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This is a comet aligned integration of 10 x 5 minute subs. I was hoping to get the most detail I could out of this image and I think given my small 480/80mm scope, this is about as far as I can push the available data without either too much noise or over smoothing.
I wasnt trying to remove the stars but the comet-centred integration did a fairly good job anyway.
480/80mm refractor with Canon 60Da @ ISO 800.
IPAS LPS D1 filter
Ioptron ZEQ25GT
Guiding from PHD2 (ZWO 290MM/Orion Mini Guider).
QHY Polemaster alignment.
PixInsight 1.8 post processing.
30 dark frames
30 bias frames
57 flat frames (LED panel @ 1/20 sec).
An outtake from a recent series called "Align", which focuses how to align our lives with God's will for our lives.
I attempted to use a Rubik's Cube inside the skull x-ray (where the brain should be) and dress our character in typical 80s fashion (using a queue from the Rubik's Cube) but, the Rubik's Cube was cut off at the top in the x-ray, and piecing together all the elements made it feel too crowded. The x-ray also doesn't perfectly align with his body, so I went a different direction (in the x-ray his arms were at his sides, thus the shoulders don't mesh quite right). But regardless, I think its a sorta cool looking shot -- so here is just the root concept ... though not one that totally works with the theme.
EXA 1b - Domiplan 50 2.8
kodak 200
CanonScan 4200F
ALIGN cafe 2 - 10A Khúc Hạo, Ba Đình
Quán của dân 3D HN . SAI GON dân 3D cũng nên có :)
Hà Nội 1-4-2011
The Sub-Pyrenees consist of a series of parallel mountain ranges aligned in an east-west direction. Their shape is smooth and they are mostly covered with forest. Alta Carrotxa, Catalunya, Spain. _dsc5394_crop
some moments feel more complete than others...
a romantic but fully meaningless notion that has magic written all through it...
Taken with my 50mm ais pancake series e. Manual focused on these feral pigeons and was quick enough to have it focused to avoid something hot that would hit my lens, badly enough my face. Cheers!
Sir Thomas Lipton´s steam yacht Erin photographed at the
America´s Cup in 1899. My colorization of the original
Detroit Publishing Co. image in the Library of Congress archive.
"Built by Scotts Greenock, in 1896 as the screw schooner AEGUSA for I Florio, Palermo. She was powered by a steam engine of 2,500 ihp giving 15.5 knots. In 1898 purchased by Sir Thomas Lipton and renamed Erin for use as a tender for his racing yachts named Shamrock. When war was declared she was used by the Red Cross to Ferry doctors to France and Salonica. Sir Thomas took part himself. On the 3rd July 1915 she was commissioned as HMS AEGUSA and used as a Patrol Vessel in the Mediterranean. On tyhe 28th April 1916 she struck a mine near Malta and sank with the loss of six lives."
(Wrecksite)
The Mitchell Library in Glasgow has a good summary of Lipton and his steam yacht:
"In 1898, Lipton purchased the Clyde-built 1,240 ton steam yacht, Aegusa, which he renamed the Erin. Lipton entertained lavishly on the Erin: "Looking back now it gives me intense satisfaction to recall the many prominent and distinguished people to whom I had the honour of acting as host aboard my floating home". (Lipton, p223)
Among his distinguished guests were King Edward VII, Queen Alexandra, Princess Beatrice and her daughter and "practically every Royal personage in Europe and of illustrious men and women in every walk of life on both sides of the Atlantic". (Lipton, p224)
In 1898 he travelled to the Isle of Wight to be knighted by the Queen. He became a baronet in 1902. Perhaps the greatest honour, however, was to be given the Freedom of Glasgow in 1923.
Sir Thomas, as a friend of Edward VII, found himself mixing with the cream of Edwardian society. He was a frequent guest at Buckingham Palace and Balmoral. At Cowes he was entertained on the royal yacht Victoria and Albert and in return he arranged cruises and parties on board the Erin. Ascot, the Cowes regattas, Christmas on the Riviera, royal parties at Sandringham, visits to Ceylon and the United States filled his social year.
His popularity in America increased with every visit. He mixed with everyone from Wall St to Washington, from New York Yacht Club to Hollywood. He dined at the White House and entertained President Roosevelt on board the Erin.
Lipton was wealthy, good-looking and affable and therefore particularly eligible. He was a "ladies man and an adept flirt" (Crampsey, p66) and there was never a shortage of the company of ladies. The newspapers, on both sides of the Atlantic, would take a "friendly curiosity" (Crampsey, p66) in his marital state but he remained unmarried all his life."
Here is how the BBC describes Lipton and Erin:
"A century before the likes of Richard Branson, Steve Jobs and Elon Musk, Lipton had pioneered the idea of the brand built around an individual.
His face, sporting a yachtsman’s cap, featured on much of his company’s packaging, says food historian Judith Krall-Russo
“Women would like to have photos with him. That was the thing – ‘Oh I have a photo with Thomas Lipton’. It was like Elvis Presley, that’s what it was like, he was a celebrity. People came aligned with him and they would want to buy that brand.”
The visitor book of Lipton’s luxury steam yacht Erin reads like an early 20th Century Who’s Who.
President Roosevelt, Kaiser Wilhelm, the scientists Edison and Marconi.
It is said he banned all talk of religion or politics while on board.
He challenged again for the America’s Cup in 1901 and 1903 with new yachts, Shamrock II and III – again without success.
War delayed a planned 1914 challenge. He equipped Erin as a hospital ship and gave her over to the Red Cross. The following year she was sunk by a German submarine.
“He says very publicly on a number of occasions, I would give it all back, I would give everything back if I could save any of those who served on that ship,” says Laurence Brady.
Lipton was to make two more bids for the America’s Cup – coming tantalisingly close to success in 1920 but “that auld mug”, as he called the trophy, always eluded him.
But the good grace with which he accepted defeat earned him goodwill and admiration across America."
Chaco Culture National Historical Park - New Mexico - View of Fajada Butte from Pueblo Bonito View On Black
According to Chacoan history, during the middle and late 800s, the great houses of Pueblo Bonito, Una Vida, and Peñasco Blanco were constructed, followed by Hungo Pavi, Chetro Ketl, Pueblo Alto, and others. These structures were often oriented to solar, lunar, and cardinal directions. Lines of sight between the great houses allowed communication. Sophisticated astronomical markers, communication features, water control devices, and formal earthen mounds surrounded them. The buildings were placed within a landscape surrounded by sacred mountains, mesas, and shrines that still have deep spiritual meaning for their descendants.
Have a great Sunday.....off to a Native American & Ethnographic Show at one of our local convention centers :-)
Melbourne has sufccesful managed to keep its old buildings while having a brand new moderne design around it.
Shot with a Pentax LX
SMC Pentax-A 100mm f/2.8 macro lens
Lomochrome Purple film
Shot at EI 400
Developed by The Darkroom
Scanned with a Super Coolscan 5000ED
Leica CL • Nokton Classic 35mm F1.4 VM
Ilford Pan 400 @200 film developed in Caffenol CL 60min @20°C
Scanned with Plustek OpticFilm 120 at 3200dpi with Silverfast AI Studio
Gipsweieren • Bridel • Luxembourg
Caffenol CL
500 ml Filtered Water
8gr Anhydrous Washing Soda
5gr Vitamin C
0.5gr KBr
20gr Instant coffee ("Cora")
60 sec. slow agitations then let stand for 59 minutes
flamands roses, étang de Bolmon, canal de Marseille au Rhône, Châteauneuf les Martigues, Bouches du Rhône
This resident school of Striped large eye Bream (Gnathodentex aureolineatus) seems to be enjoying photographers.
- www.kevin-palmer.com - It was a very warm night for February, with scattered clouds and temperatures above freezing. After finding this stack of rocks, I went back and shot the moon through the gap.