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Here is possibly my last Galactic Conquest scene, I won last round on Coruscant so I got to choose Naboo which i did so so that I could try some new techniques and try something that I normally wouldn't build.
I'm fairly pleased with the outcome of the scene, sadly there are a few things that bug me, like the fact that I ran out of sand orange which I would have liked to do both of the buildings with, however that wasn't possible. I've been pretty busy with school so I ended up leaving this to the last minute and building most of it last night which meant that i rushed it in some parts, however I'm still happy with how it turned out.
If this is the last round of the contest I'd just l like to thank TRLegosfan for hosting a great contest. There have been some great builds and scenes and I congratulate everyone who has participated and with you the best of luck. This contest has pushed me to try new things that I normally wouldn't even attempt which is great, and I think that in the past 2 and a half months I have developed as a scene builder even more.
-Thanks Tristan
Karijini National Park, Western Australia
Time marches on & the world turns with no regard for the lives of it's inhabitants.
The beauty of the night sky outside of urban environments never fails to impress me
This sequence compresses 238, 30 second exposures taken over a 4 hour period, into a 39 second display.
This is a frame from my Urban Nightscapes Texas video (vimeo.com/sgarciarill/texasnightscapes) where I merged the night sky and the city to give a glipse of what we're missing because of light pollution inside the city.
This is the Galleria in uptown Houston and it's the largest mall in Texas.
NGC 3175 is located around 50 million light-years away in the constellation of Antlia (The Air Pump). The galaxy can be seen slicing across the frame in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, with its mix of bright patches of glowing gas, dark lanes of dust, bright core, and whirling, pinwheeling arms coming together to paint a beautiful celestial scene.
The galaxy is the eponymous member of the NGC 3175 group, which has been called a nearby analogue for the Local Group. The Local Group contains our very own home galaxy, the Milky Way, and around 50 others — a mix of spiral, irregular, and dwarf galaxies. The NGC 3175 group contains a couple of large spiral galaxies — the subject of this image, and NGC 3137 — and numerous lower-mass spiral and satellite galaxies. Galaxy groups are some of the most common galactic gatherings in the cosmos, and they comprise 50 or so galaxies all bound together by gravity.
This image comprises observations from Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3.
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Rosario et al.; CC BY 4.0
Here's a shot of the figure with a LEGO hairpiece that I think looks good on it ;)
People have been asking to see it with this, so I thought I'd post it. It also gives a better picture of the full design in the front, as well?
I know there's a lot of good photographers (Legographers) out there! I'd love to see these two new figs in a few setups! If you do take pics PLEASE tag me in the photo, as I'd love to see them!
Again, if you are interested in this fig, or the Galactic Trainee, they are both available now from one of my resellers. Find them at the link in the comments.
This image was taken recently and depicts the Milky Way rising above the landscape in the early hours of the morning.
This was my second visit to this location but felt just as cold as the last, just without the wind. The skies were perfect with no clouds and no moon either. The sky was so clear that the Milky Way could just about be picked out amongst the stars.
the railway line at Kingsthorpe - the light pollution in the distance is from the City of Toowoomba about 25 kilometres away.
Nikon D7200
Tokina 11-16mm at 11mm
25 secs - f2.8 - iso3200
Lake Weyba, Qld, Australia.
The Lake Weyba Tree!
Me and my girlfriend went for a shoot to the lake last night.
A few years back I shot this composition at the lake with the Milky Way above this cool tree so I wanted to get an updated version of it and last night was perfect to do that, a 57% moon was setting in the west and I thought it might be too bright but it was so clear the Milky Way was shining brightly still.
16 images stacked in Sequator and then edited in Ps and Lr.
Untracked images.
Iso-6400 / 15secs / f2.8 / 12mm
Messier 81, M81 for short, or as it is also called, Bode's Galaxy, is a bright, swirling spiral galaxy located in the constellation Ursa Major just up and to the right of the top of the dipper in the Big Dipper asterism. This image captured at Grand Mesa Observatory highlights the interesting and delicate structure of its spiral arms.
First discovered by Johann Elert Bode in 1774, M81's relative brightness (apparent magnitude 6.94) and closeness (11.8 million light-years distant) makes it one of the most studied and photographed galaxies in the night sky. It contains an active galactic nucleus powered by a supermassive black hole at its center and was host to one of the brightest supernovae of the 20th century, SN 1993J. Also in this image, the blue blob above M81 is a satellite galaxy gravitationally locked to M81 called Holmberg IX, which is thought to have formed within the last 200 million years, making it the youngest nearby galaxy.
M81 wiki: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_81
M81 in 60 seconds from NASA: www.youtube.com/watch?v=39Sw0axqIBM
Holmberg IX: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmberg_IX#cite_note-sabbi-2
Technical Info:
Grand Mesa Observatory System #2 grandmesaobservatory.com/equipment/
LUM 25x 300sec 1x1
RGB 25x 300sec 1x1 (4h10min total)
Telescope: AGO 12.5” Astrograph/Newtonian
Camera: QHY163M Monochrome CMOS
Filters: Optolong LRGB
Guiding: OAG
Mount: Paramount ME
Processing/Stacking: PixInsight, PhotoshopCC, Registar, Straton
Location: Grand Mesa Observatory, Prudy Mesa, CO
Body- Ebody Reborn ft. Maze Soft Thighs & Maze Soft Arms
Head- Lelutka Kaya
Hair- Doux Sasha
Skin- Velour Ipanema
Shine- Blaxium Precious Body Shine
Outfit- Yumi Khora Bodysuit
Arm Ribbons- Maze for soft arms
Shoes- Beaumore Ann Boots
Backdrop- Foxcity Babe Cave
Pose- Foxcity On Point Vol.2
Galaxies abound in this spectacular Hubble image; spiral arms swirl in all colours and orientations, and fuzzy ellipticals can be seen speckled across the frame as softly glowing smudges on the sky. Each visible speck of a galaxy is home to countless stars. A few stars closer to home shine brightly in the foreground, while a massive galaxy cluster nestles at the very centre of the image; an immense collection of maybe thousands of galaxies, all held together by the relentless force of gravity.
Galaxy clusters are some of the most interesting objects in the cosmos. They are the nodes of the cosmic web that permeates the entire Universe — to study them is to study the organisation of matter on the grandest of scales. Not only are galaxy clusters ideal subjects for the study of dark matter and dark energy, but they also allow the study of farther-flung galaxies. Their immense gravitational influence means they distort the spacetime around them, causing them to act like giant zoom lenses. The light of background galaxies is warped and magnified as it passes through the galaxy cluster, allowing astronomers insight into the distant — and therefore early — Universe.
This image was taken by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys and Wide-Field Camera 3 as part of an observing programme called RELICS (Reionization Lensing Cluster Survey). RELICS imaged 41 massive galaxy clusters with the aim of finding the brightest distant galaxies for the forthcoming NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to study.
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, RELICS, CC BY 4.0
Galactic Cliffs
A few weeks ago I held a small group workshop in Acadia, and while one of my attendees was shooting a panorama on Boulder Beach, I tried out my new Sigma 50mm f/1.4 Art lens aimed at Otter Cliffs. This lens is amazingly sharp even at f/1.4, and coma distortion of the stars in the corners and edges isn't terrible at f/1.4 but it is better at f/2. But to get the most light in I stuck with f/1.4 and decided to live with the "flying saucer" effect that it causes to the brighter stars near the edge of the frame. As far as I can tell, this 50mm lens has the least amount of coma distortion on the market at f/1.4. With 50mm you get star trails pretty fast, so I limited my exposures to 3 seconds, and used star stacking to take multiple exposures of the sky to reduce noise in software.
This was also an accidental exercise in ETTR, exposing to the right, at a very high ISO and seeing that it was very usable. I accidentally left the ISO at 12,800 for a 4 minute foreground exposure at f/2, which blew out the sky and while the foreground looked very overexposed it was perfectly in tact without being blown out. In digital photography, the brighter the exposure, the less noise you'll have, even at high ISOs. This is just the way electronic cameras work, essentially raw files have more bits available to represent brighter tones. A very bright "overexposed" shot at ISO 12,800 can in fact have a very similar noise result as a "well exposed" (darker) shot at ISO 3200. It's all too much to explain here, but if you look up Expose To The Right, you'll learn all about the technique. In this case, I also had an ISO 3200 shot to compare to. The ISO 12,800 shot was at f/2 for 4 minutes, and the ISO 3200 shot was at f/1.4 for 2 minutes, so the 12,800 shot was a full 2 stops brighter than the 3200 shot. Comparing them side by side in Lightroom, with the 3200 shot brightened 2 stops, I can see that the 12,800 shot is just as clean as the 3200 shot, and of course it's sharper with more in focus because it was at f/2.
Nikon D810A with Sigma 50mm f/1.4 Art lens. Total of 11 exposures, 10 for the sky at f/1.4, ISO 12,800, for 3 seconds each, blended with Starry Landscape Stacker on the Mac for pinpoint stars and low noise. The foreground is from a single ISO 12,800 shot at 4 minutes and f/2.
The Southern Cross and the emu of our Milky Way galaxy over an intense storm above Wilsons Promontory.
From Fish Creek, Victoria, Australia.
For MacroMonday's theme: Hobbies.
I have a bad addiction to Star Wars merchandise. I collect it religiously. A fun hobby, though. These are Galactic Heroes helmets. I collect carded action figures as well and I especially like international carded variations (Japanese, Chinese, Euro, Italian, UK, Korean, etc.) of the POTF2 (1997-1998) series.
Galactic Lighthouse
Portland Head Lighthouse, Maine
This is a shot from last month that I finally had a chance to edit together, and it took me about 3 hours to work on this tonight. I get asked how long it takes to work on my photos a lot, and this one took about 3 hours of editing to do the RAW prep, star stacking, blending, and final edits. My panorama from here was shot the same night a little after I shot this scene. This was taken as the tide was coming in and I was gambling that I could get all the shots I wanted for the sky and foreground before the tide was too high. I had to step away and watch the waves wash over the feet of the tripod, and then eventually my own feet and that's when I knew it was time to move. It was quite an experience being down here at night watching and hearing the waves crash.
Nikon D800E with the Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8 lens @ 14mm. This final image is made up of 11 exposures, 10 for the sky at ISO 5000, f/2.8, for 10 seconds each, and 1 for the foreground at ISO 1600, f/8, for 4 minutes. The sky exposures were stacked with Starry Landscape Stacker for the Mac to get pinpoint stars and lower noise in the sky via the stacking and averaging process, and then the resulting image was blended with the foreground exposure in Photoshop. Other edits were then made in Photoshop to adjust noise, sharpening, contrast, and color, bringing out detail in the Milky Way.
#PortlandHeadLight #Lighthouse #Maine #MilkyWay #Astrophotography #LandscapeAstrophotography
I took a bit more creative license with this one, not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing. Sorry the editing isn't the greatest, the aperture on my camera needed to be higher. I probably shouldn't have used a black backdrop, either. :P
I decided not to make an entry to the Coruscant round because I don't really have the most pieces to make a Coruscant scene.
Tell me what you think, comments and faves are greatly appreciated!
Visita durante la lluvia de estrellas Cuadrántidas al tanque M60 Patton que corona la localidad de Quintanilla de Cabe Rojas, en Burgos.
Church of the good Shepard , Tekapo, New Zealand.
This is a very well known and somewhat over photographed location, tricky to get it as it was with all the other people shooting it with flashes and painting with torches!
4 shot vertical panoramic, shows what a good proper dark sky can give you!
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Great memory of last summer, during a beautiful night spent with a friend astrophotographer trying to capture the heart of the Milky Way with the best car trails on a highway just below, at the south of Tours (France).
In reality, this series of photos show the interaction of colorful lights as reflected by a glass brick window..
IMG_1666 - Version 3
My build for the first round of the Galactic Conquest contest!
Tell me what you guys think, comments and faves are greatly appreciated!
This is a place where I pass thru and stop by a lot when heading north for some dark night sky photos. But never really got any photos here that I like. But this night somehow really have the best lighting for the dock itself.
It was a early 5pm sunset and moonrise is not happening til' 10pm. So there is a good window for some great milky way photos. Normally the lighting at the parking lot (behind this dock, where the lights coming from) are really bright for shooting the night sky. Another proof of visiting the same location over and over might give you different results sometimes!!
ISO4000, 14mm, 25 seconds @ f2.8
Hope you like it!
I realised that a great Milky Way shot needs something in the foreground to help give it scale.
On a recent trip to Bancroft, Ontario I captured the Milky Way at 10mm; the same lens and focal length as I took the Toronto City Hall image. Though superimposed, it could be possible to make this shot in camera. Colour thoughts are always welcome. Have a great day, Rick.
Group Gift!
The Galatic Heel! This heel comes in a array of colors [Fatpack].
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Made for: Slink. Belleza.Maitreya [HIGH]
All you have to do is follow me on instagram @drippinchocolatedeluxe (If you have one) & join the in-world group.
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(watercolor painting on 200gsm rough paper; 11.5H x 17.5W in )
I've always been fascinated by science and astronomy.
Whenever I can't sleep at night or I wake up so early in the morning, I make these abstract studies from my imagination to express my creativity.
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This striking image was taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3, a powerful instrument installed on the telescope in 2009. WFC3 is responsible for many of Hubble’s most breathtaking and iconic photographs, including Pictures of the Week.
Shown here, NGC 7773 is a beautiful example of a barred spiral galaxy. A luminous bar-shaped structure cuts prominently through the galaxy's bright core, extending to the inner boundary of NGC 7773's sweeping, pinwheel-like spiral arms. Astronomers think that these bar structures emerge later in the lifetime of a galaxy, as star-forming material makes its way towards the galactic centre — younger spirals do not feature barred structures as often as older spirals do, suggesting that bars are a sign of galactic maturity. They are also thought to act as stellar nurseries, as they gleam brightly with copious numbers of youthful stars.
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is thought to be a barred spiral like NGC 7773. By studying galactic specimens such as NGC 7773 throughout the Universe, researchers hope to learn more about the processes that have shaped — and continue to shape — our cosmic home.
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Walsh; CC BY 4.0
"I am a Galatic Samurai like my father before me".
A build for the Melee Mashup competition over at the Brickarms Discord Server. The build should contain a mashup of two distinct themes - I've chosen Samurai and StarWars.
Here we see the Emperor at rest in his royal blossom garden. He is protected by his two Royal Guards. In front of him Doi Wada the ronin seeks patronage by defeating Lui KaiWanaka the last Galactic Samurai. In the foreground we see an assassin droid and to the right Lui's comrades Han, Wubacca Ar-Tu and Thri-Po
in a second shot we can see a ninja kite flying into Assist the Ronin
brickarms used
120+ trans blue brickarms monopods, grenades, uclips, knives, scimitars, crate lids (also clear) silenced ppks and the odd clear m16 and pistol.
3 dark sabers
1 bonejack
1D11 blaster (not sure which blaster it is)
1Gamo Guard Axe blade
2 halberds
2 robot arms, ewebb blaster handles,4 black monopods and over 20 brickarms crates
1 timebomb
"Galactic center..."
From From Sagittarius to Scorpius, the central Milky Way is a truly beautiful part night sky. This widefield image spans about 30 degrees. You can see many dust lanes, bright nebulae, and star clusters scattered through our galaxy's rich central starfields. From the top look for the Lagoon and Trifid nebulae, the Cat's Paw, Pipe dark nebula, on the right side are located colorful clouds of Rho Ophiuchi and Antares . Those are actualy one the closest star forming regions to our solar system estimated to be about 400 light years away. The actual center of our Galaxy is near the brightest part of the star field, lies about 26,000 light years away.
And of course, the brightest object on the midle right is planet Saturn :)
Shoot in the desert on the Boa Vista island, Cape Verde, with south view with no light pollution at all.
Taken with Canon 60D(non-moded)+Sigma 18-35mm, f1.8@35mm, f3.2, ISO 1600, exposure time 77x3min
Fully processed with Pixinsight.
I hope you enjoy this view I had opportunity to capture during my holiday in Cape Verde, Boa Vista. Enjoy ;)
This shot was taken a couple weeks ago on an incredibly clear and calm night on the coast of Maine. The airglow was very active that night, which is the green coloration visible in the sky. Airglow is the result of various chemical reactions in the upper atmosphere that emit light, and on some nights it's much more active than others in certain areas. It's very difficult to see airglow with the naked eye, but the camera has no problem capturing the dim light in a long exposure.
This is a panorama made up of 10 vertical images. Nikon D810A and Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8 lens @ 14mm and f/2.8, ISO 10,000, 20 seconds per shot.