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M106 is a beautiful spiral
galaxy close to the Big Dipper in Ursa Major, though it is actually located in the constellation Canes Venatici. Even at a distance of 22 million lightyears it is a fairly bright object, easily observed through a small telescope. This image is 2h 50m of exposure time through an Ritchey Chretien astrograph. A number of fainter, more distant, galaxies can also be spotted in this image.
Please enjoy the full size animated image.
Four rooms and a hall
Deep Space Operations facility at Jet Propulsion Laboratory integrates several functions during critical mission phases.
Some are vigilant around the clock.
Some are workaday.
Some, like the Curiosity Mars Science Laboratory rover team, are accommodated for critical mission periods.
Our view is from the fourth room - a glass enclosed public viewing area above the others.
Below is the Deep Space Operations stations and consoles support the workaday teams which monitor all active missions and data collection. Soft blue LEDs illuminate each workstation. Above are three projection screens which can display networked pages relevant to the task at hand - in this case the transition from spacecraft to rover of the Mars Science Laboratory "Curiosity", a high-risk stream of events.
To the right is a Mission Control Center, which spends much time unoccupied. Tonight however Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) team have come to sweat and fret, and eat the traditional peanuts. They monitor and direct the spacecraft as the tasks unfold autonomously, keeping watch that all is nominally within range (keeping an eye pealed for anomalies.) Tomorrow this room will once again be empty, save for the few workers swapping functions in preparation for the next Mission Control team. Some of the team returns to home mission control for day-to-day planning and operations, some of tonight's team bid farewell and are re-assigned to other teams where their spaceflight expertise can be useful, while others now join the ground operations aspect of Curiosity.
Just beyond the glass beneath the projection screens is the the key to ALL current missions, the Deep Space Network Operations Center. Here is the connections to and from points far and wide. It is the nexus, the hub between all currently operating missions with crews sending commands and receiving data, through here, and out to collections of Deep Space Network Antennas and arrays which are many, and include the famous ones in Madrid, Spain; Canberra, Australia; and Goldstone in the Mojave Desert of California. The buck stops here for ensuring scientists remain connected to their experiments. A redundant and robust network which includes transmission media such as microwave, coaxial, twisted-pair and fiber-optic carrying an astronomic variety of analog and digital protocol information must remain under constant vigil to prevent disruption.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research. It's mission statement "To pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research." implies a directive to make it's finding available to all U.S. citizens. Sometimes that is a televised event, and the data screens on either side of the telemetry data screen are displaying the High-Definition video streams of themselves, perhaps a reminder to keep offensive gestures and t-shirt logos out of the public eye. This view is from the camera mounted on the right side of the public viewing platform, and a recursive image is seen on the right data screen. If you could view with infinite pixel density, you would be about here in the worm-hole, giving new meaning to waving at the folks back home.
In this enhancement, you may detect a ghost image - a white line ¼ way up from the bottom which is divided left and right to the top. Those are the first thumbnails transmitted from the Hazard-Avoidance Cameras fore and aft. They are the first images taken by NASA's Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars the evening of Aug. 5 PDT (morning of Aug. 6 EDT). It was taken through a "fisheye" wide-angle lens on one of the rover's front left Hazard-Avoidance cameras at one-quarter of full resolution. The clear dust cover on the camera is still on in this view, and dust can be seen around its edge, along with three cover fasteners. The rover's shadow is visible in the foreground.
mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/news/whatsnew/index.cfm?FuseAction=...
marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/mission/spacecraft/edlconfig/
The Venus of Willendorf is an 11.1-centimetre-tall (4.4 in) Venus figurine estimated to have been made around 25,000-30,000 years ago. It is carved from an oolitic limestone that is not local to the area, and tinted with red ochre. The figurine is now in the Natural History Museum in Vienna, Austria.
The Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (Museum of Natural History of Vienna) is one of the most important museums of the world with collections covering an area of 8,700 m².
credit: rubra / Lois Lammerhuber
The Ars Electronica Center is hosting a Deep Space LIVE event every Thursday (except holidays) at 8 PM. Each presentation features ultra-high-definition imagery in 16×9-meter format and is accompanied by expert commentary, entertaining stand-up repartee, and musical improvisation. Whether great works from the history of art, space travel, journeys of discovery in the Nanoworld, or a live concert is what you’ve come to behold, Deep Space LIVE stands for enlightening entertainment amidst breathtaking worlds of imagery.
credit: rubra
The Helix Nebula, also referred to as the "Eye of God" Nebula.
Color assignment to mimic the famous Hubble image.
TAK FSQ106
SBIG8300MC
Baader Narrowband Filters
Prim. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Franz Fellner (Zentrales Radiologie Institut AKh Linz) präsentiert neue Arten, die Anatomie des menschlichen Körpers zu vermitteln, und neue Technologien, die von der Animationsfilmindustrie vorangetrieben werden und die Bildgebung revolutionieren.
credit: Florian Voggeneder
IC 2118 - Nebulosa de la cabeza de Bruja
Luis Martinez Martin
2020/11/20-2020/11/21
Los Arroyos - El Escorial
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Telescopio: LongPerng 80/550 0.8x
CCD: ASI 294 MC Pro (Gain: 200, Offset: 30)
Montura: CGEM
Guia: Lunatico + QHY5
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Temperatura CCD: -10C
Temperatura ambiente: 4ºC
Exposición: 600"
Nº Exp.: 37
Darks: 50
Flats: 30
Bias: --
Marlies Czerny was the first Austrian woman on all 82 four-thousand-meter peaks in the Alps. Between Piz Bernina and Barre des Ecrins, the Upper Austrian journalist and her partner in life and the outdoors, Andreas Lattner, show the Alps from enthralling perspectives.
Credit: Vanessa Graf
Luminance: 47 X 5 minutes binning 1X1
RGB: 7 X 5 minutes binning 2X2 for channel
Total exposure 5.6 hours
Image data acquired with: ED 80 Pro Skywatcher + ccd Atik 16HR - RGB filters: Baader
Software: Maxim DL - CCDStack - Photoshop CS3
Whether the Tarahumara in Mexico, the Yapese in Micronesia, Suri in Ethiopia, the Inuit in Greenland, the Woodabe in Niger or the Yanomami in Brazil – the people have managed to adapt to different habitats such as forests, sand and ice deserts, to adapt to mountains and islands and have succeeded to survive. This two-part production of Terra Mater Factual Studios portrays six different indigenous peoples whose world is changing. The methods how those affected groups deal with external influences are different.
credit: Terra Mater / Udo Maurer
Object: NGC 6888 - The Crescent Nebula (5,000ly)
Telescope: TEC140
Camera: Atik 4000 Mono
Exposures: R-12x300s; G-12x300s; B-12x300s; Ha-16x600s; OIII-24x600s
Processing: Darks, Flats, Bias, DSS, PS CS3
This nebula is the remnant of a supernova explosion that occurred on 1054 A.D., it was visible during the day for 23 days shining 4 times a bright as Venus. Found in the constellation of Taurus (The Bull), it is 6500 ly. Away and 9th magnitude.
Image Profile:
Bloomingdale, IL
Type: LRGB
Frames: LRGB 6x600;5x300;5x300;5x300
Imaging Date: 20121115 01:31
Hardware:
-Main scope: Orion EON APO 120mm
-Guiding Scope: Orion 80mm Short Tube
-CCD: QHY9M with filter wheel with LRGB Ha
-Orion Atlas mount
Imaging Applications:
-Acquiring: Nebulosity Ver. 3.0.2
-Guiding: PHD Ver. 1.11.3
Processing Applications:
-CCDSoft
-Photoshop cs3
Comments: Temp 31F, fair transparency with light polluted skies.
The da Vinci robot from the "Hospital of the Sisters of Mercy" in Linzmakes it possible to perform complex operations that are minimally invasive to the human body. During these procedures, the surgeon steers the robot via hand motions and foot pedals, and the robot carries out these movements in real time. The da Vinci features four robotic arms that are inserted into the body through 1- to 2-cm incisions. On the ends of the arms are fine surgical instruments that can be maneuvered three-dimensionally just like the human wrist and thus allow for extremely precise sequences of actions. Tiny cameras on the ends of the arms send high-resolution images to the surgeon stationed at the da Vinci console. There, all tissue layers and structures can be studied in detail and enlarged up to 30x. The numerous potential advantages offered by this surgical method include shortened hospital stay, less pain, low risk of infection, less blood loss, reduced scarring and fast recovery. All surgery to remove a cancerous prostate performed in Linz since 2008 has been done with da Vinci. To date, 400 prostate patients have successfully undergone this operation. Other areas of application include renal pelvis grafts and nephron-sparing surgery to remove renal tumors.
credit: Krankenhaus der Barmherzigen Schwestern
Diese Arbeit visualisiert das Druckfeld um Schuhsohlen. Der Künstler Akira Wakita (JP) verwendet eine eigens entwickelte Fluidsimulationssoftware, die die Ausbreitung des Drucks in der Luft misst und sichtbar macht.
credit: Magdalena Sick-Leitner
Please enjoy the full size animated image.
Four rooms and a hall
Deep Space Operations facility at Jet Propulsion Laboratory integrates several functions during critical mission phases.
Some are vigilant around the clock.
Some are workaday.
Some, like the Curiosity Mars Science Laboratory rover team, are accommodated for critical mission periods.
Our view is from the fourth room - a glass enclosed public viewing area above the others.
Below is the Deep Space Operations stations and consoles support the workaday teams which monitor all active missions and data collection. Soft blue LEDs illuminate each workstation. Above are three projection screens which can display networked pages relevant to the task at hand - in this case the transition from spacecraft to rover of the Mars Science Laboratory "Curiosity", a high-risk stream of events.
To the right is a Mission Control Center, which spends much time unoccupied. Tonight however Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) team have come to sweat and fret, and eat the traditional peanuts. They monitor and direct the spacecraft as the tasks unfold autonomously, keeping watch that all is nominally within range (keeping an eye pealed for anomalies.) Tomorrow this room will once again be empty, save for the few workers swapping functions in preparation for the next Mission Control team. Some of the team returns to home mission control for day-to-day planning and operations, some of tonight's team bid farewell and are re-assigned to other teams where their spaceflight expertise can be useful, while others now join the ground operations aspect of Curiosity.
Just beyond the glass beneath the projection screens is the the key to ALL current missions, the Deep Space Network Operations Center. Here is the connections to and from points far and wide. It is the nexus, the hub between all currently operating missions with crews sending commands and receiving data, through here, and out to collections of Deep Space Network Antennas and arrays which are many, and include the famous ones in Madrid, Spain; Canberra, Australia; and Goldstone in the Mojave Desert of California. The buck stops here for ensuring scientists remain connected to their experiments. A redundant and robust network which includes transmission media such as microwave, coaxial, twisted-pair and fiber-optic carrying an astronomic variety of analog and digital protocol information must remain under constant vigil to prevent disruption.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research. It's mission statement "To pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research." implies a directive to make it's finding available to all U.S. citizens. Sometimes that is a televised event, and the data screens on either side of the telemetry data screen are displaying the High-Definition video streams of themselves, perhaps a reminder to keep offensive gestures and t-shirt logos out of the public eye. This view is from the camera mounted on the right side of the public viewing platform, and a recursive image is seen on the right data screen. If you could view with infinite pixel density, you would be about here in the worm-hole, giving new meaning to waving at the folks back home.
mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/news/whatsnew/index.cfm?FuseAction=...
marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/mission/spacecraft/edlconfig/
The Veil Nebula in Cygnus.
5 x 300 seconds
4 x darks
Astrotrac; Canon 20D; 200mm L @ f3.5; ISO 400
Best viewed large.
I read somewhere that the Witch's Broom (the filament on the right) is expanding away and sweeping up the interstellar dust on the way which is why you see more stars on the inside than the outside because there is less dust obstructing the light. Cool.
Please enjoy the full size animated image.
Four rooms and a hall
Deep Space Operations facility at Jet Propulsion Laboratory integrates several functions during critical mission phases.
Some are vigilant around the clock.
Some are workaday.
Some, like the Curiosity Mars Science Laboratory rover team, are accommodated for critical mission periods.
Our view is from the fourth room - a glass enclosed public viewing area above the others.
Below is the Deep Space Operations stations and consoles support the workaday teams which monitor all active missions and data collection. Soft blue LEDs illuminate each workstation. Above are three projection screens which can display networked pages relevant to the task at hand - in this case the transition from spacecraft to rover of the Mars Science Laboratory "Curiosity", a high-risk stream of events.
To the right is a Mission Control Center, which spends much time unoccupied. Tonight however Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) team have come to sweat and fret, and eat the traditional peanuts. They monitor and direct the spacecraft as the tasks unfold autonomously, keeping watch that all is nominally within range (keeping an eye pealed for anomalies.) Tomorrow this room will once again be empty, save for the few workers swapping functions in preparation for the next Mission Control team. Some of the team returns to home mission control for day-to-day planning and operations, some of tonight's team bid farewell and are re-assigned to other teams where their spaceflight expertise can be useful, while others now join the ground operations aspect of Curiosity.
Just beyond the glass beneath the projection screens is the the key to ALL current missions, the Deep Space Network Operations Center. Here is the connections to and from points far and wide. It is the nexus, the hub between all currently operating missions with crews sending commands and receiving data, through here, and out to collections of Deep Space Network Antennas and arrays which are many, and include the famous ones in Madrid, Spain; Canberra, Australia; and Goldstone in the Mojave Desert of California. The buck stops here for ensuring scientists remain connected to their experiments. A redundant and robust network which includes transmission media such as microwave, coaxial, twisted-pair and fiber-optic carrying an astronomic variety of analog and digital protocol information must remain under constant vigil to prevent disruption.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research. It's mission statement "To pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research." implies a directive to make it's finding available to all U.S. citizens. Sometimes that is a televised event, and the data screens on either side of the telemetry data screen are displaying the High-Definition video streams of themselves, perhaps a reminder to keep offensive gestures and t-shirt logos out of the public eye. This view is from the camera mounted on the right side of the public viewing platform, and a recursive image is seen on the right data screen. If you could view with infinite pixel density, you would be about here in the worm-hole, giving new meaning to waving at the folks back home.
mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/news/whatsnew/index.cfm?FuseAction=...
marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/mission/spacecraft/edlconfig/
A series of AI-generated pictures of an extraterrestrial spaceship light years away from home.
To be continued.
Pictures made with Midjourney.
I'm always happy to accept invites to groups as long as I can see their content.. Should I see "this group is not available to you", my pictures won't be made available to that group. Thanks for your understanding.
Michael Fincke (NASA Bordingenieur/Copilot) im Ars Electronica Center
credit: Sick-Leitner Magdalena
A series of AI-generated pictures of an extraterrestrial spaceship light years away from home.
To be continued.
Pictures made with Midjourney.
I'm always happy to accept invites to groups as long as I can see their content. Should I see "this group is not available to you", my pictures won't be made available to that group. Thanks for your understanding.
"a cosmic fertilization"
IC 410 is a beautiful object next to a "Flaming Star Nebula", IC 405, in Auriga.
Ambient temperature was about -21 celsius degrees and the transparency was good.
Seeing was really bad all night long, about 5 FWHM, so I shot H-alpha frames binned 2x2 to have an image scale of 1,5 arcseconds/pixel.
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Processing work flow:
Image acquisition, MaxiDL v5.07.
Stacked and calibrated in CCDStack.
Deconvolution with a CCDSharp, 30 iterations.
Levels, curves and color combine in PS CS3.
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Telescope, Meade LX200 GPS 12" @ f5
Camera, QHY9
Guiding, SXV-AO @ 8Hz
Image Scale, 1,5 arcseconds/pixel
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Exposures
H-alpha 7x1200s Binned 2x2
O-III 4x600s, binned 3x3
S-II 3x600s, binned 3x3
3D animated:
astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2010/01/stereo-animation.html
More info: www.astroanarchy.blogspot.com/
3D-ransformation in several formats:
Michael Fincke (NASA Bordingenieur/Copilot), Oleg Germanowitsch Artemjew (russischer Kosmonaut/Bordingenieur), Kimiya Yui (JAXA Testpilot/Forscher) und Nikolai Michailowitsch Budarin (ehemaliger russischer Kosmonaut) im Ars Electronica Center
credit: Sick-Leitner Magdalena
Für die alchemistischen Autoren war die “Prima Materia”, der Urstoff aus dem alles hervorging: Das Männliche und Weibliche, genauso wie Mischwesen, Himmel und Erde, Körper, Geist, Chaos, Mikrokosmos und ungeordnete Masse. Die Prima Materia enthält alle Farben und potentiell alle Metalle. Es gibt nichts vergleichbares auf der Welt, denn die Prima Materia erzeugt sich selbst, entwirft sich selbst und gebiert sich selbst.
credit: Magdalena Sick-Leitner
Genießen Sie den Deep Space 8K in vollem Ausmaß: Gigapixelfotografien, Zeitraffervideos, historische Stätten in 3-D, Bilder aus dem Inneren des Menschen und Spiele zum Mitmachen werden Ihnen bei „Best of Deep Space 8K“ mehrmals am Tag präsentiert. Aufgrund der vielfältigen Möglichkeiten im Deep Space 8K gleicht eine Präsentation nie einer anderen!
credit: Christopher Sonnleitner
ottica: teleobiettivo 135mm f/4 russo(ЗЕНИТ ЮПИТЕР-11A);
apparecchiatura di ripresa: reflex analogica Yashica FX3-2000 con pellicola Kodak E200 +3stop;
montatura: CG-5 motorizzata e guida con reticolo illuminato;
data:14/08/2007;
sito:Mt.Nebrodi-Sicilia (1400m slm);
Posa: 30 min.;
digitalizzazione con scansione multipla di ogni fotogramma a 3200dpi/48bit;
elaborazione: Photoshop CS
Beside its resemblance with the Greek Letter Omega some would say it looks like a swan. Found in the costellation of Sagittarius (The Archer.) It is 5000 ly away and 7th magnitude.
The Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33)
Barnard 33 the Horsehead Nebula.
Shot in narrowband and using the HSO palette with some blending of channels.
5min subs @-10C spread across 5 nights for a total integration time of 7.3hrs
Equipment used:
Skywatcher 10" Quattro
Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro Hypertuned
Skywatcher f4 Aplanatic Coma Corrector
ZWO ASI2600MM Pro
ZWO OAG
Antlia 3nm Narrowband 36mm unmounted filters
Bortle 5
Data acquisition software: NINA Astronomy Software
Processing software: PixInsight and Photoshop CC
The distance from Earth to the nearest star is 6,250 times as great as the distance from Earth to Pluto. To make such astronomical differences comprehensible we can say that the difference between these two distances is like the difference between the circumference of Earth (25,000 miles) and 4 miles.
Conquering the Sun's Empire
Frederick I. Ordway, III
and Ronald C. Wakeford
Illustrations by Harry H-K Lange
E.P Dutton & Co., 1963
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Please enjoy the full size animated image.
Four rooms and a hall
Deep Space Operations facility at Jet Propulsion Laboratory integrates several functions during critical mission phases.
Some are vigilant around the clock.
Some are workaday.
Some, like the Curiosity Mars Science Laboratory rover team, are accommodated for critical mission periods.
Our view is from the fourth room - a glass enclosed public viewing area above the others.
Below is the Deep Space Operations stations and consoles support the workaday teams which monitor all active missions and data collection. Soft blue LEDs illuminate each workstation. Above are three projection screens which can display networked pages relevant to the task at hand - in this case the transition from spacecraft to rover of the Mars Science Laboratory "Curiosity", a high-risk stream of events.
To the right is a Mission Control Center, which spends much time unoccupied. Tonight however Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) team have come to sweat and fret, and eat the traditional peanuts. They monitor and direct the spacecraft as the tasks unfold autonomously, keeping watch that all is nominally within range (keeping an eye pealed for anomalies.) Tomorrow this room will once again be empty, save for the few workers swapping functions in preparation for the next Mission Control team. Some of the team returns to home mission control for day-to-day planning and operations, some of tonight's team bid farewell and are re-assigned to other teams where their spaceflight expertise can be useful, while others now join the ground operations aspect of Curiosity.
Just beyond the glass beneath the projection screens is the the key to ALL current missions, the Deep Space Network Operations Center. Here is the connections to and from points far and wide. It is the nexus, the hub between all currently operating missions with crews sending commands and receiving data, through here, and out to collections of Deep Space Network Antennas and arrays which are many, and include the famous ones in Madrid, Spain; Canberra, Australia; and Goldstone in the Mojave Desert of California. The buck stops here for ensuring scientists remain connected to their experiments. A redundant and robust network which includes transmission media such as microwave, coaxial, twisted-pair and fiber-optic carrying an astronomic variety of analog and digital protocol information must remain under constant vigil to prevent disruption.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research. It's mission statement "To pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research." implies a directive to make it's finding available to all U.S. citizens. Sometimes that is a televised event, and the data screens on either side of the telemetry data screen are displaying the High-Definition video streams of themselves, perhaps a reminder to keep offensive gestures and t-shirt logos out of the public eye. This view is from the camera mounted on the right side of the public viewing platform, and a recursive image is seen on the right data screen. If you could view with infinite pixel density, you would be about here in the worm-hole, giving new meaning to waving at the folks back home.
mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/news/whatsnew/index.cfm?FuseAction=...
marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/mission/spacecraft/edlconfig/
Für die alchemistischen Autoren war die “Prima Materia”, der Urstoff aus dem alles hervorging: Das Männliche und Weibliche, genauso wie Mischwesen, Himmel und Erde, Körper, Geist, Chaos, Mikrokosmos und ungeordnete Masse. Die Prima Materia enthält alle Farben und potentiell alle Metalle. Es gibt nichts vergleichbares auf der Welt, denn die Prima Materia erzeugt sich selbst, entwirft sich selbst und gebiert sich selbst.
credit: Magdalena Sick-Leitner
Der Linzer Fotograf Florian Voggeneder nutzte die neusten Techniken der automatisierten Kameranachführung und fertigte so ein hochauflösendes Gigapixel des Pacher-Altars an. Bei Deep Space LIVE am DO, 3.12.2015 stellten der Theologe Dr. Michael Zugmann von der Katholisch-Theologische Privatuniversität Linz, und der Kunsthistoriker Dr. Lothar Schultes, vom Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseum, diesen besonderen Altar vor.
credit: Magdalena Leitner
The Crescent Nebula
Telescope: 24" RCOS
Camera: Alta U42 CCD
Exposures: 17 x 600sec. with Ha and OIII filters.
Taken back in 2004 from the Queensland Astrofest, this image spans the milky way from the southern constellation Circinus (left), to the northern Aquila at right.
Taken with a 50mm Asahi Pentax lens and 3.3MP SBIG ST10XE camera with a 10nm Schuler Ha filter, this image is a mosaic of 28 images, each of 30 minutes, taken over 7 consecutive nights.
For more detail and much larger versions of the image, see astroshed.com/milkydetail.html
2005 Malin Awards - Honourable Mention
A little more work to help bring out the dustyness.
About two hours of integration.
Nikon D5300 (Ha modified)
150 second exposures at iso 800
Stacked with Deepskystacker and processed with Startools
As some people know I spend a few weeks in south east asia.
In Singapore there are so many huge and hypermodern (but ridiculous cold airconditioned) skyscrapers to see and it's hardly possible to take bad shots of those.
I'll be showing many more pictures of this great countries Singapore & Malaysia in the next time.
Martin Scriba - 2012 © scribART.de
Four rooms and a hall
Deep Space Operations facility at Jet Propulsion Laboratory integrates several functions during critical mission phases.
Some are vigilant around the clock.
Some are workaday.
Some, like the Curiosity Mars Science Laboratory rover team, are accommodated for critical mission periods.
Our view is from the fourth room - a glass enclosed public viewing area above the others.
Below is the Deep Space Operations stations and consoles support the workaday teams which monitor all active missions and data collection. Soft blue LEDs illuminate each workstation. Above are three projection screens which can display networked pages relevant to the task at hand - in this case the transition from spacecraft to rover of the Mars Science Laboratory "Curiosity", a high-risk stream of events.
To the right is a Mission Control Center, which spends much time unoccupied. Tonight however Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) team have come to sweat and fret, and eat the traditional peanuts. They monitor and direct the spacecraft as the tasks unfold autonomously, keeping watch that all is nominally within range (keeping an eye pealed for anomalies.) Tomorrow this room will once again be empty, save for the few workers swapping functions in preparation for the next Mission Control team. Some of the team returns to home mission control for day-to-day planning and operations, some of tonight's team bid farewell and are re-assigned to other teams where their spaceflight expertise can be useful, while others now join the ground operations aspect of Curiosity.
Just beyond the glass beneath the projection screens is the the key to ALL current missions, the Deep Space Network Operations Center. Here is the connections to and from points far and wide. It is the nexus, the hub between all currently operating missions with crews sending commands and receiving data, through here, and out to collections of Deep Space Network Antennas and arrays which are many, and include the famous ones in Madrid, Spain; Canberra, Australia; and Goldstone in the Mojave Desert of California. The buck stops here for ensuring scientists remain connected to their experiments. A redundant and robust network which includes transmission media such as microwave, coaxial, twisted-pair and fiber-optic carrying an astronomic variety of analog and digital protocol information must remain under constant vigil to prevent disruption.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research. It's mission statement "To pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research." implies a directive to make it's finding available to all U.S. citizens. Sometimes that is a televised event, and the data screens on either side of the telemetry data screen are displaying the High-Definition video streams of themselves, perhaps a reminder to keep offensive gestures and t-shirt logos out of the public eye. This view is from the camera mounted on the right side of the public viewing platform, and a recursive image is seen on the right data screen. If you could view with infinite pixel density, you would be about here in the worm-hole, giving new meaning to waving at the folks back home.
mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/news/whatsnew/index.cfm?FuseAction=...
marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/mission/spacecraft/edlconfig/
Michael Fincke (NASA Bordingenieur/Copilot) im Ars Electronica Center
credit: Sick-Leitner Magdalena
6.5hrs on the Veil Nebula taken back in the summer of 2024.
Taken with a Redcat51v1 and an 2600MC Pro. No filters used for this image. Processed in Siril, GIMP, GraXpert and Topaz.
This picture show a part of molecular cloud Sharpless2-264 in the north of Orion's constellation.
Near the red emission nebula is visible the dark areas number 30, 33, 233 of barnard's catalogue.
The mix of the obscure and light nebulae,
painting a wave that on the center of the field,
is illuminate to some young stars with their blue light
Datasheet:
Boren Simon 8" f2.8
Orion Atlas EQ-G mount
guiding with Mag Zero on Skyline 80/400
CCD SBIG ST 8300 ( cooled - 15°)
gen-march 2012
Ha-UHC RGB
lum: Ha 21.68 h; UHC 14.0 h;
chrom: Red 84min G (R/B) Blue 8.3 h
Capture: CCDOps, PHD Guiding
Processing: Astroart, Pic Tools, Photoshop CS3
acquired on december 2011 to march 2012 (2011/12/22; 2012/3/15)
Testing a Mountain Instruments MI-250 and GSO 10" RCA. Taken with an SBIG ST-8300C. 10 shots of 20 minutes per shot, a small amount of post processing with Nebulosity and stacked in MaximDL using a sigma clip stacking method.
M44, also known as the Beehive Cluster, is an open cluster of stars in the heart of the constellation of Cancer. It is approximately 600 ly from Earth and contains more than 200 stars.
Imaging equipment: Sky-Watcher 80ED (f/7.5), HEQ5 mount, Canon EOS 40D at prime focus, Astronomik CLS filter. Guiding equipment: Sky-Watcher 100ED, StarShoot Autoguider. Total imaging time 93 minutes. Sets of 5- and 6-minute sub-frames (taken in February 2011 from Elgin, Scotland) were processed and stacked in Photoshop - utilising ProDigital Software's Astronomy plug-ins and StarSpikes Pro.