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Un paseo... una foto.
Me había olvidado totalmente del magnífico espectáculo del cielo, al atardecer, sobre Santiago.
Ésta es la terraza que, en verano, el Hostal de los Reyes Católicos de Santiago, usa para poner mesas y poderse tomar un café o un refresco. Pero ahora, en el invierno, está como se ve en la foto.
Y es un magnífico lugar para observar las puestas de sol.
Un detalle curioso, que probablemente ya sabréis, es el referente a la iglesia de San Fructuoso, que se ve a la izquierda.
Fijándose uno, un poquito, se pueden ver los "cuatro reyes o las cuatro sotas" de la baraja española: de izquierda a derecha, el rey de bastos, el rey de oros, el rey de espadas y el rey de copas"
En realidad, representan a las cuatro virtudes cardinales: Prudencia, Justicia, Fortaleza y Templanza.
Frente al hostal del Espitau de Vielha se encuentran el establo y el almacén donde se guardaban animales y mercancías de los viajeros alojados en el refugio.
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Vielha, Lleida.
how many daffodils comprise a host I wonder?
"For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils"
William Wordsworth - 1804
Our AirBnB host had slipped a page into the guest book saying "My favorite place to stargaze in the desert is a plot of land out in the middle of Wonder Valley. I call it the Star Box. It's far from light pollution and you'll be all alone out there. Venmo $25 for access to the land. I do not take responsibility for nails or glass in tires. Arrive before sunset or you'll never find the place." The tire thing worried us, but we paid up, got the coords, and checked it out in daylight - soft sand road, but seemed fine. It was indeed magical - I hadn't seen a sky this big before - free of obstructions in every direction, ringed by distant mountains all the way around, a totally enveloping experience. I'd expected the temps to drop with nightfall, but a warm wind persisted. We ate pizza and watched the North Star appear, then watched as cosmos lit up. The downside of the location for astro photography is that there were no landmarks, so there's nothing to include (skies with stars and nothing else are boring). But we had fun doing some light painting in the desert while we waited for the full star show. Amazing evening.
Autumn - Höst bliss at Kvarnbacken in Mårdsjön, Jämtland, Sweden.
I love seasons and the autumn is special with its colours, the crisp and clear air in the mornings.
What is your Autumn or season feelings?
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A heritage train hosted by Haapamäen museoveturiyhdistys ry (Museum locomotive association of Haapamäki). The class Tk3 1136 light freight locomotive nickname Pikku-Jumbo (Small Jumbo) left from Helsinki Central railway station with a spectacular smoke from its huge funnel. I have to say this is the most magnificent way how steam locomotive can show its triumph!
Stunning autumn colors from Sweden and the Nordics.
Photo Credit: Lars Ling
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A host of astronomical objects are scattered across this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Background galaxies ranging from stately spirals to fuzzy ellipticals are strewn across the image, while a smattering of bright foreground stars are closer to home. In the center of the image, the vague shape of the small galaxy UGC 7983 appears as a hazy cloud of light. UGC 7983 is around 30 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo. It is a dwarf irregular galaxy – a type thought to be similar to the very earliest galaxies in the universe.
This image also reveals a relatively nearby astronomical interloper. A minor asteroid in our own solar system streaks across the upper left-hand side of the image. The asteroid’s trail is visible as four streaks of light separated by small gaps. These streaks of light represent the four separate exposures that were combined to create this image. The small gaps between each observation reflect filter changes inside Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys between exposures.
Capturing an asteroid was a fortunate side effect of a larger effort to observe every known galaxy close to the Milky Way. Hubble had imaged roughly 75% of all the Milky Way’s near galactic neighbors, when a group of astronomers proposed using the gaps between longer Hubble observations to capture images of the remaining 25%. The project was an elegant efficient way to fill gaps in Hubble's observing schedule and in our knowledge of nearby galaxies.
Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Tully
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