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"Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."
Quote ― Dr. Seuss
Happy weekend ;-))
Atacama Cosmology Telescope on Cerro Toco, just north of the Llano de Chajnantor.
The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) is a six-metre telescope on Cerro Toco in the Atacama Desert in the north of Chile, near the Llano de Chajnantor Observatory. It is designed to make high-resolution, microwave-wavelength surveys of the sky in order to study the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB). At an altitude of 5,190 metres (17,030 ft), it is one of the highest permanent, ground-based telescopes in the world.
Erected in the (austral) autumn of 2007, ACT saw first light on 22 October 2007 with its science receiver, the Millimeter Bolometer Array Camera (MBAC), and completed its first season in December 2007. It began its second season of observations in June 2008.
The project is a collaboration between Princeton University, Cornell University, the University of Pennsylvania, NASA/GSFC, the Johns Hopkins University, the University of British Columbia, NIST, the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Cardiff University, Rutgers University, the University of Pittsburgh, Columbia University, Haverford College, West Chester University, INAOE, LLNL, NASA/JPL, the University of Toronto, the University of Cape Town, the University of Massachusetts Amherst and York College, CUNY. It is funded by the US National Science Foundation.
National Radio Astromony Obersvatory
#NARO
#RadioTelescope
Does the thumbnail look like a blazing fireball about to crash into the earth?
Dress : toksik - Gracious Dress. At The Engine Room
Hair : S-CLUB EMILY hairstyle
Necklade : Insomnia Angel . Margot princess rosary. In main store.
Lantern and hand pose : Random Matter - Groundskeeper Lantern [Silver] At The Engine Room.
Skin : [Glam Affair] Charlotte Layer [Lelutka EvoX] Rose Kiss B. At K9.
Decor :
*HEXtraordinary* Steampunk Angler Fish Lamp. At The Engine Room.
Compulsion Iron Pavilion
DaD "Les Memoires Sunflowers Stone Flowerpot"
Dirty Rat - Large Telescope. At The Engine Room.
Eclectica-Steampunk Dining Bench and Table. At The Engine Room.
Quills & Curiosities - Chronomancer's Altar. At The Engine Room.
[+Oblivis+] Power Cell Pillar Old Copper. At The Engine Room.
The Great Andromeda Galaxy, M31, is the closest spiral galaxy to ours - and considered our mirror image. Visible by the unaided eye, from darker suburban skies, it occupies a region of the sky equivalent to almost 6 full moons - about 3 degrees. Between its size and brightness, M31 is easily discernible in even wide field DSLR images of the night sky - even relatively shot exposures without tracking.
Two satellite galaxies of Andromeda are also visible - M110 (top, center) and M32 (below and right of center).
Looks like my sensor needs some cleaning... dark areas in the extended nebulosity (top and left) are likely dust on the sensor.
50% scale - crop
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20171116 - Newtown, PA
Nikon D5500
Nikon 300mm ED f/4.5 MF @f/5.6
30sx45, 3200iso
iOptron SkyTracker Pro
Regim Sig18 stack w/darks & flats
Affinity Photo
The Lovell Telescope poking out of the fog. The remaining towers of Fiddler's Ferry (I think) in the background.
Hopefully tomorrow I'll be back on the network as the engineer is coming to connect me to fiber optic broadband!
Mars - 2020/09/04
200/1000 mm Newton Telescope
Barlow APM 3x ED comacorr
Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector
Caméra ZWO ASI290MC + filter IR cut
860 stacked images of 17200 (95 fps) with Firecapture
Preprocessing with AutoStackkert
Image processing with Lightroom
Peter and Oleg are looking at holiday photos
OLEG:
What are you doing there Peter?
PETER:
I'm looking over there. I thought maybe I'll see my dear princess Rosie and my best friend Scout in Australia. It's a tel...teo....eh .... binoculars.
You can see very far and big with them. But I saw everything in miniature.
OLEG:
Oh...you mean a telescope.
That's because you were looking into the wrong glass. You have to look at the other side of the telescope. Then, when it's dark, you can see the night sky properly. Australia is too far away, you can't see that with the telescope.
PETER:
I do want to see the night sky, are we going to Middelburg again?
OLEG:
Maybe next holiday
By the way, the statue you're sitting on is Mr Hans Lipperhey
Who invented the telescope in 1608.
PETER:
I think that Mr Hans was certainly very good at learning at school
Lors du lancement du télescope spatial Hubble il y a 35 ans, personne n'aurait pu imaginer à quel point il allait transformer notre vision de l'espace. Lancé le 24 avril 1990, le télescope poursuit aujourd'hui sa mission. Pour célébrer son anniversaire, la NASA a publié quatre images récentes prises par Hubble, qui prouvent sa pérennité, même après trois décennies !
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When the launched 35 years ago, no one would have guessed how much it would shape the way we view space. Launched on April 24, 1990, the telescope continues its mission today. To celebrate its anniversary, NASA released four recent images taken by Hubble that prove its staying power even after three decades !
Credit : NASA, ESA, STScI; Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Alyssa Pagan (STScI)
The University of Manchester's Lovell telescope at Jodrel Bank is the third-largest steerable dish radio telescope in the world at 76.2 m (250 ft) in diameter
Sunset over snow-covered Telescope Peak in the Panamint Valley. I went to Death Valley National Park over a recent weekend and was lucky enough to see this sunset and view on the drive home.
This image is looking back toward the east at the range that marks the western boundry of Death Valley. The Panamint valley runs parllel to Death Valley but is one mountain range further west.
Photo taken in the Panamint Valley near the junction of Highway 190 and Panamint Valley Road (California, USA).
Scenic and spontaneous framing of a chacma baboon beside a telescope. Shot with a Canon EOS 700D from Cape of Good Hope.
Dad's Taxi duties very nearly torpedoed all of my plans yesterday evening, but I finally managed to escape just before sunset using the tried and tested 'Monty needs his walk!' excuse.
We had some quite intense showers in these parts that cleared very suddenly. This left a very definite line of dark clouds that were lit up by the setting sun.
In a flash of inspiration I made a detour from my intended walk at Croome down to the nearby radio telescope at Defford. The dish and the workings underneath are painted white, and I thought they would look good under dark skies in the fading light.
It turned out to be quite a productive half hour or so.
the Parkes radio telescope has been in operation since 1961 and continues to be at the forefront of astronomical discovery thanks to regular upgrades.
Astronomers from across Australia and around the world utilise the Parkes radio telescope to undertake world-class astronomical science. Affectionately known as ’the Dish’, the telescope operates 24 hours a day, every day of the year.
Explore #257
Taken during my trip to Dorset.
Nothing extraordinary about this post except that this might be my last upload for this month as tomorrow onwards, I'll be on vacation to India for Diwali.
Since I have become so addicted to flickr so I still donno how I'll manage without visiting your uploads and obviously without uploading some new pics :)
But I think, it is a much deserved break from my routine busy life. I hope you have a great month...Keep clicking and keep uploading. I'll be back to visit them as soon as possible. :)
And yes, Wish u all a very happy and prosperous Diwali.
For my friends who don't know what Diwali is, here is a description from Wiki:
'Diwali (also spelled Devali in certain regions) or Deepawali, popularly known as the "festival of lights", is an important festival in Hinduism, Jainism, and Sikhism, celebrated for different reasons, occurring between mid-October and mid-November. For Hindus, Diwali is one of the most important festivals of the year and is celebrated in families by performing traditional activities together in their homes. For Jains, Diwali marks the attainment of moksha or nirvana by Mahavira in 527 BC. For Sikhs, Diwali is celebrated as Bandhi Chhor Diwas (The Celebration of Freedom), and celebrates the release from prison of the sixth guru, Guru Hargobind, who also rescued 52 Hindu kings held captive by Mughal Emperor with him in the Gwalior Fort in 1619.
Deepavali is an official holiday in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Mauritius, Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago, Suriname, Malaysia, Singapore, and Fiji.
The name "Diwali" is a contraction of "Deepavali" (Sanskrit: दीपावली Dīpāvalī), which translates into "row of lamps". Diwali involves the lighting of small clay lamps (diyas or dīpas) in Sanskrit: दीप) filled with oil to signify the triumph of good over evil. During Diwali, all the celebrants wear new clothes and share sweets and snacks with family members and friends.
Diwali commemorates the return of Lord Rama, along with Sita and Lakshmana, from his 14-year-long exile and vanquishing the demon-king Ravana. In joyous celebration of the return of their king, the people of Ayodhya, the Capital of Rama, illuminated the kingdom with earthen diyas and by bursting firecrackers.'
HBW!!!!
If I read the map correctly, this is a photo of Telescope Peak,the highest point within Death Valley National Park at 3366m above sea level.