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Trevi Fountain is perhaps the most beautiful fountain in Rome. Measuring some 20 meters in width by 26 meters in height, Trevi Fountain is also the largest fountain in the city. The origins of the fountain go back to the year 19 B.C., in which period the fountain formed the end of the Aqua Virgo aqueduct. The first fountain was built during the Renaissance, under the direction of Pope Nicholas V. The final appearance of the Trevi Fountain dates from 1762, when after many years of works at the hand of Nicola Salvi, it was finalized by Giuseppe Pannini. Interestingly enough, the name of Trevi derives from Tre Vie (three ways), since the fountain was the meeting point of three streets.
Mars and Virgo on the 24-3-2014 at 02.00am. Cloud was starting to gather, and the smoke from the chimney added to the effect. The hedge on the left was lit by my head torch! Asteroids Vesta and Ceres are also in this image but I have no way of annotating at the moment!
"Hence, just as Christ, the Mediator between God and man, assumed human nature, blotted the handwriting of the decree that stood against us, and fastened it triumphantly to the cross, so the most holy Virgin, united with him by a most intimate and indissoluble bond, was, with him and through him, eternally at enmity with the evil serpent, and most completely triumphed over him, and thus crushed his head with her immaculate foot."
– Pope Bl. Pius IX
Painting from St Paul's church in Rabat, Malta.
This is a busy part of the Virgo galaxy cluster, including Markarian's Chain and the giant eliptical galaxy M87. Our local group of galaxies is a part of this structure. If you look closely at almost any region in here, you will see tiny fuzzballs - all of which are galaxies. It is enough to make the mind wander and wonder. Does anyone still think this universe is all about us?
OK, it's not the Webb, but in 2017 I managed to capture not less than 45 galaxies with my Takahashi FSQ-106 telescope from my home observatory in light-polluted central Maryland. There are a few unlabeled faint galaxies that my astrometry software did not identify. Magnify and look for smudges that aren't circles (brighter stars) or points (dimmer stars).
Designed by Yoshimasa Tsuruta.
Folded by me from 35*35 cm textured Octa paper(way too thick and small for this mode..,but I did manage to fold and shape it nicely).
diagrams from "The new generation of origami" by Origami House,Japan.
Gli adulti presentano livree eleganti, con colorazioni metalliche differenti nei due sessi. Il maschio ha ali brune e corpo azzurro metallico, colorazione che si estende anche ad alcune nervature longitudinali. La femmina ha ali brune e corpo bruno-verdastro con riflessi iridescenti.
La morfologia è quella tipica degli Zygoptera: il capo è dicoptico e le ali anteriori sono uguali, nella forma e nello sviluppo, a quelle posteriori. In posizione di riposo sono reciprocamente accostate e tenute verticali. Le larve sono provviste di tre lobi respiratori caudali.
Come in tutti gli Zygoptera, è un mediocre volatore e l'ovideposizione è endofitica
(wikipedia
Virgo is the sixth astrological sign in the zodiac. It spans the 150–180th degree of the zodiac. Under the tropical zodiac, the Sun transits this area between August 23 and September 22. Depending on the system of astrology, individuals born during these dates may be called Virgos or Virgoans.
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27 x 180 sec, ISO 3200 Canon 6D
Lens: Explore Scientific 80mm APO
Mount: iOptron SmartEQ Pro
Guiding: 50mm Orion + Lacerta MGEN2
To illustrate the horoscope 2009 special in Fairlady magazine, I decided to choose shoes appropriate to each star sign, and team them with a matching fabric.
© Heather Moore 2008
This extent contains eleven Messier objects (M 58, 84, 86-91, 98-100) and many other galaxies. Markarian's Chain is the string of galaxies in the center. My favorite is the Coma Pinwheel Galaxy (M 99) in the center of the upper right quadrant, with its interesting coma shape.
Acquisition details: Fujifilm X-T10, Samyang 135mm f/2.0 ED UMC @ f2.0, ISO 1600, 102 x 30 sec, tracking with iOptron SkyTracker Pro, stacking with DeepSkyStacker, editing with Astro Pixel Processor and GIMP, taken on Feb. 27, 2020 under Bortle 3/4 skies.
La galaxie spirale barrée NGC 5068 est située à environ 17 millions d'années-lumière de la Terre, dans la constellation de la Vierge (Virgo). L'image proche infrarouge de la galaxie est remplie par l'énorme rassemblement d'étoiles plus anciennes qui constituent son noyau. Des nuages de poussière denses et brillants se trouvent le long de la trajectoire des bras spiraux. A l'intérieur de ceux-ci, se trouvent de jeunes amas d'étoiles et de l'hydrogène gazeux où de nouvelles étoiles se forment. Les étoiles jeunes et énergiques ionisent l'hydrogène qui les entoure ce qui, combiné à l'émission de poussières chaudes, crée cette lueur rougeâtre.
Description de l'image :
La galaxie spirale barrée NGC 5068 montre ici son noyau et une partie d'un bras spiral. Des milliers et des milliers de minuscules étoiles, vues comme des taches blanches, remplissent le cadre. Les étoiles sont plus denses dans la barre blanchâtre qui forme le noyau, vu dans le quadrant supérieur gauche, et moins denses en allant vers le bras spiral. Les nuages de gaz, représentés en rouge vif, suivent la torsion de la galaxie et le bras spiral (cf. ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-JWST Team).
Pour voir la galaxie barrée NGC 5068 dans la constellation de la Vierge (Virgo) :
This is a shot of the central region of the Virgo galaxy cluster. All of the individual stars in this image belong to our own Milky Way galaxy but all of the larger, more 'fuzzy', objects are entire galaxies far beyond made up of their own collections of billions of stars. (The larger/closer galaxies in the image are around 54 million light years away.)
There are approximately 244 galaxies in this image (around 10 hours of total exposure). Many of the smaller galaxies are 'background' galaxies and not associated with the Virgo cluster. Most of the galaxies in this image are also of a type known as 'elliptical'. Unlike spiral galaxies, they usually lack structure and can be anything from perfectly spherical to somewhat flattened.