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I awoke this morning, got out of bed and brushed my teeth. I got in the shower, dried myself off and combed my hair. I got dressed in clothes that were unfamiliar.
I went downstairs and grabbed some orange juice. I nearly choked on the rotten pulp. No expiration date.
I grabbed my keys and headed for the front door. Outside the sky was grey and there weren't any colors. No birds. No wind. Just the emptiness of winter.
And then I saw the taxi waiting for me. Idiling roughly, fenders eaten through. A black shrouded figure sitting behind the wheel. The door swung open with a creak as I approached. The faint smell of sulfur. I climbed in, hearing the suspension groan with my weight. Reached out, grabbed the shredded arm rest, pulled the door closed.
We slowly rolled forward up the driveway. There was a thick low fog. We drove for what seemed like hours. I dozed off.
I awoke as the taxi came to a slow halt. A blinking red light emerged from the fog. At a crossroad. We sat there in silence. Finally, the driver put on his directional. A clicking green arrow to the right. We turned.
More fog and straight road. Up ahead the tall gothic spires of an iron bridge rising. More taxis with black shadows. We fall into line, crossing the bridge. Looking down through the fog hands reaching from the black water towards the sky. Pieces of the bridge flaking off from the vibration.
We cross the bridge and come to an arched stone booth. Gargoyles and demons look down from the crennalations. We come to a stop and the taxi inches forward until my window is even with the booth. I reach over and roll it down. It gets half way and the handle breaks. A pale white hand reaches from the darkness, palm up.
Frantically I search my pockets. No change.
I wake up.
ENTERING THE LAST STRETCH!!
6 Hours, 19 Minutes & 196,873 Miles (318,836 Km) left until the New Horizons probe makes its closest approach with Pluto!
Check this out!! NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration posted newer photos of Pluto and it's largest moon, Charon!!
I again took these images, edited them and this time laid them together showing their orbital paths! The image ended up being so large that I used my Flickr online albums to host the photo. Check it out at full resolution to get all the awesomeness!!
Enjoy!!
Charon's Garden Wilderness area is in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. Pretty rough trails along with slick rock.
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope had previously discovered two small moons — Nix and Hydra — orbiting Pluto alongside its larger moon Charon. They would add two more in 2011 and 2012, bringing the icy dwarf planet's total number of moons to five.
Astronomers using Hubble to research the Pluto system in advance of 2015's New Horizons flyby found two objects, P4 in 2011 and P5 in 2012. The two moons would later be renamed Kerberos and Styx, respectively. This image is annotated to show the orbits of Pluto's more recently discovered moons. P5 is circled.
The dwarf planet’s entire moon system is believed to have formed by a collision between Pluto and another planet-sized body early in the history of the solar system. The smashup flung material that coalesced into the family of moons observed around Pluto.
For more information, visit: hubblesite.org/news_release/news/2012-32
Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Showalter (SETI Institute)
Pluto and Charon in False Color Show Compositional Diversity
This July 13, 2015, image of Pluto and Charon is presented in false colors to make differences in surface material and features easy to see. It was obtained by the Ralph instrument on NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, using three filters to obtain color information, which is exaggerated in the image. These are not the actual colors of Pluto and Charon, and the apparent distance between the two bodies has been reduced for this side-by-side view.
The image reveals that the bright heart-shaped region of Pluto includes areas that differ in color characteristics. The western lobe, shaped like an ice-cream cone, appears peach color in this image. A mottled area on the right (east) appears bluish. Even within Pluto's northern polar cap, in the upper part of the image, various shades of yellow-orange indicate subtle compositional differences.
The surface of Charon is viewed using the same exaggerated color. The red on the dark northern polar cap of Charon is attributed to hydrocarbon materials including a class of chemical compounds called tholins. The mottled colors at lower latitudes point to the diversity of terrains on Charon.
This image was captured at 3:38 a.m. EDT on July 13, one day before New Horizon's closest approach to Pluto. Photo Credit: (NASA/APL/SwRI)
© Ludovic Macioszczyk
You can listen and buy their first LP "Time Traveller" on Gonzaï Records here:
gonzairecords.com/album/time-traveller
You can order the LP "Time Traveller" here:
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Lomo LC-A+ - Colorsplash Flash - 135 Agfa Precisa 100 ISO - Cross Processed
© Ludovic Macioszczyk
You can listen and buy their first LP "Time Traveller" on Gonzaï Records here:
gonzairecords.com/album/time-traveller
You can order the LP "Time Traveller" here:
lesnuitsdepleinelune.bandcamp.com/releases
And follow them:
Novembre 2016.
Canon AE-1 - Colorsplash Flash - 135 Kodak Ektar 100 ISO
The conductor’s hands were black with money:
Hold on to your ticket, he said, the inspector’s
Mind is black with suspicion, and hold on to
That dissolving map. We moved through London,
We could see the pigeons through the glass but failed
To hear their rumours of wars, we could see
The lost dog barking but never knew
That his bark was as shrill as a cock crowing,
We just jogged on, at each request
Stop there was a crowd of aggressively vacant
Faces, we just jogged on, eternity
Gave itself airs in revolving lights
And then we came to the Thames and all
The bridges were down, the further shore
Was lost in fog, so we asked the conductor
What we should do. He said: Take the ferry
Faute de mieux. We flicked the flashlight
And there was the ferryman just as Virgil
And Dante had seen him. He looked at us coldly
And his eyes were dead and his hands on the oar
Were black with obols and varicose veins
Marbled his calves and he said to us coldly:
If you want to die you will have to pay for it.
Magnificent calyx-krater decorated with a figure representing the main iconographic model of the Etruscan daemon of death, Charun. The name of Charu or Charun, as he is known since the 4th century BC, is related to the Greek daemon Charon, the boatman who for few coins, "obólos", carried the dead across the river Acheron or the Styx lagoon.
His hooked nose is exceptionally sharp; the eyes are deeply sunken; the eyebrows thick and bushy; the beard is curly and thick; the black hair decorated with a wreath falls in strands on the neck. Sunken wide-open eyes complete his grotesque face. The daemon walks holding a heavy hammer leant on his right shoulder and a wreath in his left lowered hand. The hammer used to ravage people is the main iconographic attribute of Charun.
This daemon of the boundary region setting the transition between this world and the Hereafter, could be interpreted as the symbol of death terror and of the implacability of human destiny.
This krater was done by the so-called “Berlin Painter of the Trichter-Gruppe” (active in 325-300 BC). He was an Etruscan vase painters of the so-called Etruscan red-figure style. His conventional name comes from this Berliner calyx-krater.
Etruscan red-figured calyx-krater
Attributed to the Berlin Painter of the Trichter-Gruppe
Late 4th century BC
From Vulci, Viterbo
Berlin, Altes Museum
at the annual ghost ship halloween party - pier 70, dogpatch, san francisco, california. 8 stitched images.
After uploading an LRGB image and short video of my latest data from iTelescope, Siding Spring yesterday, I decided to have a much closer look this morning at the individual data files. If Charon is never more than 1 arcsecond away from Pluto then it's likely I definitely have captured the moon's motion in these six files blinked (all 120 secs long, blue and green fits data). These are the unprocesssed raw fits files.
So exciting!
Next data run booked for 14 July.
Equipment used:
OTA: Planewave 17" CDK
Optical Design: Corrected Dall-Kirkham Astrograph
Aperture: 431mm
Focal Length: 2912mm
F/Ratio: f/6.8
Guiding: Active Guiding Disabled
Mount: Planewave Ascension 200HR
CCD: FLI Proline 16803
Pixel Size: 9um Square
Resolution: 0.63 arcsec/pixel
Sensor: KAF-16803
G: 3x120 secs
B: 3x120 secs
Array: 4096 x 4096 pixels
FOV: 43.2 x 43.2 arcmin
© Ludovic Macioszczyk
You can listen and buy their first LP "Time Traveller" on Gonzaï Records here:
gonzairecords.com/album/time-traveller
You can order the LP "Time Traveller" here:
lesnuitsdepleinelune.bandcamp.com/releases
And follow them:
Zic Zinc, Limoges, France.
Lomo LC-A+ - Colorsplash Flash - 135 Agfa Precisa 100 ISO - Cross Processed
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© Ludovic Macioszczyk
You can listen and buy their first LP "Time Traveller" on Gonzaï Records here:
gonzairecords.com/album/time-traveller
You can order the LP "Time Traveller" here:
lesnuitsdepleinelune.bandcamp.com/releases
And follow them:
Zic Zinc, Limoges, France.
Lomo LC-A+ - Colorsplash Flash - 135 Agfa Precisa 100 ISO - Cross Processed
Description:OpNav Campaign 4, LORRI 1X1
Time:2015-07-07
Exposure:100 msec
Range:7.8M km
Binning:1x1
Credit: 2015 The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC
Michael L Hyde (c) 2015
A darkened and mysterious north polar region informally known as Mordor Macula caps this premier high-resolution portrait of Charon, Pluto's largest moon. Captured by New Horizons near its closest approach on July 14, the image data was transmitted to Earth on September 21. The combined blue, red, and infrared data is processed to enhance colors, following variations in surface properties with a resolution of about 2.9 kilometers (1.8 miles). In fact, Charon is 1,214 kilometers (754 miles) across, about 1/10th the size of planet Earth but a whopping 1/2 the diameter of Pluto itself. That makes it the largest satellite relative to its planet in the solar system. This remarkable image of Charon's Pluto-facing hemisphere shows a clearer view of an apparently moon-girdling belt of fractures and canyons that seems to separate smooth southern plains from varied northern terrain. via NASA ift.tt/1N8fMU6
A darkened and mysterious north polar region informally known as Mordor Macula caps this premier high-resolution portrait of Charon, Pluto's largest moon. Captured by New Horizons near its closest approach on July 14, the image data was transmitted to Earth on September 21. The combined blue, red, and infrared data is processed to enhance colors, following variations in surface properties with a resolution of about 2.9 kilometers (1.8 miles). In fact, Charon is 1,214 kilometers (754 miles) across, about 1/10th the size of planet Earth but a whopping 1/2 the diameter of Pluto itself. That makes it the largest satellite relative to its planet in the solar system. This remarkable image of Charon's Pluto-facing hemisphere shows a clearer view of an apparently moon-girdling belt of fractures and canyons that seems to separate smooth southern plains from varied northern terrain. via NASA ift.tt/1N8fMU6
A darkened and mysterious north polar region informally known as Mordor Macula caps this premier high-resolution portrait of Charon, Pluto's largest moon. Captured by New Horizons near its closest approach on July 14, the image data was transmitted to Earth on September 21. The combined blue, red, and infrared data is processed to enhance colors, following variations in surface properties with a resolution of about 2.9 kilometers (1.8 miles). In fact, Charon is 1,214 kilometers (754 miles) across, about 1/10th the size of planet Earth but a whopping 1/2 the diameter of Pluto itself. That makes it the largest satellite relative to its planet in the solar system. This remarkable image of Charon's Pluto-facing hemisphere shows a clearer view of an apparently moon-girdling belt of fractures and canyons that seems to separate smooth southern plains from varied northern terrain. via NASA go.nasa.gov/1L9HeP6
A darkened and mysterious north polar region informally known as Mordor Macula caps this premier high-resolution portrait of Charon, Pluto's largest moon. Captured by New Horizons near its closest approach on July 14, the image data was transmitted to Earth on September 21. The combined blue, red, and infrared data is processed to enhance colors, following variations in surface properties with a resolution of about 2.9 kilometers (1.8 miles). In fact, Charon is 1,214 kilometers (754 miles) across, about 1/10th the size of planet Earth but a whopping 1/2 the diameter of Pluto itself. That makes it the largest satellite relative to its planet in the solar system. This remarkable image of Charon's Pluto-facing hemisphere shows a clearer view of an apparently moon-girdling belt of fractures and canyons that seems to separate smooth southern plains from varied northern terrain. via NASA ift.tt/1N8fMU6
A darkened and mysterious north polar region informally known as Mordor Macula caps this premier high-resolution portrait of Charon, Pluto's largest moon. Captured by New Horizons near its closest approach on July 14, the image data was transmitted to Earth on September 21. The combined blue, red, and infrared data is processed to enhance colors, following variations in surface properties with a resolution of about 2.9 kilometers (1.8 miles). In fact, Charon is 1,214 kilometers (754 miles) across, about 1/10th the size of planet Earth but a whopping 1/2 the diameter of Pluto itself. That makes it the largest satellite relative to its planet in the solar system. This remarkable image of Charon's Pluto-facing hemisphere shows a clearer view of an apparently moon-girdling belt of fractures and canyons that seems to separate smooth southern plains from varied northern terrain. via NASA ift.tt/1N8fMU6
© Ludovic Macioszczyk
You can listen their EP that I recorded: stillcharon.bandcamp.com/album/paved-with-good-intentions
And see the video that I filmed: youtu.be/fofQ9rb09Ds?list=UUbYljFVUx7pM0iV_v1eFzCg
Canon AE-1 - 135 Agfa Precisa 100 ISO - Cross Processed
High-resolution images of Charon were taken by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, shortly before closest approach on July 14, 2015, and overlaid with enhanced color from the Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera (MVIC). Charon's cratered uplands at the top are broken by a series of canyons and replaced on the bottom by the rolling plains of the informally named Vulcan Planum. The scene covers Charon's width of 754 miles (1,214 kilometers) and resolves details as small as 0.5 miles (0.8 kilometers).