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Completed my Solar System photo
Took around 4 years to complete this photo
Nikon Coolpix p1000
Bresser Messier MC 127 + ASI 224MC
ZWO Seestar S50
The brightness of the total eclipse varies over 5 orders of magnitude, from bright, hot pink solar prominences to the outer corona. This is a 1/8000 exposure showing the prominences; the corona is only hinted at by the difference between the true black of the lunar disk and the off-black of the surrounding sky.
We reserved a room in Plattsburgh, NY about a year ago (Vermont was already fully booked, but Plattsburgh had plenty of rooms and no bump in prices yet). The morning of the eclipse dawned clear, but clouds were predicted to gather by afternoon, so we chased blue skies about 3 hours northeast to the southern outskirts of Sherbrooke, QC and had perfect weather. (Fortunately, I had insisted to my husband that we bring passports.) The Canadian customs website said there was a 40-minute wait at the entry station on the freeway, so we nipped over to the side road a few miles east and had the port of entry all to ourselves.
The total eclipse was … hard to describe, but all it’s cracked up to be — a striking spectacle. The inner corona was much brighter than I expected, blazing to the naked eye in sharp contrast to the suddenly black sun within.
ESA’s new Sun exploring spacecraft Solar Orbiter launched atop the US Atlas V 411 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 04:03 GMT (05:03 CET) on 10 February 2020. An ESA-led mission with strong NASA participation, Solar Orbiter will look at some of the never-before-seen regions of the Sun, such as the poles, and attempt to shed more light on the origins of solar wind, which can knock out power grids on the ground and disrupt operations of satellites orbiting the Earth. The spacecraft will take advantage of the gravitational pull of Venus to adjust its orbit to obtain unprecedented views of the solar surface.
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja
Sunspot 2403 photographed on August 25, 2015 using a Canon 6D and Celestron 6" telescope. From spaceweather.com "Behemoth sunspot AR2403 started to decay yesterday, but it is still a dangerous active region. The sunspot's delta-class magnetic field harbors energy for strong solar flares."
I didn't get much in the way of sunrise photos because dragging myself out of bed early is a pain. This morning I was up early enough to see some great color starting but not early enough to do anything other than step outside.
My trusty solar panels acting as a prop again.
Cheers.
As I mentioned before there is a lot of rubbish getting washed up on Dubai’s beaches and yesterday evening I found yet again an unusual item lying in the sand. This time it was a long, thin light bulb that looked like it was out at sea for a long time. Solar power? Not quite, but the sun sure looks nice through the glass…
To view the blog entry go to: www.momentaryawe.com/blog/?p=822
sabattier/solarization - kodak brownie hawkeye flash - 22 year old Tmax that expired in 1998 - flipped lens - developed in HC-110 dilution B - Ilford multigrade rc paper.
The Moon is seen as it starts passing in front of the Sun during a solar eclipse from Ross Lake, Northern Cascades National Park, Washington on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017. A total solar eclipse swept across a narrow portion of the contiguous United States from Lincoln Beach, Oregon to Charleston, South Carolina. A partial solar eclipse was visible across the entire North American continent along with parts of South America, Africa, and Europe. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Shot w/ Skywatcher 80ED Pro (.85X reducer), Nikon D7500 & Spectrum solar filter on Skywatcher EQM-35. 2400 total frames shot over 90 seconds. Stacked in PIPP & AS!3, post-processed in Photoshop.
A solar eclipse is one of nature's grandest spectacles. It occurs when the Moon blocks any part of the Sun. On Monday, August 21, 2017, a solar eclipse was visible across all of North America. The whole continent experienced a partial eclipse lasting two to three hours. Halfway through the event, anyone within a roughly 70 mile-wide path from Oregon to South Carolina experienced a brief total eclipse, when the Moon completely blocked the Sun's bright face for up to 2 minutes and forty seconds, turning day into night and making visible the otherwide hidden solar corona....the Sun's outer atmosphere....one of nature's most awesome sights.
This shot of a partial eclipse was taken outside of the 70 mile-wide "path of totality". Though, in this area of northern California, the maximum coverage was 75%.....at the time this photo was taken, the moon had covered only around 25%.
This is Sweden´s largest solar panel roof.
It consists of 5560 solar panels with an area (just the panels) of 9100 m² (97952 ft²).
The whole facility is 17000 m² (182986 ft²) about 2,5 football fields.
It took 385 lifts with a helicopter to lift up all the solar panels.
(Info from www.apotea.se/solceller)
Aberkenfig, South Wales
Lat +51·542 Long -3·593
Skywatcher 254mm Newtonian, Tal 2x Barlow, ZWO ASI 120MC
Captured in daylight using Firecapture
FPS (avg.)=44
Shutter=0.262ms
Gain=38 (38%)
Apparent diameter at time of capture 27.36"
Phase 43%
Magnitude -4.60
Processed with Registax 6 & G.I.M.P.
Seeing Conditions: Reasonably good.
Out of 7000 frames captured, about 2000 used for processing. Final image enlarged by 150%
The Crown Princess is the largest ship in the Princess Cruise Line fleet and was launched in 2006. It carries 3,188 passengers and a crew of over 1,500. My wife and I sailed to the southern Caribbean islands last week on this magnificent ship.
This shot on the pier in Grenada (with the solarize filter applied) gives you some sense of the size of this vessel.....
It took 10 years to create this image of our changing Sun. Taken from space by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), it shows a dramatically different picture than the one we receive on Earth.
From Earth’s surface, we are treated to a biased view. Every day our world is bathed in the Sun’s light and heat, and at these visible and infrared wavelengths our luminary shines to within a fraction of a percent of the same energy every day.
At ultraviolet and X-ray wavelengths, this is not true. Launched in 1995, SOHO has been continuously monitoring the Sun since then, in part to study this variation. Back in 2006, one image for each year of the mission until then was chosen and displayed in this montage.
The bright parts of these images correspond to gas in the Sun’s atmosphere at a temperature of about 2 million degrees Celsius.
Unlike visible light, the intensity of the ultraviolet radiation from the Sun varies greatly. This variation becomes more pronounced the shorter the wavelength, especially in the X-ray region of the spectrum. This is governed by solar activity, which runs in an approximately 11-year cycle. It is linked to the generation of the Sun’s magnetic field although our precise understanding of this mechanism remains elusive.
The waxing and waning of cycle-23, counted since 1755 when systematic record-taking began, can be seen clearly in this image. At its peak in 2001, the Sun was a maelstrom of activity, releasing about 10 times more ultraviolet light than at the minimum periods that can be seen in 1996 and 2006.
Now in cycle-24, the Sun is again at a peak of activity, although it is milder than that of 2001.
This image was originally published at the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory website: sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/gallery/images/cycle001.html
Credit: SOHO (ESA & NASA)
on termine cette série printanière orchidée avec une photo de l'Orphrys lutea . Elle est vraiment superbe cette fleur :)
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we end this spring orchid series with a photo of the Orphrys lutea. She is really beautiful this flower :)
This year I'm using a different film format each month, starting with the smallest and working my way up through the sizes. The format for September is 127 roll film which was introduced in 1912. Narrower than 120 film, it allowed for smaller more pocketable cameras to be made, perhaps most famously the Kodak VP (Vest Pocket) also known as the soldiers' camera because many of them were used during the First World War (1914-18). Today only a small number of films are available in 127, but it could have been worse, ten years ago it looked as if the format was finished forever.
My favourite 127 camera is the Voigtlander Perkeo which was made in Germany in the early 1930s. Back in the 1980s I picked one up for £1 and even took it on holiday in the pre-digital era when 127 was still a viable format. I'm planning to use the Perkeo again this month. In 1990 I bought two rolls of Kodacolor Gold film, but only used one of them, the other, with its Campkins of Cambridge £1.50 price sticker is still in its box. It expired in 1991, so the image quality is poor, but at least I got something out of it. Developed in the Tetenal C41 kit.
Halloween 2003 will live forever in the annals of solar history. In the space of two weeks centred around the spooky celebration, solar physicists witnessed the most sustained bout of solar activity since satellites took to the skies.
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) was monitoring it all. The ultraviolet telescope captured the climax of activity on 4 November 2003, showing a blistering solar flare bursting from active region 10486 at 19:29 GMT. Solar flares are the near-instantaneous release of energy caused by a loop of magnetism snapping into a more stable configuration.
In this process, the energy of up to a thousand billion Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs can be released in just a few minutes. That release is seen here. The horizontal white streak is where the camera has been blinded by the brightness of the flare.
Things began when a giant sunspot, fully ten times the diameter of Earth, hove into view around the western limb of the Sun in late October. It was followed by another, equally large, spot and together they moved across the face of the Sun generating flares on an almost daily basis. This image shows the second spot’s parting volley.
Solar flares are classed according to the energy they release at X-ray wavelengths. There are three major categories: C, M and X, further divided into 10 subclasses. M1 flares are ten times more powerful than C1, and X1 flares are ten times more powerful than M1 flares, or 100 times more powerful than C1.
This 2003 flare was so powerful that it broke right through the top of the X-class range, which is usually given as X10. Analysis showed that it clocked in at X28, making it 28 times more powerful than an X1.
A billion tonnes or so of the solar atmosphere was propelled into space at a speed of 2300 km/s – a staggering 8.2 million km/h.
Credit: ESA/NASA
85% Solar Eclipse viewed from Abingdon, UK on Friday 20th March 2015.
This was photographed with my 10" Dobsonian telescope and a Pentax K5 IIs.
People around the world, standing across a great swath of the Earth's surface saw the Moon take a snap of the Sun during the first partial solar eclipse of 2011.
HISTORY OF THE SOLAR ECLIPSES:
I think it was cool that some friends went to see the arrival of the Solar Impulse 2 plane in Honolulu. It seems as if it will be here for a while due to battery problems after the 118 hour flight. Alas, the closest I got was this model in the window of the Waikiki Omega watches store.
solar eclipse of October 25, 2022 was a partial solar eclipse visible from Europe, the Urals and Western Siberia, Central Asia, Western Asia, South Asia and from the north-east of Africa. At its maximum point in Russia precisely 82% of the Sun was eclipsed by the Moon.
Ha, inverted, false coloured image of the Solar disc and chromosphere
This was captured on 23rd April, 2020 from my backyard in the UK.
Equipment used :
Sky-watcher 120mm Evostar Achro
Daystar Quark Chromosphere Ha Eyepiece
Point Grey Blackfly mono CMOS
Grid-Tie Solar System.
Project: 3 Trees
Location: Eagle Rock, California
Description: Addition and remodel to a residence. The house was built around three trees. The project includes: grey water recycling, storm water capture, recycled coal fly ash concrete, solar energy, recycled lumber, passive cooling, thermal rock wall, and mobile shade panels.
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