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Easily one of the greatest designs for clones I've seen. I've always wanted to make one ever since I was little, and saw a lot of potential to make one when CAC released his backpack. Painting the new(ish) Lego helmet, I've made what I like to consider one of the most detailed Galactic Marines in Lego.
His arm decals go over the shoulders themselves, capturing the full aesthetic of dark red upper body armor. Like all my clone customs, he features wrap around decals that cover all surfaces of the figure from head to toe. I left his eyes black out of personal preference, as I like that appearance more than the green. He's topped with a modded CAC backpack and MMCB cloth gear.
Keep an eye out for new content ~ More EP3 customs on the way ; ) As always, expect more, and I'd love to hear your thoughts!
Most of the population living in the cities and towns lost completely connection with the night skies. Some people probably never star gazed and have no idea of how beautiful the nigh sky full of celestial objects are. In Poland after midnight street lanterns goes off at least in villages and one can appreciate twinkling starts. Absolutely enjoyed it.
Although I live in the city of Patras for three and a half years now, I've only been to Panachaiko mountain with its wind turbines at daytime. I've always wanted to go there at a moonless night to see if I could capture the galaxy, despite the light pollution of the city nearby.
What I discovered was a very large playground !
The Milky Way galaxy can be seen with a naked eye, and a lot of possible places for amazing shots !
Simply, my new favorite place !
More to come soon !
Christophe Anagnostopoulos
Night sky conditions were poor last night; the new Moon was quite intrusive and great clouds of salt spray were being driven inland by the onshore nor'easter. A lot of slider movements were needed to rescue the image (single exposure). The glow at the base of the image is from the setting Moon. I've also noticed that quite strong edge coma is a feature of this lens. Antares (alpha Scorpii) sits brightly below the Milky Way; Jupiter is still doing its thing above. View looking West, from Cuttagee Lake on the NSW Far South Coast.
HD PENTAX-D FA 15-30mm f2.8
A single 30 second exposure @ f3.2 using the K1's built in Astrotracer.
The lazily winding spiral arms of the spectacular galaxy NGC 976 fill the frame of this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This spiral galaxy lies around 150 million light-years from the Milky Way in the constellation Aries. Despite its tranquil appearance, NGC 976 has played host to one of the most violent astronomical phenomena known — a supernova explosion. These cataclysmicly violent events take place at the end of the lives of massive stars, and can outshine entire galaxies for a short period. While supernovae mark the deaths of massive stars, they are also responsible for the creation of heavy elements that are incorporated into later generations of stars and planets.
Supernovae are also a useful aid for astronomers who measure the distances to faraway galaxies. The amount of energy thrown out into space by supernova explosions is very uniform, allowing astronomers to estimate their distances from how bright they appear to be when viewed from Earth. This image — which was created using data from Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 — comes from a large collection of Hubble observations of nearby galaxies which host supernovae as well as a pulsating class of stars known as Cepheid variables. Both Cepheids and supernovae are used to measure astronomical distances, and galaxies containing both objects provide useful natural laboratories where the two methods can be calibrated against one another.
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Jones, A. Riess et al.; CC BY 4.0
Nikon D800E w/ SIGMA ART 50mm F1.4 DG HSM
I created this composition last year. I've seen many people already copying the composition without giving credit to the original creator. Perhaps that's how the cookie crumbles and I should be proud of the fact that my creation became a standard. But, honestly speaking, I want people to pay a bit more respect to the original creator. I changed the focal length to 50mm and emphasised the "lava stream" part of the composition as I'm not interested in doing the same thing again and again every year.
"Tales of Fuji | New Era"
Aug 2 (Sat) to Aug 15 (Fri)
Island Gallery, Tokyo
Nel cuore della Via Lattea, là dove il Cigno spalanca le sue ali, un fiume di stelle scorre tra veli di gas e polveri cosmiche. Le nebulose che circondano γ Cygni sembrano danzare in un intricato ricamo di luce e ombra, un arazzo celeste che racconta la nascita e la trasformazione delle stelle. È uno dei panorami più incantevoli del nostro cielo, capace di stupire chiunque vi posi lo sguardo.
Parte tecnica: questa immagine è stata realizzata con un rifrattore 72ED, camera ASI 533 MC e filtro SV220. Nonostante soltanto un’ora di integrazione, la ricchezza di dettagli e la profondità delle nebulosità emergono con forza, a testimonianza della straordinaria densità di strutture presenti in questa regione galattica.
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Jupiter in the heart of the Dark Horse above Monte Louro. Strong light pollution from coastal villages.
5x60s Nikon D600 full spectrum NIkkor AI 28mm f/2 @f/4 Optolong L-Pro clip filter
In late summer the galaxy is clearly visible to the naked eye from the Drakensberg. If you are fortunate enough to have clouds below, blocking out the lights of the settlements at the foot of the Escarpment, then you can have an outstanding view. In this case I could hardly have chosen a better location to have optimum conditions for astrophotography.Drakensberg Photography Workshops: www.alexnail.com/workshops/ shared with pixbuf.com
"Bow" lake is the location I took this photo back in October, 2013. My last photo trip in the canadian rockies. It finally give me some opportunity to shoot the clear night sky on the last night of my trip!! Most of the time were cloudy during the trip. So I ended up with making a time lapse shorts called"The Rocky Clouds".
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This old "abandoned" barn in Oregon's Summer Lake Wildlife Area is still used to store hay bales, judging from what was inside it (they were fresh). I didn't see the pair of owls that I saw in the spring when I last visited, just a rat, a bat, and a scorpion about 2 feet from my foot - Gaahhh! (My first scorpion encounter "in the wild"!)
This is a stack of 15 frames at 50mm, f/2, ISO 8000, 8s each, no tracking. One additional shot was taken with a small LED light panel placed inside the barn and blended using the Lighten mode in Photoshop. That same LED panel was used (hand held) to dimly illuminate the outside of the barn during the exposures.
Taken on July 18th, 2017 with my Rokinon lens at one of my favorite places on the beach at Ocean City, NJ.
Now I realize I did just use this torso in my last upload, but I definitely thought this combo was too good to pass up.
This image shows a close-up portrait of the magnificent spiral galaxy NGC 4603, which lies over 100 million light-years away in the constellation of Centaurus (The Centaur). Bright bands of blue young stars make up the arms of this galaxy, which wind lazily outwards from the luminous core. The intricate red-brown filaments threading through the spiral arms are known as dust lanes, and consist of dense clouds of dust which obscure the diffuse starlight from the galaxy.
This galaxy is a familiar subject for Hubble. In the last years of the twentieth century, NGC 4063 was keenly and closely watched for signs of a peculiar class of stars known as Cepheid variables. These stars have a luminosity closely tied to the period with which they darken and brighten, allowing astronomers to accurately measure how far they are from Earth. Distance measurements from Cepheid variables are key to measuring the furthest distances in the Universe, and were one of the factors used by Georges Lemaître and Edwin Hubble to show that the Universe is expanding.
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Maund; CC BY 4.0
As you can see throughout the universe inter connecting galactic highways roam free. Also along your journey you may encounter interstellar nebula gasses spewing throughout space and time !
Cala del Submarino (Submarine's creek)
Cabo de Gata, Almería, Spain.
Canon 6D + Canon 17-40.
Panorámica de 23 tomas en vertical.
This Atlantic Sea Nettle at Baltimore's National Aquarium appears to float among the stars due to the lighting and the food particles in the tank.
The Atlantic sea nettle (Chrysaora quinquecirrha), also known as the East Coast sea nettle or US Atlantic sea nettle, is a species of jellyfish that inhabits the Atlantic coast of the United States
The brightest area of the Milky Way is just rising above the horizon as Scorpius gains altitude.
Several nebulas and clusters are visible in this bright part of our galaxy.
Single shot, tracked.
Its amazing what you find when you look closely at the frozen water in your dog's outside water bowl on a winter day...
GX8 + OLYMPUS M.75-300mm F4.8-6.7 II
Focal Length: 300.0 mm (in 35mm: 600.0 mm)
1/160 sec; f/6.7; ISO 100
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The Milky Way galaxy core shines brightly above a picnic table in the Salton Sea on a very calm summer night.
Such a romantic spot for dining - complete with candles.
This is an art installation by "Sssippi" here at Bombay Beach. He's one of the artists responsible for the iconic swing that's also in the water nearby.
I shot this tonight - July 3, 2024 - with a Canon EOS R and Sigma 24mm Art lens at 5 sec f/1.8 ISO 4000. Single exposure. I carefully set my tripod and camera rig up in about 15" of water in order to get this shot.
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Lying on a sunlounger while taking in the enormity of our galaxy and beyond. According to the App on my phone the view is of galactic central point.
In 1984 the LEGOLAND book 'Trapped in Space' by Douglas Hill was published. It featured this SHIP The Galactic Spearhead. I thought it deserved to be online.
This is a 360 degree pano taken from atop of Castle Rock at Castlepoint in the Wairarapa, New Zealand. I made the climb under darkness, which made it somewhat more challenging than normal. Castle Rock stands at a height of 162m above sea level, and the Castlepoint lighthouse is perched 62m above sea level at the opposite end of the beach below.
The galactic core of the Milky Way was rising to the east over the ocean, and the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds can be seen to the left of it. The Zodiacal Light is seen to the bottom right of the sky dome. The image consists of 32 images all shot at 24mm on a Gigapan Epic Pro.
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Here is a 45 image panoramic composite I made at the iconic painted hills overlook at night. Hope you all enjoy and thanks for any constructive comments.
Camera: 5D Mark II
Lens: Sigma Art 20mm f1.4 @ 1.4
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a monster in the making in this observation of the exceptional galaxy cluster eMACS J1353.7+4329, which lies about eight billion light-years from Earth in the constellation Canes Venatici. This disturbed collection of at least two galaxy clusters is in the process of merging together to create a cosmic monster, a single gargantuan cluster acting as a gravitational lens.
Gravitational lensing is a dramatic example of Einstein’s general theory of relativity in action. A celestial body such as a galaxy cluster is sufficiently massive to distort spacetime, which causes the path of light around the object to be visibly bent as if by a vast lens. Gravitational lensing can also magnify distant objects, allowing astronomers to observe objects that would otherwise be too faint and too far away to be detected. It can also distort the images of background galaxies, turning them into streaks of light. The first hints of gravitational lensing are already visible in this image as bright arcs which mingle with the throng of galaxies in eMACS J1353.7+4329.
The data in this image are drawn from an observing proposal called Monsters in the Making, which used two of Hubble’s instruments to observe five exceptional galaxy clusters at multiple wavelengths. These multi-wavelength observations were made possible by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys. The astronomers behind these observations hope to lay the groundwork for future studies of vast gravitational lenses with next-generation telescopes such as the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope.
[Image Description: A cluster of elliptical galaxies, visible as a dense crowd of oval shapes, each glowing orange around a bright core. Right of the largest, central galaxy, a background galaxy is stretched into two connected, thin arcs by the cluster’s gravity. Various other galaxies are dotted all around, a few being small spirals. A bright star with four long spikes stands out at the right.]
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, H. Ebeling; CC BY 4.0
Perfectly clear conditions and a night out photographing on the south coast of Wellington, New Zealand. The Milky Way was rising to the east, and waves were flowing throughout the tidal pools during my long exposures, producing a soft misty feel that looked rather like ground fog.
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Galactic Cave
This shot has been in the planning for about 2 years or so, and I finally had a chance to try it a few days ago. A lot of things needed to come together for this to work. It had to be early in the year (at the start of "Milky Way season") in order to even see the Milky Way from inside the cave, and I needed clear skies during the new moon when the tide was low enough to get in and out of the cave and still have enough time to try various angles and take all the shots I would need. All those things came together except for some clouds that obscured the lower part of the Galactic Center of the Milky Way, and it was bitterly cold and very windy, although it was calm inside the cave. I think the ambient temp was somewhere between 0F - 5F. I had to snowshoe down the hillside through the woods to the shore, then put on Microspikes to cross the ice covered rocks and carefully make my way over to and inside the cave. All in the dark, but with a headlamp of course.
Note that I won't be saying exactly where this cave is located. It's not exactly a secret, but it has been removed from guide books for good reason, it's a fairly dangerous place and you could be swimming your way out if you're not careful, and it houses a fragile environment in its tidepools. All the signs for the cave, and the railing that lead to the entrance, were removed many years ago to protect those inexperienced from getting injured or stranded.
You'll notice that there's a lot of color in the sky, there's orange light from light pollution from towns up the coast, there's some green from airglow, and the reddish color might also be airglow.
Nikon D800E with Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8 lens @ 17mm. Like most of my night photos, this is a blend of multiple exposures to get the scene in focus and exposed from the foreground to the stars. Technically 13 exposures were used to create this final image. 10 exposures of 10 seconds each at ISO 6400 were used for star stacking of the sky. Those exposures were blended using Starry Landscape Stacker for Mac. Then 3 other exposures were used for the foreground at ISO 1600 and at different focus distances, f-stops, and exposures lengths.
To learn more about how I edit my landscape astrophotography images check out my video tutorial: www.adamwoodworth.com/video-tutorials
ランチサービスのビールを撮影
ファインダーを使って撮影が恥ずかしかったので
背面ディスプレイを傾けてひざ元から撮影
予想外の天井の煌きに驚いた。
Shooting beer of lunch service
Because I was ashamed to shoot using the viewfinder
Tilt the rear display and shoot from the knee
I was surprised at the unexpected ceiling glitter.
Galactic Centre
Even if we could travel by the speed of light, it would take us over 25,000 years to reach the center of our galaxy.
In the middle is the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*, whose mass is 4 milions times greater than the mass of our Sun. All objects in our galaxy, including Earth, orbit it. It is located in the constellation Sagittarius, which is best observable from our latitudes in the coming months. Unfortunately, due to high levels of light pollution, we have to travel to lower latitudes for better conditions.
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La Palma, Canary Islands
Canon 6Dmod + Sigma 50mm, f1.4@f2.8, ISO 3200, 20x1min.
This is the 3rd image I processed from HST data this past weekend. Here's M104, also known as the Sombrero Galaxy. Despite being too tiny for my telescopes, this is one of my favorite galaxies. Can you blame me? The nearly edge-on angle of this, otherwise rather flat galaxy really gives a perspective that is really unique.
Definitely better at full screen, and hopefully FB won't mess up with the image too much. Hope you like it!
The small island of Bonaire in the southern Carribean has a wonderful lack of light pollution which makes it ideal for Milky Way photography.
This location is on the southern point of the island where slaves once harvested sea salt under brutal conditions. The obelisk was a marker for the ships that would anchor to pick up the salt and the tiny concrete huts in the background were for the slaves and their families.
It is a peaceful spot now, you will probably won't see another soul there at night, but sometimes I wonder if the ghosts of the past are next to me taking in the magnificent view of the Milky Way.
Jeff
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