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Viewed from canoe by shore up on a tree with the sun behind reducing the detailed view. I rarely access these skittish birds that take off so far from us paddling. Another view below…
Taken w/ Skywatcher Evostar Pro 80 ED (w/.85x reducer/corrector & QHYCCD Polemaster), Skywatcher EQM-35, Nikon D7500.
100 lights x 90 s @ ISO 800, ~45 dark, ~45 flat, ~100 bias, stacked in DSS and post-processed in Photoshop
On a very wet and poor light day on 17.11.2010 BR Standard 71000, Duke of Gloucester reduces the light level even more with this wonderful display of exhaust as it power's through Consall station on the Churnet Valley Railway. This was a Russ Hillier organised photo charter.
Cabin fever is setting in for Jasper. Our typical afternoon highs right now are about 110ºF (43ºC) so that means the afternoon walk has been reduced to doing his business then getting the heck back inside. On Sunday we were about to engage in our after-lunch play session when Jasper headed down the hall towards the garage. Our first reaction was, "is he just confused or something? Gone around the bend?" When I went to see what was up, I found him staring at the cupboard from whence new toys emerge on occasion. He desperately wanted something new to break the monotony that is living in a desert in the summer. We managed to find something. But his birthday is on July 21st so we'll have a few new things for him soon.
Moon in totality for the 4th time in 18 months! This time I went out to the country away from light pollution and I was able to get many more stars surrounding the moon. The glare of the moon washed out the Milky Way until total phase and then the sky was very dark almost like a night without a moon. This was 1 minute after totality started and there was a slight blue tint on the edge from earth's ozone.
Taken with a Sony a6000 mounted on a Celestron C8-SGT with f/6.3 focal reducer for 1260mm focal length.
Got up early in order to miss the tourists, walkers etc and drove over to Ladybower. Talking to someone there the reservoir is currently at just below 60% due to the drought. Not good. Ladybower is in fact located in the Derwent Valley. The three linked reservoirs of Howden, Derwent and Ladybower cover 210 hectares to give the largest expanse of water in the Peak District.
Imaged January 19th and 20th 2018, near Cambridge UK.
Image Details:
4 hours 50 mins total exposure.
12 x 600s Luminance 1x1 (2 hours)
11 x 300s Red 1x1 (55mins)
12 x 300s Green 1x1 (1 hours)
11 x 300s Blue 1x1 (55mins)
Scope - Altair Astro Wave Series 115mm Refractor, Planostar 0.79x reduced to 642mm/F5.54.
Sensor - Atik 383l+ Mono CCD + Baader Ha/OIII/SII filters. -20degC.
Scale - 1.73 arcsec/pixel.
Mount - Altair Astro Pier mounted iOptron CEM60.
Guiding - Lodestar X2 and SX OAG with PHD2.
Sequence Generator Pro and PixInsight.
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Trying to go longer with my sub exposures on the AT6RC. The Orion Nebula can be challenging to image due to the wide range of brightness, making it very easy to overexpose. For me, the challenge in processing preserving dynamic range without looking artificial. Short exposures (180s and 30s) have been blended into the overexposed core. Final image here is 3hr30min exposure. It's been cropped to remove edge distortions due to the oversized full-frame sensor. Forgive the oval stars - I'm going to blame periodic error for that.
Canon 6D & AstroTech AT6RC
AstroPhysics CCDT67 Focal Reducer (0.75x reduction for 1027mm focal length)
14x900s exposures at ISO1600
12/19/2019
Psalm 64:2 “Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the plots of evildoers.”
Psalm 64:5 “They concoct an evil scheme for themselves; they enumerate their hidden snares; they say, ‘Who will see them?’”
World Economic Forum: “This is how rice is hurting the planet”.
“Global rice production is releasing damaging greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, doing as much harm as 1,200 average-sized coal power stations, according to the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF).”
www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/06/how-rice-is-hurting-the-pl...
BBC News: “Planting trees doesn’t always help with climate change”. (If you want to see a perfect example of how to spin propaganda, then bore yourself to death with this pathetic article.)
“As a result, there is a delicate balance between trees’ ability to take in CO2, reducing warming, and their tendency to trap additional heat and thus create warming. This means planting trees only helps stop climate change in certain places.”
www.bbc.com/future/article/20200521-planting-trees-doesnt...
If you haven’t figured it out yet: net-zero is antihuman, and it will lead to worldwide authoritarianism. Global dimming (GeoEngineering): let’s kill life. Cow farts: let’s kill the cows. Rice is bad: let’s starve the people. Trees: they aren’t so great, they’re also part of the problem. In fact, all life is part of the problem! We must slowly destroy all life on earth to save the planet. The dystopian future never looked brighter! Book of Revelation, here we come!
A quick shot of the Orion Nebula (M42), one of my favourite celestial objects and a really satisfying target. I've been waiting a year for an opportunity to image this nebula again, this time with a polar alignment and guiding to enable much longer exposures than the 15 second subs I took last time and with a lower ISO to reduce noise. The next project with this is to either stitch two shots together or, better still, rotate the camera in order to fit both the Orion Nebula and the nearby Running Man Nebula into one frame.
13 x 4 minute exposures at 400 ISO
8 x dark frames
10 x flat frames
21 x bias/offset frames (subtracted from flat frames only)
Total exposure time - 52 minutes
Guided with PHD
Processed in Nebulosity, Maxim DL and Photoshop
Equipment
Celestron NexStar 127 SLT
GoTo AltAz mount with homemade wedge
Orion 50mm Mini Guide Scope
ZWO ASI120 MC guiding camera
Canon EOS 700D DSLR
[Wikipedia] The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976) is a diffuse nebula situated in the Milky Way, being south of Orion's Belt in the constellation of Orion. It is one of the brightest nebulae, and is visible to the naked eye in the night sky. M42 is located at a distance of 1,344 ± 20 light years and is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth. The M42 nebula is estimated to be 24 light years across. It has a mass of about 2000 times the mass of the Sun. Older texts frequently refer to the Orion Nebula as the Great Nebula in Orion or the Great Orion Nebula.
The Orion Nebula is one of the most scrutinized and photographed objects in the night sky, and is among the most intensely studied celestial features. The nebula has revealed much about the process of how stars and planetary systems are formed from collapsing clouds of gas and dust. Astronomers have directly observed protoplanetary disks, brown dwarfs, intense and turbulent motions of the gas, and the photo-ionizing effects of massive nearby stars in the nebula. [Wikipedia]
A close-up and low DoF image of my late dad's old violin - the one he played every afternoon when I was 6 or 7, that's 50 years ago. That's good memories ....
Shot with the beauty RF 50/1.2L on the R6. Colourgraded with 75% Mastin Labs Extar 100 style kit in Capture One Pro. That's one of the beauties of Capture One Pro, that you can apply af Style (Preset) in a layer and then reduced the opacity of the layer to reduce the impact of the style kit. Pretty awesome ....
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location: Chiusdino, Italy
Probably the rarest caterpillar I have ever found – a fully-grown 16mm larva of the Duke of Burgundy butterfly. Found on the underside of a wild Cowslip (Primula veris) leaf on limestone grassland in Gloucestershire.
The Duke of Burgundy is found in England only with a stronghold in central-southern areas and more isolated colonies in the southern Lake District and the North York Moors.
It has declined substantially in recent decades, especially in woodlands where it is reduced to fewer than 20 sites.
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Some of the contents of a large plastic box in our kitchen drawer where we put our recyclable items such as plastic bottles, magazines, flyers, food tins and drink cans. When it's full I take it out to the garage & tip everything in a big wheelie bin. This gets collected by a private company fortnightly, the other week they take our actual rubbish (trash) away, thankfully we don't produce much of that so often that wheelie bin only goes out once a month. Glass has to be taken to a bottle bank. I use to take gardening & bird watching magazines to our GP surgery for others to read but those days are gone.
We compost all our newspapers, cardboard packaging/toilet rolls etc & I reuse suitable plastic food trays to stand plant pots in. All available windowsills currently have trays with small pots containing tomato/chilli/pepper/courgette & sweetcorn seedlings, waiting for the current cold snap to pass so I can plant them out in the polytunnel.
For Macro Mondays theme "Trash" HMM!
Wide field view of the area around the Cave Nebula.
I shot this with the FSQ106EDX3/reducer and the QSI583wsg.
Only 2 hours of Luminance and 30minutes each of RGB
Taken last week at RSPB Fairburn Ings. Sadly the numbers seemed well reduced compared to last year. Still - it was a fantastic sight to watch
The tide was to high for a composition to reduce foreground clutter (Unless I had stood chest deep in the water!).
Aberdeen Harbour, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. First established as a business in 1136 by King David 1st of Scotland, Aberdeen Harbour is, according to the Guinness Book of Business Records, the oldest existing business in Britain, with a history that has spanned almost 900 years. Aberdeen Harbour is one of the UK’s busiest ports. A world leading marine support centre, it is the principal port for the energy sector in Western Europe and serves a number of industries as the main commercial port in the North-East of Scotland. With trading links to more than 40 countries worldwide, Aberdeen Harbour generates in excess of £1.5billion GVA annually. As a Trust Port, it invests all profits into further development, amounting to more than £35million in the last five years. www.britishports.org.uk/our-members/aberdeen-harbour-board
Marine Operations Centre. This building is intended to be an iconic landmark, and has been designed around the style of a traditional lighthouse. It is situated at the inward end of the North Pier to allow the Vessel Traffic Services staff visibility over all three arms of the harbour, as well as the entrance. Built at a cost of £4.5 million, it entered service in 2006, succeeding the 'Roundhouse'. canmore.org.uk/site/282569/aberdeen-harbour-north-pier-ma...
The theme for this week's Macro Mondays is "plastic". I became very aware of the issue of single-use plastic contaminating our oceans on visiting uninhabited areas of eastern Greenland last year and taking part in a beach clean-up - we collected dozens of items of throwaway plastic. It has become big news this year with the UK's proposal to ban plastic straws and cotton buds. For my macro entry I decided to take a picture of my water bottle, which I now use instead of buying bottled water - saving a lot of money as well as doing a small bit to save our oceans. So - this is "Plastic" for Macro Mondays. HMM! (field of view is under 2 inches)
And doubling up - my Day 23 entry for April 2018: A month in 30 pictures, and #23/100 for 100 x: The 2018 Edition - my x is macro with a dedicated macro lens.
(P4231460)
Weston Bike Night 26 07 2012
This weekly Thursday meet during the summer is based at the sea front in the sea side resort of Weston Super Mare, North Somerset, UK.
It is organised by the Riders Branch of the British legion, all bikes donate £1 to enter and all proceeds go the charity "The Poppy Appeal".
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Eucalyptus is a fast-growing evergreen tree native to Australia. As an ingredient in many products, it is used to reduce symptoms of coughs, colds, and congestion. It also features in creams and ointments aimed at relieving muscle and joint pain.
Ngumpan Community, West Coast, Australia
Divesite: Pulau Bangka (North Sulawesi/Indonesia)
Sea Souls Dive Resort, April/May 2019
60mm Makro and Weefine +23 Wetdiopter
Jupiter With Four Satellites ; Io ( Closest ) Europa Ganymede Callisto - Giove Con Quattro Satelliti ; Io ( Il Più Vicino ) Europa Ganimede Callisto : Pentax-K1 + Meade MC Focal Reducer Field Flattener + Celestron C11 2800mmf/10 , Montatura Losmandy G11
Following the re-introduction of front door boarding, the maximum capacity of buses has changed due to social distancing. Therefore, even though this bus normally has a maximum capacity of 57 and has 31 seats, it can now only carry 10 passengers. Metroline West ADL Enviro200 DEL2145 (LK65EAA) shows off the new features whilst out on the 331.
June 1987 and a 2-car Met Cam class 101 heading a Manchester bound service passes the remains of Widnes East box. The BR LM15 box replaced an earlier CLC cabin opening on 8 April 1956 complete with a 30 lever frame and controlled the junction with the Widnes Loop line following closure of the line through Widnes Central the frame was reduced to 20 levers. April 1987 saw the box suffer a serious fire and this proved to be terminal as the box was formally abolished on 5 December 1987 and demolished shortly after.
Series of six including video. The baby Kittiwakes are probably fledged, I think some could fly. It was nice to see them with their black markings and quite a few on the cliffs. I was, however, told by a local that the numbers were vastly reduced this year.
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In capturing this architectural structure, I aimed to transform a functional element into abstract composition. I chose an angle maximizing leading lines and dramatic contrast. The black and white treatment amplifies the scene's pure geometry, while perspective creates visual tension guiding the eye. My intention was to reveal hidden beauty in everyday architecture, reducing it to its purest essence: lines, shapes, and shadows.
M42 30x30s lights 30x30s darks and 10 bias stacked in DSS and processed in Lightroom, Celestron edge 8HD AVX 0.7x reducer and Canon 450D.
Location Kielder Forest
Kolavai Lake is the second largest lake in the Kanchipuram District after the Madhuranthagam Lake. Once a very huge lake, now it has been reduced to nearly half the size due to the creation of the Mahindra World city on its banks and other encroachments. Kolavai lake is well known for its perenniality: There are no records of going dry in summers. It even supplies water to industries in Chennai when the lakes in Chennai go dry. The lake is now being polluted due to the rapid urbanisation of Chengalpattu. The early morning sunrise and the moon howering above the lake over its waters in the night are scenic to the eyes.
Happy New Year Everyone!
From Budapest, a smiley Boglarka in the kitchen :)
Leica M240 + Leica Macro-Elmar-M 90mm f4 ..and handheld 1/25 (I was dragging the shutter to try to use the limited window light we had but I think by this stage had stopped down to f5.6 to reduce the flash intensity which was now the dominant light source)
I will post a Budapest blog thoughts soon - www.MrLeica.com
There is a short behind the scenes video clip posted on my Instagram profile - www.instagram.com/mrleicacom/
25/01/21 Codsall: Transport for Wales Class 158 158837 & 158841 dodge the shadows working 1I10 07:26 Holyhead - Birmingham International. This was the first day of TfW services on the line being reduced to every 2 hours due to the pandemic.The franchise is being nationalised on 7th February
Working from home nowadays made it easier for me to record my first ever sunny pictures in snow.