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To me this bit of rusty, crusty metal looks like some of the images taken from orbiting spacecraft such as the recent images of the surface of Pluto.
A downward view of ESA’s rock-strewn recreation of the Red Planet, designed to put prototype planetary rovers through their paces.
Officially part of the Planetary Robotics Laboratory at the Agency’s ESTEC technical centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, the nickname of this test site is the ‘Mars Yard’.
An 9 x 9 m square filled with sand and different types of gravel and rocks, it is used to assess rover locomotion and navigation as well as the traction of wheels and other mechanisms – then check how these elements work together in practice, with tests observed using precision cameras and sensors.
The Planetary Robotics Lab is part of a suite of more than 35 ESA laboratories focused on all aspects of space engineering, available to wider European Member States companies as well as ESA projects.
Credit: ESA-Remedia
BluShock Planetary Exploration is the new, official name given to BluShock Coalition's world designing and RP exploration operation, responsible for creating new, exotic and detailed worlds, for the BluShock franchise RP group.
Complex and incredibly detailed worlds at your fingertips.
Exclusive to BluShock.
Several new planet projects are currently in development, and we can't wait to share more in the coming months.
What started as a fun project with Vanargand, and Planet Idun, exploded into an ambitious project that gave us all this incredible idea. SL doesn't have enough exotic worlds and planets to explore, so we're changing this from here onwards.
Our next main world is Ingemar. An underwater planet, with crashed ships and wreckages above sea level, and deep underwater caves, with ancient aliens, as tall as skyscrapers, who once ruled the races of the galaxy.
A planetary nebula found in the constellation of Camelopardalis (The Giraffe). Also known as the Oyster Nebula.
A little under 5,000 light years distant from Earth, it's another one of William Herschel's discoveries in 1787.
Boring techie bit:
Skywatcher quattro 8" S & f4 aplanatic coma corrector
HEQ5 pro mount guided with an Altair 50mm & GPcam setup
Canon 450D astro modded with Astronomik CLS CCD EOS APS-C clip filter. Neewer Intervalometer used to control the exposures.
It's FebRovery again, my favourite themed building month.
So let's begin with a modification of set 10497 (or as I like to call it, the "UCS Galaxy Explorer") into a rover.
As far as names go, "Planetary Explorer" was the obvious and only choice. The rear cargo compartment contains a small skimmer-type vehicle to mirror the rover carried by the original
Another Dimension - Font’s Point overlooking the Badlands of California's Anza Borrego desert. Spent sunset watching this spectacular view with friend and fellow photographer David Gregg. We then stayed on well into the night with several miles of dirt road back to civilization… but not before a good cigar while waiting for long exposure shutters to finish.
The comet was added in post just for dramatic effect.
The Medusa Nebula is a planetary nebula in the constellation of Gemini. It is also known as Abell 21 and Sharpless 2-274. It was originally discovered in 1955 by University of California, Los Angeles astronomer George O. Abell, who classified it as an old planetary nebula.
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...almost 50 planets have now been found inside this parallel planetary system, characterized by imperfect spherical celestial bodies.
Lik Observatory:
Lick Observatory was the world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory.
The observatory, in a Classical Revival style structure, was constructed between 1876 and 1887, from a bequest from James Lick. In 1887 Lick's body was buried under the future site of the telescope, with a brass tablet bearing the inscription, "Here lies the body of James Lick".
Before construction could begin, a road to the site had to be built. All of the construction materials had to be brought to the site by horse and mule-drawn wagons, which could not negotiate a steep grade. To keep the grade below 6.5%, the road had to take a very winding and sinuous path, which the modern-day road (SR 130) still follows. Tradition maintains that this road has exactly 365 turns.
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Mars (right) and Jupiter (left) conjunction......the alpha star of Libra, Zubenelgenubi at top right ...moons of Jupiter in second frame...Crescent moon catches up.....zoom in to see the planets to the bottom right...in last frame....
I made a shot similar to this back around Christmas 2016. I wanted to try out a new lens - I sort of like this one much better than the previous! The warped bokeh really leads the eyes towards the light.🚀🌌
Skywatcher 190MN telescope, Ioptron CEM70 NUC mount, Altair Tri-Band filter, ASI2600MC Pro at -20C. 34 x 2 minute exposures (1 hour 8 minutes) at Gain 100, Offset 50, 50 dark frames, 50 flat fields and 50 dark flat frames.
Processed in Pixinsight, Topaz denoise, and Photoshop.
Collected between 20:16 and 21:37 on the 5th of November 2022.
Abell85/CTB1 is a supernova remnant that was once thought to be a planetary nebula, and thus has the Abell85 designation. The bubble created by the supernova is ruptured toward the lower left (North) which gives it it's common name of the Popped Balloon Nebula. It is located in the constellation of Cassiopeia and roughly 9700 light years away and about 98 light years in diameter. It has about the same angular diameter of the full moon. A very challenging object to image due to its extremely dim surface brightness. Shown here in a natural palette, this image represents 30 hours of narrowband Ha, OIII and SII data and 3 hours of broadband RGB to capture true star color.
The brilliant starry sky, the red sand and the ice structures piercing the foreground of this image combine to give the impression of a desert far from the reach of human footprints. A landscape that could easily be mistaken for the polar regions of our distant neighbour Mars.
The jagged tooth-like formations are not on the Red Planet however, but on the sloping hills of the Atacama Desert.
The formations are called penitentes — structures made of snow and ice that form mostly at high altitudes. The low pressure, moisture and temperature at these altitudes help to create this interesting and rare behaviour in the freezing of ice. The strange structures also have a tendency to orient themselves towards the Sun, which is why they are all perfectly aligned like a carefully tended garden of ice.
As if this beautiful quirk of nature wasn’t enough, above the structures lies an even more magnificent sight.
The large blue star just above the hill is Sirius — the brightest star in the sky. Following the horizon to the left from Sirius, the ancient red supergiant Betelgeuse can be seen, located in the constellation of Orion. The second brightest object after Sirius is Canopus and it is seen here as a brilliant blue point at the right hand side of the frame.
This strange and alien-looking image was taken by ESO Photo Ambassador Babak A. Tafreshi.
More information: www.eso.org/public/images/potw1522a/
Credit:
ESO/B. Tafreshi (twanight.org)
The red (Ha Signal) is sh2-129, the flying bat nebula. The blue squid nebula (OIII signal) in this image (OU4) was discovered by the French Amateur Astrophotographer Nicolas Outters in 2011. It is very faint. I used a tone mapping process originally described by J-P Metsavainio to bring it out.
Abell 72 planetary nebula in Delphinus
Settembre 2019
Località: San Romualdo - Ravenna
Meade LX200 12" con Starizona riduttore/correttore di coma F/7.1
CCD QSI 540wsi raffreddato -20 - Autoguida con ETX105 e ASI120M
RGB Baader CCD e Bader Narrowband 8.5nm
OIII-RGB: OIII 50x6min, R 50x3min, G 51x3min, B 50x3min
Acquisizione: MaximDL5 - Calibrata con Dark, Bias e Flat.
Elaborazione: MaximDL5, Astroart6, StarTools4, AstraImage5, Paint Shop Pro2020, plugin Topaz e StarSpikePro3.
www.cfm2004.altervista.org/astrofotografia/nebulose/abell...
SH2-216 Giant Planetary Nebula in Perseo.
Febbraio 2020 - Febbraio 2022
Località: San Romualdo - Ravenna
Tecnosky AG70 F/5
ASA DDM60PRO con Autoslew e Sequence.
AVALON M1 - QHY174MM su Celestron OAG.
CCD QSI 583wsi raffreddato -20
Astrodon Narrowband 3nm
HA-OIII: HA 42x15min (R), OIII 17x15min (B), verde sintetico.
Acquisizione: MaximDL5 - Calibrata con Dark, Bias e Flat.
Elaborazione: Astroart8, Starnet2, Paint Shop Pro 2023 e plugin vari.
www.cfm2004.altervista.org/astrofotografia/nebulose/sh2-2...
A large-scale defense cannon for the Star Vikings collaboration at BrickCon 2014.
There is internal gearing to lock the cannon's elevation-of-fire, controlled by rotating the rear lower-left cone heat sink unit. The landscape technique was inspired by Blake Foster's M:Tron Magnet Factory.
I also made a Star Vikings dropship. See the total collaboration in the Star Vikings group.
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Earth for scale
Telescope: 102/1300 MC
Mount: EQ-3 GOTO
Camera: QHY5L-II
Budapest, Hungary
2020.11.06.
11:57 UT
I don't think I could have picked a colder night to head out for some light painting, but enjoyed it despite the blizzard conditions and fingers that felt like they were going to fall off!
Playing around with the strobe projector for the alien shadow. It's taking a bit of effort to create usable gobos, and not found a reliable way to use full colour yet, but working on it...
Image created in a single exposure, no Photoshop.
Celestron C9.25 SCT scope
Turbulence tends not to be so marked at IR wavelengths - this was taken with a ZWO290MM camera with a IR685nm filter.
The pixels are smaller on the 290 compared with the 224 so Mars appears relatively larger.
It's FebRovery again, my favourite themed building month.
So let's begin with a modification of set 10497 (or as I like to call it, the "UCS Galaxy Explorer") into a rover.
As far as names go, "Planetary Explorer" was the obvious and only choice. The rear cargo compartment contains a small skimmer-type vehicle to mirror the rover carried by the original