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The Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory is operated by the Smithsonian in SE Arizona located near Amado on top of Mount Hopkins. You can see a car driving up to the observatory and just make out the observatory on Hopkins center left (the highest peak in the frame). For best wonderment results, please view large in the lightbox! ;-)))
Image Notes: This is a stacked star trails image. I used 81 26 second shots at 2500 ISO, F/2.8 at 16 mm taken with my Nikon D700 on my 11-16 Tokina. Three dark frames were taken and three separate shots were exposed to bring out the foreground via light-painting and longer exposure. A bit of diffraction/star burst was added to the N. Star/Polaris via Pro Digital's StarSpikes plugin.
Griffith Park Observatory, Griffith Park, Los Angeles, CA.
03-21-20
Although the Observatory itself is closed, along with everything else in town (and up and down the state of California) the hiking trails are open, and there were dozens of walkers, with and without dogs, hikers, and joggers, all keeping their "social distance" enjoying the absolutely beautiful and clear Spring day this morning.
You could see all the way to Terminal Island and the bridges, and on the other side of Palos Verdes, Catalina Island was clear on the horizon.
The Griffith Park Observatory backed by the skyline of Los Angeles.
Photographed at 135mm with my telephoto lens from the hiking trail to Mt. Hollywood on March 21, 2020 and processed 05-19-20.
The remains of the massive sextant at the Ulugh Beg Observatory in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. It was built in the 1420's, destroyed in 1449 and rediscovered by the Russian archaeologist Vassily Vyatkin in 1908. It could accurately measure the sun from the horizon, the altitude of a star and other planets. The duration of the year, period of planets, and eclipses were measured by this device. Ulugh Beg's measurements of planets closely relate to today's measurement, showing us the phenomenal accuracy of the device. All a bit controversial at the time though. The observatory was destroyed after Ulugh Beg was assassinated by his own son, Abd al Latif.
Astronomers Monument (Hipparchus, Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, and Herschel) on the lawn of Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles.
Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, England, hosts a number of radio telescopes as part of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Manchester.
Arecibo Observatory, a radio telescope (and more) built into a karst sinkhole near Arecibo, Puerto Rico.
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“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams
I knew I had to find this place. I came home from work and changed and hit the road, and after being sidetracked a couple of times by a few other cool things that I came across along the way, I finally found this place. It's awesome. I was already losing light, and even though I had just put a new butane cartidge in my Thermacell mosquito repeller, I left it in the car. Bad move. Very very bad move. The mosquitoes were viscious, so I couldn't stay long. As I was driving out of the park, the first stars appeared, and I immediately knew that it was going to be a late night. All I had to do was find some recognizable spot where I could stop and try some night shots. I found this old place that I have been a few times before. Pulled over and started looking for my phone to see if I could figure out where and when I would be able to see the Milky Way. I left both the front and back door open, for light, while I searched for my phone, and when I was almost convinced that I had dropped it in the field out by the observatory, in the mosquito infested weeds that were up to my shoulders, and would never see it again, I found it. I never did figure out where the Milky Way was, but I enjoyed the dark skies and the stars and amused myself until I saw that it was already after 10pm and decided that I should head back home. And driving home, I found that I had considerable company that had settled in when I left the doors open ... flying, flapping, buzzing and jumping company. Mosquitoes, horse flies, a large green grasshopper that insisted on sitting on my arm, and a large moth about the size of a small bat... or, heck... maybe it was a small bat... who knows. I was glad to get home and get out of that car. But, I will be going back out there again ... I wouldn't mind having an adventurous and courageous partner to join me... one that either knows where I throw my cell phone, or can find the Milky Way without it... and definitely one that is good at swatting flying insects ... or shutting my doors. Yeah, I definitely could use a co-pilot. But I found more stuff to explore... so next chance I get... I'll be out the door.
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The observatory was operated by the University of Chicago Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics from its founding in 1897 to 2018. The observatory, often called "the birthplace of modern astrophysics," was founded in 1892 by astronomer George Ellery Hale and financed by businessman Charles T. Yerkes. The observatory's main dome houses a 40 in-diameter doublet lens refracting telescope, the second-largest refractor ever successfully used for astronomy. From Wikipedia
Technical: Panorama in lightroom using 4 images. I don't like the distortion (probably should have taken more pictures). But I do like the picture.
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Griffith Observatory, Griffith Park, Hollywood, California
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I suppose the fog would make "observing" a challenge.
The Dominion Observatory was an astronomical observatory in Ottawa, Ontario that operated from 1902 to 1970. The Observatory was also an institution within the Canadian Federal Government. The observatory grew out of the Department of the Interior's need for the precise coordinates and timekeeping that at that time could only come from an observatory. For several years they had used a small observatory on the Ottawa River for this purpose. In 1902, it was decided that Canada needed a larger national observatory similar to the Royal Greenwich Observatory in Britain.
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Finishing my trip East tomorrow. Don't worry: I have hundreds of photos to sort and post these next few months.
Thunderclouds roll in near Bishop, CA. This abandoned observatory blends into the landscape along the hiking trail leading to the top of White Peak Mountain.
Roque de los Muchachos (2426 m), la palma island, canaries
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The David Dunlap Observatory (DDO) is an astronomical observatory site in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada. Established in 1935, it was owned and operated by the University of Toronto until 2008. It was then acquired by the city of Richmond Hill, which provides a combination of heritage preservation, unique recreation opportunities and a celebration of the astronomical history of the site. Its primary instrument is a 74-inch (1.88 m) reflector telescope, at one time the second-largest telescope in the world, and still the largest in Canada.
In the clear air and lack of light pollution, high up on the Assy Plateau above Almaty, Kazakhstan, stands the deserted Assy Turgen Observatory, build around 1981 by Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute. It contains two telescope towers and supporting buildings, and a 1-meter telescope was launched in 1991. Dissolution of the Soviet Union resulted in suspension of activities; the site appears abandoned except for a couple of caretakers. Plans exist to revive the structures and launch a 1.5 m telescope.
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Used by the University of Copenhagen until 1861, the Round Tower is Europe’s oldest functioning astronomy observatory. It is now regularly used by amateur astronomers and others who wish to explore the sky. It is included in the ticket to visit the Observatory.
On top of the Round Tower, there has been several different observatories. The latest is from 1929 and contains a refracting telescope with 80–450 x magnification.
Open for the public on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. I want to try!
Built between 1857-59 on top of the hill where yesterday's "figged bridge" picture was taken, Sydney Observatory is now heritage listed and operates as a museum, allowing visitors telescopic viewing of astronomical objects.
A reprocessed version of a photo I took of the Griffith Park Observatory on a beautiful day in September 2017.
This is one of those iconic buildings which instantly announces "Los Angeles" because of it's appearance in so many movies and TV shows.
As I work with HDR from year to year, I'm instinctively learning how best to use the program to bring out the best in the photos, but yet not overdo it like I did when I first processed this image last September.
There is quite the view, looking North from the 100th floor of One World Trade Center!
The Empire State Building is 2.84 miles away in this shot. Still, the city doesn't seem so big when you actually walk around it.
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Here is the Terminator view as I call it! Because you see this view at the beginning of the movie. It's the Observatory in Los Angeles California! I retouched it with Aurora HDR!
BMW Museum, Munich, Germany. Shot with the Sony A7 Mark 2 and the Sony Fe 16-35mm F4 ZA OSS.
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This was from the hill in Greenwich park by the Observatory. This is also where GMT time is and at night they shine a beam over the sky to show the line. In the background is Canary Wharf a collection of skyscrapers in one of London's financial districts.
observing the stars at high altitude! thanks to the Saint Veran observatory, in french Alps, Under the purest sky in Europe. That was marvellous. More pictures are coming
I'm still playing with my NIR-converted A2200.
This was an eight-frame panorama, each consisting of three exposures of +1/0/-1 EV. The whole mess was combined in Autopano Pro and output as an HDR. (Autopano Pro HDRs are pretty tame as HDRs go. It basically expands the dynamic range of the resulting image, and that's it. Just the way I like it.)
I did a little post-processing in Photoshop, mostly to clean up the copious noise this camera suffers from. I'm loving having a camera that's converted to near-IR photography. But the more I use this thing the more I wish I had a second T2i to convert. The A2200 is already a noisy camera. I don't think my conversion helped things much in that department.
The observatories shown here are, from left to right: Caltech Submillimeter Observatory, James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, Smithsonian Submillimeter Array, Subaru Telescope, W.M. Keck Observatory, the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility, and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope.
Also in this panorama are Poliahu (behind CSO and JCMT), the island of Maui (behind IRTF), and the clouds over Waimea (between IRTF and CFHT).
The Sierra Nevada Observatory (Spanish: Observatorio de Sierra Nevada; OSN; code: J86) is located at Loma de Dilar (2896 m altitude) in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, in the province of Granada, Spain; established in 1981. It is operated and maintained by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia - IAA) and contains two Nasmyth telescopes with apertures of 1.5 and 0.9 metres.