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Kinkaku-ji "Temple of the Golden Pavilion"), officially named Rokuon-ji, lit. "Deer Garden Temple"), is a Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan.
The garden complex is an excellent example of Muromachi period garden design. The Muromachi period is considered to be a classical age of Japanese garden design. The correlation between buildings and its settings were greatly emphasized during this period. It was a way to integrate the structure within the landscape in an artistic way. The garden designs were characterized by a reduction in scale, a more central purpose, and a distinct setting.
A minimalistic approach was brought to the garden design, by recreating larger landscapes in a smaller scale around a structure.
It is designated as a National Special Historic Site and a National Special Landscape, and it is one of 17 locations comprising the Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto World Heritage Site. It is also one of the most popular buildings in Japan, attracting a large number of visitors annually.
Sagrada Família, Barcelona, España.
El Templo Expiatorio de la Sagrada Familia, conocido simplemente como la Sagrada Familia, es una basílica católica de Barcelona (España), diseñada por el arquitecto Antoni Gaudí. Iniciada en 1882, todavía está en construcción (noviembre de 2016). Es la obra maestra de Gaudí, y el máximo exponente de la arquitectura modernista catalana.
La Sagrada Familia es un reflejo de la plenitud artística de Gaudí: trabajó en ella durante la mayor parte de su carrera profesional, pero especialmente en los últimos años de su carrera, donde llegó a la culminación de su estilo naturalista, haciendo una síntesis de todas las soluciones y estilos probados hasta aquel entonces. Gaudí logró una perfecta armonía en la interrelación entre los elementos estructurales y los ornamentales, entre plástica y estética, entre función y forma, entre contenido y continente, logrando la integración de todas las artes en un todo estructurado y lógico.
La Sagrada Familia tiene planta de cruz latina, de cinco naves centrales y transepto de tres naves, y ábside con siete capillas. Ostenta tres fachadas dedicadas al Nacimiento, Pasión y Gloria de Jesús y, cuando esté concluida, tendrá 18 torres: cuatro en cada portal haciendo un total de doce por los apóstoles, cuatro sobre el crucero invocando a los evangelistas, una sobre el ábside dedicada a la Virgen y la torre-cimborio central en honor a Jesús, que alcanzará los 172,5 metros de altura. El templo dispondrá de dos sacristías junto al ábside, y de tres grandes capillas: la de la Asunción en el ábside y las del Bautismo y la Penitencia junto a la fachada principal; asimismo, estará rodeado de un claustro pensado para las procesiones y para aislar el templo del exterior. Gaudí aplicó a la Sagrada Familia un alto contenido simbólico, tanto en arquitectura como en escultura, dedicando a cada parte del templo un significado religioso.
The Expiatory Church of the Sagrada Familia, known simply as the Sagrada Familia, is a Roman Catholic basilica in Barcelona, Spain, designed by architect Antoni Gaudí. Begun in 1882, it is still under construction (November 2016). It is Gaudí's masterpiece and the greatest exponent of Catalan modernist architecture.
The Sagrada Familia is a reflection of Gaudí's artistic plenitude: he worked on it for most of his professional career, but especially in his later years, where he reached the culmination of his naturalistic style, synthesizing all the solutions and styles he had tried up to that point. Gaudí achieved perfect harmony in the interrelationship between structural and ornamental elements, between plasticity and aesthetics, between function and form, between content and container, achieving the integration of all the arts into a structured and logical whole. The Sagrada Familia has a Latin cross plan, five central naves, a three-aisled transept, and an apse with seven chapels. It boasts three façades dedicated to the Birth, Passion, and Glory of Jesus. When completed, it will have 18 towers: four at each portal, making a total of twelve for the apostles, four over the transept invoking the evangelists, one over the apse dedicated to the Virgin, and the central dome tower in honor of Jesus, which will reach 172.5 meters in height. The temple will have two sacristies next to the apse and three large chapels: the Assumption Chapel in the apse and the Baptism and Penance Chapels next to the main façade. It will also be surrounded by a cloister designed for processions and to isolate the temple from the exterior. Gaudí applied a highly symbolic content to the Sagrada Familia, both in architecture and sculpture, dedicating each part of the temple to a religious significance.
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Salt pans are a common sight in this region, since Tavira is so intertwined with the history of salt. The ancient technology adapted to the landscape of the Ria Formosa turns the salt pans into outdoors chemistry labs. These are an important and humanized environment for several species of birds and microscopic beings. For all these reasons we challenge you to integrate this visit. We guarantee you that you will not look at a crystal of salt the same way.
Richmond Lock and Footbridge is a lock, rising and falling low-tide barrage integrating controlled sluices and pair of pedestrian bridges on the River Thames in south west London, England and is a Grade II* listed structure
Mount: Losmandy G11
Imaging Camera: Canon 6D (stock)
OTA: Celestron C11 @ f6
Guiding: None
Total Integration: 23min (30 subs, ISO 6400, 45secs each)
Calibration Frames: Dark: 10, Bias: 10
I like anything that is like an obstruction, something that I have to act through is good. -- Peter Sarsgaard
For Macro Mondays "Numbers" theme. A mechanical integrator is a complex device that was used to calculate ship's stability before digital computers became practical. The complete device is similar to this image: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mechanical_integrator_CHM...
The lens used was an old manual Zuiko 80mm f/4 macro on a sliding extension tube and micro 4/3's adapter, in spite of what the exif info states. Four Olympus high res shots were stacked in Photoshop. I would of liked to gotten one more but ran of focus adjustment.
M2 is a large, bright globular cluster in the constellation Aquarius. This image was acquired under dark skies near Goldendale, WA, using a telescope and cooled CCD camera designed for astroimaging.
Telescope: Celestron Edge HD 8
Camera: QSI 683wsg
Mount: Astro-Physics Mach 1 GTO
Integration: 25-30 minutes each of RGB (5 minute subs)
Post Processing Software: PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom
Wuppertal-Elberfeld, Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 340. Das Wandgemälde „Aphrodite“, gestaltet vom Künstlerduo „PichiAvo“ (Pichi, *1977 und Avo, *1985) aus Valencia / Spanien. Auf ihrer Homepage (www.pichiavo.com/)
schreiben die Künstler zu dieser Arbeit: „Aphrodite-Wandbild in Wuppertal“. Das neueste für den 'Urbanen Kunstraum Wuppertal' (UKW) geschaffene Wandgemälde befindet sich in diesem Freilichtmuseum, das sich der Umgestaltung öffentlicher Räume durch eine Reihe temporärer internationaler Interventionen widmet. Von 2023 bis 2025 möchte UKW ein wiedererkennbares und einzigartiges Stadtbild schaffen, in dem lokale Umgebungen in internationale Wandkunst verwandelt werden. Dieses Wandgemälde ist vom Mythos der Aphrodite und dem Urteil des Paris inspiriert. Die Integration klassischer Themen mit urbanem Ausdruck bereichert die Wuppertaler Kulturlandschaft.“
English translation:
Wuppertal-Elberfeld, Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 340. The mural "Aphrodite" was created by the street art Duo "PichiAvo" (Pichi, *1977 and Avo, *1985) from Valencia / Spain. On their homepage (www.pichiavo.com/)
the artists write about this work: "Aphrodite mural in Wuppertal. The latest mural created for Urbaner Kunstraum Wuppertal (UKW) is located within this open-air museum dedicated to transforming public spaces through a series of temporary international interventions. From 2023 to 2025, UKW aims to establish a recognizable and unique cityscape, where local environments are transformed into international wall art. This mural draws inspiration from the myth of Aphrodite and the Judgement of Paris, integrating classical themes with urban expression to enrich Wuppertal’s cultural landscape."
The Witch Head proved to be another big challenge for me. Several nights over several weeks to get enough subs (what the astrophotographer calls exposures/frames/shots) to integrate (many many shots we stack together to get the noise to signal ratio in our favor). Like the Ghost of Cassiopeia posted a week ago , the Witch Head Nebula is very faint. In the end I had a bit over 4 hours collected and integrated 3.3 hours.....thanks to one session with little Moon I got over the hump with enough time in to see the witch.
Telescope- Astro-Tech EDP 60
Camera- ZWO 2600 Duo
Mount- ZWO AM5
Brain- ASIAIR Plus
Flats/Bias/Darks applied.
Stacked in Astropixel Processor. Processed in Pixinsight. Cropped and sig added in PScc.
My first multi-night image, using frames taken in May and July 2021
1 stack of 105 60s images, Canon 800D at ISO 800, Canon 400mm f5.6 lens at f6.3, iOptron Skyguider Pro tracker. 50 darks, 120 biases. Processed in PixInsight as below
* CC defect list + master dark (sigma = 8)
15*(1-(FWHM-FWHMMin)/(FWHMMax-FWHMMin))
+ 15*(1-(Eccentricity-EccentricityMin)/(EccentricityMax-EccentricityMin))
+ 20*(SNRWeight-SNRWeightMin)/(SNRWeightMax-SNRWeightMin)
+ 50
img 4002 ref
* ESD integration, range exclude
* drizzle integration, gaussian kernel
*****Linear processing
*** Initial
* Crop
* DBE tolerance 3, manually placed points outside the dust clouds
*** Color calibration
* PCC using a dust cloud as background, aimed at Triffid, background ref upper limit 0.002
* SNCR 0.8 green
*** Decon
* Using EZDecon, create the following:
* PSF - autogen
* background - autogen, then invert, range selection lower 0.03 smoothness 49, clean with clone stamp, range mask again, invert again - background_range_mask
* star mask: extract luminance, run EZSoftStretch, star mask noise treshhold 0.3 scale 9 smoothness 8 aggregate binarize. Add a couple of ellipses, 2x convolve - decon_star_mask
*** Denoise
Using jonrista.com/the-astrophotographers-guide/pixinsights/eff... as implemented by EZSuite.
* TGV edge protection 3e-5, default MMT
***** Nonlinear processing
*** Initial stretch
* MaskedStretch, default settings
* extract luminance, stretch with shadows 0.05 mids 0.4, apply as mask inverted, stretch mids to 0.3
* ACDNR chrominance only, lightness mask, stdev 4 iterations 6mids 0.2 on lightness mask
***MLT stretch
www.stelleelettroniche.it/en/2014/09/astrophoto/m42-ngc19...
**Initial (fine details)
* created a new multiscale linear transform, kept 6 layers
* diffed from original image to create a "blurred" version of original image
* extracted luminance from original, used as mask on blurred version
* used curves to pump rgb and saturation
* pixelmath sum the 3, rescaled, back to original image
**Second (nebula)
* created a new multiscale linear transform, kept 6 layers, and diff from original
* extract luminance from diff Use as mask on blurred version
* s-shaped luminance curve, gentle, big sat boost
* pixelmath sum the 3, rescaled, back to original image
*** Finishers
* Star reduce with EZscript, 8 layers of morpho
* With the previous star mask on (raw), unsharp mask with default settings)
* Dark structure enhancement
* EZDenoise, default settings TGV, no MMT
* pump up sat in reds and blues
* MMT sharpen, 6 layers biases 0.1 0.1 0.05 0.05 0.25 0.12
* downsample 3x
NGC6992, NGC6995 The Eastern Veil Nebula
NGC6960 The Western Veil Nebula
Ha 82 * 600s
Oiii 44 * 600s
Integration Time 21h
William Optics Z61
ZWO ASI2600MM Pro
iOptron CEM60
Antlia Ha, Oiii 3.5nm filters
Askar FMA180 Guiding Scope
ZWO ASI120M
ZWO EAF, EFW
Nina, PixInsight, Topaz DeNoise AI, Photoshop
35mm Fomapan 200 developed in XTOL 1:1
1970 Nikon FTN
My trusty Nikon N90s, which I bought new over 25 years ago and shot many thousands of photos with, recently went to the great camera repair shop in the sky. I decided I would buy a replacement that had just the features I wanted, and not spend on features I didn’t want. This is hard, because I want the bare minimum in features. I don’t want a fancy computer, I don’t want autofocus, I don’t want GPS integration. I don’t even really want a meter. So, I bought a Nikon F that was manufactured about 8 months after I was born, and these are shots from the first roll I ran through that camera.
The day after this photo was taken, Missoula, like most of the country, was hit with some heavy-duty winter weather, which has not yet let up.
The Cocoon Nebula IC5146
It’s been a few years since I photographed the Cocoon Nebula close up. This time I’m using the new APS-H size QHY16200A/QHYOAG-M together with my AT12RC w/AP2.7 reducer @ F6.2 giving me 1867mm Focal Length. This is only 4 x 10 min exposures each channel LRGB and I’m pleasantly surprised to be getting round stars from corner to corner using the big chip QHY16200 especially with the AP Reducer.
Something I never noticed before when I have captured this object in the top right hand corner are 3 very distant galaxies.
Size: 4540x3630 pixels
Captured June 29, 2016
Total integration Time 160 minutes
Location: DownUnderObservatory, Fremont, MI
LRGB 160 min, 4 x 10 min each 1x1
Filters by Optolong
QHY16200A monochrome CCD cooled to -20C
QHYOAG-M Off Axis Guider
Astro-Tech AT12RC
Paramount GT-1100S German Equatorial Mount
Image Acquisition Maxim DL
Pre Processing Pixinsight
Post Processing Photoshop CS6
The Cocoon Nebula is both a reflection nebula and an emission nebula. Located 4,000 light-years away near the constellation Cygnus, the swan. The central star which powers the glowing hydrogen was born just 100,000 years ago, a stellar infant, and will continue to carve out the inner regions of the nebula as its stellar winds blow.
Unmistakable in this image is the reflection nebula which extends away like a tail. Consisting of mostly dusty interstellar material dense enough that it blocks the starlight from behind.
Objects like The Cocoon Nebula are very common, many completely unknown because the molecular cloud hasn't yet birthed a star. Without an ionization source, the cloud of gas and dust will remain dark and will go largely unnoticed.
Data captured earlier this year, only processed now as the cloudy weather starts. Experimenting with a different processing technique, and highlighting the dust clouds (consisting mainly of Hydrogen), with star reduction so that the gas and dust stand out.
The Lagoon Nebula (M8, Messier 8 or NGC 6523), is a giant interstellar cloud in the constellation Sagittarius. M8 is estimated to be between 4,000 - 6,000 light-years from Earth in the Milky Way Galaxy, and is classified as an emission nebula.
About Emission nebulae:
Emission nebulae are glowing clouds of interstellar gas which have been excited by some nearby energy source, usually a very hot star. The red light seen in this picture is glowing hydrogen captured in the Hydrogen-Alpha (Hα) Infrared wavelength of light at 656nm.
About this image:
Imaged in Narrowband in the SHO palette (Ha, SII and OIII).
Image Acquisition & Plate Solving:
SGP Mosaic and Framing Wizard.
PlaneWave PlateSolve 2 via SGP.
Integration time:
22 hours.
Processing:
Pre-Processing and Linear workflow in PixInsight,
and finished in Photoshop.
Photographed in the following wavelengths of light:
OIII line at 500.7nm
H-alpha line at 656nm
SII line at 672nm
Astrometry Info:
Center RA, Dec: 271.120, -24.243
Center RA, hms: 18h 04m 28.736s
Center Dec, dms: -24° 14' 35.817"
Size: 1.63 x 1.19 deg
Radius: 1.011 deg
Pixel scale: 3.67 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: Up is 176 degrees E of N
nova.astrometry.net/user_images/3151067#annotated
APOD GrAG:
Martin
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Nothing seems complicated anymore
sights and sounds of past rapport
heard now in the gentleness of a late February morn
playing upon a throwback reborn
from a seemingly random breeze of necessary purpose
recalling the longing of a connection so ingenious
we are instilled and indisposed, regaled and juxtaposed
charmed by the Sunlight's heavenly senses thus supposed
floating within and beyond any doubt of inspiriting
a loneliness that now gathers this hope it's eliciting
made in a Heaven integrating with each and every footstep
close to touch, shifting focus toward the ultimate prep
given a course in daily enlightenment from sun rise to set
against all darkness cast in a Soul made for no regret
catch the light before it fades into all-swallowing time
consume your fears and exhale belief in it's prime
for the daily climb is a premise of vista's hitherto dreamt of,
the vision is the spark of the fire warming the heart of love
guiding the mind steering the ship of navigable valleys
when acting as one, the whole world answers and rallies
the last goodbye is the very first hello of the new dawn
colouring dreams of old and reinvigorating friends newly drawn
unto the circles of harmony rippling through each and all
our faith begins with the sunrise and the air we each call
this unifying expression of living is the nature of life
nobody can deny, no-one should defy, our bond of this very life.
by anglia24
10h40: 28/02/2008
©2008anglia24
Waiting for weather to improve, tried one more time the impossible, too small of a subject for my 81mm scope to handle even after integration of 61, 300 sec exposures. Imaging on a D750 modified.
Groep Fantasy uit Rotterdam met het thema "Just like a star" tijdens de straatparade van het Ortel Zomercarnaval 2010
Excerpt from Wikipedia:
Bayfront Park is a 16-hectare (40-acre) park found in the West-end of Hamilton Harbour in the North End neighbourhood of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Over $9 million transformed formerly vacant land into a versatile green space, with 1,800 metres (5,906 ft) of shoreline integrating fish habitat, native vegetation and facilities. The park is the site of a variety of summer festivals and concerts. A protected sandy beach and a 6-metre (20 ft) wide trail circles the park.
Other important features of the park include: a public boat launch, fishing opportunities, a 250 space parking lot, and pedestrian and bicycle trails leading to Pier 4 Park.
The last of the patients were being prepared for life outside the asylum as the demolition took hold .....
(Thanks for getting this to Explore guys)
While the broken clay pipe used to protect the shoreline along this section of Lake Ontario makes somewhat unsure footing to walk on I loved the contrast it created.
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• Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P
• Sky-Watcher EQ8-R Pro
• ZWO ASI294MM-Pro
• Astronomik L: 40x300s bin1 gain 0
• Astronomik RGB: 29x300s bin2 gain 125
(total integration 5.75h)
• ZWO OAG & ASI290Mini guide cam
• TS GPU coma corrector
• ZWO EFW, ZWO EAF & Pegasus Astro Ultimate Powerbox 2
Trevinca, Valding, Spain
Bortle 3, SQM 21.8
processed with Pixinsight
SOUTH CHINA SEA (March 15, 2020) Ships from the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group and from the America Expeditionary Strike Group transit the South China Sea in formation. Operating as an Expeditionary Strike Force, the Navy-Marine Corps team integrates the combat power of the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group with the flexible capability of the America Expeditionary Strike Group and 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit to provide the fleet commander with a capable, credible combat force that can be deployed anywhere in the world. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Brandon Richardson)
There is over 11 hours of imaging time in this image which was captured 31st Dec, 7th Jan and 14th Jan 2016, using the following equipment and software.
TS APO65Q Telescope
Atik 490EX CCD Camera
QHY5L Guide Camera on 90x50 finder scope
Baader Ha, OIII and SII narrow band filters.
Artemis Capture.
PHD2 Guiding.
All processing Pixinsight incl stacking (image integration)
This image is blended from SII, OIII and Ha filters using the PixelMath component in Pixinsight. The mix is to suit my own taste.
The SII has added Ha
The Ha as some OIII added
The OIII is on it's own
Thanks to Kayron at www.lightvortexastronomy.com for the wonderful tutorials.
I am very pleased with the detail of the data but I feel the stars do overpower and I would welcome any constructive criticism as to what I may be doing wrong (over exposure?) or can do to correct this in processing.
Dusty emission in the Tadpole nebula, IC 410, lies about 12,000 light-years away in the northern constellation Auriga. The cloud of glowing gas is over 100 light-years across, sculpted by stellar winds and radiation from embedded open star cluster NGC 1893. Formed in the interstellar cloud a mere 4 million years ago, bright cluster stars are seen all around the star-forming nebula. Notable near the image center are two relatively dense streamers of material trailing away from the nebula's central regions. Potentially sites of ongoing star formation in IC 410, these cosmic tadpole shapes are about 10 light-years long.
Inspired by Anthony( Descriptimage's photos - www.flickr.com/photos/descriptimage/) at the beginning when I started to do the creation of "Multiple Exposure " or so called " Overlayers" at early Sep, Anthony told me that I could try to explore the creation towards both at "Surrealism" & "Abstract" aspects. After almost one month's practice, the first series photoworks names as "Memory of Autumn" got so many warm comment & encouragment from all friends here, which concept is focus at the "Surrealism" and connected to the explore of "Time". Now the second series of photoworks "Jam of light , lightings & advertising", I would focus at "Abstract" and connected to the explore of the "Space". In our daily life, people are always surroundding by light, lightings, advertising, noise etc, I used the word of "jam" to express the got feel and atmosphere, through the integration, deconstructionof all these elements & recreate or reform a whole new visual. The creation are abstract, but I will try to name it to help communication of my original intention. Thanks for Anthony's illumination & all your great encouragment, kindly let me know how you think about this series.
Here’s another one of my “animals” from the high-declination regions of the milky way: not fish this time, but a reptile. This Gecko sits, very appropriately, in the constellation Lacerta (Latin for “lizard”). It’s a faint wisp of molecular cloud, 6 hours of integration at f/5.6 under good Bortle 3 sky were barely sufficient to produce a readable image.
Captured from the backyard of my new home in Colorado on the same night as my earlier image of M78, an unusual view of this area showing only part of M78 to the left however this new image will form part of a Panoramic/Mosaic of this region. I’m really loving using the new QHY367C, Full Frame 7376x4938, 36.4mega pixel One Shot Color CMOS camera, no noise reduction was needed.
Technical Information
Location: Whitewater Colorado
Captured February 15th 2016
Size: 7376 x 4938 pixels
Pixel Size: 4.88um x 4.88um
Total integration Time 90 minutes
QHY367C Full Frame One Shot Color COLDMOS cooled to -20C
45 x 120 sec @ 1x1
Optics: Takahashi E-180 Epsilon
Paramount GT-1100S German Equatorial Mount
Image Acquisition Maxim DL
Pre Processing Deep Sky Stacker
Post Processing Photoshop CS6
IC410 in the constellation of Auriga is an emission nebula of gas and dust surrounding the young star cluster NGC 1893 and famous for the two "tadpoles", regions of denser gas and dust being sculpted by the radiation and solar winds from the cluster's stars.
This image is an integration of over 26 hours of data captured as 314 x 300 second exposures on a QHY183C cooled CMOS OSC camera. The scope was a William Optics FLT110 with Flat4 and an STC duo narrowband filter was used to allow through only the light from ionized hydrogen and oxygen.
Image sequencing was managed via SGP with PHD2 for guiding and all post-processing was carried out in PixInsight.
Observed from Prachinburi, Thailand