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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.
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.
While scanning the sky to chart a billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy, ESA’s Gaia satellite is also sensitive to celestial bodies closer to home, and regularly observes asteroids in our Solar System.
This view shows the orbits of more than 14 000 known asteroids (with the Sun at the centre of the image) based on information from Gaia’s second data release, which was made public in 2018.
The majority of asteroids depicted in this image, shown in bright red and orange hues, are main-belt asteroids, located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter; Trojan asteroids, found around the orbit of Jupiter, are shown in dark red.
In yellow, towards the image centre, are the orbits of several tens of near-Earth asteroids observed by Gaia: these are asteroids that come to within 1.3 astronomical units (AU) to the Sun at the closest approach along their orbit. The Earth circles the Sun at a distance of 1 AU (around 150 million km) so near-Earth asteroids have the potential to come into proximity with our planet.
Most asteroids that Gaia detects are already known, but every now and then, the asteroids seen by ESA's Milky Way surveyor do not match any existing observations. This is the case for the three orbits shown in grey in this view: these are Gaia’s first asteroid discoveries.
The three new asteroids were first spotted by Gaia in December 2018, and later confirmed by follow-up observations performed with the Haute-Provence Observatory in France, which enabled scientists to determine their orbits. Comparing these informations with existing observations indicated the objects had not been detected earlier.
While they are part of the main belt of asteroids, all three move around the Sun on orbits that have a greater tilt (15 degrees or more) with respect to the orbital plane of planets than most main-belt asteroids.
The population of such high-inclination asteroids is not as well studied as those with less tilted orbits, since most surveys tend to focus on the plane where the majority of asteroids reside. But Gaia can readily observe them as it scans the entire sky from its vantage point in space, so it is possible that the satellite will find more such objects in the future and contribute new information to study their properties.
Alongside the extensive processing and analysis of Gaia’s data in preparation for subsequent data releases, preliminary information about Gaia’s asteroid detections are regularly shared via an online alert system so that astronomers across the world can perform follow-up observations. To observe these asteroids, a 1-m or larger telescope is needed.
Once an asteroid detected by Gaia has been identified also in ground-based observations, the scientists in charge of the alert system analyse the data to determine the object’s orbit. In case the ground observations match the orbit based on Gaia’s data, they provide the information to the Minor Planet Center, which is the official worldwide organization collecting observational data for small Solar System bodies like asteroids and comets.
This process may lead to new discoveries, like the three asteroids with orbits depicted in this image, or to improvements in the determination of the orbits of known asteroids, which are sometimes very poorly known. So far, several tens of asteroids detected by Gaia have been observed from the ground in response to the alert system, all of them belonging to the main belt, but it is possible that also near-Earth asteroids will be spotted in the future.
A number of observatories across the world are already involved in these activities, including the Haute-Provence Observatory, Kyiv Comet station, Odessa-Mayaki, Terskol, C2PU at Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur and Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network. The more that join, the more we will learn about asteroids – known and new ones alike.
Acknowledgement: Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC); Gaia Coordinating Unit 4; B. Carry, F. Spoto, P. Tanga (Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, France) & W. Thuillot (IMCCE, Observatoire de Paris, France); Gaia Data Processing Center at CNES, Toulouse, France
Credits: ESA/Gaia/DPAC
from under the Marquam Bridge, Willamette River, Portland, OR See tags for processing hints O2237 - Happy Sliders Sunday!
The STX atmospheric fighter, codenamed “Solar Flare,” harnesses the unstable energy from a contained petronium core to provide fuel for its legendary speed and firepower.
3 month image with a Solar Puck pinhole camera. March 21, 2025 until June 18, 2026. Everyday the sun leaves it's mark on the photographic paper. Blended foreground with image taken at same location with my Canon 6DM2.
Sunrise strikes the solar panels that power the International Space Station, caught by ESA astronaut Tim Peake on 31 December 2015.
Follow Tim and his time in space via timpeake.esa.int and blogs.esa.int/tim-peake
Credit: ESA/NASA
This snapshot of our constantly changing Sun catches looping filaments and energetic eruptions on their outward journey from our star’s turbulent surface.
The disc of our star is a rippling mass of bright, hot active areas, interspersed with dark, cool snaking filaments that wrap around the star. Surrounding the tumultuous solar surface is the chaotic corona, a rarified atmosphere of super-heated plasma that blankets the Sun and extends out into space for millions of kilometres.
This coronal plasma reaches temperatures of several million degrees in some regions – significantly hotter than the surface of the Sun, which reaches comparatively paltry temperatures of around 6000ºC – and glows in ultraviolet and extreme-ultraviolet light owing to its extremely high temperature. By picking one particular wavelength, ESA’s Proba-2 SWAP (Sun Watcher with APS detector and Image Processing) camera is able to single out structures with temperatures of around a million degrees.
As seen in this image, taken on 25 July 2014, the hot plasma forms large loops and fan-shaped structures, both of which are kept in check by the Sun’s intense magnetic field. While some of these loops stay close to the surface of the Sun, some can stretch far out into space, eventually being swept up into the solar wind – an outpouring of energetic particles that constantly streams out into the Solar System and flows past the planets, including Earth.
Even loops that initially appear to be quite docile can become tightly wrapped and tangled over time, storing energy until they eventually snap and throw off intense flares and eruptions known as coronal mass ejections. These eruptions, made up of massive amounts of gas embedded in magnetic field lines, can be dangerous to satellites, interfere with communication equipment and damage vital infrastructure on Earth.
Despite the Sun being the most important star in our sky, much is still unknown about its behaviour. Studying its corona in detail could help us to understand the internal workings of the Sun, the erratic motions of its outer layers, and the highly energetic bursts of material that it throws off into space.
Two new ESA missions will soon contribute to this field of study: Solar Orbiter is designed to study the solar wind and region of space dominated by the Sun and also to closely observe the star’s polar regions, and the PROBA3 mission will study the Sun’s faint corona closer to the solar rim than has ever before been achieved.
Credit: ESA/ROB
This is a close-up photo of the reflection of trees in the small solar panel that charges a string of LED lights.
Realizing that the world is inundated with eclipse images, I will only post 1 more. This has a little more interest.
Almost as amazing as the spectacle itself is the related scientific data. A few facts:
The earth has a circumference of 40,075 kilometers. The circumference of the moon is about the quarter size of earth, coming in at 10,921 kilometers, while the circumference of the sun is a staggering 4.37 MILLION kilometers!!!
In the above image, solar flares can be seen. Amazingly, these flares can reach out into space 15 billion kilometers!
Who says there is no God?
Torre Solaria in Milan, the tallest italian residential building.
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12-05-2015
The lights flash and change color!! I bought them on the WISH app. Love all my solar lights and lanterns from them!!
I have come to the conclusion that I should've been a professional contortionist. The difficulties of trying to get low enough to shoot the underside of the smallest flower I could find so I could capture the magnificent natural phenomenon that is the sun, in macro, without actually shooting the sun, is no mean feat (in my opinion!). Anyway, this tiny little dandelion daisy provided a good cover for my solar macro attempt.
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
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.
The best seeing of the winter, with Jupiter looking quite steady on screen. The 2025 images of Jupiter have been my only January images of this planet since my very first image in January 2015.
04:33.2 UT.
The black squares are parts in a photovoltaic system (solar cells) that produces electricity. They are spaced out more on the end of the balcony so you can look out there.
The building is constructed of wooden building elements with straw insulation. It is a climate-positive building that stores the carbon dioxide the trees and the straw bound as they grew - perhaps also the world's most climate-positive building.
The building is a PlusEnergy building - it produces more energy than the tenants use. No district heating is needed, the building is heated with heat recovery from the ventilation air plus a heat pump.
The building consists of apartments for rent and is owned by ETC Bygg.
Built: 2026. Architects: Hans Eek and Kaminsky Arkitektur.
etcbygg.se (website in Swedish)
Art Week Gallery Theme ~ROUND Things-
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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).
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...
www.johnfinneyphotography.com/isle-of-harris-feb-2025
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