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This false-color view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows clouds in Saturn's northern hemisphere. The view was produced by space imaging enthusiast Kevin M. Gill, who also happens to be an engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The view was made using images taken by Cassini's wide-angle camera on July 20, 2016, using a combination of spectral filters sensitive to infrared light at 750, 727 and 619 nanometers.
Filters like these, which are sensitive to absorption and scattering of sunlight by methane in Saturn's atmosphere, have been useful throughout Cassini's mission for determining the structure and depth of cloud features in the atmosphere.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission, click here.
Discovery!
The inaugural voyage of the S.P.I.D.E.R. Drone reveals substantial evidence for life on Mars, but Benny isn't so sure he wants to know much more about these lifeforms!
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The Solar-Powered Interstellar Drone for Extraterrestrial Research (S.P.I.D.E.R.) is finally completed at the 'Moonbase Celebration 50'.
With onboard intelligence, a formidable assortment of tools, and unlimited renewable power, this endlessly useful companion is sometimes referred to as 'GRAMPS' - Giant Robotic Assistant & Mobile Power Station (especially by arachnophobic astronauts).
Future missions will be accompanied by these units, to aid in planetoid habitability investigation and geo/bio research. Manipulator arms, coupled with highly advanced sensors allow this drone to examine samples, move debris, haul equipment, and even carry out rescue operations for astronauts in danger.
Fully capable of traversing uneven terrain, and repelling into crevaces with it's winch, this robotic research assistant can go just about anywhere on atmospheric and non-atmospheric terrestrial landscapes.
Prepare to give Space exploration a leg-up (or six!) and take your celestial crew to a whole new level of awesome adventure with a giant (robot) S.P.I.D.E.R. on board!
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This MOC has been a journey, developing a seamless transition through System and CCBS/Bionicle elements. With adjustable Greebles to simulate actuators. Fully articulated through each leg, the model is stable, poseable, and quite dynamic
The features include: adjustable solar arrays, whiskers, and rear hitches, poseable manipulator arms (3), legs with up to 12+ points of articulation each + working shock absorption, opening hatch to reveal central core, storage for a large assortment of space tools, and a working winch (which can support the full weight of the build).
Watch my video for a hands-on with the features: youtu.be/Q3HC0IzGPfc
Work-In-Progress shots, and more on my Insta @LEGO_stud
Thanks for checking it out, I hope you enjoy it!
P.S. It only has six legs because my wife has a limit to how many legs my robots can have ;) (it's got those arms, though!)
The Cone Nebula
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.
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The "breakthrough" route for Citybus franchised operations which has recently culminated (2023) in the absorption of the New World First franchise in the latest round of renewals, was the 12A, serving the MacDonnell Road area of the Mid-Levels on Hong Kong Island. This precursor to the initial tranche of Network 26 routes won in 1992, commenced the previous year and was operated by air-conditioned Leyland Olympians drawn from the growing fleet of the type being deployed on a range of Resident's Services, cross-border and other contract work. 186, new a few months earlier, is pictured on Des Voeux Road passing Chater Garden in this view from October 1992.
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If you look closely, you'll see the swooshing lines of the car that backed out of the driveway on the left as I was taking this shot. Man, I thought the people in the car were gonna break their necks... swivelling and staring and glaring all suspiciously. They even stopped at one point, turned on their headlights, and pointed them at me for a few long seconds... (this was around 2pm.. not like I was skulking in the darkness; sheesh). I just stood there rolling my eyes, figuring "Oh well, I can always do another exposure after... or IF... they ever freakin' leave."
Turns out I liked this one just fine. Except for the big blob of overexposed fence on the left. That's where they shone their wretched headlights.
(Sometimes I wonder... in a fit of self-absorption.. why the rest of the world can't just FRO and let me shoot in peace.)
Flickr Lounge ~ Relax
Our Daily Challenge ~ Tabletop Photography
Most days I'll work through a Sudoku puzzle. It keeps the 'little grey cells' working and I find the absorption in working out a solution to be quite relaxing.
Thank you to everyone who pauses long enough to look at my photo. Any comments or Faves are very much appreciated.
Photographed in situ.
A common sight here in Australia, enjoying the similar climate to its native range of South Africa.
I wanted to grow this plant, especially to observe the development of these large, dynamic, eye-catching flowers.
But I learned over the years from gardening articles, seeing them in parks and friends who have them in their gardens - that they grow fast and are a nightmare to remove.
So, I have this one plant in a very large pot. A couple of years ago, I re-potted and was intrigued to see the roots. They are large, thick and tuberous looking - adapted for water absorption and storage.
The flowers emerge one at a time from the spathe, consist of three orange sepals and three purplish-blue or white petals. Two of the petals are joined together to form an arrow-like nectary. When the sunbirds sit to drink the nectar, the third petal opens to release the anther and cover their feet in pollen.
One tough, resilient and stunning plant.
The common name 'bird of paradise' is due to the resemblance of the open inflorescence to the display plumage and pose of certain species of bird-of-paradise. (The beak being downward, with wings open above and tail behind, as if in flight and reaching down in to a flower for nectar).
Strelitzia reginae, growing to 2 m or more in height. Leathery leaves up to 80 cm in length and 30 cm wide.
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Poem.
The mercury greys, the tree-lined ebony silhouettes, deep indigo and silver-coated marbling, gleaming, beaming off the cloud-reflected bay-
Dazzles and spell-binds.
That precious God-given ambience of early dawn blinds us but etches blurred images of heavenly proportions to our senses.
The mesmerising light, the near-silent water’s edge only broken by the lilting call of the oyster-catcher or the muffled comments of stirring sailors aboard their dreamy yachts.
These familiar sounds, the salt-laden odours of a near-calm bay and the silent, gentle absorption of the sun’s rays rouses and energises a myriad of life-forms to a glorious new day.
To witness this scene is pure bliss.
To hear, feel and sense it, is almost indescribable.
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“the moment with its absorption being the thing”
ex George Madden Martin, her Made in America (1935) : 22
In addition to being beautiful, lotus is an impressively useful plant. The rhizomes, pips (the lotus version of the pistil?) seeds, stems and leaves are all edible. They can also be used in water treatment, remediating pollution, including sequestration of heavy metals (reductions from 80 to more than 90% has been observed in just one week). Those plants used for water treatment should probably not be eaten. They also soak up excess nitrogen, thereby suppressing algae growth and improving the oxygenation of the water in which they grow.
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aka sacred lotus and Indian lotus
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photographed on my way to the Juneteenth Celebration last month
Really beautiful object catalogued as 881 on the Lynds' Catalogue of Dark Nebulae.
It's one of the jewels that you could find on gamma Cygni nebula, on SADR region of Cygnus, one of my favorites regions of the sky.
"A dark nebula or absorption nebula is a type of interstellar cloud that is so dense that it obscures the visible wavelengths of light from objects behind it, such as background stars and emission or reflection nebulae. The extinction of the light is caused by interstellar dust grains located in the coldest, densest parts of larger molecular clouds." (wiki)
It was necessary to integrate more than 70 hours to show all faint and nice details on the estructure.
Here was captured using the HSO palette, please also check my natural palette on this link:
Technical card
Imaging telescopes or lenses:Teleskop Service TS Photoline 107mm f/6.5 Super-Apo , Altair Astro RC250-TT 10" RC Truss Tube
Imaging cameras:ZWO ASI183MM-Cool , ZWO ASI1600MM-Cool
Mounts:Skywatcher EQ6R Pro , Mesu 200 Mk2
Guiding telescopes or lenses:Celestron OAG Deluxe , Teleskop Service TSOAG9 Off-Axis Guider
Guiding cameras:ZWO ASI174 Mini , ZWO ASI290 Mini
Focal reducers:Riccardi Reducer/Flattener 0.75x , Telescope-Service TS 2" Flattener
Software:Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight , Seqence Generator Pro
Filters:Astrodon O-III 36mm - 5nm , Astrodon S-II 36mm - 5nm , Astrodon R Gen.2 E-series 36mm , Astrodon G Gen.2 E-series 36mm , Astrodon B Gen.2 E-series 36mm , Astrodon HA 36mm - 5nm , Astrodon L Gen.2 E-series 36mm
Accessory:ZWO EFW , MoonLite NiteCrawler WR30 , TALON6 R.O.R , MoonLite CSL 2.5" Focuser with High Res Stepper Motor
Dates:July 21, 2020 , July 22, 2020 , July 25, 2020 , July 26, 2020 , July 28, 2020 , July 29, 2020
Frames:
Astrodon B Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 90x30" (gain: 75.00) -15C bin 1x1
Astrodon G Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 90x30" (gain: 75.00) -15C bin 1x1
Astrodon HA 36mm - 5nm: 205x600" (gain: 200.00) -15C bin 1x1
Astrodon O-III 36mm - 5nm: 110x600" (gain: 183.00) -15C bin 1x1
Astrodon R Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 90x30" (gain: 75.00) -15C bin 1x1
Astrodon S-II 36mm - 5nm: 111x600" (gain: 183.00) -15C bin 1x1
Integration: 73.2 hours
Avg. Moon age: 5.35 days
Avg. Moon phase: 33.86%
Astrometry.net job: 3811511
RA center: 20h 18' 42"
DEC center: +39° 43' 1"
Pixel scale: 1.007 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 90.555 degrees
Field radius: 0.403 degrees
Resolution: 2308x1724
Locations: AAS Montsec, Àger, Lleida, Spain
Data source: Own remote observatory
Remote source: Non-commercial independent facility
Macro of a cut slab of labradorite seems to mimic the deep space images as seen from the various space telescopes. The light entering the feldspar crystals is reflected back out after absorbing all but the colors we observe in the mineral.
Pentax 67II, 105mm F2.4, KODAK PORTRA 400, developed by FRAME*
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For previous generations, the film camera was simply taken for granted. Everyone loaded their cameras, got their films developed and photos printed by photo studios. It was an era when people poured their energy into photography for its own sake.
However, while the number of snapshots has increased due to the spread of digital cameras and mobile phones, I feel that we are gradually losing that experience of absorption in photography itself. Recent cameras have become ever easier for people to use and have a wide variety of functions besides just taking photos. If it becomes no longer necessary even to focus my camera on an object with my own hands, I wonder what the photography of the future will be.
In film photography, you will certainly experience a feeling of excitement while you wait for your photos to develop. Perhaps you fear that you may not have taken the photo skillfully. Therefore, waiting to know if you succeeded or not is inconvenient and troublesome. But this waiting time is necessary. That is to say, it is a stance we take toward photography.
The reason we like film cameras is that film somehow creates an appealing atmosphere. At the same time, however, digital cameras are convenient and have many useful functions. Both approaches are valid are worthwhile. But this is not exactly what I want to talk about here. I do not simply want to revisit the now-familiar debate over film vs. digital photography.
Photography has the potential to capture the amount of time and conscious effort we put into it. It has nothing at all to do with analogue vs. digital methods. It depends on what you want to take pictures of, and what you aim to do. But if you enjoy photography, I may have a hint for how to think of it and spend your time doing it.
Even when we use digital cameras, we may later notice something different if we can just break the habit of looking at the photos as soon as we have taken them. This is neither meant as criticism of digital cameras, nor as praise of film cameras. I just think that we need to take the time to think deeply about the process of taking photos.
When I see decades-old photos which anonymous people took and left behind, I obtain a definite feeling of "something existed there". Today as well, when I release the shutter, I hope to take photos like those.
(Translated by Tetsuro Nohara, Peter McCamus)
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Grendel Rifle, Series 01
The GR-01 is chambered in .50 Grendel as its name suggests. The rail system adds a side charging handle. The original charging handle is replaced with a cover. The stock has a recoil absorption system that acts in conjunction with the weighty rail system to dampen the heavy recoil of the Grendel round. An upside down, Osprey type integral suppressor is included.
based off of this: www.flickr.com/photos/pmguns/8233340781/in/dateposted/
Credit:
~SHC for the color idea
~Matt 0.6 for giving me the inspiration to do non-standard 0.6 colors
Alter Ego: Hope
Name: Callum Hammer
Allegiance: Hero
Powers:
* Super Strength and a mild healing factor
* Can absorb energy and project it from his body via beams he expels from the palms of his hands (he can also do this without energy absorption).
* He can blast the beams from his hands in a unique way which allows him to fly and run fast.
Weapons: None
Key Weakness: He relies quite heavily on his powers in combat, without them he's just a regular teenager.
Origin:
Callum was born with his parents abilities and often used them to flaunt and boast about at school, one day however he was overheard by a criminal working for the villain called "Plague" bragging about how powerful his beams of energy were. He was then abducted by a gang of crooks that took Callum to their underground fight club called "Brawlers" ran by Plague. He was then pinned to fight against other meta humans and was kept captive for weeks as their "Champion" until he broke out and fled. He then decided he'd take down Plague and help fellow meta humans by being a costumed hero calling himself Hope, which was the only thing that got him through Brawlers, hope that he would one day get revenge on Plague and save those still being held captive.
Real Name: Walter "Wally" Larson
Height: 5'10 ft
Weight: 130 lbs
Powers/Abilities: Kinetic Energy Absorption, Radioactive Energy Absorption, Superhuman Durability, able to fire concussive blasts and Flight. (Enhanced Strength and Speed when Kinetic Energy is forced out)
Backstory or Bio or whatever:
Wally Larson always had powers. His parents died at a young age, so he was sent to an orphanage. At the orphanage, he was often bullied. However, he never felt pain. He was punched, kicked, pushed down the stairs, nothing. Maybe a bruise, but that's it. When he reached 15, the kinetic energy in his body filled up and it burst a huge blast the exploded the orphanage and killed over 50 children. He ran away and stole clothing and armor from sporting good stores. He made his armor and fought crime. Now, he has payed off his debt and continues to fight crime to this day.
“He’s a small one,” the blue Piraka muttered.
“Might have to throw him back.”
Volatile, Relentless, Afflicted;
Once an expert marauder renowned for his cunning, everything was torn away from him by the Spear of Fusion – only the beast remained.
Though he retained his harpoon, Impact Vision, power absorption and heightened agility, Vezok now relies on instinct, striking hard and fast with the desperate fury of a wounded animal.
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[ Hakann, the Explosive ] [ old version ]
[ Vezon, the Disaster (Spear) ] [ (Scythe) ]
[ Toa Kongu, the Wrangler ] [ old version ]
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Vezok's (somewhat tragic) backstory gave me lots to work with!
His missing leg, hand, eye and teeth are meant to show physical loss from that incident, while introducing a pirate theme I was happy to double down on!
To distinguish him from the other Piraka I also added a larger tail, horns, and more animalistic proportions befitting 'The Beast'.
More photos are available on my:
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“What’s the matter?” Hakann said, smiling. “Afraid I’ll get rid of you so there’s one less to share the loot with? Actually, come to think of it, that’s not a bad –”
A bolt of energy shot from the point of the spear, striking Vezok. Startled, Hakann dropped the weapon.
Vezok screamed. His body felt like it was being torn in two, reassembled, and then ripped apart again. He fell to the floor in agony. The other Piraka stood and watched, not sure what to do or whether they wanted to be bothered to help.
In the time it takes a heartlight to flash once, it was over.
Vezok lay on the ground, groaning.
And beside him, another being was rising to its feet. He had not been there a second ago, but now he stood and looked down at Vezok with contempt.
“Get up,” he said.
“If I can, you can – after all, I am you and you are me, and won’t that be interesting? Of course, it would be easier if there were just one of us… maybe I should die? No, no, I have that wrong – maybe you should die.”
Vezok’s eyes flared to life. Thok met them and saw immediately that his fellow Piraka had changed.
Gone was the cold intelligence that had kept Vezok alive all these years, replaced by white-hot anger. (...)
Total lunar eclipse in 720nm infrared, nearing moon set, from Westborough, MA, 2022 November 08th. In visible/visual light, the moon here was almost not visible, but the IR absorption of the blue sky darkens the sky and enhances moon to background contrast.
On my trip throughout Africa our team was given an amazing four day holiday in the Ngala National Park in South Africa. It was my first safari and I just couldn’t fathom the silence and the beauty of this massive national park. Those four days disappearing from society and witnessing such breathtaking animals so close was an experience that will never be forgotten.
The southbound DM&E Belle Fourche turn rounds a curve and passes above the city streets of Sturgis, SD on July 10, 2008.
The commodity producing the dust visible in this scene is bentonite. This substance has many industrial usages, including being a bonding agent in the production of taconite pellets, and in sand molds for iron and steel casting. Its absorptive properties are also used in clumping cat litter. This commodity is quarried in northwestern South Dakota, which makes it a major source of the DM&E's traffic.
This sparkling starfield, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys, contains the globular cluster ESO 520-21, a densely packed, roughly spherical collection of stars. The cluster, also known as Palomar 6, lies close to the center of the Milky Way, where interstellar gas and dust absorb starlight and make observations more challenging.
Interstellar absorption affects some wavelengths of light more than others, causing astronomical objects to appear redder than they actually are. This process, called “reddening,” makes it difficult to determine the properties of globular clusters close to the galactic center.
ESO 520-21 lies in the constellation Ophiuchus, near the celestial equator. Ophiuchus was one of the 48 constellations included in the writings of the second-century Egyptian astronomer Ptolemy, all of which are among the 88 constellations officially recognized by the International Astronomical Union today.
Image Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA, R. Cohen
Along the winding paths that wend their way through Trebah Gardens you'll come across the bamboo garden, where the wind plays tunes on the green swaying poles. The dance of dappled light and shadow is entrancing, and soothing, you have to slow down, pause, and absorb the magical world you've stepped into.
For full absorption you have to press 'L'.
The Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33) is a famous, dark absorption nebula in the constellation Orion, located approximately 1,375–1,500 light-years from Earth. Situated just south of Alnitak in Orion's Belt, this dense, cold cloud of gas and dust (roughly 3.5 light-years across) is silhouetted against the bright emission nebula IC 434.
Many species of mushrooms seemingly appear overnight, growing or expanding rapidly. In reality all species of mushrooms take several days to form primordial mushroom fruit bodies, though they do expand rapidly by the absorption of fluids.
from Wikipedia
Nikon D700 + Nikon 105mm f/2.8G AF-S VR + Ring Flash + Handheld.
Messier 29 or M29, also known as NGC 6913 or the Cooling Tower Cluster, is a quite small, bright open cluster of stars just south of the central bright star Gamma Cygni of a northerly zone of the sky, Cygnus. It was discovered by Charles Messier in 1764, and can be seen from Earth by using binoculars. M29 is well within the several degrees of the arms and bulge of the Milky Way. It is at least many hundreds of light years short of the yardstick distance to the Galactic Center, as is between 4,000 and 7,200 light years away. A 1998 popular work gives a value within this range. Data from Gaia EDR3 gives a parallactic distance of about 5,240 light years. The uncertainty is due to poorly known absorption of the cluster's light. Its extinction greatly is from faint surrounding nebulosity and other foreground interstellar matter of this cross-section of the spiral arms (see Orion–Cygnus Arm, which is our local arm).
According to the Sky Catalogue, M29 is included in the Cygnus OB1 association, and the radial velocity component of three-dimensional motion, by default factoring in the solar system's current trajectory, is one of approaching at 28 km/s (noted, thus, as negative). Its age is estimated at 10 million years, as its five hottest stars are all giants of spectral class B0. Kepple and his associates give the apparent brightness of the brightest star as eighth magnitude of in the mid-wavelength (and frequency) "visual" band.
The cluster's absolute magnitude is estimated at −8.2, a luminosity of 160,000 solar luminosities (L☉). The linear diameter was estimated at only 11 light years. Its Trumpler class is III,3,p,n (as it is associated with nebulosity), although Götz gives, differently, II,3,m, and Kepple gives I,2,m,n. The Sky Catalogue lists it with 50 member stars; earlier Becvar estimated 20 members.
North of 47 degrees north, the cluster is for part or all of the day above the horizon. It can be made out in binoculars in a good sky. In telescopes, lowest powers are best. The brightest of its stars form a "stubby dipper", per Mallas. The four brightest stars form a quadrilateral, and another set a small triangle just north of the northernmost of the four. It is often known as the "cooling tower" due to its resemblance to the hyperboloid-shaped structures. A few fainter stars are around them, but the cluster appears quite isolated, especially in smaller telescopes. In photographs, many faint Milky Way background stars appear.
Messier 29 can be found quite easily as it is about 1.7 degrees south of Gamma or 37 Cygni (Sadr). Angularly close, and almost certainly nearby in space, is diffuse nebulosity.
The especially hot binary Wolf–Rayet star WR 143 (WC4+Be) (HD 195177) can be found near this cluster.
CN L550 switches the west end of Aldershot on a muggy, hazy Sunday morning with a trio of GP9Rm's bracketing recent arrival GMTX 2254. CN has leased a number of GP38-2's from GMTX, in part to assist with the absorption of the GEXR (Guelph Sub.) and the SOR back into the CN network in the next couple of months.
The Atacama desert provides one of the purest starry skies on Earth. The sky is so clear and dark that rare phenomena can actually be observed. For example, in this picture taken from Cerro Paranal Observatory (home to the Very Large Telescope), we clearly see two separate sources of natural light:
- The Zodiacal light: a white tilted cone of light which comes from the diffusion of sunlight by dust particles located in space (within the inner orbital plane of the solar system).
- The Airglow: an orange/red veil of light covering almost the whole sky. Airglow is a chemiluminescence process that results in the production of light after UV sunlight interacted with molecules/atoms of the upper layers of the atmosphere. The absorption of UV light by the atmosphere is only temporal and ends by remitting energy under the form of visible light.
This view was taken from Paranal Residencia located about 2 kilometers away from Cerro Paranal which you can spot in the middle of the image: a flat mount on top of which four tiny rectangular domes are installed: they are the four telescopes forming one of the most powerful astronomical infrastructure of the world: the Very Large Telescope or VLT.
TECHNICAL DETAILS
📷 Canon 6D + Sigma Art 14 mm + Standard Tripod
→ Single 20 seconds exposure
→ ISO 6400
→ 14 mm
→ f/1.8
Softwares: Dxo Optics pro 9 for noise reduction / Photoshop/Lightroom for all the edits.
Poem.
The mercury greys, the tree-lined ebony silhouettes, deep indigo and silver-coated marbling, gleaming, beaming off the cloud-reflected bay-
Dazzles and spell-binds.
That precious God-given ambience of early dawn blinds us but etches blurred images of heavenly proportions to our senses.
The mesmerising light, the near-silent water’s edge only broken by the lilting call of the oyster-catcher or the muffled comments of stirring sailors aboard their dreamy yachts.
These familiar sounds, the salt-laden odours of a near-calm bay and the silent, gentle absorption of the sun’s rays rouses and energises a myriad of life-forms to a glorious new day.
To witness this scene is pure bliss.
To hear, feel and sense it, is almost indescribable.
Sunset tonight looking north towards the Tiwis. There seems to be a faint green band going from the top right of the cloud to the left . It is in all the shots I took.
Possibly got something to do with this? I don't know.
optics.kulgun.net/GreenClouds/green_clouds.shtml
........The idea is that water is blue because is absorbed red light. If a thunderstorm contains enough water and is illuminated by sunlight which is reddish because the blue component has been scattered, such as at sunset, then the absorption of red light by the water will result in a green colour.
Multiple curtains of aurora appear along the curving arc of the auroral oval over the boreal forest. This is looking just a little east of due north from the second floor deck of the Churchill Northern Studies Centre, Churchill, Manitoba. Polaris is just left of top centre, with the Big Dipper at right of top centre. A meteor streaks to the left of Polaris. Vega is at lower left as a circumpolar star low in the north. The curtains appear more yellow toward the horizon due to atmospheric absorption. The curtains display the classic green tint with red upper fringes, both from transitions in oxygen.
This is how the Lights usually begin from this latitude under the auroral oval. They will then move up and south from this formation to cover the sky.
This is a 20-second exposure at f/2.8 with the 15mm full-frame fish-eye and Canon 6D at ISO 3200.
Alias: Syphon
Real Name: Vissia Burrows
Gender: Female
Allegiance: Villain
Backstory: The mother of Detonator, and Turbokiller, she's also the arch nemesis of the first Burnout. She starts out as a lowlife thief, knocking over small grocery stores. As time went on, she decided to do bigger crimes. Eventually, she ended up joining Mayhem. Years later, she would have Naomi, who would become the psychotic Turbokiller, along with Nathan, who would become the destructive force known as Detonator.
Edit: So I decided to go with Multi Sharp's idea. While her head definitely does lean itself towards sound, the energy absorption is similar to Turbokiller syphoning energy to survive, and the redirection could be seen as somewhat explosive depending on the size/scale. Also, I do already have a really cool sound manipulator in Siren (I mean it's just one of her many cool abilities.)
Status: Alive and at large. Works for Mayhem.
Sometimes it happens to notice the unusual and magic of this dream world. The shadow has no object. The observer is absorbed in the shadow itself. This is definitely something!
1. Taking pictures a tool (camera), not a photographer.
2. The choice of tool limits the possibilities.
3. Experience allows him (instrument) less and less to limit their capabilities.
4. The ability to see is given only when the observer allows ...
5. The moment of observation is the real find ...
6. Training and mastering it defies. Training leads to poor imitations of the original.
7. Often the result should ripen, like wine. Although time is the understanding of the mind, therefore it is very speculative.
8. The meaning of all this is the process!
9. Let it be!
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The rising Full Moon of June, dubbed the “Strawberry Moon” in the media, as seen rising over a prairie pond in southern Alberta, on June 9, 2017. At right, the glitter path from the Moon also combines on the water.
This illustrates the effect of the Moon brightening and becoming less red/yellow as it rises into clearer air above the horizon, with less atmospheric absorption of the short wavelengths.
This is a composite stack, obviously, of 15 exposures, selected to be about 2.5 minutes apart, from a time-lapse sequence of 1100 frames, with images taken at two second intervals. Shot with the Canon 6D and 200mm lens.
This is the total eclipse of the Moon of March 3, 2026, captured close to the time of the start of totality, or "U2.," with the Moon's southeastern limb still bright near the edge of the umbral shadow. The bright edge shows a band of blue, usually created by ozone absorption in Earth's upper atmosphere.
This was near "second contact" and so is sort of a "lunar diamond ring!"
This was from home in southern Alberta at about 4:04 am MST. The field is 3.8º by 2.5º. The Moon was in Leo and some of the field stars show up though none were bright near the Moon. The brightest is 56 Leonis at left at 6th magnitude.
However, it was about this time that high clouds were moving in from the west beginning to dim the Moon and dull the colours. Thus the glow around the Moon. Eventually the clouds won out and the Moon disappeared before the end of totality.
Technical:
This is a blend of 5 exposures from 1/2-second to 8 seconds, taken in rapid succession with Auto Exposure Bracketing, and blended with luminosity masks. This preserved detail in the bright limb while bringing out the darkened disk. All with the stock Canon R5 at ISO 400 on the Astro-Tech CFT90 refractor at f/6 (for 540mm focal length) with the First Light Optics 1x Flattener, and on the Sky-Watcher EQM-35 mount.
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
Just your average cryogenic superconductors, partially buried underneath the regolith for thermal isolation (and shock absorption in case of a catastrophic containment field failure, though no one will ever official admit to that).
This could be a circular set of 8 but angling the death star sphere in the center would make less sense in that case, and it's more interesting to not go for too much symmetry.
Galactic Archaeology in the Triangulum System (M33) [M33 DAS-2]
Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello
Donatiello, G. (2026). Galactic Archaeology in the Triangulum System (M33) [M33 DAS-2]. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18189610
Triangulum is a dwarf spiral galaxy, believed to be the largest satellite of Andromeda (M31). Due to its morphological characteristics, it can be classified as a low surface brightness (LSB) galaxy, visible at a low inclination angle.
Although considered in scientific literature to be a galaxy free of disturbances due to tidal interactions, upon closer analysis, it exhibits an unmistakable morphology attributable to past events.
According to some less than convincing interpretations, M33 experienced a close passage to M31. This event, dating back between 6 and 8 billion years, is attributed to the evident distortions in the outer arms, particularly the northern one, as well as the subtraction of its family of dwarf satellite galaxies and a significant number of globular clusters.
Kinematic considerations make this scenario unlikely. According to recent models and evidence, Triangulum is instead falling for the first time into the gravitational pull of M31 and, more generally, the Local Group, with little likelihood of future interaction and merger.
The signs of interaction exhibited, demonstrated beyond doubt in this new analysis, are therefore attributable to past minor merger events involving the capture, disruption, and absorption of some of its gas-rich satellites, with evidence of an outflow of ionized hydrogen. The presence of at least three ultrafaint satellite galaxies (Andromeda XXII, Pisces VII, and Triangulum IV) supports this hypothesis.
Note how some of the detected structures perfectly superimpose on the asymmetric neutral gas halo, which has been known for some time.
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Exec Line, Æ-50 "Hard Case"
The Hard Case was developed to give the Æ-50 a more comfortable and easy to use platform. When it comes to engaging wood apes or the like, accuracy and speed is key. The stock incorporates a sophisticated recoil absorption system to make the strong .50 AE recoil more manageable. Unfortunately this system necessitates that the spent casings be ejected from the top. The front end of the kit gives the Æ-50 a muzzle brake to cut down on recoil. A high end, 1,000 lumen flashlight has been built in so you can blind the dirty primates while you blast away. A RDC-2 is included with the package to supplement the iron sights.
MSRP for conversion kit: $800
This is the full PCC conversion kit for the PCC comp
Inspiration comes from everywhere; anywhere. Just over a year ago while engaged in a fateful demolition of a fence Mary Radike Smith posted a picture from a project whose subject was "Home Archeology".
Lamenting the state of the weather, just the other day, Richard Harvey was tossing about the notion of the indoor sport of the still life. Obtuse as it may seem, back in January last year I was waiting for a sonographer and musing about my binoculars. Lo, and behold, what tied this altogether was an almost perfect alignment of absolutely nothing!
Actually, it's probably the weather — about which we all complain, yet do nothing. Six degrees celsius in the UK, minus 12⁰F in the USA and 333⁰K warmer in my garden, ahead of a forecast 30⁰Rø next week, has induced certain responses. Mine was to get around to my bit of Home Archaeology: a pile of stuff dug out of my soil.
Far be it from me to fling about nasturtiums on the former residents of The Estate. But I do wonder — with all of the broken bottles, crockery, and so on in the ground — whether they liked a drink, were just a bit clumsy, or a bit of both; maybe one following the other? Importantly, I had to wait this long to ask these questions because, in this season, the Sun was positioned, just so, as to enlighten this pile.
That mauve coloured object has my attention. It's like a backyard geochronometer. There was a time when small amounts of iron would give a green-cast to clear glass. Someone discovered that adding manganese in its bivalent state would counter the influence of the iron impurity. That process commenced around 1880 and was discontinued about 1915 when the manganese was replaced by selenium; or so the internet says. Roll forward until I dug up this broken neck of a soda bottle. No longer clear, the long exposure of that glass to UV light has oxidised the bivalent manganese to its trivalent or tetravalent state resulting in the colour change. Now we know. If they were a bunch of drunks, it was likely over a century ago, and I have the still life to prove it.
Looks like he is about to loose the viewfinder eye piece.
Ever wondered...Why are most of the telephoto lenses used
in sports and other tele-photography white or light grey?
well it's probably a Canon L series lens.
Some say it helps to reduce heat absorption, and hence heat expansion of the structure of the lens -
But more likely - I think brand recognition is about 1/2 the truth (less heat absorption being the other 1/2).
Nikon has been using black for their telephoto lenses for years. I have never heard any complaint about heat absorption or build-up.
The longest telephoto AF-S Nikkors are available in light grey via special order and Minolta and Olympus have or have had light coloured telephotos while Pentax has a metallic finish on theirs.
A dull day at the Mid Devon show 2021