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The constellation Orion against a background of stars. When you can see Orion in the sky, it's a sure sign winter is on the way but where I am it doesn't emerge from behind the mountains until about 3am at the moment and the days and nights are still pleasantly hot. Unfortunately I wasn't able to bring a telescope (and the kit I usually have on hand) over to Italy but I did take my trusty Canon DSLR, some lenses, and the Skywatcher Star Adventurer Mini (SAM) and that's enough to do some astrophotography. Because the SAM isn't something I take out very often I'm still a novice with it and this is a good opportunity to learn to use it properly...and it's surprisingly versatile once the polar alignment and focus are as good as can be. Previous experiments with SAM weren't spectacularly successful so I'm keen to master it. This shot is a step on the way. For relatively few exposures and not the darkest of locations, a fair amount of detail came out. Look closely and you can see some features on the Orion Nebula and the Running Man Nebula. There is even a hint of the Flame Nebula next to Alnitak (the lowest of the three stars of Orion's Belt in this orientation).
16 x 1 minute exposures at 400 ISO - 33mm f/5
21 x dark frames
no bias frames
no flat frames
Total integration time = 16 minutes
Equipment:
Skywatcher Star Adventurer Mini (SAM)
Cullmann tripod
Canon 700D DSLR
Canon 18-55mm lens at 33mm f/5
Taken near the cliffside trail on the western side of the Middle Falls.
This photo complements the Part 19 image, and like it shows one of the park's predominant tree species, Arbor Vitae (Thuja occidentalis) hanging on for dear life on the edge of an outcrop of North Shore Volcanic Group basalt. This igneous extrusive rock is a small part of the immense outpouring of mafic lava that accompanied the development of the late-Mesoproterozoic Midcontinent Rift.
While usually not quite this visible, roots are amazing structures and one of the most geologically significant evolutionary adaptations in the whole history of life.
Before plants developed substantial roots systems, for both better anchoring and vastly more effective uptake of water, oxygen, and nutrients, the Earth was a world where the force of erosion more frequently predominated over the process of weathering.
But as rooted plants spread over larger and larger areas of our planet's surface, they created positive feedback loops ultimately involving the development of true soils, an increase of carbon sequestration in the ground, and an increase in the atmosphere's free-oxygen content. All these things had further dramatic effects on climate, rock formation, and the development of other living communities.
So when did roots first evolve? Most paleobotanists think that plants had developed them by the early Devonian period, approximately 400 Ma ago. That may seem an ancient date indeed, but keep in mind that the basalt to which this tree clings is, at 1,100 Ma, almost three times as old.
To see the other photos and descriptions of this series, visit
my Integrative Natural History of Minnesota's North Shore album.
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Located at the corner of Bayswater and Somerset W. How is it possible to walk by a building and never really notice it? Very easy,
BOEING B-52H (61-0013) / BASE DE MORÓN (LEMO) SPAIN
A Bomber Task Force deployment of U.S. Air Force B-52H Stratofortress aircraft, Airmen and support equipment from the 2nd Bomb Wing, Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, arrived in the U.S. European Command area of responsibility to train with U.S. allies and partners on May 17, 2021.
The mission highlights the U.S. military’s ability to conduct integration training with partners and allies. This deployment of strategic bombers to Moron Air Base, Spain, helps exercise U.S. Air Forces in Europe’s capability to operate bombers out of a variety of forward operating locations.
The deployment is scheduled to include joint and allied training in the U.S. European Command theater and U.S. Africa Command theater to improve bomber interoperability.
Training with joint partners, allied nations and other units enables us to build enduring and strategic relationships necessary to confront a broad range of global challenges.
Bomber Task Force missions demonstrate the U.S.’ commitment to the collective defense of NATO and contribute to stability in the European theater. Our ability to quickly respond and assure allies and partners rests upon the fact that we are here, in Europe, forward and ready.
A Redhead pair seems to be socially integrated into a group of Coots... somehow; they still seem to stand out just a bit.
Building Resilience, Integrating Gender Women, Natural Resources and Climate Change in Afghanistan
2017 © Noorullah Azizi UN Environment
The third and fourth (pictured) European Service Modules are currently in production at Airbus facilities in Bremen, Germany. They are a key element of the Orion spacecraft, the first to return humans to the Moon since the 1970s.
These modules provide the spacecraft with propulsion, power and thermal control, and will supply astronauts with water and oxygen. The Orion spacecraft is composed of a European Service Module, a Crew Module Adapter and a Crew Module. The latter two components are provided by NASA.
Powering flights to the Moon is a collaborative effort. The components and hardware used in the European Service Modules are built and supplied by more than twenty different companies from ten different countries in Europe.
When ready for launch, each module will have a total mass of 13500 kg, almost two-thirds of which is propellant (rocket fuel). More than 11 km of cables are needed to send commands and receive information from the many on-board sensors. As can be seen in the photo, tie-wraps (yellow) come in handy when it comes to keeping all these cables organised.
The first European Service Module is already attached to the Orion spacecraft and awaiting launch for Artemis I later this year. The second European Service Module has been formally transferred to NASA and is completing integration at the Operations and Checkout building at the Kennedy Space Center. It will be used on the Artemis II mission, the first crewed mission to fly all the way to the Moon in half a century.
By delivering six European Service Modules, ESA is ensuring NASA’s Artemis programme continues to develop a sustainable presence on and around the Moon in international partnership.
Learn more about Orion and Europe’s involvement here. Follow the latest updates via the Orion blog.
Credits: ESA–A. Conigli
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This photo from Northrop Grumman's clean room in Redondo Beach, California shows the process if integrating the sunshield and the telescope part of the James Webb Space Telescope Observatory. The telescope is seen hanging from a crane, in the process of being moved over the sunshield.
Here's a recent video about the recent successful assembly of Webb into its final form: youtu.be/Trh9ohPo-cE
Image credit: Northrop Grumman
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A U.S. Marine pilot with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 161 (Reinforced), 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, lands an AV-8B Harrier aboard the USS Essex (LHD 2) during Amphibious Squadron/Marine Expeditionary Unit Integration Training (PMINT) off the coast of San Diego, Feb. 24, 2015. This training allowed the pilots of the 15th MEU’S air combat element an opportunity to practice landing and departing procedures in the AV-8B Harrier while at sea. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Anna Albrecht/ Released)
Fusion with my artworks is possible in the projection gallery. I was looking not only to make you think and let your imagination fly free, but at the same time to play with your own shadows, integrating yourself to them creating new stories and I think I have achieved it. Thanks to all of you who have attended in December there is a new collection on the way :)
Gallery projections immensities collection
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La fusión con mis obras de arte es posible en la galería de proyección. Buscaba no solo hacerte pensar y dejar volar tu imaginación, sino a la vez jugar con tus propias sombras, integrándote a ellas creando nuevas historias y creo que lo he logrado. Gracias a todos los que habéis asistido,en diciembre hay una nueva colección en camino :)
Facing more or less northward. Taken along the trail leading to the summit of Vesuvius.
Everyone knows that it was Mount Vesuvius that buried Pompeii, Herculaneum, and other ancient communities in AD 79. And everyone happens to be wrong, at least if one adheres to modern geologic and geographic jargon. In current terminology, it wasn't Vesuvius that wreaked that havoc, but the famous volcano's long-lived predecessor, Mount Somma.
According to an excellent paper and accompanying geologic map, "Volcanic Evolution of the Somma-Vesuvius Complex (Italy)" (Sbrana et al., Journal of Maps, January 2020), Mount Somma assembled itself as a major stratovolcano from about 44 ky to 22 ky ago. And then, from 22 ky to AD 79, it suffered a number of Plinian eruptions, each of which resulted in the collapse of its central cone and the formation of a caldera.
Whenever italicized terms begin to proliferate, it's time to stop and provide some definitions. Let's do this in tabular form:
Plinian eruption: named for that prolific letter-writer, Pliny the Younger, whose uncle (you guessed it—Pliny the Elder) was ancient Rome's foremost naturalist and seeker after the odd and curious. See the comments section of Part 1 for more on this dynamic duo.
Because Pliny the Younger did a superb job of describing the AD 79 event, that type of highly violent and destructive eruption now bears his name. As a great mass of pyroclastic material is shot high into the atmosphere, it forms a mushroom cloud that eventually suffers gravitational collapse and falls onto and buries surrounding terrain. So much of the underlying magma chamber is emptied in a short time that the volcano caves in under its own weight. The result is a
Caldera. Essentially this is just a very big crater that has formed due to the process of magma-chamber collapse described above.
So what is Vesuvius? It's the newer stratovolcano that has risen atop the Somma caldera since the 1600s AD. The latest alterations and additions to its Gran Cono summit and its downslope lava flows were made during its most recent major eruption, in 1944.
But this is very confusing if you happen to be a Classics scholar and you read the famous letter of Pliny the Younger concerning the AD 79 eruption (Epistulae 6.16) in the original Latin. You'll come upon this passage detailing the aforesaid eruption:
Nubes incertum procul intuentibus ex quo monte; Vesuvium fuisse postea cognitum est
My own crude translation of this is, "A cloud that came from a mountain not identifiable from this far away, but which was later understood to be Vesuvius." Hmm. This shows that what we now call Mount Somma the ancients called Vesuvius. Uffa!
So perhaps it's best to be a little vague, tolerant, and adjustable. Let's just use the term found in the article title cited above, "the Somma-Vesuvius Complex." In fact, I'm going to get even more sciency and abbreviate it to the SVC. How cool is that?
In this shot, the SVC can be categorized as:
- Vesuvius Gran Cono slope (angle of repose of about 30 degrees from horizontal): the dark portion at lower left, foreground;
- Somma caldera floor, with considerable tree growth;
- Somma caldera rim.
The rim is of special interest because it reveals classic stratovolcano composition (alternating layers of tephra and lava) as well as striking examples of dikes. The dikes resemble narrow, vertical walls projecting radially outward from the rim. In fact, they're former fissures or feeder channels for volcanic vents. Some of the magma they contained solidified within them, and created flat-sided bodies of rock considerably more resistant than the pyroclastic material around them.
The other photos and descriptions of this series can be found in my Integrative Natural History of Mount Vesuvius & the Gulf of Naples album.
Located at the corner of Bayswater and Somerset W. How is it possible to walk by a building and never really notice it? Very easy,
(Updated April 16, 2025)
Looking northwestward at the middle branch of the Amnicon River.
Horton Covered Bridge is a small but strategically placed pedestrian crossing that offers wonderful vistas of both the park's Upper Falls and Lower Falls. The latter is shown here. And around it there's a lot of North Country geology and botany to take in.
The Douglas Fault contact between the upthrust Chengwatana Volcanic Group basalt and the Bayfield Group's Orienta Sandstone is about 125 yd (115 m) behind us. So everything before us here is the Orienta. Classified as an arkosic sandstone with significant feldspar as well as quartz content, it owes its handsome brick-red to maroon color to a lot of ferric-iron oxide in the form of the mineral hematite.
As one of the ruddy-tinted clastic rocks deposited in or adjacent to the Midcontinent Rift (active ca. 1.1 Ga ago), it was marketed along with other similar formations under the generic trade name of Lake Superior Brownstone. One major quarrying locale for the Orienta specifically was the area including Port Wing and Herbster, Wisconsin, roughly 30 mi (48 km) northeast of the park. Stone produced there was used in architectural projects in such cities as Peoria, Illinois; Fargo, North Dakota; and Lincoln, Nebraska. But my own favorite example is the Historic Old Central High School in nearby Duluth, Minnesota.
On both sides of the Lower Falls the Orienta Sandstone is very flaggy, thin-bedded, and almost flat-lying, in contrast to the contorted and tilted strata found closer to the fault. However, its most dramatic exposure is the high cliff carved by the river where it makes its turn to the left. The flat surfaces of this vertical face are the result of sheet spalling due to rock splitting along high-angle joints.
The rich earth tones of the bedrock are complemented by the greens of the forest that thrives atop it. Three tree species dominate the scene. The most lordly of these, Eastern White Pine (Pinus strobus), is the tallest. It can also be identified by its feathery foliage (five slender needles per fascicle) and its open crowns with horizontally spreading branches that tend to curl up just a little at their tips.
The other pine present is the Red (P. resinosa). Its stouter needles are bound two per fascicle and tend to form clumps or clusters on their stems. Red Pine is renowned especially for its straight boles, which have made it a primary choice for foundation pilings (such as the kind many of Milwaukee's older tall buildings rest on) and telephone poles. There are some good examples of this species on the frame's left margin.
A little less obvious here is the one really abundant broadleaf. Its strikingly white trunks can be spotted on either side of the great Eastern White Pine at upper center. It's the Paper (or Canoe) Birch, Betula papyrifera.
In this photo, multicellular animal life seems to be restricted to two bipedal primates belonging to Homo sapiens subsp. turisticus f. bermudashortsensis. Special care must be taken when encountering this creature in parkland settings. Or anywhere else, for that matter.
You'll find the other photos and descriptions of this series in my Integrative Natural History of Amnicon Falls State Park album.
The modest bus station in Aberystwyth next to the imposing 1925 train station, now used as a Wetherspoons
For those of you that don't know, I co-wrote a book this year with Programmer Andrew Morton. The book is about using the Flickr API and PHP together, to help build customized websites, and manage your Flickr photos. The book has something for everyone, and is written to be accessible and useful to both novice web designers and advanced programmers.
If you are interested in web programming, the book is on the shelves now! If want to save some trees, you can get the book as an ebook directly from the publisher, Apress.
If you are interested in reviewing the book, let me know. Limited availablity!
Finally, if you dig this book, you should digg it
Video of three black and white collages created in 2003...these pieces have never been exhibited and by using iMovie they now have a way of finding an audience
The narration with the video was also written back in 2003 when the pieces were first created...l found by writing a narration to all my pieces back in those days helped me with inner and outer consolidation and this allowed many other awarenesses to slowly become clear...
I have only just realised these videos are also becoming my artistic retrospective...
Dungeness is a headland on the coast of Kent, England, formed largely of a shingle beach in the form of a cuspate foreland. It shelters a large area of low-lying land, Romney Marsh. Dungeness is also the name of the power station and a few other nearby buildings near the beach, and of an important ecological site at the same location.
Dungeness is one of the largest expanses of shingle in the world[citation needed]. And is classified as Britain's only desert by the met office. It is of international conservation importance for its geomorphology, plant and invertebrate communities and birdlife. This is recognised and protected mostly through its conservation designations as a National Nature Reserve (NNR), a Special Protection Area (SPA), a Special Area of Conservation (SAC) and part of the Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) of Dungeness, Romney Marsh and Rye Bay.
There is a remarkable variety of wildlife living at Dungeness, with over 600 different types of plant: a third of all those found in Britain. It is one of the best places in Britain to find insects such as moths, bees and beetles, and spiders; many of these are very rare, some found nowhere else in Britain.
The short-haired bumblebee, Bombus subterraneus, was last found in the UK in 1988, but has survived in New Zealand after being shipped there more than 100 years ago. After unsuccessful attempts to reintroduce the New Zealand bees at Dungeness in 2009-2010, the RSPB teamed up with the Swedish government in a second attempt and introduced 51 of them in 2012 and 49 in 2013 to the Dungeness Reserve. This will be continued each year, with RSPB staff conducting analysis of breeding to ensure a successful integration.[1]
The flooded gravel pits on Denge Beach, both brackish and fresh water, provide an important refuge for many migratory and coastal bird species. The RSPB has a bird sanctuary there and every year thousands of bird watchers descend on the peninsula to catch a glimpse of a rare bird from the bird observatory.
Ball Aerospace Technician Robin Russell inspects the Webb Telescope Aft Optics Subsystem during mirror integration activities. The Aft Optics bench, made of lightweight beryllium like the mirrors, holds Webb's tertiary and fine steering mirrors. The installed, gold-coated tertiary mirror can be seen in the background.
The Aft Optics bench is the black piece that juts out of the center of the primary mirror visible in this illustration: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/4809439597/in/set...
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“The EU is facing another ‘whatever it takes’ moment”, EP President Roberta Metsola said when introducing Italy’s Prime Minister Mario Draghi to the plenary. She added that Mr Draghi already steered the EU out of a crisis when he was President of the European Central Bank. “I have no doubt that we can rely on your experience again as the EU faces another existential crisis”.
On the war in Ukraine, Ms Metsola highlighted that “the coordination, solidarity and unity the EU has shown against this war must remain the blueprint for our actions going forward.” On the future of the EU, she pointed out that, “no suggestions for change that have been made by the Conference should be off limits. Because if not now, then when?”
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Date of Photos – 02/16/2012
Location - Langley Research Center - Aircraft Landing Dynamics Facility
Photographer – Joe Bibby
Jewish cemetery in Külsheim, Germany
The cemetery is an awesome place for the Jews who call it in Hebrew: Bet ha-chaj (House of the living), Bet ha-kwarot (Hause of graves), Bet ha-olam (Eternal House) and in Yiddish 'Getort' (Good Place). It is a place of 'eternal rest', meaning that no grave can be reused and that there is no end to the use of a grave. Jews only go to the cemetery with their heads covered in respect of the Holiness of this place. Visiting a grave the Kaddisch Prayer is said and as ancient ritual a little stone is put onto the grave as memorial of the visit.
The tombstones in Külsheim stand with their simplicity for equality of all men in death. The few decorative details symbolise religious believes. Blessing hands indicate that the dead was from the tribe of Kohanim (Priests), the jug for someone from the Levites, the ram horn for a shofar player, the circumcision knife for a Mohalim, crowns are a symbol for a respected family name, grapes for a blessed life on earth, representations of animals however, are from more recent times and indicate surnames.
The last line at the lower end of a tombstone is mostly a shortened saying in Hebrew: 'Be his(her) soul bound into the eternal life.'
This cemetery was created in 1658 and is therefore one of the oldest in the region of Franconia (Germany). It was the central Jewish cemetery for Külsheim, Hardheim, Gissigheim, Königheim, Tauberbischofsheim and Hochhausen. The Jewish community paid a tax to the city of Külsheim for the use of the cemetery. The last person was buried here in April 1938.
Dammaged tombstones date from the Third Reich period. 1952 the fence around the cemetery was redone. Today the 'Suprime Council of Israelites of Baden' owns the cemetery.
The location of the medieval cemetery, previous to this one, is unknown. It might have been in the district called 'Paradise'.