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Another from the fantastic night, at the Cully at Ouse Burn.
An enjoyable night of light painting with some friends. A combination of gadgets used in this shot
. . . No this is NOT a close up of Pluto, but rather a long exposure (3 seconds) close up of The Orbiter, a ride at the Traverse City Cherry Festival from last week. Even though some of the rides were the same as previous years, the long exposures always give you something a little different each time!
Have a great weekend Facebook and Flickr friends!
Venture a guess?
This is a lot more work than water drops where I can just sit on a stool behind the camera and push buttons. I have seen these before but with a different medium and perspective. It's kind of fun to have a mystery for a change. I'm still changing set-ups.
Our orbit is giving us a very low sun angle right now – great for cloud pics!
More about the Principia mission: www.esa.int/Principia
Credits: ESA/NASA
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Week 3 of 52 Group (Self-Portrait)
M Pearl - training and inputting data into a new broadcast network (Wide Orbit) software. Concentration and hours of work ahead.....one step at a time. Two computers are helpful and make this process easier. Fortunate I am, - I use the desktop for audio training and the second one laptop for inputting. This completes another weeks self portrait group.
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A Red-tailed Hawk appears to orbit the moon. I took the photo of the moon a couple of evenings back. When I looked at it on my computer, all I could do was wish that I had that 400mm lens. Then I remembered taking a picture of this hawk soaring high overhead that had me wishing for the 400mm lens. So, I cropped both photos and combined them in Photoshop (practicing for some wedding photos that I need to work on).
This is a composite Image using Adobe Photoshop CS2
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EXPLORE: Highest position: 157 on Thursday, February 24, 2011
Another one from Victoria Square, Belfast.
My first attempt at frozen soap bubbles ... really hard to keep them from popping ... and your fingers from freezing at -5° below zero
The sharp eye of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured the tiny moon Phobos during its orbital trek around Mars on 12 May 2016. The observations were intended to photograph Mars while it was on its closest approach to Earth along its orbit, so the moon’s cameo appearance was a bonus.
Over the course of 22 minutes, Hubble took 13 separate exposures, allowing astronomers to create a timelapse video showing the movement of Phobos around its host planet. Because the moon is so small, just 27×22×18 km, it appears star-like in the images.
It also orbits incredibly close to Mars, just 6000 km above the planet, making it closer to its parent planet than any other moon in the Solar System.
Sibling Deimos orbits much further out, at a distance of some 23 500 km.
While the origin of the moons is much debated, their fate is inevitable. Phobos is gradually spiraling in towards Mars and within 50 million years will likely either break up due to the planet’s gravity, or crash into its surface. Meanwhile, the opposite is true for Deimos: its orbit is slowly taking it away from Mars.
This image was first published on 20 July 2017.
Credit: NASA, ESA and Z. Levay (STScI) Acknowledgment: J. Bell (ASU) and M. Wolff (Space Science Institute)
If you have access to a very powerful telescope then you can point it into the night sky and be witness to all of the orbiting speckles in space. They could be meteorites, satellites or other space junk.
I do not have a powerful telescope so I had to take sea salt and other small spices and drop them onto a piece of black paper to get that space "speckle" appearance. This was taken with a macro lens on small section of the black paper to get the sea salt to appear as meteorites.
I found this structure a real challenge to photograph. Personally I don't find much beauty in this and found the sharp angles hard against the lens and the sky. I decided to let the sculpture lead the eye up to the sky.
The ArcelorMittal Orbit is a 115-metre-high tower in Stratford in the Olympic Park. It was designed by Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond.
ArcelorMittal Orbit Sculpture, in the Olympic Park, Stratford, London. Tallest sculpture in the UK, by Anish Kapoor, built for the Olympic and Paralympic Games 2012.
NGC 1514 is a planetary nebula in the constellation Taurus. It is also known as the Crystal Ball Nebula. It is 1520 light years from Earth. The nebula originated from a binary star system with the designation HD 281679 from the Henry Draper Catalogue. The bright, visible component is a giant star, while the nebula-generating companion is now a hot, sub-luminous O-type star. The two have one of the longest known orbits for any planetary nebula, with a period of about 9 years.
Captured on my remote observatory in Spain.
Scopes: APM TMB LZOS 152 Refractors
Cameras: QSI6120wsg8
Mounts: 10Micron GM2000 HPS
A total of 35 hours (HaOIIIRGB)
More information at www.imagingdeepspace.com/ngc-1514.html
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Hudsonville Fair last night with Lee. No sun on Tuesday night made for a little more of a dramatic sky. Played with this in Topaz to make it pop a little more.
More Master Chief helmet faffing tonight. I wAnted to reflect something on the visor and started with a dome. That was too small so broke out Chris T's orb tool and the fiber optic lp brush. The hardest part was avoiding getting the cameras reflection in which I just about managed. I have a couple more ideas to try out with this which I'm looking forward to trying. This is number 174 of my 366.