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Commonly known as “Flame Vine” or “Orange Trumpet Vine”. The Chinese name is 炮仗花, meaning “firecracker flowers”.
Taken at Tai Po Waterfront Park, Tai Po, N.T., Hong Kong
The star cluster Melotte 15 in the central region of the Heart Nebula, IC1805, in Cassiopeia.
The image is dominated by clouds of emitting hydrogen gas with dark dust lanes within.
The gas near the star cluster is sculpted into rope-like, contorted, and intricate pillar-like shapes and whisps. These features are believed to be as a result of stellar winds and intense radiation emanating from the young, hot stars, of Melotte 15.
Imaged in narrowband with my Esprit120ED and a ZWO 1600MM camera.
This is a further process of data that I acquired last year - but I have reprocessed centring on the central star cluster with its associated fascinating gas structures.
Shot in narrowband HHOO with my Esprit 120ED and a ZWO 1600mm camera.
40 x 300s Ha
20 x 300s OIII
All at gain 200 - camera cooled to -20
The Ha was mapped to red, the OIII to blue and a synthetic blend of Ha and OIII to the green channel.
Taken w/ Skywatcher Evostar Pro 80 ED (w/.85x reducer/corrector & QHYCCD Polemaster), Skywatcher EQM-35, Nikon D7500.
40 lights x 90 s @ ISO 800, ~45 dark, ~45 flat, ~100 bias, stacked in DSS and post-processed in Photoshop
Taken w/ William Optics Redcat 51, QHYCCD Polemaster, Skywatcher EQM-35, Nikon D7500.
40 x 90s lights @ ISO 800, ~45 dark, ~80 flat, ~100 bias, stacked in DSS and post-processed in Photoshop
Recently I have been investigating the more intimate scenes, looking for detail, and artistry within a small scene. Today, I discovered a small piece of the magic, and began to uncover the truth beneath the fall detritus. Buried down bellow the clutter, was a cluster of leaves and greenery, I needed to know what it was, and so I brushed away the decaying leaves and discovered this lovely survivor, slowly wilting in the fall cold. Rather than walk away, I wanted to preserve the memory, and share it with all of you, to immortalize this little plant.
Aperture: f8
ISO: 125
SS: 1/5th
Focal: 54mm
Fujinon 50-140mm
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Mushroom heaven on the Crescent Lake Trail.
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This line up shows 60009 and 60038 alongside 92021 and 92046 all are at Loughborough works being stripped for spares but beyond viable restoration.the open lens cluster is from 60090.
A sorry sight.
Taken w/ William Optics Redcat 51 (w/.85x reducer/corrector & QHYCCD Polemaster), Skywatcher EQM-35, Nikon D7500.
73 lights x 90 s @ ISO 800, ~45 dark, ~45 flat, ~100 bias, stacked in DSS and post-processed in Photoshop
We are struggling to find many fungi at all this year, but on a walk out from Charlbury through the Wychwood in Oxfordshire we found a few, like this little cluster of Bonnets!
The translucent life is very much about
overflowing with a gift to the world,
rather than being here to consume
or to get something for yourself.
(Arjuna Ardagh)
(photo by Freya)
7 Days with Flickr - Friday: flora
This image was taken past Thursday south of Bodega Harbor near Pinnacle Rock in Bodega Bay, California. The 10 second exposure gave the water a nice silky look with a little cloud movement which I was looking for.
◊ 3,000 Years after the Great Gem War, ignited by a rebellion led by a Rose Quartz, human beings claimed the earth and have roamed it for millennia. When a research team in-charge of excavating specific crystals for resources made their way through an unexplored mining cave, a terrifying discovery was made... ◊
A black and white version of an image posted in early summer.
This tiny new cluster of blooms just starting to emerge from their buds was captured in late April in Fair Hill Maryland, with iPhone and Olloclip Macro Lens.
Basic image corrections and square crop on the iPad in Snapseed, then into VSCO for further editing starting off with the x4 preset.
The color version can be found here if you care to compare them: www.flickr.com/photos/firerybroome/27646290262
I could enjoy a bit of clear sky again. I decided to shoot M13. It is one of the brightest globular clusters in the northern hemisphere.
Full resolution: live.staticflickr.com/65535/52934920918_2d21ff0967_o.png
-- EQUIPMENT ---------------------------
Camera: Altair Hypercam 26M
Filterwheel: Starlight Xpress (7 x 36 mm)
Filters: Astrodon LRGB
Telescope: 12" f/4 Newton w. 2.5" Wynne corr. (1140mm f/3.8)
Mount: Astro-Physics 1100 GTO CP4
Guiding: Starlight Xpress OAG with Lodestar X2
Software
Capturing: Sequence Generator Pro
Guiding: PHD2
Processing: Pixinsight
-- Details -----------------------------------
Date: May 28th. 2023
Location: My backyard
Temp Camera: -10°C
Gain: 100
Pixel size: 3.8 μm
Pixel scale: 0.67 Arcseconds per pixel
-- Exposures ------------------------------
L: 32 x 2 min
R: 10 x 2 min
G: 10 x 2 min
B: 10 x 2 min
Total integration time: 2 hours.
This Globular Clusters in the constellation Serpens is one of the brighter in the sky. It photographs nicely at low exposures. Shot from Bortle 8 skies in New Orleans.
Takahashi FSQ-106 / EM-200 / ASI 2600MM
L 188x30s
RGB 60x30s
Lum: Drizzle (2x, 0.9, circular) / DBE / BlurXterminator / MMT (denoise) / HT / HDR
RGB: Drizzle (2x) / DBE / BlurXterminator / NoiseXterminator / RGBComb / ArcSin (8x2) / LRGB (Sat=0.4)
PS: Dfine2 / Curves / Levels
"Parasol Mushroom Cluster" by Patti Deters. This cluster of six Green-spored Parasol (chlorophyllum molybdites) mushroom reminds me of a family gathered around their youngest. The umbrella-shaped top, whiteness of the stems, and soft light tan scales help with identification. These fungi are common in lawns and are poisonous if eaten. Other names for this species are green-spored Lepiota, false parasol, and vomiter (because of the poison effect). The spores have a green-ish tint which is where it gets it name. If you like this nature-inspired close-up photograph, please see more outdoor, plants, and other flora at patti-deters.pixels.com/featured/parasol-mushroom-cluster....
Whether named clustered rose, swamp rose or peafruit rose, Rosa pisocarpa smells just as sweet. Blooming slightly later than the Nootka rose, the clustered rose colors vary from a pale lilac rose to a deeper, almost magenta rose hue, splotched with white along the edges of the petals. It’s quite a beautiful sight walking along hedges full of the small fragrant blossoms. Ravenna Park, Seattle, Washington
'Pandora's Cluster' (NIRCam Image) by JWST
NASA’s Webb Uncovers New Details in Pandora’s Cluster
Astronomers have revealed the latest deep field image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, featuring never-before-seen details in a region of space known as Pandora’s Cluster (Abell 2744). Webb’s view displays three clusters of galaxies – already massive – coming together to form a megacluster. The combined mass of the galaxy clusters creates a powerful gravitational lens, a natural magnification effect of gravity, allowing much more distant galaxies in the early universe to be observed by using the cluster like a magnifying glass.
Caption
Astronomers estimate 50,000 sources of near-infrared light are represented in this image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Their light has travelled through varying distances to reach the telescope’s detectors, representing the vastness of space in a single image. A foreground star in our own galaxy, to the right of the image center, displays Webb’s distinctive diffraction spikes. Bright white sources surrounded by a hazy glow are the galaxies of Pandora’s Cluster, a conglomeration of already-massive clusters of galaxies coming together to form a megacluster. The concentration of mass is so great that the fabric of spacetime is warped by gravity, creating an effect that makes the region of special interest to astronomers: a natural, super-magnifying glass called a “gravitational lens” that they can use to see very distant sources of light beyond the cluster that would otherwise be undetectable, even to Webb.
These lensed sources appear red in the image, and often as elongated arcs distorted by the gravitational lens. Many of these are galaxies from the early universe, with their contents magnified and stretched out for astronomers to study. Other red sources in the image have yet to be confirmed by follow-up observations with Webb’s Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) instrument to determine their true nature. One intriguing example is an extremely compact source that appears as a tiny red dot, despite the magnifying effect of the gravitational lens. One possibility is that the dot is a supermassive black hole in the early universe. NIRSpec data will provide both distance measurements and compositional details of selected sources, providing a wealth of previously-inaccessible information about the universe and how it has evolved over time.
Credits
SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, CSA, Ivo Labbe (Swinburne), Rachel Bezanson (University of Pittsburgh)
IMAGE PROCESSING: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)
The Western Monarch overwinters in a few spots, including this lovely grove near Monterey. They've made it into a butterfly sanctuary, as is right and proper.
Pacific Grove, Ca. Nov. 2023.
Longwood Gardens Pa.
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