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Some designs are just iconic, and this is one of them. The P3 Orion will be sorely missed when they finally retire them in favour of the P8 Poseidon.
Comes with a 90% chance of destruction.
A little more refinement would be of benefit to this one but I'm a little tired of working on it at the moment. Hopefully I will get a clearer shot on white + additional refinement, but I liked the darker tone of this shot enough to post.
A Freightliner 66 leaves Scunthorpe Ore Plant with the 1842 to Immingham Dock Ore Terminal, 25 early.
M42
1 hour 14 minutes total integration time
equipment:- C8N, Canon 600D, IDAS D2 filter, HEQ5 pro mount
The morning ore train from Ray Mine to the Hayden Concentrator is eastbound on the Copper Basin Railway mainline. They are winding along the Gila River between Ray Jct. and Kearny as some fall colors linger on.
The Copper Basin has operated the 54 mile long Magma - Winkelman former Southern Pacific branchline since 1986. That year the SP sold the line to Kennecott Copper which immediately turned around and sold it along with their 7 mile private mine haul railroad from Ray mine to Ray Jct. and their branch from Hayden Jct. up to the Hayden smelter to create the CBRY. That same year Kennecott turned around and sold their Ray mine and all Hayden operations to ASARCO, operator of the original 1912 smelter in Hayden. Independent for its first 20 yrs, the CBRY was purchased by ASARCO (virtually its sole reason for existence now) in 2006.
4485 ft Teapot Mountain about 10 miles distant dominates the horizon.
CBRY 503 leading the train is a GP39 blt for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad as their number 3912 in Jul 1969.
Pinal County, Arizona
Saturday December 7, 2013
We tried to spot the 7 planets in a row, with limited success. But Orion's Belt made for a nice substitute.
The air was so cold few days ago, that I finally was able to see a lot of stars (the weather on previous days was either misty or cloudy), and I immediately noticed one of the few constellations which I'm able to recognize without looking on the maps - Orion.
I'm delighted to see the famous stars - Betelgeuse (right shoulder - so actually top left), Rigel (left foot - bottom right), Bellatrix (left shoulder) aka the Amazon Star (Latin for "female warrior" - yes, that's how Bellatrix Lestrange nee Black got her name!), Saiph (right foot) and the belt - Alnitak (bottom), Alnilam (middle) and Mintaka (top).
If you zoom in the picture, you should be able to see more stars, including Theta Orionis, Iota Orionis and 42 Orionis (all from the sword under the belt), which is funny, because the shield and head were not visible to me at all, and the club (Chi 1 and Chi 2) is barely visible in the picture and also was not visible to me. I assume that the other bright star you could confuse with the club is Alhena from Gemini constellation.
The giant white "star" on the top is actually Jupiter passing the constellation of Taurus. The star on the right must be Aldebaran (Alpha Tau), and on the left is Elnath (Beta Tau), with Tianguan (Zeta Tau) below barely visible on zooming. Above Rigel (below the shield) is Cursa (Beta Eridani) from Eridanus. The bright star on the very top of the picture is probably Hasseleh (Iota Aurigae) from Auriga constellation, the one on the left close to bottom is Procyon (Alpha Canis Minoris) from Canis Minor, and the one on the bottom close to transmission line support is the one I couldn't recognize, but probably Mirzam (Beta Canis Majoris) from Canis Major. The only bright star on the right of the picture is also a mystery, but probably Minkar (Alpha Ceti) from Cetus.
I should be able to see my own constellation, the Aries, for the first time in my life, but even Taurus was barely visible, and it was so cold (-2C or 28.4F), I couldn't pick my phone to search for the real-time sky map (I did it only back home). Well, I know, it looks like a boring not-a-straight line consisting of four stars, but I would like to see it anyway, it's my sign on the sky. :)
This is my first attempt to take a picture of the star sky, and I was totally unprepared (I realised that I forgot to download user manual for my camera on my phone like I did with my previous phone back in 2018, and I couldn't waste time on starting my laptop to read the file to find the appropriate settings), so I just scrolled through different modes to find the one for the Moon, and it turned out quite well. :)
I placed Lego Orion in the sky, but as you can see, I'm not saying anything about the character. Well, that's because if you heard something about him from the source other than "Men In Black" film (where the major plot point was to find a stolen galaxy from Orion's belt), then probably it's nothing good. Considering famous myths about him (those featuring Pleiades, Merope and Opis who might have been Artemis), it was quite a controversial decision to release such a character as a minifigure, and it's worse than in a case of Hercules, because that was a Disney character, not the one from the myths, so his story was already different. Well, it's hard to find any decent characters in Greek mythology, especially among male characters, but if Lego wanted a constellation minifigure, they probably should have chose someone else... Anyway, transparent minifigures look cool and I collect them, so I bought Orion with the intention to use some parts for original characters, but I saw the stars and decided it would be fun to sent the character to the sky so he won't be able to harm anyone anymore.
Actually I was going to take another picture (I thought it would be relevant now for some reasons), but last week I had to do a lot of things offline, and then I tried to focus on my forum, which was a bad idea, because I missed the opportunity to took and post the picture because of it. Then I finally took the picture, got it ready, then realised that I shouldn't post two comics in a row. So on Thursday I was going to post another picture from my vault, but it required to write some thoughts and I was not in the mood. So I decided to finish and post this picture instead. But this is counts as the picture for previous week, so I need to post another picture for this week somehow, and the one for the next... But the next week is going to be busy again. And what makes me even more sad is that I didn't have enough time to prepare something to honor the premiere of the film I waited for the most in this year, and also to honor another event on the next week (because for it I should have bought something from BrickLink earlier, but instead I had to move in the autumn, and later I didn't have spare money, then later I was too focused on getting something which would be out of stock soon and totally forgot). Damn, I need holidays right now so bad...
Orion Nebula from my backyard. Practicing for when I can get to a dark sky in January. I did pretty well with alignment last night!
Bortle 8+
32.5 minutes subs
Various darks by temp and gain
Olympus E-M5 Mark III & 75-300mm
30 secs x 65, iso 1000, f/8, at 300mm
SA 2i tracker
ASTAP stacking, PS stretching, Photolab6 editing
January 8th 2022
21 minutes total exposure
SW 80mm APO, field flattener, IDAS l2 filter and canon 600D.
- www.kevin-palmer.com - This abandoned house with no roof is found on the American Prairie Reserve near the campground. As soon as I found it I knew I'd come back to shoot it at night. But I had to wait until 3AM when the moon had set. This area is in a 'black zone' on a light pollution map so the skies do not get any darker than this. Orion was rising to the east next to the zodiacal light.
Orion, just left of the tree - you can make out Orion's Belt - its vertical from this angle, looking East just as Orion rises.
I was next to a road hence the lights streaking by...
This is the first deep sky photo I've taken with my Canon 6D. The camera is unmodified, and I'm impressed with its performance.
Exposure: 53x300s, 15x60s, 20x20s second exposures at ISO 1600
Camera: Canon EOS 6D (Unmodified)
Filter: Unfiltered
Telescope: Orion ED80 with .85x Focal Reducer
Mount: Losmandy G-11
Guider: Orion SSAG through ST80
Date: 11/27/2016
Exposures shot RAW in BYEOS, stacked in Deep Sky Stacker, and processed in Photoshop
We had clear skies a couple of evenings ago which allowed me to try and capture the Orion Nebula. Though not visible with the naked eye, the camera recorded some red haze which I had to deal with in post processing. I used my 105mm Sigma Prime, 60 secs tracked, f/2.8, ISO 400. I only used a single image. I still had to crop super heavily and ended up with a 1070 x 713 px image. So that is pretty small. I upsized the image 6x using Topaz Gigapixel using the Redefine AI model. This fills in the missing pixels. From there I created two images, a stars-only image and an image with no stars. Using Affinity photo, I processed each image separately and finally blended them into acceptable resulting image. Comments, tips and suggestion are all welcome
Here are three popular views in the constellation of Orion that seem to naturally go together. So I thought how can I make a triptych-like display of them. The three shots were made without rotating the camera, just repointing. At first I arranged them in their relative positions in the sky, but then switched the left two (Horsehead and M78) because the trio looked more balanced in terms of visual appearance. The view of M42 on the right is enlarged a bit from the other two again to create balance. This is not a true triptych in the strict sense since there is no continuity or overlap between frames but they seem to complement one another very nicely. The view on the left is the Horse Head and Flame Nebula, the center is part of Barnard’s Loop and M 78, and the view on the right is M 42 and the Running Man Nebula.
These images represent nearly 20 hours of total integration through 5 filters (LRGBHa) with my Takahashi FSQ 106 and ZWO ASI6200 MM camera. The data were collected in my backyard in a red zone in the northeast suburbs of Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA during January, 2022. All image calibration, alignment, and integration (via NormalizeScaleGradient), and stretching were done in PixInsight. The images include some enhancement of the red channel by a blend with data through a hydrogen-alpha filter in PixInsight using PixelMath. Final levels and contrast adjustments were made in Photoshop using luminosity masks.
Orion_Triptych_220130_RQFugate
This is my first ever attempt to stack a deep sky image after one afternoon learning how to do this (in Affinity Photo). The image consists of just 11 lights with a total of 72 seconds exposure time, ISO 1600, 800 and 400, no darks, lights or bias images (since I didn't make any).
Camera is a Canon EOS M6 Mark II on a Lacerta 72mm APO with 432mm focal length and a Lacerta Flattener, NEQ3 mount with motorized RA
Orion Nebula taken in my backyard. This is my best effort yet on this DSO.
Canon 6D Canon EF 100-400L @ 300mm
ISO1600
f 5.6
2 s
744 images ( total exposure time 42 mins )
Untracked and stacked in DSS and processed in PS6
Orion the hunter strides above the Potomac River valley as the winter milky way arcs down into the soft glow of a campfire among the old pines on the crest of North Fork Mountain in West Virginia. www.bobstoughphotography.com/
Here is an early work in progress showing my first attempt at imaging the Witch Head Nebula (IC 2118) in the constellation Orion. The bright star in this image is Rigel. With Orion now in the western skies after sunset, I will probably not be able to add additional data to this until next season. Still, happy to have finally imaged this one!
Tech Specs: Williams Optic’s Redcat 51, Celestron CGEM-DX mount (pier mounted), ZWO ASI071MC-Pro running at -10C, 30 x 120 second exposures, GAIN 200, guided using a ZWO ASI290MC and Orion 60mm guide scope. Captured using SharpCap v3.2. Image date: January 29, 2020. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.
M42 The Great Orion Nebula(edit 12/19)
TS72 APO + TS72flat on a Nikon d610
432mm /f6/ iso800
11hrs 15min. Data acquired over 3 nights.
Stack of 30sec, 60sec, 120sec and 180sec
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extra stack for the core with exposures of 30sec and 60sec for a total of 90min.
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extra stack with exposure of 30sec for a total of 25min for finer core detail.
Tracked with the Star Adventurer
TS 50mm f3.6 guidescope connected on a zwo asi120mc-s
Stacked in DSS and processed in Photoshop
Introducing Orion - my new quilt pattern!!
I am just so happy with the way this quilt turned out - I love it so much!!
Blogged: miss-print.blogspot.ca/2013/01/introducing-orion.html
Orion's Belt || The Universe
This is the 'easy to find' M42 (Great Orion Nebula), Sh2-279 (Running Man Nebula), NGC 2024 (Flame Nebula) and Barnard 33 (Horsehead Nebula)
I hope you enjoy!
Many thanks,
Wil
As I finally had clear skies on Thursday I quickly took the opportunity and went out shooting with the target being Orion.
Although I was only able to get close to 2 hours of exposures I think it turned out pretty well.
38 x 180sec
Samyang 85mm @ f/4
Canon 6D ISO1600
Optolong UHC
Tracked with a NEQ-3
Part of 48 hour training Exercise Orion at TDA Croxteth 7th September 2010.
The air ambulance can be seen in the background.
This is a picture, taken by me, of the Great Orion Nebula.
This is a huge glowing cloud of dust a gas so large that light takes decades to cross it. New stars are being formed in it as you look at this picture.
This is an HDR image. 6 x 5 minute exposures, 6 x 2.5 minute exposures, 6 x 1.25 minute exposures, 6 x 30 second exposures and 6 x 15 second exposures were all shot with a Canon 350D and specialised equipment, then combined to produce this one picture.
View from Rawhead looking over Cheshire countryside towards Wrexham
28x 8 second exposures stacked in Sequator for noise reduction and edited in LR to make the constellation stand out a little more
Image shows Orion, the Hunter Constellation as arising in the sky in the eastern sky in these days. The upper two stars represents hunter’s hands, the middle three stars are the Orion’s belt and the lower two stars are hunter’s feet. Gear setup: Canon 24mm f/2.8, Canon Rebel T3i.
2 panel mosaic of the constellation Orion from General Nathan Twinning Observatory, an amatuer observatory in a Bortle 3 dark sky spot run by the Albuquerque Astronomical Society, of which I am now a member! Unfortunately I couldn't frame up Orion properly, so I had to crop a lot more from the mosaic than I wanted to.
Gear Used:
Canon 350D
Canon 50mm f/1.8
NyxTech Nyxtracker V2
Neewer 66in Aluminum Tripod
Aquisition Details:
Panel 1 - 15x50" + 4x10" for M42 Core
Panel 2 - 20x50"
f/4
ISO-1600
Software Used:
Adobe Camera Raw
PixInsight 1.8
Adobe Photoshop CS5.1
Aunque la contaminación lumínica de una gasolinera cercana, conseguimos traernos la foto de la estación de minateda, con las constelaciones de Orión y Tauro.
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The constellation Orion is home to some amazing deep sky objects! The amount of gas, dust, and stars makes this part of the winter Milky Way just stunning to photograph. This is a 25 image mosaic made over the course of 5 days.
Light pollution is pretty bad here where I am staying in southern California, but it is way better than in Vancouver. I went outside last night with a 300mm lens and tried to photograph Orion's Nebula. This is the result. I don't like processing photos on my laptop screen so will re-process this at home on my monitor. I'm planning to try it again with my 400mm + 1.4x extender (for 560mm) so will hopefully get some more (closer) shots!
This image was taken at 300mm at 1.3 seconds at ISO 8000 and f/5.6. I took 40 images which I will stack at home for a much better result, but this is just one exposure.
This shot had a shooting star in it (likely meteor entering the earth's atmosphere) which I thought was pretty neat!
Central part of the Great Orion Nebula (M42), showing also 4 stars of the Trapezium Cluster in the very center of the image. At this exposure value and contrast, it appears to me like a colourful butterfly spreading its wings.
This was my first go at M42 using one of the large telescopes at the Münchner Volkssternwarte, at present still with relatively short exposure time. Also my first M42 shot this season. So there are hopefully many more nights to gather more photons, and hopefully also somewhat better seeing once M42 climbs a bit higher at hours where I can access the telescope.
Image details:
Telescope: 10" f/16 Schaer refractor (Volkssternwarte München), prime focus (4 m)
Camera: Samsung NX30, unmodified
Exposure: 19x 30 s, ISO3200; no guiding, just RA tracking
Filters: none
Acquisition date: 2021-11-01, just after midnight