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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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"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
Lanzarote. Canary Islands.
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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.
An image of one of the newer tunnels built as a link from a new office complex through to the LT Underground Station at Kings Cross/St Pancras Underground Station.
I'm glad I found it in the end (thanks for the heads up Aaron!!!), I really love the way the lights move along the tunnel, creating a different aspect, this adds to the reflected light.
"Interstellar Overdrive" is a psychedelic instrumental composition written by Pink Floyd in 1966, which appears on their 1967 debut album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn :
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_Overdrive
f4/1/50th Second/iso100/Nikon D5100/Sigma 10-20mm lens @ 12mm
NASA’s Psyche observed interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS over the course of eight hours on Sept. 8 and 9, when the comet was about 33 million miles (53 million kilometers) from the spacecraft. Captured by the mission’s multispectral imager, these observations help astronomers refine the trajectory of 3I/ATLAS.
Psyche’s multispectral imager instrument comprises a pair of identical cameras equipped with filters and telescopic lenses to photograph the metal-rich asteroid Psyche’s surface in different wavelengths of light. While comet 3I/ATLAS was distant from the spacecraft during these observations, the imager’s sensitivity to the comet’s reflected sunlight meant that the mission could precisely track the object. Observations by the mission have also provided more information about 3I/ATLAS’s faint coma, or cloud of gas and dust, surrounding its nucleus — the central frozen core of ice and rock.
As shown in this annotated composite image, NASA’s Psyche mission acquired these four observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS over the course of eight hours on Sept. 8 and 9, 2025, when the comet was about 33 million miles (53 million kilometers) from the spacecraft.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
#SolarSystemandBeyond #NASAJPL #NASAMarshall #jpl #psyche #asteroid #Psyche
On March 18, NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) arrived at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, for thermal vacuum testing at the X-ray and Cryogenic Facility, which simulates the harsh conditions of space.
The IMAP mission is a modern-day celestial cartographer that will map the solar system by studying the heliosphere, a giant bubble created by the Sun’s solar wind that surrounds our solar system and protects it from harmful interstellar radiation.
In this image, the IMAP mission was loaded into NASA Marshall’s XRCF thermal vacuum chamber where the spacecraft will undergo testing.
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Princeton/Ed Whitman
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Movie interstellar
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Starwars and LEGO blog:
It’s amazing how a simple household object can be warped into the colorful innards of a blackhole. I figure in a black hole even light would be torn apart. Hence all the different colors portrayed. Can’t wait to see the Lego Movie 2!
#lego #interstellar #blackhole #litragear #litrapro #litratorch #thelegomovie2 #bennysspacesquad #space #colorful
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a modern homage to the classic space 6870 space probe launcher. modified from 60431 space explorer rover and 60430 interstellar spaceship
I am very happy to present the second image in which these interstellar shells can be seen at all, and at the same time, it is the first photo to show the shells so clearly thanks to the long exposure time.
Thanks to several clear nights in the fall, I was able to collect nearly 39.5 hours of narrowband data with the RASA at f/2, along with an additional hour of RGB for the stars. The processing was certainly challenging, but I managed to bring out many details in the OIII structures and the surrounding H-alpha clouds.
A few details about the objects in the image:
The bluish filaments in the center are listed in Simbad as “interstellar shells” with the designation GSH 122+02-77. These are not direct supernova remnants but rather part of the interstellar medium (ISM)—low-density material (mostly gas) that exists between stars. Stellar winds and nearby supernovae can interact with this material, forming irregular shells. The neighboring Wolf-Rayet star HD 4004 (WR1) could possibly be responsible, although there are no definitive research results on this yet.
In the upper left, you can see Sh2-181 with a pronounced OIII shell, while Sh2-175, a small emission nebula, is located on the right.
Celestron RASA 8 400mm f/2
Celestron Motorfocus
EQ6-R Pro
Camera 1 (OSC): ZWO ASI 2600 MC Pro (Gain 100, Offset 18, -10°)
RGB (Stars): 65 × 60″ (1h 5′)
Camera 2 (Mono): TS 2600 MP (Gain 100, Offset 200, -10°)
Baader H-alpha Highspeed Ultra-Narrowband 3.5nm Filter): 700 × 120″ (23h 20‘)
Baader OIII Highspeed Ultra-Narrowband 4nm Filter): 483 × 120″ (16h 6‘)
Total: 40h 31‘
Bortle 5 (19.50 SQM)
N.I.N.A., Guiding: ASI 120MM & PHD2
Astropixelprocessor, Photoshop, Pixinsight
A visually striking collection of interstellar gas and dust is the focus of this week's Hubble Picture of the Week. Named RCW 7, the nebula is located just over 5300 light-years from Earth in the constellation Puppis.
Nebulae are areas of space that are rich in the raw material needed to form new stars. Under the influence of gravity, parts of these molecular clouds collapse until they coalesce into protostars, surrounded by spinning discs of leftover gas and dust. In the case of RCW 7, the protostars forming here are particularly massive, giving off strongly ionising radiation and fierce stellar winds that have transformed it into what is known as a H II region.
H II regions are filled with hydrogen ions — where H I refers to a normal hydrogen atom, H II is hydrogen that has lost its electron. The ultraviolet radiation from the massive protostars excites the hydrogen, causing it to emit light and giving this nebula its soft pinkish glow. Here Hubble is studying a particular massive protostellar binary named IRAS 07299-1651, still in its glowing cocoon of gas in the curling clouds towards the top of the nebula. To expose this star and its siblings, this image was captured using the Wide Field Camera 3 in near-infrared light. The massive protostars here are brightest in ultraviolet light, but they emit plenty of infrared light which can pass through much of the gas and dust around them and be seen by Hubble. Many of the other, larger-looking stars in this image are not part of the nebula, but sit between it and our Solar System.
The creation of an H II region marks the beginning of the end for a molecular cloud. Over only a few million years, the radiation and winds from the massive stars gradually disperse the gas — even more so as the most massive stars come to the end of their lives in supernova explosions. Only a fraction of the gas will be incorporated into new stars in this nebula, with the rest being spread throughout the galaxy to eventually form new molecular clouds.
[Image Description: Clouds of gas and dust with many stars. The clouds form a flat blue background towards the bottom, and become more thick and smoky towards the top. They are lit on one side by stars in the nebula. A thick arc of gas and dust reaches around from the top, where it is brightly lit by many stars in and around it, to the bottom where it is dark and obscuring. Other large stars lie between the clouds and the viewer.]
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Tan (Chalmers University & University of Virginia), R. Fedriani (Institute for Astrophysics of Andalusia)
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Although I have yet to watch interstellar, knowing that it is shot on film is enough to get me exited. The cinematography looks absolutely amazing. This satellite dish and the trees reminded me of the films feel, and so I tried to capture it as tonally matched as I could.
Thanks again to the FPP for making great film available at the most affordable price around. This is from my first roll of Kodak Portra 800 I ordered from them.
Interstellar freighter with 2 fighter escorts. 195 studs in length. Each 'donut' is 62 studs in diameter.