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Since Hogwarts is my home, staying home for Christmas seems to be not so bad ...
I always liked this time of the year, the snowy silence full of expectations, the soft tinking of bells, occasionally interrupted by singing armours or suddenly swooping snowballs.
Although there is still much homework to do, I'm really looking forward to one of our pleasurable Christmas traditions and the best sport ever : Base-jumping in the restricted section!
But first we have to get our portkey to Stonehenge to celebrate the Solstice and the Christmas Star in the Great Conjunction 🌠 - oh, what a night!
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Happy Solstice & Merry Christmas!
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Grab your goods this round is almost over!
@Warehouse Sale [ Aug 23 - Sep 17]
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Kotolier . NavyUniform (M) - FATPACK
SAC M870 4 TASK Shotgun v2.01 GOLD
[The DeadBoy] Vaxis Mask
Thank you for taking a peek.....🌹
Problems to be solved. Entering the creative space where problems swirl and answers form.
Pose is from Animosity pose: Animosity – 129-1
The Desk is from EVAH.
Max is wearing.
[Deadwool] Hart vest chain
[Deadwool] Hart vest
730 Cowboy Boots
[Deadwool] Sean trousers -
Lelutka Eon Head with Facelight
Jake Belleza body
Location: In the mainland home Cheeky and I share.
Solving puzzles is a hobby, addiction or compulsiveness? This is not as easy as it seems the maze pass is just barely big enough for the BB to fall through and really easy to come back out LOL. It is a close up, the puzzle is right at 3 inch across. I thought it was too big so quartered the puzzle to a 1-1/2 inch square frame to make it macro.
New Vibes (Nouvelles Vibrations)
A Celebrations of Valentine's Day and The Year of Ox
Petal Love, Lensbaby series
The Causes of Vignette
Vignette are shadows appear in the corners of your photo. When light or leaking incident lights through the corners were physically blocked by inaccurate alignment of the lens elements to barrel or to the sensor placement of the camera, are some of the reasons that causing vignette, it happens often when you are taking wide angle and wide aperture photos.
The most common causes are using non OEM equipment, lens, lens hood or additional lens filters. Stop down your aperture or use thinner filter ring or use no filter may solve the problem.
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"You did the right thing, yeah
When you went and looked my way
I know, I know what you wanna say
You wrote it all on your face
(On, on, your)
Just beam me up, beam me up, leave me, don't bring me down
You've been fighting from the gallows
The shadows just come on out
(But you know)
It's all good when it's all bad
Be hurting all day but it's all math
You're losing your brain
And falling right back
It's all good when it's all bad
Been looking all day but it's all math
Just solve the equation
Get it all back." - QUIÑ ♫
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Mystery solved. Now we see why all of the crazy colours on a starling. This bird looks perfectly matched with the blackberry bushes that it is feeding from. It's white spots even match the light reflecting on the berry facets. The only reason I noticed the bird at all was because he wasn't being particularly quiet...
There were many questions with my last post of the red bellied woodpeckers but this solves the problem everyone had. Such a wonderful pair and delight to photograph !
Wishing everyone a memorable Memorial Day and a Day we give thanks to the men who fought and gave the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom . We think of their families and friends and pray for them today and always !! Thank you !
Çözemezsin | Dedublüman
youtu.be/aJX6wM6-xl8?si=a73JUoAZSIdDP_tH
Ölüm gibi bir gün
Dudağımda zehir gibi
Füsun değil mi bu?
Başka türlü mümkün değil
Hayır, bu defa başka
Çözemezsin yok, bu düğüm kördür
Bak şu gönül tutuşuyor yine son birkaç gündür
Çürüyoruz bak, nefretimi gömdüm
Bil ki bugün yanıyor, soluyor ömrüm
Uyan, uyan dedim uyanmazsan bahar ölür
Sarıl, sarıl dedim sarılmazsan adam ölür
Hayır, bu defa başka
Çözemezsin yok, bu düğüm kördür
Korkmuyorum gecelerden, beni sen öldür
Çürüyorum bak, nefretini gördüm
Bil ki bugün yanıyor, soluyor ömrüm
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Today is like death,
Just like a poison on my lips
Is this not magic?
It's not possible otherwise
No, this time, it's different
You can't solve it, this knot is tangled
See, this heart is on fire again since the last few days
We go bad, look, I buried my hatred
Know that today my existence is burning, is withering
Wake up, I said wake up
If you don't, spring will die
Embrace, I said hug
If you don't, this man will die
No, this time, it's different
You can't solve it, this knot is tangled
I am not scared of nights, you shall kill me
I go bad, look, I buried your hatred
Know that today my existence is burning, is withering
After a very long wait, this shrub which I believe is a form of Ixora has finally flowered. Unlike more common Ixoras, of which we have got quite a few, the flowers on this one, at least at this point remain almost spear like. Frustratingly, I can't find the little card that came with it for a positive ID. Anyone with far superior knowledge to mine would be welcome to clear up the mystery. BTW, this is a current shot!
UPDATE: Thanks to Dave and Margaret who have identified this plant and flower as a Chinese Ixora called "Flame of the Woods". A couple of days after I took this photo, those little spears are blossoming forth with more normal tiny Ixora flowers.
Happy weekend everyone.
Engl.: Comet Jacobini-Zinner in the constellation of the Charioteer
#BogKY #21P/Giacobini-Zinner #Astrophotography
Tech.details-brief: Sony Alpha 7R2 / ILCE-7Rm2 (APS-C mode)(ISO12800), Celestron NexStar 4 SE(1325mm f/13), 10s*43frames (DSS:+darks,flats,offsets,darkflats)+20s*3frames; RAW stacking; Mount: Celestron NexStar 4SE in eq.mode
Alt ~ 38°
Az ~ 65°
Local date and time of session 04.09.2018 01:45 - 2:45 (UTC+6)
Photo taken from the balcony (Omsk city)
About the Comet, see additionally en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21P/Giacobini%e2%80%93Zinner
Landmark in the frame:
Star of Charioteer (HIP 24775, SAO 40219, HD 34300), 8.5m
Sorry, but detailed description is in Russian only
Rus.: Комета Джакобини-Циннера в созвездии Возничего
Это моё второе свидание с кометой. На этот раз встречал гостью на своём балконе.
Конечно, городское небо с его интенсивной засветкой не оставило шансов рассмотреть комету.
Поймал комету не визуально, а с помощью функции Precision goto монтировки с автонаведением.
Координат кометы монтировка, конечно, не знала, но я их взял по планетарию Stellarium на ожидаемое время:
04.09.2018 1:55
Прямое восхождение/Склонение (на дату): 5h18m5.53s/+44°12'34.4"
RA=05h18m05.5s
Часовой угол/Склонение: 18h22m3.73s/+44°13'28.2" (видимые)
Dec=+44°13'28.2"
Далее внёс координаты в монтировку и она вычислила, что ближайшим ярким ориентиром станет звезда Капелла.
Показала Капеллу, по этой яркой звезде я скорректировал прицел и фокус, а уж потом монтировка автоматически перенесла меня к неведимке-комете.
И хоть визуально комету отличить не удалось, зато на фото (начиная с выдержки 10s) она сразу бросилась в глаза, отличаясь от всех окружающих звёзд.
Увы, цвет её богатого пышного "платья" с огромным шлейфом различить не удалось даже на фото (если искусственно усилить, то он бирюзовый).
За городом в предыдущую встречу различить цвет было легче. А городское небо обесцвечивает неяркие объекты.
Яркость кометы по данным планетария составила уже 7.12m, но на городском небе она казалась темнее.
Например, расположенная в кадре звезда HIP 24775 (SAO 40219, HD 34300) имеет яркость лишь 8.5m, а выглядит ярче кометы - на фото оказалась самым ярким ориентиром.
О комете см. ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/21P/%d0%94%d0%b6%d0%b0%d0%ba%d0%be%...
Are there extraterrestrials living among us on earth? What do they do? These are the type of questions humans have debated for ages, and after a weekend at Death Valley National Park, I believe I am ready to solve them. Speculate no more, as aliens are playful creatures who, it turns out, live in the mountains around The Racetrack Playa and come out every full moon to move around rocks.
Why you might ask, would aliens do this when there are so many things they could see and do on earth? The answer is simple: to mess with tourists. It’s probably a higher calling on their planets. As the legend goes, no one has ever seen these rocks in Death Valley National Park move. Nonsense. As the hit film Men in Black taught us, aliens have the power to erase our minds. Heck, there’s a good chance I saw aliens the night I took this photo. I don’t remember seeing them, but I cannot say definitively that I did not see them....
Click to continue reading the story of this photo on my blog
Messier 13 The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules (also designated NGC 6205). It has an apparent visual magnitude of 5.8 and its angular diameter is 16.6 arc-minutes. Edge on 12th magnitude galaxy NGC6207 can be seen to the north east of the cluster at the top of the image.
TS65 Quad Astrograph, Atik314L+ camera
30mins Luminance (Hutech LPS filter)
R,G,B 10 mins each channel
Processed in DSS and PS CS6
Imaged from London on 12th May 2015
Here I used stroboscopic (multi) flash mode while spinning the Rubik's cube to emphasise the process of solving it.
Wolf's Cave Crop
Heavy crop of the mosaic from 1.87 x 1.22 degrees to 30 x 30 arcminutes.
Reprocessed the mosaic using Drizzle data & cropped the image. this time almost entirely processed using PixInsight
www.flickr.com/photos/astrochuck/29996416655/in/photostream/
Van den Bergh 152 aka The Wolf's Cave is a blue reflection nebula in the constellation of Cepheus. It is roughly 1400 light years away. The dust trailing the nebula is cataloged as Barnard 175. The small nebula(top right) is DeHt5.
11" Celestron EdgeHD w/Hyperstar (F/2)
QHY23M
2 panel mosaic:
Images acquired 9/12, 9/22 & 9/24/16
2-Ha-12x300sec
2-LUM-20x120sec
2-RGB-12x120sec/each
5h 44min
I finally figured out what happened with this shot. While reorganizing some photos I came across the first roll shot on my Canonet way back in January. The photos had to be saturated (at the time using Picasa2) because they came out too pale--two of the photos can be seen here and here.
Well, judging by the second roll shot on the same camera, the problem is the film. This roll was part of the same batch of Fuji Superia 200 purchased on eBay. The film is not expired. The date on the package reads 2007/11 but this film was not purchased by the seller in the US like he said (closeout at B&H) because all the characters in the back of the box are Vietnamese. Perhaps that has everything to do with the quality of the film?
I have a few more of these. Should I post them? ;-)
My first galaxy with the F4 Quattro, M33 - Triangulum Galaxy. The galaxy is located approximately 3 Million light years away in the constellation of Triangulum, it is the third largest member in a cluster of galaxies which includes our own and the famous M31 Andromeda Galaxy
The image was the first taken with my Nichrome wire in front of the Mirror Fan to prevent dew forming on the Primary.....And it worked!!!
Image Details:
21x300S in LRGB
16x600S in HA
The HA was added as a Lighten Layer to the Red Channel, all frames have 25 Flats and 25 Darks applied
Equipment Used:
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ8 Pro
Imaging Scope: Sky-Watcher Quattro 8-CF @ F4
Imaging Camera: Atik Cameras 383L+ Mono Cooled to -20C
Filter Wheel: Starlight Xpress Ltd 7x36mm unmounted USB Filter Wheel
Filters: Baader Planetarium 36mm LRGB + 7nm HA
Guide Scope: Celestron Telescopes C80ED
Guide Camera: Qhyccd QHY5L-II
Software Used:
Image Acquisition: Main Sequence Software Sequence Generator Pro
Image Stacking and Combining: Maxim-DL
Post Processing: Photoshop CS5, Noise Ninja
30 minutes before moonrise. Alligator National Refuge.
With digital sensors seeing more than our eyes, the number of stars is mind numbing.
I find it infeasible that all have been catalogged!
The calmness of the island and the space traveller
#Antiparos island, July 12th, Dawn
Comet C/2020 F3 Neowise continues to brighten the early morning sky and forces us to get up early once again in order to capture its beauty.
#KeepLookingUp
Single exposure images taken with Tokina atx-m 85mm f1.8 lens & Hoya starscape filter on Nikon Z6 camera.
Images were tracked with Slik ECH630 Star Tracker at 1/2 speed.
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