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I could enjoy imaging of the interstellar comet in the weekend.
The comet was drifting fast toward west northwest in Virgo. Dust coma was small and round. Dust tail was short toward east. Greenish ion halo was small and round. Bluish ion tail was not visible clearly at the date, though there looked bluish area to the west of the comet on this frame. North is up, and east is to the left.
Sun distance: 1.774 AU ( 31% distant compared to the perihelion )
Earth distance: 1.925 AU ( 7% distant compared to the minimum )
Equipment: Takahashi FSQ-130ED, F3 Reducer 0.6x, IDAS Clear Filter, and EOS R-SP4II, modified by Seo San on ZWO AM5n Equatorial Mount, autoguided with Fujinon 1:2.8/75mm C-Mount Lens, Pentax x2 Extender, ZWO ASI 174MM-mini, and PHD2 Guiding with comet tracking on.
Exposure: 8 times x 600 seconds, 5 x 240sec, and 7 x 60 seconds at ISO 1,600 and f/3.0, focal length 390mm
Exposure started at 18:46:48 November 29, 2025UTC.
This frame was cropped 1,346 x 898 pixels of the original 6,720 x 4,480 pixels, and this is comparable to a frame taken with a scope of 1,900mm in focal length.
site: 730m above sea level at lat. 37 09 41 North and long. 139 14 54 East in an empty parking of pre-season ski resort in Okutadami in Uonuma Niigata 新潟県魚沼 奥只見. Higher mountains were covered with snow and beautiful, but there was no snow yet at the elevation. Ambient temperature was around -1 degree Celsius or 30 degrees Fahrenheit. Wind was mild. Atmospheric turbulence was bad, and guide error RMS was around 1.50. Sky was dark, and Sky Quality was 21.53 in SQML. The site was dark toward the east. Local fog interfered at the beginning of imaging session, though weather forecast was nice.
Here is a view of the site at the night:
An image of one of the newer tunnels built as a link from a new office complex through to the LT Underground Station at Kings Cross/St Pancras Underground Station.
I'm glad I found it in the end (thanks for the heads up Aaron!!!), I really love the way the lights move along the tunnel, creating a different aspect, this adds to the reflected light.
"Interstellar Overdrive" is a psychedelic instrumental composition written by Pink Floyd in 1966, which appears on their 1967 debut album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn :
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_Overdrive
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Lanzarote. Canary Islands.
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Interstellar cruiser with support craft
This was my contribution to BrickCon 2010
166 studs L X 60 studs W
DkBlue + DkBley + Sand Green
On March 18, NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) arrived at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, for thermal vacuum testing at the X-ray and Cryogenic Facility, which simulates the harsh conditions of space.
The IMAP mission is a modern-day celestial cartographer that will map the solar system by studying the heliosphere, a giant bubble created by the Sun’s solar wind that surrounds our solar system and protects it from harmful interstellar radiation.
In this image, the IMAP mission was loaded into NASA Marshall’s XRCF thermal vacuum chamber where the spacecraft will undergo testing.
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Princeton/Ed Whitman
#NASA #space #moon #NASAMarshall #msfc #InterstellarMappingandAccelerationProbe #IMAP #SolarWind #heliophysics #Sun #XRCF
Excerpt from the Department of the United States Interstellar Navy's Official Registry of Non-Earth Affiliated Starships:
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Entry 01: Imperial Federation Starship (IFS) ILLIES
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Type: Viceroy-Class Battlecruiser
Affiliation: The Imperial Federation of Alphanta
Length: 2118 ft (108 studs)
Width: 944 ft (44 studs)
Powerplant: Not officially known, but possibly x2 compressed-hydrate Warp 60 engines connected to a hydro-thermate reactor
Armor: Unknown
Armament: x15 dual plasma gun turrets, x48 hyper-sonic thermo-plasma missile tubes, x24 single plasma gun turrets, possibly more
Crew: Unknown, but probably close to or over 1000
Starcraft: x8 single-seat Delta-class starfighters, x12 Calda-class personnel dropships, x6 Qward-class materiel dropships, x1 Ada-class captain’s ship
Much of the actual capabilities of the Viceroy-Class have been kept secret and are not known, as, allies of Earth or not, the Federation is not keen on sharing the details of their newest ships with anyone outside of their own government.
What is known about the ILLIES and the Viceroy-Class in general is below:
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The IFS ILLIES is the second ship of the Viceroy-Class battlecruisers, the Imperial Federation’s latest vessels, designed to replace the aging Ambassador-class battlecruisers as the Federation’s premier warships.
There are four Viceroys currently in service, (ILLIES, CALCATTA, VEXIN, and HALDA), with the projected total number of units being between twelve to eighteen.
These vessels, state-of-the-art in every manner, are made to project the might and power of the Imperial Federation throughout the Federation’s territory and beyond, and as such are fitted almost solely as fast combat units, and are not equipped to handle large-scale humanitarian crises.
The ILLIES is most notable for being the first non-earth spacecraft ever encountered by humans, when the International Exploration Spacecraft ANDROMEDA came across the Federation ship by chance near the Horsehead Nebula, on December 15, 2019.
The crew of the ANDROMEDA established contact with the ILLIES, and a day later, were the first human beings to ever meet with an alien race, also laying the groundwork for the Earth-IFA treaty that now exists, during this historic meet.
Currently, the ILLIES is deployed to the distant Mirror System, where the Federation has a colony.
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It’s amazing how a simple household object can be warped into the colorful innards of a blackhole. I figure in a black hole even light would be torn apart. Hence all the different colors portrayed. Can’t wait to see the Lego Movie 2!
#lego #interstellar #blackhole #litragear #litrapro #litratorch #thelegomovie2 #bennysspacesquad #space #colorful
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Cabin fever + getting a little antsy waiting for my storage array to arrive to get the 2012-2014 stuff back up and running soon = some random light painting, inspired by the movie Interstellar...
Interstellar freighter with 2 fighter escorts. 195 studs in length. Each 'donut' is 62 studs in diameter.
A visually striking collection of interstellar gas and dust is the focus of this week's Hubble Picture of the Week. Named RCW 7, the nebula is located just over 5300 light-years from Earth in the constellation Puppis.
Nebulae are areas of space that are rich in the raw material needed to form new stars. Under the influence of gravity, parts of these molecular clouds collapse until they coalesce into protostars, surrounded by spinning discs of leftover gas and dust. In the case of RCW 7, the protostars forming here are particularly massive, giving off strongly ionising radiation and fierce stellar winds that have transformed it into what is known as a H II region.
H II regions are filled with hydrogen ions — where H I refers to a normal hydrogen atom, H II is hydrogen that has lost its electron. The ultraviolet radiation from the massive protostars excites the hydrogen, causing it to emit light and giving this nebula its soft pinkish glow. Here Hubble is studying a particular massive protostellar binary named IRAS 07299-1651, still in its glowing cocoon of gas in the curling clouds towards the top of the nebula. To expose this star and its siblings, this image was captured using the Wide Field Camera 3 in near-infrared light. The massive protostars here are brightest in ultraviolet light, but they emit plenty of infrared light which can pass through much of the gas and dust around them and be seen by Hubble. Many of the other, larger-looking stars in this image are not part of the nebula, but sit between it and our Solar System.
The creation of an H II region marks the beginning of the end for a molecular cloud. Over only a few million years, the radiation and winds from the massive stars gradually disperse the gas — even more so as the most massive stars come to the end of their lives in supernova explosions. Only a fraction of the gas will be incorporated into new stars in this nebula, with the rest being spread throughout the galaxy to eventually form new molecular clouds.
[Image Description: Clouds of gas and dust with many stars. The clouds form a flat blue background towards the bottom, and become more thick and smoky towards the top. They are lit on one side by stars in the nebula. A thick arc of gas and dust reaches around from the top, where it is brightly lit by many stars in and around it, to the bottom where it is dark and obscuring. Other large stars lie between the clouds and the viewer.]
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Tan (Chalmers University & University of Virginia), R. Fedriani (Institute for Astrophysics of Andalusia)
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