4829072417 degrees
Orientation: 1.25352006052 deg E of N
Pixel scale: 5.89501590632 arcsec/pixel
Basic FITS Header Data:
RA = 246.394201383277 / Object Right Ascension in degrees
DEC = -24.376321106111 / Object Declination in degrees
CRVAL1 = 246.394201383277 / RA at image center in degrees
CRVAL2 = -24.376321106111 / DEC at image center in degrees
OBJCTRA = '16 25 34.608' / Object Right Ascension in hms
OBJCTDEC = '-24 22 34.756' / Object Declination in degrees
AIRMASS = 1.25760852461339 / Average airmass
OBJCTALT= 53.0083763980286 / Altitude of the object
CENTALT = 53.0083763980286 / Altitude of the object
DATE-LOC= '2016-07-03T19:44:33' / Local observation date
DATE-OBS= '2016-07-03T17:44:33' / UTC observation date
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The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has collected its first chemical fingerprint of an interstellar object during a recent revisit to Comet 3I/ATLAS.
This image from the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) shows the interstellar comet in three different light wavelengths and illustrates where different gases were located at the time the comet was viewed.
Water vapour spreads far beyond the nucleus because much of it is released from icy grains in the surrounding coma, while carbon dioxide and methane are more concentrated near the comet’s nucleus.
Webb made the observations on two separate dates as the comet travelled back out of our Solar System after whipping around the Sun. The first observation occurred 15 to 16 December, when the comet was about 330 million km from the Sun. This was followed by a second observation on 17 December, when the comet was about 380 million km from the Sun.
For the first time on an interstellar visitor, Webb directly detected methane gas. Methane was observed only now in Comet 3I/ATLAS, suggesting that it was buried below the comet’s surface. In this way it remained protected from evaporating until heat from the comet’s close pass to the Sun reached deeper parts of the icy outer shell. The amount of methane relative to water found is surprisingly high, and at a level that is rare in our Solar System.
Webb’s observations also confirmed that Comet 3I/ATLAS remains unusually rich in carbon dioxide, releasing far more carbon dioxide relative to water when compared to typical Solar System comets.
Both these findings point to a very different formation environment and chemistry than the vast majority of comets that formed within our Solar System.
Webb observed Comet 3I/ATLAS using MIRI’s Medium Resolution Spectrometer, a powerful instrument designed to break infrared light into its component wavelengths. This spectrometer provides a spectrum at every point in a small patch of sky, allowing the team to measure what gases are present and visualise their distribution around the comet’s nucleus.
[Image description: The composite image shows three side-by-side maps of different chemical species. The maps are mostly red with a bright orange centre, resembling pixelated clouds glowing on a black background. From left to right they are labelled “water”, “carbon dioxide” and “methane”.]
The results were published recently in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
See also NASA 3I/ATLAS blog.
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, M. Belyakov (Caltech), I. Wong (STScI), Image Processing: A. Pagan (STScI); CC BY 4.0
What I like about being out on a perfect Sonic Clear night with cool temps and no moon is the composition options that become available in otherwise "boring" areas of the parkway. Adding to the perfection was almost total calm making long exposures in leafy areas possible. I drove several miles looking for the perfect area of road to line up with the Milky Way, and it was extremely dark and remote here coming down Apple Orchard Mountain north of the Peaks of Otter. There wasn't another soul out for quite some time so I was able to shoot anywhere in the road without interference.
I don't care much for photographer generated light painting as it almost always tends to look slightly to extremely induced and misplaced. No matter how dark all you basically need is time and the right camera settings, with the ability to layer mask in Photoshop. Here I did over 4 minutes for the road, and probably should have done a little longer. Then 25 seconds for the sky to avoid streaking and put the 2 together.
I think the night sky is to me one of the strongest testimony to God's existence. Here I am driving down a little country byway and looking off into millions of light years of distance, places that we can only imagine and will never reach in our human form. Many of these light beams originated from stars billions of years burned out but still reaching us, and many more from stars born billions of years ago that have yet to make it. There is a lot more out there than we can even imagine. It certainly did not simply make itself at some point.
Lanzarote. Canary Islands.
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