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Explored May 11, 2009 #364
Late Night along Sanibel Island's beach... Ft. Myers in the distance.. and a much larger version of that little curly white icing found on top of Hostess' Cupcakes along the shoreline.. at least that's what it reminded me of...
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Conan: Have you ever had Fruity Pebbles? Once that stuff hits milk, it turns into a narcotic!
--"Late Night with Conan O'Brien" (NBC)
Baby Brachiosaurus nodding, blinking and uttering little roars outside the Queensland Museum. He was 10 metres high and weighed 1.3 tonnes.
Brachiosauruses roamed North America during the Jurassic period and were one of the largest dinosaurs to have ever existed. Fully grown, they weighed up to 45 tonnes, measured up to 26 metres in length and ate between 200 and 400 kilograms of plants a day.
A serene picture of a dark brown duck with yellow eyes swimming in a small lake on a frosty morning. The water is calm and still, with small ripples forming as the duck paddles its way through the lake. The surrounding environment is covered in a thin layer of frost, with the grass and trees glistening in the morning light. The air is crisp and cold, with a light fog hovering over the lake's surface. The duck seems to be enjoying its peaceful swim.
After successfully capturing a fish, nicely tucked away under the tail feathers, this mature bald eagle flies by on its way to a branch for a feast. In the animal kingdom the eagle eye is among the strongest, able to spot a rabbit at just over 3 km. It looks like the eagle is blinking in this photo.
Taken 13 November 2016 at Conowingo Dam in Maryland.
Actual subject is the curious house from 1900 that is on the back half of a subdivided parcel. I'm guessing it was moved at some point.
Owls have 3 eyelids. Upper closes when the owl blinks. A lower that closes when it is sleeping and a diagonal nictitating that allows the owl to see while protecting and moistening the eye.
If you see some lights blinking at night on the beach, come to say hi! One second #lightpainting with instagram.com/kimhenry.dance. Fully explained in ericpareLearn.com
This model contains official, blinking LEGO lights - you can view a slideshow with the complete set of photographs, video and music by Vangelis here!
This is my version of the ever-popular Syd Mead designed futuristic aerodyne that is the Spinner, from the sci-fi classic Blade Runner. I wanted to make it as accurate as possible while deviating from the palette of elements I'm comfortable building with; therefore, the forward wheel housing is built with TECHNIC figure helmets, and the back contains four working, blinking, official LEGO lights!
You can also view the complete set of photographs at Brickshelf once moderated.
Similar view to the last but in colour and he's looking this way, he seems to have his eyes shut or he was blinking... the sun was low but still very bright.
Canon EOS 550D EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS
ƒ/5.6 250.0 mm 1/400 ISO 200
September 27, 2011.
We always forget to see feel the magic in the smallest things.
The blinking of water bokeh as the slightest movement causes a ripple in the waves; the way a strand of hair manages to dance ever so gracefully in the wind; the most basic 'Thank you', that could make a service staff's day one hundred times better.
It is of course easier to see the bigger picture, to look forward to the end result, to forget all the details and just throw away the tiny things that don't seem to matter.
But they do matter. Even the most insignificant dust specks floating in the air are important. The splash of the tiniest water droplet. The beating of a butterfly's delicate wings as it glides away from your outstretched hand. All small things, that help to build up a much bigger, obvious scene.
So please don't forget. Remember them. Remember how they're part of life. How they're the careful touches on a otherwise carelessly constructed world. How much you need them to be there. Remember.
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Awarded Picture of the Day by the Gruppo Astrofili Galileo Galilei (GrAG) apod.grag.org/2020/08/24/ngc-6826-the-blinking-planetary/
NGC 6826 is known as The Blinking Planetary. This stems from the faintness of the outer shell which is only visible when using averted vision. It is also known as Caldwell 15. With this image I wanted to tease out the structure of the shell, by combining both Ha and OIII data. The OIII signal is the stronger of the two, hence the resulting teal colour.
Captured on my dual rig in Spain.
Scopes: APM TMB LZOS 152 Refractors
Cameras: QSI6120wsg8
Mount: 10Micron GM2000 HPS
Ha 15x1800"
OIII 178x20, 20x1800, 120x30, 12x600
Blue 9x300"
Green 16x300"
Lum 20x300"
Red 20x300"
Total Integration: 37.3 hours
Data acquisition: Hubble Legacy Archive, NASA
Data processing: Rudy Pohl
Explanation: The colorful planetary nebula phase of a sun-like star's life is brief. Almost in the "blink of an eye" - cosmically speaking - the star's outer layers are cast off, forming an expanding emission nebula. This nebula lasts perhaps 10 thousand years compared to a 10 billion year stellar life span. Spectacular planetary nebulae are familiar objects to both professional and amateur astronomers, but they still contain a few surprises. For instance, the lovely nebula NGC 6826, also known as the Blinking Eye Nebula, has mysterious red FLIERS seen on either side of the Hubble Space Telescope image above. Are they also expanding outward from the central star? If so, their "bow shocks" point in the wrong direction! Quoted from NASA's Astronomy Photography fo the Day website.
What is a planetary nebula?
A planetary nebula is created when a star blows off its outer layers after it has run out of fuel to burn. These outer layers of gas expand into space, forming a nebula which is often the shape of a ring or bubble. About 200 years ago, William Herschel called these spherical clouds planetary nebulae because they were round like the planets. At the center of a planetary nebula, the glowing, left-over central part of the star from which it came can usually still be seen.
NGC 6826's eye-like appearance is marred by two sets of blood-red "fliers" that lie horizontally across the image. The surrounding faint green "white" of the eye is believed to be gas that made up almost half of the star's mass for most of its life. The hot remnant star (in the center of the green oval) drives a fast wind into older material, forming a hot interior bubble which pushes the older gas ahead of it to form a bright rim. (The star is one of the brightest stars in any planetary.) NGC 6826 is 2,200 light- years away in the constellation Cygnus. The Hubble telescope observation was taken Jan. 27, 1996 with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2.
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“I took to the Bodleian library as to a lover and ... would sit long hours in Bodley's arms to emerge, blinking and dazed with the smell and feel of all those books.”
Laurie R. King, The Beekeeper's Apprentice
Laurie R. King is a writer and American author that is best known by fans for her detective fiction.
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I was lucky enough to have had access to the Bodleian libary for 2 years while I studied at Oxford and before that my sister use to work there.
2 Live Composite exposures - see first comment below - comprising a total of 43 1sec exposures, combined in Photoshop (see tags for more processing hints). Portland, Oregon OM1314,16LC - Happy Sliders Sunday!