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The fifth USS Independence (CV-62) was an 80,000-ton (full load) conventionally-powered Forrestal-class aircraft carrier and is seen here in the Eastern Mediterranean in the summer of 1982, en route to waters near Beirut where the US Sixth Fleet supported US Marines ashore facilitating the evacuation of the Palestine Liberation Organisation following their defeat by Israel.
Launched at New York Navy Yard on 6 June 1958 and commissioned 10 January 1959, she was 326m in length with a beam of 82.3m and a draught of 11.3m. She was powered by eight Babcock & Wilcox boilers that provided 280,000 shp via four Westinghouse geared turbines to four shafts. These gave her a top speed of 34 kt.
The twin-rotor helicopter near her stern is not part of the carrier's air group. It is one of two CH-46 Sea Knights based aboard the USS Mount Baker (AE-34), from which I took this photo. Time has dimmed my memories and I cannot explain why the helo was on the deck - we normally only conducted VERTREPs with the carriers.
The large ship's number painted on the funnel is somewhat obscured by other paint jobs for some reason. See www.flickr.com/photos/67307569@N00/4890073871 for another view, from wider on the beam where the mess is clearer than above.
Scanned from a slide.
I haven't been able to go out with my camera lately due to a sick cat I've been nursing, so I've been going through old memory cards finding things that I didn't process before.
CN 9547 and GMTX 2250 are both running long hood forward as they lead a 19-car transfer into the Port of Montreal.
Comet 46P/Wirtanen...I've been looking forward to imaging this comet since I heard that it was on its way to our part of the Solar System. The last time I imaged a comet was 18 months ago and I had forgotten how tricky they can be to image and process. Comets move pretty quickly so long exposures are not usually an option. This comet is moving at 5 arcseconds a minute so we were limited to 60 second exposures to avoid it streaking. Processing is a challenge too as either the stars or the comet will be streaky when the images are stacked - unless you process everything twice and combine the results as I've done here. The only software I have that does this automatically is Deep Sky Stacker (DSS) which I'm not a fan of but it's very useful for comet processing. The combined image still had some faint streaks but they were easy enough to remove. The image also needed a big boost in saturation to bring out the colour. All in all I'm pleased with the result (though I would have liked to have resolved the tail). At the moment the 46P/Wirtanen is still low in in the sky close to the southern horizon so we had to shoot into the murky London light pollution. It would have been better to wait until it's higher in the sky (it reaches perihelion on December 16th and should be significantly brighter) but with the weather here being what it is you never know if there'll be another opportunity. This session was also a test to see how the newly cleaned mirrors performed...pretty good but the collimation was slightly off making the stars appear less round (we adjusted the collimation after the comet disappeared behind trees). I hope there will be another chance to image this object later in the month.
Further information:
www.cometwatch.co.uk/comet-46p-wirtanen/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/46P/Wirtanen
Comet 46P/Wirtanen is a short-period comet with an orbital period of 5.4 years. The comet is relatively small in size with an estimated diameter of just 1.2 kilometers. The object was the original target for ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft but the launch window was missed so 67P/Churymov-Gerasimenko was Rosetta’s target in the end. The next perihelion passage of comet Wirtanen will be on 16 December 2018 when it will pass 0.078 AU (7,220,000 mi) from Earth. The icy space rock is expected to reach magnitude 3 (making it visible to the naked eye. This is the brightest prediction of known and future passes of this comet.
062 x 60 second exposures at Gain 180 cooled to -20°C
065 x dark frames
060 x flat frames
100 x bias frames
Binning 1x1
Total integration time = 1 hours and 2 minutes
Captured with APT
Guided with PHD2
Processed in Nebulosity, Fitsworks, Deep Sky Stacker and Photoshop
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
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Mud Lake Bog in southwest Michigan
Mamiya M645 1000S
Ilford FP4 Plus with red filter
Developed in D76 1+1 for 11 minutes
Picture Fall/The Quintessential Fall
Have a wonderful day! Happy Flare Friday and remember, the bard said it best:
This above all: to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Philippians 3:13
13 Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Php 3:13.
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Hope you had a great start into 2013!
This is the first shooting of the new year and we had wonderful weather...
Forward into new stories and photos, have a great 2013!
ps: i love the 50mm 1,2L!:)
▶️ Chiesa di "Nostra Signora di Paulis" - Ittiri (SS)
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La sua costruzione risale al primo XIII secolo ad opera dei monaci cistercensi. Crollata parzialmente alla fine del XIX secolo, ne sopravvivono parte della navata e del transetto, la navatella destra, i resti di uno dei chiostri e molti ambienti semidistrutti tra cui alcune sale sotterranee. Il complesso è stato riconsolidato da un recente restauro. Una chiesa recente con lo stesso titolo si trova nel vicino paese di Uri e testimonia la devozione molto diffusa verso la Madonna sotto questo antico titolo. Tuttavia non ha alcun'altra relazione con la chiesa abbaziale, trovandosi in un altro territorio comunale e nella Diocesi di Alghero. Il territorio di Ittiri e l'abbazia appartengono invece all'Arcidiocesi di Sassari e l'arcivescovo di Sassari detiene il titolo onorifico di abate di Paulis sin dalla prima metà del XV secolo.
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One of my faves. Pinhole camera on a foggy day, Sherwood Island, Westport CT.
This photo was used by Yahoo in their feature on Pinhole photography. You can see it here: dir.yahoo.com/thespark/240/peek-through-the-pinhole
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Street candid taken in Glasgow, Scotland. I loved the striking shape and form that her pose made against the simplicity of the tones on the bus, those faces in the bus window made the shot but on closer inspection the girl is staring down the barrel of my lens with a look of disgust on her face. One step forward for her and two steps back for me!
ALWAYS LOOK FORWARD. - Mira siempre hacia delante.
CUBA 2015 #Cuba2015 #CayoBlanco — en Cayo Blanco - Cuba.