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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagoon_Nebula
The Lagoon Nebula (catalogued as Messier 8 or M8, and as NGC 6523) is a giant interstellar cloud in the constellation Sagittarius. It is classified as an emission nebula and as a H II region.
The Lagoon Nebula was discovered by Giovanni Hodierna before 1654[4] and is one of only two star-forming nebulae faintly visible to the naked eye from mid-northern latitudes. Seen with binoculars, it appears as a distinct oval cloudlike patch with a definite core. In the foreground is the open cluster NGC 6530.
A very slow exposure on a glass plate negative. Note the cloudlike white streak along the sidewalk at right -- a pedestrian in motion, walking too rapidly for his (or her) image to be immortalized. The block between Fourth and Fifth Avenues was originally designated "Jail Square" -- but never was occupied by a jail. Instead, we see it here as the site of Christian Schmid's "lumber yard" -- which is what the lettering on the narrow horizontal sign says. In the distance are fashionable houses on Fifth Avenue
Drift is a massive three dimensional stainless steel polyhedral matrix of over 16,100 steel rods and more than 8,320 steel nodes. Measuring approximately 40 meters long, 23 meters high and 15 meters wide, Drift is suspended cloudlike in the air between levels 5 and 12 of the atrium of Hotel Tower 1. The structure weighs 14.8 tons.
The geometry of the art installation was generated using a process specifically developed for Antony Gormley’s sculptures by engineer Tristan Simmonds and involves the packing of spheres around a “seed” body form or shape. Due to the scale of the structure, it had to be fabricated off-site and subsequently broken down into 8 horizontal “slices” approximately 3 meters tall to be transported to Marina Bay Sands. Each slice was transported by special container to the site. It took 60 workers with different expertise to assemble it in the atrium, from engineers to welders.
M8 (Lagoon Nabula) & M20 (Trifid Nebula)
"The Lagoon Nebula (catalogued as Messier 8 or M8, NGC 6523, Sharpless 25, RCW 146, and Gum 72) is a giant interstellar cloud in the constellation Sagittarius. It is classified as an emission nebula and as an H II region.
The Lagoon Nebula was discovered by Giovanni Hodierna before 1654 and is one of only two star-forming nebulae faintly visible to the naked eye from mid-northern latitudes. Seen with binoculars, it appears as a distinct oval cloudlike patch with a definite core. In the foreground is the open cluster NGC 6530."
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"The Trifid Nebula (catalogued as Messier 20 or M20 and as NGC 6514) is an H II region located in Sagittarius. It was discovered by Charles Messier on June 5, 1764. Its name means 'divided into three lobes'. The object is an unusual combination of an open cluster of stars; an emission nebula (the lower, red portion), a reflection nebula (the upper, blue portion) and a dark nebula (the apparent 'gaps' within the emission nebula that cause the trifurcated appearance; these are also designated Barnard 85). Viewed through a small telescope, the Trifid Nebula is a bright and peculiar object, and is thus a perennial favorite of amateur astronomers."
(Source:Wikipedia)
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08.06.2019 Kocaeli, Turkey
Optic: Samyang 500MM f/6.3 DX
Camera: Canon EOS 6D
Mount: Vixen Polarie
Noctilucent clouds are bright cloudlike atmospheric phenomena visible in a deep twilight. The name means roughly night shining in Latin. They are known as polar mesospheric clouds when observed from a satellite in space. They are most commonly observed in the summer months at latitudes between 50° and 70° north and south of the equator.
They are the highest clouds in the Earth's atmosphere, located in the mesosphere at altitudes of around 75 to 85 kilometers (47 to 53 mi). They are normally too faint to be seen, and are visible only when illuminated by sunlight from below the horizon while the lower layers of the atmosphere are in the Earth's shadow. Noctilucent clouds are not fully understood as meteorological phenomenon. Clouds generally are not able to reach such high altitudes with such thin air pressures.
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But I think these are just cirrus clouds...what do you think?
I think it's interesting how fire and smoke appear as a fluid. With a different color cast this could pass for a fluffy cloud in summer time.
Fire at the Q bar in downtown Lincoln, Nebraska. Unretouched (sorry about the sensor spot). flight-0376
-Loren Rye
SUMMER PALACE
Beijing
(a UNESCO World Heritage Site)
first built 1886, the hall was used as a lounge for dukes, princes and cabinet ministers when they were at the Summer Palace to celebrate the birthday of the notorious Dragon-Lady, Empress cixi. The "cultural relics" displayed here were birthday gits to the Dowager Empress. -info source: signage
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This is the Infrared version of lagoon nebula.
The Lagoon Nebula was discovered by Giovanni Hodierna before 1654[4] and is one of only two star-forming nebulae faintly visible to the eye from mid-northern latitudes. Seen with binoculars, it appears as a distinct oval cloudlike patch with a definite core. Within the nebula is the open cluster NGC 6530.
DATA: HST
Processing: Bipradeep Saha(www.instagram.com/sparxastronomy)
Ciro Najle, Argentine artist and architect, created Cumulus. He worked alongside engineers, scientits an water experts in Chile to design fog-collecting nets. Informed by this research, his complex cloudlike installation was developped using computer-numerical technology and constructed using crochet ( a 2 week hand made work by argentine artisan women of Buenos Aires). Cumulus reflects a broader engagement of Le Laboratoire to explore design solutions to achieving wider and more equitable access to fresh water globally. Nice experience for a cold Saturday in Paris.
first built 1886, the hall was used as a lounge for dukes, princes and cabinet ministers when they were at the Summer Palace to celebrate the birthday of the notorious Dragon-Lady, Empress Cixi. The "cultural relics" displayed here were birthday gits to the Dowager Empress. -info source: signage
SUMMER PALACE
Beijing
(a UNESCO World Heritage Site)
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Enjoy our stylish, well-appointed King and/or Double-Double Suite that are ideal for relaxation, hospitality, and entertaining. Our suites have an inviting 670 square foot living room area separate from the bedroom(s) - guests may SELECT DISABLED=DISABLED from one-bedroom or two-bedroom suites - each with bathrooms richly appointed with plush, cotton bathrobes and The Serenity Bath featuring Crabtree & Evelyn’s LaSource bath amenities. The cloudlike comfort of the Hilton Serenity Bed is yours to rest upon and, when awake, suite guests enjoy the easy function of their Hilton clock radio with MP3 Player plug-in, and television with premium cable channels, in-room movies, and pay-per-view, in-room dining, a work station with ergonomic chair, wireless high-speed Internet access, and dual-line telephones with speakerphone and voicemail, LavAzza Coffee, iron and ironing board, and hairdryer ensure that suite guests feel both productive and pampered.
SUMMER PALACE
Beijing
(a UNESCO World Heritage Site)
first built 1886, the hall was used as a lounge for dukes, princes and cabinet ministers when they were at the Summer Palace to celebrate the birthday of the notorious Dragon-Lady, Empress cixi. The "cultural relics" displayed here were birthday gits to the Dowager Empress. -info source: signage
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SUMMER PALACE
Beijing
(a UNESCO World Heritage Site)
first built 1886, the hall was used as a lounge for dukes, princes and cabinet ministers when they were at the Summer Palace to celebrate the birthday of the notorious Dragon-Lady, Empress cixi. The "cultural relics" displayed here were birthday gits to the Dowager Empress. -info source: signage
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Billowy, puffy, cloud-like effect for screen saver... I love ethereal effects...
Screen Shot 2012-03-30 at 12.50.05 AM
Blue sky alpaca bulky natural - to die for! SO soft and cushy.
I used my own buttons for this one (pearl filigree).
Decadence!
SUMMER PALACE
Beijing
(a UNESCO World Heritage Site)
first built 1886, the hall was used as a lounge for dukes, princes and cabinet ministers when they were at the Summer Palace to celebrate the birthday of the notorious Dragon-Lady, Empress cixi. The "cultural relics" displayed here were birthday gits to the Dowager Empress. -info source: signage
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(From Wikipedia) The Lagoon Nebula (catalogued as Messier 8 or M8, and as NGC 6523) is a giant interstellar cloud in the constellation Sagittarius. It is classified as an emission nebula and as a H II region.
The Lagoon Nebula was discovered by Giovanni Hodierna before 1654 and is one of only two star-forming nebulae faintly visible to the naked eye from mid-northern latitudes. Seen with binoculars, it appears as a distinct oval cloudlike patch with a definite core. A fragile star cluster appears superimposed on it.
Auguste Rodin
France, Paris, 1840-1917
"Eternal Spring" (aka "the hookup")
Around 1881-1884
Bronze
During Rodin's carrer there was a steady market for his compositions of amorous subjects. One of themost popular was "Eternal Spring" which exists in several sizes and colors, including a variant in which the man's left arm is unsupported or shown resting on trees or cloudlike shapes. (Six marble versions ere carved as well.) Rodin sold the casting rights in 1898 to the Barbedienne foundry, which produced between 200 and 250 examples of this composition. The one displayed here was cast by that foundry in Rodin's lifetime.
heat lightning
This was the most unusual heat lightening . The sky, at night, lit up like white puffy clouds. continously, for an hour. There was often a bolt seen in the cloudlike lightning.
taken at the bronx botanical garden. this was one of the orchids in the orchid show. taken on the 5Boroughs Foundation trip.
Drift is a massive three dimensional stainless steel polyhedral matrix of over 16,100 steel rods and more than 8,320 steel nodes. Measuring approximately 40 meters long, 23 meters high and 15 meters wide, Drift is suspended cloudlike in the air between levels 5 and 12 of the atrium of Hotel Tower 1. The structure weighs 14.8 tons.
The geometry of the art installation was generated using a process specifically developed for Antony Gormley’s sculptures by engineer Tristan Simmonds and involves the packing of spheres around a “seed” body form or shape. Due to the scale of the structure, it had to be fabricated off-site and subsequently broken down into 8 horizontal “slices” approximately 3 meters tall to be transported to Marina Bay Sands. Each slice was transported by special container to the site. It took 60 workers with different expertise to assemble it in the atrium, from engineers to welders.
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(no wifi alas...) and the melamine headboards are atrocious. but the wool blankies are scrumptious and the pillows sufficiently cloudlike for sweet dreams.
A desert, but not as isolated as it looks; it was only a block or two south of where I live (in reality this would be a light industrial zone with some strip malls, not at all desolate. Only the rail line is correctly placed (i.e. actually there), but it's at grade, not with an overpass. Anyway: it was a very bright day, sunny but not hot due to a brisk breeze. I was walking somewhere, I forget where, when I stopped atop the overpass and looked up, and was surprised to see a bunch of odd clouds clustered in a small part of the otherwise perfectly empty and blue sky. The clouds (between one and two dozen) were all perfectly spherical and relatively sharp-edged, with the exception of between one and three small protrusions each - these were very regular as well, bumps, spikes, truncated cones. On clouds that had two or three they were distributed symmetrically, too, on opposite ends. The clouds were being buffeted by the wind, but they weren't breaking up or altering shape; neither were they moving from that one quadrant of the sky, either singly or all together. They were moving relative to each other, though: they dipped, rose, rotated (it was hard to tell because of their featureless regularity, but you could see the protrusions moving), bumped into one another, tangled and separated, but all the while never straying very far from the group, as though they were in an invisible plastic bag or something.
I stood there and watched for a minute or two; then I though to go home and point them out to someone. But by the time I got down off the overpass, the spherical clouds had disintegrated and merged into one large, more conventionally cloudlike cloud, ragged-edged and randomly-shaped (though it did look vaguely like an enormous bird, but I think that was just a coincidence, even in a dream.) So I shrugged and reversed course (the overpass had while my back was turned sunk into the landscape and become a level crossing, with the railway behind a set of lights and gates, which were down and blinking, respectively.) While I waited for the train to pass, a gaudy-looking sports car rolled up alongside and the drunk-looking driver began to yell incoherent obscenities at me through a rolled-down window. I suddenly realized that I had exited the surreal and dreamlike part of the program and was transitioning into the low-quality unimaginative nightmare part, and that - after the gate rose - the man in the gaudy car intended to make a U-turn and try to run me down. It was not a particularly scary prospect - he looked like he was going to be incompetent at it - but it was depressing in a tedious sort of way. The train whooshed by, and the man promptly missed me and drove the car into a ditch. After he struggled out of the wreck he chased me on foot, red-faced and wheezing, until he ran out of breath and fell down, at which point I stopped, doubled cautiously back and judiciously kicked him in the head to make sure he stayed down (although I may have also harbored some misplaced resentment towards him, for making the clouds go away.)
But: even though I dreamt this early on, around two or three, the strange clouds turned out to have sufficient staying power for the image (the key to the rest of the dream) to stay with me until morning, undisplaced by more mundane stuff from later in the night.
(This is the Orig B/W. Colored version here)
I'm really happy with this result - probably one of my top 3 nebula images, given the relatively sharp focus and tracking. I've colorized the Halpha data and mapped it to red to bring out some of the subtle transitions which the eye seems to pick out better in the red palate.
The Lagoon Nebula (M8 or NGC 6523) is a giant interstellar cloud in the constellation Sagittarius. It is classified as an emission nebula and as an H II region. The Lagoon Nebula was discovered by Guillaume Le Gentil in 1747 and is one of only two star-forming nebulae faintly visible to the naked eye from mid-northern latitudes. Seen with binoculars, it appears as a distinct oval cloudlike patch with a definite core. A fragile star cluster appears superimposed on it.
Stack of 30x120s in Halpha
A shallow pool of water on the floor reflects the lights of the Kogod Courtyard. Smithsonian Reynolds Center, Washington, DC.
See also Smithsonian Courtyard.
the pattern pen variant i used for the roses gave them a cloudlike appearance, so the picture developed from there. this is one of my favourites as it's quite atmospheric and spooky.
Panel of alabastro a nuvole ("cloudlike" alabaster) in the church of Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome.
U24.5971
Admittedly not the best shot, but...one thing at a time. Decent cookery first, decent photography later.
These biscuits come from the recipe on the back of the Bakewell Cream tin. Unlike most of my favorite biscuit recipes, these call for milk, rather than buttermilk. For a long time I would just substitute buttermilk for the milk, and add a little extra baking soda to neutralize the acid. The resulting biscuits were fine, but not particularly special. Last night I made these to go under chicken a la king. Because I didn't have any buttermilk or yogurt in the house, and didn't feel like fiddling with milk and vinegar, I just said "oh, what the hell" and followed the original recipe. These biscuits were warm and golden (the color was much richer than the picture would indicate), a little crunchy on the outside, cloudlike and tender on the inside, without the overwhelming bite of too much chemical leavener. These biscuits are special. :)
The Lagoon Nebula (catalogued as Messier 8 or M8, and as NGC 6523) is a giant interstellar cloud in the constellation Sagittarius. It is classified as an emission nebula and as an H II region.
The Lagoon Nebula was discovered by Guillaume Le Gentil in 1747 and is one of only two star-forming nebulae faintly visible to the naked eye from mid-northern latitudes. Seen with binoculars, it appears as a distinct oval cloudlike patch with a definite core. A fragile star cluster appears superimposed on it.
The ice in the river has melted and frozen time and time again - leading to this cloudlike pattern...
The Finland Pavilion "Kirnu" is surrounded by a lake, appearing to float on the water. It has the slogan "Sharing Inspiration," where ideas can meet and mix. The design draws inspiration from Finnish nature. Elements reinterpreted in the pavilion include the shape of small rocks found on coastal islands, the surface of a fish, reflection on water, framed view of the sky and smell of tar on wood.
Finland attempts to capture the ideas of freedom, creativity, innovation, community, health and nature in its exhibition. The Exhibition Story extends through three spaces: the Welcoming introduces essences of Finland as well as the Virtual Guide (aka Spirit of Finland), accompanying the guest along the exhibition. The second area opens up breathtaking magical landscapes, attached to the foundations of Finland: nature, national character, society, economy, education and culture. The third area is named City of Dreams, an interactive and beautiful presentation of elements of Better Life, as well as solutions and perspectives Finland wants to share. The architecture of the exhibition is functional and clean, serves as a background to present art, design and high technology. The flooring of best-quality Finnish wood and beautifully lit snow-cave or cloudlike structures in the air connects the spacial elements, along with one of the largest textile artworks in the world on the inner wall. The Story is free of verbal commentary, with only ambient soundscape created by Sibelius-Academy. The elements of balanced, sustainable and enjoyable urban-oriented life are presented in many aspects.
Pavilion Highlights: 1.Hightech and Interactivity 2. Sustainable Innovation 3. Finnish Culture and Design