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More beautiful flowers from Regent's Park. Anyone know the name of these flowers.
A non-HDR composition.
I am running around Basel for longer than anywhere else during my life. But still I am surprised by the views offered when using my drone. Somehow my "inner map" of the city is distorted because I never realized how close the rising towers from Roche are to Aeschenplatz - which is where the drone was hovering above for this shot.
After the rain. (Of course, the rain never made it to my house.. so I still have crunchy grass. But it rained just a few miles away.)
First I did not photgraph the original image, it belongs to flickr.com/photos/bernardm/. and can be viewed by clicing on the blue link.
This a possible entry to the Down Under Challenge group contest #161
This male great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) was rising up from below as he passed by the camera.
The surf and rocks at the Ocean Inlet Park near Boynton Beach, Florida. Photograph taken February 24, 2012
Explore #449 (02-26-12)
Suddenly, I decided to go out to the sea.
After 6 hours later, I watched the rising sun by standing the shore.
It was so beautiful.
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Olympus OM-1 MD
Olympus OM 50mm f1.8
Ilford Delta 100
Lab: Film Box – Nashville, Tennessee
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RISING STAR - the star-of-Bethlehem (IT Stella di Betlemme, Latte di Gallina, Cipollone Bianco - Ornithogalum umbellatum) is a perennial bulbous flowering plant in the asparagus family. The white flowers open late in the day (hence some of its common names nap-at-noon, or eleven-o'clock lady), but when closed have a green stripe on the outside. Parts of the plant are considered poisonous, but are used in some regional cuisines. Essences are also sold as patent remedies. Leonardo da Vinci drew O. umbellatum and included the plant in one of his depictions of Leda and the Swan (1508–1515), in which the flowers are held in Leda's left handand (the painting is actually by Francesco Melzi after a lost painting by Leonardo da Vinci, It's conserved in Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence). Folklore has suggested that theflower originally grew from fragments of the star of Bethlehem, hence its horticultural name.
Sony a6000 with Tokina AT-X 80-400 EF + adapter. Minimum edit in Adobe Lightroom and Gimp.
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“Aristarchus Rising”
In my early years of exploring the night sky with binoculars, I was frequently amazed by a brilliant feature on the Moon, to the left of Mare Imbrium. I wondered, “What could be so bright?”. After a little reading, and consultation with a local wizard (Herbert Z. Lund, MD, avid amateur astronomer, and mentor/friend to both my wife and I), I learned that the bright spot was the crater Aristarchus. I learned that it is among the very brightest features on the Moon, due to the unusual reflectivity of the material within and around the crater. It sits on the edge of a plateau with a history of intense volcanic activity, including immense channels through which lava rivers once flowed, contributing to the vast lava plains (maria) that surround the plateau. I learned that Neil Armstrong reported an unusual brightness, with some fluorescence, from the area of Aristarchus during the Apollo 11 Mission. Could the fires of Aristarchus still be active? I was hooked. Aristarchus became a favorite observing target for me.
Last Thursday night, at the Pop-Up Telescopes event, I noticed Aristarchus being illuminated by the first rays of sunlight, a bright point on the day-night terminator line of the Moon. As I seldom capture this Moon phase photographically, I decided to do so after I returned home. Below is the photo I captured.
The photo shows a region of the Moon where the huge lava plains of Mare Imbrium merge with the gargantuan lava plain of Oceanus Procellarum, below the Jura Mountain range that defines the western and northwestern rim of Mare Imbrium. Aristarchus occupies the bottom center in this photo, next to the line dividing bright daylight from the deep night darkness. Its raised rampart and interior western crater walls are illuminated, but its depths are still deeply shadowed. Some of the edge of the surrounding plateau can be seen, as can a piece of the rim of adjacent Hesiodus crater, which otherwise is cloaked by night. The area of the lower right portion of the photo shows streaks of lighter-toned material that generally radiate away from Aristarchus crater. These are the ray system that surrounds Aristarchus, composed of material that was blasted upward and outward when an asteroid gouged the crater into the Moon. Ray features, over eons of time, are darkened by constant bombardment by solar radiation and they become indistinguishable from the older lunar surface materials. Their presence declares that Aristarchus is one of the young lunar craters. It can’t be more than half a billion years old! Alas, my photo reveals no sign that the fires are still burning.
To the right and upward from Aristarchus there is a horseshoe shaped feature, surrounded by a few mountains. The horseshoe is Prinz crater; long ago flood basalt surges overtopped the southern rim of Prinz crater and filled its interior. The mountains surrounding Prinz crater are called the Montes Harbinger, the “Harbinger Mountains”, for they become visible a day before dawn comes to Aristarchus. Inspection of the valleys between the mountains and the area between the mountains and Aristarchus shows several squiggly features, like streambeds, flowing away from the mountains. These are ancient lava channels; each originates in a dormant volcanic vent and marks a path the lava flows took to the plains below. They are collectively named Rimae Prinz. The similar features originating on the edge of the Aristarchus Plateau are called Rimae Aristarchus.
Above and left of the Harbinger Mountains is a medium-sized crater, with a deeply shadowed interior. This is Krieger crater. On its bottom-side rim is another small crater, which shows due to its brightly-lit western rim. This is Van Biesbroeck crater. Take a moment to appreciate the long triangular shadows cast by the craters and mountains in this area. To the left of Krieger crater are two tiny craters, with the rather cute names, first names really, Rocco (upper) and Ruth (lower). Rocco is 4.37 km in diameter, and Ruth only 3.0 km. I discovered during preparation of this writeup that the middle region of this photo is dotted with tiny craters with first names. Names like Gaston, Linda, Boris, Samir, Louise, Isabel, Walter, and Ivan. These are not just informal names: they are official designations assigned by the International Astronomical Union. And they are truly tiny. The smallest I have identified in this photo is Samir, at 1.87 km. I am puzzled as to the Why? behind giving these features official names. It seems they were given names during the preparation for NASA of the highly-detailed Apollo-imagery related maps known as the Topophotomap series. The legends at the bottom of the maps say the names were intended as “informal” names, to be used only in describing that particular map. However, in 1976, most of them were formally adopted into the official IAU Nomenclature. So why are they named? Because that they happened to fall in one of the very few portions of the Moon covered by a Topophotomap. I hope the names are significant for someone, maybe honoring loved ones, friends, or pets. They are examples of fun things one finds when rummaging through science, like when I found out that there is a dinosaur named after Mark Knopfler.
Back to the image. Near the right middle edge of the photo is another medium-sized crater with a partially shaded interior and surrounded by what appears to be a rubble field. This is Delisle crater. To its left is a lamb chop shaped mountain called Mons Delisle, and to its upper right is what seems to be a tiny chain of craters (catena) called Rupes Boris. The word “rupes” means cliff or escarpment, and yes, it’s named after the previously mentioned Boris crater. The area around Rupes Boris is home to the previously mentioned Boris, Linda and Gaston craters. If you squint, you might detect one or two. Below Delisle crater is a smaller bowl-shaped crater called Diophantus. Between Delisle and Diophantus you can see a light-shaded patch. At the center is a tiny crater. This is Samir. Its bottom is only 1 km across, so maybe this is my break into the club of astrophotographers that can claim to have resolved 1 km. If not, give me a break and let me enjoy my moment. Resolving a one km feature (or even a 1.87 km feature) from a distance of 380,000 km is a pretty cool feat.
Now for the final stretch on this essay. In the upper left corner of the photo the terrain becomes very broken and mountainous. These are the Jura Mountains of the Mare Imbrium rim. Amidst these mountains is the prominent crater Mairan. At the lower end of these mountains are two larger mounds. These are the lunar volcanoes Gruithuisen Gamma (left) and Gruithuisen Delta (right). Gruithuisen Gamma even has an obvious summit crater. They are unusual among lunar volcanoes for their heights (1,500 and 1,800 meters, respectively). This is the first time I can recall capturing them in a close-up photo. Lastly, at the upper center of the photo there is a projection of mountains into the plains of Mare Imbrium. This is Promontorium Heraclides, marking the southern end of the popular lunar feature, Sinus Iridum.
Best 12% of 19,399 video frames processed with PIPP and stacked with AutoStakkert!3. Wavelets processing performed with Registax 6. Post-processing with Photoshop CC 2024.
Celestron Edge HD8 telescope
ZWO ASI 290MM camera
Celestron Advanced VX Mount
Seeing: below average, 2/5
ONE BILLION RISING began as a call to action based on the staggering statistic that 1 in 3 women on the planet will be beaten or raped during her lifetime. With the world population at 7 billion, this adds up to more than ONE BILLION WOMEN AND GIRLS.
Every February, we rise – in hundreds of countries across the world – to show our local communities and the world what one billion looks like and shine a light on the rampant impunity and injustice that survivors most often face. We rise through dance to express joy and community and celebrate the fact that we have not been defeated by this violence. We rise to show we are determined to create a new kind of consciousness – one where violence will be resisted until it is unthinkable.
And we here in Second Life can be part of this global movement.
Read about the One Billion International Campaign for 2020 here.
One Billion Rising in Second Life 2020
For the 8th year, on February 14, 2020, men and women in Second Life will join activists, writers, thinkers, celebrities, and people across the world to Rise, Resist and Unite as a show of unity, individual strength, and the need for change.
The Second Life event will feature a four-region stage where 200 people can come together to dance, surrounded by an area of art installations, arenas for poetry, live music, and dance and dramatic productions, and informational exhibits. A variety of performers will play over the 24-hour period and poetry and dance events will be held at different times, enabling people all over the world to attend this virtual event no matter their timezone. The regions will have a General maturity rating to allow all residents an opportunity to participate. Pictures are welcome on the event’s Flickr group.
The Rising Sun, Abbey Lane, Sheffield. Sunflowers in the outdoor beer garden have been a regular feature of this pub for the past few year.
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