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Dinge, die Hamburg ausmachen.
..gesehen an einer Mauer, die für allerlei Aufkleber, meist politisch-anarchistisch, herhält
This photo from Northrop Grumman's clean room in Redondo Beach, California shows the start of the integration process of the James Webb Space Telescope. 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
This is my collage representing arts integration. This is previous students and each image is a child using the arts to learn another subject matter while discovering more about a specific art form. These art representations include music, movement, theatre, and visual art in various ways. This is close to my heart and when I see these children in their moment of discovery through artistic influence, I truly see arts integration work.
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This crosswalk scene was photographed for several frames, then three were selected in which a subject's gait approximately coincided. these were registered on the moving person before generating a subtractive filter Harris Shutter Effect (HSE) image. The person was well registered in each frame with details disappearing into a black void in the composite. These were restored by blending with the stacked (SNR) image through a mask.
Edit: The original was replaced with a version using a large area mask, with a large blur radius, to eliminate a "spotlight effect" at the point of blending.
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Read how to construct a Subtractive Filter HSE image from three sequential photos.
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Composite images with a moving subject reference frame
Three very different movements in very different lighting conditions, but generally struggling with fast moving clouds (black and white) resulting in ever changing settings even within he frame. I worked from home first thing this morning and then on my way to Rotherham called in at Darnall station, a place where I had never stopped for the Hope to Walsall tanks.
A variation on the normal route via the Dore West Curve and Dronfield today it ran via Sheffield station and Woodhouse Junction. 66615 is seen here climbing up from Nunnery and Woodburn Junctions on the 09:19 Hope (Earles Sidings) Fhh to Walsall Freight Terminal.
Next post meeting and needing some fresh air to battle a migraine, evidence that the Scots are doing everything they can to remain integrated into Europe. Scotrail - Saltaire liveried 68006 would be more at home on commuter services out of Edinburgh, but this week has been a regular performer on the 6C89 0945 Mountsorrel to Carlisle NY. The disappointment of this running a 664xx for the first few weeks now overcome and a useful diagram as the same loco appears to work the train all week.
Finally a VSTP numerically confusing 56087 and 56078 on the 0C51 12:00 Doncaster CHS to Whitemoor Yard LDC GBRF, only just about dropping on one of those elusive sunspots.
..ecco il mio tentativo di mostrare la IFN intorno a questo celeberrimo duo di galassie nell'Orsa maggiore, M81 e M82, sono riuscito a sommare in due serate 48 frames 800 iso di cui 5 di 10 minuti ottenuti da Fontecorniale 550 mt. e i rimanenti 43 da 5 minuti dal cielo di casa a Lucrezia con Eos 40D su FS60 CB con riduttore di focale autoguida PHD Guiding dithering su AZEQ6 GT SW processing PixInsight 1.8 elaborazione PS CS5 Topaz labs (Detail3 Desnoise5)..
il risultato lo ritengo abbastanza soddisfacente anche se la IFN è percettibile solo dai cieli di montagna,mi accontento
JOINT BASE PEARL-HARBOR, Hawaii (April 22, 2020) - A U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer from Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D. and F-16 Fighting Falcons from Misawa Air Base, Japan, conducted bilateral joint training with Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) F-2s and F-15s off the coast of Northern Japan, April 22, 2020. U.S. Strategic Command's bomber forces regularly conduct combined theater security cooperation engagements with allies and partners, demonstrating U.S. capability to command, control and conduct bomber missions around the world. (Courtesy photo by the Japan Air-Self Defense Force)
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For those hard to reach places, technicians and engineers use various styles of lifts and platforms to ensure they have the best angle of approach to work on the James Webb Space Telescope observatory.
Here's a recent video about the recent successful assembly of Webb into its final form: youtu.be/Trh9ohPo-cE
Image credit: Northrop Grumman
even different lives lived by a countless individuals...is unified in one spirit...for peace in Humanity...
Die Dame ist mir 08.09.16 in der Erbprinzenstraße begegnet. Als ich ein Foto von ihr machte, sagte sie, dass dies ein übergriffiges Verhalten sei. Sie fragte mich ob sie mit ihrem Handy von mir auch ein Foto machen dürfe, was ich freundlich bejahte. Allerdings schränkte ich dann gleich ein, dass die Dame mir dazu ihre Vollverschleierung geben soll. Dies lehnte die Frau dann ihrerseits aber ab.
Ich gab der Frau noch zu verstehen, dass m. E. ihre Persönlichkeitsrechte nicht verletzt wurden. Eigentlich habe ich ja nur ein schwarzes Tuch fotografiert. Die Persönlichkeit ist auf diesem Foto ja überhaupt nicht erkennbar.
After the telescope and sunshield were joined, technicians did a careful inspection of the entire James Webb Space Telescope observatory, before moving on to electronically connect all of its various interfaces.
Here's a recent video about the recent successful assembly of Webb into its final form, which occurred in August:https://youtu.be/Trh9ohPo-cE
Image credit: Northrop Grumman
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Resulting from my latest visit to Singapore this week and the photo shoot we set up with my bro Philippe C.during my stay, we decided jointly to look into PP.. issues and take matters seriously... (:D into our own hands “so to speak” and create our very own processing approach that we have named : “Hallucinogenerix”.
Our theory goes like this... hang on...
Based on the saturation of lens “Aperture Mode Locking” AML and the self-amplitude “Time modulation coefficient” or TMC, Our work deals with the saturation of the lens Aperture mode locking mechanism. A quantitative description of TMC and the self-amplitude modulation effect in a laser cavity can be derived. Considering both the nonlinear and geometrical (curvature vector or CV) differences between lenses and camera sensors (full frame or not) we concluded that the “CV” differential relationship between cameras and lenses results in nonlinear light modulation.
The loss of the “Light Pulse Conformation Strength” or (LPCS) in a cavity due to “bleaching or excess or lack of light” creates a “Fast Saturation Absorbency” or FSA behavior of any type of camera and lens combination all together.
The “Intracavity Aperture Factor” or IAF specific to a given lens type produces the appearance of “FLICKERING” or image instabilities. Our goal was then to elaborate a formidable yet simple approach that allows the prediction of “FLICKERING” or image instabilities, and develop a post processing technique or method that can be as useful for short pulse laser cavity design in general than it is compared to a mouse pad - mouse relationship.
The obtained “Self-Amplitude Coefficient” or SAC is included within the TMC to which LPCS and FSA are added to give a ray-pulse matrix formalism, and a simple model for the temporal pulse parameters regarding only the self amplitude “Time Modulation Coefficient” or TMC can then be solve via a simple quadratic differential integration (Patent pending).
Our new “Hallucinogenerix” model sets a limit for the maximum pulse light energy of a stable solution for a given nonlinear modulation and “Camera Lens Combination” or CLC.
Our “Hallucinogenerix” post processing technique we are certain will soon become the newest and most revolutionary PP faved method yet we are certain. We simply baptized “ this new processing technique Lens Setting Dynamics” or “L.S.D.” (:D allows us not only to take night shots in broad daylight, but also gives us a stunning doubled and colored vision extremely useful for reflective photography. Combined with “ Hallucinogenerix” TM you are bound to see all sorts of colors in all sorts of way.
The above is the first of a series relating to this amazing Field and post-processing breakthrough.
To know more, thank you for sending your questions and donations to:
Maxsie & I at Wetakecash@ourbankaccount.com or wtc@ourbankaccount.com
D. Maxsie – D. Phil
P.S.: "Caution applies as D. may stand for delusional." A. Einstein
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Das ist Integration:
Mustafa, neben mir: "Ich ess ja auch schon mal Schweinefleisch."
Nachbar: "Mustafa - du bist doch Moslem?"
Mustafa: "Ich bin Deutscher."
Taken along the footpath to Vesuvius' Gran Cono summit. Facing south-southeastward.
Ah, that Mediterranean haze. It's the product of the local atmosphere's high aerosol (suspended particle) count. That in turn can be due to various factors, including the automotive and urban pollution no doubt present this close to the Neapolitan megalopolis. But the main cause reportedly is dust blown northward from the Sahara Desert. The grand result of all these tiny floating bits of matter is the region's milky, misty, opalescent air.
In the left foreground we see a small stretch of the volcano's relatively steep western flank. On the Gran Cono, rocks and pumice shards generally have an angle of repose of about 30 degrees from horizontal. According to my own highly sophisticated measurement technology—a plastic protractor pressed against my PC screen—the lower slope is almost exactly that, with the upper portion being up to 40 degrees or so.
Far far beyond that crunchy, crumbly surface lies the city of Castellammare di Stabia, facing the Gulf of Naples. The Pompeii archaeological complex is also partially visible, I think, at far left behind the upper section of the slope.
The high ground on the horizon is the eastern side of the Sorrento Peninsula. It's composed of Mesozoic-era limestones with some Quaternary pyroclastic deposits wafted in from you-know-where.
Speaking of slopes, if you've ever driven around the Sorrento area, you know how vertiginous its peninsula's hillsides are in many places. With all those hairpin turns and tight bends around projecting masses of rock, it's not a good place for drivers to take their eyes off the road.
The other photos and descriptions of this series can be found in my Integrative Natural History of Mount Vesuvius & the Gulf of Naples album.
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PACIFIC OCEAN (Nov. 15, 2016) An F-35B Lightning II short takeoff/vertical landing (STOV maintainers, engineers, logisticians, support staff and test pilots are embarked for the third and fin2016).
An F-35B Lightning II short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) aircraft conducts test operations on the flight deck of amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA-6). The highly diverse cadre of Pax River Integrated Test Force (ITF) technicians, maintainers, engineers, logisticians, support staff and test pilots are embarked for the third and final developmental test phase (DT-III) of F-35B carrier suitability and integration.
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The speakers at the fourth MOSECON Luncheon discuss the delicate issue of migration and (in-)security, in an attempt to determine if migrants and refugees truly pose a threat to security.
www.mosecon.com/luncheons/mosecon-luncheon-04-migration-i...
The Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV) flight model during integration at Thales Alenia Space, Torino, Italy, on 12 February 2014.
It will be launched by ESA in 2014 on Vega, Europe’s new small launcher, into a suborbital path. It will reenter the atmosphere as if from a low-orbit mission, testing new European reentry technologies during its hypersonic and supersonic flight phases.
Credit: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2014
Some background:
The MBR-04 series were the first combat-ready Destroids and the most successful land-combat weapon Destroids that were built with OverTechnology of Macross. The abbreviation MBR (Main Battle Robot) indicates the model was developed as a walking humanoid weapon emphasizing the heavy armor firepower of an artillery combat vehicle, designed to replace mainline battle tanks. The Type 04 series was developed jointly by Viggers and Chrauler. Unlike the variable fighters, which had to be designed to accommodate transformation mechanisms, the MBR series featured a structure with a large capacity that allowed plenty of room for machinery and armor.
The initial development line, the "Tomahawk" multipurpose battle robot and comparable in its intended role with former main battle tanks, had inferior anti-aircraft abilities, even though it boasted firepower like no other biped vehicle from the Destroid series. Originally, the Tomahawk was just called "MBR Mk. I", but once its systems and structural elements became the basis for other models, its designation changed into the "Type 04" Destroid. The main frame from the waist down, a module which consolidated the thermonuclear reactor and ambulatory OverTechnology system of the Destroids, was common to all of the Type 04 series of biped battle robots. Production line integration using this module was a key goal of Destroid development, and the quick development of further variants.
The ADR-04-Mk. X Defender Destroid was one of these family members, a walking weapon developed using OverTechnology for deployment by the United Nations Military. During development of the MBR-04-Mk I, a version of the Destroid ambulatory system with the anti-aircraft Contraves system (for use during the early stages of battle) was simultaneously being developed in a joint effort by Viggers-Chrauler under direction from the United Nations. This initial support Destroid, tentatively designated ADR-04-Mk. II, which still shared many components and even hull sections with the Tomahawk, did not progress beyond prototype stage - primarily because of a focus on the Tomahawk as UN's primary ground weapon. It nevertheless provided vital input for the ADR-04-Mk. X Defender, which became an important defensive asset to protect ground troops and vital locations, as well as for operations in space on board of the SDF-1.
Designed for the purpose of super-long-range firing in atmosphere and space, the Defender was rolled out in March 2009 and immediately put into action against the Zentraedi military. Unfortunately, the cost of the unit was high and posed significant difficulties for manufacturing, especially installing the high-definition targeting system, which lead to a bottleneck during mass production.
The ADR-04-Mk. X Defender's only weapons were two stub arms, each featuring a pair of large-caliber, specialized interception capability guns instead of manipulators, similar to the eventual mass-produced MBR-04-Mk. VI Tomahawk. The anti-aircraft engagement model (anti-tank class) wide-bore guns each fired 500 rounds per minute and all four barrels firing in combination were able to unleash continuous 2,000 rounds per minute, even though only short bursts of four rounds or just single shots were typically fired to save ammunition. The 78 mm rounds were aimed via an Erlikon Contraves fire control system and fired at an impressive muzzle velocity of 3,300 meters per second. A wide range of ammunition types could be fired, including HE, AP, APDS high speed, massive kinetic impact rounds, EMP grenades and rounds with chaff/flare/thermal mist charges. The internal belt magazines made it was possible to load up to three different types per twin gun and deliberately switch between them. The overall supply was, however, rather limited.
The rotating mechanism structure of the upper body allowed the unit to respond quickly to enemies approaching even from the rear, for a full 360° coverage of the whole hemisphere above the Destroid. Due to the independent arms, the Defender could even engage two targets separately and split its firepower among them. Additionally, the targeting system was capable of long-range firing in space and could perform extremely precise shooting at long distances in a vacuum/zero-G environment. Hence, the Defender Destroid was more a next generation anti-aircraft tank and in service frequently moonlighted as a movable defensive turret. However, despite featuring a common Destroid ambulatory system, the Defender's mobility was rather limited in direct comparison with a variable fighter Battroid, and it lacked any significant close-combat capability, so that it remained a dedicated support vehicle for other combat units.
180 ADR-04-Mk. X Defenders were ordered, built and operated by UN ground and space forces, about half of them were deployed on board of SDF-1. During the First Space War, around sixty more Defenders were converted from revamped MBR-04 series chassis, mostly from battle-damaged Tomahawks, but some later Phalanx' units were modified, too.
During its career the Defender was gradually upgraded with better sensors and radar systems, and its armament was augmented, too. A common upgrade were enlarged ammunition bays on the shoulders that could hold 50 more rounds per gun, even though this stressed the ambulatory system since the Defender's center of gravity was raised. Therefore, this modification was almost exclusively executed among stationary "gun turret" units. Another late upgrade was the addition of launch rails for AMM-1 anti-aircraft missiles on the gun pods and/or the torso. Again, this was almost exclusively implemented on stationary Defenders.
A short-range sub-variant, under the project handle "Cheyenne", was developed in 2010, too, but it was only produced in small number for evaluation purposes. It was based on the Defender's structure, but it carried a different armament, consisting of a pair of 37 mm six-barrel gatling guns plus AMM-1 missiles, and a more clutter-resistant radar system against fast and low-flying targets. The Cheyenne was intended as a complementary aerial defense unit, but the results from field tests were not convincing, so that the project was mothballed. However, in 2012 the concept was developed further into the ADR-04-Mk.XI "Manticore", which was fully tailored to the short-range defense role.
General characteristics:
Equipment Type: aerial defense robot, series 04
Government: U.N. Spacy
Manufacturer: Viggers/Chrauler
Introduction: March 2009
Accommodation: 1 pilot
Dimensions:
Height 11.37 meters (overall)
10.73 meters (w/o surveillance radar antenna)
Length 4.48 meters (hull only)
7.85 meters (guns forward)
Width 8.6 meters
Mass: 27.1 metric tons
Power Plant:
Kranss-Maffai MT828 thermonuclear reactor, output rated at 2800 shp;
plus an auxiliary GE EM10T fuel power generator, output rated at 510 kW
Propulsion:
2x thrust nozzles mounted in the lower back region, allowing the capability to perform jumps,
plus several vernier nozzles around the hull for Zero-G manoeuvers
Performance:
Max. walking speed: 72 kph when fully loaded
Design features:
- Detachable weapons bay (attaches to the main body via two main locks);
- Type 966 PFG Contraves radar and fire control set (a.k.a. Contraves II)
with respective heat exchanger on the upper back
- Rotating surveillance antenna for full 360° air space coverage
- Optical sensor unit equipped with four camera eyes, moving along a vertical slit,
protected by a polarized light shield;
- Capable of performing Zero-G manoeuvers via 16 x thrust nozzles (mounted around the hull);
- Reactor radiator with exhaust ports in the rear;
- Cockpit can be separated from the body in an emergency (only the cockpit block is recovered);
- Option pack featuring missiles or enlarged ammunition bays;
Armament:
2x Erlikon 78mm liquid-cooled high-speed 2-barrel automatic cannon with 200 rounds each,
mounted as arms
The kit and its assembly:
A kind of nostalgia trip, because my first ever mecha kit I bought and built in the Eighties was this 1:100 Destroid Defender! It still exists, even though only as a re-built model, and I thought that it was about time to build another, “better” one, to complete my collection of canonical Macross Destroids.
With this objective, the vintage kit was built basically OOB, just with some detail enhancements. The biggest structural change is a new hip joint arrangement, made from steel wire. It allows a more or less flexible 3D posture of the legs, for a more dynamic “walking” pose, and the resulting gaps were filled with paper tissue drenched in white glue and acrylic paint.
A more cosmetic change concerns the Defender’s optical sensor array on its “head”. OOB it just consists of a wide “slit” with a square window – very basic, but that’s how the defender is depicted in the TV series. However, I have a Macross artbook with original design sketches from Studio Nue, which reveal more details of this arrangement, and these include a kind of louvre that covers the mobile sensor array’s guide rails, and the sensor array itself consists of several smaller optical units – the relatively new 1:72 Defender from WAVE features these details, too, but the old 1:72 Defender from Arii (and later Bandai) also only has a red box, even though under a clear cover, which is IMHO dubious, though. The louvres were created from hemispherical styrene profile bits, the sensor array was scratched with a front wheel from an 1:100 VF-1 and more styrene bits.
The guns/arms were taken OOB, but I reduced the opening at the shoulder (and with it the angle the arms can be swiveled) with styrene profile material, which also hides the foo fit of the shoulder halves that hold the guns and a reinforcement styrene plate inside of them.
While I could have enlarged the ammunition boxes on the Defender’s shoulders (they are extended backwards), I left them in the original and OOB configuration. Another hull mod I eventually did not carry out were clear replacements for the molded searchlights. Having some visible depth and true clear covers would have been nice, but then I doubted the benefits vs. the mess their integration into the body would mean, so that I went for a simple paint solution (see below).
A final cosmetic modification tried to improve the look of the shanks – but it did not help much. On the Defender, there are two continuous ridges that run across the lower legs. This is a molding simplification and wrong because the Defender (and all other 04-Series chassis’) only features the ends of the ridges.
I tried to sand the inner sections away, but upon gluing the parts finally together I realized that the fit of these parts is abysmal, and PSRing on the resulting concave surface between the leftover humps was a nightmare. Did not work well, and it looks poor.
With this in mind, a general word about the Arii 1:100 Destroids with the Series 04 chassis: there are three kits (Defender, Tomahawk and Phalanx), and you’d expect that these used the same lower body just with different torsos. But that’s not the case – they are all different, and the Defender is certainly the worst version, with its odd “toe” construction, the continuous ridges and the horrible fit of the lower leg halves as well as the shoulders that hold the stub arms. The Tomahawk is better, but also challenging, and IMHO, when you are only looking for the lower body section, the Phalanx is the best kit or the trio.
Painting and markings:
This Defender was supposed to remain canonical and close to the OOB finish, so this became a simple affair.
All Macross Destroids tend to carry a uniform livery, and esp. the Tomahawk/Defender/Phalanx family is kept in murky/dull tones of green, brown and ochre: unpretentious "mud movers".
The Defender appears to carry an overall olive drab livery, and I settled on RAL 7008 (Khakigrau), which is - according to the RAL color list - supposed to be a shade of grey, but it comes out as a dull, yellowish green-brown.
This tone was applied overall from a rattle can, and the few contrast sections like the ammunition boxes or the dust guards of the knee joints were painted with NATO olive green (RAL 6014, Gelboliv, Revell 46). The hull was later treated with Modelmaster Olive Drab (FS 34087), which adds a more greenish hue to the basic paint.
The kit received a thorough black ink washing, then some dry-brushing with Humbrol 72 (Khaki Drill) was applied. The decals came next, taken from the OOB sheet, plus four decals for those vernier thrusters that had not been molded into the kit’s surface. The only change is a different piece of “nose art” on the left leg, replacing the original, rather small decal. It actually belongs to a Czech AF MiG-21MF (one of the two famous Fishbeds from Pardubice in 1989, aircraft “1114”) and filled the bumpy area over the lower leg’s seam (see above) well – a kind of visual distraction from the PSR mess underneath...
Finally, the kit was sealed with matt acrylic varnish, its major sub-assemblies put together. The optical sensors received lenses with clear paint over a silver base. The large searchlights were painted, too, with a silver base plus white and clear blue reflections on top, covered with a generous coat of Humbrol’s Clearfix to mimic a clear, glossy cover.
After final assembly, some mineral pigments were dusted onto the model’s lower areas with a soft, big brush.
I knew that the Defender was trouble, but esp. the legs turned out to be horrible to build. However, the small cosmetic changes really improve the model’s look, and I am quite happy with the result.
Beverly Burnett dresses up.
Canon F1n, 50mm f1.4 SSC, Vivitar 282 flash
Kodachrome 64
1981
Taken in 1981 at Beale AFB, California, Physiological Support Division, USAF Hospital Beale.
PSD is the flight integration facility where pressure suits survival kits, parachutes and other flight equipment are maintained, fitted, overhauled or integrated into the aircraft systems. (At this time U2R/TR-1, and SR-71A)
This is a David Clark S1031 suit, a seven layered suit used to unlimited altitude. The suit uses 100% oxygen which enters the suit through a pressure regulator in the rear of the helmet. The helmet has a face curtain to assure that any suit leaks do not decompress the face area, and that pressure is available for breathing. Exhaled gases get passed through the face curtain to the suit environment. The suit pressure is maintained with compressed Oxygen from the aircraft system, through a dual stage suit pressure controller. The regulator is operated by two vacuum aneroids which compress seals, if the ambient cabin pressure is less than required, the vacuum aneroids contract allowing system pressure to enter the suit. The small pulley with the steel cable running through it is the helmet hold-down strap which stops the helmet from rising when the suit is inflated.
In the event of ejection there are 2 auxiliary oxygen bottles in the survival kit which should supply enough oxygen for the crewman to reach the ground.
Integrated into the suit is the parachute harness, connected by the Koch connector on her left shoulder. The parachute is a 35 foot diameter chute ballistically opened by a mortar fired 25 pound steel slug. The chute utilizes a quarter deployment bag, only partially opening at altitude. Once speed has reduced, the chute fully deploys.
The suit also contains automatic life preservers under each arm, equipped with a salt water sensor which immediately inflates the preservers when exposed to sea-water.
There have been successful ejections above 80,000 feet.