STAR and SUN
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This is an imperfect panorama merge, but shows an interesting phenomenon I didn't realize at the shooting time. The original intent was to get a Milky Way shot at our camp site. But due to various limits, I couldn't tell where the Milky Way was on the star-full sky, and couldn't step out the camp site into the wild park to avoid light and get more sky. So the Milky Way was not obvious in the stacked shot.
As a last try, the 200+ shots were merged into this star trail panorama, it took me a while to realize what I was staring at. This Samburu Reserve is almost at the Equator, so the trails turned into two half circles, one around the south pole, the other the north pole. And the trails over the Equator split in the middle, i.e., at the celestial equator. Even the shots and merge were very poor, I learned something new.
Samburu National Reserve, Kenya.
In 1974 my parents drove our VW camper the approximate 1000 miles down to Kenya from Ethiopia for my high school graduation. On our return back we stopped at the equator for this photo.
Scanned from a slide.
Il "Marco do Equador" è un punto turistico che segna la linea dell'Equatore, una divisione immaginaria che separa l'emisfero nord boreale dall'emisfero sud australe.
The "Equator Monument" is a tourist spot that marks the Equator line, an imaginary division that separates the northern hemisphere from the southern hemisphere.
0°00'00"S 6°31'20"E
Gong Xi Fatt Choy !... Well my friends, my first sunset shot of 2011...Wishing my Chinese friends all over, Happy Chinese new year...May the year of the rabbit brings good fortune and health. As usual, it's a 2-day holidays in Malaysia. People of various races and religion are going around visiting their chinese friends and neighbors in the malaysian unique culture of an "Open House" concept.
Nikon D700 + Nikon 80-200mm f/2.8 AF-D + Handheld
At the Celestial equator the stars are almost at the same distance from both celestial poles so they seem to travel in a straight line. The South Celestial pole is towards the top left of the photo. The North Celestial pole is below the horizon towards the bottom-right.
Startrails on a 3 hours exposure. The region at the left(straight trails) belongs to the celestial equator. Celestial equator is a projection of the Earth's equator on the celestial sphere.
Mangled marbles.
Next time you’re flying across the equator make sure you are standing by a draining sink. You should see the direction of rotation of the swirling water plummeting down the plughole reverse as you go over the equator… in theory :)
Depending on which hemisphere you are in the water swirls clockwise (Northern) or anticlockwise (Southern). This is due to the Coriolis effect which arises from an interaction between gravity and the spinning spheroid on which we sit… or fly. The same effect also causes weather effects like anticyclones being high pressure areas in one hemisphere and low pressure in the other, and vice versa for cyclones.
This image is the result of merry mangling for Sliders Sunday. It reminded me a bit of water going down a plughole in two directions at once, hence the title.
The basic approach was to start with a brightly coloured image (I’ll link it as I normally do in the first comment), radially blur it and then copy the resulting layer. Use the same twirl distortion in different directions on the two copies and then blend them using blend ranges. You can find instructions for this sort of effect using Google, but this is the first time I have tried it. I can’t help but think the next attempt will be better! Fun was had which is the main thing...
Thank you for taking time to look. I hope you enjoy the image! Happy Sliders Sunday :)
[1. Chose bright starting image (would have been better with more variation).
2. Radial Blurred
3. Copied layer.
4. Twirled layers in different directions.
5. Copied top layer and moved it down to layer 3.
6. For each layer added HSL adjustment and played with them.
7. For top two layers blended them with Blend Ranges, lowered opacity and Blend types to taste (!)
8. Moved the layers about with Move tool.
9. Cropped; added dark vignette and depth of field blur to blur outer edges.
10. Added frame.
I started out in Photoshop, but moved it to Affinity Photo which allowed much more subtle adjustments to blend ranges and previewed blend types.]
FUGRO EQUATOR [IMO 9627411 , MMSI 311065700 ], 1,929 gt, 65.74 loa, is a research vessel built 2012 in Singapore at the Oakwell Shipbuilding Engineering & Construction Pte Ltd shipyards. She sails under the Bahamas flag, is owned by Fugro NV of the Netherlands and is managed by Fugro Survey Pte Ltd of Singapore.
The FUGRO EQUATOR has been involved in the search for the missing Malaysian Airlines plane, flight MH370 and has been a regularly visitor to Fremantle during the search. She was photographed here arriving in Fremantle on February 9, 2016 having been at sea participating in the search.
FUGRO EQUATOR [IMO 9627411 , MMSI 311065700 ], 1,929 gt, 65.74 loa, is a research vessel built 2012 in Singapore at the Oakwell Shipbuilding Engineering & Construction Pte Ltd shipyards. She sails under the Bahamas flag, is owned by Fugro NV of the Netherlands and is managed by Fugro Survey Pte Ltd of Singapore.
The FUGRO EQUATOR has been involved in the search for the missing Malaysian Airlines plane, flight MH370 and has been a regularly visitor to Fremantle during the search. She was photographed here arriving in Fremantle on February 9, 2016 having been at sea participating in the search.
The latest reports suggest she will be involved in the search into the early part of 2017 [source: www.airlineratings.com/news/863/mh370-search-extended-to-...]
Equator - IMO 9363766
Bulk Carrier
Flag: Marshall Islands
Built: 2008
Length: 140 m
Beam: 25 m
Passing Erith. Heading out from the Tate & Lyle Thames Refinery, Silvertown to Tilbury.
25.3.23.
Crater Gauss is the large crater near the center of the terminator. The sight line of this view is roughly along the lunar equator looking eastward toward the lunar terminator. (A. Ruki 16)
ZWO ASI178MC
Meade LX850 (12" f/8)
Losmandy G11
4,000 frames captured in Firecapture
Best 600 frames stacked and sharpened in PSS
Finished in Photoshop
My wife and myself at the equator. This little monument with a rotating wire-frame globe is exactly on the equator, and a popular tourist spot. Safari cars stop here for taking pictures, and the locals try to sell arts and crafts.
En route to Lake Naivasha
D07-0051-X3004044
Equator - IMO 9363766
Bulk Carrier
Flag: Marshall Islands
Built: 2008
Length: 140 m
Beam: 25 m
Passing Erith. Heading out from the Tate & Lyle Thames Refinery, Silvertown to Tilbury.
25.3.23.
FUGRO EQUATOR [IMO 9627411 , MMSI 311065700 ], 1,929 gt, 65.74 loa, is a research vessel built 2012 in Singapore at the Oakwell Shipbuilding Engineering & Construction Pte Ltd shipyards. She sails under the Bahamas flag, is owned by Fugro NV of the Netherlands and is managed by Fugro Survey Pte Ltd of Singapore.
The FUGRO EQUATOR had been involved in the search for the missing Malaysian Airlines plane, flight MH370 and was a regularly visitor to Fremantle during the search. She was photographed here leaving Fremantle on May 6, 2016 having being berthed at No. 11 NQ on May 5, 2016.
With the search now abandoned by the Malaysian government the Fugro Equator is now longer a regularly visitor.