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From the Queen's Garden Trail we continued on the Navajo Loop Trail first through Wall Street (very busy) to Sunset Lookout, then back down the other side of the loop to a similar but smaller version of Wall Street to Two Bridges and back to Sunrise Point via the Queen's Garden Trail again. It was a good half day hike. Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah.
My wife takes in the view from above Tower 18 as a green line train exists the Loop.
Tower 18, Chicago IL
CTA 5000 Series 5107
On Sunday 2/7/2023, 1451s (empty Aurizon grain to Bowmans) is seen entering the Bolivar crossing loop (Adelaide) with CLF6-CLP14 in charge, lead bulldog still with G&W logos.
A conversion to black & white using Silver Efex Pro 2. This is a look to the southeast while enjoying a drive along the Cactus Forest Scenic Loop Drive. Off in the distance are peaks of the Rincon Mountains range. On a future trip back to Tucson and this national park, I hope to enjoy a hike up to Tanque Verde Peak, but for this trip my time was short. I could just enjoy the views of the desert landscape and the rugged mountainside...
The Citrus Loop, located in the Citrus County Tract of the Withlacoochee state forest is one of the most widely used portions of the Florida National Scenic Trail. It traverses a varied landscape and passes through a myriad of habitat over 43 miles of trails. The loop is one of the rare places containing dry caves in Florida. A highlight of the loop is considered to be Lizzie Hart Sink, where the sandy scrub habitat gives way to rocky, tropical foliage. These pictures were taken in a dry moment on a rainy day while hiking with the Florida Trail Association at their 50th Anniversary Celebration.
The Cygnus Loop (or the Veil Nebula) is the best-observed old supernova remnant. A beautiful filamentary object roughly in the form of a circular arc in Cygnus. Its patchiness is striking: the loop consists of a series of wisps rather than a continuous cloud of gas. The Cygnus Loop appears as a faint ring of glowing gases about three degrees across (six times the diameter of the full moon), located in the northern constellation Cygnus the Swan. The supernova remnant is within the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy and is 2,600 light-years away. As the supernova blast wave slams into tenuous clouds of interstellar gas, the resulting collision heats and compresses the gas, causing it to glow. The shock acts as a searchlight by revealing the structure of the interstellar medium.
The visual portion of the Cygnus Loop is known as the Veil Nebula, also called the Cirrus Nebula or the Filamentary Nebula. Several components have separate names and identifiers, including NGC 6960, the Western Veil, is the western part of the remnant, also known as the "Witch's Broom”. NGC 6992, NGC 6995, and IC 1340, three luminous areas make up the Eastern Veil, also known as the “Bat Nebula”. NGC 6974 and NGC 6979. These two objects are the two brighter knots of nebulosity in a cloud at the northern edge of the loop, and Pickering's Triangle, Also known as Pickering's Wedge, or Pickering's Triangular Wisp.
This my return visit after capturing NGC6992 when I started Astrophotography August 2020. Taken over 2 nights with not particularly good seeing or transparency, I managed to secure 6 hours of Ha and Oiii 5minute subs to process this HOO image. Gain 100 -5C.
Astromiks 50mm SHO 6nm Filters
30 x Darks, Flats (for each narrowband filter) and Bias
ZWO ASI6200MM Pro
ZWO 7x2" EFW
ZWO EAF
Williams Optics GT81 IV
WO 6A III Field Flattener 0.8
HEQ5 Pro Rowan
ASIAIR Pro
Astro Pixel Processor
Pixinsight
Photoshop 2021
Topaz DeNoise and Gigapixel
The Taylor Creek Loop is a trail west of Cocoa in Central Florida. The trail is located largely in the western portion of the St. Johns River floodplain, of which its namesake, Taylor Creek, is part of. The trail is named after Taylor Creek, but actually features but rare views of the creek. Instead it gives you view of Florida's most iconic tree, the palm tree.
Being part of the Tosohatchee WIldlife Management Area, this trail is not a sterile romp through the woods. In fact, the day I hiked it, very large portions of it were underwater.
This one is a pretty good one I guess... I used the 100mm macro lens for this as it is a faster lens than the kit lens I have. I am limited in space though, so I have to stand in the corner to shoot. I am learning; it's a little overexposed on her forehead, but I have found that the pictures look hot in the preview on the camera but when I put the RAW file into Affinity Photo, I can compensate for it mostly, so in the future, I will experiment with f2.8 perhaps or something. I had one light plus a bounce light for this one. I developed in Affinity Photo.
Classic action in May 1982 on the famed Tehachapi Loop. with a total of 10 six-axle Southern Pacific EMDs, all wide open as this heavy manifest climbs the 2.2 percent grade. There was nothing like the thunderous EMD turbocharged sound back then. This was how the SP would attack the Tehachapi Mountains: Four SDs up front, led by SD45T-2 #9232. Then, as you see in the picture, four more SDs emerge from Tunnel 9, with #9365 leading this 4-pack, this about 1/3 of the way back. Then, about 2/3 of the way back, 2 more EMDs would enter the scene (see my other pic posted here). Of course, the head of this train is starting to circle over itself. Likely, most of the 10 engines were "Tunnel Motors". Memorable sights and sounds, to be sure!
The Mach Loop aka Machynlleth Loop. UK Low Level Flying by Military aircraft in central Wales. We climbed the hill on 2 separate days but where unlucky in not seeing any low flying aircraft. The aircraft pass below where this picture is shot. Although whilst in the car park we got buzzed twice by a low flying Airbus A400 transport aircraft. Simply awesome to see.
English below:
Il Velo del Cigno è un resto di supernova che ha un'estensione angolare di circa 3 gradi e, secondo le osservazioni più precise, la distanza da noi è di circa 1470 anni luce. E' catalogato come Sh2-103 (W78 come sorgente radio) ma le sue parti hanno identificazione del più utilizzato catalogo NGC, la parte orientale è NGC 6992 e 6995, mentre la parte più occidentale è NGC6960.
Per riprenderlo quasi nella sua interezza, ho esguito un mosaico di 2x2, ogni pannello ha circa 5 ore e mezza di integrazione con pose guidate da 10 minuti con filtro dualband Antlia ALP-T 5nm per la nebulosa mentre per le stelle sono un'ora di pose da 60 secondi senza filtri. Telescopio newton 150/600 con correttore Tecnosky 0.95x, camera Tecnosky Vision 571C, montatura Eq6-R Pro, elaborazione in Pixinsight.
The Cygnus Loop is a supernova remnant with an angular extension of about 3 degrees and, according to the most precise observations, its distance from us is about 1,470 light-years. It is cataloged as Sh2-103 (W78 as a radio source), but its parts are identified in the most widely used NGC catalog: the eastern part is NGC 6992 and 6995, while the westernmost part is NGC 6960.
To capture it almost in its entirety, I created a 2x2 mosaic. Each panel took about 5.5 hours of integration, with 10-minute guided exposures using an Antlia ALP-T 5nm dual-band filter for the nebula, and one hour of 60-second exposures without filters for the stars. 150/600 Newtonian telescope with Tecnosky 0.95x corrector, Tecnosky Vision 571C camera, Eq6-R Pro mount, Pixinsight processing.
The northwest corner of the loop 'L' tracks, near Tower 18.
Chicagoist "Around Town" September 26, 2011.
Thanks, Chuck!
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