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"There is no reason good enough for us to ever be out of alignment with Peace, and there is no reason good enough for us to ever be out of alignment with Love."
~ Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace
About as autumn-y as it gets, a memory from a couple of weeks ago in the Alps. I knew about this waterfall being located on the way to the mountains and during the week I spent camping in the area I didn't have much interest in shooting it, but on the very last morning, when leaving the fog covered valley, I couldn't pass up the opportunity to pay this place a short visit and snap this image.
This is a panorama along about 60° of the northern summer Milky Way from Cepheus at left, to Cygnus at centre and at right. It frames the great variety of bright and dark nebulas in this region of the sky, notably:
- the circular IC 1396 nebula at left in Cepheus with the orange Garnet Star,
- the North America Nebula (NGC 7000) just left of centre,
- and the IC 1318 complex around Gamma Cygni just right of centre.
The dark Funnel Cloud Nebula, aka Le Gentil 3, is at left between IC 1396 and NGC 7000, while the dark region to the right (south) of NGC 7000 is the Northern Coal Sack, though to the eye, as here, that area does not appear as dark as the Funnel Cloud area.
The bright Cygnus Starcloud is right of centre, where we are looking down the Milky Way's spiral arm we live in. It is bordered below by the Cygnus Rift of dark lanes in the Milky Way which continue south into Aquila.
The small (on this scale) Wizard Nebula (NGC 7380) and Lion Nebula (Sh2-132) are at far left in Cepheus.
The small round red Cocoon Nebula, IC 5146, is at the end of a thin lane of dark dust, B168, or the Dark Cigar, at bottom left, while the tiny green Dumbbell Nebula, M27 in Vulpecula, is just visible at bottom right.
This is a stitch using Photoshop's Photomerge function of 10 segments, each segment a stack of 8 to 10 exposures of 1-minute each with the Canon RF135mm lens at f/2 on the red-sensitive Canon Ra camera at ISO 800. All on the Star Adventurer tracker.
The camera was turned to portrait orientation to align the long dimension of the frame across the width of the Milky Way for greater east-west coverage. This required moving the camera by only 5° from segment to segment to ensure enough overlap. I used a ball head with an additional panorama azimuth motion with degree gradations on it to faciliate panning along the Milky Way following the galactic equator using just one simple motion.
The lens had an 82mm URTH Night broadband light pollution reduction filter on it to help increase contrast and bring out the nebulas. No narrowband filters were used here. Even so, most of the contrast enhancement was in processing with the application of a Nik Collection 6 Pro Contrast filter, plus curves with luminosity masks, and a Nebula Filter action in PhotoKemi Startools actions.
Taken from home on a fine though not fully transparent night on May 14/15, 2023 when the time for shooting this area was limited due to the short spring night. Two more segments shot to the right farther down the Milky Way were too blue and struck by dawn twilight to be usable.
Every day in Rodi Garganico, Apulien Italy, I am admiring on daily basis, amazing sunsets.
I suppose that, (by waking up earlier), I would admire great sunrise too in the Sunrise Beach...
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She sat alone behind the glass, mid-sentence, mid-thought — mid-something I’ll never fully know.
The gesture could’ve meant anything: surprise, a sudden memory, an unsent kiss. The moment was gone as quickly as it appeared, but for a fraction of a second, everything aligned — her gaze, the reflection, the pause in the air.
It’s not a sharp photo, technically. But that’s part of its truth. Some moments don’t come in focus — they arrive in a blur, in a rush, in the hush between words.
And sometimes, that’s when they feel most real.
Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mk.II
M.Zuiko 45mm/f1.8
A series of photos from a bimble over Loweswater Fell in the English Lake District on a lovely early autumn day in 2023.
'Aligned'
The Milky Way stands vertically over some Tafoni Sandstone structures on the California coast. The stoney lines and honeycomb structures repeat the starry band and dust lanes in the sky. They stretch out and almost touch each other, but remain separated by the turbulent and ominously dark waters of the Pacific Ocean.
EXIF
Canon EOS-R, astro-modified by Richard Galli from EOS 4Astro
Tamron SP 15-30mm f/2.8
IDAS NBZ filter
iOptron SkyTracker Pro
Low Level Lighting
Sky:
Stack of 5x 90s @ ISO1600, unfiltered & 3x 150s @ ISO6400, filtered
Foreground:
Focus stack of 6x 2s @ISO400 during twilight
These canon and many others on the battlefield are aligned as they were on July 3, 1863
Please see the Vacation set for a better look
This tapered cotter pin arrangement fastens the single hand of my chamber clock to the main drive shaft. The dial behind the hand is used to set the alarm time by aligning it with the short spike on the hand. The clock was made in Halesworth, Suffolk in the early 1700s and may well have been in my family for the whole of its life. If only it could talk!
Sunspot AR 3100 in the Sun's Chromosphere
H-alpha image of the Sun using a ZWO ASI 174MM Camera and a Daystar Quark Combo Chromosphere H-alpha filter with a Questar 3.5 50.5-inch focal length Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope. Best 50 of 500 frames were captured with SharpCap 2.9 and aligned and stacked using Autostakkert! 2 with wavelets applied in Registax 6.
The Skin i Amazing. Her name is Luna. Out now inworld at Diamond Beauty. lmk: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Purple%20Hills/240/28/22
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I am not a religious person, but I do have many beliefs and wishes that align with those who are. Above all else, as we come towards the end of another year the international news seems once more to be dominated by aggression and dispute. If only as a world we could learn to live along side one and other. My hope for the New Year is just that, we can somehow see an end to war, violence famine and all manner of hostility..
The image used here was taken inside the Gergeti Trinity Church which is located 7,000 feet up in the Caucasus Mountains. The church dates back to the 14th century.
Due to its isolated position, perched high up in the mountains above the Georgian border town of Stepantsminda, the Gergeti Trinity Church has become a national symbol. Of equal beauty to the location of the church is its lovely and colourful 14th century interior. One small corner of which can be seen here.
During Soviet times religious services at this church were banned but it remained effectively a museum piece. Since the countries independence of 1991 services have once again been reinstated. Of course Georgia is a country that appears once more to be embroiled in political upheaval, so my thoughts are particularly relevant to that nation.
I would also like to take this opportunity to specifically wish all those who have followed my Flickr stream over the past year a healthy and prosperous year ahead. Thank you once more for your interest in my postings.