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Blossom is starting to appear on some of the trees in our back yard. Spring should be here, but it definitely feels like winter still ... Taken with a vintage Soviet Helios 44-2 58mm lens coupled to my DSLR.
While searching through Google maps looking for a good object facing north for a star trails composition. It dawned on me, I have something in my very own back-garden that not only points north, with an accurate polar alignment it points true north. So out I went and this is the result. I still wanted the use of my telescope being a very clear night with good seeing. So I light painted the scope, took 3 images. Then moved the camera back and up, centred Polaris and took a further 150x 60sec images for the star trails. I then combined the 2 in Photoshop. I thought it represents perfectly the work of an equatorial mount, and what it’s designed to do. Taken with a Canon 6D and Samyang 135 f2 lens @ f2.8
The Planetary Conjunction is on its way next week, but last night was also a great show with the crescent moon and the planets Jupiter and Saturn being so close in the night sky that I could get them all in the same frame.
This is the crescent moon aligned with the top of Sea World's 320 foot aerial tower that gets all lit up for the holidays and the two planets of Jupiter and Saturn in the upper right corner.
With a shady slide under my belt I felt I needed to get back to some serious sliding - this subject seems to fit quite nicely!! They seem to like the Black Eyed Susan Flowers and were aligned upside down along the stem.
For Sliders Sunday - HSS!
There were no photo, last week. Not that I didn't take any, but I decided to test the Kodak Ektar film. So I won't have them back until I get them developped. Regarding this week, "framed" would probably be a better theme. However this will do! Also, this was the occasion to test my new camera...full frame, at last !!
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Street light, waxing crescent Moon and Venus
Slight distortion due to being hand held and with minimal processing
Not my tidiest work. The Moon was pretty bright and Venus wasn't visible until well into the dawn. I couldn't see Mercury at all, but it's hiding in the sunlight below Venus.
This is the exact "Triple lignment" example with Super Blue Moon 2024.
From this particular Thread & Needle Spot, the Trans-America Pyramid Building Tip can be seen sitting inside the North Tower of Iconic Golden Gate Bridge. According to PlanIt App, there are only 4 times in 10 years that Full Moon cab be appeared to be link with the North Tower of the Bridge. 8/18/2024 was the 1st one in the next 10 years.
We were so lucky to have a clear sky when the supermoon was rising right at sunset. So this image can be taken in one shot with one expose.
Timelapse of this moonrise: youtu.be/XbnnCTpm6cM
Planetary alignment in the dawn of June 24, 2022. Mercury (as expected) is lost in the twilight (even if, with a lot of imagination and a little good will, one might see a tiny dot of light in the right place in the original RAW files), the rest of the planets are visible "in the correct order", i.e. corresponding to the actual distance from the Sun. The Moon (with visible Earthsine!) represents the Earth-Moon-system in this row: Mercury (Merkur) - Venus - Moon (Mond) - Mars - Jupiter - Saturn.
CURIOUS ALIGNMENTS (C)
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That time of year when the sun sets perfectly behind Wembley Stadium from my favourite vantage point across Brent Reservoir. One of those sunsets that just kept getting better
Looking up at the sun coming through the trees. Cropped and digitally mirrored so the sun and trees appear to be looking back.
Another visit to Torbay and so I couldn't help myself but to go for another Alignment shot. This time, I got lucky with a thin slot or sky on the horizon (and not coming a cropper on the rock face I had to clamber across and perch on to get this).
A view down the Wisconsin below the Grandfather dam. Water is very low and the recent ice is breaking up. I wish it was foggier, but I didn't get my butt in gear early enough.
Jupiter, Saturn and Venus lining up in the evening sky above the Tihany peninsula (Lake Balaton, Hungary)
- www.kevin-palmer.com - The two brightest objects in the night sky appear side by side in front of the milky way in a rare alignment. Venus is the blue object, and the yellow object is the moon. Even though the moon was only an 8% crescent, it was brighter than Venus. The band of yellow along the horizon is from the last colors of twilight before it was completely dark. This incredible sky is framed over the Colorado River in Utah. The 2000 foot deep canyon is part of Canyonlands National Park. But this view was actually shot from the edge of a cliff at Dead Horse Point State Park.
To get this shot I combined 2 exposures. The canyon was shot at 8 minutes, f/4, iso 1600. The sky was a 4 minute, f/5.6, iso 1600 exposure. I used an iOptron Skytracker to track the stars for a longer exposure.
March 18, 2023 - Angel's Gate Lighthouse in San Pedro, CA with Waning Crescent Moonrise Alignment at 5:30 AM. Photo Shoot with Ryan Torres, Mario Duque, John Willsund, and Terry Dunlap.
White, red, and now yellow and GitD opaque make a nice little team. It would be awesome to find a torso, they're surely out there.
With the Sun having risen in all its glory, an interesting play of light and shadow sets up across the vast, perfectly flat expanse of a flooded Badwater. Before us, the more than two mile high wall of the Panamint Range abruptly rises on the western side from alluvial fans to sheer mountain cliffs coated by recent snow. 11,049 foot tall Telescope Peak takes center stage here glistening in the sun. And a comparatively very short distance behind this photographer the Black Mountains rise even more abruptly more than a mile high. While the Sun has traveled all the way down the face of the Panamints, the vast saltwater lake here remains in shadow from the Black Mountains. As a result the salty water is reflecting nothing but deep blue sky and the salty ridges that stick up remain dark. By chance I found myself presented with an uncanny alignment of a salt ridge that very closely echoes the profile of the Panamint Mountain reflection. The dark, shadowed salty mud traces the contour pretty well, complete with a dip to account for Telescope Peak's tallest reflection.