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The Pleiades star cluster (aka The 7 Sisters), is visible to the naked eye. I am working on other shots of each star. The brightest stars in the formation glow a hot blue and formed within the last 100 million years and will burn out very quickly. The Canary 3 14 inch scope used.
M9 is a globular cluster in the constellation of Ophiuchus. It is 25,800 light-years away and is about 90 light-years in diameter.
It is one of the nearer globular clusters to the center of the Milky Way Galaxy (5,500 light-years from the Galactic Core).
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Baader MPCC Mark 3
Sky-Watcher AZEQ6
Canon 450Dm + IDAS LPS-P2 filter
90x30s @ ISO1600 (45 min)
Lacerta MGEN2 + Finder 9x50
Calibrated, registered, stacked & processed in PixInsight.
Labels in PS5.
I was hoping to capture a sight of asteroid BL86 as it zipped by this open cluster but clouds arrived first! Image made from some shots taken with a Canon EOS60 mounted on a Skywatcher 200 reflector.
Then another angel, the one who has power
over fire, came out from the altar; and he called
with a loud voice to him who had the sharp
sickle, saying, Put in your sharp sickle and
gather the clusters from the vine of the earth,
because her grapes are ripe.
Revelation 14:18
Thank you PatriciaY for the scripture suggestion!!!!
Using the default NodeXL clustering feature. Symmetrics clearly orange, JetFuel/Sympatico/Race clearly blue. Pros of the 80's and 90's on the edges in pink.
This is the current scene inside my pump shed at Kyeburn, Otago, NZ.
Cluster flies arived in northern NZ sometime around the early 1980's, and by the mid-2000's had established in Otago in the south. Their larvae parasitise earth worms.
But they are named for the adults which shelter from the cold in dry warm areas, congregating in their thousands. When a fly finds a good retreat site it emits a pheromone signal that draws more and more in. In the wilds they often use rock crevices, but around farms and urban areas they often find their way into buildings.
Indeed, when you notice bits of dead fly coming out of your hot water tap its a sure sign they've been overwintering in your water cylinder overflow outlet!
The Double Cluster and Comet Hartley 2. Taken on Oct.8, 2010 with 105mm Sigma telephoto piggybacked on my 16inch F/4.5 Newtonian Telescope. Canon XSi DSLR (modded) 5x120sec. exp @ISO 1600 f/3.5, darks. Stacked with Deep Sky Stacker. Image processed with Digital Photo Professional, Adobe Photoshop CS2 & Astronomy Tools.
Wainwright Cluster was designed in 1966 by the Boston-based PARD Team, a young multi-disciplinary group of urban planners, architects, researchers and designers.
Prior to Wainwright Cluster, the Team had also spent nearly two years working with Reston developer, Robert E. Simon. Operating out of their Washington office, the PARD Team assumed responsibility for much of the planning that took place during the early years of Lake Anne Village. They reviewed design proposals, they prepared marketing plans, and they worked with Simon to select architects for future cluster projects. It was, in fact, the PARD Team that singled out Louis Sauer to design the award winning Golf Course Island Cluster.
Despite the attention and notoriety surrounding the new town of Reston, Simon’s firm, Reston, Virginia, Inc., soon found itself in serious financial trouble. Its townhouses at Hickory and Waterview Clusters were expensive by contemporary standards and many homes there still remained unsold after nearly two years. By 1966, interest rates had also begun to soar to all-time highs of 7 to 7.5 percent. Desperately in need of cash, Simon looked to the PARD Team for a new, highly marketable townhouse cluster -- one in keeping with the high standards of Reston’s earlier developments, but whose prices would attract first-time as well as second-time home buyers. Wainwright Cluster was the PARD Team’s answer to the problem.
Priced from $22,300 to $31,600, the Wainwright townhouses opened in August, 1966 to wide acclaim. Promotional materials described the Cluster as "manifesting the PARD Team’s sophisticated, practical, and professional approach to housing needs." Grouped into three neighborhood subclusters, Wainwright was noted for its successful integration of design, landscaping and architectural elements. Each neighborhood group was situated around a common landscaped green. Large windows at the rear of each home provided panoramic views of the thickly wooded areas surrounding the subclusters.
The merits of careful planning were also evident inside each Wainwright home. Although the Cluster’s six townhouse models varied greatly in size and layout, spacious bedrooms, large closets, ample storage space, breakfast nooks, and even ground floor powder rooms were standard in all of them.
Despite the soft housing market, sales at Wainwright Cluster proceeded briskly. Home buyers were attracted not only by the Cluster’s moderate prices and practical designs, but also by the added convenience of spacious carports, large storage sheds, well-equipped play areas and private outdoor patios.
Brodiaea californica ‘Babylon’ (cluster-lily) blooming in the Water Garden. Photo by Michael Stewart.
This is the great globular cluster in the constellation Hercules. A globular cluster is like a itsy-bitsy galaxy, with only a few hundred thousand stars instead of the billions found in a galaxy. This globular cluster actually orbits our own Milky Way. With any halfway-decent picture, you'll see a cluster of thousands of individual stars. This cluster is one of the brightest in the skies, visible with the naked eye from a suitably dark location. It'll just look like a pale smudge with the naked eye though.
This globular cluster is also known as M13, because it is 13th in Messier's list of deep space objects that are not comets. He was a comet hunter, so he made a list of all the objects he could find that might be mistaken for one.
Found at Long Meadow, Taunton. Taunton Camera Club had an evening summer event there, quite a large turnout, bad light but at least it was dry!
M103 is an open cluster of stars in the constellation of Cassiopeia over 7,000 light years away. The bright red star in the middle of the photograph is a red giant. The bright blue star to its right is a double star, that is to say these two stars orbit each other.
Fifty four 20 sec exposures at ISO3200 taken with a Nikon D300 were merged to create this image.
A set of red grapes. These earrings are a cluster style earrings with red faceted crystals. They're assembled with brass chain and brass french hook ear wire. They're bold and cute. I could wear this with anything and it would look great!
Very late tonight, I added the last few odds and ends from my drive SW of the city three days ago.
On 28 July 2020, it was so hot and we were under a Heat Warning! My place was unbearable and I just had to get out for a short drive so that I could be in an air-conditioned vehicle. The weather forecast was for sunshine. While I was driving along the country backroads, the temperature was 31°C. When I got back to the city, it was 33°C (91.4°F). The Heat Warning remained for the following day, too, but has been lifted since then, though we are continuing to have hot days.
My hope was that maybe it would be cooler in the forest. However, it didn't seem to make any difference and my walk left me feeling exhausted for a while. Not far into the forest, I thought I heard what sounded like very quiet thunder, but then I thought it might have been a small plane flying over. When I was almost at the point where I was going to turn around, it started to rain, fortunately only lightly. Once parts of the trail get wet, they turn muddy very quickly.
Though it is still early for the mushroom season, I thought I would check to see if anything was growing. There was very little to be found. The leader of our small fungus group had recently said that he was finding practically nothing anywhere, other than Boletes. He reckons that the very cold winter that we had has probably caused this. As far as rain goes, we have had almost endless rain this spring and summer, so I was feeling hopeful. Maybe things will improve - last year, 2019, was absolutely amazing fungi-wise.
There were very few birds to be seen, but they were probably trying to shelter from the heat.
M53, due north of our galaxy core, this is the most northern galactic globular cluster; it is approximately 60,000 light years away. I made this image by using DSS to stack 99 of the frames that I captured yesterday using a Canon EOS 60D mounted onto a Skywatcher 200 reflector
A cluster of grapes on an old vine are enlarging and soon turn purple as they ripen. Delicious ! taken with a CanonPower ShotSX40HS
M5 is a globular cluster about 24,500 light-years from Earth seen in the constellation Serpens. It spans 165 light years and contains between 100,000 and 500,000 stars depending on different estimates. Not only is it one of the larger globular clusters known, at 13 billion years old it is also one of the older globulars associated with the Milky Way Galaxy. Taken on 9th March 2015 - 57 x 15 second exposures at 6400 ISO plus 10 dark frames and 8 flat frames.
I obviously use a format to take most of the shots of my records. Reason being that I'm prinarily documenting them as opposed to trying to compose good pictures. However, I could not get my cheap camera to focus on these covers so I resorted to this.
Explored at#493, thank you
A shot from my weekend at Aston Rowant.
I like this one because it has no antennae out of focus.
I was told that it was Chiltern Gentian, but Tico has put me right, and I've looked in
my flower book to check. Tico wins again.
NO GROUP INVITES PLEASE
An HDR version of the Matrix Cluster.
(On a side note, it's hard to process photos when your monitor is optimized for 1680x1050 but your surrogate video card gives you 800x600.)