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M 8 - Lagoon Nebula with Chile Two telescope and processing with Pixinsight. The Lagoon Nebula (also known as Messier 8, or NGC 6523) is a diffuse nebula in the constellation Sagittarius. it was discovered by Le Gentil in 1747.
It is one of the brightest H II regions of the sky and is visible even to the naked eye under fairly clear and dark skies. The Lagoon Nebula is easily identified even with the naked eye on particularly clear nights; its location is easy to find, being located about 7° north of the star γ Sagittarii (Al Nasl), which represents the tip of the Sagittarius arrow. The region that hosts it is rich in background stars and the light of the Milky Way is very intense, due to the proximity of the core; A 10x50 binoculars is able to show several details: it appears as an extensive and opaque spot, a little elongated in an east-west direction and surrounded by several stars. A 120-140mm telescope allows you to notice additional details, such as variations in brightness intensity, and also several of the associated stars; With 200mm tools, a large number of secondary details are visible.
The Lagoon Nebula can be observed with reasonable ease from most of the populated areas of the Earth, thanks to the fact that it is located at a declination not too austral: in some areas of Northern Europe and Canada, near the Arctic Circle, its visibility is however impossible, while in central Europe it appears very low; from the southern hemisphere the nebula is clearly visible high in the nights of the austral winter and at the height of the Tropic of Capricorn can be seen almost perfectly at the zenith. The best time for its observation in the evening sky is between June and October.
The nebula is located a short distance from the ecliptic (less than one degree) and therefore cases of occultation by the various bodies of the solar system are not uncommon.
I'm not sure exactly what happened here other than two buskers being asked to move on. From my vantage point, the police offer did a good job diffusing the situation.
This is purely my perception of the events.
17th and Walnut
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Acrylic and oil on linen canvas, 60 x 70 cm. 2015. Collaboration with Laguna
Artwork available at: 19karen.com.au/artworks/diffuse-identity/
halfway through the afternoon,hug blacks clouds(huge!) shielded the track from the sunlight for about ten minutes..the result was like a huge softbox in the sky..this is pascal wehrlein in the Mercedes..
Cloudy sunrise seascape with waves and rocks at Killcare Beach on the Central Coast, NSW, Australia.
This is the view of the field close to our house. This was part of a 3 bracket to make into an HDR but it was hand held and the +2 image was too shaky. So I decided to work with -2 image and play around with it in Lr, where I knocked back the contrast and brought up the clarity and also flipped it to improve the composition. It was tempting to make it into a silhouette but then I thought a lot of that foreground wildness looked quite good and the silhouette would have resulted in a large crop..
Best viewed on black press (L)
Experimenting with window light and a flowering cactus. This one always reminds me of Callum even though it is grown from a leaf of Mike's plant. I remember Callum saying his one always flowered in June. Two years since he left us. Still thinking of you my dear old mate.
It is however a pity I forgot to remove the makeshift base of cardboard before photographing. A timely reminder to pay great attention to detail :)
Fun though seeing how much light could be cut out and still have the flowers pop. Hopefully this is just the beginning, once I have myself a black box I shall be taking many more.
Re the segue I thought the pinks matched nicely :) Next up railway tracks at the delightful Paekakariki station in golden hour. Woo hoo!
Cut from a plastic binder and made to fit in the camera's hot shoe, in this case on a D80.
Full instructions are on instructables.com.
Strobist blurb: OK, so it's still an on-camera flash but it is improving on what's provided. Besides, it could be used for Nikon's off-camera CLS.
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This is much the same shot as Gone Forever, but a landscape version. Which do you prefer?
Wallpaper
I thought I would give away a desktop wallpaper download of this shot, so click HERE and click the 'Download Wallpaper\ button and enjoy! Let me know if you're using it as a wallpaper too!
Update
Since i have a new website, the link to the wallpaper download doesn't work, but don't worry! Check back soon and a new link will be up!
Location: Porec, Croatia
Do not post this the wallpaper version of this photo on any site, it is strictly for personal use only.
Trying a different way of using an external camera mounted flash gun for macro shots. Just a sheet of A4 paper folded in half and then two slots about 3cms long cut on both the long sides about halfway down and the paper is bent and stuck at these slot pints to make a slight curve. The paper is mounted on the flash gun as shown using a length of a sticky tape stuck to itself as a strap which is held round the flash and stuck to the paper on both sides. The flash is then used with the head swung away from the lens at an angle of about 30' to 45'
Main reason for trying this was to get more side lighting and hopefully reduce reflections.
This pic was taken using it