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From Red Rock Canyon State Park, CA. Five minute exposure on ISO 800 film, hand guided with a barn door platform.
Where are all our spacecraft right now?
Humans have launched dozens of scientific spacecraft all around the solar system and many are still doing science. I wrote a program to draw the current position of the active deep space probes (those not very close to a planet).
The updated, current image can be found here:
api.open-notify.org/solarview/inner.png
And documentation here:
open-notify.org/api-doc#solarview
And code here:
William Korthof, System Designer for Energy Efficiency Solar of Pomona teaches the details of the photovoltaic system during the Sustainable Workshop Series with the Solar Living Institute at Cal Poly Pomona's Lyle Center, Thursday, July 17, 2008. Eric Reed/photographer
Irak - Wakast
RGB enhancement of True color
Image captured by Sentinel 2 L A true color on February, 2025 - north is up
Credit : Copernicus Sentinel data 2025/Thomas Thomopoulos
An amazing device produced by Baader Planetarium in the mid 1960's. It lights up to projects stars in a darkened room. At the same time it shows the earth and moon revolving around the Sun. The moon in fact also revolves around the Earth. It has a light dimmer, planet speed control and can reverse direction.
rescanning this book, finding new interesting things
tags are from the library's description of the book
From Wikipedia:
Harmonices Mundi (Latin: The Harmony of the Worlds, 1619) is a book by Johannes Kepler. In the work Kepler discusses harmony and congruence in geometrical forms and physical phenomena. The final section of the work relates his discovery of the so-called "Third Law" of planetary motion.
Kepler divides The Harmony of the World into five long chapters: the first is on regular polygons; the second is on the congruence of figures; the third is on the origin of harmonic proportions in music; the fourth is on harmonic configurations in astrology; and the fifth on the harmony of the motions of the planets.
While medieval philosophers spoke metaphorically of the "music of the spheres," Kepler discovered physical harmonies in planetary motion. He found that the difference between the maximum and minimum angular speeds of a planet in its orbit approximates a harmonic proportion. For instance, the maximum angular speed of the Earth as measured from the Sun varies by a semitone (a ratio of 16:15), from mi to fa, between aphelion and perihelion. Venus only varies by a tiny 25:24 interval (called a diesis in musical terms). Kepler explains the reason for the Earth's small harmonic range:
The Earth sings Mi, Fa, Mi: you may infer even from the syllables that in this our home misery and famine hold sway.
At very rare intervals all of the planets would sing together in 'perfect concord': Kepler proposed that this may have happened only once in history, perhaps at the time of creation.
The Gainesville Solar Walk is a 4 billion to 1 scale model of the solar system along NW 8th Avenue. It spans nearly a mile, and you can see monuments to all the planets in the solar system on the Solar Walk. Each planet is represented with its own monument designed by artist Elizabeth Indianos. Pluto may no longer be considered a planet, but he does have this as a reminder of when he was!
8" F/6 Newtonian with 2.5X barlow. Video captured with an Imaging Source camera, stacked and processed with RegiStax.
could this be hanging in a worse place for photography? oh well. it looks cute by the window in "real life"!
Enhancement of an image to see different colors and caracteristics of the terrain - not calibrated
Original sky as taken by Mastcam Z
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Thomas Thomopoulos
NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its Right Mastcam-Z camera. Mastcam-Z is a pair of cameras located high on the rover's mast.
This image was acquired on March 22, 2025 (Sol 1453) at the local mean solar time of 12:03:14.
mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/ZR0_1453_079...
William Korthof, System Designer for Energy Efficiency Solar of Pomona teaches the details of the photovoltaic system during the Sustainable Workshop Series with the Solar Living Institute at Cal Poly Pomona's Lyle Center, Thursday, July 17, 2008. Eric Reed/photographer
Saturn, early hours of 8th June. The image is upside down as the camera was in this orientation - I haven't corrected it as aesthetically I think it looks better this way ;)
8" f/10 SCT, 2.5x Powermate
Skyris 618C camera
Autostakkert, Registax, PS CS6
William Korthof, System Designer for Energy Efficiency Solar of Pomona teaches the details of the photovoltaic system during the Sustainable Workshop Series with the Solar Living Institute at Cal Poly Pomona's Lyle Center, Thursday, July 17, 2008. Eric Reed/photographer
This time you can see the solar system. The Picture was made in the Naturkundemuseum in Berlin. The image was taken on a Casio EX-Z57
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Elizabeth's Solar System Project: Mars. What detail! Dust storms and polar ice caps! My 'scope never gave me a view like this!
Mars on the night of opposition - due to camera alignment the northern polar cap is at the 3 o'clock position
Scenes from Saturday's Open House event at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., a free event that features exhibits and demonstrations about the Laboratory's ongoing research and space exploration of Earth, Mars, Saturn, and beyond.
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