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Macro Monday - Feb. 06, 2023
Theme - "Made of Metal"
1 oz. Silver Coins......99.9% pure
Happy Macro Monday Friends !
Silver coin is certified to be 99.99% pure silver.
The image on the coin, created by Canadian artist Claudio D'Angelo, portrays three members of a stampeding bison herd racing across the prairies.
The three bison run across a high-grassed prairie plain, each blade of grass, along with the shaggy fur of the bison.
y mucho éxito para los próximos seis años.
balanced coin for MacroMondays theme #balance
composición minimalista para el #BlogdelFotógrafo #BdF87
mis mejores deseos para nuestro México #siempre
The Magician.
I am so fortunate to have the greatest colleagues.
Last week someone had a musical instrument for me to photograph.
This week our purchasing manager helped.
He is also a professional magician, and always has magic gimmicks around,, some of them can set off the fire alarm, so we decided to avoid that at the office :-)
Here's a silver coin from one of his many trips to New York.
Did several shots of fingertips holding cards, but decided this object was better for a macro shot.
... can be, for example, a smaller coin, or a half or a quarter of a silver coin or simply the gold letters ;)
Theme for Macro Monday
I'm grateful for your views... happy Macro Monday :)
Two ladies from the Palaung ethnic minority at the market in Lashio, Shan state, Myanmar.
I have just returned from this fascinating country, another fantastic trip, can't wait to go back again.
Those tiny People have been also Part of History - Once upon a Time brings us back into those Days of the German Empire which was from 1871 - 1918. Those little Helpers had to move the Silvercoins :)
#MacroMondays #OnceUponATime
When I think of stars, I think of the Stars and Stripes.
After I got a flag out, I remembered that a silver coin I was given as a gift, had stars on it too. Unable to decide which subject to shoot, I combined them.
Best viewed large.
HMM.
I went back and reshot this, framing it to include both objects, where before NGC 288 was a surprise for me.
I've been wanting to shoot this galaxy for awhile and I pulled out my gear last night to do it finally. It is to the south and pretty low, near the horizon. I have to shoot towards the town of Taos to get this galaxy. I was unaware of the star cluster, NGC 288 before I began shooting last night.
Equipment:
Celestron CGEM Mount
Nikkor 500mm f/4 P Ai-s at f/4
Sony a7RIII (unmodified)
Altair 60mm Guide scope
GPCAM2 Mono Camera
Acquisition:
Taos, NM: my backyard - Bortle 3
47 x 120" for 1 hr 34min and 47 sec of exposure time.
11 dark frames
15 flats frames
15 bais frames
Guided
Software:
SharpCap
PHD2
DeepSkyStacker
Photoshop
My mount was polar aligned with SharpCap (what an amazing system for aligning). I'm not comfortable using my SCT as my lens yet. My solution is to piggyback my Sony a7RIII and adapted Nikkor 500mm f/4 P Ai-s on a ADM dovetail rail on the top of my optical tube. I used DeepSkyStacker to combine all frames and then processed the TIFF file in Photoshop. I stretched the 32 bit file and used Gradient XT on the image. I then made it a 16 bit file and stretched in level, then curves. I used the color sampler tool and levels to do my best to keep the background space black. I then using my skillset and relied on Astronomy Tools Action Set, and dodging and burning a bit to give the image the finishing touches.
The “Sculptor Galaxy” NGC 253, also known as the “Silver Coin Galaxy”, is a bright local spiral galaxy, smaller than the Milky Way and only 12,000,000 light years distant.
The apparent width of the galaxy is about one lunar diameter.
Its circular disc is about 12° from the edge-on position and it has a concentrated central nucleus and mottle-textured dust lanes & dark patches.
It is located only 2° from the South Galactic Pole.
Object Details:
Designation: NGC 253, Caldwell 65
Constellation: Sculptor
Visual magnitude: +7.0
Apparent size: 26.8′ x 4.6′
Diameter: 94,000 light years.
Distance: 12 million light years.
The Gear:
Skywatcher Esprit 120 telescope.
ZWO ASI071 camera.
Also called the Silver Coin Galaxy, the Sculptor Galaxy (the brightest galaxy in the group and one of the intrinsically brightest galaxies in the vicinity of ours, only surpassed by the Andromeda Galaxy and the Sombrero Galaxy) and the companion galaxies. Research suggests the presence of a supermassive black hole in the center of this galaxy with a mass estimated to be 5 million times that of the Sun. It's about 11 million light-years away.
Esprit 120mm, QHY268M, Optolong filters, Ioptron CEM70 mount, Starfront Observatory, Texas. 20hrs integration time. HaLRGB
This silver robbery seems to be a little bit overloaded! The tiny robber doesn`t seem to be able to move his heavy theft :)
I've been wanting to shoot this galaxy for awhile and I pulled out my gear last night to do it finally. It is to the south and pretty low, near the horizon. I have to shoot towards the town of Taos to get this galaxy. I was unaware of the star cluster, NGC 288 before I began shooting last night.
Equipment:
Celestron CGEM Mount
Nikkor 500mm f/4 P Ai-s at f/5.6
Sony a7RIII (unmodified)
Altair 60mm Guide scope
GPCAM2 Mono Camera
Acquisition:
Taos, NM: my backyard - Bortle 3
35 x 90" for 53 min and 5 sec of exposure time.
10 dark frames
15 flats frames
15 bais frames
Guided
Software:
SharpCap
PHD2
DeepSkyStacker
Photoshop
My mount was polar aligned with SharpCap (what an amazing system for aligning). I'm not comfortable using my SCT as my lens yet. My solution is to piggyback my Sony a7RIII and adapted Nikkor 500mm f/4 P Ai-s on a ADM dovetail rail on the top of my optical tube. I used DeepSkyStacker to combine all frames and then processed the TIFF file in Photoshop. I stretched the 32 bit file and used Gradient XT on the image. I then made it a 16 bit file and stretched in level, then curves. I used the color sampler tool and levels to do my best to keep the background space black. I then using my skillset and relied on Astronomy Tools Action Set, and dodging and burning a bit to give the image the finishing touches.
I got this Victorian half-crown in my change over sixty years ago. It was very uncommon to get pre-1920 silver coins.
The Our Daily Challenge group has chosen Half as today's topic.
This photograph comes to you by courtesy of the letter C, my third picture for the February Alphabet Fun: 2025 group.
Copyright Robert W. Dickinson. Unauthorized use of this image without my express permission is a violation of copyright law.
The leading lines you see here are sun rays leading to the sun (top of picture) on the obverse (front side) of a 1 oz. American
Eagle Silver Bullion Coin. The curved lines on the left side are a part of Lady Liberty's gown.
Lit by a tiny LED light. I maxed out the color saturation when processing in Canon Digital Photo Professional. ISO 400, f8 at 2.5 seconds. Canon 6D Mark II and Canon MP-E 65mm f2.8 1x-5x macro lens set to 4x. The actual width of this shot is only about 7mm to 8mm.
This is an object that many will recognise in the southern hemisphere skies. It is NGC 253. Common names include The Sculptor Galaxy, The Silver Coin, or The Silver Dollar Galaxy. It is an intermediate galaxy located within the constellation Sculptor and is one of the brightest spiral galaxies visible to us. It is also one of the dustiest and is currently undergoing a period of intense star formation. The galaxy is around 90,000 light-years across making is smaller than our galaxy. It is bright at magnitude 8.0 and presents an apparent size of 27'.5 X 6'.8 arcmin allowing it to be seen through binoculars at a dark location. Remember that the moon is around 31 arcmin. And like all nice galaxies, a supermassive black hole is believed to be at its centre and is estimated to be 5 million times the mass of our sun.
My goals were to present this large and bright galaxy in a way that retains its subtle colouring and intricate textures spread throughout. I did not want that supersaturated look. Hopefully, I didn't cross this line with this rendition. Colours are an area that always presents a challenge. When I first brought all the data together, it appeared subdued for such a bright target. The initial colouring was almost a turquoise off-green blue colouring, not what I expected. What I did see was very subtle structures throughout with a very pastel look to my eyes. That was the look I wanted to retain, and not have the final result looked forced or exaggerated. I processed several versions, far more than I am willing to admit, as I simply ran out of fingers to keep track long ago. Some versions were saturated and rich, and others not. In the end, I went with the more natural pastel colouring that was present in the original colour combination out of the camera, plus an additional +14 hours of Ha data collected to highlight star formation areas within the galaxy. They can be identified by the rich red colouring, adding an extra level of information, vibrancy and depth to this very dusty looking galaxy.
The base of this image is a traditional RGB image with the most egregious gradients removed. The sharpness comes from extracting details in the Luminance channel. Ha data was blended into both the Red and the Luminance channels in an attempt to present that traditional colouring of Ha (red) seen in many astrophotographs.
I always love exploring the array of small galaxies in the final result. If you look along the lower part of the galaxy (around the 4 o'clock position using the galaxy centre as your relative position), there are several small galaxies visible within the halo. That is so cool. Unfortunately, they appear to be uncatalogued, and I would guess to be somewhere around mag 21 and dimmer (based on catalogued galaxies located near these in the frame). Moving outwards along the same vector just outside of the halo at around the 4 o'clock position there is a 20.1 mag galaxy 2MASX J00474537-2508373. It's a face-on galaxy with a lovely golden brown colour. Looking towards the top, locate the two brightest stars. Where their diffraction spikes cross just within the halo, another beautiful golden coloured face on galaxy can be seen that is behind the main galaxy, its identifier is [PBP84] 004457.5-253747 at a brighter magnitude 18.0. There is a pretty spiral between the two of the highest bright stars above the galaxy in the frame. This is a bit brighter at magnitude 16.15. It goes by the catchy name of 6dFGS gJ004729.0-252626. Seeing these tiny elongated points of light throughout the frame certainly illustrates the huge distances these galaxies must be.
One of the highlights I believe is the halo around NGC 253. It has a subtle glow and contains many delicate faint dust lanes on the very edge of the galaxy extending outwards into the cosmos. It’s the subtle stuff I find to be the most pleasing to look at.
Image location:
Center (RA, hms):00h 47m 34.133s
Center (Dec, dms):-25° 17' 18.036"
Size: 33.8 x 22.5 arcmin
Radius: 0.338 deg
Pixel scale: 0.804 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: Up is 242 degrees E of N
Instruments:
10 Inch fl 9.1 RCOS
Astro Physics AP-900 Mount
SBIG STL 11000m
FLI Filter Wheel
Astrodon Lum, Red, Green, Blue Filters
Baader Planetarium H-alpha 7nm Narrowband-Filter
Exposure Details:
Lum 49 X 1200
Red 12 X 900
Green 8 X 900
Blue 8 X 900
Ha 44 X 1200
Total Exposure: 33.92 Hours
The Sculptor Galaxy sometimes called the Silver Coin or Silver Dollar Galaxy is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Sculptor. The Sculptor Galaxy is a starburst galaxy, which means that it is currently undergoing a period of intense star formation. It was discovered by Caroline Herschel in 1783 whilst searching for comets. It is one of the brightest galaxies in the night sky, and is approximately 11 million light years away from Earth.
This image is a reprocess of data taken back in 2017, using new processing techniques in PixInsight. Data were acquired with a 10" f4.7 Saxon Newtonian using an SBIG ST2000XM cooled to -10'c
Equipment Details:
•10 Inch Saxon F4.7 Newtonian Reflector
•Skywatcher NEQ6 Mount
•SBIG ST2000xm CCD Camera
•SBIG CFW8a Filter Wheel
•Astronomik R G B Filters
•SKywatcher BD 102mm Guide Scope
•Meade DSIii CCD Guide Camera
•Polemaster for polar alignment
Exposure Details:
•Lum 17X180 seconds - Bin 1x1
•Red 10X180 seconds - Bin 1x1
•Green 10X180 seconds - Bin 1x1
•Blue 10X180 seconds - Bin 1x1
Total Integration Time: 2 hours 21 minutes
I thought this house was painted to celebrate Canada's 150th birthday this year. Then I heard it's been painted, with our flag, for a decade. Oh well, at least this one thing is true. We will have a glow-in-the-dark silver coin for the occasion.
SILVER COIN VIDEO: www.mint.ca/store/campaign/ProudlyCanadian-6800020?lang=e...
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I forgot today was Sunday.. So I already posted a photo *also with comments disabled*, about an hour ago.
>>>I took this photo of my close friend/co-worker on Monday.
We were waiting on something so we decided to go and grab a bagel and coffee at the local diner & talk for a bit.
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Posted for HAPPY SLIDER SUNDAY - group... Which calls for photographs over processed - to the MAX! I would say that this photo is definitely processed to the MAX, especially for me.
..I'm sure you all see that I rarely edit my photos.. besides adjusting my contrast/brightness. I prefer to have realistic images
However when I was playing around with this photograph Monday afternoon.. I really liked how this came out.. (over processed and all). So I decided to post it for HSS.
>>And YES this morning I forgot that today was Sunday, so I have already posted a photo for today (with comments disabled) .
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EDIT: I have already had this photo be mistaken for me, and I just posted it a few minutes ago!
...SO!! I thought I'd tell you guys about STEPH (in the photo) and myself.. and people mixing us up in photos.
◻ I PERSONALLY have mistaken Stephanie's profile picture on Facebook messenger for myself (I thought she was me..) THREE TIMES!
◻ Juan (my fiancé) has also mixed up our profile pictures on Facebook at least once.
◻ Multiple friends of Steph's and mine have said to both of us (commented on our pictures) that they thought Steph was ME and thinking I was Steph. (A LOT A LOT!)
◻ What I am saying is, if you mistake Stephanie's picture ABOVE for me.. Don't feel bad. Everyone has. INCLUDING ME & JUAN! (very funny) Very cool though.
...Perhaps we're sisters?? (lol, kidding!)
Have a great day ALL!
BTW GUYS: Please check out Juan's FLICKR!!!
(He's still learning! He'll be returning your comments soon!)
I had to go hunting in my rather haphazard coin collection to find silver coins but here are a few. A 1950 Canada 50 cent piece, a 1956 Canada 10 cents and a 1936 British Six Pence.
IDBX1806
Macro Monday: Monochrome
Australian Pre-Decimal Coins: On 14th February 1966, Australia introduced decimal notes and coins, marking the end of its British-style currency system based on pounds, shillings and pence.
Left: Australia 1927 Parliament House Florin, in a pendant setting.
Australia's first commemorative coin, the 'Canberra Florin' was issued on May 9, 1927 to commemorate the opening of Parliament House in Canberra as the seat of Government in Australia by the then Duke of York, later King George VI. 92.5% silver.
Right: Old coin bracelet found by my Grandfather sometime in the 1950s. Visible coins are: 1) 1944 Shilling which features a merino ram. 2) 1943 Sixpence with the Australian Coat of Arms. 3) 1943 Threepence with sheaf of wheat.
Top: 1942 Threepence, made into a signet ring. Has a sheaf of wheat with three stems tied in a ribbon.
Macro f/7.1
This photo isn't exactly a 1-to-1 macro shot, It was shot with the camera positioned approximately 8" from the coin to the sensor. The minimum focusing distance to be 1-to-1 is 5.9", per the manufacturer.
Mitt bidrag till veckans Fotosöndag.
My contribution to this week on the Photosunday on the Theme Samling/Collection.
Australian Pre-Decimal Coins: On 14th February 1966, Australia introduced decimal notes and coins, marking the end of its British-style currency system based on pounds, shillings and pence.
Left: Australia 1927 Parliament House Florin, in a pendant setting.
Australia's first commemorative coin, the 'Canberra Florin' was issued on May 9, 1927 to commemorate the opening of Parliament House in Canberra as the seat of Government in Australia by the then Duke of York, later King George VI. 92.5% silver.
Right: Old coin bracelet found by my Grandfather sometime in the 1950s. Visible coins are: 1) 1944 Shilling which features a merino ram. 2) 1943 Sixpence with the Australian Coat of Arms. 3) 1943 Threepence with sheaf of wheat.
Top: 1942 Threepence, made into a signet ring. Has a sheaf of wheat with three stems tied in a ribbon.
500 lire Caravelle
old silver coin
engraver Guido Veroi
Christopher Columbus's ships, the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria .
en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces2716.html
just price of it: $20
Money
“To Christians, the love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it is the sinews of war; to revolutionaries, the shackles of labour. “© Niall Ferguson, 2008
1492
12 октября 1492 года, экспедиция Христофора Колумба достигла острова Сан-Сальвадор в Багамском архипелаге.
ricorrenza celebrata in molti paesi delle Americhe per commemorare il giorno dell'arrivo di Cristoforo Colombo nel Nuovo Mondo, il 12 ottobre 1492
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