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Mars.
Mars was at its closest position to Earth tonight. This image took me HOURS to prepare for, including several test nights earlier this week, collimation of my scope's optics and learning new software processes. Quite happy with this result, some lovely surface detail here!
Celestron C8 OTA
Celestron CGEM mount
ZWO ASI183MC camera
Celestron 2x barlow
3000 combined frames, captured at 130 frames per second. Processed in PIPP, Auto Stakkert, Registax and Lightroom.
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Had good seeing about a week after the recent 2025 Mars opposition. North (top) and South Polar caps are evident as well as a number of identifiable geographical features / regions - Sinus Meridiani, Sinus Sabaeus, Arabia Terra, Mare Serpentis, Edge of Syrtis Major, Schiaparelli Crater, Chryse Planitia, Acidalia Planitia and more. Clouds can also be seen along the left limb. This is my best image of Mars. Looking ahead to the Red Planet's next opposition in 2027.
Date: January 23, 2025
Bortle Class 5 backyard, SF Bay Area (East Bay)
Capture: 5000 frames per filter, lucky imaging (FireCapture)
Telescope: Celestron C9.25 SCT
Camera: ZWO ASI462MM
Filters: Astronomik R,G,B
Tele Vue 2x Powermate
Mount: iOptron GEM45
Processing: AutoStakkert!4, waveSharp 2.0, Photoshop CC
A407 rolls out of Kankakee, with Amtrak and R960 out of the way. It's now a straight shot to Harris, the last control point before the Matteson Sub and the home stretch before Kirk Yard.
Opposing beams of light emanate like lasers from the sun at daybreak over the marsh. The photo was taken at the Jones/Hungryland Wildlife & Environmental Area in western Martin County, Florida.
Saturn is the most beautiful planet in the sky with its dazzling rings. Saturn is a gas giant planet composed of hydrogen & Helium gases with a rocky core. The Saturnian day is 10 hours only due to rapid rotation of the planet. Its distance from the Sun is around 1.4 billion Km. In opposition when Earth, Saturn & Sun become in one line. Saturn appears larger due to close approach. In this image Saturn, apparent size is 19 Arc-second. Gear setup: Celestron Mak 127/1500, Televue 2.5x, UV/IR cut filter, ZWO 294 MC, iOptron iEQ 30 pro. Captured by Sharp pro. Stacked by Autostakkart!, wavelets by Registax, processed by PS and Sharpen AI, Gigapixel AI.
La batalla tradicional de 'Els Enfarinats' tiene lugar en la ciudad de Ibi, en el sureste de España. Los manifestantes conocidos como Els Enfarinats realizan un simulacro de golpe de estado en el que establecen su propio gobierno de la ciudad. Sus oponentes, conocidos como la Oposición, intentan restablecer el orden en la ciudad y más tarde los dos grupos participan en una batalla de harina, huevos y carretillas en la plaza principal.
La celebración se celebra todos los años el 28 de diciembre, con motivo del Día de los Santos Inocentes, un famoso día de bromas y bromas prácticas en toda España.
The traditional battle of the 'Els Enfarinats' (the floured people) takes place in the south-eastern Spanish town of Ibi.
Revellers known as Els Enfarinats stage a mock coup d'etat where they establish their own rule of the town. Their opponents, known as the opposition, try to restore order in the town and later the two groups engage in a battle of flour, fireworks and eggs in the main square.
The celebration is held every year on December 28, marking Holy Innocents' Day - a famous day of pranks and practical jokes throughout Spain.
TODOS LOS PERMISOS RESERVADOS. PROHIBIDA SU DESCARGA, CAPTURA Y/O UTILIZACIÓN SIN CONSENTIMIENTO.
Mars Opposition 2016, Animation sequence of images taken from may 18th - june 17th (eleven sets). Olympus Mons is seen at top center at start of this animation.
Looking down the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal towards Wiggins Hill Bridge, on the very edge of the city boundary in Minworth, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, West Midlands.
The story of the Birmingham and Fazeley begins in 1770, when the Birmingham Canal Company was seen as having a monopoly. At the time, the coalfields at Walsall did not have canal access, and a public meeting was held at Lichfield on 18 August, to discuss an independent link from Walsall to Fradley Junction on the Trent and Mersey Canal, passing through Lichfield. Opposition from local landowners resulted in the plan being shelved, but a further plan was proposed at a meeting held in Warwick in August 1781, for a canal to run from Wednesbury through Fazeley to Atherstone, which was the end of the Coventry Canal at the time. The plans were changed somewhat in October, but shareholders in the Birmingham Canal saw it as a serious threat.
Two bills were put before Parliament in 1782, one for the Birmingham and Fazeley, and a rival one from the Birmingham Canal for a branch from Wednesbury to Walsall. Both sides opposed the other's proposal, and both bills were defeated. The promoters then opened negotiations with other canal companies, to ensure that when the canal was built, it would be part of a larger network. In 1782, they obtained an agreement from the Oxford Canal Company that they would complete the route to the River Thames at Oxford, one from the Coventry Canal that they would extend their canal from Atherstone to Fazeley, and agreed that they would complete the Coventry Canal's route from Fazeley as far as Whittington, as the Coventry Canal company could not finance the whole route. The Trent and Mersey would finish that link by building the remainder of the route to Fradley Junction. A second bill was put before Parliament, and at the same time, the Birmingham Canal presented a scheme for a canal from Riders Green to Broadwaters, near Walsall, with eight branches, and a second canal from Newhall to Fazeley. The Birmingham and Fazeley was authorised by an Act of Parliament obtained in 1784. The new company and the Birmingham Canal merged soon afterwards, becoming the awkwardly named Birmingham & Birmingham & Fazeley Canal Company.
John Smeaton was the engineer employed by the Birmingham and Fazeley, but work did not start immediately, as he was also responsible for the Riders Green to Broadwaters line, which was completed first. The project did not go smoothly, as there were disputes between James Bough, the superintendent of the canal company, and Pinkertons, who were the civil engineering contractors employed to carry out the work. The issue concerned the cement that the Pinkertons were using. Work on the Fazeley line began in April 1786, with Bough still acting as superintenent, and the Pinkertons responsible for the construction of the section between Minworth and Fazeley. In late 1786, George Pinkerton found out that the levels, which had been surveyed by Bough, were wrong. Samuel Bull, the engineer for the canal company, investigated and reported that Pinkerton was right. The Pinkertons started to work on the project from January 1787, even though the contracts were not signed until May. Bough made a series of allegations that Pinkertons' workmanship and the materials used were of poor quality.
The company stopped paying Pinkerton in late 1788, as the costs were exceeding the original estimates, and the contract was taken away from them in February 1789. There was then a financial dispute over money which had been paid to Pinkerton as "extras", but which the company then claimed were overpayments. Some £2,750 was at issue, and the case rumbled on for a decade, until a court case in 1801 gave him only £436 of the claim. Unhappy with the outcome, Pinkerton justified his position, but his remarks about John Houghton, the Company Clerk, were deemed to be libellous, for which he was fined and spent some time in prison.
The canal was completed in August 1789. The benefits of the co-operation with the other canal companies were that when all the links were completed in 1790, it immediately generated a great deal of freight traffic. This created problems, as the flights of locks at Aston and Farmer's Bridge became congested, and this became worse when the Warwick Canal built a junction onto the Digbeth Branch. The problem was not solved until 1844, when the Birmingham and Warwick Junction Canal to the south east and the Tame Valley Canal to the north west were opened. The name of the Birmingham & Birmingham & Fazeley Canal Company was changed to Birmingham Canal Navigations in 1794.
Saturno em oposição ano 2020
foto em 20 de julho de 2020 as 20h30 utc-3
Gostei do fato das faixas do polo norte começarem levemente a aparecer nesta foto, em comparação com meus registros anteriores onde havia uma faixa única cinzenta.
Curiosidades gerais: Durante esse momento de órbita chamado oposição, o planeta está perfeitamente alinhado (Sol - Terra - Saturno), e do lado oposto, em relação ao Sol, de modo que a sombra do globo de Saturno, que geralmente é vista em parte projetando-se sobre seus anéis, acaba praticamente desaparecendo, porque está se projetando para o lado de trás do planeta.
E por que esses detalhes são interessantes? Porque esses detalhes e outros milhares mais observados, juntos confirmam o entendimento que a ciência tem, de sistema solar, e de sua mecânica celeste.
Telescópio Celestron 200mm C8 EdgeHD F/10
Barlow Televue 2x, câmera asi120mc, filtro UV/IR-cut Baader
- www.kevin-palmer.com - Mars reached opposition on this night, which means it's orbit was at it's closest point to Earth. This is the closest it's been since 2003 and it won't be this bright again until 2035.
The negative and positive in photography carry a balance in their opposition where black in the negative holds back light and strong black produces white when making the positive. The reversal of the intensity of light is the tone and the light defines whilst the shadow details. The chemistry involved in black and white images can sometimes be less sensitive to certain light that we see as colours and black and film can gleefully ignore the reds that we see. Our eyes differ from one person to the next and so we all see and share a different vision on and of the world we all share together through photography, the image can be either a positive, or a negative reflection on the scene and so have a slight change from actually being there at time of the picture taking, or later seeing the image in different reproductions and sharing it in the many, many ways that we do with online services compressing and vitalising our images in their way of presenting the world. Altogether it is gloriously as Above so varied in much beauty and great splendour Below.
There’s much to be considered about Cleopatra and her representations, instead of her being mentioned here could it be completely changed instead to focus on photography through this once almost sacred acting tract?
Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene 2, line 962.
Mecaenas. Now Antony must ‘cease photography’ utterly.
Domitius Enobarus.
Never; he will not: he cannot, he shall not,
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety: other ‘pursuits’ cloy
The appetites they feed: but she makes hungry
Where most she satisfies; for vilest things
Become themselves in her: that the holy priests
Bless her when she is riggish and rare whimsical.
In a moment made an impression later is displayed,
In a million, million billion pixels created into frame
Lit and shown and dark and hidden hard and driven
Lost in lines unread delivered of words ever unsaid,
Ghosts in a part organic regime, a digital flesh machine
The tears of edit all wretched, wracked and wrought
The process to naught, the critical exposure delivered
An image bright in light a practice through the dark.
Her hold upon her acolytes those followers of the light
In fever rant and in sanity do proclaim the f-stop set,
A focus nailed and all is suddenly in Summer bloom again
Such that loss hath lost all contrast of forgotten former pain...
© PHH Sykes 2023
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The above quote has been edited, here it is without my quick additions.
Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene 2, line 962.
Mecaenas. Now Antony must leave her utterly.
Domitius Enobarus. Never; he will not:
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety: other women cloy
The appetites they feed: but she makes hungry
Where most she satisfies; for vilest things
Become themselves in her: that the holy priests
Bless her when she is riggish.
Links to the Cairns
Clava Cairns Near Inverness, IV2 5EU
www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/clava-c...
A Visitors’ Guide to Balnuaran of Clava a prehistoric cemetery
www.archhighland.org.uk/userfiles/file/Sites/Historic%20S...
Balnuaran Of Clava, South-west
canmore.org.uk/site/14279/balnuaran-of-clava-south-west
Highland Historic Environment Record
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This Buck was Listening to the Challenge call
from my previous post. >>> "Call of the Wild"
Next he charged down the Hill to intercept.
Great fun to watch!