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This is my first panorama with the Tokina 11-16 f2.8. Love the clarity and the hard stop for infinity on this lens, makes astro a breeze. I think I could've done better with the composition though. Next time!
He perfected his craft at the Army Jungle Warfare Training Centre where he served as a member of the OpFor. (Opposition Forces).
It was his job to play the enemy in training exercises and he took his job very seriously. His favourite trick was to sneak up behind a trainee and write "Bang Your Dead" on the back of his helmet without him even knowing he was there.
Any demolitions specialist can set a charge and blow something up, but Wreckage can also defuse and disarm demolitions.
"If it goes off with a bang, I treat it with respect, anyone who doesn't is a fool, plain and simple"
The ring brightening by the Seeliger effect is obvious, as is a small storm near the pole. Further details on the image.
A pair of Blue Angels Super Hornets wow the crowds at the El Centro Air Show in their first public display of the 2022 season.
Aircraft: Boeing F/A-18E Super Hornets of the US Navy Demonstration Team "Blue Angels"
Location: NAF El Centro, California, USA.
New attempt on Mars... under bad conditions.
Telescope: Celestron 11 - CGEM
Powermate 2.5x
Camera: ASI224MC - Filter IR/UV Cut
Software: Firecapture - Astrosurface - DxO Lab
Fuji GW690III
Provia
The sign says 'FIRE' but in order to get some detail in that beautiful crisp snow, I had to compromise on a stop or two overexposure on the sign. That's what happens when you prefer slide film for night photography....
66304 passes the Arcow Quarry Branch at Foredale with 6C89 09:38 Mountsorrel to Carlisle North Yard loaded stone. 19/4/2018. 66711 "Sence" waits patiently to follow it up the S&C.
''Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast.- Leonard Nimoy
Ok, this is probably the worst picture of Saturn ever taken, but I just wanted to see if I could resolve the rings with my 400 mm lens, and in fact I could. Saturn is not quite at opposition, but close enough.
I made my way South out of San Francisco on a Thursday night after work. I was tracking the forecast as I neared Pigeon Point and Shark Fin cove was covered in clouds and fog shrouding the milky way, however, the forecast showed the fog and clouds retreating from the coast further south approximately 1am. I took the gamble that the forecast would be correct and began the drive down to Big Sur to McWay Falls. When I arrived at McWay Falls it was still misty out and I decided to wait for the conditions to improve as it was still foggy during the drive down. I left the warmth of the car at 2am approximately the time the forecast showed the cloud cover retreating from the coast. I was greeted by the milky way rising to the right of the falls because of a fence preventing access to the washed out trail beyond. I made due with the condition given to me and chatted with some fellow photographers on their first visit to the falls.
I imagined a giant sleeping under the ice for thousands of years. I imagined a secret door carved into the glacier that only I could find. I imagined an ancient race of ice dwellers living in ice caves far below the surface. I imagined myself there, not cold or shivering but belonging; but of course, I knew I didn't.
This was a wondrous sight to witness and the magic it possessed will always live in my imagination. I don't believe in disturbing the Earth's magnificence so I edited together what I saw in my imagination. As a boat floated us past these pieces of ice I collected pictures to composite. This encapsulates what I adore about imagery; it lets you create what your imagination sees, not only what you can physically experience.
- www.kevin-palmer.com - Jupiter is currently the brightest object in the sky aside from the moon. It reaches opposition on June 10th. Right now it's moving through Sagittarius in front of the milky way. I put my camera on a tracking mount to capture more detail in the surrounding sky.
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I captured this image of Jupiter and the Great Red Spot on the morning of May 8, 2018 on the old 12" Brashear refractor at Brown University's Ladd Observatory.
Photo Details:
Camera: Canon 60D
4572mm fl
f/15
Eyepiece: 8mm = 576x a-focal magnification
Time: 07.09.2024. UTC+2 22:23-23:26
Location: New Zagreb
Telescope: C6
Barlow: GSO x2.5 (3750mm focal)
Camera: Touptek 290MM + ZWO RGB filters
Software: Firecapture, Autostakkert!4, Registax6, Photoshop
Seeing: 3/5
Brickell Key is largely regarded as paradise in the heart of Miami. It has come a long way from being an aggregation of discarded dredge material. Like so many islands found in Biscayne Bay, Brickell Key is a man-made creation.
When the Brickell's arrived at the south side of the Miami River in 1871, William Brickell built a home and trading post. The location of these buildings would later be referred to as Brickell Point. When the Brickell's looked east from their home, they saw nothing but bay water from Brickell Point to the peninsula that would later become Miami Beach. It wasn’t until Henry Flagler began to develop the city of Miami in 1896 that that view started to change. Flagler’s team removed a sand bar at the mouth of the Miami River. The team also used a dredge to deepen the river and bay adjacent to Flagler’s Royal Palm Hotel to create the first port of Miami.
The dredging of the Miami River was a point of contention for William Brickell. As part of the effort to deepen the Miami River, those that Flagler put in charge of dredging began to dump limestone and river silt along and just off the shore east of the Brickell property. It was the discard off the shoreline that began to create the first of two spoil islands.
During the dredging of the Miami Canal in 1912, the larger of two spoil islands ended up being expanded with additional river discard. The downstream dredge activity created a lot of free river silt that made its way to the mouth of the Miami River. This silt was then gathered and dumped in the area of the spoil islands. At this time, a smaller spoil island was forming to the southeast of the larger island. It was believed to have come from digging out a vessel that went aground on that spot.
By 1914, the widowed Mary Brickell was quite wealthy from land transactions. During the summer of that year, she had offered to remove the spoil islands at her own expense. The spoil islands were considered a nuisance and even Dr. James Jackson, the physician for the Royal Palm Hotel and later the namesake for Jackson Memorial Hospital, declared the islands to be a menace to the health and welfare of the public. The islands were considered unsightly, difficult to navigate and possessing an unpleasant odor. Mary Brickell had intended to pump the spoil material of the islands into some low lying areas on her property. However, there was enough opposition to her proposal that it was not accepted.
The fate of the islands changed in 1916. By late spring, the Florida Internal Improvement Fund (FII), placed in ad to solicit bids for the land mass. Bids ranged from $10.10 to $3000 per acre for the five acre island. Mary Brickell’s bid was $750 for the entire parcel. Her bid was not the winning bid. On June 21st, 1916, the IIF trustees accepted the highest bid and ordered a deed to be issued to Mrs. M.R. Burlingame.
Mrs. Burlingame was a business woman who moved to Miami from Michigan. She was one of the few women to own an advertising agency at the time. Mrs. Burlingame was a big proponent of promoting Miami as a year round living destination. It was her intention to annex the smaller spoil island and to ultimately build her home on the combined islands. However, prior to the end of June in 1916, Mary Brickell filed suit to challenge the deed issued to Mrs. Burlingame.
The law suit filed by Mary Brickell was finally settled in 1918. The Florida Supreme Court declared in favor of Mrs. Burlingame and a deed was finally and officially issued. By 1920, Burlingame announced her intention to build a hotel or apartment house on the island. The island was referred to as Burlingame Island. In April of 1922, the War Department (later managed by the Army Corp of Engineers), issued a permit for a bulk head and fill of the five acre island. This work was scheduled to be complete by the end of 1922.
However, by 1924, nothing was ever developed on the island. It was eventually sold to E.J. Reed of Miami, who filed for a permit to fill a much larger, triangular-shaped island. There was no evidence that this permit was ever granted, but the request provided a preview to how future plans would influence the shape of today’s Claughton Island.
Through the remainder of the 1920s, not much had changed on Burlingame Island. There was no development and it was said that trees began taking over the topology. Some would say that the island belonged to the raccoons and rats. Ownership changed again in 1932 when R.P. Clark purchased the island. His dredging company was responsible for enlarging the island to 20.7 acres. Mr. Clark owned the island until January 1937.
In the late 1970s, Swire Properties bought most of the island from Claughton. Since then, the island has been built out with some of the tallest buildings in Miami, and the Mandarin Oriental, Miami hotel, mainly during the condo "Manhattanization" wave of the 2000s.
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
www.miami-history.com/p/brickell-key-on-claughton-island
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brickell_Key
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