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The Sogn fiord (also in Norwegian: Sognefjord or Sognefjorden) is the largest fjord in Norway and the second in the world after the Scoresby Sund fiord in Greenland. Located in Sogn og Fjordane, in Western Norway, its mouth is approximately 70 km north of Bergen, and it stretches 203 km inland to the city of Skjolden. The beauty of the fjord and the magnitude of its landscape have made it very popular among tourists, who feed a large part of the local economy. Part of the fjord is located in the Jotunheimen National Park.
*** The Autumn tree colours in Canada were more muted than in New Hampshire. However the sheer magnitude of the forests still made a wonderful spectacle . The National Park Jacques-Cartier was a great place to explore, the river ran through the middle of the Park. This was the only real cold day we had on the trip the temperature was just above freezing but no matter the sun shone brightly all day
The Jacques-Cartier River drains an area of 971 sq mi, starting in and flowing for nearly 99 miles through the Laurentian mountains in the geological region of Grenville (one of the youngest sections of the Canadian Shield, formed 955 million years ago), then flows through the sedimentary rocks of the St. Lawrence Lowlands to its mouth.
The area covered by the drainage basin is for the most part undeveloped or protected, especially its source. In fact, 77% of its length is protected by the Laurentides Wildlife Reserve and the Jacques-Cartier National Park where one finds a steep glaciated valley formed during the last glaciation.
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Hornindalsvatnet lake seen from Grodås village in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway.
Hornindalsvatnet is the deepest lake of Europe.
Loss it can break you in half.
The magnitude of LOSS can be life lasting and maddening.
Today would have been my sister Jen's 37th birthday.
A drunk driver took so much from her...and life was not fair to her after that. How she struggled with all of the destruction and devastation to her body, I can't begin to understand.
I have heard the phrase "in a better place now", That might be true for her. Selfishly I would prefer to have her here.
Knowing you are truly loved is a gift, very few times in my life have I felt that someone truly loved me. The day my sister died I lost one of those people.
I think of Jen when I see beautiful things, esp sunsets/sunrises.
In honor of my sister, I ask each and every one of you please never drink and drive.
SB
Messier 97 (top) and Messier 108 (bottom) in Ursa Major are two celestial objects that appear to be close to each other but in reality are separated by an immense distance in space.
M97, known as the Owl Nebula, is a planetary nebula located inside our own galaxy at about 2,500 light-years away and has a diameter of about 2 light years. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1781 and it was included in the famous catalogue of Charles Messier as entry 97. Two prominent dark spots inside the nebula give the appearance of an owl’s face.
A planetary nebula is formed by the expanding shell of gases blown off by a dying star at the last stages of its life. The expanding shell is heated by the radiation of the central star (a very faint 16th magnitude star in this case) and it glows mostly in green light of oxygen atoms. The nebula will completely disperse into space over the next several thousand years, while the central star will cool and fade away over the next several billion years.
The estimated age of the Owl Nebula is about 6,000 to 8,000 years.
Galaxy M108, the Surfboard Galaxy, is harder to see in a telescope than M97, because its light is spread out over a larger area. It happens to lie near the same line of sight as M97 but is located at about 45 million light-years away. M108 is an edge-on spiral galaxy, heavily obscured by dust. It was also discovered by Méchain.
Technical Info:
Telescope: Orion EON 80ED refractor, F = 500 mm, f/6.25
Camera: Canon EOS 600Da
Mount: Vixen Sphinx
Filter: none
Guiding: 80/400 Skywatcher refractor - SkyWatcher SynGuider
Light frames: 6 x 5 mins (total: 30 mins), ISO 1600, Custom WB, calibrated with darks.
Date: 26 April 2022
Location Bortle scale: 4
Software: DSS, Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom classic.
I had an epic road trip for work today. I only managed to stop a couple of times on the way home - this was taken near Oatlands, central Tasmania. The clouds were really doing some amazing things and needed to be photographed. I've photographed this tree before - it owns the hillside and keeps an eye out on the surrounding farmland.
In October 2013, a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck the province of Bohol, Philippines, causing the land to sink by around 1 metre. Combined with a hundred years’ worth of sea level rise, the earthquake had catastrophic consequences for the islands of Batasan, Pangapasan, Ubay and Bilangbilangan, which have experienced partial or complete flooding ever since.
More Info´s: furillen.org/2020/03/03/ubay-island/
Small planetary nebula Abell 12 at magnitude 12 at a distance of 7000 light years in the constellation Orion. It just happens to be in the same line of sight as the much brighter magnitude 4 star Mu Orionis at a much closer distance of 150 light years.
Canon EOS 60D Ha Modified with a Astronomik CLS-CCD Clip-Filter @ ISO 1600 Clip-Filter @ ISO 1600
60x30 sec unguided subs with calibration frames added.
Celestron C11 at f6.3.
Tracked on a Skywatcher AZ-EQ6 mount.
Imaged from suburbia.
Processed in APP and finished off in LR.
100 Melville St, Hobart, Tasmania. One of my clients is located here and I took an image from my phone yesterday similar to this shot - today I returned (another meeting) with my trusty Sigma DP1 Merrill camera to get a higher resolution image.
Well the lighting and clouds weren't as interesting today, but it was fun processing the image in Sigma Photopro to create a 271-Mb TIFF file before converting to b&w in Photoshop.
Might sound 'normal' to most people, but my old computer would have just died if I attempted to edit such a large file like this a few months ago. The new computer didn't blink.
The iPhone comparison shot: www.instagram.com/p/BcHATjnhgQw/?taken-by=keithmidson
Talaminho, Amora. Portugal
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Few minutes after I posted this image, an earthquake shock of magnitude 5.7, with epicentre in the Atlantic Ocean, to 193 Km of West of Gibraltar, was felt this dawn, about 01h30, a little by the whole country (Portugal).
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Thanks to Skeletalmess
Brilliant Venus at magnitude -4 is seen next to the ruddy 5th magnitude star m Vir on the morning of November 18, 2020. I was photographing comet Erasmus and was awe struck by the appearance of the high clouds and the bright planet rising in the east!
Drone shot over the Suwannee River near the Manatee Springs State Park. Manatee Spring is a first magnitude spring that flows directly into the Suwannee River by way of a short run.
This lake was formed August 17TH. 1959 when a magnitude 7.3 Earthquake hit this area in Montana approx. 28 miles North West from the west Gate at West Yellowstone NP.You can see where both sides of the mountain collapsed into the Madison river forming the Earthquake Lake. Several people were killed in the resulting mountain collapse. The lake is 5 miles long and 190 feet deep. I thought perhaps today would be a good day to post this picture as the area of Yellowstone and South West Montana has been having a swarm of earthquakes this week ranging from magnitude 1 to magnitude 3 until today they had a magnitude 4.5 quake.
Milkyway over the Derwent reservoir railway supports. First time I have seen these as they are usually under water but thanks to some warm weather they are finally exposed. Couldnt believe the size of them, always thought they were small from the photos, taller than me!! And the milkyway was a bonus! Defo got my astro fix
Altitude 85 deg. Azimuth 130 deg. Visual magnitude 6.0, Meade LX-90 8in, 2000mm f10.0 SCT. Single shot Canon EOS 5D3 at Prime Focus.
After having our car serviced in Wangaratta yesterday we decided to take the long way home and check out the Canola in a different locality.
Driving through Wilby the fields were ablaze with golden colour for as far as the eye could see. The crops are magnificent this year. The camera cannot do justice to the magnitude of it all.
I managed to capture these guys who, I am sure, were wagging school.
The 2016 Kaikoura earthquake was a magnitude 7.8 (M w) earthquake in the South Island of New Zealand that occurred two minutes after midnight on 14 November 2016 NZDT (11:02 on 13 November UTC). Ruptures occurred on multiple faults and the earthquake has been described as the "most complex earthquake ever studied".
The railway line and roads were badly damaged by the earthquake which raised the seabed by 2 metres (about 6 feet). While the railway line has been repaired, extensive road works are still in progress.
All the white foreshore in this photo, bleached white, was once under the sea. Look closely and you will see the entire foreshore is undergoing reconstruction and stabilization. You can also see a barrier on the hillside to capture landslips and falling rocks.
This image fulminated me … the vision of so much magnitude was very powerful…Also the feeling of how little thing we are in the Universe… we do not give us account that we form part of the All and we are not concientes of all the Pure and Good things that we carry inside… let awake our inside Universe…we´ll be more tolerant and comprehensive with ourselves…thus we will could share it with others***
Esta imagen me dejo fulminado… la visión de tanta magnitud era muy potente…También el sentimiento de lo pequeño que somos en el universo…no nos damos cuenta que formamos parte del todo y no somos concientes de todo lo Puro y Bueno, que llevamos dentro… despertemos nuestro Universo interior…seamos más tolerantes y comprensivos con nosotros mismos…así lo seremos con los demás***
La Iglesia de San Francisco es una basílica católica que se levanta en medio del centro histórico de Quito, frente a la plaza del mismo nombre.
La estructura es el conjunto arquitectónico de mayor dimensión dentro de los centros históricos de toda América, y por ello es conocido como "el Escorial del Nuevo Mundo".
San Francisco es considerada una joya de la arquitectura continental por su mezcla de diferentes estilos combinados a lo largo de más de 150 años de construcción.
Sobre sus tres hectáreas y media de superficie se han construido trece claustros (seis de ellos de gran magnitud), tres iglesias, un gran Atrio, sumando aproximadamente cuarenta mil metros cuadrados de edificación. Allí se desarrollan múltiples actividades en la actualidad: las conventuales y religiosas, de atención pública en las áreas de salud, de comunicación, educativas y otras de corte popular que mantienen activo al edificio.
Dentro de la iglesia se encuentran más de 3.500 obras de arte colonial, de múltiples manifestaciones artísticas y variadas técnicas, especialmente aquellas correspondientes a la Escuela Quiteña de arte, que nació precisamente en este lugar. Posee también una biblioteca franciscana, descrita en el siglo XVII como la mejor del Virreinato del Perú.
Al conjunto le precede una plaza homónima que durante años abasteció a la ciudad de agua de su fuente central, y que ha funcionado como mercado popular, como espacio de concentraciones militares y políticas, y como lugar de encuentro y recreación social.
La escalera cóncavo-convexa que comunica la plaza con el Atrio, que resalta la fachada manierista-barroca del templo mayor, es considerada de gran importancia arquitectónica en América.
The Church of San Francisco is a Catholic basilica that stands in the middle of the historic center of Quito, facing the square of the same name.
The structure is the largest architectural complex within the historic centers of all America, and for this reason it is known as "the Escorial of the New World."
San Francisco is considered a jewel of continental architecture for its mixture of different styles combined over more than 150 years of construction.
On its three and a half hectares of surface area, thirteen cloisters have been built (six of them of great magnitude), three churches, a large Atrium, totaling approximately forty thousand square meters of building. There are currently many activities taking place there: conventual and religious, public attention in the areas of health, communication, education and others of a popular nature that keep the building active.
Inside the church there are more than 3,500 works of colonial art, of multiple artistic manifestations and varied techniques, especially those corresponding to the Quito School of art, which was born precisely in this place. It also has a Franciscan library, described in the 17th century as the best in the Viceroyalty of Peru.
The complex is preceded by a homonymous plaza that for years supplied the city with water from its central fountain, and which has functioned as a popular market, as a space for military and political gatherings, and as a place for social gathering and recreation.
The concave-convex staircase that connects the plaza with the Atrium, which highlights the mannerist-baroque façade of the main temple, is considered of great architectural importance in America.
Object: WR134 (October 2024)
WR 134 is a variable Wolf-Rayet star located in the constellation of Cygnus. It is surrounded by a faint bubble nebula blown by the intense radiation and high velocity winds from the star. It is 5.25 times the radius of our own sun, but due to a temperature over 63,000 K it is 400,000 times as luminous as the Sun.
- Other designations - V1769 Cygni, BD+35° 4001, HD 191765, WR 134, HIP 99377, SAO 69541
- Distance: 6000 light years
Details:
- Acquisition Date: 10/05/2024 to 10/08/2024
- Location: Western Massachusetts, USA
- Imaging Camera: QHY600PH-M -10°C - Mode 1(High Gain) Offset:15 Gain:56
- Telescope: Celestron EdgeHD 11 Celestron 11" Edge HD @f/7
- Focal reducer: Celestron .7x Focal Reducer, for 11 HD
- Mount: Astro-Physics AP1100 w/GTO4
- Guide scope: Celestron Off Axis Guider
- Guide Camera: ASI174m mini
- Software: Adobe Photoshop CS5, Sequence Generator Pro, PixInsight 1.8 Ripley, Aries Astro Pixel Processor
Filters:
- Chroma Ha 3nm 50mm
- Chroma OIII 3nm 50mm
Exposure Times:
- Hydrogen Alpha (Ha): 27 x 10min. (270min) bin 1x1
- Oxygen III (OIII):25 x 10min. (250min) bin 1x1
Total Exposure:520min. (8.67hr)
Sky Quality:
-Magnitude: 19.71
-Bortle Class 5
-1.41 mcd/m^2 Brightness
-1234.6 ucd/m^2 Artificial Brightness
IC 5146 Cocoon Nebula
IC 5146, (also known as C 19), is an open cluster attached to a diffuse nebula visible in the constellation Cygnus.
The nebula is an agglomeration of gas and dust with young stars inside that have excavated its interior, as happens in M 42. The nebula is rich in hydrogen, it is an HII region, which emits light by emission and is what is called a "star factory". It has an overall magnitude of 7.2 and is about half as wide as the lunar disk. It has an irregular figure, even if roughly rounded, with a real diameter of about 15 light years and is located inside an open cluster, in which there are various stars suspected of being variable, which illuminate a part also by reflection .
The brightest star of the open cluster has a magnitude of 9.74, an age of about one hundred thousand years, but probably it is not part of it (it overlaps the cluster prospectively), as its distance seems different from that of the cluster and equal to only 3,300 light years.
In the commentary by Steve Coe it is reported that the nebula and the cluster are about one degree away from a filament of dark material Barnard 168 (B 168), which extends for about two degrees and is projected onto the disc of the Via milky. The dark nebula is clearly visible in Ligustri's image: it is the dark filament that surrounds the nebula and moves away to the right.
Bulls*** Asymmetry Principle
The amount of energy needed to refute bulls*** is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.
Also known as Brandolini’s Law, the Bulls*** Asymmetry Principle captures a circumstance we’ve all experienced. Those with an indifference to the truth are at an advantage. An argument is easily made. But dissecting a claim and verifying propositions and evidence is tiresome. And what if it’s part of the bulls****er’s plan to keep us busy refuting his nonsense?
I share the above principle, created in 2013 as a segway into this photograph. It is from my archives and was taken on 07 October, 2018 in Silver Glen on the docks of The Juniper Club.
As a tradition, I pass on photographing blue herons as they have become like robins…they are everywhere and way too easily photographed! In this case, a large pickerel looking to be near death swam slowly just below the docks. The heron stabbed it, snatched it up, walked it over to the grass behind the dock and proceeded to try and swallow it. As I sat in my chair fishing, I lifted my camera that unfortunately had my 600mm on it, deciding to capture its attempt to swallow the fish whole. This shot is not cropped vertically, it was all I could get without getting up and walking away.
Watching as it lifted it, I did some “Fancy Cyphering” (Jethro Bodine reference) and realized that the length of the fish was greater than the length of the heron body (minus tail feathers) and if swallowed, some of the fish’s tail would surely be in the heron’s neck. Not to mention the girth of the fish. I sat my camera back down to watch the action. The heron rocked the pickerel back and forth a few times building momentum, then with what seemed to be all the strength it had, while maintaining this grip, swung the fish high in the air and swallowed it with ease!
I watched in amazement as the large lump in its throat quickly slid out of sight and into its stomach! My mind quickly spun back into fancy cyphering mode as I tried to guess the weight of the bird* vs the weight of the fish…and if it would be able to fly now with that heavy a load of cargo?
*I just googled the average weight of a blue heron. It can range from roughly 4-8lbs. Let's call this one 6lbs…the fish was certainly in the 4-5lb range…that is a huge get for this hunter!
It continued to stand around for a few minutes until I decided to change locations. Once I got up, it swatted down for takeoff, pushed off the dock into the air. Remarkably, the weight of its meal didn’t seem to slow it down a bit.
Had I not seen “the swallow” for myself, I might have thrown the BS card on someone else telling this tale!
Engines running. (Igualada - Catalonia)
Motores en marcha. (Igualada - Cataluña).
Motors en marxa. (Igualada - Catalunya).
Ampliar la fotografía, para verla en toda su magnitud.
Enlarge the photograph, to see it in all its magnitude.
Castellano:
Demostración de las iluminaciones de los globos al inyectar fuego en sus interiores para que todo su colorido fuera muy vistoso y siguiendo el ritmo de la música discotequera. Es fantástico ver tantos globos hinchados simultaneamente, un verdadero espectáculo.
En esta ocasión busqué este encuadre y tuve que esperar que pusieran sus motores en marcha inyectando fuego a presión en el interior de los globos, pero no demasiado para que no se calentara en demasía el aire y se soltaran de sus sujeciones en el suelo, por ese motivo era muy dificil pillarlos todos a la vez inyectando fuego.
Debes estar tan atento a este momento y que no se te mueva la cámara, teniendo en cuenta que no puedes usar tripode por estar entre una gran cantidad de gente y entre los globos.
Después de una gran cantidad de disparos, (más de treinta), logré la foto que me propuse... y és esta.
Pero me quedó un ojo que no veia bien durante unos minutos, por estar mirando tan largo tiempo por el visor y recimiendo empujones de gente que pasaba de un lado a otro.
Comento como conseguí realizar la foto, pòr que quizás muchos se les pasa desapercibido que todos los motores estan en marcha dentro de mi encuadre... espero que os guste.
Antoni Gallart.
Datos Técnicos:
Tripode: No
Cámara: Nikon D800
Objetivo: Nikon 28 m/m
Diafragma: f/5.6 El máximo abierto pero sin sacrificar la calidad de la image.
Velocidad: 1/250 Hacía viento y evitar las telas movidas.
ISO: 1000 Para compensar la apertura y la velocidad del disparo.
English:
Demonstration of the lighting of the balloons by injecting fire into their interiors so that all their colors were very showy and following the rhythm of disco music. It is fantastic to see so many balloons inflated simultaneously, a real spectacle.
This time I looked for this frame and I had to wait for them to start their engines by injecting fire under pressure into the interior of the balloons, but not too much so that the air would not get too hot and they would come loose from their fasteners on the ground, for for that reason it was very difficult to catch them all at once injecting fire.
You must be so attentive to this moment and that the camera does not move, taking into account that you cannot use a tripod because you are among a large number of people and Engines running. (Igualada - Catalonia) among the balloons.
After a lot of shots, (more than thirty), I got the photo that I set out for myself ... and this is it.
But I was left with one eye that did not see well for a few minutes, because I was looking through the viewfinder for a long time and receiving shoves from people who passed from one place to another.
I comment on how I managed to take the photo, because perhaps many of them go unnoticed that all the engines are running within my frame ... I hope you like it.
Antoni Gallart.
Technical data:
Tripod: No
Camera: Nikon D800
Lens: Nikon 28 m / m
Aperture: f / 5.6 The maximum open but without sacrificing image quality.
Speed: 1/250 It was windy and avoid moving fabrics.
ISO: 1000 To compensate for aperture and shutter speed.
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At magnitude 8 and with the apparent size of a full Moon, this is a beautiful object through a moderate sized telescope from a dark sky.
Taken from Little Desert National Park, Nhill, Victoria, Australia. 6th November 2023
Canon EOS 60D Ha Modified @ ISO 1600.
108x30 sec subs with calibration frames added.
Celestron C11 at f6.3.
Tracked on a Skywatcher AZ-EQ6 mount with no guiding.
Processed in APP and finished off in LR.
Today’s world is a need-it-right-now world. Emails, text messages, and smartphones have made us much more accessible and our level of accountability much higher. The expectations for immediate attention are overwhelming and can negatively impact our creativity and patience; learning to master this difficult skill can increase creativity as well as reduce stress and anxiety. Exercising patience can also improve productivity because it creates a better, clearer state of mind, for wiser decision making.
Patience is becoming a lost art. We sometimes feel others becoming more impatient with us if we are not quick to answer or respond right away, combining immediacy and impatience to create an even bigger monster. However, most things worth having, take time to obtain – they take patience. Art cannot be rushed and patience cannot be lost if the picture is to be finished.
After a treacherous hike along the Hooker Valley to the base of Mt Cook we had to endure icy pathways, suspension bridges with snow as high as the railing with 100 metre falls to our death, -15 temperatures and snow loaded mountains causing avalanches at every turn. Once arriving at our destination and with conditions so incredible, we knew we had come away with amazing shots. As the sun set and the temperature plummets, that same path awaits in treacherous darkness. The desire to get moving is so overwhelming, a safety-based decision diced with going, or staying longer to wait for the ultimate conditions.
Confident in my abilities in the darkness, I waited just that little bit longer, not through bravery, just a desire to come away with something epic.
A distant fishing boat on the horizon in the Tasman Sea, viewed from Hinsby Beach, Taroona, Tasmania.
ITALY EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE 6.2 _ August 24.
At least 120 people have been killed and 368 injured in an earthquake that hit a mountainous area of central Italy
The magnitude-6.2 quake struck at 03:36 (01:36 GMT), 100km (65 miles) north-east of Rome, not far from Perugia.
Many of the dead were in the historic town of Amatrice, where the mayor said three-quarters of the town was destroyed, and in nearby Accumoli.
Many people are still believed to be buried under rubble.
This is the confluence where the waters of Big Spring (a first magnitude spring, one of the largest in the world) meets the Current River. I got up early in the morning to get the mist over the spring water, which is about 58 degrees, year round.
The magnitude and magnificence of Whernside in its winter coat dwarfs even Batty Moss and the train sweeping out of the viaduct’s curve; 6F69, GBRf’s 1254 Ribblehead – Tuebrook stone hoppers headed by 60002 “GRAHAM FARISH 50TH ANNIVERSARY 1970 – 2020”, 10 January 2025.