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Not my finest shot, but an unexpected capture of LNER Azuma units running side-by-side on 4th September 2020. Repairs to damaged overhead line equipment near Biggleswade resulted in Class 801/1s Nos.801110 and 801104 (left) taking the Up Slow on the 1A07 06:30 Bradford Forster Square to London Kings Cross. Upon passing Holme Green crossing, the formation was overtaken by Class 800/1 No.800105 on the 1Y08 05:40 Sunderland to London Kings Cross, running on diesel power.
Information on unit numbers and workings from Realtime Trains:
Tirana - Mother Teresa Square - University building.
Tirana is the capital of Albania and enjoys a beautiful setting between the ranges of Dajti mountain from one side and the coastal plains on the other one. Tirana is 110 m above sea level. The average annual temperatures are in July 24°C and in January 7°C. Annual rainfalls are 1200 mm per year. Tirana’s city superficies is 31 km 2. Tirana is on the same parallel as Naples, Madrid and Istanbul and on the same meridian as Budapest and Krakow.
It pains me to hear those Micro$oft bells chime when it boots, but (WOW) it's fast and browser testing is a breeze...
Parallel Universe by Ouchhh is a light installation at Artechouse. The light patterns are pure white light. However, my camera sensor captures the white light in these imaginary colors, so the photos look very different than the actual work.
Two video screens on which people are moving about—on one as “real” human beings; on the other as shadows. By touching—and feeling—one of these individuals, you can transport him/her simply, conveniently into the other world.
credit: Florian Voggeneder
Parallel Vienna 2015 (Altes Postamt, 23.9. - 27.9.2015, Eröffnung) esel.at/termin/79300 | Foto: eSeL.at
Look straight through the image with both eyes straight ahead, similar to the technique used for Magic Eye images, focus on the image that appears in the center. The 500 pixel width size works best for most monitors.
Parallel - Our Daily Challenge
The high water in Lake Pontchartrain is due to unusual 3 ft. tides and strong winds.
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I dont know which one is best :( sometimes I edit things too much so here is one completely naked photo..just for you haha after all Friday is always naked friday, a day which we do life drawing in College :P
Look at the reflection in the little bead of water, its like theres a whiole upside down world inside that tiny drop.. a parallel universe!
Seen at the buffers at Huddersfield in West Yorkshire is Northern Rail owned Class 144, 144010, preparing to depart for Leeds, and similarly owned Class 142, 142022, which had just arrived from Leeds.
Screening of Harun Farocki's Parallel I-IV
Courtesy of Harun Farocki GbR
KAM WORKSHOPS 2015
ARTIFICIAL NATURES
Chania, 21.8.2015
Captured 19 May 2021, 00:16 hrs ET, Springfield, VA, USA. Bortle 8 skies, Mallincam DS10C camera, Celestron 8 inch SCT f/6.2, exposure 60 sec, gain 10, bin 1, stack of 10 light frames, dark and flat frames subtracted, no filter.
Clouds: clear
Seeing: ok
Transparency: ok
Moon phase: 41%
FOV: 47 x 36 arcmin before crop
Resolution: 0.8 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: Up is South
Apparent magnitude: +8.4
Apparent size: 11 x 7 arcmin
Appearance: Beautiful interacting spiral galaxies.
From Wikipedia:
The Whirlpool Galaxy, also known as Messier 51a, M51a, and NGC 5194, is an interacting grand-design spiral galaxy with a Seyfert 2 active galactic nucleus. It lies in the constellation Canes Venatici, and was the first galaxy to be classified as a spiral galaxy. Its distance is estimated to be 31 million light-years away from Earth.
The galaxy and its companion, NGC 5195, are easily observed by amateur astronomers, and the two galaxies may be seen with binoculars. The Whirlpool Galaxy has been extensively observed by professional astronomers, who study it to understand galaxy structure (particularly structure associated with the spiral arms) and galaxy interactions.
What later became known as the Whirlpool Galaxy was discovered on October 13, 1773, by Charles Messier while hunting for objects that could confuse comet hunters, and was designated in Messier's catalogue as M51. Its companion galaxy, NGC 5195, was discovered in 1781 by Pierre Méchain, although it was not known whether it was interacting or merely another galaxy passing at a distance. In 1845, William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, employing a 72-inch (1.8 m) reflecting telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland, found that the Whirlpool possessed a spiral structure, the first "nebula" to be known to have one. These "spiral nebulae" were not recognized as galaxies until Edwin Hubble was able to observe Cepheid variables in some of these spiral nebulae, which provided evidence that they were so far away that they must be entirely separate galaxies even though they are seen close together.
The advent of radio astronomy and subsequent radio images of M51 unequivocally demonstrated that the Whirlpool and its companion galaxy are indeed interacting. Sometimes the designation M51 is used to refer to the pair of galaxies, in which case the individual galaxies may be referred to as M51a (NGC 5194) and M51b (NGC 5195).
Deep in the constellation Canes Venatici, M51 is often found by finding the easternmost star of the Big Dipper, Eta Ursae Majoris, and going 3.5° southwest. Its declination is, rounded, +47°, making it a circumpolar (never setting) for observers above the 43rd parallel north; it reaches a high altitude throughout this hemisphere making it an accessible object from the early hours in November through to the end of May, after which observation is more coincidental in modest latitudes with the risen sun (due to the Sun approaching to and receding from its Right Ascension, specifically figuring in Gemini, just to the north).
M51 is visible through binoculars under dark sky conditions, and it can be resolved in detail with modern amateur telescopes. When seen through a 100 mm telescope the basic outlines of M51 (limited to 5×6') and its companion are visible. Under dark skies, and with a moderate eyepiece through a 150 mm telescope, M51's intrinsic spiral structure can be detected. With larger (>300 mm) instruments under dark sky conditions, the various spiral bands are apparent with HII regions visible, and M51 can be seen to be attached to M51B.
As is usual for galaxies, the true extent of its structure can only be gathered from inspecting photographs; long exposures reveal a large nebula extending beyond the visible circular appearance. In 1984, thanks to the high-speed detector—the so-called image-photon-counting- IPCS—system—developed jointly by the CNRS Laboratoire d'Astronomie Spatiald (L.A.S.- CNRS) and the Observatoire de Haute Provence (O.H.P.) along with the particularly nice seeing offered by the Canada-France-Hawaii-Telescope (C.F.H.T.) 3.60m Cassegrain focus at Mauna Kea summit in Hawaii, Hua et al. detected the double component of the very nucleus of the Whirlpool galaxy (article in Astrophysical Letters and Communications, 1987, vol. 25, pp. 187–204).
Whirlpool Galaxy lies 31 million light-years from Earth and has an estimated diameter of 76,000 light-years. Overall the galaxy is about 43% the size of the Milky Way. Its mass is estimated to be 160 billion solar masses, or around 10.3% of the mass of Milky Way Galaxy.
A black hole, once thought to be surrounded by a ring of dust, but now believed to be partially occluded by dust instead, exists at the heart of the spiral. A pair of ionization cones extend from the active galactic nucleus.
The pronounced spiral structure of the Whirlpool Galaxy is believed to be the result of the close interaction between it and its companion galaxy NGC 5195, which may have passed through the main disk of M51 about 500 to 600 million years ago. In this proposed scenario, NGC 5195 came from behind M51 through the disk towards the observer and made another disk crossing as recently as 50 to 100 million years ago until it is where we observe it to be now, slightly behind M51.
The central region of M51 appears to be undergoing a period of enhanced star formation. The present efficiency of star formation, defined as the ratio of mass of new stars to the mass of star-forming gas, is only ~1%, quite comparable to the global value for the Milky Way and other galaxies. It is estimated that the current high rate of star formation can last no more than another 100 million years or so.
Three supernovae have been observed in the Whirlpool Galaxy:
In 1994, SN 1994I was observed in the Whirlpool Galaxy. It was classified as type Ic, indicating that its progenitor star was very massive and had already shed much of its mass, and its brightness peaked at apparent magnitude 12.91.
In June 2005 the type II supernova SN 2005cs was observed in the Whirlpool Galaxy, peaking at apparent magnitude 14.
On 31 May 2011 a type II supernova was detected in the Whirlpool Galaxy, peaking at magnitude 12.1. This supernova, designated SN 2011dh, showed a spectrum much bluer than average, with P Cygni profiles, which indicate rapidly expanding material, in its hydrogen-Balmer lines. The progenitor was probably a yellow supergiant and not a red or blue supergiant, which are thought to be the most common supernova progenitors.
On 22 January 2019, a supernova impostor, designated AT2019abn, was discovered in Messier 51. The transient was later identified as a luminous red nova. The progenitor star was detected in archival Spitzer Space Telescope infrared images. No object could be seen at the position of the transient in archival Hubble images, indicating that the progenitor star was heavily obstructed by interstellar dust. 2019abn peaked at magnitude 17, reaching an intrinsic brightness of -14.9.
In September 2020, the detection of a candidate exoplanet, named M51-ULS-1b, orbiting the high-mass X-ray binary M51-ULS-1 in this galaxy was announced. If confirmed, it would be the first known instance of an extragalactic planet, a planet outside the Milky Way Galaxy. The planet was detected by eclipses of the X-ray source (XRS), which consists of a stellar remnant (either a neutron star or a black hole) and a massive star, likely a B-type supergiant. The planet would be slightly smaller than Saturn and orbit at a distance of some tens of astronomical units.
NGC 5195 (also known as Messier 51b or M51b) is a dwarf galaxy that is interacting with the Whirlpool Galaxy (also known as M51a or NGC 5194). Both galaxies are located approximately 25 million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici. Together, the two galaxies are one of the most widely studied interacting galaxy pairs.
The Whirlpool Galaxy is the brightest galaxy in the M51 Group, a small group of galaxies that also includes M63 (the Sunflower Galaxy), NGC 5023, and NGC 5229. This small group may actually be a subclump at the southeast end of a large, elongated group that includes the M101 Group and the NGC 5866 Group, although most group identification methods and catalogs identify the three groups as separate entities.
Telling the Story – Communicating European Structural and Investment Funds 2014-2020
09 December 2013 - 10 December 2013
Brussels, Belgium
© European Union/Gino De Laurenzo
For the group : Repackaged by Zero FM.
In a man made environment parallel lines seem to be all round us . I think I could have kept snapping parallel lines all day long. It certainly opened my eyes to parallel lines!
Telling the Story – Communicating European Structural and Investment Funds 2014-2020
09 December 2013 - 10 December 2013
Brussels, Belgium
© European Union/Gino De Laurenzo
Parallel Vienna 2015 (Altes Postamt, 23.9. - 27.9.2015, Eröffnung) esel.at/termin/79300 | Foto: eSeL.at
Telling the Story – Communicating European Structural and Investment Funds 2014-2020
09 December 2013 - 10 December 2013
Brussels, Belgium
© European Union/Gino De Laurenzo
She better not do it this way on her driving test... :D
Passenger is a driving instructor.
[ Canon EF 70-200mm f/4 L USM ]
Søren Bang from the Danish Institute for Sports Studies giving his presentation "The globalisation of sporting events: Myth or reality?"
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Part of Bristol Light Festival 2025
Parallels is an immersive installation that uses the precision of lasers and mirrors to transform moving footage into floating abstractions of light. Inspired by movements and tones found in the natural world, Parallels uses footage of natural phenomena to offer a transcendent experience of light and sound. Set to a soundtrack by Max Cooper. Best viewed after dark.
Artist: Architecture Social Club
Temple Church, Bristol
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The Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a huge industrial titanium fire on July 13th, 2010 at 761 South Slauson Avenue in South L.A. More than 200 firefighters controlled the fire in five hours. Three firefighters were injured. © Photo by John Conkle
Well, it needs to be there!! Looking across the Manatee River in downtown Bradenton, Florida!
Our Daily Challenge ~ ... Parallel Lines ...
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