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Tribute to Billy Ruane a rocking affair
news.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/general/view/20...
By Jim Sullivan
Friday, November 19, 2010 - Updated 1 week ago
Billy Ruane was a whirlwind of energy, an avid music enthusiast and something of a madman. He was a galvanizing, if occasionally polarizing, figure on the Boston rock scene for three decades.
Ruane promoted shows and danced with reckless abandon all over town. At various times, he was banned from two of his favorite clubs, the Middle East and T.T. the Bear’s Place, for his over-the-top antics.
Wednesday night, the life of Ruane - who died from a heart attack last month at 52 - was celebrated at both clubs with a multiband concert.
He had planned a similar celebration for his Nov. 10 birthday. After his death, his longtime friend, singer Mary Lou Lord, organized an expanded gathering for an Irish wake-styled memorial. The local rock community made it a sellout. Lord predicted “chaos of epic proportions,” adding that “Billy wouldn’t have it any other way.”
Chaos there was. Not everything went off on time. But no matter. There was stirring music from longtime Ruane favorites like Willie Alexander, with his hypnotic, beat-infused piano-based songs; Chris Brokaw, with feedback-drenched electric guitar skronk; and Buffalo Tom, with infectious noise-pop. Ruane’s latest find, the young singer Aly Spaltro (also known as Lady Lamb the Beekeeper), delivered a closing segment of wrenching and soulful punk-blues.
Pat McGrath, Ruane’s adviser, emceed at the Middle East and paid tribute to his late friend, warts and all. Southie novelist Michael Patrick MacDonald read a passage based on an encounter with Ruane at a loft party in the ’80s. Though MacDonald’s rough upbringing was far different than Ruane’s life of privilege, they found common ground in punk rock - and liberation through music.
Early on, Randy Black played a tear-jerking version of the Beatles’ “In My Life” and recalled the multiple wet kisses Ruane would plant on him and everyone else. “He connected this community,” Black said. “There was glue in that spit.”
Peter Wolf did three songs, including a mournful “Start All Over Again.” “I’m talking about those good days, those sad days, those happy days,” Wolf sang in the coda. The sometime J. Geils Band singer recalled his first encounter with Ruane after a Geils gig. The dapper, suit-clad Ruane introduced himself before vomiting on Wolf. Nevertheless, a friendship formed, one based on a love of literature, poetry and music.
Ruane’s sister, Lili Ruane, took the stage at the Middle East several times. “You guys are his family,” she said. “You accepted him as he was. He was brilliant, a genius and expressive, as you know.”
The second time she spoke, her boyfriend Win Smith came out to propose as she held the brass urn that contained her brother’s ashes. She accepted. At night’s end, she tossed some of Billy’s ashes into the crowd. (Ultimately, his urn will reside at the Middle East.)
“I understood Billy’s role,” said Jon Langford, a Chicago-based Brit and longtime favorite of Ruane’s whose band Skull Orchard played a ripping set at T.T. the Bear’s. “Billy was a complete maverick, this strange weird thing, totally involved in music.”
Ruane was known for his support, emotional and financial, of numerous musicians. He loved many different kinds of music and that diversity was well represented onstage Wednesday.
“It was a great night,” said singer Linda Viens, who performed with Catherine Coleman. “Billy’s not gone. He lives on in the camaraderie, in the communion, in the great, majestic noise of rock ’n’ roll, and in the hearts of all those destined to love it and to play it.”
BILLY RUANE MEMORIAL
At the Middle East and T.T. the Bear’s Place, Cambridge, Wednesday night.
Also called speckled butterfly or Milletseed Butterfly.
snorkeling Molokini Crater
Maui, Hawaii, May 1, 2011
other yellow fish below :)
Tribute to Billy Ruane a rocking affair
news.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/general/view/20...
By Jim Sullivan
Friday, November 19, 2010 - Updated 1 week ago
Billy Ruane was a whirlwind of energy, an avid music enthusiast and something of a madman. He was a galvanizing, if occasionally polarizing, figure on the Boston rock scene for three decades.
Ruane promoted shows and danced with reckless abandon all over town. At various times, he was banned from two of his favorite clubs, the Middle East and T.T. the Bear’s Place, for his over-the-top antics.
Wednesday night, the life of Ruane - who died from a heart attack last month at 52 - was celebrated at both clubs with a multiband concert.
He had planned a similar celebration for his Nov. 10 birthday. After his death, his longtime friend, singer Mary Lou Lord, organized an expanded gathering for an Irish wake-styled memorial. The local rock community made it a sellout. Lord predicted “chaos of epic proportions,” adding that “Billy wouldn’t have it any other way.”
Chaos there was. Not everything went off on time. But no matter. There was stirring music from longtime Ruane favorites like Willie Alexander, with his hypnotic, beat-infused piano-based songs; Chris Brokaw, with feedback-drenched electric guitar skronk; and Buffalo Tom, with infectious noise-pop. Ruane’s latest find, the young singer Aly Spaltro (also known as Lady Lamb the Beekeeper), delivered a closing segment of wrenching and soulful punk-blues.
Pat McGrath, Ruane’s adviser, emceed at the Middle East and paid tribute to his late friend, warts and all. Southie novelist Michael Patrick MacDonald read a passage based on an encounter with Ruane at a loft party in the ’80s. Though MacDonald’s rough upbringing was far different than Ruane’s life of privilege, they found common ground in punk rock - and liberation through music.
Early on, Randy Black played a tear-jerking version of the Beatles’ “In My Life” and recalled the multiple wet kisses Ruane would plant on him and everyone else. “He connected this community,” Black said. “There was glue in that spit.”
Peter Wolf did three songs, including a mournful “Start All Over Again.” “I’m talking about those good days, those sad days, those happy days,” Wolf sang in the coda. The sometime J. Geils Band singer recalled his first encounter with Ruane after a Geils gig. The dapper, suit-clad Ruane introduced himself before vomiting on Wolf. Nevertheless, a friendship formed, one based on a love of literature, poetry and music.
Ruane’s sister, Lili Ruane, took the stage at the Middle East several times. “You guys are his family,” she said. “You accepted him as he was. He was brilliant, a genius and expressive, as you know.”
The second time she spoke, her boyfriend Win Smith came out to propose as she held the brass urn that contained her brother’s ashes. She accepted. At night’s end, she tossed some of Billy’s ashes into the crowd. (Ultimately, his urn will reside at the Middle East.)
“I understood Billy’s role,” said Jon Langford, a Chicago-based Brit and longtime favorite of Ruane’s whose band Skull Orchard played a ripping set at T.T. the Bear’s. “Billy was a complete maverick, this strange weird thing, totally involved in music.”
Ruane was known for his support, emotional and financial, of numerous musicians. He loved many different kinds of music and that diversity was well represented onstage Wednesday.
“It was a great night,” said singer Linda Viens, who performed with Catherine Coleman. “Billy’s not gone. He lives on in the camaraderie, in the communion, in the great, majestic noise of rock ’n’ roll, and in the hearts of all those destined to love it and to play it.”
BILLY RUANE MEMORIAL
At the Middle East and T.T. the Bear’s Place, Cambridge, Wednesday night.
IC-1396 - The Elephant Trunk Nebula
by Earl Hebert
The Elephant Trunk Nebula resides inside IC-1396 which is approximately 2,400-3,00 light-years from Earth. The Garnet Star (Mu Cephei) is one of the brightest stars in the Milky Way that can be seen with the unaided eye.
Published: Jun 20, 2026
Total integration: 9h 12m
Integration per filter:
- Multiband: 9h 12m (184 × 180")
Equipment:
- Telescope: William Optics RedCat 91 WIFD
- Camera: ZWO ASI2600MC Pro
- Mount: ZWO AM5
- Filters: Askar Colour Magic E1 (Ha+Oiii) Duo Narrow band 3nm 2", Askar Colour Magic E2 (Sii+Oiii) Duo Narrow band 3nm 2"
- Accessories: ZWO ASIAIR Plus, ZWO EFW 5 x 2"
- Software: Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight, Russell Croman Astrophotography BlurXTerminator, Russell Croman Astrophotography NoiseXTerminator, Russell Croman Astrophotography StarXTerminator
For more information, visit AstroBin:
The infrared portrait of the Small Magellanic Cloud, taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, reveals the stars and dust in this galaxy as never seen before. The Small Magellanic Cloud is a nearby satellite galaxy to our Milky Way galaxy, approximately 200,000 light-years away..
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The image shows the main body of the Small Magellanic Cloud, which is comprised of the "bar" and "wing" on the left and the "tail" extending to the right. The bar contains both old stars (in blue) and young stars lighting up their natal dust (green/red). The wing mainly contains young stars. The tail contains only gas, dust and newly formed stars. Spitzer data has confirmed that the tail region was recently torn off the main body of the galaxy. Two of the tail clusters, which are still embedded in their birth clouds, can be seen as red dots..
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In addition, the image contains a galactic globular cluster in the lower left (blue cluster of stars) and emission from dust in our own galaxy (green in the upper right and lower right corners)..
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The data in this image are being used by astronomers to study the lifecycle of dust in the entire galaxy: from the formation in stellar atmospheres, to the reservoir containing the present day interstellar medium, and the dust consumed in forming new stars. The dust being formed in old, evolved stars (blue stars with a red tinge) is measured using mid-infrared wavelengths. The present day interstellar dust is weighed by measuring the intensity and color of emission at longer infrared wavelengths. The rate at which the raw material is being consumed is determined by studying ionized gas regions and the younger stars (yellow/red extended regions). The Small Magellanic Cloud, and its companion galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud, are the two galaxies where this type of study is possible, and the research could not be done without Spitzer..
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This image was captured by Spitzer's infrared array camera and multiband imaging photometer (blue is 3.6-micron light; green is 8.0 microns; and red is combination of 24-, 70- and 160-micron light). The blue color mainly traces old stars. The green color traces emission from organic dust grains (mainly polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons). The red traces emission from larger, cooler dust grains..
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The image was taken as part of the Spitzer Legacy program known as SAGE-SMC: Surveying the Agents of Galaxy Evolution in the Tidally-Stripped, Low Metallicity Small Magellanic Cloud.
More PX100 goodness. This shot also exhibits the odd light leak-ish patterns I saw on most of this roll, which I shot using the darkslide-taped-to-the-film-exit technique. The is the dial of an old Zenith Transoceanic B600 multiband radio.
From left, Electronics Mechanics Gerard Daniels and Joe Gigliotti repair a transmitter and power supply, respectively, while Michael Lloyd performs an electrical test on a multiband radio.
This swirling landscape of stars is known as the North America nebula. In visible light, the region resembles North America, but in this new infrared view from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, the continent disappears..
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Where did the continent go? The reason you don't see it in Spitzer's view has to do, in part, with the fact that infrared light can penetrate dust whereas visible light cannot. Dusty, dark clouds in the visible image become transparent in Spitzer's view. In addition, Spitzer's infrared detectors pick up the glow of dusty cocoons enveloping baby stars..
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Clusters of young stars (about one million years old) can be found throughout the image. Slightly older but still very young stars (about 3 to 5 million years) are also liberally scattered across the complex, with concentrations near the "head" region of the Pelican nebula, which is located to the right of the North America nebula (upper right portion of this picture)..
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Some areas of this nebula are still very thick with dust and appear dark even in Spitzer's view. For example, the dark "river" in the lower left-center of the image -- in the Gulf of Mexico region -- are likely to be the youngest stars in the complex (less than a million years old)..
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The Spitzer image contains data from both its infrared array camera and multiband imaging photometer. Light with a wavelength of 3.6 microns has been color-coded blue; 4.5-micron light is blue-green; 5.8-micron and 8.0-micron light are green; and 24-micron light is red.
Here’s another wide field image of comet 3I/ATLAS. This was imaged on the morning of December 21, 2025. I was only able to get 1 1/2 hours of data before clouds started moving in. Throughout the month it had been clear and mild throughout the US southwest but as luck would have it, storms are finally heading in. This is likely the last time I’ll be able to image this comet. I’ve also posted a short animation showing the comet’s movement over 1 1/2 hours.
Image Detail:
- 1.5 hours of total integration time (120 seconds, gain 100, camera cooled to 14 degrees).
- SVBONY SV503 80ED
- SVBONY SV260 multiband pass filter
- SVBONY SV226 filter drawer
- Sky Watcher Star Adventurer GTi
- ZWO ASI 2600MC Pro
- ZWO ASIAIR Mini
- ZWO EAF
- ZWO 120MM guide camera
- ZWO guide scope
Software:
- PixInsight
- Adobe Photoshop
- RC Astro Blur Xterminator
- RC Astro Noise Xterminator
- RC Astro Star Xterminator
Tribute to Billy Ruane a rocking affair
news.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/general/view/20...
By Jim Sullivan
Friday, November 19, 2010 - Updated 1 week ago
Billy Ruane was a whirlwind of energy, an avid music enthusiast and something of a madman. He was a galvanizing, if occasionally polarizing, figure on the Boston rock scene for three decades.
Ruane promoted shows and danced with reckless abandon all over town. At various times, he was banned from two of his favorite clubs, the Middle East and T.T. the Bear’s Place, for his over-the-top antics.
Wednesday night, the life of Ruane - who died from a heart attack last month at 52 - was celebrated at both clubs with a multiband concert.
He had planned a similar celebration for his Nov. 10 birthday. After his death, his longtime friend, singer Mary Lou Lord, organized an expanded gathering for an Irish wake-styled memorial. The local rock community made it a sellout. Lord predicted “chaos of epic proportions,” adding that “Billy wouldn’t have it any other way.”
Chaos there was. Not everything went off on time. But no matter. There was stirring music from longtime Ruane favorites like Willie Alexander, with his hypnotic, beat-infused piano-based songs; Chris Brokaw, with feedback-drenched electric guitar skronk; and Buffalo Tom, with infectious noise-pop. Ruane’s latest find, the young singer Aly Spaltro (also known as Lady Lamb the Beekeeper), delivered a closing segment of wrenching and soulful punk-blues.
Pat McGrath, Ruane’s adviser, emceed at the Middle East and paid tribute to his late friend, warts and all. Southie novelist Michael Patrick MacDonald read a passage based on an encounter with Ruane at a loft party in the ’80s. Though MacDonald’s rough upbringing was far different than Ruane’s life of privilege, they found common ground in punk rock - and liberation through music.
Early on, Randy Black played a tear-jerking version of the Beatles’ “In My Life” and recalled the multiple wet kisses Ruane would plant on him and everyone else. “He connected this community,” Black said. “There was glue in that spit.”
Peter Wolf did three songs, including a mournful “Start All Over Again.” “I’m talking about those good days, those sad days, those happy days,” Wolf sang in the coda. The sometime J. Geils Band singer recalled his first encounter with Ruane after a Geils gig. The dapper, suit-clad Ruane introduced himself before vomiting on Wolf. Nevertheless, a friendship formed, one based on a love of literature, poetry and music.
Ruane’s sister, Lili Ruane, took the stage at the Middle East several times. “You guys are his family,” she said. “You accepted him as he was. He was brilliant, a genius and expressive, as you know.”
The second time she spoke, her boyfriend Win Smith came out to propose as she held the brass urn that contained her brother’s ashes. She accepted. At night’s end, she tossed some of Billy’s ashes into the crowd. (Ultimately, his urn will reside at the Middle East.)
“I understood Billy’s role,” said Jon Langford, a Chicago-based Brit and longtime favorite of Ruane’s whose band Skull Orchard played a ripping set at T.T. the Bear’s. “Billy was a complete maverick, this strange weird thing, totally involved in music.”
Ruane was known for his support, emotional and financial, of numerous musicians. He loved many different kinds of music and that diversity was well represented onstage Wednesday.
“It was a great night,” said singer Linda Viens, who performed with Catherine Coleman. “Billy’s not gone. He lives on in the camaraderie, in the communion, in the great, majestic noise of rock ’n’ roll, and in the hearts of all those destined to love it and to play it.”
BILLY RUANE MEMORIAL
At the Middle East and T.T. the Bear’s Place, Cambridge, Wednesday night.
Handheld, Manpack and Small Form Fit (HMS) is a family of networking tactical radio systems that are interoperable with specified radios in the current forces. HMS provides Joint interoperable connectivity to the tactical edge and to the most disadvantaged warfighter with an on-the-move, at-the-halt and stationary line-of-sight and beyond-line-of-sight capability for both dismounted personnel and platforms. The radios are scalable and compliant with modular software communications architecture, enable net-centric operations, operate multiband and multimode, and deliver reliable, secure tactical communications.
Read more at asc.army.mil/web/portfolio-item/c3t-handheld-manpack-and-...
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Яндекс иногда делает хорошие вещи. По количеству сервисов он лидер среди российских компаний. Некоторые (особенно те, что конкурируют с гуглом), в том числе поиск и браузер, значительно хуже. Некоторые же не имеют аналогов (расписание электричек, агрегатор вакансий, агрегатор недвижимости, маркет). Музыка не является аналогом Google Music, так как предполагает бесплатное прослушивание даже того, что не загрузил. Да и появилось вроде раньше.
Кроме прочего, не требует регистрацию и установки плагинов и прочего мусора в систему. Это не может не радовать, особенно меня. С тех пор, как сервис был в beta уже многое поменялось. Однако кое чего там до сих пор не хватает-эквалайзера.
Безусловно, если у вас музыка играет из ноутбука со встроенными динамиками, это не важно. Но если есть хорошие наушники или колонки, то почему бы нет? Перехваченный url песни в родном проигрыватели играется намного приятнее. Но так нельзя же всегда делать... Да и правила запрещают.
Вот так выглядит мой проигрывать всегда
А еще у него есть
Похоже разработчики перетрудились, работая над плеером и не осилили эту мелочь. Но сервис бесплатен, грех пенять на Yandex. У них и так хороший сервис.
Нам на помощь придет pulseaudio-equalizer, он может управлять звуковым потоком всей системы, в том числе и из браузера. Может это не так удобно, что он затрагивает сразу все, но это работает. И мало весит. Скачать файл можно тут или в своем репозитарии.
Теперь звук и правда стал лучше. Можно наслаждаться музыкой из браузера дальше
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From the heart of Desert Bloom Observatory, the night unveiled the ethereal dance of the Pleiades (M45)—a cluster of radiant sisters bound by gravity and myth. Draped in silken blue veils of cosmic dust, these stars shimmer across the constellation Taurus, about 444 light-years from Earth. Their reflection nebulae are illuminated by scattered starlight across interstellar dust—an elegant harmony between myth, matter, and light.
Astro Imaging Details:
Telescope: Celestron Nexstar Evo 9.25 (235mm f/10 Schmidt-Cassegrain)
Camera: ZWO ASI2600MC Pro
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ-6R Pro Computerized Equatorial Mount S303000
Guide Scope: ZWO 30F4 Miniscope
Guide Camera: ZWO ASI462MC Planetary Camera
Optics: Starizona HyperStar 4 HS4-C9.25 (White 10014)
Finder: Starizona Telrad Reflex Sight Finder
Focuser: ZWO Electronic Automatic Focuser EAF-5V
Controller: ZWO ASIAir Plus WiFi Camera Controller
Filter: Optolong L-Pro 2” Multiband Pass Filter
Accessories: Astrozap Dew Heater, Celestron Dew Shield
Additional: Samsung Cellular Phone, Memory Card
Exposure & Processing:
Exposure: 600 seconds × 186 frames
Stacked in DeepSkyStacker
Processed in PixInsight and Photoshop
All data were acquired and processed by me at Desert Bloom Observatory. I sincerely hope this image reflects the quiet beauty and timeless mystery of the Pleiades star cluster.
I bought VirSyn's Take 5, and Cantor together.. Cantor is a vocal synthesizer.. which is to say you can make you're computer sing with it.. and I can tell you there's no real competition, when it comes to vocal synthesizers.. though there is competition in sample based vocal synthesis
Of the rest of the effects.. I'm using the VTape Delay all over the place.. before I went to Altiverb I used Reflect all over the place.. though Reflect is a combination algorithmic and convolution reverb.. which makes it interesting.
I'm also given to throwing the tape saturator all over the place.. I really like its sound.. and I do use Bark quite a bit.
Bark is a little strange.. a combination multiband filter with compression..
One thing I will say.. they really ought to invest a little money into making there stuff look pretty-er
The infrared portrait of the Small Magellanic Cloud, taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, reveals the stars and dust in this galaxy as never seen before. The Small Magellanic Cloud is a nearby satellite galaxy to our Milky Way galaxy, approximately 200,000 light-years away..
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The image shows the main body of the Small Magellanic Cloud, which is comprised of the "bar" and "wing" on the left and the "tail" extending to the right. The bar contains both old stars (in blue) and young stars lighting up their natal dust (green/red). The wing mainly contains young stars. The tail contains only gas, dust and newly formed stars. Spitzer data has confirmed that the tail region was recently torn off the main body of the galaxy. Two of the tail clusters, which are still embedded in their birth clouds, can be seen as red dots..
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In addition, the image contains a galactic globular cluster in the lower left (blue cluster of stars) and emission from dust in our own galaxy (green in the upper right and lower right corners)..
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The data in this image are being used by astronomers to study the lifecycle of dust in the entire galaxy: from the formation in stellar atmospheres, to the reservoir containing the present day interstellar medium, and the dust consumed in forming new stars. The dust being formed in old, evolved stars (blue stars with a red tinge) is measured using mid-infrared wavelengths. The present day interstellar dust is weighed by measuring the intensity and color of emission at longer infrared wavelengths. The rate at which the raw material is being consumed is determined by studying ionized gas regions and the younger stars (yellow/red extended regions). The Small Magellanic Cloud, and its companion galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud, are the two galaxies where this type of study is possible, and the research could not be done without Spitzer..
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This image was captured by Spitzer's infrared array camera and multiband imaging photometer (blue is 3.6-micron light; green is 8.0 microns; and red is combination of 24-, 70- and 160-micron light). The blue color mainly traces old stars. The green color traces emission from organic dust grains (mainly polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons). The red traces emission from larger, cooler dust grains..
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The image was taken as part of the Spitzer Legacy program known as SAGE-SMC: Surveying the Agents of Galaxy Evolution in the Tidally-Stripped, Low Metallicity Small Magellanic Cloud.
The infrared portrait of the Small Magellanic Cloud, taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, reveals the stars and dust in this galaxy as never seen before. The Small Magellanic Cloud is a nearby satellite galaxy to our Milky Way galaxy, approximately 200,000 light-years away.
The image shows the main body of the Small Magellanic Cloud, which is comprised of the "bar" and "wing" on the left and the "tail" extending to the right. The bar contains both old stars (in blue) and young stars lighting up their natal dust (green/red). The wing mainly contains young stars. The tail contains only gas, dust and newly formed stars. Spitzer data has confirmed that the tail region was recently torn off the main body of the galaxy. Two of the tail clusters, which are still embedded in their birth clouds, can be seen as red dots.
In addition, the image contains a galactic globular cluster in the lower left (blue cluster of stars) and emission from dust in our own galaxy (green in the upper right and lower right corners).
The data in this image are being used by astronomers to study the lifecycle of dust in the entire galaxy: from the formation in stellar atmospheres, to the reservoir containing the present day interstellar medium, and the dust consumed in forming new stars. The dust being formed in old, evolved stars (blue stars with a red tinge) is measured using mid-infrared wavelengths. The present day interstellar dust is weighed by measuring the intensity and color of emission at longer infrared wavelengths. The rate at which the raw material is being consumed is determined by studying ionized gas regions and the younger stars (yellow/red extended regions). The Small Magellanic Cloud, and its companion galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud, are the two galaxies where this type of study is possible, and the research could not be done without Spitzer.
This image was captured by Spitzer's infrared array camera and multiband imaging photometer (blue is 3.6-micron light; green is 8.0 microns; and red is combination of 24-, 70- and 160-micron light). The blue color mainly traces old stars. The green color traces emission from organic dust grains (mainly polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons). The red traces emission from larger, cooler dust grains.
The image was taken as part of the Spitzer Legacy program known as SAGE-SMC: Surveying the Agents of Galaxy Evolution in the Tidally-Stripped, Low Metallicity Small Magellanic Cloud.
Handheld, Manpack and Small Form Fit (HMS) is a family of networking tactical radio systems that are interoperable with specified radios in the current forces. HMS provides Joint interoperable connectivity to the tactical edge and to the most disadvantaged warfighter with an on-the-move, at-the-halt and stationary line-of-sight and beyond-line-of-sight capability for both dismounted personnel and platforms. The radios are scalable and compliant with modular software communications architecture, enable net-centric operations, operate multiband and multimode, and deliver reliable, secure tactical communications.
Read more at asc.army.mil/web/portfolio-item/c3t-handheld-manpack-and-...
(Click on the picture and turn your phone sideways to fully see everything)
24P/ Schaumasse
This is a wide field two panel mosaic which was imaged on the morning of December 28, 2025 from my backyard. Comet 24P/ Schaumasse (green glow on the left side) made a somewhat close approach to Markarian’s Chain (line of galaxies on the right side).
Markarian’s Chain is a string of galaxies in the Virgo Cluster. This area of the night sky is filled with galaxies which are as far as 50-60 million light years away. 24P/ Schaumasse is a Jupiter family comet. It has an orbital period of 8.27 years.
During the month of December the weather had been mild and clear in the US southwest but shortly before Christmas, a series of storms finally started to bring clouds and precipitation. For that reason, I missed a couple good photographic opportunities. Luckily, the weather cleared just in time for me to get this image but not without some struggle.
I had to deal with dew and humidity on this particular morning. I normally have a dew heater attached to my main scope but since dew isn’t a big problem in the US southwest, I don’t have a dew heater on my guide scope. It was so humid that morning that the guide scope started to fog. I had trouble guiding. Fortunately, making a makeshift and oversized cardboard dew shield in the wee hours of the morning for the guide scope solved the problem!
Image Detail:
- 3 hours of total integration time (120 seconds, gain 100, camera cooled to 14 degrees). Both panels 1.5 hours of integration time.
- SVBONY SV503 80ED
- SVBONY SV260 multiband pass filter
- SVBONY SV226 filter drawer
- Sky Watcher Star Adventurer GTi
- ZWO ASI 2600MC Pro
- ZWO ASIAIR Mini
- ZWO EAF
- ZWO 120MM guide camera
- ZWO guide scope
Software:
- PixInsight
- Adobe Photoshop
- RC Astro Blur Xterminator
- RC Astro Noise Xterminator
- RC Astro Star Xterminator
SX-23Skyrider multiband radiove radio from the electronics firm of Hallicrafter, in Chicago, A top of the line radio in 1939,
Note : we even had our own TV and small radio. Our big Zenith Multiband radio was kept over on the navigation table. The Zenith wasused for navigation and with its built in antenna could be used as a bearing indicator. Got storm warnnings from WWV and WWVH and so much more information that it was always kept secure and not subject to damage. I still have it and it still works. It will work with AC or Flashlight Batteries or from 12 DC power.If I remember,once in a while I take it out from storage and make sure it is in working shape.
121002-M-PH080-271
Lance Cpl. Tony J. Keys-Fairclough with Marine Tactical Air Command Squadron 18 connects a RF-390 multiband vehicular whip antenna to an AN/MRQ 12(V) 4 communication interface system at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma Oct. 2. MTACS-18 fills a critical supporting role by providing communications to fellow service members engaged on the battlefield and in the skies above. Keys-Fairclough is an aviation communication system technician with MTACS-18, Marine Air Control Group 18, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, III Marine Expeditionary Force. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Brianna Turner/Released)
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Casio G-SHOCK The G Multiband 5 GW-M5600-1JF New Japanese Wristwatch
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The infrared portrait of the Small Magellanic Cloud, taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, reveals the stars and dust in this galaxy as never seen before. The Small Magellanic Cloud is a nearby satellite galaxy to our Milky Way galaxy, approximately 200,000 light-years away..
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The image shows the main body of the Small Magellanic Cloud, which is comprised of the "bar" and "wing" on the left and the "tail" extending to the right. The bar contains both old stars (in blue) and young stars lighting up their natal dust (green/red). The wing mainly contains young stars. The tail contains only gas, dust and newly formed stars. Spitzer data has confirmed that the tail region was recently torn off the main body of the galaxy. Two of the tail clusters, which are still embedded in their birth clouds, can be seen as red dots..
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In addition, the image contains a galactic globular cluster in the lower left (blue cluster of stars) and emission from dust in our own galaxy (green in the upper right and lower right corners)..
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The data in this image are being used by astronomers to study the lifecycle of dust in the entire galaxy: from the formation in stellar atmospheres, to the reservoir containing the present day interstellar medium, and the dust consumed in forming new stars. The dust being formed in old, evolved stars (blue stars with a red tinge) is measured using mid-infrared wavelengths. The present day interstellar dust is weighed by measuring the intensity and color of emission at longer infrared wavelengths. The rate at which the raw material is being consumed is determined by studying ionized gas regions and the younger stars (yellow/red extended regions). The Small Magellanic Cloud, and its companion galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud, are the two galaxies where this type of study is possible, and the research could not be done without Spitzer..
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This image was captured by Spitzer's infrared array camera and multiband imaging photometer (blue is 3.6-micron light; green is 8.0 microns; and red is combination of 24-, 70- and 160-micron light). The blue color mainly traces old stars. The green color traces emission from organic dust grains (mainly polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons). The red traces emission from larger, cooler dust grains..
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The image was taken as part of the Spitzer Legacy program known as SAGE-SMC: Surveying the Agents of Galaxy Evolution in the Tidally-Stripped, Low Metallicity Small Magellanic Cloud.
This is one segment of an infrared portrait of dust and stars radiating in the inner Milky Way. More than 800,000 frames from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope were stitched together to create the full image, capturing more than 50 percent of our entire galaxy..
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As inhabitants of a flat galactic disk, Earth and its solar system have an edge-on view of their host galaxy, like looking at a glass dish from its edge. From our perspective, most of the galaxy is condensed into a blurry narrow band of light that stretches completely around the sky, also known as the galactic plane..
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This survey segment spans galactic longitudes of 57.8 to 66.0 degrees and is centered at a galactic latitude of 0 degrees. It covers about two vertical degrees of the galactic plane..
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The swaths of green represent organic molecules, called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, which are illuminated by light from nearby star formation, while the thermal emission, or heat, from warm dust is rendered in red. Star-forming regions appear as swirls of red and yellow, where the warm dust overlaps with the glowing organic molecules. The blue specks sprinkled throughout the photograph are Milky Way stars. .
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The segment spans galactic latitidues of 57.8 to 66.0 degrees and is centered at a galactic longitude of 0 degrees. It covers about two vertical degrees of the galactic plane..
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This is a three-color composite that shows infrared observations from two Spitzer instruments. Blue represents 3.6-micron light and green shows light of 8 microns, both captured by Spitzer's infrared array camera. Red is 24-micron light detected by Spitzer's multiband imaging photometer. This combines observations from the Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire (GLIMPSE) and MIPSGAL projects.
This image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows infant stars "hatching" in the head of the hunter constellation, Orion. Astronomers suspect that shockwaves from a supernova explosion in Orion's head, nearly three million years ago, may have initiated this newfound birth.
The region featured in this Spitzer image is called Barnard 30. It is located approximately 1,300 light-years away and sits on the right side of Orion's head, just north of the massive star Lambda Orionis.
Wisps of green in the cloud are organic molecules called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). PAHs are formed anytime carbon-based materials are burned incompletely. On Earth, they can be found in the sooty exhaust from automobile and airplane engines. They also coat the grills where charcoal-broiled meats are cooked.
Tints of orange-red in the cloud are dust particles warmed by the newly forming stars. The reddish-pink dots at the top of the cloud are very young stars embedded in a cocoon of cosmic gas and dust. Blue spots throughout the image are background Milky Way along this line of sight.
This composite includes data from Spitzer's infrared array camera instrument, and multiband imaging photometer instrument. Light at 4.5 microns is shown as blue, 8.0 microns is green, and 24 microns is red.
I was stuck for a 40 meter antenna & thought of going with my Buddipole with long whips, this setup is untested for that band in my hands.
After spending too much time experimenting I opted for a multiband end fed sloper instead which was narrow banded but got the job done on both 80/40 & 15 meters.
I'm not done experimenting with the Buddipole on 40 meters though...to be continued!