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New York City (NYC), often called the City of New York or simply New York (NY), is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2018 population of 8,398,748 distributed over about 302.6 square miles (784 km2), New York is also the most densely populated major city in the United States. Located at the southern tip of the U.S. state of New York, the city is the center of the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass. With almost 20 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and approximately 23 million in its combined statistical area, it is one of the world's most populous megacities. New York City has been described as the cultural, financial, and media capital of the world, significantly influencing commerce, entertainment, research, technology, education, politics, tourism, art, fashion, and sports. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy.

Situated on one of the world's largest natural harbors, New York City is composed of five boroughs, each of which is a county of the State of New York. The five boroughs—Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island—were consolidated into a single city in 1898. The city and its metropolitan area constitute the premier gateway for legal immigration to the United States. As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world. New York is home to more than 3.2 million residents born outside the United States, the largest foreign-born population of any city in the world as of 2016. As of 2019, the New York metropolitan area is estimated to produce a gross metropolitan product (GMP) of $2.0 trillion. If greater New York City were a sovereign state, it would have the 12th highest GDP in the world. New York is home to the highest number of billionaires of any city in the world.

New York City traces its origins to a trading post founded by colonists from the Dutch Republic in 1624 on Lower Manhattan; the post was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, the Duke of York. New York was the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790, and has been the largest U.S. city since 1790. The Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the U.S. by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a symbol of the U.S. and its ideals of liberty and peace. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a global node of creativity and entrepreneurship and environmental sustainability, and as a symbol of freedom and cultural diversity. In 2019, New York was voted the greatest city in the world per a survey of over 30,000 people from 48 cities worldwide, citing its cultural diversity.

Many districts and landmarks in New York City are well known, including three of the world's ten most visited tourist attractions in 2013. A record 62.8 million tourists visited New York City in 2017. Times Square is the brightly illuminated hub of the Broadway Theater District, one of the world's busiest pedestrian intersections, and a major center of the world's entertainment industry. Many of the city's landmarks, skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattan's real estate market is among the most expensive in the world. New York is home to the largest ethnic Chinese population outside of Asia, with multiple distinct Chinatowns across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service and contributing to the nickname The City that Never Sleeps, the New York City Subway is the largest single-operator rapid transit system worldwide, with 472 rail stations. The city has over 120 colleges and universities, including Columbia University, New York University, Rockefeller University, and the City University of New York system, which is the largest urban public university system in the United States. Manhattan is home to the world's two largest stock exchanges by total market capitalization, namely the New York Stock Exchange, located on Wall Street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan, and NASDAQ, headquartered in Midtown Manhattan.

HN-419, McDonnell Douglas F-18C Hornet (CN 1407/FNC019) of the Aircraft and Weapon Systems Training Wing (IlmaStK) Finnish Air Force departs Glasgow Prestwick Airport bound for Helsinki. In the company of another Hornet and a DC-10 Tanker the aircraft was returning home after a lengthy detachment to China Lake Naval Air Station in California for weapons development work.

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Nothing you see here is real, even though the conversion or the presented background story might be based on historical facts. BEWARE!

Some background:

The OV-10 Bronco was initially conceived in the early 1960s through an informal collaboration between W. H. Beckett and Colonel K. P. Rice, U.S. Marine Corps, who met at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, California, and who also happened to live near each other. The original concept was for a rugged, simple, close air support aircraft integrated with forward ground operations. At the time, the U.S. Army was still experimenting with armed helicopters, and the U.S. Air Force was not interested in close air support.

The concept aircraft was to operate from expedient forward air bases using roads as runways. Speed was to be from very slow to medium subsonic, with much longer loiter times than a pure jet. Efficient turboprop engines would give better performance than piston engines. Weapons were to be mounted on the centerline to get efficient aiming. The inventors favored strafing weapons such as self-loading recoilless rifles, which could deliver aimed explosive shells with less recoil than cannons, and a lower per-round weight than rockets. The airframe was to be designed to avoid the back blast.

The MV-10Hs are expected to provide support for these ground units in the form of all-weather reconnaissance and observation, close air support and also forward air control duties for supporting ground units. Precision ground strikes and protection from enemy helicopters and low-flying aircraft were other, secondary missions for the modernized Broncos, which are expected to serve well into the 2040s. Exports or conversions of foreign OV-10s to the Black Pony standard are not planned, though.

General characteristics:

Crew: 2

Length: 42 ft 2½ in (12,88 m) incl. pitot

Wingspan: 45 ft 10½ in(14 m) incl. tip sails

Height: 15 ft 2 in (4.62 m)

Wing area: 290.95 sq ft (27.03 m²)

Airfoil: NACA 64A315

Empty weight: 9,090 lb (4,127 kg)

Gross weight: 13,068 lb (5,931 kg)

Max. takeoff weight: 17,318 lb (7,862 kg)

Powerplant:

2× General Electric CT7-9D turboprop engines, 1,305 kW (1,750 hp) each,

driving 8-bladed Hamilton Standard 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m) diameter constant-speed,

fully feathering, reversible contra-rotating propellers with metal hub and composite blades

Performance:

Maximum speed: 390 mph (340 kn, 625 km/h)

Combat range: 198 nmi (228 mi, 367 km)

Ferry range: 1,200 nmi (1,400 mi, 2,200 km) with auxiliary fuel

Maximum loiter time: 5.5 h with auxiliary fuel

Service ceiling: 32.750 ft (10,000 m)

13,500 ft (4.210 m) on one engine

Rate of climb: 17.400 ft/min (48 m/s) at sea level

Take-off run: 480 ft (150 m)

740 ft (227 m) to 50 ft (15 m)

1,870 ft (570 m) to 50 ft (15 m) at MTOW

Landing run: 490 ft (150 m)

785 ft (240 m) at MTOW

1,015 ft (310 m) from 50 ft (15 m)

Armament:

1x M197 3-barreled 20 mm Gatling cannon in a chin turret with 750 rounds ammo capacity

7x hardpoints for a total load of 5.000 lb (2,270 kg)

2x wingtip launch rails for AIM-9 Sidewinder AAMs

The kit and its assembly:

This fictional Bronco update/conversion was simply spawned by the idea: could it be possible to replace the original cockpit section with one from an AH-1 Cobra, for a kind of gunship version?

The basis is the Academy OV-10D kit, mated with the cockpit section from a Fujimi AH-1S TOW Cobra (Revell re-boxing, though), chosen because of its “boxy” cockpit section with flat glass panels – I think that it conveys the idea of an armored cockpit section best. Combining these parts was not easy, though, even though the plan sound simple. Initially, the Bronco’s twin booms, wings and stabilizer were built separately, because this made PSR on these sections easier than trying the same on a completed airframe. One of the initial challenges: the different engines. I wanted something uprated, and a different look, and I had a pair of (excellent!) 1:144 resin engines from the Russian company Kompakt Zip for a Tu-95 bomber at hand, which come together with movable(!) eight-blade contraprops that were an almost perfect size match for the original three-blade props. Biggest problem: the Tu-95 nacelles have a perfectly circular diameter, while the OV-10’s booms are square and rectangular. Combining these parts and shapes was already a messy PST affair, but it worked out quite well – even though the result rather reminds of some Chinese upgrade measure (anyone know the Tu-4 copies with turboprops? This here looks similar!). But while not pretty, I think that the beafier look works well and adds to the idea of a “revived” aircraft. And you can hardly beat the menacing look of contraprops on anything...

The exotic, so-called “tip sails” on the wings, mounted on short booms, are a detail borrowed from the Shijiazhuang Y-5B-100, an updated Chinese variant/copy of the Antonov An-2 biplane transporter. The booms are simple pieces of sprue from the Bronco kit, the winglets were cut from 0.5mm styrene sheet.

For the cockpit donor, the AH-1’s front section was roughly built, including the engine section (which is a separate module, so that the basic kit can be sold with different engine sections), and then the helicopter hull was cut and trimmed down to match the original Bronco pod and to fit under the wing. This became more complicated than expected, because a) the AH-1 cockpit and the nose are considerably shorter than the OV-10s, b) the AH-1 fuselage is markedly taller than the Bronco’s and c) the engine section, which would end up in the area of the wing, features major recesses, making the surface very uneven – calling for massive PSR to even this out. PSR was also necessary to hide the openings for the Fujimi AH-1’s stub wings. Other issues: the front landing gear (and its well) had to be added, as well as the OV-10 wing stubs. Furthermore, the new cockpit pod’s rear section needed an aerodynamical end/fairing, but I found a leftover Academy OV-10 section from a build/kitbashing many moons ago. Perfect match!

All these challenges could be tackled, even though the AH-1 cockpit looks surprisingly stout and massive on the Bronco’s airframe - the result looks stockier than expected, but it works well for the "Gunship" theme. Lots of PSR went into the new central fuselage section, though, even before it was mated with the OV-10 wing and the rest of the model.

Once cockpit and wing were finally mated, the seams had to disappear under even more PSR and a spinal extension of the canopy had to be sculpted across the upper wing surface, which would meld with the pod’s tail in a (more or less) harmonious shape. Not an easy task, and the fairing was eventually sculpted with 2C putty, plus even more PSR… Looks quite homogenous, though.

After this massive body work, other hardware challenges appeared like small distractions. The landing gear was another major issue because the deeper AH-1 section lowered the ground clearance, also because of the chin turret. To counter this, I raised the OV-10’s main landing gear by ~2mm – not much, but it was enough to create a credible stance, together with the front landing gear transplant under the cockpit, which received an internal console to match the main landing gear’s length. Due to the chin turret and the shorter nose, the front wheel retracts backwards now. But this looks quite plausible, thanks to the additional space under the cockpit tub, which also made a belt feed for the gun’s ammunition supply believable.

To enhance the menacing look I gave the model a fixed refueling boom, made from 1mm steel wire and a receptor adapter sculpted with white glue. The latter stuff was also used add some antenna fairings around the hull. Some antennae, chaff dispensers and an IR decoy were taken from the Academy kit.

The ordnance came from various sources. The Sidewinders under the wing tips were taken from an Italeri F-16C/D kit, they look better than the missiles from the Academy Bronco kit. Their launch rails came from an Italeri Bae Hawk 200. The quadruple Hellfire launchers on the underwing hardpoints were left over from an Italeri AH-1W, and they are a perfect load for this aircraft and its role. The LAU-10 and -19 missile pods on the stub wings were taken from the OV-10 kit.

Painting and markings:

Finding a suitable and somewhat interesting – but still plausible – paint scheme was not easy. Taking the A-10 as benchmark, an overall light grey livery (with focus on low contrast against the sky as protection against ground fire) would have been a likely choice – and in fact the last operational American OV-10s were painted in this fashion. But in order to provide a different look I used the contemporary USAF V-22Bs and Special Operations MC-130s as benchmark, which typically carry a darker paint scheme consisting of FS 36118 (suitably “Gunship Gray” :D) from above, FS 36375 underneath, with a low, wavy waterline, plus low-viz markings. Not spectacular, but plausible – and very similar to the late r/w Colombian OV-10s.

The cockpit tub became Dark Gull Grey (FS 36231, Humbrol 140) and the landing gear white (Revell 301).

The model received an overall black ink washing and some post-panel-shading, to liven up the dull all-grey livery. The decals were gathered from various sources, and I settled for black USAF low-viz markings. The “stars and bars” come from a late USAF F-4, the “IP” tail code was tailored from F-16 markings and the shark mouth was taken from an Academy AH-64. Most stencils came from another Academy OV-10 sheet and some other sources.

Decals were also used to create the trim on the propeller blades and markings on the ordnance.

Finally, the model was sealed with a coat of matt acrylic varnish (Italeri) and some exhaust soot stains were added with graphite along the tail boom flanks.

A successful transplantation – but is this still a modified Bronco or already a kitbashing? The result looks quite plausible and menacing, even though the TOW Cobra front section appears relatively massive. But thanks to the bigger engines and extended wing tips the proportions still work. The large low-pressure tires look a bit goofy under the aircraft, but they are original. The grey livery works IMHO well, too – a more colorful or garish scheme would certainly have distracted from the modified technical basis.

To our beloved customers:

As some of you already know, E2V System is going to be retired on May 31st.

Because of this, we have to migrate to a new vendor system.

If you own any gift card, I suggest you to redeem it as soon as you can, same goes for store credit and if you would like to have a back up of your previous purchases just in case, then this is the right time to get a copy from our Redelivey Terminals.

Since we’re going to switch to a new vendor system soon, I am also going to work on a new store building, so there are going to be a lot of changes around the sim in the next days!

My sincere apologies about this issue and

I hope you can understand that there is nothing we can do about this situation.

Have a good day/night <3

xoxo

Cameron Vasiliov.

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Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park is located on the west coast of the island of Hawaiʻi in Hawaiʻi County. The historical park preserves the site to where Hawaiians who broke a kapu (one of the ancient laws) could flee. It was a place of refuge or puʻuhonua. The offender would be absolved by a priest and freed to leave. Defeated warriors and non-combatants could also find refuge here during times of battle. The grounds just outside the Great Wall that encloses the puʻuhonua were home to several generations of powerful chiefs.

Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau is one of the only four places in Hawaii where the flag of Hawaii can officially fly alone without the American flag; the other three places are ʻIolani Palace, the Mauna ʻAla and Thomas Square.

The 420 acre (1.7 km2) site was originally established in 1955 as City of Refuge National Historical Park and was renamed on November 10, 1978. In 2000 the name was changed by the Hawaiian National Park Language Correction Act of 2000 observing the Hawaiian spelling. It includes the puʻuhonua and a complex of archeological sites including: temple platforms, royal fishponds, sledding tracks, and some coastal village sites. The Hale o Keawe temple and several thatched structures have been reconstructed.

Hale o Keawe was an ancient Hawaiian heiau originally built in approximately 1650 CE as the burial site for the ruling monarch (aliʻi nui) of the Island of Hawaiʻi named Keaweʻīkekahialiʻiokamoku. It was built by his son, a Kona chief named Kanuha. The complex may have been established as early as 1475 under the aliʻi nui ʻEhu-kai-malino. The nobility (ali'i) of Kona continued to be buried until the abolition of the kapu system. The last person buried here was a son of Kamehameha I in 1818.

The heiau contained 23 remains including that of Keaweʻīkekahialiʻiokamoku. It was situated near a great ancient wall near the royal residence to the east side of the wall. Further south were further aliʻi homes were built. Excavations of the area indicate a large crafting community to support the royal residence. The heiau would lay untouched after the banning of the Hawaiian religion while all other such temples were destroyed until Kaahumanu had the building dismantled and all the remains moved to the royal mausoleum in Honolulu.

It was believed that additional protection to the place of refuge was received from the mana in the bones of the chiefs. It survived several years after other temples were destroyed. It was looted by Lord George Byron (cousin of the distinguished English poet) in 1825. In 1829, High Chiefess Kapiʻolani removed the remaining bones and hid them in the Pali Kapu O Keōua cliffs above nearby Kealakekua Bay. She then ordered this last temple to be destroyed. The bones were later moved to the Royal Mausoleum of Hawaii in 1858.

The heiau in the park was reconstructed in the 1960s.

Information from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pu%CA%BBuhonua_o_H%C5%8Dnaunau_Nati...

A working orrery of the eight planets. And a Sun

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One of the largest composite cryotanks ever built recently completed a battery of tests at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The tank was lowered into a structural test stand where it was tested with cryogenic hydrogen and structural loads were applied to simulate stresses the tank would experience during launch. Next-generation technologies including composite systems have the potential to make rockets, including NASA’s Space Launch System -- a deep space rocket being developed at Marshall -- more capable and affordable.

Read more:

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Image credit: NASA/MSFC/David Olive

More about SLS:

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More SLS graphics and concepts:

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The test version of Orion attached to the Launch Abort System for the Ascent Abort-2 (AA-2) flight test arrives at Space Launch Complex 46 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on May 23, 2019. The flight test article will be hoisted up and moved inside the vertical integration facility for stacking atop the booster. The booster was procured by the U.S. Air Force and manufactured by Northrop Grumman. During AA-2, targeted for July 2, the LAS with Orion will launch on the booster more than six miles in altitude, where Orion’s launch abort system will pull the capsule and its crew away to safety if an emergency occurs during ascent on the Space Launch System rocket. AA-2 is a critical safety test that helps pave the way for Artemis missions near the Moon, and will enable astronauts to set foot on the lunar surface by 2024. Photo credit: NASA/Kevin O'Connell

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The common fleet arrangement for the Centauri System. Led by an EL2 Destroyer Class ship, supported by an 8-B Radar-Com Deck, two H-9 Heavy Bombers, and four HH1 Light Strike Starfighters. The EL2 Destroyer also carries twelve light strike fighters in its' belly.

OM System OM-1/MC-14/M.ZuikoDigital ED300mm f4 IS PRO '22.04.09.

One form of the result of long-term work on a system is the arrangement of elements according to its own rules.

The numbering system of the hangers in the wardrobe symbolizes order: each row, each number, follows a common logic. The employee knows exactly where everything should be. The chance of error is minimized.

I see the wardrobe as a visualization of the idea of controlling chaos through internal order.

The solar system created by Latvian American Edward Leedskainin inside the Coral Castle he built in Homestead, Florida just before sunset on a clear day with a few wisps of clouds in the background

Arriving back at the cabin after collecting firewood along the forest service roads.

Fairview Ranger Station. A U.S. Forest Service rental in Kootenai National Forest, Montana. The rental fee is $50 a night.

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Beautiful day yesterday

Cloudy rainy today

This is why

An Easterly overwhelming the high pressure golden hue system on call yesterday

Life can be like that ....

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Montreal

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My new Borla catback for Tiburon 2.0

Farnborough International Airshow 2010, Hampshire

My recent 52-Frames challenge was "Complimentary Colors." Here's what I came up with featuring yours truly.

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I was driving through Morehead Kentucky when this Barn looking structure caught my Eye.

It looked like at one time it was some kind of Train Yard beside an old Sawmill.

Under this structure sits an old Diesel Locomotive, Freight Car and this odd looking Car that many younger People have never seen, it's called a Caboose.

When my Daughter asked me what it was, she laughed when I told her, she thought I was making the name up because she'd never heard it before.

The Caboose was always the last Car on a Train and housed several People who would look out for any mechanical problems that the Engineer might not see, like derailments, locked up Brakes etc.

They also took care of switching the Tracks back once the Train cleared the Rail switch, as well as security and deploying safety signals when the Train was stopped to let other Trains coming know that they where stopped.

With the advent of automatic switching and Computer monitoring of critical systems as well as traffic control, the Railroad industry did away with the Caboose and in doing so, eliminated allot of careers.

This particular Caboose has a distinctive marking of a medical Cross on Rails.

I found out it's a Logo for Chessie Systems safety program. (Thanks rjek81)

It was to remind workers of Railroad safety.

CSX - Family Lines System painted GE C30-7 locomotive # 7025, the fourth engine in a five locomotive lash-up, is seen while stopped with a manifest freight train in the yard at Montgomery, Alabama, October 1991. This locomotive is dirty along with having faded paint and is ready for CSX painting.

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El Condor| Walibi Holland 30/04/2017 12h29

One of the major roller coasters of Walibi.

El Condor

El Condor is a steel suspended roller coaster located at Walibi Holland in the Netherlands. The ride opened in 1994 as the first of many Vekoma Suspended Looping Roller Coasters (SLC).

The coaster was built by Vekoma in 1994, which was just after the acquisition of the Flevohof by the Walibi group. Condor was the first roller coaster on the European mainland where the seats are under the rails and the first in the world where two chairs are sitting next to each other instead of four. This roller coaster was the first of two prototypes. Condor is a Suspended Looping Coaster, of which type, many versions are available in other parks, including Vampire in Walibi Belgium and MP-Express in Movie Park Germany. In 2011, the job was re-aligned to make the ride more smooth. In autumn 2013, the roller coaster was painted again. The support posts of the track remained green, but the rails changed from white to orange. The official name was then changed to Condor, but at the entrance of the attraction, anno 2017 still features "El Condor" on the facade. In February and March 2017, the support posts were also painted again, but retained their color.

There were formerly three roller coaster trains, and all three were used until 2002. Blue and red were the main trains, yellow reserve. Because three trains in use only resluted in 120 people extra per hour, extra capacity was never driven with three trains simultaneously. Also, the electrical system was heavily burdened and some sections were interrupted regularly. The yellow train was demolished after 2002 to be able to use parts in the other trains.

FACTS & FIGURES

Opening date: May 1994

Type: Steel – Inverted

Manufacturer: Vekoma

Model: Suspended Looping Coaster (SLC)

Lift/launch system: Chain Lift Hill

Height: 31 m

Length: 662 m

Speed: 80 km/h

Inversions: 5

Duration: 2m02

Capacity: 900 riders per hour

Trains: 2 trains with 8 cars. Riders are arranged 2 across in a single row for a total of 16 riders per train.

[ Source and more Info: Wikipedia - El Condor ]

The other day we got suddenly warped into another time system. Just managed to take this shot before the Warp slurped us back !

This time system only has 10 or 20 hours a day :-)

Just amazing !

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This image image accompanies the Inventing Interactive article about the UI sequences in the film "Guardians of the Galaxy" The full post is online at www.inventinginteractive.com/2014/08/31/guardians-of-the-...

Διαπλανητικών φωτών συνέχεια! Ζωδιακό φως από το Σούνιο όπως πάρθηκε τις πρώτες πρωινές ώρες της 13/10/2013. Το ζωδιακό φως είναι πολύ πιο ευδιάκριτο από το αντιζωδιακό και είναι διακριτό πριν την λήξη του σκοταδιού (έναρξη αστρονομικού λυκαυγούς, με αστρονομικούς όρους) στη φθινοπωρινή ισημερία στην Ανατολή και μετά την έναρξη του σκοταδιού (λήξη αστρονομικού λυκόφωτος) στην εαρινή ισημερία, στη Δύση. Ενώ το αντιζωδιακό οφείλει την ύπαρξή του στα σωματίδια που βρίσκονται πέρα από την τροχιά της Γης, τα σωματίδια του ζωδιακού βρίσκονται μεταξύ Γης και Ερμή. Φυσικά, και τα δύο "φώτα" ορίζουν έναν μεγαλειώδες δίσκο που τον βλέπουμε σε τομή: Το επίπεδο της Εκλειπτικής, δηλαδή το επίπεδο της περιφοράς της Γης γύρω από τον Ήλιο!!!

Στακάρισμα 12 λήψεων, όπως αυτές πάρθηκαν στις 13/10/2013, από τις 05:47 έως τις 06:01.

Στοιχεία κάθε λήψης:

f/2.8, 80s, ISO1000, 11mm, με φακό Tokina 11-16 και σώμα Canon EOS 7D πάνω σε ισημερινή (piggyback). Επιπλέον, 7 σκοτεινά κάδρα, στακάρισμα Deep Sky Stacker και τελική επεξεργασία Lightroom 4.4.

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We see the zodiacal light running across the ecliptic plane. It expands from left to upper right.

Technical details:

12 stacked frames from Canon EOS 7D camera with Tokina 11-16 lens, placed on a equatorial mount.

Each frame's data:

11mm focal length

80s exposure

f/2.8 aperture

ISO 1000.

Sam Dove, a crawler-transporter engineer with Jacobs on the Test and Operations Support Contract, is inside the operator cab of crawler-transporter 2 on the crawlerway at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on Aug. 27, 2018. CT-2 will carry the mobile launcher for the first time to Launch Pad 39B for a fit check of key systems that will support the launch of the agency's Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft on Exploration Mission-1. The crawler also will carry the mobile launcher to the Vehicle Assembly Building for system checks and fit checks with the 10 levels of new platforms in High Bay 3. Photo credit: NASA/Cory Huston

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Two EMD GP30s (the second is a C&O unit) in Philadelphia on May 14, 1977. The train is passing under the Market Street bridge (the eagles are from the demolished Pennsylvania Station in New York City).

"...cause we are the ones that want to play

always want to go

but you never want to stay

and we are the ones that want to choose

always want to play

but you never want to lose..."

System of a down - Aerials

Motor: EK100

Suspension: Lead Spring Suspension

Previous Body: Isuzu Columbian

Body: DMMC Euro

Aircon System: Pil-Denso Sub-Engine AC Blower

Seating Configuration: 2x2 53 Seater

Year Released: 2006

Plate No: DWA-323

Fare: Aircon Fare (P25.00 minimum)

Route: Cavite City-Olongapo

Optional Routes: Mendez-Olongapo, Pasay-Olongapo via SCTEx, Cavite City-Baguio, Cubao-Dagupan, Ternate-Avenida, Cavite City-Avenida, Ternate-Olongapo

Transmission System: Manual Transmission

Driver:

Conductor:

Shot Taken: STi Cavite City Terminal

Models of the Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft are displayed during a panel discussion on deep space eploration at the Newseum on Tuesday, November 12, 2013 in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Jay Westcott)