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Solar panels: 1 – Shane and Thomas : 0. Rematch tomorrow, Sunday. Here are some more spacewalk photos from our first match on Wednesday, taken by Oleg and Pyotr. They show very well the ever-changing lighting conditions we have to work in. Aside from the vacuum and everything floating away, we also have to deal with strong sunlight and complete darkness alternating all the time! During the 7-hour spacewalk we kept the helmet lights on all the time as we have plenty of battery, but we raise and lower the sun visor. Not to look like Ironman but to not be blinded by the harsh light of the Sun. You can also see in one picture the pink tinge on the Space Station, it was a sunrise! We return tomorrow for another busy day to deploy the first solar array and install a second.
Panneau solaire : 1 – Shane et Thomas : 0. Match retour demain ! :) On va retourner dans le vide de l’espace pour finir le travail de la première sortie (déploiement du 1er panneau solaire) et pour installer le 2nd. Quelques photos de la première sortie de mercredi dernier, merci à Oleg et à Piotr Elles montrent bien les variations de luminosité extrêmes avec lesquelles nous avons dû travailler : d’un soleil éclatant à l’obscurité la plus complète. Lors des phases de jour, on abaisse la visière dorée de notre casque pour ne pas être éblouis (et non pas pour le petit côté Iron Man). La photo teintée de rose ? On était en train de travailler en plein lever de soleil ! 🌞
Credits: Roscosmos–O. Novitsky/P. Dubrov
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This stunning 10m stainless steel piece of artwork is now situated in Hulls Queens Gardens in the City centre, The Solar Gate artwork is etched with key dates in Hull's history which will be highlighted in turn by the movement of the sun.,It has been nicknamed the Cheese grater by local people.
i spent a week in the Alaska backcountry ,outside of Fairbanks . Alaska is one of the best locations in the world for viewing the Northern lights particular north from Fairbanks where is absolutely totally darkness ,but obviously, an extraordinarily hostile environment.
Picture of today's Solar Eclipse.
Image was taken around noon (12:20h) with a Canon EOS 200D, Sky-watcher Skymax 102, Astrozap Baader Solar Filter, and this on a Star Adventurer Pro.
It's a single exposure (1/160s; f/12.74; 1300mm; ISO-100) that I have sharpened in Registax 6 (Wavelets) and then edited in Photoshop 2021 (orange hue)
Besides the obvious moon, there was also some activity visible on the surface of the sun. :)
The solar eclipse occurred today with a heavy cloud cover obscuring the pivotal moment of total darkness of the sun. The northern edge of the path of totality was located about 30 km to the south of our neighbourhood over Lake Ontario. As a result we only got glimpses of the moon covering up the sun through he clouds. In a way it was OK as I hadn't prepared my cameras to take pictures of the solar eclipse with a clear sky. So I got shots with the brightness of the sun lessened by the cloud cover.
Taken at Weatherford Texas
I used my 1300mm 102mm Apex spotting scope alone with a solar filter to take pictures of the solar eclipse
Goal 7 of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals is: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all. There are great parallels to be made with the International Space Station. All our energy is completely carbon free as it comes from these beautiful, large, solar panels. They have been providing all the electricity we need up here for 20 years, but we have a great advantage: no clouds, so they get the full effect of our Sun. However half of our 90-minute orbit around is in the shadow of Earth, so batteries take over for 45 minutes to keep the electricity flowing, and they are recharged when we fly back into sunlight. As energy up here is a limited resource, a list exists where each facility is placed in order of priority. Representatives from the five space agencies that run the International Space Station work together to make the list so if ever power dips the top-priority facilities continue to run. I hear that the discussions around this can be quite lively as nobody wants their facility turned off, but for over 20 years researchers and mission designers have worked it out together and energy is continued to be produced and distributed. Like many things on the Space Station this is a nice example of what needs to be done on Earth, but obviously on a much larger scale and nobody is saying it is easy. Meanwhile after 20 years of service, the solar panels are getting ready for an upgrade with spacewalks planned to install new ones in the Summer. We need to safeguard our future energy to make it sustainable and continuous, just like on Earth.
Le 7e des Objectifs de développement durable de l'ONU : assurer l'accès pour tous à une énergie abordable, fiable, et durable. On peut faire plusieurs parallèles avec la Station spatiale internationale. Notre énergie est décarbonée car solaire: on voit assez nos immenses panneaux J. Ils fournissent toute l'électricité nécessaire ici depuis 20 ans, mais nous avons un gros avantage : l'absence de nuages :sunglass: Ils profitent pleinement du soleil, même si, à cause de sa trajectoire autour de la Terre, la Station spatiale passe constamment de l’ombre (côté non éclairé de la terre) à la lumière (côté éclairé).. d’où harge et décharge de grandes batteries extérieures. L'énergie étant une ressource limitée ici, les 5 agences spatiales qui gèrent la Station travaillent ensemble pour la gérer. En cas de problème électrique, il faut des priorités claires. En tout cas pendant plus de 20 ans, les chercheurs et les ingénieurs ont trouvé des solutions ensemble et l'énergie continue d'être produite et distribuée. Comme souvent sur l’ISS, c’est un bel exemple de ce qui doit être fait sur Terre, à plus grande echelle – c’est évidement beaucoup lpus difficile. Après des années de bons et loyaux services, les panneaux solaires donnent des signes de fatigue et des sorties extravéhiculaires sont prévues pour en installer de nouveaux au mois de juin. Ici aussi, on se creuse la tête pour render notre énergie plus durable.
Credits: ESA/NAS–T. Pesquet
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This is a close-up photo of the reflection of trees in the small solar panel that charges a string of LED lights.
Another bright solar halo yesterday (13.02.2018) over Athens.
EXIF: Canon 5dmk4, Sigma Art 14 mm, f/11, 1/640'', iso 100.
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Today’s (25th October) partial solar eclipse captured at 09.34 UT in Ha light from Kent, UK, with my Lunt LS152THa, and Altair Hypercam 174M cooled camera. This was imaged between rain showers and thick clouds. Notice the moon occulting the large prominence. As a point of information, I've orientated this to match the Global Oscillation Network Group (GONG) images. It is therefore different to the visual orientation of the sun in the sky at the time.
Ravioli A Beans truly “reaching for the stars” today on the back of the couch. I love being warm so much. I couldn’t possibly relate more to my sweet cats. Just charging our batteries in the sun.
Porsche 917K #917-022
This car was bought new in 1970 by Solar Productions (Steve McQueen's production company) in order to be driven by McQueen in some scenes of the movie "Le Mans" in the iconic Gulf colors and #20 number, just as the Jo Siffert / Brian Redman car.
After the film it was raced for a short period of time before being owned by Brian Redman, Richard Attwood. It is now part of the Jerry Seinfeld collection.
Porsche Rennsport Reunion V
Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca
An annular solar eclipse occurred on September 1, 2016, and annularity has been observed by me, sitting on the beach, in Madagascar.
An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring).
solar eclipse behind the town hall and war memorial in Hanley, Stoke on Trent. I only had five minutes break from work and attached a pair of sunglasses to my camera to take these shots!
Of course, everyone knows snowmen ... and snowwomen and snowkids ... hate the sun. With very good reason of course. :-) So they have to employ a Solar Early Warning system. Today that job fell to this happy fellow. Happy because the sun is nowhere in sight ... and won't be for the foreseeable future. (That's a double stacked 70mm SolarMax III with a 15mm blocking filter he has there on a Celestron CGX-L mount)
Overnight and today we received 15-20 centimeters (6-8 inches) of snow and one of the websites I monitor predicts another 8.9 centimeters for Friday and another 8.5 centimeters for next Monday. At times like these, I definitely think I might have picked the wrong hobby.
It's been quite a while since I made a snowman. But you're never too old to have fun, I guess. Today, it just seemed appropriate somehow. In these troubling times, I hope it gives a little smile to anyone who sees it. (And I wanted to give the robins that have come back from down south a little break ... by uncovering some of the snow covered grass where I rolled the snow. I'm pretty sure they will appreciate it).
(Dedicated to the memory of one of the world's greatest singer/songwriters ... John Prine) Perhaps you've heard his song Humidity Built The Snowman.
This is a composite image of all the seperate images I took during the recent solar eclipse on March 20th 2015. These were taken from The Lough in Cork. I opened all the images in photoshop and aligned them in a sequence so you could see how it progressed. Originally I did this with more "under-exposed" images that just showed the eclipse, but when I imported these shots that were a little "over-exposed" I thought the detail in the clouds that came with them looked really cool so I left it in. This was not faked in any way.The only use of photoshop was to align the exposures in the sequence you see.
Extreme overexposure on FP4. This was shot at f/16 for either two or four seconds. I've done this with a pinhole camera, but never with a real lens.
I used photoshop to bring out contrasts and get rid of a couple of dust specks, but the solarization effect is real.
Next time, I'm going to try cutting the normal development time in half.
The astonishing Aurora Borealis over the famous Holy Island of Lindisfarne. Lindisfarne Castle can be seen with intense Coronal Mass Ejection in the sky—the biggest solar storm in over 20 years.
Last place left on our popular Isle of Harris workshop tour in February 2025...
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A macro shot of the leaves of an amaryllis plant with the solarized filter of Photoshop Elements 5.0 applied....
The textured background is a window screen in our kitchen.
This handheld shot was taken with a Nikon D80 coupled with a 18-200 VR lens. The vibration reduction lens does a nice job of reducing the blurring that is normally associated with the slight movement that occurs when I press the shutter button.
So... my horoscope said: "That moment when the Sun is eclipsed will be your moment of introspection as you prepare for a big change. Once that passes, prepare to be amazed. This is a time of letting that light shine, and figuring out where you really belong, and who you belong to. Hint: You belong to the ones that make you feel like you shine in their world.
The New Moon and solar eclipse in Fixed Fire Sign Leo is all about being ready for the big change that is coming. You can′t stop it from happening. And it′s nothing to fear. That′s because this one, like every other transit, is all about ensuring your success. It′s your time to shine, baby! Expect the unexpected. Make those New Moon wishes count. This one could be the biggest new beginning of your life."
Ok, yes, please. I am ready for the biggest new beginning of my life. I am ready to be amazed. Today was one bad thing after another (well ...except for the eclipse... I did get to see it and I did have solar glasses, so I still have my eyesight... all good!) Other than that...everything sucked and yesterday was pretty much the same. So ... bring it on.... amaze me!! PLeeeeZe!!!
(I brought my camera, but had no intention of trying to photograph the eclipse... I can't even get a shot of the moon...so I decided I would leave that to the experts... and better photographers. This is an iPhone photo from Jenny Jump State Park's observatory... where volunteers let you look through solar eclipse binoculars and telescopes. It was an awesome place to be... the only bright spot in the day (even with the sun being eclipsed!!) ; )