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Dwarf Iris - Morgan County, Alabama. What a wonderful surprise, after a few rather dreary days, to find this blooming in our backyard.
I sometimes feel that the universe has plans for us. It can be a random event, or maybe a set of circumstances. Then there's those very rare moments when you experience something so special that happens for no reason and you are the only one there to bear witness. Did that happen or was I dreaming?
I could not get my ears to clear on the last day of a week's diving in the Coral Sea. Blocked ears come with the territory and there's no way to descend when it happens Everyone was so pumped to dive and there I was on the deck all by myself (think Donkey in Shrek).
I asked if I could hang off the mermaid line even though we hadn't seen any whales that day. I thought it beat just sitting waiting for everyone to return. Maybe a turtle might swim by.
Out of nowhere, five Minke Whales appeared and circled me, did bubble blasts under me, and showed me their bellies and they jinked and dived near me. Initially they kept their distance as they circled me from all angles. Almost like they were trying to figure out what I was and why I was in the ocean with them.
The biggest whale (pictured) circled me several times and even stopped opposite me to look me over with the biggest eye I have ever seen. Before i knew it, this whale closed the distance and glided 2-3 metres from me. The whale continued to play in close around me for the next 20 minutes.
News spread that a pod of 5 minke whales were out back and people cancelled their second dive to join me on the line...but the extra people splashing about meant the whales moved further away keeping 10-15 metres from the line.
Thanks universe, you sure know how to turn diving misery into a minke whale victory! What a way to finish my trip.
Dwarf cuttlefish or the Stumpy-spined cuttlefish, Sepia bandensis, Mindoro, Philippines, Asia, South China Sea
Walter Sisulu National Botanical Garden
DESCRIPTION
The Dwarf Bittern is a very small, dark heron with dark and buff stripped throat and under sides.
ADULT: The male has a dark slate grey head and neck, with elongated head and neck feathers. Bill is dark. The upper bill is black to dark green. The lower bill is yellow. Lores and orbital skin are blue to yellow green. Irises are red brown to dark red. The back, upper wings and other upper parts are dark slate grey. Its throat and upper breast are pale buff, darkening to tawny on the abdomen, heavily streaked black. Legs and feet are green yellow in front and yellow in back. In courtship legs and feet turn bright orange.
VARIATION: The female is paler, with a more rufous tinge on its belly and yellow irises.
JUVENILE: The immature bird is more buff and pale than adult. The buff tips to the wing covert feathers. Its under parts are more russet. Its foreneck has narrower streaking. Bill is dull yellow grey. Irises are orange red and the legs and feet are yellow.
CHICK: The down of the chick is ginger brown, slightly longer on the crown creating a crest. The irises are dark brown. The skin, bill, legs and feet are pink.
VOICE: The voice of this species is little known. A loud croak is uttered when disturbed.
WEIGHTS AND MEASUREMENTS: Length: 27-30 cm. Weight: 142 g.
FORAGING
Dwarf Bitterns feed solitarily or in pairs, hunting by night and ,especially if it is cloudy, by day. This it does silently and unobtrusively by Standing and by Walking Slowly. This daily schedule overlaps availability of frogs . Dwarf Bitterns sometimes prefer to sneak through vegetation and reeds rather than climb or perch on them. When disturbed they stay put at the water’s edge in an exaggerated version of the Bittern posture or it often fly up into trees moving only short distances. It is likely that individuals defend feeding territory, and its use of a Forward display has been described.
Insects, such as grasshoppers and water bugs, spiders, small fish, crabs, snails and frogs form the main items of the diet. Local populations specialize in grasshoppers and frogs, and can take advantage of seasonal prey availability such as frogs in fishless seasonal pans
This image shows the ring nebula together with its very faint halo as imaged by 11″ and 12″ reflectors.
Credit: André van der Hoeven, Terry Hancock and Fred Herrmann
Like other old red giants M57, better known as the Ring nebula, has expelled most of its material in the form of hydrogen and oxygen. At its core lies the white dwarf remnant which consists mainly of carbon. The lighter hydrogen forms the outer reddish envelope while the heavier blue-green oxygen remains about the core. The gases in the expanding shell are illuminated by the radiation of the central white dwarf who’s glow is still 200 times brighter than our Sun.
Normally only M57’s main core is displayed as shown in this older Hubble image: www.waid-observatory.com/images/m/m057-2012-08-12-HLA-839...
When we look closely we see that M57 consists of three structures, the inner, bright and most familiar, nebula, which is about 86″ by 62″. This is surrounded by a second fainter halo ranging until about 156″ x 136″ from the central star. Surrounding these two there is a very faint third halo of about 3,8′ diameter. The brightnesses of these three halos differ a lot, the second ring being about 5x (2 magnitudes) fainter than the central ring, and the outermost being almost 5000x fainter than the central ring (>9 magnitudes fainter…).
Observation
The huge difference in brightness makes it very difficult to observe the halos. Using data from a C11 and two 12″ RC telescopes about 40 hours of data was gathered using narrowband h-alpha filters (3 and 5 nm) to lift the halo out of the background noise during a period of over 2 years (2011-2013). The barred spiral galaxy IC 1296 is also visible in the upper part of the image. IC 1296 distance is estimated to be 220 million light years.
This image was done as a collaboration by myself, Terry Hancock in Michigan, USA and Fred Herrmann from Alabama, USA.
Setups:
André: Celestron C11 with SXV-H9
Fred: Astro-tech 12″ RC with SBIG ST-8300
Terry: Astro-tech 12″ RC with QHY-9
Total exposures used:
H-alpha 1800s: 40x (André), 20x (Terry), 3600s: 4x (André), 5x (Fred)
RGB Red 16x 10 min, Green 12 x 10 min, Blue 11x 10 min (Terry)
Luminance 8x 15 min (Terry)
Total exposure time: 47.5 hours
The Ring nebula
Formed by a star throwing off its outer layers as it runs out of fuel, the Ring Nebula is an archetypal planetary nebula. It is both relatively close to Earth and fairly bright, and so was first recorded in the late 18th century. As is common with astronomical objects, its precise distance is not known, but it is thought to lie just over 2000 light-years from Earth.
From Earth’s perspective, the nebula looks roughly elliptical. However from research it turns out that the nebula is shaped like a distorted doughnut. We are gazing almost directly down one of the poles of this structure, with a brightly coloured barrel of material stretching away from us. Although the centre of this doughnut may look empty, it is actually full of lower density material that stretches both towards and away from us, creating a shape similar to a rugby ball slotted into the doughnut’s central gap.
The brightest part of this nebula is what we see as the colourful main ring. This is composed of gas thrown off by a dying star at the centre of the nebula. The diameter of the central ring is about 1 lightyear while the outer halo has a diameter of about 2.5 lightyears. This star is on its way to becoming a white dwarf — a very small, dense, and hot body that is the final evolutionary stage for a star like the Sun.
The central star has a temperature of about 100.000-120.000 K and sends out most of its radiation in UV. In the central ring nicely the degrading ionization of the surrounding gas can be seen. In the centre there is mostly blue-violet light, while surrounding it there is a green ring of OIII gas which needs a lower energy to transmit its light and at the outer edge of the central ring there is the low energetic red light of H-alpha.
The inner halo around M57 was only discovered in 1935 by J.C. Duncan using a 30 min image with the 2,5 m Hooker telescope. The discovery paper can be found here: www.astro-photo.nl/wp_astro/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/m5...
The outer most halo was only discovered when first space telescopes, like the Hubble, pointed at the Ring nebula.
The central ring has an estimated age of 5000-6000 years, while the outer most halo was probably released by the central star about 100.000 years ago, when it was still in its red giant phase.
47468 is about to pass under Scar Lane bridge at Milnsbridge with 1M67 09:53 Scarborough to Liverpool Lime Street. 6/12/86. This must be one of the highest road overbridges in West Yorkshire and it seems to dwarf the train.
Dwarven MechBots have long been revered for the technology and mobility they possess. Although the programing may not be as sophisticated as other races the mechanics of the bot are top notch. Able to perform maintainance and defensive tasks these guys just love to show off there versatility.
It's a what? Well not really sure to be honest I tried to make a bot and then halfway went to switch it to a small scale mech and now it just is all too confusing, so I post.
Astilbe chinensis var. pumila
From your friendly Swallowtail Garden Seeds catalog photographer. We hope you will enjoy our collection of botanical photographs as much as we do.
My first attempt to build a dwarf column out of LEGO. Its inpired by the columns in the Mines of Moria in the Lord of the Rings. I will show it with the upper part once i've done it.
This is my Entry to the 1st round of MELO at MOCpages.
A little dwarf tavern, that was build into a rock. The Front may be opened and also the roof is ready to lift up, to get a look at the interior.
Statue of the dwarf Khnumhotep, the Overseer of linen, the ka-servant. Dwarfs in the Old Kingdom were often holding important titles.
5th or 6th dynasty, from Saqqara.
CG 144
Ground floor, gallery 46
Cairo Museum
Amtrak train 390 is dwarfed by a grain elevator in Ashkum, Illinois, on the CN Champaign Subdivision. In the foreground is the former Illinois Central Railroad station for the town of nearly 700 in Iroquois County.
So, the Sex Dwarf Hottie was joined by Trishylicious and Sex Dwarf Queen Bee Miss Jackie Manni. One of the best photos of the night.
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Esta es la tercera vez que pliego este modelo. En esta ocasión usé el papel que utilicé para el Tyrannosaurus de Kamiya, la foto más reciente.
Este papel es el que utilizan los pintores para tapar puertas y ventanas; usé dos cuadrados de 30,5cm pegados con pegamento de barra. Es el papel que más recomiendo para este modelo ya que es muy resistente y moldeable. La verdad es que estoy muy satisfecho con el resultado.
En cuanto al bastón y a la grulla, usé un craft.
Tall Bearded irises are gorgeous, but equally as beautiful and less well known are Standard Dwarf Bearded irises.
These short irises grow to between 8 ins and 16 ins high and usually flower in May, although in southern counties, and warm springs, they can start to bloom in April, as indeed is seen here, where I spotted them on a stall at the Car Boot Sale!.
The flowers are smaller than those of Tall Bearded varieties; sitting just above a low, clump of sword-like, grey-green leaves.
The two shown here are 'Knick Knack' (white with blue veining) and 'Cherry Garden' (with dark red flowers).
I could very easily find places in the garden for these beauties!
One of the beauties of the woodlands. I love these beautiful plants...but they are poisonous! Just don't eat them and you're fine.
See you later, Main Street Electrical Parade! Can't wait to see your little brother Paint the Night at California Adventure!
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If this looks familiar it is because this spot has been filmed as the battle scene in the Chronicles of Narnia. I wanted to show how the rocks dwarfed the people who are admiring it...
Amtrak's southbound Lincoln Service train is dwarfed by the large elevator at Elkhart, IL, on 9-19-16. A former BNSF Geep now works for Elkhart Grain.
The grain elevator complex in Ludlow, Illinois dwarfs a passing Canadian National northbound manifest freight on the former Illinois Central Railroad mainline.
The Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy, pictured in a new image from the Wide Field Imager camera, installed on the 2.2-metre MPG/ESO telescope at ESOâs La Silla Observatory, is a close neighbour of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Despite their proximity, both galaxies have very distinct histories and characters. This galaxy is much smaller, fainter and older than the Milky Way and appears here as a cloud of faint stars filling most of the picture.
Many other much more distant galaxies can be seen shining right through the sparse stars of the Sculptor Dwarf.
More information: www.eso.org/public/images/eso1536a/
Credit:
ESO
There 5 different breeds of dwarf dogs I shown. They are all adorable and cute dogs in the reality, that’s why I built them out! Also built 5 different stages for them. Hope you like~
Now I had submitted this on LEGO IDEAS, if you like them, please come to check it out
Link:
ideas.lego.com/projects/7469407e-d18b-45a5-bc57-48f909b65f43
短腿狗系列投上LEGO IDEAS了~~
經過這一兩個月的創作
製作出五種不同品種的狗
很受大家的喜愛與支持
於是就整理成一整組
配合前幾天製作的小底座
讓短腿們也能很有情境
有草地、石頭路、地毯、磁磚地板、沙地
可以放在桌上或是展示櫃上都很適合
如果你很喜歡我所創作的這些小短腿的話
也請多多幫忙支持囉~~
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The foxes were asleep today. So I went for a longer walk. Came across one of my favorite flowers in Alaska, dwarf fireweed.
It looks similar to fireweed, which seems to be the most common flower in Alaska, behind the dandelion.