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Just passing by and performing a flythrough at Airbus Harwarden is this A400M Atlas from RAF Brize Norton on a training sortie
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It's been a slightly crazy week that started at Blyton Park in Lincs on Monday with the Twisters and Jeep, before spending the afternoon at Sywell on Tuesday with the Grace Spitfire. On Wednesday I headed to Gibraltar for four days supporting the Twister Aerobatics tour for Gibraltar National Day, and I've just got back now. Tomorrow it will end with a wedding!
I'm still to look through everything captured, but I'd be surprised if anything surpasses this! ZZ175 seen performing a 200ft flythrough at Gibraltar before breaking into the visual circuit. Just great to see!
As mentioned in a comment in the previous photo, here's a short clip flying through the arch in Hole In The Rock, Vermillion Cliffs National Monument.
Before anyone asks, yes drones are legal here. Vermillion Cliffs, while labeled a National Monument, is actually administrated by the BLM, so regular no fly rules do not apply.
In the 1919 Paris victory parade the cream of French aviation marched like so many poilus, the feat for which Jean Navarre gave his life unaccomplished. Georges Guynemer had contemplated a flythrough of the Arc de Triomphe as early as 1916, but after a few passes deemed it impossible. Even Roland Garros pronounced it suicidal. Neither had survived the war, and with the great Navarre gone as well, who remained up to the task?
Sympathetic aviation writer (and Navarre biographer) Jacques Mortane had just the man. Sgt. Charles Godefroy had won the Croix de Guerre in the infantry, only completing his pilot training at war’s end. Like Navarre, he was a natural in the air, with 500 flying hours as an instructor, but in July 1919 he was about to demobilize and hadn’t flown for some six months.
Seven years older than Navarre, Godefroy approached the Arc with a cooler head. He took numerous measurements and studied the crosscurrents from the many intersecting avenues at the Place de l’Étoile. Rather than practicing under the near-invisible phone lines that had claimed his predecessor, Godefroy used the bridge over the Petit Rhône at Miramas, his birthplace.
At 7:20 AM on August 7th he reported in uniform to an aerodrome outside Paris and, with the help of a complicit mechanic, borrowed a plane (usually described as a Nieuport 11 Bébé, then long out of service, but almost certainly a late-war Nieuport 27). Within minutes, approaching from the west in misty conditions at just 300 feet, he was circling the Arc to alert Mortane’s film crews, placed below to catch him going in and, hopefully, coming out.
Then, using the Pont Maillot as his initial point, Godefroy dropped the Nieuport’s nose and, scattering horses and pedestrians, went roaring up the Avenue de la Grande Armée just 50 feet off the ground. The half-mile run gave him, at some hundred miles per hour, less than a minute to line up his approach.
“Just before I reached the Arc,” he recounted, “a gust of wind nearly drove me off my course.” He had only about ten feet to spare on either side. And as he burst onto the Place de l’Étoile the unexpected happened: a trolley driver on the far side of the Arc hadn’t seen him coming, and pulled across the opening.
Sgt. Charles Godefroy flies his Nieuport through Paris’ Arc de Triomphe. August 7, 1919. Click for video.
In Mortane’s film the Nieuport can be seen to rock its wings as Godefroy makes a split-second adjustment, but he’s already committed and, just that quickly, through. The trolley passengers were reported to have hit the floor, but by that time Godefroy was already gone. The whole flight took less than a half hour. No one at the field even noticed he was gone.
His identity soon came out. All France hailed him. Authorities let him off with a warning. To discourage future attempts, Mortane’s film was suppressed. (In October 1981 Alain Marchand repeated Godefroy’s feat; rather than being lauded, he was fined 5,000 French francs. Ten years later, in August 1991, a pilot stole a Mudry Cap B-1 from the Aeroclub at Lognes and flew under the Arc and the lowest arch of the Eiffel Tower as well.) Godefroy gave up flying. Jean Navarre, though, would have been proud.
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a cosmic bullseye! The gargantuan galaxy LEDA 1313424 is rippling with nine star-filled rings after an “arrow” — a far smaller blue dwarf galaxy — shot through its heart. Astronomers using Hubble identified eight visible rings, more than previously detected by any telescope in any galaxy, and confirmed a ninth using data from the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii. Previous observations of other galaxies show a maximum of two or three rings.
“This was a serendipitous discovery,” said Imad Pasha, the lead researcher and a doctoral student at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. “I was looking at a ground-based imaging survey and when I saw a galaxy with several clear rings, I was immediately drawn to it. I had to stop to investigate it.” The team later nicknamed the galaxy the “Bullseye.”
Hubble and Keck’s follow-up observations also helped the researchers prove which galaxy plunged through the center of the Bullseye — a blue dwarf galaxy to its center-left. This relatively tiny interloper traveled like a dart through the core of the Bullseye about 50 million years ago, leaving rings in its wake like ripples in a pond. A thin trail of gas now links the pair, though they are currently separated by 130,000 light-years.
“We’re catching the Bullseye at a very special moment in time,” said Pieter G. van Dokkum, a co-author of the new study and a professor at Yale. “There’s a very narrow window after the impact when a galaxy like this would have so many rings.”
Galaxies collide or barely miss one another quite frequently on cosmic timescales, but it is extremely rare for one galaxy to dive through the center of another. The blue dwarf galaxy’s straight trajectory through the Bullseye later caused material to move both inward and outward in waves, setting off new regions of star formation.
How big is the Bullseye? Our Milky Way galaxy is about 100,000 light-years in diameter, and the Bullseye is almost two-and-a-half times larger, at 250,000 light-years across.The researchers used Hubble’s crisp vision to carefully to pinpoint the location of most of its rings, since many are piled up at the center. “This would have been impossible without Hubble,” Pasha said.
They used Keck to confirm one more ring. The team suspects a 10th ring also existed, but has faded and is no longer detectable. They estimate it might lie three times farther out than the widest ring in Hubble’s image.
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Pasha also found a stunning connection between the Bullseye and a long-established theory: The galaxy’s rings appear to have moved outward almost exactly as predicted by models.
“That theory was developed for the day that someone saw so many rings,” van Dokkum said. “It is immensely gratifying to confirm this long-standing prediction with the Bullseye galaxy.”
If viewed from above, it would be more obvious that the galaxy’s rings aren’t evenly spaced like those on a dart board. Hubble’s image shows the galaxy from a slight angle. “If we were to look down at the galaxy directly, the rings would look circular, with rings bunched up at the center and gradually becoming more spaced out the farther out they are,” Pasha explained.
To visualize how these rings may have formed, think about dropping a pebble into a pond. The first ring ripples out, becoming the widest over time, while others continue to form after it.
The researchers suspect that the first two rings in the Bullseye formed quickly and spread out in wider circles. The formation of additional rings may have been slightly staggered, since the blue dwarf galaxy’s flythrough affected the first rings more significantly.
Individual stars’ orbits were largely undisturbed, though groups of stars did “pile up” to form distinguishable rings over millions of years. The gas, however, was carried outward, and mixed with dust to form new stars, further brightening the Bullseye’s rings.
There’s a lot more research to be done to figure out which stars existed before and after the blue dwarf’s “fly through.” Astronomers will now also be able to improve models showing how the galaxy may continue to evolve over billions of years, including the disappearance of additional rings.
Although this discovery was a chance finding, astronomers can look forward to finding more galaxies like this one soon. “Once NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope begins science operations, interesting objects will pop out much more easily,” van Dokkum explained. “We will learn how rare these spectacular events really are.”
The team’s paper was published on the February 4, 2025 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
The Hubble Space Telescope has been operating for over three decades and continues to make ground-breaking discoveries that shape our fundamental understanding of the universe. Hubble is a project of international cooperation between NASA and ESA (European Space Agency). NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the telescope and mission operations. Lockheed Martin Space, based in Denver, also supports mission operations at Goddard. The Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, conducts Hubble science operations for NASA.
Image credit: NASA, ESA, Imad Pasha (Yale), Pieter van Dokkum (Yale)
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Pictures alone do not do this display justice, so I did my best here and still didn't cover everything.
This was a collaborative display presented at the Bricks by the Bay 2011 Lego convention held in Santa Clara on March 27th. Members from RoninLUG, PCHLUG, and elsewhere (at least 14 builders all together, and from as far off as Europe) combined forces for this cyberpunk near future alien ghetto city diorama. Minds were blown, faces were melted, trophies were won (Best Space Structure, Best in Show, and Public Choice).
List of contributors:
12 x 600s 7nm Ha 1x1
30 x 300s 7nm Ha 1x1
16 x 20s 7nm Ha 1x1
8 x 20s Blue 1x1
2 x 600s Blue 1x1
The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976) is a diffuse nebula situated in the Milky Way south of Orion's Belt in the constellation of Orion. It is one of the brightest nebulae, and is visible to the naked eye in the night sky. M42 is located at a distance of 1,344 light years and is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth. The M42 nebula is estimated to be 24 light years across. It has a mass of about 2000 times the mass of the Sun. Older texts frequently refer to the Orion Nebula as the Great Nebula in Orion or the Great Orion Nebula.
The Orion Nebula is one of the most scrutinized and photographed objects in the night sky, and is among the most intensely studied celestial features. The nebula has revealed much about the process of how stars and planetary systems are formed from collapsing clouds of gas and dust. Astronomers have directly observed protoplanetary disks, brown dwarfs, intense and turbulent motions of the gas, and the photo-ionizing effects of massive nearby stars in the nebula.
The Running Man Nebula and Sharpless Catalog 279.
This object was named 'The Running Man Nebula' by Texas Astronomical Society member Jason Ware. Approximately 20 years ago his downstairs neighbor looked at the object and said it looked like a running man. He brought this up a TAS club meeting and the name stuck. Now widely accepted as 'The Running Man'.
Credit Wiki
3D Flythrough of the Orion Nebula: youtu.be/GjzTM6xEyJM
Michael L Hyde (c) 2015
The white-fronted tern is a species of tern from New Zealand and Australia. It is the most common tern of New Zealand. It rarely swims, apart from bathing, despite having webbed feet. The species is protected. Wikipedia
The Gilbert Chandler Institute
In all likelihood, this research facility will be demolished to make way for the East Werribee Employment Precinct. If you can handle the government propaganda (yes, an election is looming), enjoy the flythrough. Yes, it is as flat as shown in the video.
Nikon D800, Voigtlander 40mm SLII Ultron
The white-fronted tern is a species of tern from New Zealand and Australia. It is the most common tern of New Zealand. It rarely swims, apart from bathing, despite having webbed feet. The species is protected. Wikipedia
The movie was created from images taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera on Mars Express.
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A snapshot from a flythrough animation I rendered on my new Blender rig.
Animation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKKQbOwh7eM
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Just for fun I thought I'd try a zoom into this image of the Crab Nebula. It appeared very small in the frame when it was imaged but it was able to withstand rigorous cropping to show the details...but at the expense of the nice starfield. Creating a video zoom gives the best of both worlds. The canvas size in Photoshop was reduced by 1% and the frame saved, then the process was repeated on the new frame until there were 180 frames. These frames were then resized to the dimensions of the last frame and then sequenced in VitualDub and the final video finished off in Movie Maker with playback at 24fps.
The Crab Nebula (also known as M1, NGC 1952 or Taurus A). The Crab Nebula is the remnant of a supernova observed by Chinese astronomers in 1054 AD and was visible during the day for nearly a month. It is about 6,500 light years away and can be found in the constellation of Taurus. M1 has a diameter of 11 light years and is expanding at a rate of about 1,500 kilometres per second (930 mi/s), or 0.5% of the speed of light. At the center of the nebula lies the Crab Pulsar, a neutron star 28–30 kilometres (17–19 mi) across with a spin rate of 30.2 times per second, which emits pulses of radiation from gamma rays to radio waves.
Master Image:
040 x 300 second exposures at Unity Gain (139) cooled to -20°C
050 x dark frames
040 x flat frames
100 x bias frames
Binning 1x1
Total integration time = 3 hours and 20 minutes
Captured with APT
Guided with PHD2
Processed in Nebulosity, Fitsworks, and Photoshop
Video compiled with VitualDub and Movie Maker
Equipment
Telescope: Sky-Watcher Explorer-150PDS
Mount: Skywatcher EQ5
Guide Scope: Orion 50mm Mini
Guiding Camera: ZWO ASI120MC
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI1600MC Pro
Baader Mark-III MPCC Coma Corrector
Light pollution filter
...In the very literal sense.
Fun with special effects!
Dedicate to my wife Suzanne.
Royalty free music from CCMixter.
Royalty free sound effects from Stockmusic.net.
The post production took about 8 hours to do off and on. All the elements were pre-existing.
I've been toying with the idea of making a video cube for about 1.5 years now, inspired by the old 1980s video for "Hyperactive!" by Thomas Dolby. This is my more romantic rendition.
Red Arrows are staying in Farnborough tonight between shows. Went down to see them take-off then return today. Expected the return to just be a series of landings, but they thrilled the small crowd with a formation flythrough, smoke and all before their landing.
Oil Spill Response B727-2S2FG-OSRB on a flythrough at Cardiff Airport on a sunny afternoon 13/01/2022.
Coastguard AW139 G-CILN on a flythrough at Cardiff Airport before turning for St Athan South Wales UK.
A snapshot from a flythrough animation I rendered on my new Blender rig.
Animation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKKQbOwh7eM
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Here is a sneak peek of Forge, a new multiplayer map coming to Gears of War 4!Gears of War 4 is rated M for mature by the ESRB for Blood & Gore, Intense Violence and Strong Language. Gears 4 will be coming out on Xbox One and Windows 10 PC on October 11th.
25 Years after Gears of War 3,...
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This is a compilation of highlights from the 1st and 2nd 01SJ Biennials in 2006 and 2008.
01SJ Highlights Reel Artworks:
Craig Walsh, Incursion 37:20:15.71” N – 121:53:09.51” W
Karolina Sobecka, Wildlife
Michael Herrman, Bruce Gardner, Ethan Miller, Urban Observatory
Survival Research Labs
Author & Punisher (Tristan Shone), Drone Machines
Mobile Performance Group, Parking Spaces
Ben Rubin, Semaphore
Eddo Stern, Portal, Wormhole, Flythrough
Akira Hasegawa, D-K (Digital Kakejiku) Live San Jose
Superlight, San Jose Museum of Art
Jennifer + Kevin McCoy, Heaven/Hell
Daniel Faust, photographs
Adam Nash, Ways to Wave
Kota Ezawa, light boxes
Piotr Szyhalski, IF/THEN: Honor Will Never Be Regained
Harwood, Wright, Yokokoji, Tantalum Memorial—Reconstruction
David Haines, Joyce Hinterding, Black Canyon and Earth Field
Bruce Charlesworth with Colleen Ludwig, Love Disorder
Shih Chieh Huang, Twilight Zone
R. Luke DuBois and Liàn Amaris, Fashionably Late for the Relationship
Marina Zurkow, Paradoxical Sleep
Osman Khan with John Houck and Gosh, encode
Amichi Amar, Jin-Yo Mok, Light Bead Curtain
etoy, Mission Eternity
Shu Lea Cheang, Baby Love
Taeyoon Choi, Tellef Tellefson, Cheon Pyo Lee, Moveable Types and Instant Spaces
Anita Pozna, Bengt Sjölén, Adam Somlai-Fischer, Ping Genius Loci
Jenny Marketou, Katie Salen, 99 Red Balloons
Daniel Jolliffe, San Jose Voices
Rubén Ortiz Torres, High ‘n’ Low Rider
Ben Hooker, Shona Kitchen, DataNature
C5 Corporation, C5 Quest for Success
Jim Campbell, 1st and San Fernando (10,000 watts)
Robin Lasser, Adrienne Pao, Ice Queen: Glacial Retreat Dress Tent
Osman Khan, Omar Khan, Screens Exposing Employed Narratives (SEEN)
Nancy Nowacek, Katie Salen, Marina Zurkow, Karaoke Ice
Sarah Lowe, ice age
Target Family Day
Paul DeMarinis, RainDance
Helen Keeffe, RFK Remix
Art Cars
SubZER0, Jen Delos Reyes, Lori Gordon, The Infinite Exchange Gallery
Marc Tuters, Luke Maloney, Adrian Sinclair, Fête Mobile
Linda Arnejo, Jon Brumit, Lee Montgomery, Michael Trigilio, Neighborhood Public Radio
Red76, Tool Shed Days
The Mumlers
Peter Hudson, Homouroboros
Adriene Jenik, SPECFLIC 2.0
SubZER0, Minneapolis Art on Wheels
Adobe Global Youth Voices
Kate Armstrong, Bobbi Kozinuk, M. Simon Levin, Laurie Long, Leonard J. Paul, Manuel Piña, Jean Routhier, IN[ ]EX
Ingo Gunther, World Processor
Daryl Cloran, Anita Doron, Mateo Guez, Anita Lee, Ana Serrano, Late Fragment
Mark Hansen, Ben Rubin, Listening Post
ligorano/reese, Crater Bay Area: A Lunar Drawing Contest
Ed Osborn, Outfield
Toni Dove, Spectropia
DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid, Terra Nova: The Antarctica Suite
HeHe (Helen Evans, Heiko Hansen), Nuage Vert
Camille Utterback, Abundance
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Video Editor: Isaac Gale
Art Director: Matthew Rezac
Photos: Everett Tassevigen
Videos: the artists
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Focus on architectural visualization, create high quality 3d renderings, 3d animation and multi-media to our clients for presentation meetings or competition projects.
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Founded in 2008, Guangzhou Topshow Computer Graphic Co., Ltd is an innovative CG company, located in Guangzhou, China.
Focus on architectural visualization, create high quality 3d renderings, 3d animation and multi-media to our clients for presentation meetings or competition projects.
Always look forward to opportunities to work with excellent designers, testing ideas and moving forward with projects together:
+ E-mail: janelle.long@topshow-cg.com
+ Skype: topshowCG
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Founded in 2008, Guangzhou Topshow Computer Graphic Co., Ltd is an innovative CG company, located in Guangzhou, China.
Focus on architectural visualization, create high quality 3d renderings, 3d animation and multi-media to our clients for presentation meetings or competition projects.
Always look forward to opportunities to work with excellent designers, testing ideas and moving forward with projects together:
+ E-mail: janelle.long@topshow-cg.com
+ Skype: topshowCG
+ Works: www.behance.net/TopshowCG
Founded in 2008, Guangzhou Topshow Computer Graphic Co., Ltd is an innovative CG company, located in Guangzhou, China.
Focus on architectural visualization, create high quality 3d renderings, 3d animation and multi-media to our clients for presentation meetings or competition projects.
Always look forward to opportunities to work with excellent designers, testing ideas and moving forward with projects together:
+ E-mail: janelle.long@topshow-cg.com
+ Skype: topshowCG
+ Works: www.behance.net/TopshowCG
Founded in 2008, Guangzhou Topshow Computer Graphic Co., Ltd is an innovative CG company, located in Guangzhou, China.
Focus on architectural visualization, create high quality 3d renderings, 3d animation and multi-media to our clients for presentation meetings or competition projects.
Always look forward to opportunities to work with excellent designers, testing ideas and moving forward with projects together:
+ E-mail: janelle.long@topshow-cg.com
+ Skype: topshowCG
+ Works: www.behance.net/TopshowCG
Founded in 2008, Guangzhou Topshow Computer Graphic Co., Ltd is an innovative CG company, located in Guangzhou, China.
Focus on architectural visualization, create high quality 3d renderings, 3d animation and multi-media to our clients for presentation meetings or competition projects.
a Freightliner hauled train rushes through Cheltenham Spa station while a Castle Set HST prepares to head off to Worcester on July 4th 2023
1(F) Squadron Typhoons form up with Axis flight during Wing Commander Jonathan Nixon's last Tornado Flight as OC of XV(R) Squadron on May 1st 2015
Just working on the new design for the beach.
I'm trying to capture the landscape of Kauai and the beaches of Isla del Coco.
Kauai is of course where Jurassic Park was filmed and features those iconic cliffs and mountains, and Isla del Coco is the real life island that Trespassers version of Isla Sorna is based on. It has some nice volcanic looking beaches, with lots of rocks and minimal vegetation. Its a nice contrast to the bright lush landscapes of Kauai and i think works well for Trespasser.
The off shore rocks are from Trespasser and are just temporary for now, ill replace them with either a new model or some voxel terrain. I'm not sure i'll keep the rocks at all yet, as the blue coral reef looks really nice. Time will tell.
A full size Rex is on the beach for scale and the tail of the plane is down there too, scaled up to a more realistic size.
I'm aiming for a detail level between Stage 1 and the high detail island from the flythrough video. Rather than keeping the levels exactly as they were, I'll fix a lot of the issues as i go, cleaning up roads, smoothing out blocky terrain and spreading out patchy vegetation.
I still have lots of vegetation and objects to add yet, right now im just trying to establish a theme i can run with and then move onto the more open plain areas. Once i have a look nailed down for the beaches, jungles and open plains for the islands south, i'll move north and start working on the pine and redwood forests. Then i'll come back through and finish everything off.