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Double Speak……….
"But we’re getting them out of our country, they’re here illegally. After the border is secured and after everything gets normalized, we’re going to make a determination on the people that you’re talking about who are terrific people, they’re terrific people but we are gonna make a determination at that--"
60 Minutes interview with the new jefe.
… when I was waiting for green light to cross the road, suddenly the streets and buildings were flooded with colors, the sky split, light beam came from nowhere … luckily the green light finally turned on and everything normalized… so don’t wait too long for green light… :))
Saint-Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad. It is situated on the River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city had a population of 5,601,911 residents as of 2021, with more than 6.4 million people living in the metropolitan area. Saint-Petersburg is the fourth-most populous city in Europe, the most populous city on the Baltic Sea, and the world's northernmost city of more than 1 million residents.
The Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments constitute a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Saint Petersburg is home to the Hermitage, one of the largest art museums in the world, the Lakhta Center, the tallest skyscraper in Europe, and was one of the host cities of the 2018 FIFA World Cup and the UEFA Euro 2020.
The name day of Peter I falls on 29 June, when the Orthodox Church observes the memory of apostles Peter and Paul. The consecration of the small wooden church in their names (its construction began at the same time as the citadel) made them the heavenly patrons of the Peter and Paul Fortress, while Saint Peter at the same time became the eponym of the whole city. When in June 1703 Peter the Great renamed the site after Saint Peter, he did not issue a naming act that established an official spelling; even in his own letters he used diverse spellings, such as Санктьпетерсьбурк (Sanktpetersburk), emulating German Sankt Petersburg, and Сантпитербурх (Santpiterburkh), emulating Dutch Sint-Pietersburgh, as Peter was multilingual and a Hollandophile. The name was later normalized and russified to Санкт-Петербург (Saint-Petersburg).
The historic architecture of Saint-Petersburg's city centre, mostly Baroque and Neoclassical buildings of the 18th and 19th centuries, has been largely preserved; although a number of buildings were demolished after the Bolsheviks' seizure of power, during the Siege of Leningrad and in recent years. The oldest of the remaining building is a wooden house built for Peter I in 1703 on the shore of the Neva near Trinity Square. Since 1991 the Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments in Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast have been listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.
La Campana Tibetana è un antico strumento musicale originario del Tibet ma diffuso anche in altre regioni asiatiche tra cui India e Nepal.
L'origine risale a circa 3 mila anni fa.
Dalla seconda metà del XX secolo questo oggetto venne accolto anche nella cultura occidentale.
La maggior parte delle campane tibetane presenti in commercio sono formate da leghe di bronzo, tuttavia quella più preziosa è composta da sette leghe metalliche: oro, argento, mercurio, rame,ferro, stagno,piombo. Ogni metallo corrisponde ad un preciso pianeta del sistema solare: Sole, Luna, Mercurio, Venere, Marte, Giove, Saturno.
Il suono emesso dalla campana tibetana risulta sintonizzato con le vibrazioni planetarie ed è per questo che sono ottimi strumenti per rilassarsi, meditare, fare yoga. Favoriscono l’equilibrio emozionale, conferiscono energia, migliorano la concentrazione, normalizzano la pressione sanguigna e stimolano anche il sistema immunitario.
Esistono due metodi per suonarle: colpendole come un gong o strofinandole sul bordo con l’apposito bastoncino.
Ma al di là delle regole base, ognuno di noi acquisirà man mano un proprio modo di suonarle che dipenderà anche dalle caratteristiche della campana tibetana stessa.
The Tibetan Bell is an ancient musical instrument originating in Tibet but also widespread in other Asian regions including India and Nepal.
The origin dates back to around 3 thousand years ago.
From the second half of the twentieth century this object was also accepted in western culture.
Most of the Tibetan bells on the market are made of bronze alloys, however the most precious one is made up of seven metal alloys: gold, silver, mercury, copper, iron, tin, lead. Each metal corresponds to a specific planet in the solar system: Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn.
The sound emitted by the Tibetan bell is attuned to the planetary vibrations and this is why they are excellent tools for relaxing, meditating, doing yoga. They promote emotional balance, give energy, improve concentration, normalize blood pressure and also stimulate the immune system.
There are two methods of playing them: hitting them like a gong or rubbing them on the edge with the special stick.
But beyond the basic rules, each of us will gradually acquire their own way of playing them which will also depend on the characteristics of the Tibetan bell itself.
Golden Canyon, Death Valley NP.
Ein weiteres, älteres Bild aus einer früheren USA-Reise. Ohne allzu politisch werden zu wollen, schließe ich mich der Meinung vieler meiner Foto-Freunde an, ich denke, ich werde vorerst auch erstmal nicht nach USA reisen. Ich habe dort einst viele tolle Leute kennengelernt, ich schätze meine amerikanischen Flickr-Kontakte wirklich sehr, aber als Nicht-AFD-Wähler (manch einer würde also pauschal "Kommunist" sagen😂 (nichts liegt mir ferner als das😁😂) ), warte ich erstmal ab, bis sich dort drüben die Lage wieder ein wenig normalisiert. Dann steht die USA wieder ganz oben auf meiner Liste, wo ich gerne mal wieder hin möchte.
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Golden Canyon, Death Valley NP.
Another, older picture from a previous trip to the USA. Without wanting to get too political, I agree with the opinion of many of my photography friends, I think I will not travel to the USA for the time being. I met a lot of great people there once, I really value my American Flickr contacts, but as a non-AFD (ultra-nationalism political party) voter (some would say to me "communist" across the board😂 (nothing is further from my mind than that😁😂) ) ), I'll wait until the situation over there normalizes a bit. Then the USA will be at the top of my list of places I'd like to go to again.
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A Mirror Image (in a plane mirror) is a reflected duplication of an object that appears almost identical, but is reversed in the direction perpendicular to the mirror surface. As an optical effect it results from reflection off from substances such as a mirror or water. It is also a concept in geometry and can be used as a conceptualization process for 3-D structures.
Two-dimensional mirror images can be seen in the reflections of mirrors or other reflecting surfaces, or on a printed surface seen inside-out. If we first look at an object that is effectively two-dimensional (such as the writing on a card) and then turn the card to face a mirror, the object turns through an angle of 180° and we see a left-right reversal in the mirror. In this example, it is the change in orientation rather than the mirror itself that causes the observed reversal.
Another example is when we stand with our backs to the mirror and face an object that's in front of the mirror. Then we compare the object with its reflection by turning ourselves 180°, towards the mirror. Again we perceive a left-right reversal due to a change in our orientation. So, in these examples the mirror does not actually cause the observed reversals.
Saint-Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad. It is situated on the River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city had a population of 5,601,911 residents as of 2021, with more than 6.4 million people living in the metropolitan area. Saint-Petersburg is the fourth-most populous city in Europe, the most populous city on the Baltic Sea, and the world's northernmost city of more than 1 million residents.
The Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments constitute a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Saint Petersburg is home to the Hermitage, one of the largest art museums in the world, the Lakhta Center, the tallest skyscraper in Europe, and was one of the host cities of the 2018 FIFA World Cup and the UEFA Euro 2020.
The name day of Peter I falls on 29 June, when the Orthodox Church observes the memory of apostles Peter and Paul. The consecration of the small wooden church in their names (its construction began at the same time as the citadel) made them the heavenly patrons of the Peter and Paul Fortress, while Saint Peter at the same time became the eponym of the whole city. When in June 1703 Peter the Great renamed the site after Saint Peter, he did not issue a naming act that established an official spelling; even in his own letters he used diverse spellings, such as Санктьпетерсьбурк (Sanktpetersburk), emulating German Sankt Petersburg, and Сантпитербурх (Santpiterburkh), emulating Dutch Sint-Pietersburgh, as Peter was multilingual and a Hollandophile. The name was later normalized and russified to Санкт-Петербург (Saint-Petersburg).
The historic architecture of Saint-Petersburg's city centre, mostly Baroque and Neoclassical buildings of the 18th and 19th centuries, has been largely preserved; although a number of buildings were demolished after the Bolsheviks' seizure of power, during the Siege of Leningrad and in recent years. The oldest of the remaining building is a wooden house built for Peter I in 1703 on the shore of the Neva near Trinity Square. Since 1991 the Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments in Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast have been listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.
Saint-Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad. It is situated on the River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city had a population of 5,601,911 residents as of 2021, with more than 6.4 million people living in the metropolitan area. Saint-Petersburg is the fourth-most populous city in Europe, the most populous city on the Baltic Sea, and the world's northernmost city of more than 1 million residents.
The Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments constitute a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Saint Petersburg is home to the Hermitage, one of the largest art museums in the world, the Lakhta Center, the tallest skyscraper in Europe, and was one of the host cities of the 2018 FIFA World Cup and the UEFA Euro 2020.
The name day of Peter I falls on 29 June, when the Orthodox Church observes the memory of apostles Peter and Paul. The consecration of the small wooden church in their names (its construction began at the same time as the citadel) made them the heavenly patrons of the Peter and Paul Fortress, while Saint Peter at the same time became the eponym of the whole city. When in June 1703 Peter the Great renamed the site after Saint Peter, he did not issue a naming act that established an official spelling; even in his own letters he used diverse spellings, such as Санктьпетерсьбурк (Sanktpetersburk), emulating German Sankt Petersburg, and Сантпитербурх (Santpiterburkh), emulating Dutch Sint-Pietersburgh, as Peter was multilingual and a Hollandophile. The name was later normalized and russified to Санкт-Петербург (Saint-Petersburg).
The historic architecture of Saint-Petersburg's city centre, mostly Baroque and Neoclassical buildings of the 18th and 19th centuries, has been largely preserved; although a number of buildings were demolished after the Bolsheviks' seizure of power, during the Siege of Leningrad and in recent years. The oldest of the remaining building is a wooden house built for Peter I in 1703 on the shore of the Neva near Trinity Square. Since 1991 the Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments in Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast have been listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.
NGC 6995 also know as the Eastern Veil is a part of the Cygnus Loop, a large supernova remnant in the constellation Cygnus.
She is located around 2500 light-years.
Personally i see the face of the Joker 😄
-Equipment-
Scope: TS-Optics 94/414 EPDH (414mm focal)
Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro at -5°C gain 101 offset 49
Guiding: ZWO OAG
Guiding camera: ZWO ASI 120MM
Mount: Skywatcher AZ-EQ6
Filter: Optolong L-eXtreme
-Acquisition-
Light : 128x300s
Total integration time 10,6h
Dark: 100x300s Flat-50 Bias-100
Date : 20,21,23,24,25 August 2022
Location : France-Alsace Bortle 4/5
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Carte du Ciel, N.I.N.A, Phd2 , PoleMaster and PixInsight
Ez Processing Suite from darkarcon
darkarcon website : darkarchon.internet-box.ch:8443/
-Pre Processing in PixInsight-
Image Calibration
Cosmetic Correction
Debayer
Subframe Selector
Star Alignement
Local Normalization
Image Integration
Drizzle x2
Dynamic crop
-Processing
DBE MasterLRGB
___RGB layer___HOO
Split RGB channels to build Ha and Oiii
Ha=R Oiii= B*0.3+G*0.7
EZ_Soft Stretch
HOO combination with Foraxx formula
R=Ha
G=((Oiii*Ha)^~(Oiii*Ha))*Ha + ~((Oiii*Ha)^~(Oiii*Ha))*Oiii
B=Oiii
___L layer___
Ez_Deconvolution
Ez_Soft Stretch
Local Histogram Equalization with nebula mask
UnsharpedMask with nebula mask
___LRGB___
Ez_Denoise
Curve Transformation
Annotation
Save as PNG
Clear skies !
The nebula is located just to the south of Alnitak, the easternmost star of Orion's Belt, in the Orion constellation.
The Horsehead Nebula is approximately at 1400 light-years from Earth.
This is a two panel mozaic
Pre process : flic.kr/p/2mZk6WG
-Equipment-
Scope: TS-Optics 94/414 EPDH (414mm focal)
Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro at -25°C gain 101 offset 49
Guiding: ZWO OAG
Guiding camera: ZWO ASI 120MM
Mount: Skywatcher AZ-EQ6
Filter: Optrolong L-eXtreme
-Acquisition-
Light : Panel 1-41x300s / Panel 2-36x300s
Total integration time 6,5h
Dark-100x300s Flat-50 Bias-100
Date : 25,24 January 2022
Location : France-Alsace Bortle 4/5
-Software-
Carte du Ciel, N.I.N.A, Phd2 , PoleMaster and PixInsight
Ez Processing Suite from darkarcon
darkarcon website : darkarchon.internet-box.ch:8443/
-Pre Processing each panels in PixInsight-
Image Calibration
Cosmetic Correction
Debayer
Subframe Selector
Star Alignement
Local Normalization
Drizzle x2
Dynamic crop
-Processing
DBE master Light
Split L,R,G,B layer from Master light
__L__
Ez_Deconvolution
Ez_Denoise
Ez_Soft Streatch
UnsharpedMask
LocalHistogramEqualization
__RGB__
Linear Fit
BackgroundNeutralization
PhotometricColorCalibration
Ez_Soft Streatch
Starnet++
CuvesTransformation with mask
SCNR star mask
Bring back stars with PixelMath
__LRGB__
LRGBCombination
Final CurvesTransformation
DarkStructureEnhance Script
Save as jpg
Clear Skies !
Saint-Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad. It is situated on the River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city had a population of 5,601,911 residents as of 2021, with more than 6.4 million people living in the metropolitan area. Saint-Petersburg is the fourth-most populous city in Europe, the most populous city on the Baltic Sea, and the world's northernmost city of more than 1 million residents.
The Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments constitute a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Saint Petersburg is home to the Hermitage, one of the largest art museums in the world, the Lakhta Center, the tallest skyscraper in Europe, and was one of the host cities of the 2018 FIFA World Cup and the UEFA Euro 2020.
The name day of Peter I falls on 29 June, when the Orthodox Church observes the memory of apostles Peter and Paul. The consecration of the small wooden church in their names (its construction began at the same time as the citadel) made them the heavenly patrons of the Peter and Paul Fortress, while Saint Peter at the same time became the eponym of the whole city. When in June 1703 Peter the Great renamed the site after Saint Peter, he did not issue a naming act that established an official spelling; even in his own letters he used diverse spellings, such as Санктьпетерсьбурк (Sanktpetersburk), emulating German Sankt Petersburg, and Сантпитербурх (Santpiterburkh), emulating Dutch Sint-Pietersburgh, as Peter was multilingual and a Hollandophile. The name was later normalized and russified to Санкт-Петербург (Saint-Petersburg).
The historic architecture of Saint-Petersburg's city centre, mostly Baroque and Neoclassical buildings of the 18th and 19th centuries, has been largely preserved; although a number of buildings were demolished after the Bolsheviks' seizure of power, during the Siege of Leningrad and in recent years. The oldest of the remaining building is a wooden house built for Peter I in 1703 on the shore of the Neva near Trinity Square. Since 1991 the Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments in Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast have been listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.
Freetown Christiania, also known as Christiania, is an intentional community and commune of about 850 to 1,000 residents, covering 7.7 hectares (19 acres) in the borough of Christianshavn in the Danish capital city of Copenhagen.
Christiania has been a source of controversy since its creation in a squatted military area in 1971. Its cannabis trade was tolerated by authorities until 2004. Since then, relations between Christiania and Danish authorities have been strained. Since the beginning of the 2010s, the situation has been somewhat normalized and Danish law is now enforced in Christiania.
(Wikipedia)
I cant see anything wrong with any of these pictures, yet 2 of them are criminalized in around 70 countries of the world. In at least 10 of them those could be deadly. The earth has 195 countries and only 30 of them allow same-sex marriages.
Thats the reason why we make a big deal out of pride. Thats why its cool that companies suddenly use rainbow colors everywhere and celebrities run around with rainbow flags, even if its not for the -right- reasons. Normalize any and every (consensual) love. Promote empathy. Stop complaining. We dont need "sTrAiGhT mOnTh" bc being straight doesnt get you beat up, jailed or even killed. Cant heal what was never broken.
Love who you are. Theres nothing wrong with you but theres everything wrong with the world.
#pride #weStay
Never felt so alive:
Saint-Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad. It is situated on the River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city had a population of 5,601,911 residents as of 2021, with more than 6.4 million people living in the metropolitan area. Saint-Petersburg is the fourth-most populous city in Europe, the most populous city on the Baltic Sea, and the world's northernmost city of more than 1 million residents.
The Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments constitute a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Saint Petersburg is home to the Hermitage, one of the largest art museums in the world, the Lakhta Center, the tallest skyscraper in Europe, and was one of the host cities of the 2018 FIFA World Cup and the UEFA Euro 2020.
The name day of Peter I falls on 29 June, when the Orthodox Church observes the memory of apostles Peter and Paul. The consecration of the small wooden church in their names (its construction began at the same time as the citadel) made them the heavenly patrons of the Peter and Paul Fortress, while Saint Peter at the same time became the eponym of the whole city. When in June 1703 Peter the Great renamed the site after Saint Peter, he did not issue a naming act that established an official spelling; even in his own letters he used diverse spellings, such as Санктьпетерсьбурк (Sanktpetersburk), emulating German Sankt Petersburg, and Сантпитербурх (Santpiterburkh), emulating Dutch Sint-Pietersburgh, as Peter was multilingual and a Hollandophile. The name was later normalized and russified to Санкт-Петербург (Saint-Petersburg).
The historic architecture of Saint-Petersburg's city centre, mostly Baroque and Neoclassical buildings of the 18th and 19th centuries, has been largely preserved; although a number of buildings were demolished after the Bolsheviks' seizure of power, during the Siege of Leningrad and in recent years. The oldest of the remaining building is a wooden house built for Peter I in 1703 on the shore of the Neva near Trinity Square. Since 1991 the Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments in Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast have been listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.
My first successful astro mosaic! It's a total of 380 minutes of imagery, 11 different panels, so panel integrations average 34 minutes. The Orion, Running Man, Horsehead, and Flame Nebulae area has the most imagery behind it, as well as the Witch Head Nebula.
Imagery was acquired in 2019 and 2020 on 9 different nights from the same location under rural skies (Bortle 3/4). All subs were taken with my Fuji X-T10 and Samyang 135 mm on the iOptron SkyTracker Pro. Each sub is 60 seconds, taken at ISO 1600 with the Samyang 135mm open to f2.
I integrated individual panels using DeepSkyStacker, and used the 'remove light pollution' tool of Astro Pixel Processor to flatten integrations, which had substantial vignetting from being shot at f2. These flattened panels were then mosaiced with Astro Pixel Processor using the process outlined here: www.astropixelprocessor.com/part-3-register-normalize-int.... Curves adjustment, star reduction, and color tweaking were then done with GIMP. This image is downscaled 50%.
It's not a perfect process and the data has issues, but I'm happy with the result. It was fun to explore the less-imaged nebulosity between the Orion and the Witch Head Nebulae, and around Saiph.
I'm sure I'll keep tinkering with this, and I still plan to shoot the entirety of Orion this winter, but this is a nice mosaic in and of itself, so I wanted to post it.
Aug. 2021 update: I've been looking through my astro photos, ramping up for some imaging this fall and winter (hopefully I'll complete this Orion mosaic). I decided this image could use a little lightening.
You are not beautiful - but you do not fancy like other girls. You impressed me about who you are rather large.
Thank you! Because of your actions. You have personality! I always have to think =)
Although two of us normalization but getting the attention of each other.
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I will be important to someone for life?
Do not look at that and say I'm happy! No, then they will leave here ^^
For VĐG: Bịnh mà sung lắm =))) Ngồi hé chế thơ dì lum la hết á :)))) Nc w' tui nè nói đâu có lại đâu cái chữi tui té le đồ héé :))) Dỏi l' >:P Chỉ có tui hiền khô hà ngồi chịu đựng thôi =))) Có ai thấy tui chịu khó không =))))
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Fav đi ! Cho chỉ dui =)
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There are many different types of figs, from dark purple to green and slightly purple.We have four fig trees, one of which is over 8 metres tall and unfortunately only bears false fruit. The smaller ones bear fruit at different times, so that we can harvest new fruit every month...Figs are very healthy
..Vitamin A (retinol) is good for the skin and mucous membranes as well as the eyesight of our eyes.
Vitamins B1, B2 and B6 regulate the metabolism and are important for the nerves.
The absorption of folic acid is a prerequisite for cell division and blood formation.
Biotin (vitamin B7) supports healthy skin, healthy hair and strong fingernails.
A high magnesium content promotes cell regeneration and energy balance.
It also contains potassium, phosphorus and iron. Potassium can help to normalize blood pressure. Iron is needed for blood formation.
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This image of the Cygnus Loop supernova remnant is presented as a modified color SHO palette. It is a 2-panel mosaic and was constructed from nearly 20 hours of total integration from my backyard in Albuquerque, NM, USA. Equipment included a Takahashi FSQ 106 EDX4, on Paramount ME (unguided), ZWO ASI6200 MM, Chroma 3 nm filters, Prima Luce Sesto Senso 2 auto focuser, and remote operation from my office using Kstars/Ekos on a Raspberry Pi. There were 242 subs of 5 min each over 8 nights and with no guiding switching between panels (and plate solving each time) often (to average sky conditions) is very efficient. The mosaic was assembled in PixInsight using the GradientMergeMosaic process. In addition, sub frames were prepared with the script NormalizeScaleGradient to help normalize the backgrounds in each panel. I spent several days processing this image (lots of do overs) but more could be done, especially on the color. Since supernova remnants are fundamentally different than emission nebulae, perhaps a different color scheme would be more pleasing. Roughly speaking, the brownish gold color is H-alpha, the blue is OIII, and yellow is a blend of Ha and SII.Cygnus_Loop_2_panel_mosaic_modified_SHO_210910_RQFugate
Whitland Station - Sir Gaerfyrddin/ Carmarthenshire
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Mohammed El Madhoun:
"Israel killed two young men just a short while ago, ten yesterday, and seven the day before.
There is a state of mental, psychological, and media normalization with what is happening—as if these seven or ten people have no families, no relatives, no friends. As if they were uprooted from a tree, or created solely to be killed in cold blood.
This scene coincides with a miserable, or deeply wretched, era in which Palestinian blood has reached an unprecedented level of cheapness and insignificance.
What is most painful is that these massacres pass without refusal, condemnation, strikes, sit-ins, or angry protests. It is a highly comfortable scenario for the Israeli, who kills us this time without any noise or clamor..."
From Masako~ (fake_plastic_earth)
professor at CCNY for a physiological psych class told his class about bananas. He said the expression 'going bananas' is from the effects of bananas on the brain. Read on:
This is interesting.
After reading this, you'll never look at a banana in the same way again.
Bananas contain three natural sugars - sucrose, fructose and glucose combined with fiber. A banana gives an instant, sustained and substantial boost of energy.
Research has proven that just two bananas provide enough energy for a strenuous 90-minute workout. No wonder the banana is the number one fruit with the world's leading athletes.
But energy isn't the only way a banana can help us keep fit. It can also help overcome or prevent a substantial number of illnesses and conditions, making it a must to add to our daily diet.
Depression: According to a recent survey undertaken by MIND amongst people suffering from depression, many felt much better after eating a banana. This is because bananas contain tryptophan, a type of protein that the body converts into serotonin, known to make you relax, improve your mood and generally make you feel happier.
PMS: Forget the pills - eat a banana. The vitamin B6 it contains regulates blood glucose levels, which can affect your mood.
Anemia: High in iron, bananas can stimulate the production of hemoglobin in the blood and so helps in cases of anemia.
Blood Pressure: This unique tropical fruit is extremely high in potassium yet low in salt, making it perfect to beat blood pressure. So much so, the US Food and Drug Administration has just allowed the banana industry to make official claims for the fruit's ability to reduce the risk of blood pressure and stroke.
Brain Power: 200 students at a Twickenham (Middlesex) school ( England ) were helped through their exams this year by eating bananas at breakfast, break, and lunch in a bid to boost their brain power. Research has shown that the potassium-packed fruit can assist learning by making pupils more alert.
Constipation: High in fiber, including bananas in the diet can help restore normal bowel action, helping to overcome the problem without resorting to laxatives.
Hangovers: One of the quickest ways of curing a hangover is to make a banana milkshake, sweetened with honey. The banana calms the stomach and, with the help of the honey, builds up depleted blood sugar levels, while the milk soothes and re-hydrates your system.
Heartburn: Bananas have a natural antacid effect in the body, so if you suffer from heartburn, try eating a banana for soothing relief.
Morning Sickness: Snacking on bananas between meals helps to keep blood sugar levels up and avoid morning sickness.
Mosquito bites: Before reaching for the insect bite cream, try rubbing the affected area with the inside of a banana skin. Many people find it amazingly successful at reducing swelling and irritation.
Nerves: Bananas are high in B vitamins that help calm the nervous system.
Overweight and at work? Studies at the Institute of Psychology in Austria found pressure at work leads to gorging on comfort food like chocolate and chips. Looking at 5,000 hospital patients, researchers found the most obese were more likely to be in high-pressure jobs. The report concluded that, to avoid panic-induced food cravings, we need to control our blood sugar levels by snacking on high carbohydrate foods every two hours to keep levels steady.
Ulcers: The banana is used as the dietary food against intestinal disorders because of its soft texture and smoothness. It is the only raw fruit that can be eaten without distress in over-chronicler cases. It also neutralizes over-acidity and reduces irritation by coating the lining of the stomach.
Temperature control: Many other cultures see bananas as a 'cooling' fruit that can lower both the physical and emotional temperature of expectant mothers. In Thailand , for example, pregnant women eat bananas to ensure their baby is born with a cool temperature.
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD): Bananas can help SAD sufferers because they contain the natural mood enhancer tryptophan.
Smoking &Tobacco Use: Bananas can also help people trying to give up smoking.. The B6, B12 they contain, as well as the potassium and magnesium found in them, help the body recover from the effects of nicotine withdrawal..
Stress: Potassium is a vital mineral, which helps normalize the heartbeat, sends oxygen to the brain and regulates your body's water balance. When we are stressed, our metabolic rate rises, thereby reducing our potassium levels.. These can be rebalanced with the help of a high-potassium banana snack..
Strokes: According to research in The New England Journal of Medicine, eating bananas as part of a regular diet can cut the risk of death by strokes by as much as 40%!
Warts: Those keen on natural alternatives swear that if you want to kill off a wart, take a piece of banana skin and place it on the wart, with the yellow side out. Carefully hold the skin in place with a plaster or surgical tape!
So, a banana really is a natural remedy for many ills. When you compare it to an apple, it has four times the protein, twice the carbohydrate, three times the phosphorus, five times the vitamin A and iron, and twice the other vitamins and minerals. It is also rich in potassium and is one of the best value foods around So maybe its time to change that well-known phrase so that we say, 'A banana a day keeps the doctor away!'
Everwinter To dispense with moral judgment in international relations — as in any area of life — is to normalize and enable monsters.
NGC 6914 is a reflection nebula located approximately 6000 light-years away in the constellation of Cygnus.
+/- 3800 Stars in this picture
-Equipment-
Scope: TS-Optics 94/414 EPDH (414mm focal)
Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro at -5°C gain 101 offset 49
Guiding: ZWO OAG
Guiding camera: ZWO ASI 120MM
Mount: Skywatcher AZ-EQ6
Filter: Optolong L-eXtreme
-Acquisition-
Light : 42x300s
Total integration time 3,5h
Dark: 100x300s Flat-50 Bias-100
Date : 28 April 2022
22 May 2022
Location : France-Alsace Bortle 4/5
-Software-
Carte du Ciel, N.I.N.A, Phd2 , PoleMaster and PixInsight
Ez Processing Suite from darkarcon
darkarcon website : darkarchon.internet-box.ch:8443/
-Pre Processing in PixInsight-
Image Calibration
Cosmetic Correction
Debayer
Subframe Selector
Star Alignement
Local Normalization
Image Integration
Drizzle x2
Dynamic crop
-Processing
DBE MasterLRGB
___RGB layer___HOO
Split RGB channels to build Ha and Oiii
Ha=R Oiii= B*0.3+G*0.7
EZ_Soft Stretch
HOO combination with Foraxx formula
R=Ha
G=((Oiii*Ha)^~(Oiii*Ha))*Ha + ~((Oiii*Ha)^~(Oiii*Ha))*Oiii
B=Oiii
SCNR
Starnet++ build a mask nebula
Color Saturation
Curves Tansformation
___L layer___
Ez_Deconvolution
Ez_Soft Stretch
Local Histogram Equalization with nebula mask
UnsharpedMask with nebula mask
___LRGB___
Ez_Denoise
Final Curve Transformation
Annotation
Save as JPG
Clear skies !
It's somehow incredible to me that, the same day I would see and take part in a protest against gun violence, I would see not too far from there, a child with a toy gun.
Yes, that red gun is a toy gun and I'm showing my fear of guns and probably (too liberal for some) side when I say that sometimes you have to look deeper into the ingrained symbolism that has impacted our culture and made guns very normalized.
I actually grew up in a household where I wasn't allowed to have a toy gun-even a water gun. I thought my parents were silly and mean at the time because, when summer came around and all my friends had these huge water guns, all I had were hoses and sprinklers but I get it now, the same way I get that having a building called "Sugar Plantation Condominiums" is racist. It might not be intentionally so but it's part of the fabric of America that normalizes racism just like marketing in the hot summers normalizes guns.
And maybe it's radical to think we should go out there and call out all these symbols as evidence of a larger problem but isn't the definition of insanity doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results?
We'd al love to carry on and just have another cup of gumbo (that will be vegan gumbo for me and yes that does exist) but there are some deep cracks in America and maybe we ought to ask some more why questions.
Here's a glimpse of the French Quarter on a Saturday night on Calle (too) Real.
**All photos are copyrighted. Please don't use without permission**
Saint-Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad. It is situated on the River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city had a population of 5,601,911 residents as of 2021, with more than 6.4 million people living in the metropolitan area. Saint-Petersburg is the fourth-most populous city in Europe, the most populous city on the Baltic Sea, and the world's northernmost city of more than 1 million residents.
The Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments constitute a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Saint Petersburg is home to the Hermitage, one of the largest art museums in the world, the Lakhta Center, the tallest skyscraper in Europe, and was one of the host cities of the 2018 FIFA World Cup and the UEFA Euro 2020.
The name day of Peter I falls on 29 June, when the Orthodox Church observes the memory of apostles Peter and Paul. The consecration of the small wooden church in their names (its construction began at the same time as the citadel) made them the heavenly patrons of the Peter and Paul Fortress, while Saint Peter at the same time became the eponym of the whole city. When in June 1703 Peter the Great renamed the site after Saint Peter, he did not issue a naming act that established an official spelling; even in his own letters he used diverse spellings, such as Санктьпетерсьбурк (Sanktpetersburk), emulating German Sankt Petersburg, and Сантпитербурх (Santpiterburkh), emulating Dutch Sint-Pietersburgh, as Peter was multilingual and a Hollandophile. The name was later normalized and russified to Санкт-Петербург (Saint-Petersburg).
The historic architecture of Saint-Petersburg's city centre, mostly Baroque and Neoclassical buildings of the 18th and 19th centuries, has been largely preserved; although a number of buildings were demolished after the Bolsheviks' seizure of power, during the Siege of Leningrad and in recent years. The oldest of the remaining building is a wooden house built for Peter I in 1703 on the shore of the Neva near Trinity Square. Since 1991 the Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments in Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast have been listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.
The image shows the region around the stars RZ CAS and SU CAS in the constellation Cassiopeia. I intended to highlight the dark nebulae and filaments in that area and reveal as much as possible of the reflexion nebulae VdB 7 and VdB 9. There are also some dark nebulae in the frame (i.e. LDN 1355, 1357, 1358, see anntotated version D). Together they form a dark nebula composition that is sometimes calle "The Helping Hand" which is of course upside down in my image. The other bright star in the field SU CAS is a Cepheid star.
Shooting into this region was proposed by a friend whose focus was more on the variable star RZ CAS. RZ CAS is an eclipsing star with a period of 1.2 days. Image revision C is a fast-foreward gif-animation of the brightness variation I could capture in my Lum light frames.
I loaded the normalized frames into MuniWin and let it calculate the brightness variation curve of RZ CAS for that eclipse (see revision D). So this project was also my first attempt of a photometric astro work. The calculated curve has two gaps. The first one was caused by the meridian flip procedure that fell into the time of the eclipse. The second gap was caused by clouds. In the literature I found a maximum variation of 1.5 mag while mine is much less. This may be caused by the fact that in RZ CAS is quite saturated in my 60 s exposures which might have compromised the measurements.
Autumnal equinox (22-23 September) – Winter solstice (21–22 December)
The word autumn comes from the Old French word autompne (automne in modern French), and was later normalized to the original Latin word autumnus. There are rare examples of its use as early as the 12th century, but it became common by the 16th century.
Before the 16th century, harvest was the term usually used to refer to the season. However, as more people gradually moved from working the land to living in towns (especially those who could read and write, the only people whose use of language we now know), the word harvest lost its reference to the time of year and came to refer only to the actual activity of reaping, and fall, as well as autumn, began to replace it as a reference to the season.
The alternative word fall is now mostly a North American English word for the season. It traces its origins to old Germanic languages. The exact derivation is unclear, the Old English fiæll or feallan and the Old Norse fall all being possible candidates. However, these words all have the meaning "to fall from a height" and are clearly derived either from a common root or from each other. The term came to denote the season in the 16th century, a contraction of Middle English expressions like "fall of the leaf" and "fall of the year".
During the 20th century, English immigration to the colonies in North America was at its lowest point, and the new settlers took their language with them. While the term fall gradually became obsolescent in Britain, it became the more common term in North America, where autumn is nonetheless preferred in scientific and often in literary contexts.
with fd's Flickr Toys
Poznan, Poland
Winter
Gas Mask Project for Living Portraits
Trying to normalize the smog situation, Piotr finds daily life impossible to adjust to and having to wear the insufferable gas mask everywhere makes life less than tolerable. All of the things he once enjoyed are now a burden and a constant reminder of what was.
If you are interested in cooperation please contact me at ewitsoe@gmail.com
Join me on my personal websiteErik Witsoe or on Facebook
Coyote (Canis latrans) at the north end of Robert Lake, Kelowna, BC. 397/3,814/145/31
I meant to post this one a month ago, but I guess it's better late than never....
Thanks so much to all who took the time to comment on or to fave this image. Your interest in my photo(s) means a lot!
Meditatión en la Nacional Galeria en Londres
La Meditación trascendental es la forma más pura, más simple y más eficaz de meditación que existe. Es la técnica pura de trascender - de situarse en el estado más poderoso, más simple, de la conciencia - libre de cualquier control mental o proceso de pensamiento.
La Meditación Trascendental permite que nuestra mente se asiente en el interior, más allá del pensamiento, en el nivel más silencioso y tranquilo de la conciencia – nuestro yo más profundo.
Las técnicas de meditación
Cientos de estudios de investigación demuestran que la meditación trascendental produce una serie de beneficios que no se dan en otras técnicas. Los estudios comparativos demuestran que la MT es la técnica más eficaz para reducir el estrés y la ansiedad, ganar calma interior, normalizar la presión arterial y promover la auto-realización.
En la fotografia meditación, ante una sugestiva imagen en la Nacional gallery en Londres
Transcendental Meditation in the National Gallery of London
it is the purest, simplest and most effective form of meditation that exists. It is the pure technique of transcending - of placing yourself in the most powerful, simplest state of consciousness - free from any mind control or thought process.
Transcendental Meditation allows our mind to settle within, beyond thought, at the quietest and calmest level of consciousness - our deepest self.
Meditation techniques
Hundreds of research studies show that transcendental meditation produces a number of benefits that are not found in other techniques. Comparative studies show that TM is the most effective technique for reducing stress and anxiety, gaining inner calm, normalizing blood pressure and promoting self-realization.
In the photography meditation, before a suggestive image in the National gallery in London.
Let me say a huge thank you, for more than 7 million visits that I receive in netwoks. But please do not leave one of those big logos, that are flooding in flickr .
If you like, to see more of my photography, go to
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Saint-Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad. It is situated on the River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city had a population of 5,601,911 residents as of 2021, with more than 6.4 million people living in the metropolitan area. Saint-Petersburg is the fourth-most populous city in Europe, the most populous city on the Baltic Sea, and the world's northernmost city of more than 1 million residents.
The Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments constitute a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Saint Petersburg is home to the Hermitage, one of the largest art museums in the world, the Lakhta Center, the tallest skyscraper in Europe, and was one of the host cities of the 2018 FIFA World Cup and the UEFA Euro 2020.
The name day of Peter I falls on 29 June, when the Orthodox Church observes the memory of apostles Peter and Paul. The consecration of the small wooden church in their names (its construction began at the same time as the citadel) made them the heavenly patrons of the Peter and Paul Fortress, while Saint Peter at the same time became the eponym of the whole city. When in June 1703 Peter the Great renamed the site after Saint Peter, he did not issue a naming act that established an official spelling; even in his own letters he used diverse spellings, such as Санктьпетерсьбурк (Sanktpetersburk), emulating German Sankt Petersburg, and Сантпитербурх (Santpiterburkh), emulating Dutch Sint-Pietersburgh, as Peter was multilingual and a Hollandophile. The name was later normalized and russified to Санкт-Петербург (Saint-Petersburg).
The historic architecture of Saint-Petersburg's city centre, mostly Baroque and Neoclassical buildings of the 18th and 19th centuries, has been largely preserved; although a number of buildings were demolished after the Bolsheviks' seizure of power, during the Siege of Leningrad and in recent years. The oldest of the remaining building is a wooden house built for Peter I in 1703 on the shore of the Neva near Trinity Square. Since 1991 the Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments in Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast have been listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.
This mural is located in Mount Horeb and was created by high school students with the aim of normalizing conversations about mental health. I especially love that it has a nature focus considering how much our natural world can help our mental health.
There were pride flags all over in this small town, which we were happy to see (Norway is one of the most inclusive countries and Mount Horeb was settled by Norwegians).
Had another quick 30 mins (30 x 60s ) on the crazy Tarantula Nebula last night, no filters this run so got some different colours , been playing around in Pixinsight with removing stars early on in the processing and adding them back in later. Also had a bit of a play with Bill Blanshan's SHO normalization process icons, very cool to play with OSC data. Skywatcher Quattro 250 P and QHY 183cPro.
For this rendition of the 2-panel mosiac, I ran all of the subframes through the same PixInsight WBPP run so that they would all be at the same local normalization, I applied ChannelCombination to the RGB masters for each panel separately before merging the panels, and I produced separate star and nebula images before applying nonlinear stretches. The stars image was stretched delicately while the nebula image was stretched very agressively. I like the stars that resulted from this treatment.
ZWO ASI6200MM-Pro
Tele Vue NP101is (4" f/5.4)
Losmandy G11
NINA for session management
PixInsight for processing
Each panel consisted of qty 8 240s subs each for RGB, and qty 16 subs for L. Total integration time was 2:20 per panel.
My suitcase is packed...
I do hope that the situation in the airspace will normalize.
(3 of my previous shots combined to 1)
Friday night brought a promising sunset to California and I found myself at Davenport main beach, coincidentally along with Jim Patterson and one of our excellent, repeat workshop students, Priscilla. Priscilla had some really intelligent and interesting things to say about portfolios, consistency, and reputation. After taking the whole weekend to think about what we talked about, I decided to remove all my recent strobist work from my flickr stream and dedicate these pages solely to landscape photography.
All my strobist work can now be found in a dedicated set:.
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Tech notes on this photo
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Nikon D7000
Tokina 12-24 f/4 at 12mm on a crop sensor
ISO250 - bumped this a bit to get a fast shutter speed
f/8 - sharpest spot on my lens, allows for sufficient DOF on a crop sensor, plus lets me get a slightly faster shutter
1/2 sec because I wanted the line of the incoming wave not to be a total mushy mess
Cloudy WB
Lee 3-stop soft GND filter
Post-Processing
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In Raw Converter (Nikon Capture NX2)
- Processed single raw file once
- Levels adjustment to normalize histogram
- Global "s-curve" curves adjustment
- Brightened foreground slightly and added contrast to waves to make the whites and the reflection pop
- Contrast added to sand to enrich the colors and help the reflection stand out
- Brightness and contrast increase to the very dark seastack to help bring out details
In Photoshop:
- Selective sharpening of seastack and bluffs
- Color balance to remove slight orange hue
Thanks for your visits!
~Josh
12 yearlong pinholes, “shutter speed” one year: August 9 2020 - August 9, 2021, lumen print negative on Soviet-manufactured single weight warmtone photo paper, expired October 1990, appx. 2"x3. Nike Missile Site SF-88, Fort Barry, California. Map: D253 F2 Nike Battery SF 88L, As Built, Topo of Launcher Area, 1958, annotated. From the Golden Gate National Recreation Area Park Archives and Records Center. Assembled October 2023. 24" x 36"
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On August 9, 1945 the United States bombed Nagasaki, Japan, the second of two nuclear bombs which together eventually killed over 200,000 civilians. This action, which may have been unnecessary to accomplish its goal since Japan was already preparing to surrender, nevertheless is credited with ending World War II.
The Nike missile system was developed to defend the United States against approaching aircraft, and was designed to operate with a nuclear tip in order to increase probability of a kill. The Nike missile site at the Marin Headlands was one of 12 in the region equipped with these nuclear warheads, and since the maximum range was 100 miles, if they were deployed the resulting nuclear explosion would have destroyed in part and irradiated in total the San Francisco Bay area.
Children born since 1945 have had to grow up with the specter of imminent destruction their entire lives. This has irreparably changed how we deal with the concept of mortality, both individually and on a planetary scale. For nearly 80 years we have lived this way, and this incredible looming trauma has become so embedded in the human psyche to have become nearly normalized. This photographic assemblage is a document of one of those years.
NGC 2244 also know as the Rosette Nebula is a emission nebula located in the Monoceros constellation.
The nebula is at 5200 light years from earth and is approximately 65 light years wide
-Equipment-
Scope: TS-Optics 94/414 EPDH (414mm focal)
Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro at -25°C gain 101 offset 49
Guiding: ZWO OAG
Guiding camera: ZWO ASI 120MM
Mount: Skywatcher AZ-EQ6
Filter: Optolong L-eXtreme
-Acquisition-
Light : 76x300s
Total integration time 6,3h
Dark: 34x300s Flat-50 Bias-100
Date : 12 January 2022
26,27,28 Febuary 2022
Location : France-Alsace Bortle 4/5
-Software-
Carte du Ciel, N.I.N.A, Phd2 , PoleMaster and PixInsight
Ez Processing Suite from darkarcon
darkarcon website : darkarchon.internet-box.ch:8443/
-Pre Processing each panels in PixInsight-
Image Calibration
Cosmetic Correction
Debayer
Subframe Selector
Star Alignement
Local Normalization
Image Integration
Drizzle x2
Dynamic crop
-Processing
DBE MasterLRGB
___RGB layer___HOO
Split RGB channels to build Ha and Oiii
Ha=R Oiii= B*0.3+G*0.7
EZ_Soft Stretch
HOO combination with Foraxx formula
R=Ha
G=((Oiii*Ha)^~(Oiii*Ha))*Ha + ~((Oiii*Ha)^~(Oiii*Ha))*Oiii
B=Oiii
Starnet++ for remove stars and build a mask nebula
Color Saturation
Curves Tansformation
Saturate stars for push up stars color
SCNR star mask
Bring back the stars with PixelMath
___L layer___
Ez_Deconvolution
Ez_Soft Stretch
Local Histogram Equalization with nebula mask
UnsharpedMask with nebula mask
___LRGB___
Ez_Denoise
Final Curve Transformation
Annotation
Save as JPG
Clear skies !
A young resident of a public cemetery in Metro Manila scales a grid of niche tombs. For the thousands of urban poor families living in these crowded cemeteries, the graves are not just resting places for the deceased but are spaces for daily life—as beds, kitchens, and, for the children, playgrounds. The image captures the resilience and normalization of poverty, as innocence navigates a landscape defined by loss.
First try with HDR in pixinsight, hope you like it !
-Equipment-
Scope: TS-Optics 94/414 EPDH (414mm focal)
Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro at -25°C gain 101 offset 49
Guiding: ZWO OAG
Guiding camera: ZWO ASI 120MM
Mount: Skywatcher AZ-EQ6
Filter: Optolong L-eXtreme
-Acquisition-
Light : 62x300s + 88x120s
Total integration time 8h
Dark: 100x300s Flat-50 Bias-100
100s120s
Date : 30 January 2022
07,26,27 Febuary 2022
Location : France-Alsace Bortle 4/5
-Software-
Carte du Ciel, N.I.N.A, Phd2 , PoleMaster and PixInsight
Ez Processing Suite from darkarcon
darkarcon website : darkarchon.internet-box.ch:8443/
-Pre Processing in PixInsight-
Image Calibration
Cosmetic Correction
Debayer
Subframe Selector
Star Alignement
Local Normalization
Image Integration
Drizzle x2
Dynamic crop
-Processing
*HRD*
DBE 300s and 120s
StarAlignement -> register 300s and 120s
HRDComposition -> blend 300s and 120s frame
Split L,R,G,B Chanel
__L__
Ez_Deconvolution
Ez_Soft Streatch
HDRMultiscaleTransform
StarNet++ for build nebula mask
UnsharpedMask with mask
LocalHistogramEqualization with mask
__RGB__
ChanelCombination(RGB)
BackgroundNeutralization
PhotometricColorCalibration
Ez_Soft Streatch
HDRMultiscaleTransform
Starnet++
SCNR star mask
__LRGB__
LRGBCombination
Ez_Denoise
StarNet++
Final CurvesTransformation
Save as jpg
Clear skies !
The afternoon autumn sun filters warmly into the Upper Mill Creek basin and begins to serenade the senses on the last day of September, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Stands of Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides) fill in the chords perfectly.
Morning began auspiciously when I found a spot to photograph sunrise on the Divide with decent reflections in the lake on whose shores we had camped. The boys, one of their friends, and I backpacked a brief 2-day loop through the high-country of the Park. Over two days they climbed more than 2,000 feet between 9,000-11,000 ft elevation. They ate a great deal at lunch, and then talked incessantly about cars for hours. It was quite amusing actually, as I was completely distracted by the scenery and they seemed scarcely able to take it in. Maybe they've just normalized this kind of beauty since we see similar scenes every autumn. Or maybe they realize how lucky they are and one really shouldn't gawk at one's Mother, as I tend to... who can say?
I do want to put in a word of solidarity for the U.S. government employees, including Park Service employees, who are either working without pay right now, or are furloughed. These people perform vital functions, and are not being treated fairly by the most powerful government in the world. Bright vistas such as this should be a reminder to us all that the government can occasionally do wonders by truly acting in the public's interest. Private industry would not have managed the landscape of the Park for the enjoyment of all, and with an eye to wildlife. We must hold our elected officials accountable to the greater good.
Saint-Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad. It is situated on the River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city had a population of 5,601,911 residents as of 2021, with more than 6.4 million people living in the metropolitan area. Saint-Petersburg is the fourth-most populous city in Europe, the most populous city on the Baltic Sea, and the world's northernmost city of more than 1 million residents.
The Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments constitute a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Saint Petersburg is home to the Hermitage, one of the largest art museums in the world, the Lakhta Center, the tallest skyscraper in Europe, and was one of the host cities of the 2018 FIFA World Cup and the UEFA Euro 2020.
The name day of Peter I falls on 29 June, when the Orthodox Church observes the memory of apostles Peter and Paul. The consecration of the small wooden church in their names (its construction began at the same time as the citadel) made them the heavenly patrons of the Peter and Paul Fortress, while Saint Peter at the same time became the eponym of the whole city. When in June 1703 Peter the Great renamed the site after Saint Peter, he did not issue a naming act that established an official spelling; even in his own letters he used diverse spellings, such as Санктьпетерсьбурк (Sanktpetersburk), emulating German Sankt Petersburg, and Сантпитербурх (Santpiterburkh), emulating Dutch Sint-Pietersburgh, as Peter was multilingual and a Hollandophile. The name was later normalized and russified to Санкт-Петербург (Saint-Petersburg).
The historic architecture of Saint-Petersburg's city centre, mostly Baroque and Neoclassical buildings of the 18th and 19th centuries, has been largely preserved; although a number of buildings were demolished after the Bolsheviks' seizure of power, during the Siege of Leningrad and in recent years. The oldest of the remaining building is a wooden house built for Peter I in 1703 on the shore of the Neva near Trinity Square. Since 1991 the Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments in Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast have been listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.
Saint-Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad. It is situated on the River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city had a population of 5,601,911 residents as of 2021, with more than 6.4 million people living in the metropolitan area. Saint-Petersburg is the fourth-most populous city in Europe, the most populous city on the Baltic Sea, and the world's northernmost city of more than 1 million residents.
The Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments constitute a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Saint Petersburg is home to the Hermitage, one of the largest art museums in the world, the Lakhta Center, the tallest skyscraper in Europe, and was one of the host cities of the 2018 FIFA World Cup and the UEFA Euro 2020.
The name day of Peter I falls on 29 June, when the Orthodox Church observes the memory of apostles Peter and Paul. The consecration of the small wooden church in their names (its construction began at the same time as the citadel) made them the heavenly patrons of the Peter and Paul Fortress, while Saint Peter at the same time became the eponym of the whole city. When in June 1703 Peter the Great renamed the site after Saint Peter, he did not issue a naming act that established an official spelling; even in his own letters he used diverse spellings, such as Санктьпетерсьбурк (Sanktpetersburk), emulating German Sankt Petersburg, and Сантпитербурх (Santpiterburkh), emulating Dutch Sint-Pietersburgh, as Peter was multilingual and a Hollandophile. The name was later normalized and russified to Санкт-Петербург (Saint-Petersburg).
The historic architecture of Saint-Petersburg's city centre, mostly Baroque and Neoclassical buildings of the 18th and 19th centuries, has been largely preserved; although a number of buildings were demolished after the Bolsheviks' seizure of power, during the Siege of Leningrad and in recent years. The oldest of the remaining building is a wooden house built for Peter I in 1703 on the shore of the Neva near Trinity Square. Since 1991 the Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments in Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast have been listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.
NGC 6820 is an emission nebula located 6000 light years away in the constellation Cygnus. This nebula is approximately 65 light years wide
Uncropped version : flic.kr/p/2nD9DFa
-Equipment-
Scope: TS-Optics 94/414 EPDH (414mm focal)
Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro at -5°C gain 101 offset 49
Guiding: ZWO OAG
Guiding camera: ZWO ASI 120MM
Mount: Skywatcher AZ-EQ6
Filter: Optolong L-eXtreme
-Acquisition-
Light : 75x300s
Total integration time 6,3h
Dark: 100x300s Flat-50 Bias-100
Date : 7,8 August 2022
Location : France-Alsace Bortle 4/5
-Software-
Carte du Ciel, N.I.N.A, Phd2 , PoleMaster and PixInsight
Ez Processing Suite from darkarcon
darkarcon website : darkarchon.internet-box.ch:8443/
-Pre Processing in PixInsight-
Image Calibration
Cosmetic Correction
Debayer
Subframe Selector
Star Alignement
Local Normalization
Image Integration
Drizzle x2
Dynamic crop
-Processing
DBE MasterLRGB
___RGB layer___HOO
Split RGB channels to build Ha and Oiii
Ha=R Oiii= B*0.3+G*0.7
EZ_Soft Stretch
HOO combination with Foraxx formula
R=Ha
G=((Oiii*Ha)^~(Oiii*Ha))*Ha + ~((Oiii*Ha)^~(Oiii*Ha))*Oiii
B=Oiii
SCNR
___L layer___
Ez_Deconvolution
Ez_Soft Stretch
Local Histogram Equalization with nebula mask
UnsharpedMask with nebula mask
___LRGB___
Ez_Denoise
Curve Transformation
Crop + Rotation
Annotation
Save as JPG
Clear skies !
It's storage car season on the North Shore Scenic and GN 400 leads DMIR 193 and a dozen or so cars past my only sun spot of the day at Palmers. A thank you as always to Dave Schauer for the timely info.
So...this is kinda normalized for me but what might be the most famous SD45 leading a Missabe SD18 on a freight train that isn't a photo freight. Ridiculous.
The Elephant's Trunk Nebula is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust located in the constellation Cepheus about 2,400 light years away from Earth.
Images taken at the end of September 2023.
Full resolution : astrob.in/o8h9n7/0/
Sii= 75x300s
Ha= 76x300s
Oii= 75x300s
Total time : 18h50'
-Equipment-
Scope: Askar107PHQ (740mm focal)
Camera: ZWO ASI6200MM Pro at -5°C gain 101 offset 49
Filter: Optolong SHO 3nm 50.80mm
Mount: Skywatcher AZ-EQ6
Guiding camera: ZWO ASI 120MM+ZWO OAG-L
All processing was done in Pixinsight exept one step
-Pre Processing-
Image Calibration
Cosmetic Correction
Subframe Selector
Star Alignement
Local Normalization
Image Integration
Drizzle x2
-Processing-
Star Alignment
Dynamic Crop
Dynamic Background Extractor
BlurXTerminator
NoiseXTerminator
StarXTerminator
HistogramTransformation
-Stars-
ChanelCombination
ImageSolver
SpectrophotometricColorCalibration
HistogramTransformation
ACDNR (green100%)
ACDNR (green50%)Ctrl+i
ColorSaturation
-L-
Mix max(Ha and Sii)
HDRMultiscaleTransform with mask
Mix (0.75xL+0.25xL_boost)
-SHO-
SHO palette
TSL/color in Lightroom
ColorSaturation
-L-SHO-
LRGBCombination
CuvesTransformation
ColorSaturation
More CurveTransformation
Add Stars
FinalCrop
Saint-Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad. It is situated on the River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city had a population of 5,601,911 residents as of 2021, with more than 6.4 million people living in the metropolitan area. Saint-Petersburg is the fourth-most populous city in Europe, the most populous city on the Baltic Sea, and the world's northernmost city of more than 1 million residents.
The Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments constitute a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Saint Petersburg is home to the Hermitage, one of the largest art museums in the world, the Lakhta Center, the tallest skyscraper in Europe, and was one of the host cities of the 2018 FIFA World Cup and the UEFA Euro 2020.
The name day of Peter I falls on 29 June, when the Orthodox Church observes the memory of apostles Peter and Paul. The consecration of the small wooden church in their names (its construction began at the same time as the citadel) made them the heavenly patrons of the Peter and Paul Fortress, while Saint Peter at the same time became the eponym of the whole city. When in June 1703 Peter the Great renamed the site after Saint Peter, he did not issue a naming act that established an official spelling; even in his own letters he used diverse spellings, such as Санктьпетерсьбурк (Sanktpetersburk), emulating German Sankt Petersburg, and Сантпитербурх (Santpiterburkh), emulating Dutch Sint-Pietersburgh, as Peter was multilingual and a Hollandophile. The name was later normalized and russified to Санкт-Петербург (Saint-Petersburg).
The historic architecture of Saint-Petersburg's city centre, mostly Baroque and Neoclassical buildings of the 18th and 19th centuries, has been largely preserved; although a number of buildings were demolished after the Bolsheviks' seizure of power, during the Siege of Leningrad and in recent years. The oldest of the remaining building is a wooden house built for Peter I in 1703 on the shore of the Neva near Trinity Square. Since 1991 the Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments in Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast have been listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.
The great Andromeda Galaxy M31 in messier catalog
This is a 4 panel mosaic capture during two cold nights.
Starless version : flic.kr/p/2mDSYEG
-Equipment-
Scope: TS-Optics 94/414 EPDH (414mm focal)
Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro at -5°C
Guiding: ZWO OAG
Guiding camera: ZWO ASI 120MM
Mount: Skywatcher NEQ5
Filter: Astronomik L
-Acquisition-
Light :Panel-1 60x300s
Panel-2 60x300s
Panel-3 52x300s
Panel-4 60x300s
Dark-100x300s Flat-50 Bias-100
Date : Take on 2 night 05 September2021
and 10 October 2021
Location : France-Alsace Bortle 4/5
-Software-
Carte du Ciel, N.I.N.A, Phd2 , PoleMaster and PixInsight
Ez Processing Suite from darkarcon
darkarcon website : darkarchon.internet-box.ch:8443/
-Pre Processing each panels in PixInsight-
Image Calibration
Cosmetic Correction
Debayer
Subframe Selector
Star Alignement
Local Normalization
Drizzle x2
Dynamic crop
-Build the 4 panel mozaic
It's my first 4 panel mosaic so I follow this tutorial from Amy Astro www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0f8Tl_kC0A
-Processing
DBE master Light
Split L,R,G,B layer from Master light
__L__
Ez_Deconvolution
Ez_Denoise
Ez_Soft Streatch
Ez_HDR
UnsharpedMask with mask
__RGB__
Linear Fit
BackgroundNeutralization
PhotometricColorCalibration
Ez_Soft Streatch
Starnet++
CuvesTransformation with mask
A lot of curves...
Bring back stars with PixelMath
__LRGB__
LRGBCombination
Final CurvesTransformation
Ez_Star Reduction
DarkStructureEnhance script
Save as jpg
Clear Skies !
Autumn, also known as fall in North American English, is one of the four temperate seasons. Autumn marks the transition from summer to winter.
The word autumn comes from the ancient Etruscan root autu- and has within it connotations of the passing of the year. It was borrowed by the neighbouring Romans, and became the Latin word autumnus. After the Roman era, the word continued to be used as the Old French word autompne (automne in modern French) or autumpne in Middle English, and was later normalized to the original Latin. In the Medieval period, there are rare examples of its use as early as the 12th century, but by the 16th century, it was in common use.