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♫
Hello Seattle, I am the crescent moon
Shining down on your face
Hello Seattle, I am an old lighthouse
Throwing beams of bright lights
Red in the morning, blue in the evening sun
Taking heed from everyone
Take me above your light
Carry me through the night
Hold me secure in flight
Sing me to sleep tonight
♫ -Owl City
A panorama of Seattle's Space Needle composed of three photographs.
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Bright and bold Gerbera Daisy by photographer Reid Barkley.
Realistic watercolor storefronts by Don Brown.
Mixed media dog sculpture by Tina Guide.
20th Anniversary Open House
Mary Baker Engen Restoration Hangar
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
National Air and Space Museum
Chantilly, VA
Hubble Telescope as seen from the Space Shuttle Atlantis, approx 150 feet below the telescope. Simply an amazing shot.
The immense size of Saturn is emphasized in this Cassini spacecraft portrait that features the moon Mimas shown in front of the planet.Mimas (396 kilometers, or 246 miles across) appears as only a small dot above the rings near the center of the image. This view looks toward the northern, sunlit side of the rings from about one degree above the ringplane.The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Oct. 17, 2009 using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of near-infrared light centered at 752 nanometers. The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 1.7 million kilometers (1.1 million miles) from Saturn and at a sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 87 degrees. Image scale is 99 kilometers (62 miles) per pixel.The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit saturn.jpl.nasa.gov. The Cassini imaging team homepage is at ciclops.org.credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Image Addition Date:
2010-08-18
Just outside of Austin, there is an extensive set of caverns called Inner Space. We took a 3/4 mile tour, but there are 5 miles of caves that you can explore. A couple of the rooms were enormous--it just amazes me that whole rooms and worlds exist like that under the surface. There are lots of beautiful stalagmites and stalactites and the caverns that are continuing to grow. Supposedly touching them will stop their growth because the oils from your skin prevent the minerals from depositing on the rock. It's interesting to think of rock to be living in that sense.
The Pathfinder Shuttle Stack at the U.S Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL, is the only full shuttle stack in the world.
Pathfinder served as a non-flight test vehicle and is currently undergoing restoration.
The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program. Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS), taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable spacecraft where it was the only item funded for development.
The first of four orbital test flights occurred in 1981, leading to operational flights beginning in 1982. Five complete Space Shuttle orbiter vehicles were built and flown on a total of 135 missions from 1981 to 2011, launched from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Operational missions launched numerous satellites, interplanetary probes, and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), conducted science experiments in orbit, participated in the Shuttle-Mir program with Russia, and participated in construction and servicing of the International Space Station (ISS).
After much anticipation, Cassini has finally spotted the elusive spokes in
Saturn's rings.
Spokes are the ghostly radial markings discovered in the rings by NASA's
Voyager spacecraft 25 years ago. Since that time, spokes had been seen in
images taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope but had not, until now, been
seen by Cassini.
These three images, taken over a span of 27 minutes, show a few faint,
narrow spokes in the outer B ring. The spokes are about 3,500 kilometers
(2,200 miles) long and about 100 kilometers-wide (60 miles). The motion
of the spokes here is from left to right. They are seen just prior to
disappearing into the planet's shadow on the rings.
At the bottom left corner of the left and center images, the bright inner
edge of the A ring is visible. Continuing radially inward (or toward
Saturn) are several bands that lie within the Cassini Division, bounded
by the bright outer edge of the B ring. The rounded shadow of Saturn cuts
across the rings in the image at right.
Cassini's first sighting of spokes occurs on the unilluminated side of
the rings, in the same region in which they were seen during the Voyager
flybys. Although the most familiar Voyager images of spokes showed them on
the sunlit side of the rings, spokes also were seen on the unilluminated
side.
In Voyager images, when spokes were seen at low phase angles, they
appeared dark; when seen at high phase angles, they appeared bright. The
spokes seen here are viewed by Cassini at a very high phase angle, which
is about 145 degrees at the center of each image.
Imaging team members will be studying the new spoke images and will
maintain their vigil for additional spoke sightings.
These images were taken using the clear filters on Cassini's wide-angle
camera on Sept. 5, 2005, at a mean distance of 318,000 kilometers (198,000
miles) from Saturn. The radial scale on the rings (the image scale at the
center of each image) is about 17 kilometers (11 miles) per pixel.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European
Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages
the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The
Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and
assembled at JPL. The imaging team is based at the Space Science
Institute, Boulder, Colo.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit saturn.jpl.nasa.gov.
For additional images visit the Cassini imaging team homepage ciclops.org.
credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center is NASA's manned spacecraft center. It is the home of the Apollo program in addition to being a training facility. On display are Apollo artifacts as well as the Saturn V rocket.
Johnson Space Center (NASA). Houston, Texas.
Final preflight checks get underway for a Progeny Mk6 Block I rocket looking to lift off at the next sunrise
I helped exhibit, repair and show the Serenity while at Brickfair this weekend. It was a once in a lifetime opportunity to be able to unpack this beauty and watch the faces of adults and kids alike light up when they saw it for the first time.
Here is the mysterious stellar eruption that is Homunculus around the Eta Carinae star system. Using my CPC800 (dual fork alt-az C8) at f/10 and ASI290MM, with ASI224MC for colour. I measured an apparent size of ~10x20".
Previously I didn't know this was possible to resolve with amateur gear. A couple months ago after imaging the setting Venus I pointed to Eta Carinae out of curiosity and noticed I was making out the two lobes. Over the last several weeks I tried different techniques and camera settings to try get as much detail as I physically could. I processed this like I would with the planets as that's what I'm most familiar with. Short enough exposures to freeze seeing, but just long enough to not clip the lobes.
A measly 6 minutes of total exposure. Made up from the best 75% of 100ms exposures with a UV/IR cut filter on the 290MM for luminance. I had to make many batch recordings because field rotation was getting nasty. This mega project made me pull the trigger on an EQ6-R haha
Stacked in AutoStakkert!3 with 3x drizzle. Wavelets in Registax. Lots of stretching and love in Photoshop 2020. :)