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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 screens 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.
Turns out my new photo setup takes amazing black background pictures. May have to build more white spaceships.
The interstellar medium fills the ‘empty’ space between the stars in our galaxy. It is a mix of molecular clouds, cold and warm gases, regions of electrically charged hydrogen, and more.
Molecular clouds are the densest part of the interstellar medium, holding most of its mass in the form of hydrogen gas. ESA’s Herschel space observatory has revealed that many are built around filaments, with dense threads snaking throughout each cloud. These filaments potentially transport material, and, when massive enough, are known to form new stars.
This Herschel image shows the Serpens Core, the heart of a giant molecular cloud. The Core is the bright clump towards the upper right, with a more diffuse secondary cluster, named Ser G3-G6, shown at the bottom right. Also visible as a faint yellow glow towards the upper left of the frame is a region known as LDN 583 that shines brightly in the far-infrared.
Giant molecular clouds contain up to 10 million times the mass of the Sun, and can stretch for hundreds of light-years. Compared to the rest of space they are dense, holding up to a thousand atoms per cubic centimetre – and even more in star-forming regions. However, these properties are relative: even at their densest, these clouds are more than 10 times emptier than the best laboratory vacuums we can produce on Earth.
These giant clouds are complex formations, most often made up of filaments mixed with clumpy and irregular folds, sheets and bubble-like structures. A typical spiral galaxy like the Milky Way can contain thousands of them, accompanied by many of their smaller relatives.
Serpens is an ideal target for scientists wanting to know more about giant molecular clouds, because it lies just 1400 light-years from us. Scientists compared Herschel’s observations of this cloud to a state-of-the-art simulation to find out more about the cloud’s properties, and to test the accuracy of their model.
They discovered a radial network of filaments stretching throughout the Serpens Core, filaments that are predicted to break and fragment to form the cores of new stars. These filaments resemble the spokes of a wheel, with the Core forming the hub.
This three-colour image is made from observations with Herschel’s PACS camera (blue and green) and SPIRE camera (red). The size of the region shown is 1.7x1.9º on the sky, where 1º corresponds to about 25 light-years.
Credit: ESA/Herschel/PACS/SPIRE/V. Roccatagliata (U. München, Germany)
The Elephant Trunk nebula is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust located 2400 light years away in the constellation Cepheus. It is part of the much larger IC 1396 region of ionized gas. This image is a bi-color narrowband composition, with ionized hydrogen mapped to red and ionized oxygen mapped to blue and green.
Details:
H: 25 x 900s, Bin 1x1
O: 26 x 900s, Bin 1x1
Atik 428EX Monochrome CCD, Orion 8" f/3.9 Astrograph, Orion Extra-Narrowband filters
Captured with Sequence Generator Pro; Processed in Pixinsight
The North America Nebula covers a region more than ten times the area of the full moon, but its surface brightness is low, so normally it cannot be seen with the unaided eye. Binoculars and telescopes with large fields of view (approximately 3°) will show it as a foggy patch of light under sufficiently dark skies. However, using a UHC filter, which filters out some unwanted wavelengths of light, it can be seen without magnification under dark skies. Its shape and reddish color (from the hydrogen Hα emission line) show up only in photographs of the area.
The portion of the nebula resembling Mexico and Central America is known as the Cygnus Wall. This region exhibits the most concentrated star formation.
At optical wavelengths, the North America Nebula and the Pelican Nebula (IC 5070) appear distinct as they are separated by the silhouette of the dark band of interstellar dust L935. The dark cloud is however transparent to radio waves and infrared radiation, and these wavelengths reveal the central regions of Sh2-117 that are not visible to an ordinary telescope, including many highly luminous stars.
The distances to the North America and Pelican nebulae were controversial, because there are few precise methods for determining how far away an HII region lies. Until 2020, most astronomers accepted a value of 2,000 light years, though estimates ranged from 1,500 to 3,000 light years.
Equipment
EQ6R Pro mount
William Optics GT81 IV + 0.8x focal reducer (Focal length 382mm f4.72)
ZWO ASI2600MC Camera cooled to -10c
Optolong L Extreme Dual Band Filter
ZWO ASIAIR Pro
ZWO 120mm Guide Scope and Mini Camera
52 x 300 second exposures
30 x dark calibration frames
30 x flat calibration frames
30 x dark flat calibration frames
Stacked and processed in Pixinsight
Bortle 6 backyard
Taken in Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia
This is what happens when the sun is at the right angle. I love the metallic texture of this wall and I have been trying to take a good photo of it for a while. I could never get something good until this day when the sun is at the right angle. It's a little hard to tell but the wall is not flat, hence the peculiar light.
It's called Interstellar because my friend said it reminds her of Interstellar. Don't ask me why she thought that. I couldn't think of a name for this so there you go.
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She came and presented herself to us.
She’s beautiful but moving away from us.
The under currents are changing but I’m too distracted by her beauty to notice.
267/365
I've posted the complete series and it's story on Bored Panda
This is an interpretation of one of Yayoi Kusama's works displayed in Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane: 'Soul under the Moon'
Milky way and a shooting star. But what's the bright smudge close to the shooting star? Another galaxy?
A deep view into this fascinating planetary nebula to expose the outer shells of the nebula.
The Ring Nebula (also catalogued as Messier 57, M57 and NGC 6720) is a planetary nebula in the northern constellation of Lyra. Such a nebula is formed when a star, during the last stages of its evolution before becoming a white dwarf, expels a vast luminous envelope of ionized gas into the surrounding interstellar space. [WIKI]
The was a challenge to edit because the outer shell is very weak compared to the inner core. I used a masked stretch to bring the exposure into a reasonably even range, then applied some local histogram adjustments to create more contrast in the image. There is even more details in the outer shell that more integration would reveal. Something for a future project or collaboration.
Imaged on the C14 Edge HD in Dome 4 at the Los Coloraos complex in Gorafe, Spain.
This is 24 hours of HOO data. Sii was taken and will be used for a different colour palette version at a later date.
The image was originally 0.4 arc seconds per pixel, but this is a drizzled 2x version hence the 0.2 arc seconds reported in the plate solver.
Full resolution and imaging details available at: astrob.in/dy8dtz/0/
This delicate image showing the intricacies of interstellar bubbles and wisps reveals great turmoil in the W3/W4/W5 complex of molecular clouds and star-forming regions. It was taken by ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory, a trailblazing mission that observed the sky in far-infrared and submillimetre wavelengths between 2009 and 2013.
September has often been the month of memorable moments or milestones for Herschel.
When the satellite was still on Earth, it was in September 2005 that the assembled telescope its first tests.
September 2007 saw the mating of the mission’s ‘brain’ – the payload module with the instruments and the cryostat that would keep them at the required temperature, just above absolute zero – with its ‘heart’, or the service module, that would to keep the spacecraft going.
During the same month, scientists gathered to plan how to get the most of this extraordinary mission from the observing time that would be available.
Finally, the satellite was launched on 14 May 2009. A few months later, it was again in September that the first Herschel science observations were performed – a memorable moment for many astronomers across the world.
Eight years later, as the mission approaches retirement, ESA celebrates the marvellous science that it has achieved and takes stock of the legacy that Herschel leaves behind.
One of the areas where Herschel has made substantial contributions concerns the processes that lead to the formation of stars, surveying a large number of stellar nurseries like the W3/W4/W5 complex in this image.
Read more about Herschel’s unprecedented glimpse into the stellar cradles of our Galaxy and the giant strides that have been taken in our understanding of how stars and their planetary systems come to life.
Among many other exciting findings, Herschel’s observations have also traced the trail of water across the cosmos, and pieced together the evolution of galaxies throughout 14 billion years of the Universe’s history. Follow Herschel Week to read more about these fascinating discoveries and about the legacy that the mission leaves for the future generations of telescopes.
Join ESA to celebrate Herschel Week and share your memorable #HerschelMoments
Credit: ESA/Herschel/NASA/JPL-Caltech; acknowledgement: R. Hurt (JPL-Caltech), CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
In the garden the only sound was the birds. Time seemed to move slowly when she was there... she moved slowly, peace washed through her... timeless. Interstellar 🌺
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Dollzone Jocelyn wearing Strega
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This is my parents garden, I go there most weekends and sometimes annoy my mother by taking a doll with me. This tree flowered so quickly, I wasn’t expecting it at all but was glad I’d brought Stellar with me last weekend. It was raining a little but she didn’t mind 🌸
The life of a planetary nebula is often chaotic, from the death of its parent star to the scattering of its contents far out into space. Captured here by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, ESO 455-10 is one such planetary nebula, located in the constellation of Scorpius (The Scorpion).
The oblate shells of ESO 455-10, previously held tightly together as layers of its central star, not only give this planetary nebula its unique appearance, but also offer information about the nebula. Seen in a field of stars, the distinct asymmetrical arc of material over the north side of the nebula is a clear sign of interactions between ESO 455-10 and the interstellar medium.
The interstellar medium is the material such as diffuse gas between star systems and galaxies. The star at the center of ESO 455-10 allows Hubble to see the interaction with the gas and dust of the nebula, the surrounding interstellar medium, and the light from the star itself. Planetary nebulae are thought to be crucial in galactic enrichment as they distribute their elements, particularly the heavier metal elements produced inside a star, into the interstellar medium which will in time form the next generation of stars.
Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. Stanghellini
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One of the things I appreciated when I visited London's new Elizabeth Line is the futuristic stylings of the station architecture. It's like something from a giant spaceship. Hopefully I will get a chance to be there early one morning when there are far fewer people, so I can more easily capture the cold starkness of the tunnels and walkways.
This low-angle shot was facilitated nicely by the tilting rear LCD screen of my Fujifilm X-T2; it's not fully articulated but tilts up 90° which is perfect for this kind of shot. To frame the same composition successfully with my Canon 6D I'd have to be lying on the floor!
Interstellar
The Geminid Meteor Shower is my favorite night out haunt & yet is such a big deal breaker...You know, it falls on our marriage anniversary. Being out the entire night, alone as you might have guessed it, is a big No-No, if I want to stay happily married & yet such are the magnetic powers of these interstellar meteors, that in spite of them falling on almost the same anniversary days, every year I keep a date with "The GMS," with many electoral promises given to my better half.
Geminid meteor shower is not just one shot but a wholesome experience. I reached around sundown & after a 40 minutes hike up the steep incline with my twenty-two kgs of equipment, pitched the tent on top of the Don Hill Station, which now is reckoned as the second highest hill of Gujarat. The shooting began at twilight & lasted till three in the morning. It was one real frigidly cold & windy night with the tent promising to blow away any time but it was one awesome experience. To creak your neck up & see these frequent streaks of magical light radiate from the Gemini constellation & dash all over the sky brought a childlike exuberance. Each shooting star as otherwise called in a layman's parlance, made me cross my fingers & make me wish that I'd not skip my anniversary next year to photograph this again! B|
Wishful thinking!
Happy Anniversary Neha! :)
This photograph is a composite image of ten images taken during the whole shower.
This is an amazing object a comet from outside our Solar System perhaps formed well before the Sun and our Solar System came to exist. Just passing through our neighborhood, this is the first one of these objects that is easily accessible to amateur telescopes.
This image is 5 min with 11 inch RASA telescope, iTelescope T68
40 minutes of cold, clear skies over Falkland Hill, in Fife.
Nikon D750, Nikkor 24-70mm, ISO 800, f2.8, 24mm, 30 seconds x 80 frames, processed in StarStax