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The loopy fashion show continues! Another camouflaged looper caterpillar doing its best to blend in on daisy fleabane. These flowers are tiny and so is this occupant, but I don’t dare crop any more.
With 40 loads in town, the Port Harbor Job rolls around one the two different loops that the railroad uses to shuffle cars around the Port. This was part of a 70 unit grain train that was delivered to the PHRR to be unloaded here in Granite City and transferred to barge, which is right behind me. The crew ill pull clear of two crossings, tie the 2758 down and then head back to the shop area to grab the MP15 number 1296 to spot the other cut.
UP 4686 leads a long southbound intermodal train around Tehachapi Loop. At the time Walong siding still existed at the loop. Today this view would include a second main track (Main 2) where the access road is located to the right of the train. This effectively eliminated Walong siding and replaced it with two main tracks through this area.
UP 4686 SD70M
One of Amtrak's now-gone HHP-8s, recently arrived from New York, takes its train around the turning loop near South Station in Boston.
The Cygnus Loop
50+ hours of integration time. 28 different image panels. 3 years in the making!
Found directly overhear in mid to late summer in midnorthern latitudes, the Cygnus Loop spreads its gassy tendrils across the sky. It can be found in the dusty lanes of the Milky Way just by the wing of Cygnus, the swan, glowing in various parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. The nebula complex is located about 2500 LY from Earth and spans 130LY and contains several named "objects" like the Eastern Veil (Witch's Broom). Pickering's Triangle, and the Western Veil. These gassy wisps are all that remain of a star that went supernova about 21000 years ago, spreading its enriched guts across the galaxy.
The bulk of this project was shot in the summer of 2019. I've now revisited with fresh eyes, new tools, and an improves post processing skillset. I've added more data to it than the original, going back and finding other images I'd previously shot of various parts of the nebula, and integrated them into this new image. This image combines nearly 50 hours of integration time with over 20 individual panels to complete the mosaic. The result is a large 56 Megapixel size image of one of the largest deep sky objects in our night sky.
- TECH DATA -
Scope: Explore Scientific ED80 @ f/6
Mount: Celestron CGX
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI 1600MC-Pro
Filtre: STC Duo-Narrowband
Guide Scope: Orion Mini Guide Scope
Guide Camera: Orion StarShoot Autoguider
Integration time: Unsure - over 50 hours total for the entire pano
Stack: Astro Pixel Processor
Process: PixInsight
Post Processing: Photoshop CC
Shot at Dark Sky Viewing Area near Erinsville, and the Camden Lake Provincial Wildlife Area near Moscow, both in Lennox and Addington County in Eastern Ontario.
Yes, I was at the Roskilde Airshow in August. Lots of planes and cool displays. This was one of the better ones. The German Air Force Airbus did a loop, not a complete one but a backside loop...like! Took a series of shots of the loop and have put it together here in a slightly compressed form.
It is a large, heavy aircraft and the fact that the pilots did a loop at a relatively low altitude in front of an audience of several thousand was nothing short of impressive in my eyes.
The pilots of course did more than just the loop, among other things they landed the plane in less than 200 meters and with everything together the display showed enormous skill on the part of the pilots, but also an unusually agile and easy-to-handle aircraft for its size.
Impressive!
Recently popped to the Mach Loop to photograph military aircraft that fly through. Took this while it was quiet.
My first spontaneous spinning batt from Loop, spun up in an evening, two-plied, somewhere under 200 yards. Boy was that fun.
Corvette Racing No. 3 & 4 as captured through the barriers at the Inner Loop. I could say I planned this, correct?
A Loop-bound CTA Pink Line train moves through the West Loop, between Morgan and Clinton stations on the Lake Street Elevated.
batt was layered black, white, and gray, the gray being carbonized bamboo. i separated the layers before spinning. didn't think anything of it until i finished washing it and saw difference in texture once dry. the carbonized bamboo is fluffier and squiggly. each spin, something new to learn. :-)
batt by Steph of Loop.
Someone looped this wire back at a break in the fence. To the right of the fence post is an animal trail frequented by deer, feral cats and occasional runaway chickens.
March batt of the month from Steph (Loop) It's just incredible!!!
It's greens, and coppers and these rich teals and burgandys.. with copperishgreenish sparkles and shredded money!! She even sent a little bag of sequins to spin in with it!! It's really breathtaking!
I'm SOOOOO excited to see what next month brings!!
Good day at the Mach Loop. Not much in the way of aircraft but the weather was glorious! These were taken on Cad East but next time I'll be on Cad West even tho the light is more challenging.
Looking through an arrow loop on the roof of Dover Castle's Great Tower. You can see St. Mary Church, the ruin of an old Roman lighthouse and the sea behind.
I hope they were never forced to shoot their own church through this loop...
Having completed a trip around the Loop, CTA Purple Line run 512 crosses the Chicago River above Wells Street, approaching Merchandise Mart station. Tower 18, and a Pink Line train stopped at Washington/Wells, are in the background.
Norfolk Southern Asheville based local P87 drops down the famed 'Old Fort Loops' on their daily run from Asheville to Bridgewater and back. With the closing of the Asheville to Linwood portion of the S-Line as a mainline route locals P87 during the day and P60 at night are the only two trains that traverse this famed stretch of track. Here the train navigates through one of the many rock cuts in the loops, as it prepares to duck into one of the many tunnels in the loops.