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B-KPO, Boeing 777-367ER of Cathay Pacific touching down on 27R at London Heathrow Airport, on the 1st of June 2013.
This is the Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex, which lies near the summer Milky Way on the border between the constellations of Scorpius and Ophiuchus. This area is loaded with gas and dust, and is home to many deep sky objects. It is also one of the more colorful nebulae in the sky.
Image Info
Imaged from the KPO field in Saint Cloud, Florida.
Camera : ZWO ASI1600MM Pro, Gain set to 200
Lens: Canon 100-400 f/5.6L lens, set to 135mm
Mount: iOptron SmartEQ Pro
Red: 12 subframes of 300s = 60 min integration
Green: 8 subframes of 300s = 40 min integration
Blue: 10 subframes of 300s = 50 min integration
Luminance: 11 subframes of 300s = 55 min integration
Hydrogen Alpha: 2 subframes of 300s = 10 min integration
Total integration time: 215 min = 3.6 hours.
Captured via ASIAir Pro automation
Optical tracking via ASIAir automation, currently using ST4 mount control via the ASI120MM-S guide camera
Separate channels stacked and HaLRGB integrated in Astro Pixel Processor, and processing for light pollution sky fog removal
Image cropped, stretched, and noise processed in Nebulosity.
Final processing in Aperture
- Fleet: 5279
- Reg: NK07 KPO
- Operator: Go North East
- Route: 12A
- Depot: Riverside
- Livery: Go North East
- Type: Mercedes Citaro 0530N
- Bodywork: Mercedes Citaro
- Livery New In: Red Arrows
- New to/ Year: Go North East / 2007
- Location: Blaydon Bus Station
1988 Ford Escort XR3i cabriolet.
A Stratos Silver over Mercury Grey special edition.
10 previous keepers.
Last SORN declaration expired in March 2014.
Caught on a rare clear summer night in Central Florida, here is the Lagoon Nebula / Messier 8 (bottom) and the Trifid Nebula / Messier 20 (top). Both M8 and M20 are star-forming regions, with M8 showing off all its Bok globules (the small dark pockets of dust and gas), which are cocoons for infant stars, just forming.
Within the Lagoon nebula is the open cluster NGC 6530, just to the left of the brightest area of nebulosity. The Lagoon Nebula is estimated to be between 4,000–6,000 light-years away from the Earth. From our perspective, it spans 90′ by 40′, which translates to an actual dimension of 110 by 50 light years. Three full moons would fit within its confines in the sky,
The Trifid Nebula is a unique structure in that it is composed of emission, reflection and dark nebulae, all collected around an open star cluster. The emission nebula is the glowing reddish pink circle, the reflection nebula is the blue gas & dust seen just above the emission neb, and the dark nebula are the lanes of dark obscuring dust that appears to cut the emission nebula into 3 parts. The dark dust is actually positioned in front of the emission nebula. The Trifid lies about 4100 light years from Earth.
The nebulosity positioned between the Lagoon and the Trifid is Sharpless 2-28, a faint emission nebula – the region is loaded with gas and dust as it is located right near the core of our Milky Way galaxy.
This is an HaRGB image, which is true color, but using Hydrogen Alpha light as the main luminance channel. I was pleasantly surprised to get this good of an image since there is only 90 minutes of color data that was captured (30 minutes each: R,G,B). There was an hour of Hydrogen alpha light captured, and that was used as the Luminance channel.
Image Info
Imaged from the KPO field in Saint Cloud, Florida on 7/25/22-23.
Camera : ZWO ASI1600MM Pro, Gain set to 200
Lens: Canon 100-400 f/5.6L lens, set to 400mm
Mount: iOptron SmartEQ Pro
Red: 6 subframes of 300s = 30 min integration
Green: 6 subframes of 300s = 30 min integration
Blue: 6 subframes of 300s = 30 min integration
Luminance: 12 Ha subframes of 300s = 60 min integration
Total integration time: 150 min = 2.5 hours.
Captured via ASIAir Pro automation
Optical tracking via ASIAir automation, currently using ST4 mount control via the ASI120MM-S guide camera
Separate channels stacked and HaRGB integrated in Astro Pixel Processor
Image cropped, stretched, and noise processed in Nebulosity.
Final processing in Aperture
Rotala, Diamond Bus, ex Wessex Bus 30003 BX07KPO Plaxton Centro bodied Volvo B7RLE on loan to the Kidderminster from Tividale at the time. Originally new to Wessex Connect as 7003 for Bristol Portway Park & Ride services it later lost its two tone Green P&R livery in favour of Wessex Bus standard Red and Silver livery before transferring to Tividale. It is seen now fully repainted in full Diamond branding in Kidderminster bus station between duties on the soon to withdrawn 4A Franche circular daytime journeys due to another round of Worcestershire CC funding cuts.
I reckon I had not been out to the village of Mellor, between Marple and New Mills, for about 30 years - certainly not since Glossopdale had ceased running buses over there. Given what was about to happen, I decided to have a rapid visit to the area, and get some pictures at the outer terminus.
First, it was a stop at the Devonshire Arms in Mellor, the traditional end of the line for services which turned round here. I managed to guess the correct sunlight times as well from my A-Z road map, and find a gap in the (literally) ever-growing problem of overhanging trees. 1965 might well have been the smartest bus in the fleet, free from lower panel damage, and piloted by a driver who really loved this route and his passengers, and didn't want to do anything else. Sadly, next week, he will be doing something else ....
Devonshire Arms, Mellor, 20/4/23
Go North East: 5279 (NK07 KPO) a Mercedes-Benz Citaro, painted in this all over red based livery with Blaydon Racers branding. This vehicle is captured here turning to enter Gateshead's Metrocentre Interchange operating a journey on Service 49 to Gateshead.
© Christopher Lowe.
Date: 4th May 2014.
Ref No. 0035678.
Go Goodwins of Eccles: 1965 (GUI 441; ex LJ09 KPO) an Alexander Dennis Enviro 200, painted in all over orange Little Gem branded livery and captured here on Hayfield Street in Sale operating on service 260 to Partington.
© Christopher Lowe.
Date: 14th April 2021.
Ref No. 0042302/CL.
The end of the line - Shiloh Road in Mellor. I don't think this place had ever previously been served by a bus, until Stagecoach proposed the extension as part of a bid for a TfGM tender for the 375 route. So it was a bit galling for them when Goodwins won the contract on renewal, but it is there for the taking now ....
It does involve a reversing manoeuvre off a fairly narrow road into this piece of empty space, which has only fields behind it, so the bus doesn't cause any obstruction during its scheduled 3-minute layover. There just isn't a lot of room to get a shot of it from across the road, as one is trampling on some fairly uneven off-road surfaces and long grass to get to this point.
Shiloh Road, Mellor, 20/4/23
1992 Volvo 440 Si auto.
Supplied by Sheet Service Station of Petersfield (Volvo).
Last taxed in January 2015 and last MoT test expired in June 2015.
Mercedes Citaro is seen here at North East Bus & Coach Show 2017 at Spillars Wharf in Newcastle on Shuttle Service to Gateshead Interchange.
S180KPO Western Power Networks Volvo FL6 Saxon Savbec ex Hampshire Fire and Rescue re painted white and fitted with orange lights spotted parked up at a substation in Leicestershire Finally got a full front and side shot of this
Vehicle: Ford Transit.
Year of manufacture: 1987.
Date of first registration in the UK: 3rd December 1987.
Place of registration: Portsmouth.
Date of last MOT: 5th June 2016.
Mileage at last MOT: 59,589.
Date of last V5 issued: 2nd October 2013.
Date taken: 28th May 2022.
Album: Carspotting 2022 .
Returning through Hazel Grove and Poynton, I caught up with the other 391/392 duty, and yet again it was an Arriva Enviro. I presume the other Metrocity was parked up for the driver's meal break, so maybe that makes this a slightly less common sight - and there are daffodils to look at as well !
Woodford Road, Poynton, 4/4/23