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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 hue 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: Guan Sheng Optical Ritchey–Chrétien telescope RCCF 8" f8 with TS Optics Extension for the Baffle Tube, AT field flattener, and Canon EOS 6D-SP3, modified by Seo-san on ZWO AM5n Equatorial Mount, autoguided at a star nearby with Fujinon 1:2.8/75mm C-Mount Lens, Pentax x2 Extender, ZWO ASI 174MM-mini, and PHD2 Guiding with comet tracking on
Exposure: 5 times x 600 seconds, 4 x 240 sec, and 7 x 60 seconds at ISO 6,400 and focal length 1,600mm
First exposure started at 18:51:19 November 29, 2025 UTC.
This frame was cropped 1,776 x 1,184 pixels of the original 5,472 x 3,648 pixels, and this is comparable to a frame taken with a scope of 4,900mm 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:
I was so glad that I was able to see this movie in theaters the day after it came out. It instantly became my favorite movie, and I decided that I wanted to make a Ranger. However, after seeing all the amazing Rangers that others have built, I kind of lost interest for awhile.
It wasn't until the digital release that I decided to try. It's taken me since March to complete this, and I nearly gave up multiple times, but I really wanted a Ranger model in my collection, so I kept with it. Here are the end results. It does have some interior detailing, which was actually easier to do than the exterior. Sadly, I don't have to many Computer panel pieces, so it doesn't have a lot of screen like it does in the movie. Also, one last bit. I tried to scale this based on how big the Endurance is (There is an infographic that shows how big the Endurance -With Rangers- is compared to the U.S. Space Shuttle.) I used that to try and get a rough size for my Ranger model, and while it looks a little large when compared to minifigures, I am quite happy with the results.
i took this photo in Saskatchewan while on a road trip. i thought it need a something to make it more interesting photo and i ended up with this. used photoshop, illustrator, and triangular.
We're not meant to save the world. We're meant to leave it.
My LEGO homage to Interstellar, built for the current Christopher Nolan contest on RogueBricks.de. It depicts humanity's search for a new home, from Cooper's farm on Earth, through the wormhole into another galaxy, all the way to Dr. Brand's camp on Edmunds's planet at the end of the film.
Instructions for the Endurance can be found on Rebrickable.
A beautiful new image of two colliding galaxies has been released by NASA's Great Observatories. The Antennae galaxies, located about 62 million light years from Earth, are shown in this composite image from the Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue), the Hubble Space Telescope (gold), and the Spitzer Space Telescope (red).
The collision, which began more than 100 million years ago and is still occurring, has triggered the formation of millions of stars in clouds of dusts and gas in the galaxies. The most massive of these young stars have already sped through their evolution in a few million years and exploded as supernovas.
The X-ray image from Chandra shows huge clouds of hot, interstellar gas that have been injected with rich deposits of elements from supernova explosions. This enriched gas, which includes elements such as oxygen, iron, magnesium and silicon, will be incorporated into new generations of stars and planets. The bright, point-like sources in the image are produced by material falling onto black holes and neutron stars that are remnants of the massive stars. Some of these black holes may have masses that are almost one hundred times that of the Sun.
The Spitzer data show infrared light from warm dust clouds that have been heated by newborn stars, with the brightest clouds lying in the overlap region between the two galaxies. The Hubble data reveal old stars in red, filaments of dust in brown and star-forming regions in yellow and white. Many of the fainter objects in the optical image are clusters containing thousands of stars.
The Antennae galaxies take their name from the long antenna-like "arms," seen in wide-angle views of the system. These features were produced by tidal forces generated in the collision.
:> IJG-Alpha-12 mainframe ... welcome
:> Proximity alert ... Prometheus ETA 36 hours
:> Requesting authentication codes ... timed out
:> override
:> Prometheus mainframe ... welcome
:> info
:> User id ... IJG-Alpha-12-SP27
Earth date ... 15 01 2593
Mission date ... 19 days, 2 hours and 12 minutes
Mission status ... en route to interstellar jump gate alpha-12
:> diag
Communications array down
Solar panel B4 malfunctioning
Spare part being installed
Diagnostics run completed ...
:> exit
:> Logged off
My second polaroid with the pola back on the Bronica, as the first didn't came out right.
Zenza Bronica SQ-A | Zenzanon-S 80mm f/2.8 | Fuji FP-100C
Paris - Février 2015
Tired of building JUST a space craft? Tired of building super awesome amazing SHIPs?
Not sure what a Ma.k is ? need a break from giant ass vertical stabilizers?
Here's a little something to keep your mind and fingers occupied - the Interstellar Outpost Contest 2014!
Build a cool starfighter, landing pad, support vehicle and com unit!
www.flickr.com/groups/2697455@N25/
for more information!
Top prize is a one of a kind set of the 4 components, each built by Legohaulic, Genghis Don, Fazzom, and myself!
Interstellar trip... Looking towards the center of our galaxy, Milkyway, from last night stargazing at Pilida area of Sokraki, Corfu Banquet of interstellar dust matter and looking at the internal threads of our galaxy somewhere between Centaur Sagittarius and the powerful Scorpio in the constellation Ophiuchus, where the secular horse galloping our imagination inside the stars.
'INTERSTELLAR NETWORKS' Volume XII Chapter 32 "The International Network of Feline Observers (INFO) on planet Terra" [Excerpt] Here at Castle Haran in Portland, Blue of the Felis catus people receives and transmits all manner of information via the INFO system. Telepathic conferences take place weekly, or oftener as needed during emergent / urgent situations. Reclining on the communication pad, Blue is shown in conversation with Asuka Langley of the Homo sapiens people. Captain Langley maintains a low planetary orbit in her spacecraft whilst the Chief of INFO (of the Panthera uncia people) observes via a portable desktop transceiver, seen on the left in the photograph. Captain Langley is the link officer in charge of communications between INFO and the Universal Feline Organization (UFO) which exists throughout the universe at locations conducive to feline life. The pill bottle adjacent to the communication pad contains medication tablets which Blue can use if need be, should any telepathy degradations occur.
I was so glad that I was able to see this movie in theaters the day after it came out. It instantly became my favorite movie, and I decided that I wanted to make a Ranger. However, after seeing all the amazing Rangers that others have built, I kind of lost interest for awhile.
It wasn't until the digital release that I decided to try. It's taken me since March to complete this, and I nearly gave up multiple times, but I really wanted a Ranger model in my collection, so I kept with it. Here are the end results. It does have some interior detailing, which was actually easier to do than the exterior. Sadly, I don't have to many Computer panel pieces, so it doesn't have a lot of screen like it does in the movie. Also, one last bit. I tried to scale this based on how big the Endurance is (There is an infographic that shows how big the Endurance -With Rangers- is compared to the U.S. Space Shuttle.) I used that to try and get a rough size for my Ranger model, and while it looks a little large when compared to minifigures, I am quite happy with the results.
• mount: EM-200B modified with MTS-3SDI+
• auto-guider: off-axis guiding with "PHD guiding"
• telescope / lens: epsilon-180ED-C
• camera: EOS 60Da
• camera parameters: ISO 800, f/2,8 and 360 sec x 6.
• image processing: adobe LR5.2 (pre-process) and adobe Photoshop CS6
The Pleiades cluster (Messier 45) is one of the large celestial objects making the sky from autumn to winter beautiful like the Andromeda great galaxy (Messier 31) and Orion great nebula (Messier 42). One can see the Pleiades cluster even at cities with relatively high light pollution, and it shines like a mass of jewels in the sky.
The name of the Pleiades originates of beautiful seven sisters of Tītān tribe in Greek mythology.
The stars composing the Pleiades cluster are surrounded by interstellar gas, which irradiated with the stars. Detail structure of the gas clouds is difficult to see with naked eyes, but the structure and its colour is possible to extracted by digital imaging.
I have never used multi frames for light-frame division so far, because I am lazy :-p. In this image, twelve frames are applied for the dividing process to extract the delicate shade of the gas cloud.
Before processing this image, I thought the colour of the gas cloud at the outer part of the cluster is also blue. It has, however, rather yellow tint and thin red.
Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved
NGC 2427, Cometary Globules, and Dust
This is a busy scene containing a range of objects. The foreground is full of dust, cometary globules, and a barred galaxy that looks to be enveloped in dust. But in reality, the dust is in front of the galaxy. If you look carefully, many tiny galaxies can be seen behind the thick foreground dust and backdrop of colourful stars. Remember that all the colourful stars and dust seen in this image are part of our galaxy. The galaxies are very far away.
Cometary globules are fascinating structures found within interstellar clouds of gas and dust. These globules are typically small, dark, and compact, resembling comets in shape. They have a head-like structure pointing away from a nearby bright star and a tail-like extension trailing behind. The head of the globule is usually denser and contains concentrations of gas and dust. At the same time, the tail is formed by material being eroded and blown away by the intense radiation and stellar winds from nearby stars.
NGC 2427, on the other hand, is an intermediate barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Puppis, approximately 33 million light-years away from Earth. As a galaxy, NGC 2427 is a vast collection of stars, gas, and dust bound together by gravity. It exhibits a central bar-shaped structure surrounded by spiral arms extending outward from the bar's ends. These spiral arms are regions of active star formation, where new stars are born from the gravitational collapse of gas and dust.
While cometary globules and NGC 2427 are different astronomical objects, they contribute to our understanding of the cosmos. Cometary globules offer insights into the processes of star formation and the interaction between young stars and their surrounding environment, while galaxies like NGC 2427 provide valuable information about the structure, evolution, and dynamics of the universe on a larger scale.
Instruments:
Telescope: 10" Ritchey-Chrétien RCOS
Camera: SBIG STL-11000 Mono
Mount: Astro-Physics AP-900
Focal Length: 2310.00 mm
Pixel size: 9.00 um
Resolution: 0.82 arcsec/pix
Exposure Details:
Red 20 X 600 B1
Green 22 X 600
Blue 22 X 600
Lum 50 X 900
Total Exposure 23.15 hours
Total Exposure: 24.5 Hours
Thanks for looking
******** ASTROMETRIC SOLUTION RESULTS ********
From cropped area 1002 x 668
Center RA (2000.0): 07h 37m 20.49s
Center Dec (2000.0): -47° 48' 13.9"
Scale: 0.8040 arcseconds/pixel
Size (pixels): 4008 x 2672
Angular Size: 0° 53' 42" x 0° 35' 48"
Position Angle: 52° 52' from north through east
Mirror Image: No
RMS: 0.42 (X: 0.19 Y: 0.37)
Number of Stars Used in Solution: 40 (100%)
FWHM: 2.89 pixels, 2.33 arcseconds
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watch interstellar yesterday and its a very nice movie
and i really love that robot and his sarcastic personality hehehe!!
D700
14-24mm 2.8
This is my second attempt in taking milky way pictures.
Flares are not Photoshopped some might ask :)
Everything is taken in one frame and image is not cropped at all.
All I did was a normal post-process using LR 4.3.
This month’s theme really pushed me outside of my comfort zone and I am glad for it.
Any comments on improving the shot would be appreciated and thank you for viewing.
Open to all adults, this interstellar utopian resort invites all weary space travelers seeking a destination spa experience.
In complete darkness of Kyrgyz Tien Shan mountains, without the presence of light pollution within several hundred kilometers around, I don't remember the last time I had a such a good view of the disk of our galaxy. As that wasn't already enough even a meteor flew into the frame
A collection of some of the finest SHIPs in the galaxy! Well, one did catch fire and explode, but before that it was pretty fine.
Happy SHIPtember!
The iconic Ranger spacecraft from my favourite film of last year, Interstellar, lovingly recreated in Lego.
This is the lego crew, Cooper (Mathew McConaughey) and Amelia (Anne Hathaway) and of course TARS.
If you like it and want to see it made into an official lego set, please add your support on Lego Ideas:
Managing the water supply on an interstellar colony vessel is just about the best job on board, so the competition for available positions on the water staff is fierce. The primary perk for staff members is occasional access to the water chamber itself, which is vast and beautiful. Here we see lucky water system engineers heading for the far end of the chamber on a quarterly inspection. They will spend several hundred rotation cycles on this task, a time period roughly equivalent to 18 terrrestrial hours. On some inspections they are actually allowed to catch one fish per person... if they have enough skill or luck to land a wily interstellar perch at 1/3 earth-normal gravity. Good luck, fishernauts!
I was so glad that I was able to see this movie in theaters the day after it came out. It instantly became my favorite movie, and I decided that I wanted to make a Ranger. However, after seeing all the amazing Rangers that others have built, I kind of lost interest for awhile.
It wasn't until the digital release that I decided to try. It's taken me since March to complete this, and I nearly gave up multiple times, but I really wanted a Ranger model in my collection, so I kept with it. Here are the end results. It does have some interior detailing, which was actually easier to do than the exterior. Sadly, I don't have to many Computer panel pieces, so it doesn't have a lot of screen like it does in the movie. Also, one last bit. I tried to scale this based on how big the Endurance is (There is an infographic that shows how big the Endurance -With Rangers- is compared to the U.S. Space Shuttle.) I used that to try and get a rough size for my Ranger model, and while it looks a little large when compared to minifigures, I am quite happy with the results.