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I've spent the last couple of nights (like everyone else) trying to photograph the comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas over Sedona's landscape. Clouds have been a nemesis and the nearly full moon has been doing its best trying to wash it out. Nevertheless, I liked this scene of it lurking over Cathedral Rock. It's almost like a daytime shot with the strength of the supermoon lighting the landscape!
Apsaras at Angkor Wat.
Apsara, celestial dancing girls, are beautiful, supernatural female beings. They are youthful and elegant: some stories tells that they were often used by the gods as agents to persuade or seduce mythological demons, heroes and ascetics.
I love the elegance in the movements, so feminine and powerful at the same time.
The Ballin ceiling mural celebrates classical celestial mythology, with images of Atlas, the four winds, the planets as gods, and the twelve constellations of the zodiac.
This photo was taken by a Kowa/SIX medium format film camera and a KOWA 1:3.5/55mm lens with a Kowa L1A ø67 filter using Kodak Portra 800 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.
Mixed media photomanipulation combining a rose macro, an abstract acrylic texture, and a galactic space background.
Credits to ESA/Hubble for generously providing the beautiful space image under a Creative Commons license, more specifically: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
I would also like to thank artist Lara Mukahirn for hand painting the acrylic texture elements as a personal commission, and granting me permission to publish this resulting image.
This photo is offered under a standard Creative Commons License - Attribution 3.0 Unported. It gives you a lot of freedom to use my work commercially as long as you credit and link back to this image on my Flickr page.
Flickr resolution: 1800 x 1200 px
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Due to the effects of Ragnablok, Celic has reached ascention. With his new power he leads the Starry Knights Order with new found passion.
The Rosette Nebula (Caldwell 49) and its central star cluster (NGC 2244) are located 5000 light-years away from Earth and are situated in the constellation Monoceros. This immense star-forming region spans 130 light-years and emits a reddish glow due to hydrogen light. This images represents 2.8 hour total exposure using a RASA 8 telescope and ASI2600 MC Pro camera from a Bortle 1 site.
Towards the end of the little Auroral flare up I was privileged to catch on the morning of Nov. 20, west of Whitehorse. Here the color and structural detail of the Lights are a bit muted by layers of high clouds ... They must have actually been quite bright to shine through the cloud cover as well as they did. Praktica VLC3, Pentacon 50mm f1.8, Konica Centuria 800 film. (25 sec.)
What an incredibly clear night last night, and about time too. This image is a stack of 60 x 1 minute tracked exposures of the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex above the iconic Stonehenge monument. Massive thank you to the security guard who was kind enough to stand in the middle of the stones and do a 360 spin with his torch to light up the inside of the monument for me, what a good sport!
I couldn’t help but think of Alyn Wallace as l stood beneath the stars last night. It’s hard to believe it’s been almost a year since his passing. Even in his absence, his YouTube videos and his book, Photographing the Night Sky, remain an invaluable source of inspiration and knowledge. Many of the techniques I used to create this image, I learned from him. I dedicate this photo to his memory.
Equipment & Settings:
Sky:
Canon RP (Astro Modified)
Canon RF 24-70mm f2.8L
Hoya Starscape Filter
Star Focus Filter
Move Shoot Move Nomad Star Tracker
60 x stacked exposures at f4, ISO 640, 60 secs.
Foreground:
Canon R6 Mark II
Canon RF 24-70mm f2.8L
Single Exposure f2.8, ISO 2500, 15 secs.
I knew this astronomical event was going to happen earlier this week but then I saw the weather report and there was snow on the way. Snow means clouds. I didn't expect to get this shot but it cleared up long enough for me to get 4 frames and then the cloud cover came in.
Such a cool thing to see. The sliver of a crescent moon at 238,900 miles from earth, Venus at 26 million miles, yes MILLION!!, and the red planet of Mars at 140 million miles. 140??? Million? That' crazy trying to wrap my mind around the thought of being able to see anything that far away. Truly mind boggling!!
Have a great weekend everyone :-)
Final shot of the day on our way down from the top of Larch Mountain, Oregon. I would have loved to stay until sunset, but time was a'ticking and we had to hit the road. Another day perhaps.
This is how Umbellifers look on Neptune. If you doubt me, just look up some images of this beautiful looking planet.
Interesting fact- Neptune takes 164 years to travel around the sun, so each season lasts about 41 years. So for those who got fed up with me complaining about our ‘long winter’ this year- just think, you got off quite lightly really!!
Happy Umbellifer Wednesday :)
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