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Callisto is casting its shadow onto the tops of Jupiter's clouds. About an hour before this, I could see the shadows of both Ganymede and Callisto on Jupiter, but I wasn't ready to shoot yet. In retrospect, that's kind of a shame, because that would be the rarest pairing of shadows visible in amateur scopes.
From left to right in this picture, we have Ganymede, Callisto, Io, and Europa. It was a good pile-up of satellites to share with my astronomy lab students.
This picture combines stacks from R, G, and B channels shot with a ZWO ASI120MM and filter wheel on the back of a Celestron Edge HD 925. Each stack was 20 s and done in quick succession using FireCapture. Seeing only allowed for 35 frames from the R and G channels and 45 frames from the B channel to be stacked, which was done in AutoStakkert. The stacks were sharpened and channels combined in PixInsight. Final touches in Photoshop. Shot from my backyard in Long Beach, CA.
40013 backs onto the 3rd leg of The North West Wanderer tour. It will head south out of Preston and head to Blackburn and Hellifield, diverging off at Settle Jct to Giggleswick and Carnforth, before returning to Preston from the north
This image is of C/2025 A6 (Lemmon). I imagined this last Friday. Currently, it’s a pretty bright comet that’s shining at a magnitude 5. From the city and urban areas, it’s not naked eye visible, but from a dark sky site it can be seen through binoculars and long exposure photography.
This image was a challenge for me to get. After setting up my rig and powering everything on, I discovered the ASIAIR couldn’t detect my guide camera. At the time I couldn’t figure out why the guide camera wasn’t working. That meant I either couldn’t lock onto a guide star or I would have to manually dither. I was determined to make this image work especially since I paid an entrance fee of $15 to get into the local state park. I ended up setting an auto run sequence of 3 (30 second) exposures. After each auto run sequence I moved the framing ever so slightly in the sky atlas of the ASIAIR app. I repeated this until I got about 35 minutes worth of data. To top it off, the area I was set up gets a little breezy as the night goes on. So, some of the frames werent exactly sharp. Nevertheless, I managed to get enough data to build an image. Later, I discovered my USB cord for the guide camera was bad. The next day I ordered spare USB cords for my rig so I didn’t have another dilemma again.
Image Detail:
- 17 minutes of total integration time (30 seconds, gain 100, camera cooled to 14 degrees)
Equipment:
- SVBONY SV503 80ED
- Sky Watcher Star Adventurer GTi
- ZWO ASI 2600MC Pro
- ZWO ASIAIR Mini
- ZWO EAF
- ZWO 120MM guide camera
- ZWO guide scope
Software:
- PixInsight
- Adobe Photoshop
- RC Astro Blur Xterminator
- RC Astro Noise Xterminator
- RC Astro Star Xterminator
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Dear Journal,
I feel the time has come to shed some light onto the exact nature of my perilous quest.
The sought and found item in question is a 24-carat white gold tablet, 10x10" in length, with many complex wordings and symbols engraved on it, adorned in the center with a warlike mask - perhaps some great hero of the past.
After several day's worth of examination and several trips to the library, I concluded my previous suspicions as to its purpose were justified. It is, in fact, an ancient map which hopefully will lead me to the greatest archaeological find in our history... the lost city of Eusebia.
However, dear Journal, I mustn't continue without further explanation.
Cartography in the Isles of Aura is an exceedingly complex process. I will summarize the basics for you. Since about 2,300 years ago, all navigation has been based solely upon the stars. With a few year's training (and a heap of various advanced equipment for extra precision), you can find any place in our known world, regardless of height or depth. It is said that "One can never be lost if he is at home among the stars."
Fortunately, I have spent much of my life in these skies and and know these heavens well. It wasn't always like this...
Before 2,500 years ago, most historians agree that Aura was one massive continent floating wherever it pleased. And at some point, for reasons unknown, this great land mass broke apart and scattered across the known world. And this, journal, is where my problems really begin to stack up. For starters, Aura is incredibly difficult to map. It is a turbulent and ever-changing land and all charts must be revised every 50 years or so. This would be no problem if the map I have found calls upon the stars. However - it does not. it is based solely upon a series of complex landmarks and the distances and directions between them!
What's worse is that all charts on record are simply not old enough to correspond with the age of this artifact. And these distances it describes are too large to be anything but the now-extinct, afore-mentioned "Super-island".
On a side note: the start of the map is a capital city of an ancient civilization named Arravia that dominated Aura for centuries just before the great divide. This map is essentially a trade route from Arravia to Eusebia.
In conclusion, dear journal, this is my dilemma. The beginning of this trade route has long since disappeared with no accurate ways of finding it or any other of these dozen or so long-extinct landmarks and therefore the end (which is the Eusebia) is impossible to find.
But - there is one small chance. If I can find one of these landmarks and if it is in geological stasis, finding the rest of these landmarks would be child's play just by using the stars. Until one of these landmarks is discovered, this map is useless.
So... I shall write down these coordinates and donate this piece to the library of Alabastro for safekeeping!
There is now nothing I can do but continue my quest and hope to find unlikely favor in my search.
Signed,
Zenas Abbington
A paper lamp made of pieces with finger-like corners that hook onto their neighbors.
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I sneaked onto the airfield in Húsafell to catch a closeup shot of this airplane. The image is a manual blend of 2 exposures (0 and -2EV) with various adjustment to contrast, levels, curves and tone.
Thanks for all the good words about my previous image. I'm overwhelmed.
Bonus points for those who can shed a light on this plane :)
Well your love keeps me alive, you're all I need to survive.
I got you by my side.
So I'm holding on, feeling strong, baby you're the one for all my life.
I'm holding on to love to save my life...
This waterfall drops onto the beach near Devil's Punch Bowl in Oregon. I have no idea what the falls are called, if you know, let me know. I wish I had an image of me taking this shot, because it was raining, I was balancing on rocks to keep from getting wet, and I had a umbrella over my the tripod, which also had water rushing past it. The whole scene was funny, but I wanted to get an image and I was not going to let the weather beat me. Not sure I won.
Macro Mondays: "Numbers"
Stamped onto the key is the number sixty seven. It has no meaning to me. It's just a spare key to my house that I keep on a string, so that when I go for a walk I do not need to carry my car keys with me.
This image is about 7.6 cm (3 inches) on the long edge.
..the next part of our walk crossed headlands and cliffs. I was finding it difficult to work out where taken, so resorted to satellite view on google maps, combined with times of shots that I could place.
On the wet evning of 11th February 2023, Döllnitzbahn Saxon-Meyer 99 1584-4 runs onto Mügeln shed upon completion of its day's diagrams and prior to disposal.
© Gordon Edgar - All rights reserved. Please do not use my images without my explicit permission
Part Five: After running around in the siding, U57 eases onto the Vale trackage (I think) over and above Highway 144, toward the Colman Mine.
Might be worth noting my previous angle, Part 4 below, was taken near the crossing in the background. Sure got my steps in on this day.
Mile 1, Levack Spur
Levack, ON
Part One: Departing Clarabelle
Part Two: Westbound on the Cartier Sub
Part Seven: Running Around, Again
Part Eight: Leaving Levack Light
Part Nine: Around the Mountain
SPECTATORS on Freo’s North and South Moles witnessed a Mexican Navy tall ship spectacularly berth in port on Wednesday, decked with a giant Mexican flag.
The ARM Cuauhtemoc arrived in Freo on Wednesday morning and remained in port until Saturday afternoon.
The crew of the ARM Cuauhtemoc climbed the rigging for a spectacular entry and exit of Fremantle Harbour, Western Australia.
According to Fremantle Ports, the “instructional” ship facilitates the Mexican Navy’s 4th year naval cadets and is currently holding 261 sailors, many of whom clambered onto her 48.2m-tall masts in a remarkable display of welcome.
Freo is the Cuauhtemoc’s first Australian stop in her eight-month global training and goodwill cruise, following stops at San Diego, Honolulu, Tokyo, Incheon, Shanghai, Manila, and Singapore.
The Cuauhtemoc departed Fremantle at 2pm on Saturday, when she sailed on to Sydney, Auckland, and Tahiti.
This photo:-
Mexican Navy Tall Ship ARM Cuauhtemoc exiting Fremantle harbour, Western Australia.
It was a very breezy and chilly departure. They made a beautiful sight.
After dropping us off onto the mainland, our ship (The Donna Wood) moved away from shore and had the unfortunate job of having to constantly avoid the oncoming flow of large and small icebergs while they waited for us to finish up our photo workshop for the day.
The foreground iceberg in the center of the ripples was breaking apart and when this happens the iceberg will start rolling around until it maintains its equilibrium.
Entering Fonfjord, Scoresby Sound, Gaseland, Greenland
From the meditation series... continuing onto the grassy area... where one needs to tread carefully (dogs have been around)...
So, I just took advantage of the situation and environs and combined the two... bible and "found objects"... Thought this was poignant...
...and so this series is beginning to reveal itself to me...
salvia, grass clump and poop... psalms
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To Marit Cooper: yes, you're absolutely right, in some places I may be stoned for my brazen opinions. But, I live in fortunate times (a flickr world) where an artist may speak freely and clearly... my meaning here is that not all that is written is "written in stone" and that we each individually must find our own way... obey our hearts and speak truthfully about our humanness and our spiritualness... there is a blending that needs to take place.
I named this series "meditation", not "prayer"... because I feel we must abandon the old ways (blindly following a book or a leader), but step out and step up as an individual who can change the world...
This little dog was dragging the branch (about 6ft of it!) up the towpath before the owner threw it in the river!
Then, having retrieved said branch, she needed help to get ashore herself !!
According to Eddie Garcia, Meteorologist with KOB4 in Albuquerque, NM: "Hold onto your hats! A backdoor cold front will move in Thursday and could bring canyon winds and showers to New Mexico.
You may want to bring a rain jacket if you go to the New Mexico State Fair. Temperatures will cool down some with this."
They did. We awoke Friday morning to 59 degrees.
A backdoor cold front occurs when the clockwise motion around a high-pressure system pulls in colder air toward the south and west of it, in this case resulting in a line of clouds just above the 10k' elevation in which the mountain pushes warm air up into cooler regions.
This is an HDR image cobbled together from six frames of three exposures each for a total of 18 frames. Photoshop Merge to Panorama was used to stitch the images. A double-click on the image will take you closer to the mountain and reveal more details.
Having tied back onto their train after setting out a handful of cars at United Ethanol in Milton, WI, a Wisconsin & Southern T006 leaves town with their train from Madison. Headed timetable east over the former Milwaukee Road. The crew will drop its Chicago bound traffic at Rotamer Pass for an approaching T004 before taking the remainder of cars into Janesville.
-[ X is for Xetron failsafe ]-
A 35mm projector failsafe from a defunct manufacturer better known for their xenon-arc 35mm projection lamphouses and consoles. (I was trying to avoid using brand names this year, but that tricky letter X forced my hand.) Failsafes were an important component of projector automation, shutting down the projector in the event of a film break or when the film ran out at the show's end.
This failsafe is a later design with an optical cue detector, used to control house lights, sound, masking, and projector functions. Unlike traditional detectors using strips of foil applied to the film edges to complete low-voltage electric circuits as the strip passes through closely-spaced roller sets, this one uses either reflective foil or, in the case of one theatre chain's system, bar-coded labels tied to specific actions. The foil or labels were applied onto the picture area, a serious downside to this arrangement leading to brief, distracting blemishes projected onto the screen.
Having turned onto former M&StL trackage at Norwood Young America, this empty tank train enters the home stretch on their trip to be loaded at the ethanol plant at Winthrop, MN.
The view through the bare trees onto the misty Jura mountain landscape fascinated me this late afternoon. The stark aesthetics of the trees and branches, contrasting with the gentle veils of mist over the valley, created a special atmosphere for me. It was the interplay of light and perspective through the trees that made this moment so personally exciting and unique.
Der Blick durch die kahlen Bäume auf die neblige Jura-Berglandschaft faszinierte mich an diesem Spätnachmittag. Die karge Ästhetik der Bäume und Äste, im Kontrast zu den sanften Nebelschleiern über dem Thal, schuf für mich eine besondere Atmosphäre. Es war das Spiel von Licht und Sicht durch die Bäume, das diesen Moment für mich persönlich, so spannend und einzigartig machte.
Onto another lens I picked up for the Sony A6300. I doubt a cheaper or smaller lens could be found. Black Friday Sale price from Amazon including shipping was only $72.45 CAD ($54.16 USD) It is so small and only sticks out from the camera about 0.25". It looks likes a body cap with a tiny piece of glass in the center. It is the 7Artisans 18mm UFO ii, with a fixed aperture of f6.3 designed for use on an APS-c sensor, giving an approximate view of 27mm on a full frame camera so it is moderately wide.
Build quality is more than fine as it is pretty much all metal. There is a focus ring that turns quite smoothly.
Image quality...it is really only sharp in the center. Get a way from center just a bit and it is soft, borders and corners are downright smeary. I have posted a decent sized image here so in full view you can see what I mean.
Flare...absolutely terrible when facing the sun or a bright object.
Distortion is fairly bad, but easily correctable in photoshop at a setting of +14
Vignetting is pretty terrible as well. In photoshop I use settings of 70 for Vignette with a midpoint value of 30. those numbers are pretty high
Having said all of that it really is a fun little lens to play with and under the right conditions and wanting a certain character look it can still be useful. Here it makes for an acceptable look as the center is where most of the subject is while the perimeter is clouds and snow for the most part which which really needs little detail, so if one works with the limitations it can still produce useable images, especially if one is only shooting for posting lower resolution on the internet.
About the shot, I am standing on one of the mounds at the Bike Pump track at Hillside park. I liked the sweeping curve pointing towards the hill. Being a very dreary day I gave a cool blue tone to the monochrome image. (Under hue/saturation tab, (CTRL-U or CMD-U) and checked the Colourize box, and entered settings of 208 for hue and 8 for saturation)
50 034 'Furious' and 50 035 'Ark Royal' back onto their train at Newquay, the 17.40 to Paddington on 4 October 1987. This special is the final locomotive hauled train to the Cornish seaside town, as the semaphore signalling and the run round were removed the following day. Alas the bank of cloud visible in the background meant that the departure was in complete gloom!
Turning onto Luton's Runway 26 under some brilliant low winter afternoon sunshine. About to depart to Warsaw-Chopin as the WZZ8DM.
stepping back onto landscapes from urban adventures for the next bit...
this is literally first light of morning. the full moon had dropped a short while while earlier rendering a moment of pure darkness before the sun began it's new show.
sol azul - be there for you [hold alt/option to open in new tab]
other notes : the shot is a processed still from a timelapse sequence
shot this past summer. a couple frames captured earlier
were equally interesting with the strong contrast between black and blue.
very early draft here :
www.flickr.com/gp/79642675@N00/06219R
enjoy.
I went to Lincolnshire for a couple of days last weekend. I've always liked this area near Barton and there is a beautiful yellow house with red phonebox in front of it.
I love the contrasting colours and this time there was a lone plant growing between the two.
I tried shooting the whole box, wall and adjacent bench but it didn't do anything for me. However, when I knelt down and saw this I realised this was the shot I was looking for. So, I took this.
This was clinging onto life through the pebbled ground and probably a metaphor for how I feel at this moment.
Transposed onto a pentagon. This makes possible some shaping of the petals, which I found pretty.
Video tutorial :
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ3R1xFbcUA
Thanks, Alexander for sharing your model.
This little fellow was hanging onto some weeds in my backyard. I loved the way the light was hitting his swirly shell.
I saw this quote on someone's page the other day. I loved it and saved it and wanted to share it with you!
"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else..." ~~ Judy Garland
♥
FP & Explore #14....Thank you, Friends!
I actually managed to get up for 4.30am and up onto Hengistbury Head ready to capture the sun rising! The cloud stopped me from getting the shot I intended on (excuse for a revisit!) but the pathway leading across to the coastguard hut caught my eye. Very philosophical but it got me thinking about my pathway and all the great things happening at the moment.
Anyway, for a moment I thought I wouldn't come away with anything then the sky lit up for a short time just as the sun was rising to the left of the scene.
Have a great day guys!
Rolleiflex T FP4+(100) Tanol
scan from print onto Adox Variotone Premium 20x25
1. Catechol 1+9 and 5ml/l FB
2. SE1 Sepia 1+14
3. MT1 1+19 45s
4. short bleach and redev. in MT3a
Very quick trip onto campus for my 20th "Squirrel Run" at the University of Michigan since our work from home started to combat COVID-19. Headed in on a very hot sunny day - Thursday July 9th around midday in between two meetings. Spent most of it at Law - so did some people with dogs (so the squirrels were laying low). I did not see Bingo - I hope she is doing better. Glad I got to visit my squirrel friends today. At a personal level, the squirrels cheer me up. They always do. Sending love and virtual hugs from Ann Arbor, Michigan.
You know those moments in life you try to hold onto long afterward because they remind you of that one time you were brave and crazy and full of life and whatever happens next, you can look back at those moments and think I did that, that was me, I can handle this, life?
For me that was standing barefoot on an iceberg in a sleeveless dress at Jokulsarlon glacial lagoon in Iceland.
It wasn't that hard. I made sure to pick an iceberg that wasn't too sharp or too slippery or too in danger of collapsing or too deep in water. And for such an arctic landscape, it was a surprisingly mild, still morning - a welcome respite from the usually-unforgiving Icelandic winds.
But even if it's not by any means the most difficult thing I've ever done, it's a reminder of all good and wild and courageous things in life. If I can stand on that iceberg, maybe I can do anything.
Onto the path from Brixner Hütte to the Malga Fane medieval village, witnessing a great show.
Val di Valles, South Tyrol, Italy
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