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Clematis seed head with stars added in camera.
I captured this on a mountain road in Mammoth, CA.
Camera & Lens:
Nikon D 800E - Sigma 14-24 - 2.8
Stars:
MSM Tracker - F 8 - ISO 800 - 90 Sec
Foreground
F 2.8 - ISO 800 - 2 Minutes
There are 4 kinds of stars here:
• The main object is a 22-inch barn star
• A small gold star is attached to the center of the barn star
• One of the barn star points has star shaped cut-outs
• An overhead light projects thru the cut-outs and forms stars on the table underneath
A shot of my parents narrowboat on the Kennet and Avon canal. The clear starry night seemed quite fitting with the name of the boat!
Not one to hang on the wall unfortunately, as there is a lot of noise in the sky, which is not helped by the light pollution. A fun experiment though!
I welcome any constructive comments to help me improve.
Stars rotating over Norway's most southerly point on Easter Sunday evening.
430 exposures totalling 1 hr, stacked in-camera.
A lovely 'Stars of Persia'.. 'Allium cristophii'.... bloom..
HGGT..!! Have a great day.. thanks for looking..
Cape Hatteras LIghthouse. Orion standing on his head on the side.
The night sky is exceptionally clear here, especially for sea level. Outer Banks 2012.
This is the lighthouse that was moved in 1999: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Hatteras_Light
It claims to be one of the most photographed lighthouses in the world. There may be some justification for that - the largest Flickr Outer Banks group has 13,000 photos, of those fully 780 return for a search of "Hatteras lighthouse". That's fully 6% plus of all group photos, and there are four other Outer Blanks lighthouses!
Straight 30 sec exposure, f2.8, iso 1600. . . . . . . #2413
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CASTLERIGG STONE CIRCLE STANDS ON A SUPERB NATURAL PLATEAU COMMANDING A SUPERB 360 DEGREE VIEW OVER THE SURROUNDING FELLS. IT IS COMPOSED OF 38 FREE STANDING STONES, SOME UP TO 3 METRES (10 FEET) HIGH. IT IS ONE OF BRITAIN'S EARLIEST STONE CIRCLES DATING BACK TO THE NEOLITHIC PERIOD 4000 TO 5000 YEARS AGO.
THE ORIGINAL PURPOSE OF THE SITE IS UNKNOWN. IT COULD HAVE BEEN USED AS A TRADING POST. THREE STONE AXES HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED INSIDE THE CIRCLE. IN THE NEOLITHIC PERIOD AXES WERE MADE FROM VOLCANIC STONE QUARRIED IN THE FELLS. OTHER POSSIBLE USES INCLUDE A MEETING PLACE FOR SOCIAL GATHERINGS, A SITE FOR RELIGIOUS CEREMONIES AND RITUALS OR EVEN AN ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY WITH THE STONES BEING ALIGNED TO THE SUN, MOON AND STARS.
CASTLERIGG STONE CIRCLE WAS ONE OF THE FIRST SITES TO BE COVERED UNDER THE ANCIENT MONUMENTS PROTECTION ACT IN 1888 AND IN 1913 IT WAS ACQUIRED BY THE NATIONAL TRUST.
CASTLERIGG STONE CIRCLE IS LOCATED 1.5 MILES SOUTH EAST OF KESWICK. GRID REFERENCE NY291236.
Lots of StarStuff...
A widefield mosaic of the Sagittarius Trio - M8, M20 and NGC 6559. This is a dense region of stars, interstellar dust clouds, and dark nebulae, reflection nebulae and emission nebulae.
Image Acquisition:
Sequence Generator Pro with the Mosaic and Framing Wizard.
Plate Solving:
Astrometry.net ANSVR Solver via SGP.
Processing:
Pre-Processing and Linear workflow in PixInsight,
and finished in Photoshop.
Astrometry Info:
View Annotated Sky Chart for this image.
RA, Dec center: 271.636470386, -23.829939492 degrees
Orientation: 2.08453689517 deg E of N
Pixel scale: 7.63283615011 arcsec/pixel
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About the Milky Way, and Earth's place within it:
The Milky Way Galaxy is estimated to have over 400 billion stars. Stars are suns, and just like in our Solar System, many of the stars have planets and moons. Our sun is a middle aged Yellow Dwarf star, located in the Orion Arm (or Orion Spur) of the Milky Way Galaxy. It’s a minor side spiral arm, located between two larger arms of the Milky Way Galaxy's spiral. The Milky Way is merely one mid-sized barred spiral Galaxy, amongst over 100 billion other Galaxies in the observable Universe. When we look up at the night sky from Earth, we see a glimpse of the Carina–Sagittarius Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy. It takes about 250 million years for the Milky Way Galaxy's spiral arms to complete one rotation.
The size, distance and age of the Universe is far beyond human comprehension. The known Universe is estimated to contain over One Billion Trillion stars (the latest estimates are substantially higher).
Billion Trillion Stars:
1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000
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A book that is full of 'Stars'.
An old tattered Guiness Book of Records book that I found in the bookshelf. I think I'll be seeing Stars for a week !
Nikon D7000 & Samyang 8mm Fisheye
Taken on our weekend camping trip to Rainbow Springs Campground in Dunellon Florida. 90 Minutes worth of 30 Second Exposures- Stacked with a free Startrails Program- I had more but the lens fogged up around 9pm and the images quickly became unusable. Worth a look Large.
"You could only play if your bellies had stars and the plain-belly children had none upon thars." Dr. Seuss
A panoramic of the milky way taken on the coastal path at Porthdafarch,Holyhead,Anglesey just after the moon had set at 2.45 am.
Taking pictures of the stars is something that has started to interest me more and more. It is something that I have never attempted before so is a 1st for me and so really know nothing as to what it involves. After watching a hand full of youtube videos I thought I'd give it a try last night. I had to go alone, as my friend had to cancel last minute. I was not happy sitting in the middle of a pitch black field alone even if it was only 8pm 😟 hence I didn't stay long. Oh my word I now see how hard it really is. It is going to take a lot more work, help and practise on my part. Anyway I did come away with a few images. After post processing to my taste here is (Sunset Stars) I call it this as it was one of my first images taken after sunset.
Critique welcomed as this would help greatly. I won't cry, honest
( Sunset Stars )
Stars and terraces. Above the Red River valley.
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Chocolate chip cookies from Mary Berry's Baking Bible for my family. Wrapped in a star patterned cellophane, red ribbon to tie and a silver star Christmas decoration completes this little gift of 8 cookies! I like to add a Christmas tree decoration to gifts, makes it a little bit special. :)
Tip For Wrapping.
wrap the cellophane around a wine bottle, not too tight a fit, then tape the sides and bottom. remove the bottle and slide in the cookies... its a perfect fit for most of the cookies...put the odd ones in the biscuit jar! much easier to wrap this way :)
Ingredients
• 100g (4oz) softened butter
• 75g (3oz) caster sugar
• 50g (2oz) light muscovado sugar
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 large beaten egg
• 150g (5oz) self raising flour
• 100g (4oz) plain chocolate chips
Method
1. Preheat the oven to 190 C/Fan 170/ Gas 5
2. Lightly grease 3 baking trays
3. Put butter and sugars into a mixing bowl and beat until evenly blended. Add vanilla extract to beaten egg then slowly add to butter and sugar mix beating well between each addition.
4. Mix in the flour then stir in the chocolate chips.
5. Spoon large teaspoons of mixture onto the prepared baking trays leaving room for the cookies to spread.
6. Bake in pre-heated oven for 8-10 minutes or until golden. Watch carefully as these can go from golden to brown very quickly.
7. Leave cookies to cool on the baking tray for a few minutes (but not too long or they stick) then carefully lift onto a cooling rack with a palette knife.
29 Biscuits or Cake. theme for 115 pictures in 2015
I had an amazing weekend camping trip chasing the milky way with photog friends... survived 30 deg cold weather camping in the deep woods in search of a glimpse of a galaxy... making new friends and chillin with old friends... sometimes it's about the experience as much as it is about getting the shot.