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Birthday cake post birthday.

Griffith Observatory

2014 Glen Ellyn Cardboard Regatta over the July 4 holiday.

Gran cumulo de Hercules

 

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Dark skies made this globular cluster awesome. 13 frames of 15 second exposure each.

M13 - The Great Hercules Cluster. This 11.65 billion year old formation of stars is one of the most impressive globular clusters in the northern hemisphere. Containing over 300,000 stars packed into a 145 light year sphere, the center of this object is 500 times more concentrated than its outer perimeters.

 

Technical Details:

- Explore Scientific ED80

- Focal length: 480mm

- Celestron AVX mount

- Canon EOS M3 with CHDK

- 11 lights, 5 darks, ISO 800, 20 sec each

- altogether: 3:40 min exposure

- Processed with DeepSkyStacker and Affinity Photo

An impressive LEGO display at Cantigny. A wide variety of themes including the second world war, contemporary urban, and classic television and movies.

A helicopter from Chicago Helicopter Express performs an Easter egg drop in West Chicago, IL.

6" f/4, ASI120MC, 22 light + 13 dark x 60s

A globular clusters consisting of hundreds of thousands of stars. This is where the Arecibo telescope sent out a signal in hopes of it reaching a civilization here many thousands of years from now

Messier 13 Globular Cluster in Hercules. (JUL2006). M13 is one of the largest example of globular clusters with an estimated mass of 600,000 suns. In The Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut writes "Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty-three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules -- and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress."

Telescope: McDonald Observatory 0.8m telescope with a f/3.0 Prime Focus Corrector. The PFC provides a 1.10 degree field,

CCD Camera: Loral Fairchild 2048 x 2048 CCD covers 46.2 x 46.2 arcminutes.

Filters: R:10s, V(Green):20s, B: 30s

Processing: Calibrated with IRAS, Stacked and color combined with MaxIM DL.

David Wallace Haskins' Skycube at the Elmhurst Art Museum.

Vovinam performance in Chicago's Chinatown in celebration of Lunar New Year.

A 6 bullet magazine semi automatic pistol made by me.

M13 also called Hercules Globular Cluster, is a globular cluster of about 300,000 stars in the constellation of Hercules. It is 25,000 light-years away and is about 145 light-years in diameter.

 

The small galaxy on the left is NGC6207. It is a spiral galaxy located at about 30 million light years from earth.

 

Sky-Watcher newton 150/750

Baader MPCC Mark 3

Sky-Watcher HEQ5

Canon 450Dm + IDAS LPS-P2 filter

30x120s @ ISO800 (60 min)

Lacerta MGEN2 + Finder 9x50

 

Calibrated, registered, stacked & processed in PixInsight.

Postprocessing (labels) in PS5.

M13 taken with a QSI-683 through a SV115T20 telescope. Image consists of 6 15-minute luminous subs and 5 5-minute R, G, B subs. Processed with Pixinsight

Rear view.

 

Designed for the light, aluminum-framed .38 revolvers intended for aircrew--snubnoses from Colt and S&W--these saw duty during the Cold War, and are now quite rare.

 

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The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules, is a globular cluster of about 300,000 stars in the constellation of Hercules. M13 is about 145 light-years in diameter, and is 25,100 light-years from Earth. Spiral galaxy NGC 6207 (30 million light years away) can be seen toward the bottom right.

 

Imaged in June 2017 and was an experiment of using a ton of short (less than 1 minute) exposures. Roughly 800 individual images (400 in Luminance, 150 in Blue, 150 in Red, and 100 in Green). 6 hours total integration.

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