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0-6-0PT 29 former Cleobury Mortimer & Ditton Priors Railway on breakdown train on the CM &DPR after absorption by the Great Western. 1938. (S.H.P. Higgins)
Name: Stefan Nicholas Rost Akerman
Villain’s name: Biocide
Age: mid-20’s
Bio: Son of a Dutch diplomat and a Swedish biological scientist, Stefan was raised in the Swiss Alps but moved to America at 6. He grew up with no friends and was always obsessed with plants and life. He had high hopes of making death and decay become life and resurrection once more. But some of experiments proved to be a failure, and did not turn out well for anyone. It was simply expensive and no one approved of what he did. Stefan turned to being a eco-terrorist after enhancing himself with more powers, but he only did that for months after Paradox Force faced him multiple times.
His long standing history with Paradox Force (mostly Grey Cop) led him devoting his time to become a mercenary. Until that, he was re hired by Hendrix and co, with thoughts of being a villain again...
Powers and abilities: Poison manipulation, generation and absorption, acid blasts/generation, create biological bombs, control plants, some pheromes, secrete biological and etc.
Weaknesses: Powers can be contained, immune against those who resist poison and toxins, control over acid that may destroy things he doesn’t intend to, some acids are limited to different kinds, bases can be used against him, rendering him neutralised and powerless. Plant life requires water and solar energy, people who are immune to his poison. Failure at his own experiments causes him to be very angry. The suit can run out of battery sometimes.
Equipment: Bio-suit with haredened armour, has solar absorption functions through battery. Biological, plant related bombs/weapons, usually carries two guns
Personality: Cunning, malicious, cruel, disdain, cold, bitter.
Penn Central E40 electric #4977 poses in the yard at Morrisville, PA, January 23, 1976. Conrail is less than four months away from taking over the Penn Central's rail operations and thus inheriting this and it's unwanted brothers which originally came from the New Haven Railroad upon the NH's absorption into PC. The E40's were originally classed EP5s by the New Haven when they arrived in 1955 from GE. They were intended for high speed passenger operation between New York City and New Haven, CT. Teething problems from the outset were solved within a year of arrival from GE-mainly the large screened filters on the carbody sides which helped in cooling the electric motors along with the automatic blowers. What caused their downfall was the McGinnis/Alpert regime's greatly reduced maintenance on these and almost all other locomotives the NH had. The damage had been done and unfortunately they fared no better under Penn Central ownership. By the early '70s all were out of service and one even scrapped but someone at PC felt the road should rebuild three of them for freight service and so the 4977 became one of the lucky three to survive into Conrail ownership. Sadly the three never turned a revenue wheel for Conrail as that road had a lot more on it's plate to deal with than three oddball electrics of questionable reliability. The final three E40s were scrapped in 1979. This is an Ektachrome 6x6 color transparency originally marketed as a Super Slide. The film frame was mounted in a cardboard mount which allowed for projection with the proper slide carrier mounted to a projector. Unfortunately this also allowed for the image to be scratched badly.
John Stroup original.
Potash Road passes by a potash mining operation. A blue dye is added to the water to increase sunlight heat absorption, which aids in the evaporation. (Like the American Flag Blue paint in the Lincoln Reflecting Pool absorbed more heat and stimulated an algae bloom).
Alter Ego: Sun
Name: Savannah Harrison
Allegiance: Hero
Powers:
* Can increase the intensity of light on objects and be able to essentially blind/flash bang her foes.
* Absorption & Amplification of solar energy and transmit it into searing hot energy beams.
* Immunity to heat and intense light.
Weapons:
* Two swords which she energises to be able to slice through thick plated metal and amplifies the light shined on them to blind her foes.
Key Weakness: She can only absorb solar energy no other form.
Origin:
Savannah grew up in a notorious Meta gang called "The Forgotten" with many metahumans that went down the wrong path. However they were intercepted by the hero known as "Luna" that defeated the gang but he was badly injured. Savannah hid during the battle and later emerged finding the hurt hero, rather than finish him off she rescued him and brought him home to rest. He thanked her for saving him from the gangs lair and managed to convince her to become a hero and follow a new path of heroism, over time she also became his girlfriend and partner for the crime fighting duo.
The overall wide field comes from Rokinon 135mm @ F2.8 + QSI583.
For Rosette and Cone nebulsa I have used higher resolution data coming from Tenerife.
L: 23x300s @ F2.8
RGB: (4, 4, 4)x300s @ F2.8
Higher resolution images:
Data: R. Colombari [DSW], E. Recurt
Processing: R. Colombari
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The Cone Nebula is an H II region in the constellation of Monoceros. It was discovered by William Herschel on December 26, 1785, at which time he designated it H V.27. The nebula is located about 830 parsecs or 2,700 light-years away from Earth. The Cone Nebula forms part of the nebulosity surrounding the Christmas Tree Cluster. The designation of NGC 2264 in the New General Catalogue refers to both objects and not the nebula alone.
The diffuse Cone Nebula, so named because of its apparent shape, lies in the southern part of NGC 2264, the northern part being the magnitude-3.9 Christmas Tree Cluster. It is in the northern part of Monoceros, just north of the midpoint of a line from Procyon to Betelgeuse.
The cone's shape comes from a dark absorption nebula consisting of cold molecular hydrogen and dust in front of a faint emission nebula containing hydrogen ionized by S Monocerotis, the brightest star of NGC 2264. The faint nebula is approximately seven light-years long (with an apparent length of 10 arcminutes), and is 2,700 light-years away from Earth.
Fox Fur Nebula is a Nebula located in Monoceros and included in the NGC 2264 Region. In the Sharpless catalog it is number 273.
This enigmatic formation of gas and dust lies in the constellation of Monoceros (the Unicorn) not far off the right arm of Orion. This is a close-up of a small section of a much larger complex, generally known as the Christmas Tree cluster. The mysterious Cone Nebula is also a part of this same cloud.
The red regions of this nebula are caused by hydrogen gas that has been stimulated to emit its own light by the copious ultraviolet radiation coming from the hot, blue stars of the cluster. The blue areas shine by a different process: they are mainly dust clouds that reflect the bluish light of the same stars.
Its popular name arises because the nebula looks like the head of a stole made from the fur of a red fox.
The Rosette Nebula (also known as Caldwell 49) is a large, circular H II region located near one end of a giant molecular cloud in the Monoceros region of the Milky Way Galaxy. The open cluster NGC 2244 (Caldwell 50) is closely associated with the nebulosity, the stars of the cluster having been formed from the nebula's matter.
The complex has the following NGC designations:
NGC 2237 – Part of the nebulous region (Also used to denote whole nebula)
NGC 2238 – Part of the nebulous region
NGC 2239 – Part of the nebulous region (Discovered by John Herschel)
NGC 2244 – The open cluster within the nebula (Discovered by John Flamsteed in 1690)
NGC 2246 – Part of the nebulous region
The cluster and nebula lie at a distance of some 5,000 light-years from Earth [3]) and measure roughly 50 light years in diameter. The radiation from the young stars excites the atoms in the nebula, causing them to emit radiation themselves producing the emission nebula we see. The mass of the nebula is estimated to be around 10,000 solar masses.
A survey of the nebula with the Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed the presence of numerous new-born stars inside optical Rosette Nebula and studded within a dense molecular cloud. Altogether, approximately 2500 young stars lie in this star-forming complex, including the massive O-type stars HD 46223 and HD 46150, which are primarily responsible for blowing the ionized bubble.[4][5] Most of the ongoing star-formation activity is occurring in the dense molecular cloud to the south east of the bubble.[6]
A diffuse X-ray glow is also seen between the stars in the bubble, which has been attributed to a super-hot plasma with temperatures ranging from 1 to 10 million K.[7] This is significantly hotter than the 10,000 K plasmas seen in HII regions, and is likely attributed to the shock-heated winds from the massive O-type stars.
Source: Wikipedia
Beziehungen bestimmen unser Leben in allen Bereichen. Bei Gebäuden, die für Ausstellungen geschaffen werden, ergeben sich gleich mehrere Beziehungen.
Nichts und Niemand kann für sich alleine bestehen. Ein Architekt setzt seine Gebäude in einen räumliche und kulturelle Beziehung, man könnte auch Kontext sagen. Ein Kurator setzt ein Kunstwerk in Beziehung zum Raum und anderen Kunstwerken. Der Betrachter eröffnet eine neue Beziehung durch Wahrnehmung des Vorangegangenen und bringt das Kunstwerk in Beziehung zu seinem Leben und seinen Erfahrungen und in eine Kommunikation mit sich selbst und anderen Menschen zu denen er in verschiedenen Beziehungen steht und diese geben es vielleicht weiter, unendliche Reflexionen und Absorbtionen mit all ihren Veränderungen ... und wir Fotografen treten natürlich auch, jeder auf seinen Weise zu seinen Motiven in eine Beziehung ... Gedankenspiele ... ;-) ...
Relationships determine our lives in all areas. In the case of buildings created for exhibitions, several relationships arise at once.
Nothing and no one can exist on its own. An architect places his buildings in a spatial and cultural relationship, one could also say context. A curator puts a work of art in relation to space and other works of art. The viewer opens a new relationship by perceiving what has gone before and brings the artwork into relationship with his life and experiences and into a communication with himself and other people with whom he is in different relationships and they perhaps pass it on, infinite reflections and absorptions with all their changes ... and we photographers of course also enter, each in his own way to his subjects in a relationship ... Mind games ... ;-) ...
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A friendly neighbourhood black-headed python. The head is black for better heat absorption and they tend to keep their bodies under cover and just have their heads out for warming them up
Tirumala limniace, the blue tiger, is a butterfly found in South Asia and Southeast Asia that belongs to the crows and tigers, that is, the danaid group of the brush-footed butterfly family. This butterfly shows gregarious migratory behaviour in southern India.In general, all butterflies can directly absorb heat from the sun via their wings to facilitate autonomous flight. Studies on blue tiger butterflies show that high-intensity light significantly increased flight activity. Blue tiger butterflies have a wing surface color that is composed of both light and dark colors. The dark areas on the wing surfaces are the heat absorption areas that allow for the facilitation of autonomous flight.
Macro photography can be quite absorbing. Sort of like zen. Or flow, which is characterized by "complete absorption in what one does and the almost complete loss of sense of space and time". Flow is an innately positive experience; it is known to "produce intense feelings of enjoyment". Hence macrohappy 😀🌸
Absorptions.
Tra-arglwyddiaethu ar leiniau stereoteipiau di-chwaeth ymladd ynysig yn darparu ymsonau bregus sgyrsio tics geiriol swyddogaethau cymhleth dyfeisiadau siarad,
les démons de l'inexorabilité la gravité rassurant le public un monde orthodoxe sévère revendiquant des prologues une richesse urbaine infinie des mythologies mutilées,
seriøs vild humor svin spisning ritualer private vittigheder æstetik offensiver usandsynlige masker stønnende samtaler morderiskhed klokker,
deghizări demonstrații gunoi complete acte motivate mușcături extinse performanțe ticăloșie abjecții simetrice conflicte ireconciliabile,
антагонизм затраты словесные состязания символическая игра ужасающие деградации провиденциальная критика опасные рты деревенские речи,
喜び未装備の高さ不思議宝胸が失われた風に立ち向かう気分を害した指血の発見労働者の海岸の干渉用語恐ろしい丘厄介なダーツの内容が吸収された.
Steve.D.Hammond.
Yooperlite is a grey pebble from Lake Superior in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Yooperlite is the common name for sodalite-bearing syenite, an igneous rock that fluoresces bright orange or yellow under ultraviolet light.
About Fluorescence:
Fluorescence is the phenomenon of absorption of electromagnetic radiation, typically from ultraviolet light, by a molecule and the subsequent emission of a photon at a lower energy (smaller frequency, longer wavelength, visible to the human eye).
UV Lighting:
365nm Adaptalux UV Lighting Arm camera mounted on a Mini Pod:
Adaptalux Modular Macro Lighting System.
Photo usage and Copyright:
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Rover is a British automotive brand that was used for over a century, from 1904 to 2005. It was launched as a bicycle maker called Rover Company in 1878, before starting to manufacture autocars in 1904. The brand used the Viking longship as its logo. The rights to the brand are currently part of Jaguar Land Rover, which continues to produce Land Rovers, but no Rover automobiles are currently in production and the brand is considered dormant.
Despite a state-controlled absorption by the Leyland Motor Corporation (LMC) in 1967 and subsequent mergers, nationalisation, and demergers, the Rover brand retained its identity, first as an independent subsidiary division of LMC, and subsequently through various groups within British Leyland (BL) through the 1970s and into the 1980s.
The Rover brand then became the flagship brand of the newly and eponymously renamed Rover Group in 1988, which included the actually stronger and more valuable brand names Land Rover and Mini as it passed first through the hands of British Aerospace and then into the ownership of BMW Group. Sharing technology with Honda and financial investment during the BMW ownership led to a revival of the brand during the 1990s in its core midsize car segment.[3]
In 2000, BMW sold Rover and related MG car activities of the Rover Group to the Phoenix Consortium, who established the MG Rover Group at Longbridge. BMW retained ownership of the Rover brand, allowing MG Rover to use it under licence. In April 2005, Rover-branded cars ceased to be produced when the MG Rover Group became insolvent. The MG Rover Group's assets then got split up between two Chinese automakers – some were bought by SAIC Motor, who obtained technology that was incorporated into a new Chinese line of Roewe branded luxury saloons. Other assets were bought by Nanjing Automobile.
BMW sold the rights to the Rover brand to Ford in 2006 for approximately £6 million, the latter exercising an option of first refusal to buy it dating back to its purchase of Land Rover in 2000. Ford thus reunited the original Rover Company brands, primarily for brand-protection reasons.[4] In March 2008, Ford reached agreement with Tata Motors of India to include the Rover brand as part of the sale of their Jaguar Land Rover operations to them. Legally the Rover brand is the property of Land Rover under the terms of Ford's purchase of the name in 2006. Wikipedia
IPod Touch
Zen. Brush App
From life/observation
<=15 minutes
Although I drew a few times on long distance trains (and planes) I realized about halfway through my trip that I wasn't drawing on city Metro systems., Alhough theoretically it would have been interesting to compare posture, interaction and attitude between countries, I was never confident enough about my intended destination to let myself get absorbed in drawing.
I must say I was favorably impressed with how easy it was to navigate all three major metro systems I was on: London, Paris & Brussels.
In any event, back to the familiar commute, where I confess, I have occasionally missed my stop due to over-absorption in my subject.
Explored #493! Thanks guys!
No HDR, just a long exposure at night. Straight out of the camera other than a white balance adjustment.
Canon 17-40L USM @ 17mm, 20 sec exposure
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This 2004 montage shows three clusters of bright, young stars in X-ray (blue) and infrared (green) light that lie in the direction of the center of the Galaxy. Like many stars in the disk of the Galaxy, they are difficult, if not impossible, to see with an optical telescope because of interstellar dust that blocks the visible light.
Infrared and X-ray data provide evidence for a large amount of dust and gas along the line of sight to the cluster, DB01-42. Invisible to optical telescopes, it is located near the Galactic Center, about 26,000 light years from Earth. Most of the stars in the image produce infrared radiation from their surfaces which have temperatures of several thousand degrees Celsius. The X-radiation from the two bright X-ray sources near the center of the cluster requires gas with temperatures of millions of degrees.
Such extremely hot gas may be due to the collision of stellar winds from two closely orbiting stars. The two bright X-ray sources in the image are likely close binary stars with high-speed stellar winds. The diffuse X-ray glow could be caused by the combined heating of gas in the cluster by winds from many stars.
The light from the stars in the two clusters, DB00-58 and DB00-6 show much less X-ray and infrared absorption. This lower absorption, which still blocks much of the visible light, indicates that these star clusters are not in the Galactic Center, but are foreground objects. The way in which the X-rays are produced in these clusters is likely to be similar to DB01-42.
Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Northwestern U./C.Law & F.Yusef-Zadeh; Infrared: 2MASS/UMass/IPAC-Caltech/NASA/NSF
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A real live Australian Water Dragon (Physignathus lesueurii) basking at dusk on a city park red mood light, presumably to either get a nice warm glow to look hot and/or to stay warm. :) I especially like the back leg stretch and the skin's rich absorption of red colour from the light. The dragon also looks very happy with its achievements and position and made no attempt to move when I carefully approached to photograph. The really cool thing was the light changed colour every so often and so did the dragon's colour. By way of example, please see the photo below.
Thanks for stopping by. Appreciate your comments. :)
Hot Water Dragon_MG_8422 2014-03-31
"Buddhist account of consciousness provides a new way of looking into contemplation, where absorption into meditation does not only bring in changes in the neural level but in the very personality of the individual, turning him into a good human being....."
The Yonghe Temple, also known as the Yonghe Lamasery, or popularly as the Lama Temple, is a temple and monastery of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism located on 12 Yonghegong Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing, China. The building and artwork of the temple is a combination of Han Chinese and Tibetan styles, established in 1694.
This is for Stars N' Heroes' Super-Villain Contest.
Left-Right:
BIllard Wrecker: Brawn
Powers: Super-Strength and Durability
Weaknesses: Cybernetic implants have been used to make him stronger, however they keep destroying his brain leaving him to have the mind of a 3 year old.
Backstory: The Wrecker triplets were all going to fail in life. They're parents were crack-addicted alcoholics.
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William Wrecker: Brainpower
Powers: Super-Intelligent cyborg.
Weaknesses: No durability or Strength whatsoever.
Backstory: William Wrecker was the only smart one in his whole family. He tried his best to get a good job and resume, instead he decided crime was easier. he and his brothers went to get cybernetic implants and William became the Super-Villain, Brainpower.
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Duke Wrecker: Suckapunch
Powers: Super-Strength, Durability, and Power Absorption
Weaknesses: Slow on speed and relies on brute force.
Backstory: Superhero geek that never had much in life. He soon got Cybernetic implants that messed with his brain causing him to become a crazed murder.
Any stop to Venice would not be complete without visiting the colorful streets of the island of Burano. After doing so many jigsaw puzzles of pictures from here, it was a thrill to see it with my own two eyes.
The complex puzzle of the objects known as little red dots (LRDs) has gradually become more complete since their initial discovery by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope in 2022. Now a particular little red dot’s spectrum is helping connect many of the pieces.
A team of astronomers led by Vasily Kokorev at the University of Texas at Austin identified the lucky dot in question: GLIMPSE-17775. By carefully analysing the dot’s spectrum captured by Webb — the deepest spectrum to date of a little red dot — the research team has identified multiple lines of evidence, all of which support the interpretation that GLIMPSE-17775 is a supermassive black hole enveloped in a dense cocoon of partially ionised gas. A paper describing the results was published today in The Astrophysical Journal.
“I think part of the scientific community is converging on a singular picture — that little red dots can be explained by black hole star models. But none of the previous little red dots have all of the pieces of evidence in the same place,” said Kokorev, lead author of the study. “With GLIMPSE-17775 we can test these models because of how deep and amazing this source’s spectrum is.”
Connecting puzzle pieces
Soon after Webb first began science operations, it discovered a new, mysterious type of object in the very early Universe – abundant red objects that emerged about 600 million years after the Big Bang. Scientists have explored multiple explanations for these little red dots, including the black hole star scenario.
A set of fortunate circumstances brought about this elaborate spectrum of a little red dot. The little red dot that would come to be known as GLIMPSE-17775 was fortunately included in Webb’s imaging and spectroscopy efforts for a project that sought to look for Population III stars [1] and faint galaxies in galaxy cluster Abell S1063. This little red dot is more distant than the galaxy cluster and magnified by gravitational lensing (GLIMPSE-17775 has a cosmological redshift of 3.5, meaning it existed about 1.8 billion years after the Big Bang).
"The source was discovered from the GLIMPSE programme, that was designed to reveal the faintest sources in the early Universe,” said Hakim Atek, of the Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris in France, who is a co-author of the study and Principal Investigator of the GLIMPSE programme. “In addition, the magnification by gravitational lensing also enables a more detailed characterization of brighter objects, including LRDs such as GLIMPSE-17775.”
While Webb provided a 30-hour spectrum of the little red dot, the effect of gravitational lensing made it equivalent to 80 hours of telescope time. This combination of Webb’s infrared sensitivity and nature’s own “magnifying glass” amplified the amount of detail that could be gleaned from GLIMPSE-17775. The result was more than 40 spectral lines [2] from this small, red source, which is the most detailed LRD spectrum to date.
“When we saw the spectrum for the first time, it was like having all the pieces of a puzzle scattered on the floor,” said Kokorev. “We picked up each piece of the puzzle, measured the lines, and started combining the different pieces into a mosaic. Maybe a few pieces looked like nothing at first, but then a couple of them came together, and we realized that there was something there.”
The spectroscopic data collected by Webb contains multiple lines of evidence that support the interpretation that little red dot GLIMPSE-17775 is a black hole star: a rapidly accreting, or growing, black hole enveloped in a dense gas cocoon, which is reprocessing the light emitted from near the black hole and producing the features seen in the spectrum.
Lines of evidence
Among the 40-plus lines that the team detected in GLIMPSE-17775’s spectrum were various independent indicators that all align with the black hole star scenario. For example, the team found that many of the spectral lines (such as hydrogen, oxygen, and helium) do not fit a simple model of a rotating gas cloud. Instead, the best fit model includes a broadening effect known as electron scattering: a telltale sign that a dense, layered gas cocoon is enshrouding this source.
The strength and ratios of certain lines to each other, most notably the 16 iron lines that compose what the team has dubbed an “iron forest” and certain oxygen lines, require a high-energy source to produce them, like a rapidly accreting black hole. Additionally, astronomers noted the fluorescence and absorption of helium in the spectrum, both of which individually suggest that there is a dense medium enveloping a powerful source.
The black hole star scenario not only fits GLIMPSE-17775; it also accounts for why most little red dots are faint in X-rays, since any such emission is likely absorbed by the dense gas cocoon.
One missing element of the GLIMPSE-17775 puzzle piece is the part of the spectrum that would reveal what’s known as a Balmer break, or a strong dip in the emitted light that’s a signature characteristic of little red dots. To build a more comprehensive understanding of this little red dot, the team incorporated ancillary data from two observing programmes that used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope: Frontier Fields and BUFFALO (Beyond Ultra-deep Frontier Fields And Legacy Observations) programmes.
The Webb and Hubble data together help explain why the Balmer break is weaker than typically found in other little red dots: a giant host galaxy is surrounding GLIMPSE-17775. Although an LRD’s host galaxy is not something that has been usually seen at such scale before, it isn’t inconsistent with the dense gas cocoon model. The black hole star model of little red dots attributes excess blue light to stars in the host galaxy.
When Webb first discovered little red dots, some researchers thought these objects had “broken cosmology,” unsure how galaxies could have grown so big so quickly in the early Universe to account for all this light coming from their stars. However, the team believes the GLIMPSE-17775 puzzle piece fits nicely in the existing framework of the Universe’s evolutionary history, because black hole masses don’t need to be as high in order to explain the broad emission lines.
“Everything fits, nothing is broken, and I think that makes the puzzle that is our Universe even better,” said Kokorev. “Looking ahead, I’m eager to dive deeper and learn about what is powering the central engines of little red dots. While we think it’s a black hole, there are some other interesting theories being proposed, which is exciting. Maybe in a year or two, we’ll have the final answer to what powers these sources.”
Notes
[1] Astronomers know that the first stars, officially known as Population III stars, must have been made almost solely of hydrogen and helium — the elements that formed as a direct result of the Big Bang. They would have contained none of the heavier elements like carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and iron that are found in stars shining today. In other words, Population III stars were metal-free (astronomers refer to any element heavier than helium as a metal).
[2] In a spectrum, light emitted or absorbed at a specific frequency by an atom or molecule. Each ion, atom, and molecule emits and absorbs light at specific wavelengths, making it possible to identify the makeup of a star or other celestial body. Emission lines produce bright features, absorption lines dark features, and each line represents light given off or absorbed by one or more substances.
More information
Webb is the largest, most powerful telescope ever launched into space. Under an international collaboration agreement, ESA provided the telescope’s launch service, using the Ariane 5 launch vehicle. Working with partners, ESA was responsible for the development and qualification of Ariane 5 adaptations for the Webb mission and for the procurement of the launch service by Arianespace. ESA also provided the workhorse spectrograph NIRSpec and 50% of the mid-infrared instrument MIRI, which was designed and built by a consortium of nationally funded European Institutes (The MIRI European Consortium) in partnership with JPL and the University of Arizona.
Webb is an international partnership between NASA, ESA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA).
[Image description: A field of galaxies against the black background of space. In the centre is a bright-white elliptical galaxy that is the core of the Abell S1063 galaxy cluster. Around the core are short, curved red lines, which are distant background galaxies magnified and warped by gravitational lensing. A couple of foreground stars appear large and bright with Webb’s signature eight-point diffraction spike pattern. Toward the very bottom, slightly off center toward the right, is a small red dot that is highlighted by an orange square outline. A larger orange square in the top right corner shows the object in more detail. The object, labeled “GLIMPSE-17775” looks like a fuzzy red dot with a yellow core.]
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, V. Kokorev (University of Texas at Austin), A. Pagan (STScI); CC BY 4.0
Diergaarde Blijdorp (Zoo)
June 2012
The Netherlands
Urban life in the Netherlands
Ricoh GRD IV
Please do not reproduce or use this picture without my explicit permission.
If you ask nicely I will probably say yes, just ask me first!
If you happen to be in one of my frames and have any objections to this.
Please contact me!
Please no glossy awards, scripted comments and big thumbnails back to your own work.
I will remove them...
We have been covered by 15.5 inches (39 cm) of dense, heavy, wet snow. I was surprised to see the inner layers had a bit of turquoise glow. We don't see this very often, our snow is typically loose and grainy.
Blue-green colors in the 'shadows' of snow is caused by the absorption of both red and yellow light, leaving light at the blue and green end of the visible light spectrum. This doesn't usually happen in 'loose' snow, but happens more often in ice and icebergs. This snow is particularly dense.
A better explanation here.
Manufacturer: Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan - U.S.A.
Type: Model 65K Thunderbird Hardtop
Production time: September 1972 - September 1973
Production outlet: 87,269
Engine: 7033cc Ford 385-series V-8 429 N-code OHV
Power: 211 bhp / 4.400 rpm
Torque: 443 Nm/ 2.600 rpm
Drivetrain: rear wheels
Speed: 194 km/h
Curb weight: 2300 kg
Wheelbase: 120.4 inch
Chassis: box frame with S-shape front frame rails provide energy absorption on inpact and crossbars with separate all-steel body
Steering: integral power ball circulation control
Gearbox: Ford C6 Select-Shift Cruise-O- Matic three-speed automatic / steering column shift
Clutch: not applicable
Carburettor: Motorcraft 4-barrel downdraft
Fuel tank: 85 liter
Electric system: 12 Volts 77 Ah Motorcraft Sta-Ful
Ignition system: distributor and coil
Brakes front: 11.72 inch hydraulic servo-assisted discs self-adjusting type
Brakes rear: 11 inch hydraulic drums self-adjusting type
Suspension front: independent drag-struts ball joint type, Cross-link with elastically mounted tension strut, upper trapezoid triangle cross-bars, lower single cross-bars, sway bar, coil springs +
Suspension rear: beam axle, Posi-Ride four-link rubber-cushion system, lower longitudinal links, upper angle braces, sway bar, helical coils +
Rear axle: live semi-floating type
Differential: hypoid 2,75:1
Wheels: 6 x 15 inch steel discs
Tires: 230 x 15 Michelin steel-belted radial ply
Options: 7536cc Ford 385-series V-8 460 A-code OHV engine, Traction-Lok differential axle, heavy duty suspension, heavy duty trailer towing package, Sure-Track brake control system, Opera Windows, fingertip speed device control, Select-Aire Conditioning, power windows, 6-way power seats, powe antenna, remote controlled right side view mirror, AM/FM Stereo Radio/Stereo Tape Player sound system, dual rear speakers, vinyl roof, Exterior Decor Group (Includes Textured Grain Vinyl Roof and Wide Vinyl, Bodyside Moldings with Matching Texture Inserts), front cornering lamps, Deluxe bumper group, DeLuxe wheel covers, leather and vinyl trim, reclining passenger seat, Deluxe Color-Keyed seat belts, electric defroster, high back bucket seats with console, Rim-Blow Deluxe three-spoke steering wheel, tilt steering wheel, power door locks, electric trunk lid, rocker panel mouldings, door edge guards, license plate frame, spare tire cover, Color-keyed floor mats with carpet inserts, power-operated sunroof (vinyl roof required), tinted glass, Anti-Theft alarm system, interval windshield wipers, high-intensity map lights, warning lights for headlamps on, low fuel, door ajar, "headlamps on", warning buzzer, and engine compartment light
Special:
- Ford was launched in a converted factory in 1903 with $28,000 in cash from twelve investors, most notably John Francis Dodge and Horace Elgin Dodge who would later found the Dodge Brothers Motor Vehicle Company.
- Henry Ford was 40 years old when he founded the Ford Motor Company, which would go on to become one of the largest and most profitable companies in the world, the largest family-controlled company in the world, as well as being one of the few to survive the Great Depression.
- Semon "Bunkie" Knudsen, the former GM man now President of Ford, is said to be responsible for the redesigned style.
- This sixth generation Thunderbird (1972-1976: 299,146 units built), the “Big Birds” Series, is the largest Thunderbird ever produced by Ford, based on the Lincoln Continental Mark IV and with Opera windows (optional, but hardly sold without them), inspired by the 1971 Cadillac Eldorado (Cadillac called them coach windows).
- The Thunderbird was marketed as a luxury car that didn't cost as much as a Mark IV. Ford prepared literature for its dealers comparing the two cars, showing dollar for dollar the Thunderbird was the better buy. Of course, the cars were basically the same except for some additional trim and other features on the Mark IV that weren't shared with the Thunderbird.
- There are even reports of Thunderbirds leaving the Wixom, Michigan Assembly Plant with Continental Mark IV instrument panel inserts, and vice versa. So apparently there was some confusion on the assembly line.
- Ford’s 1973 marketing slogan: “Thunderbird '73. Still unique in all the world”.
Juni 2021
Karl weiß sich schon früh in Szene zu setzen, ist immer um Aufmerksamkeit bemüht und schaut selbstverliebt in die Kamera. Er wird später mal ein namhafter Aerosolforscher werden! - Karl knows how to put himself in the limelight at an early age, is always looking for attention and looking at the camera with self-absorption. He will later become a renowned aerosol researcher!
Dial and meters do point the way... This is a Triplett 3256 tunable absorption-type frequency meter from 1951.
Walker Lake is a natural lake, in the Great Basin in western Nevada in the United States. It is 11 mi (17 km) long and 5 mi (8 km) wide, in northwestern Mineral County along the east side of the Wassuk Range, about 75 mi (120 km) southeast of Reno. The lake is fed from the north by the Walker River and has no natural outlet except absorption and evaporation.
West Midlands Travel Leyland Fleetline / East Lancs 6721 was the first of this batch of 40 to arrive in March 1977, the final order placed by Coventry Transport prior to its absorption into West Midlands PTE in 1974. Seen here in its home city 13 years later, series withdrawals of the batch commenced the previous year, but several others lasted long enough to receive the later version of fleet livery.
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The colourful but obscure area in the Cepheus Milky Way that contains the Lion Nebula (at bottom), a region emitting both red Hydrogen-alpha light and cyan Oxygen III light. It is a nebula that only recently became popular as an astrophoto target, perhaps because of its new nickname and from the use of narrowband filters to bring it out. It is not in the popular Messier, NGC or IC catalogues but is officially labeled as Sharpless 2-132. Meanwhile at top, the brightest nebula is the even more obscure Sharpless 2-135, alongside a very faint band of nebulosity that might not have a catalogue number — I couldn't find one!
The nebulosity at top is a deeper red than the Lion Nebula, as the top area of sky contains more dark dust absorbing and reddening the nebulosity and also decreasing the star density and yellowing the sky compared to the richer, brighter and bluer region at bottom to the south around the Lion.
There is a very small (like a fuzzy red star) planetary nebula just right of centre called the Little Ring Nebula, or M2-51, from the Minkowski catalogue. Another tiny planetary in the extreme lower left corner is Abell 79. The field of view here is 5° by 3.3°, with north up.
The star at upper left is the famous variable and double star Delta Cephei. The yellow star at right is Zeta Cephei.
This is a stack of 48 sub-frames taken over two nights, all with the SharpStar 94mm EDPH refractor at f/4.4 and the Canon Ra camera:
- A stack of 16 x 8-minute exposures with a "clear" filter, an Astronomik UV/IR cut filter at ISO 800
- A stack of 16 x 12-minute exposures through an IDAS NB1 dual-narrowband filter at ISO 1600
- A stack of 16 x 16-minute exposures through an IDAS NBX dual ultra-narrowband filter at ISO 1600. This set was shot on night #2 as there was not enough time to shoot it on the same night at the other sets.
The clear filter set contributes the sky background and natural star colours. The NB1 filter set contributes most of the red H-alpha component, while the "extreme" NBX filter contributes mostly the cyan OIII emission which the Lion Nebula has in abundance, somewhat unusually for an emission nebula.
All stacked, aligned, merged and masked in Photoshop 2021. Luminosity masks with Lumenzia helped bring out the faint nebulosity.
Taken from home. Autoguided with the MGEN3 autoguider applying a dithering move between each exposure average out thermal noise when aligning and stacking. No LENR or dark frames were employed on this frosty night! At one point late on night 2 the little guidescope frosted over as the guide star was lost. Hair dryer to the rescue!
The comet was drifting fast toward east in Libra.
It was low in the west at the date, and stars showed obvious spectral spread due to atmospheric dispersion. Blue and green went higher, and red went lower. Blue got weaker due to atmospheric differential light absorption, and bluish ion tail got far fainter than expected. North is up, and east is to the left.
Earth distance: 0.349 AU
Sun distance: 0.792 AU
equipment: Guan Sheng Optical Ritchey–Chrétien telescope RC-CF 10" f8, TS Extension for The Baffle Tube, TS 2.5" field flattener, and Canon EOS R-SP4II, modified by Seo-san on ZWO AM5 Equatorial Mount, autoguided at a star nearby with Fujinon 1:2.8/75mm C-Mount Lens, Pentax x2 Extender, ZWO ASI 174MM-mini, and PHD2 Guiding with comet tracking on
exposure: 3 times x 60 seconds and 5 x 15 seconds at ISO 6,400 and f/8
The exposure started at 09:34:20 UTC October 9, 2025.
This frame was cropped 1,715 x 1,069 pixels of the original 6,720 x 4,780 pixels, comparable to a frame taken with a telescope of focal length about 7,800mm.
Site: 1,450m above sea level at lat. 35 55 53 North and long. 138 27 31 East in Hirasawa Pass 平沢峠 near Yatsugatake. The site has wide and beautiful western aspect. Ambient temperature was around 9 degrees Celsius or 48 degrees Fahrenheit. Wind was mild. Atmospheric turbulence was bad, and guide error RMS was around 2.3 near the horizon. Sky was not so dark, SQML around 19.90.
Delta 400.
A black and white film simulation using DxO Film Pack software.
Delta 400 uses the "core-shell crystal" tabular technology known as T-grain which is different from a conventional-grain film in the way that the film’s silver content is distributed. T-grain films have flat crystals whereas conventional-grain films (Tri-X, HP5,) have round crystals. The flatness of the crystal allows better light absorption. Theoretically, a T-grain film should provide sharper images when compared to a conventional-grain film. The Delta 400 can be used between 200 and 3200 ISO. It's one of the more flexible films for a wide range of uses in analogue photography.
My back hurts when I think of this picture... While walking down this dip in the forest around Tarn Hows, I accidentally stepped on a wet root. My shoes had no grip on it and so I tumbled big time. In the moment of falling, I was like "Damn... the camera.... Damn²... the Zeiss!" and raised my arm. Camera and lens didn't touch the ground, my body did... with no absorption. Must have been a sight for the gods...
Did you ever destroy some equipment this way? ;)
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Exposure 0.05 sec (1/20)
Aperture f/7.1
Focal Length 35 mm
ISO Speed 200
The Hague
March 2012
The Netherlands
Urban life in the Netherlands
Ricoh GRD IV
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The mysterious planet Cyano orbits deep inside the alt process belt. It consists entirely of ferric ammonium citrate. Absorption of UV radiation by its atmosphere of gaseous potassium ferricyanide results in an enormous electron migration in the planetary crystalline lattice thereby generating a super massive magnetosphere.
f/3.5 for 2.65e13 nanoseconds
Made in-camera on Cot 320 coated with traditional cyanotype sensitizer.
Profile
Name: Dr. Lawrence Adam Sullivan, PhD
Hero's name: Atomfuse
Age: Early to mid-40’s
Bio: An expert university professor, psychologist, nuclear physicist and lecturer, Dr. Sullivan was a famous man at campus and on TV. He was also the mentor of Adrian Kane and Megan Hinds during their university days, (who they considered him like an uncle and a father figure). At some point in his mid 30s, he had a secret career as a superhero, operating for more than a decade or two, (around 12 years approximately). However he had lung cancer and one of his hands contacted gangrenes, resulting him giving up superpowers for good. His suit was nearly destroyed in his last battle, forcing him to crawl to the nearest hospital (he managed to change clothes in a few minutes. Weeks later when the cancer reached his hand, he was miraculously cured of it, but as a side effect and consequence, half of his affected arm had to be chopped off.
The powerless doctor had to accommodate his death, and took a “leave of absence”, leaving his niece to be in charge and replace him, which the both agreed. One day, he stumbled across a “compass”, which he believed were extraterrestrials, but was left by a dying superhero instead. Lawrence managed to rewire, encode and reprogram the man’s mind into the “compass”. His mind was connected to it, linking both knowledge and history together, lots of things were shown to each other.
As a result, Lawrence decided to spring back into action after 2 years of temporary retirement, and rebuilt his own suit from spare, custom parts. Part of his powers also came back, but not every one of it. Despite keeping the compass, Lawrence figured it was some sort of high tech tool that housed amounts of stuff, and the hero popped up to him in hologram. His words inspired Lawrence to make something more better, giving him courage. But realising his former students were in danger and having big duties, he decided to help them—-and the world.
Powers and abilities: Currently possesses
ESP, high intelligence, telepathic resistance, environment adaptation, atomic manipulation and absorption, generate plasma, alter his molecular structure, control matter, atomic vision, breath, consumption and etc. He is also resistant to nuclear energy and cannot be split, but can reform if need. Absorption of too much energy will not harm him. Despite losing a lot of powers, he has skills in engineering, psychology, survival, knowledge history, philosophy, science, medicine as well as other physical skills. Lawrence is good at observing people, can give great speeches (i.e pep talk), has levels of humour that makes him like a comedian. He does possess some skill in fighting and firearms.
Weaknesses: His fear of cancer returning anytime, his niece, has a need to protect the compass as if he owes it, willing to sacrifice himself for the greater good. Inability to fly and has no access to his lost powers.
Equipment: Only his arms, hand, legs and feet have armour (plus some awesome green socks, it’s his favourite colour), his right arm is robotic and covered by his suit, the torso is mainly a jacket with some protective clothing. Owns some guns, especially a energy one, the “compass”, a jetpack that he developed years ago, reinvented with functions as a backpack and has fuel that never runs out.
Personality: Observant, humorous, calm, independent, persuasive, reflective, somewhat complex.
The center of the pool is sterile due to the extreme temperature. Without any organisms, this area has the deep intrinsic blue colour of water, as the result of water’s absorption of red wavelengths of visible light. The edges of the pool consists of bands of different colours and each band in the “microbial rainbow” represents a mini-ecosystem.
Several pigmented bacteria grow in the microbial mats at different ranges of temperature. In these thermal gradients, or distinct zones of microbial communities adapted to a specific temperature, microbes produce bright colours such as green (chlorophylls) and red (carotenoids). Depending on the amount of sunlight, the temperature of the water changes throughout the year, and may favor one kind of microbe over another. In the summer, the photosynthetic microbes in the mats produce dark red and orange pigments as a form of protection from the intense sunlight. During the winter, the mats appear dark green due to the domination of green photosynthetic pigments.
I could enjoy processing of old data taken just before COVID-19 era.
Hydrogen-alpha 656.3nm red and Oxygen-III 500.7nm greenish blue were dominant here. Bluish reflection of gas was faint but wide, which is usually invisible in imaging with narrow-bad pass filters.
Those colors were not homogeneous due to overlapping dust and gas. Strong hydrogen-alpha red area tends to change into striking color near genuine Red, when it is overlapped by relatively dense brownish dust and gas due to stronger absorption of shorter wavelength light by dust and gas. I love all of those colors.
Here is a frame taken at the same site in Hawaii January 2012:
www.flickr.com/photos/hiroc/7648303232
equipment: Takahashi FSQ-130ED, F3 Reducer 0.6x, and Canon EOS R-sp4II, modified by Seo-san on Takahashi EM-200 Temma 2 Jr, autoguided at a star nearby with Fujinon 1:2.8/75mm C-Mount Lens, Pentax x2 Extender, Starlight Xpress Superstar Autoguider, GPUSB, and PHD2 Guiding
exposure: 3 times x 30 minutes, 4 x 15 min, 4 x 4 min, and 4 x 1 minute at ISO 1,600 and f/3.0
site: 11,000 feet or 3,280m above sea level at lat. 19 32 31 North and long. 155 34 00 West near Mauna Loa Observatory in The Big Island Hawaii
Let’s talk about colour. Snowflakes are not flat, they have volume. That volume allows for air pockets to be trapped in the ice. Given the right thickness of the “bubble” and/or the right thickness of the ice on either side of it, something magical can happen.
Before I continue my rambles, however: the second edition of my macro photography book is out. The publisher just restocked their North American supply, which can be ordered direct: www.routledge.com/Macro-Photography-The-Universe-at-Our-F... - they gave me a special code for 20% off if ordered direct: 25SMA4
Snowflakes don’t possess colour the way we normally see colour: absorption and reflection. A red car is red because it absorbs all colours except red. A snowflake, however, behaves more like a soap bubble, a spot of oil on the ground, or the wings of the Madagascan Sunset Moth, among others. Here we’re talking about “thin film interference”. The colours are created from light interfering with itself inside the crystal through multiple air/ice boundaries, and thickness matters.
There’s fancy calculators and physics for this ( www.sciencecalculators.org/optics/thin-films/ ) but the basics are pretty easy to understand. The speed of light isn’t constant, it changes based on what it is traveling through. Fastest in a vacuum, slower in air, slower further in ice. When light enters ice, it slows down and the trajectory changes. However, not all light enters the ice – a good portion is reflected off the surface. This reflected light never slows down. That’s our baseline.
The light that enters the ice? Some of it will reflect off the inner boundary – where the air pocket is. This light will then travel back up through the ice, and into the air once more. However, it is now “out of sync” with the light that never entered the ice. It was moving slower for a very brief period of time. What happens when the ice is so thin that the resulting beams of light are within a wavelength of each-other? While being out of sync? They interfere with one another, both constructively and destructively.
This means that “white” light (all the colours) will be transformed. How thick the ice is will determine the resulting colours that you see (there’s a chart here that references colours and thickness: soapbubble.fandom.com/wiki/Color_and_Film_Thickness ). Just like any waves (sound, water, light), some interference will cancel things out (destructive), and some will amplify (constructive). This is where the colour in snowflakes come from; the light is shaped by the snowflake itself.
I’ve seen thin film interference everywhere from a cup of Turkish coffee to the meniscus formed around the lid of fountain pen ink. Ever see “Newton’s Rings?” - It’s everywhere if you’re paying attention. Not all snowflakes have the right balance of features to produce it, but when it shows up to the party, it’s always the first thing you notice.
Taken with their father's permission, a brother and sister are absorbed with their play in the city park...
🇫🇷 Dans la lumière douce du matin
Au cœur d'une 🌳pinède 🌳 de la forêt de Fontainebleau🌳, cette scène révèle l'équilibre délicat de cet écosystème. Les pins sylvestres, dominants, créent un sous-étage humide, propice à l’installation de mousses et fougères, comme on le voit ici, où la lumière rasante éclaire le sol encore humide. Cet écosystème est caractérisé par une diversité de micro-habitats créés par les arbres et la variété de la flore qui se développe sous leur ombre. Les pins maritimes, en tant qu'arbres pionniers, sont des agents de structuration de ce milieu et jouent un rôle clé dans l'absorption du CO2 et la régulation de l'humidité.
J'ai capturé cette image en profitant des jeux de lumière et des ombres créées par la position du soleil à l'aube.
🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿 🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿
en A morning in the pine forest
Set in the heart of a 🌳pine forest🌳 in the Fontainebleau forest, this scene reveals the delicate balance of this ecosystem. The dominant pines create a humid understory, conducive to the establishment of mosses and ferns, as seen here, where the low-angled light illuminates the still-moist soil. This ecosystem is characterized by a diversity of micro-habitats created by the trees and the variety of flora that thrives under their shade. Maritime pines, as pioneer trees, are the structuring agents of this environment and play a key role in absorbing CO2 and regulating humidity.
I captured this image taking advantage of the play of light and shadow created by the position of the sun at dawn.
🍀Pin sylvestre / European red pine / Pinus sylvestris🍀
Milieu naturel, écosystème : 🌳pinède🌳
Natural environment, ecosystem: 🌳pine forest🌳
Lieu / Location : Forêt de Fontainebleau / Seine-et-Marne / France
with eyes like glass you look out through a veil of self-absorption. I do that thing where I teeter forward, almost falling, just. And I stop myself from falling into you with an honest laugh. But you look back at me and don't see a thing. The faint incline of the side of your mouth is the most emotionless line across your face, and all the rest read pity.
Stop it. You complain and you rattle when nothing is painful but everything hurts; you're okay.
view on black