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"Twin Peaks" was one of the quirkiest dramas ever to be shown on American TV. Directed by David Lynch, it ran from 1990-1991 and was the only program to put a dent in the ratings of NBC's hour of "Cheers/Seinfeld."
A murder mystery, in a small working class town in Washington State, the underlying themes of good and evil, part of the quirkiness was FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper's (Kyle Mcglaughin) obsession with Coffee... (:36)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvs7pmISe8I
Agent Cooper liked his coffee "black as midnight on a moonless night" (:40)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJTf_ZRqgxo
I picked up this coffee mug where Twin Peaks was filmed in Snoqualmie, Washington. We stopped in the diner where "good pies go to die," and ordered Agent Cooper's favorite Cherry Pie.
After all these years, this mug reminds me of this great TV program with Angelo Badalamenti's surreal, haunting, and mysterious soundtrack.
"Laura's Theme" from Twin Peaks:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=woUt7wPe8Ow
I need to go back!
For Smile on Saturday
Theme: Mugs & Co.
It was a challenge to capture the —partly obscured by the gathering noctilucent clouds— Milky Way from Mt. Olympus, Greece on a chilly moonless night in late August 2022.
Another photographic challenge was to exclude several foreground elements from the frame for security reasons, because the foreground was a Hellenic Army Commandos’ camp. There was light pollution, too, from both the nearby and the faraway cities in the plains below.
Not less than 46 frames needed to be handpicked (out of the 420 exposures) and stacked for the final photograph: enjoy, please.
📷, Lens & Settings:
Canon EOS R5
Sigma 24mm F1.4 DG HSM | Art 015
ISO 3200 - f/1.8 - 8 sec × 46 light frames + 17 dark frames
Heron
How round was the moon when Ardea,
the great city, fell
beneath sword and flame?
And when the first heron,
belly whitened by the still-warm ashes,
shoulder marked with charcoal
from burning rafters as they fell,
took wing from among the dead and dying
in a blast of blooming embers,
how round was the moon?
If the moon was full, then she rose
sleek and strong against the smoke-hazed sky,
and the moon hung fat and red
upon the horizon as she landed
on a willow, by the river,
stropping her slender bill
in silhouette against the waters.
If the moon was new, then she rose
like arched and feathered sinew,
silvered in the haze of dying fires,
and the moon, high on her ecliptic
glanced thinly through open pinions,
‘til she landed, took her stand,
silent night sentinel.
But if the moon was dark, then she rose
with an anguished cry, crest bedraggled,
yellow eyes gleaming with terror,
and the moonless dark called her,
winged cadaver, dusty death-shriek,
hunger clenched and coiled for striking,
and fishes cringed as she flew by.
How round was the moon when Ardea,
the great city, fell
beneath sword and flame?
Source material: The legend of the heron arising from the smoking ruins of the city of Ardea is recounted in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Book Fourteen, lines 573-581. In English folklore, the heron is said to wax and wane with the moon. See Yvonne Aburrow, Auguries and Omens: the Magical Lore of Birds, Capall Bann, Chieveley, 1994, pp. 102-105.
Poem by Giles Watson, 2002. Reading recorded 20th April, 2010.
Last night was the first clear Moonless night for a while, so I drove an hour Southwest of Brisbane and took some test shots of some of the larger deep sky objects to see how my 100mm macro lens performs for astrophotography.
The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) od the largest member of the Local Group of Galaxies. It is a spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light years from Earth. M31 has two large satellite galaxies that are visible in this image...M32 is just above and to the left of the galactic core, and M110 is below the core.
This image is 30 x 40 second exposures in a Star Adventurer Mini tracker, with the lens at f/4 and 3200 iso. Processed using DeepSkyStacker and Lightroom 5.
The Pleiades also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is an asterism of an open star cluster containing young B-type stars in the northwest of the constellation Taurus. The cluster is dominated by hot blue luminous stars that have formed within the last 100 million years.
After lot's of clouds, rain and storms in Spain, I am really happy to be able to image this open cluster and reflection nebula in two short nights. A very simple capture and edit to kick off imaging during some moonless skies.
115 x 300s exposures totalling 9 hours 30 minutes.
Full details and a full resolution image available at astrob.in/kz8q2q/0/
Fullspectrum mod first light! Well, technically, "second" light. The first attempt was an absolute shambles at the worst time ever!😟
Dropped the camera off for a fullspectrum mod two weeks ago and after picking it up, I was keen as mustard to test it out. So, I headed to the Pinnacles during a massive CME with auroras expected to light up the sky. Everything looked great on the LCD, but when I got home and chucked the SD card in the computer, the image file sizes were suspiciously too small. That’s when I realised... I’d been shooting in JPEGs! 😟
The guys who did the mod had changed the output image format, and I didn’t even think to check...after all, shooting in RAW format is something I had always taken from granted.
Moral of the story: always check ALL your settings after someone’s fiddled with your gear.
Anyway, this shot is from two mornings ago at Lake Moyanup. We had about an hour of moonless skies, so I dragged my partner out of bed and shot this 10-panel vertical panorama. I'm stoked with the amount of H-alpha data this camera pulls in after the mod, even with all the light pollution in that location (bortle class 4).
Sky
Nikon D5500 (fullspectrum)
Samyang 24mm f/1.4
Star Adventurer Pro 2i
Hoya UV/IR cut filter
6 x 60s, f/2.8
Ground (shot by @novakbarbora)
Nikon D5200
Samyang 24mm f/1.4
4 x 1.6s, f/8
I've always liked astrophotography and I've tried to produce some shots in the past but my gear just wasn't up to it and the results were disappointing. After some new purchases and upgrades I've decided it's time to try again. This is my first serious attempt and although I know I still have a lot to learn, at least I'm on the right track. This was taken at one of my favorite spots, Lake Gregory but the Moon was behind me and it tends to hide a lot of stars. Do yourself a favor and take a drive out of town on a clear moonless night, turn the car off and wait five minutes for your eyes to adjust... you WON"T be disappointed.
In this virtual tour around the bivouac Jacques Guiglia (2.437 m), Val Gesso, Natural Park of the Maritime Alps (Italy), obviously I could not miss a look to the south southwest, portraying the Great Rift of the Milky Way.
The possibility to see the Milky Way with the naked eye (although not so sharp and detailed as a camera does) is, to all intents, one of the most decisive reasons - if not the paramount reason - which pushes me to venture into the mountains on moonless nights.
In my opinion nothing in nature can match the view of the Milky Way.
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©Roberto Bertero, All Rights Reserved. This image is not available for use on websites, blogs or other media without the explicit written permission of the photographer.
Canon5d2+samyang14mm f2,8 iso3200 25s
Standing on the bank of the lake cooling down after bicycle ride through the forest with my headlight lamp being really low battery =)))) could barely see things on the road. Clear moonless mid-october night, faint airglow over the horizon and clear skies for the whole night long..... as much as i could wish except for maybe just a bit of moonlight to lit the landscape.
This has taken nearly a month to complete. but I finally managed the remaining data last night, which was a fantastic moonless crisp and clear night.
It was also my first opportunity to have a trial run with Sequence Generator Pro, which I have a trial license for, and I'm very impressed.
9 hours exposure time with Astrodon 3nm Ha & OIII captured with an Altair Astro 6" RC and Atik 460ex. Processing completed in Pixinsight and Adobe CS5.
Mt. Rainier and the Milky Way from Reflection Lakes.
I’ve been stoked to have a camera that can shoot 24 hours a day again. I started out 10 years ago with a Pentax K1000 which I loved shooting the stars with. In 2002 I bought a Canon G2, and I’ve had several other fixed lens digicams since then, but I have always missed the ability to shoot in the dark. My last camera, a Sony R1, could take 3 minute exposures. That was long enough to shoot under a full moon but it couldn’t take pictures on a moonless night. I’ve been really excited since I got my D5000 last year and I’ve been wanting to take a trip to shoot all night ever since. I had planned to finally make it happen Labor Day weekend but when I saw a crummy weather forecast on the Wednesday before, I decided to leave straight from work on Thursday and take Friday off. These pictures are all from that Thursday night.
One thing I’ve learned while taking these images is how distorted my Nikkor 10-24 lens is. I’m not sure how I feel about it
75 second exposure, f/4, ISO 3200
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My health company, every three months, for three days, sends me to cover a shortage of staff, in the Lipari hospital, (and so do my colleagues), in the little free time I have available, I dedicate myself to my photographic passion.
Lipari is the largest island of the Aeolian Islands (they are located north of Sicily, one hour by hydrofoil from Milazzo); Lipari, under the fascist dictatorship, was the seat of forced confinement for political opponents, it was considered "a Sicilian Alcatraz", among all the islands of confinement, Lipari was most likely the most liveable, both for its considerable size that favored the relations of the confined with the inhabitants, both because, to a greater extent than elsewhere, in Lipari, confined persons were allowed to live in private residences, together with their families or other companions. I found written: "Being on an island that belongs to another island means feeling doubly foreign, tied to the will of the gods and nature, where every certainty can be swept away by the waves of that sea that laps it in every intimate part, but it is a sensation that lasts for a few minutes, the Liparoti (the inhabitants of Lipari, ed) know it well (as all Sicilians know), the Greek concept of Xenia, hospitality, is inherent in them, a written rule, is a duty that provides sanctity and protection for the guest ".
Lipari has a long history as a place of detention. It is the island where the common criminals were initially confined, then with the law of November 6, 1926 (the twenty-year fascist period begins with the seizure of power by fascism and Mussolini, officially occurred on October 31, 1922), Lipari thus became the a place to isolate and confine opponents; the life of the confined began immediately after disembarkation, with lodging in the dormitories of the Castle, under the strict surveillance of the police and the fascist militia, every morning, the confined were subjected to the appeal and they received a daily pay of 10 lire; they could move freely in the town, without however exceeding the demarcation line that surrounded the inhabited center; walking was the main activity, the saddest and most melancholy ones pushed to the limit allowed, to see the ferries arrive from Milazzo, aware that the sea was guarded by motorboats armed with machine guns. A situation that will not prevent Nitti, Rosselli and Lussu from fleeing the island, on a moonless night, between 27 and 28 July 1929.
I made some photo-portraits of people I didn't know, I thank them very much for their sympathy and their availability; I tried to capture the essence of minimal photographic stories, collected walking along the streets of Lipari ... in search of fleeting moments ...I used a particular photographic technique for some photographs at the time of shooting, which in addition to capturing the surrounding space, also "inserted" a temporal dimension, with photos characterized by being moved because the exposure times were deliberately lengthened, they are confused -focused-imprecise-undecided ... the Anglo-Saxon term that encloses this photographic genre with a single word is "blur", these images were thus created during the shooting phase, and not as an effect created subsequently, in retrospect, in the post-production
La mia azienda sanitaria, ogni tre mesi, per tre giorni, mi manda a ricoprire una carenza di organico, nell’ospedale di Lipari, (e così anche i miei colleghi), nel poco tempo libero che mi resta a disposizione, mi dedico alla mia passione fotografica.
Lipari è l’isola più grande delle isole Eolie (si trovano a nord della Sicilia, ad un’ora di aliscafo da Milazzo); Lipari , sotto la dittatura fascista, fu sede di confino coatto per gli oppositori politici, essa era considerata “un’Alcatraz siciliana”, fra tutte le isole di confino, Lipari fu molto probabilmente quella più vivibile, sia per le sue notevoli dimensioni che favorivano i rapporti dei confinati con gli abitanti, sia perché, in misura maggiore che altrove, a Lipari veniva consentito ai confinati di abitare in residenze private, insieme ai propri familiari o ad altri compagni. Ho trovato scritto: “Trovarsi su un Isola che appartiene a un’altra Isola, vuol dire sentirsi doppiamente straniero, legato al volere degli dei e della natura, dove ogni certezza può essere spazzata via dalle onde di quel mare che la lambisce in ogni intima parte, ma è una sensazione che dura solo per qualche minuto, i Liparoti (gli abitanti di lipari, n.d.r.)lo sanno bene (come lo sanno tutti i siciliani), è connaturato in loro il concetto greco della Xenia, l'ospitalità, non è una norma scritta, è un atto dovuto che prevede sacralità e protezione per l’ospite”.
Lipari ha una lunga storia come luogo di detenzione. È l’isola dove all’inizio erano confinati i delinquenti comuni, poi con la legge del 6 novembre 1926 (il ventennio fascista inizia con la presa del potere del fascismo e di Mussolini, ufficialmente avvenuta il 31 ottobre 1922), Lipari divenne così il luogo dove isolare e confinare gli oppositori; la vita del confinato iniziava subito dopo lo sbarco, con l’alloggio nelle camerate del Castello, sotto la rigida sorveglianza della polizia e della milizia fascista, ogni mattina, i confinati erano sottoposti all’appello e alla consegna della "mazzetta", ossia la paga giornaliera di 10 lire; potevano circolare liberamente nel paese, senza però superare la linea di demarcazione che circondava il centro abitato; passeggiare era la principale attività, i più tristi e malinconici si spingevano fino al limite consentito per vedere arrivare i traghetti da Milazzo, consapevoli che il mare era sorvegliato da motoscafi armati di mitragliatrici. Situazione che non impedirà a Nitti, Rosselli e Lussu di fuggire dall’isola, in una notte senza luna, tra il 27 e il 28 luglio del 1929.
Ho realizzato dei foto-ritratti di persone che non conoscevo, le ringrazio veramente tanto per la loro simpatia e la loro disponibilità; ho cercato di cogliere al volo l’essenza di storie fotografiche minime, raccolte camminando per le strade di Lipari... alla ricerca di attimi fugaci s-fuggenti ...
Ho utilizzato per alcune fotografie una tecnica fotografica particolare al momento dello scatto, che oltre a catturare lo spazio circostante, ha "inserito" anche una dimensione temporale, con foto caratterizzate dall’essere mosse poiché volutamente sono stati allungati i tempi di esposizione, sono confuse-sfocate-imprecise-indecise...il termine anglosassone che racchiude con una sola parola questo genere fotografico è "blur", queste immagini sono state così realizzate in fase di scatto, e non come un effetto creato successivamente, a posteriori, in fase di post-produzione.
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Una giornata particolare – Sul terrazzo
Una giornata particolare 3 Love sequence
Una giornata particolare scena “il genio è maschio”
Film Dossier - "Una Giornata Particolare" - Intervento di Marcello Mastroianni (1983, RAI 1)
Una giornata particolare - L'inquilino del sesto piano è frocio!
Una giornata particolare – La rumba
Una Giornata Particolare addio Gabriele
Una giornata particolare - Il bacio
Una giornata particolare - Marcello Mastroianni e l'amante
A Special Day 1977 (Una Giornata Particolare) - theme (Third Reich anthem on piano)
Ettore Scola racconta il suo cinema
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The Andromeda Galaxy is a barred spiral galaxy and is our nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way. Captured from my backyard in Mesa Arizona over several night moonless nights
Two weekends back, I was near the town of Braidwood, NSW, Australia, with a clear and moonless night ahead of me, when I recalled a location that fellow nightscape nutter Ian Williams had suggested to me in a conversation a couple of years prior. I'd saved it in Google Maps back then, so I had no trouble finding the spot when I decided to shoot there on that cloudless evening. Thanks to the night's conditions and Ian's generosity, I captured several images like this one of the Milky Way rising over and reflected in the Jembaicumbene Creek. That name is VERY Australian and is as meandering as the tiny waterway that bears its title.
I shot the image with a 50 mm lens to emphasise the Milky Way's scale compared to the little creek, taking eight single-frame photos that I stacked together to reduce noise and enhance their details. For each of those eight shots, I used my Canon EOS 6D Mk II camera; a Yongnuo 50mm f/1.4 lens @ f/1.6; an exposure time of 6.0 seconds, with the camera's ISO set to 6400.
The historic gold mining town of Bodie at night. Some light painting applied to the building front plus what ever light spilled onto the ground. This was taken on a one night workshop with Jeff Sullivan.
Here is the first milky way shot I had taken in the area, as I chose this one slightly different from others'. The spot had a better milky way position than others at the right. It took me some time/courage to wonder around and finally got to this spot under the dark moonless night.
If you want to feel small and insignificant, travel a few miles inside the park on a moonless night and turn off all lights. Pure black punctuated with millions of tiny dots. I've never seen so many stars. The lighting for this shot was provided by passing cars. Best viewed large.
Thanks for the views, comments and faves everyone!
Along with First Lady I went to see last nights meteor shower...
A vertikal pano of 4 horizontal frames.
While shooting the third pano frame a perseid crossed the nightsky...
A new night and what is that green light coming from north of Mono Lake. Leave a message if you have any idea. Sky exposure 30 sec, ISO 5000, & f/2.8 with light painting the foreground at ISO 320 & f/5.6. The two photos were merged in Photoshop. 6m1515
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My health company, every three months, for three days, sends me to cover a shortage of staff, in the Lipari hospital, (and so do my colleagues), in the little free time I have available, I dedicate myself to my photographic passion.
Lipari is the largest island of the Aeolian Islands (they are located north of Sicily, one hour by hydrofoil from Milazzo); Lipari, under the fascist dictatorship, was the seat of forced confinement for political opponents, it was considered "a Sicilian Alcatraz", among all the islands of confinement, Lipari was most likely the most liveable, both for its considerable size that favored the relations of the confined with the inhabitants, both because, to a greater extent than elsewhere, in Lipari, confined persons were allowed to live in private residences, together with their families or other companions. I found written: "Being on an island that belongs to another island means feeling doubly foreign, tied to the will of the gods and nature, where every certainty can be swept away by the waves of that sea that laps it in every intimate part, but it is a sensation that lasts for a few minutes, the Liparoti (the inhabitants of Lipari, ed) know it well (as all Sicilians know), the Greek concept of Xenia, hospitality, is inherent in them, a written rule, is a duty that provides sanctity and protection for the guest ".
Lipari has a long history as a place of detention. It is the island where the common criminals were initially confined, then with the law of November 6, 1926 (the twenty-year fascist period begins with the seizure of power by fascism and Mussolini, officially occurred on October 31, 1922), Lipari thus became the a place to isolate and confine opponents; the life of the confined began immediately after disembarkation, with lodging in the dormitories of the Castle, under the strict surveillance of the police and the fascist militia, every morning, the confined were subjected to the appeal and they received a daily pay of 10 lire; they could move freely in the town, without however exceeding the demarcation line that surrounded the inhabited center; walking was the main activity, the saddest and most melancholy ones pushed to the limit allowed, to see the ferries arrive from Milazzo, aware that the sea was guarded by motorboats armed with machine guns. A situation that will not prevent Nitti, Rosselli and Lussu from fleeing the island, on a moonless night, between 27 and 28 July 1929.
I made some photo-portraits of people I didn't know, I thank them very much for their sympathy and their availability; I tried to capture the essence of minimal photographic stories, collected walking along the streets of Lipari ... in search of fleeting moments ...I used a particular photographic technique for some photographs at the time of shooting, which in addition to capturing the surrounding space, also "inserted" a temporal dimension, with photos characterized by being moved because the exposure times were deliberately lengthened, they are confused -focused-imprecise-undecided ... the Anglo-Saxon term that encloses this photographic genre with a single word is "blur", these images were thus created during the shooting phase, and not as an effect created subsequently, in retrospect, in the post-production
La mia azienda sanitaria, ogni tre mesi, per tre giorni, mi manda a ricoprire una carenza di organico, nell’ospedale di Lipari, (e così anche i miei colleghi), nel poco tempo libero che mi resta a disposizione, mi dedico alla mia passione fotografica.
Lipari è l’isola più grande delle isole Eolie (si trovano a nord della Sicilia, ad un’ora di aliscafo da Milazzo); Lipari , sotto la dittatura fascista, fu sede di confino coatto per gli oppositori politici, essa era considerata “un’Alcatraz siciliana”, fra tutte le isole di confino, Lipari fu molto probabilmente quella più vivibile, sia per le sue notevoli dimensioni che favorivano i rapporti dei confinati con gli abitanti, sia perché, in misura maggiore che altrove, a Lipari veniva consentito ai confinati di abitare in residenze private, insieme ai propri familiari o ad altri compagni. Ho trovato scritto: “Trovarsi su un Isola che appartiene a un’altra Isola, vuol dire sentirsi doppiamente straniero, legato al volere degli dei e della natura, dove ogni certezza può essere spazzata via dalle onde di quel mare che la lambisce in ogni intima parte, ma è una sensazione che dura solo per qualche minuto, i Liparoti (gli abitanti di lipari, n.d.r.)lo sanno bene (come lo sanno tutti i siciliani), è connaturato in loro il concetto greco della Xenia, l'ospitalità, non è una norma scritta, è un atto dovuto che prevede sacralità e protezione per l’ospite”.
Lipari ha una lunga storia come luogo di detenzione. È l’isola dove all’inizio erano confinati i delinquenti comuni, poi con la legge del 6 novembre 1926 (il ventennio fascista inizia con la presa del potere del fascismo e di Mussolini, ufficialmente avvenuta il 31 ottobre 1922), Lipari divenne così il luogo dove isolare e confinare gli oppositori; la vita del confinato iniziava subito dopo lo sbarco, con l’alloggio nelle camerate del Castello, sotto la rigida sorveglianza della polizia e della milizia fascista, ogni mattina, i confinati erano sottoposti all’appello e alla consegna della "mazzetta", ossia la paga giornaliera di 10 lire; potevano circolare liberamente nel paese, senza però superare la linea di demarcazione che circondava il centro abitato; passeggiare era la principale attività, i più tristi e malinconici si spingevano fino al limite consentito per vedere arrivare i traghetti da Milazzo, consapevoli che il mare era sorvegliato da motoscafi armati di mitragliatrici. Situazione che non impedirà a Nitti, Rosselli e Lussu di fuggire dall’isola, in una notte senza luna, tra il 27 e il 28 luglio del 1929.
Ho realizzato dei foto-ritratti di persone che non conoscevo, le ringrazio veramente tanto per la loro simpatia e la loro disponibilità; ho cercato di cogliere al volo l’essenza di storie fotografiche minime, raccolte camminando per le strade di Lipari... alla ricerca di attimi fugaci s-fuggenti ...
Ho utilizzato per alcune fotografie una tecnica fotografica particolare al momento dello scatto, che oltre a catturare lo spazio circostante, ha "inserito" anche una dimensione temporale, con foto caratterizzate dall’essere mosse poiché volutamente sono stati allungati i tempi di esposizione, sono confuse-sfocate-imprecise-indecise...il termine anglosassone che racchiude con una sola parola questo genere fotografico è "blur", queste immagini sono state così realizzate in fase di scatto, e non come un effetto creato successivamente, a posteriori, in fase di post-produzione.
This shot is "parked" in my hard drives since a while...
Taken on September 27th 2011, during the blue hour, in occasion of my first visit to the Tre Cime di Lavaredo (Drei Zinnen), Dolomites.
On the left you can also see the Paternkofel (monte Paterno).
The first stars appear in the sky, and the valleys below begin to sink into the deepest darkness (that was a moonless night).
I've always postponed this shot because I generally give priority to the pure night. The night is absolutely the time of day that I love most for taking pictures :-) it's just a matter of personal taste of course.
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The Andromeda Galaxy, also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224 and originally the Andromeda Nebula (see below), is a barred spiral galaxy with diameter of about 220,000 ly approximately 2.5 million light-years from Earth and the nearest large galaxy to the Milky Way. The galaxy's name stems from the area of Earth's sky in which it appears, the constellation of Andromeda, which itself is named after the Ethiopian (or Phoenician) princess who was the wife of Perseus in Greek mythology. The virial mass of the Andromeda Galaxy is of the same order of magnitude as that of the Milky Way, at 1 trillion solar masses. The mass of either galaxy is difficult to estimate with any accuracy, but it was long thought that the Andromeda Galaxy is more massive than the Milky Way by a margin of some 25% to 50%. The Andromeda Galaxy has a diameter of about 220,000 ly, making it the largest member of the Local Group in terms of extension. The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are expected to collide in around 4-5 billion years, merging to form a giant elliptical galaxy or a large lenticular galaxy. With an apparent magnitude of 3.4, the Andromeda Galaxy is among the brightest of the Messier objects, making it visible to the naked eye from Earth on moonless nights, even when viewed from areas with moderate light pollution.
Sometimes called the Pinwheel Galaxy (which is also a commonly used name for M101) but more correctly identified by the name of the constellation in which it is located (Triangulum), this galaxy may be the most distant object that can be seen without the use of a telescope or other optical aid. But, to see it with the naked eye you need to know exactly where to look and have a very dark sky (a clear, moonless night with no light pollution).
Photographed on the morning of August 16, 2015 from my very light-polluted front yard using a 5 inch aperture, f/5.2 telescope and an unmodified Sony NEX-5R digital camera (ISO 800, a stack of sixty images each exposed for 90 seconds, producing a total exposure integration time of 90 minutes).
Image registration, integration, and adjustments done with PixInsight with final tweaks in Photoshop CC 2015.
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This view of Thor's Hammer in Bryce Canyon was lit with a single led panel on the left several hundred feet away.
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I grew up with this picture. It lived on my mom’s bedside table, one of her favorite pictures of my dad. She loved to take her scissors to pictures, cut them out and then place them carefully in frames.
To this day, my childhood home still has some frames filled with her quirky approach to family photos. They always make me smile whenever I walk through those rooms that seemed so big when I was small but now just feel cozy and safe. They feel quiet and melancholy these days too.
So it was emotional to pick up this small frame from that special place on her side of the bedroom, that place where it lived for decades, to give it a closer look and place it in my pocket to take back with me and give a new home.
There was my dad, a dashing fellow looking full of the promise of youth carefully cut out and surrounded with a string of jeweled S’s. I imagine they stood for Stella, my mother's name. They mirror how beautifully she wrapped him in love all the many years they were together.
When that picture was taken he already had so many stories to tell. Stories of growing up an only child in Prague during the war with parents who doted on him and loved him and raised him to be ready for whatever lay ahead – and what lay ahead would fill a novel, even before he met the woman who would become his wife.
Mutual friends arranged the meeting. Their first date? A boat ride to the Statue of Liberty. My mom, an immigrant from Colombia, spoke English but of course she was most comfortable in her native language of Spanish and that was no problem at all because my dad spoke Spanish too. Fluently. As well as French, and German - and English of course. The language he and his friends taught themselves in defiance of the Germans who wanted all school age children to only be taught German.
Years passed and the yearning to be free grew too strong to deny so with only what he could carry in a small backpack, he and his closest friend said goodbye to all they knew and loved and in the middle of a moonless night they skied their way across the border from Czechoslovakia to freedom. The future was never more uncertain - except that it would be one where he was certain to be free.
I didn’t intend for this to be so long. The truth is it could be so much longer. What he did in his nearly 90 years on this wonderful planet of ours continues to amaze.
His love for the USA, his adopted country, truly knew no bounds. From his proud service in the Korean War, to his carefully planned summer vacation road trips from one coast to another. He loved planning the perfect trip - and he delivered year after year.
What a gift he gave us! He was just as happy driving to the Grand Canyon as he was driving to the local park because he was doing it with my mom, my brother and me.
I made the mistake of falling asleep as we were driving through Death Valley and woke up to his incredulous cry of, “Omar! You’re missing it!”
Have you been to Death Valley? You don’t have to stay awake for the whole thing, it’s kind of the same. For a very long time. But that was him. It was all an adventure, and you couldn’t miss a thing, and what an adventure he had with the love of his life.
Frank and Stella.
They were made for each other. Nearly 50 years together that started with a blind date to Lady Liberty.
Looking back I don’t think it could have started off any better. Just like both my parents, she continues to welcome those looking for a better life. They certainly made that dream come true.
When my mom left us all too soon back in 2011 that adventurous gleam in his eye, that look of promise so well caught in a simple snap of a shutter, dimmed.
His sadness was palpable, never more so than when I’d take him to the cemetery so we could place some flowers on her grave and spend some time feeling the breeze in our hair and the sun on our faces while thoughts of her filled our hearts. He longed to be surrounded by her love again, just like those jeweled S’s.
This past Saturday, as he slept, he went to be with her again - just in time for Valentine’s Day.
One last perfect trip.
The Omega Nebula – aka M17 – is barely visible to the unaided eye on a dark, moonless night. To see it, it’s best to use binoculars or low-power magnification on a telescope. The Omega Nebula is very near another prominent nebula, known as M16 or the Eagle Nebula. M16 is the home nebula of the famous Pillars of Creation image. In the sky, M16 and M17 appear as two closely-knit patches of haze. They fit readily within the same binocular field of view. Both are found within the hazy starlit band of our Milky Way galaxy, as it crosses the sky on a northern summer evening. The Omega Nebula is between 5,000 and 6,000 light-years from Earth and it spans some 15 light-years in diameter. The cloud of interstellar matter of which this nebula is a part is roughly 40 light-years in diameter and has a mass of 30,000 solar masses. The total mass of the Omega Nebula is an estimated 800 solar masses. It is considered one of the brightest and most massive star-forming regions of our galaxy.
Stroll through the streets on a moonless night...beware the alleys where she alights....
Skin: Soul Shilo in F-4
Horns: Plastik Swyrl Horns Rigged
Wings: {Aii & Ego} +Nefarious Wings+
Tail: {Aii & Ego} + Avarice Tail+
Ears: L'Emporio & PL *Damned Ears*
Claws: L'Emporio & PL *Damned Claws*
Eyes: Gloom Coven Collection in Hazel Souless
Accessory: Clover - Heart Snatcher
Hair: Doux - Sophie
Outfit: Strapped in Black from [[Masoom]]
Tattoo: -The Silence- Devil's Mark
To my Beautiful QUEENღ
"Will you please try to hear what I'm telling you? Will you let me attempt to explain what you mean to me? He waited, stuying my face as he spoke to make sure I was really listening....Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars --points of light and reason....And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by light. I couldn't see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason for anything."
(Twilight Saga -- Stephenie Meyer -- From Edward to Bella)
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I'll be your man
And I'll understand
And I'll do my best
To take good care of you
You'll be my Queen
I'll be your King
And I'll be your lover too
Yeah yeah
Yes I will
Derry down green
Color of my dream
A dream that's daily comin' true.
And ohhh when the day is through
I will come to you
And tell you of
Your many charms
And girl you look at me
With eyes that see
And we'll melt into each others eyes
You'll be my Queen
And I'll be your King
And I'll be your lover too.
Robert Pattinson -- I'll be your lover too -- ♫♫♫
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**CHARACTER: My Avi
*** Shot taken by EMMA mon Amourღ before exhibition *_*
As luck have it, we picked a primative campsite because all the other developed campsites were full on this July 4th, 2016 weekend.
I was greeted with a cloudless and moonless sky, no campfire pollution, miles away from the city. I've never thought the Milky Way would come out this amazing!
Another lucky (non-planned) thing was these 2 tents were lit just as I was exposing for the sky. I should thank them!
Prompt: sailors on a rescue mission in a long white rowing lifeboat. They are wearing yellow waterproof clothing. They are rowing hard to reach a wrecked sailing ship visible in the background. Heavy seas, moonless night, storm, fog, full body, --chaos 50 --ar 4:5 --personalize m3lgrn9
It was as though the sky
had silently kissed the earth,
so that it now had to dream of sky
in shimmers of flowers.
The air went through the fields,
the corn-ears leaned heavy down
the woods swished softly—
so clear with stars was the night
And my soul stretched
its wings out wide,
flew through the silent lands
as though it were flying home
by Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff
I have wanted to do this shot for a long time. The Milky Way rises in this position only on a certain part of the year. There haven’t been many clear nights lately and I had to capture it on a moonless night. On this night of March 20th, all the right conditions were met and I set out to the national park at 2 AM. It was very peaceful; I had the area all to myself. Hearing the low rumble of Halema’uma’u Crater filled me with awe.
A moonless night with the Milky Way over southern France last week. Every four to five seconds, a lighthouse in the back lit the beach...
Star trail, single exposure lasted 1 hour, taken of course in a moonless night, a few meters from bivouac Jacques Guiglia (2.437 m), Val Gesso, Natural Park of the Maritime Alps (Italy).
On the occasion of my first visit I was not alone, I had to share the shelter with others, so I've politely chosen not to oblige others to keep the front door open for my photographic experiments! :-) But this time the shelter was all for me, so I took full advantage of a set of candles that I brought with me in order to create a special atmosphere coming out of the door (as you will better see in other shots), a sort of play of light let's say style "ufo just landed" "they are between us", you know, stuff like that...
In the distance is visible the light pollution coming from the valleys of Cuneo.
While, as hopefully well known, in the sky you can see the effects of Earth's rotation, with the Polaris centered.
If you think about, it's a sort of "secret eye". Secret because not visible through our senses, as we do not see that Earth rotates, but actually when looking to the north this "eye" is potentially always there... it's just necessary to have the patience, and the curiosity, to leave the camera to gaze at the cosmos for about one hour :-)
How many invisible wonders around us!
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This is what you get when you take 130 thirty-second exposures of the night sky... and then blend them all together in Photoshop.
This technique works best on moonless and cloudless nights... and this can obviously only be done on a completely windless night.
Much to my surprise, the less visited NamibRand Nature Reserve offered a spectacular and varied landscape without the crowds of the more famous Sossusvlei area. And it did not have the strict entry and exit requirements at sunrise and sunset of the NWR parks. It's well worth your consideration if you visit Namibia. It's also an International Dark Sky Reserve with stars seen clear to the horizon in all directions on a moonless night.
Sunrise on the grassy red sand dunes of the NamibRand Nature Reserve, Namib Desert, Namibia.
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Even under the darkness of a moonless sky this scene stopped me in my tracks.
While waiting for the camera to capture a few long exposures, i marveling at the frogs calling to each other... by a salt lake! They must congregate by one of the springs that create the tufa. It's such a strange environment for an amphibian though, I couldn't help but wonder if they might be an isolated and unique species. I was tempted to go find one, but at 4 am a couple of hours sleep seemed due.
I'll be leading a lot of landscape and night photography workshops in the Mono Lake / Tioga Pass area this summer:
www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/eastern-sierra-fall-...
- www.kevin-palmer.com - Before the stars could fully appear they were blotted out. There is no night darker than a moonless, cloudy one in the mountains. Then somewhere beyond a ridge to the south, brief flashes of light began to multiply and intensify. Catching a lightning storm from this viewpoint on Red Grade Road has long been a goal. But driving up this dangerous road in a hurry at night during a storm seemed like a bad idea. So I arrived early, with enough time to have a campfire before the weather approached. Storms do not often take this path from the south, along the foothills of the Bighorn Mountains. But this was the perfect night, as bolt after bolt landed on the plains thousands of feet below. Close enough to clearly see, but far enough to be safe. The lights of Sheridan and Big Horn faded into the rain, which barely touched the mountains where I stood. This is a stack of images captured over about 20 minutes.
I'll shoot this POV one moonless night too just for comparision of how many stars is really out there.
- www.kevin-palmer.com - Before the stars could fully appear they were blotted out. There is no night darker than a moonless, cloudy one in the mountains. Then somewhere beyond a ridge to the south, brief flashes of light began to multiply and intensify. Catching a lightning storm from this viewpoint on Red Grade Road has long been a goal. But driving up this dangerous road in a hurry at night during a storm seemed like a bad idea. So I arrived early, with enough time to have a campfire before the weather approached. Storms do not often take this path from the south, along the foothills of the Bighorn Mountains. But this was the perfect night, as bolt after bolt landed on the plains thousands of feet below. Close enough to clearly see, but far enough to be safe. The lights of Sheridan and Big Horn faded into the rain, which barely touched the mountains where I stood. This is a stack of images captured over about 18 minutes.