A squirrel at my window..........

Peer Grintweg

Heron in Apex Park on the lookout for a fish

This eagle was on a mission by the looks of it.

I can't believe its almost Monday already - How has everyone's weekends been? Mines been super busy with photography and even talking about photography over at Ilton RPS Club in Somerset. Thank you for having me guys! I still can't get my head around the fact that people want to hear me speak!

Here's a shot from Saturday morning taken at Stourhead in Wiltshire. A gorgeous place at any time of year but well worth a visit in Autumn, that's for sure! After shooting here for quite some time, I have a decent amount of images and there aren't many views here that I don't have a picture of. Its always nice to capture something different, so here's a shot of the Pantheon through the foliage.

Have an amazing week ahead guys!

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Went to Scarborough Sea life centre. Wonderful day. These big fellows were being fed and are amazing cratures!

Belgium

I leave you with the first version ...

Wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Christmas stocking full of good things ! :D

Canon EOS 5D MKII + Canon EF 17-40 f/4 L @ 17 mm

ISO 200 - f/11 - 190s

Lee Big Stopper + Lee GND 0.6 HE + Heliopan CPL 105mm

View Large

through glass and into our eyes

we're being watched

All seen at Cockwood Cove.

Female house finch checking me out there in the setting sunlight.

a curve billed thrasher peering through the cactus

impressions @ petri plate

SMC Pentax-M 50mm F4 Macro + Helicoid Ext.Tube

into an abyss of green

Peering above the waters in Green Cay.

KEEP AWAY

Peering into device may

cause permanent eye-joy

DANGER

Venusian Vista Voltage

Dr Grordbort's Industries

Brian Peers at the wheel of arguably one of Yorkshires finest working classics. Seen eastbound on the A1079 heading back to load at Rowlawn.

Focus on the most interesting

or, look at a glance to the entire portfolio !

This is part of the core of the Heart Nebula (IC 1805). It is a region of superheated ionized Hydrogen with some of the dark sections coming from dense lanes of dust. This emission nebula is too large in the sky to fit in one frame of my telescope/camera combo. IC 1805 is about 7500 lightyears away and it shows up near Cassiopeia in our night sky.

I was shooting at this target across the beginning of 4 separate nights, but had varying degrees of success. The end result comes largely from 2 of those nights, and the final image basically was composed of about an hour of data from Hydrogen-alpha, about 90 minutes from Oxygen-iii, and around 30 minutes from Sulfur-ii.

For those that have asked, I recorded part of the process of how I make these images from a monochromatic camera. I didn't realize that the screen-capture program I was using didn't record any of the menus that I was clicking through, so... sorry about that. Because of that, I might recommend that you skip to around 8:40 in the video if you want to see some behind-the-scenes work. Anyway, here's the video: youtu.be/NvcZ3g5-7Pc

Also... I'm working on starting a page for my astrophotography. I intend for it to be a place where I'll just put my telescope stuff. I'll still share Atlas photos and macro shots and other photography here, but I figured I'd have a page that I would dedicate to just keeping track of my work in one location. I'll be backfilling it with previous work in the coming days. You can find that page on facebook ( @JeffLightyearAstro ) or as @JeffLightyear on instagram . I'm thinking of doing some more in-progress or behind-the-scenes type stuff on there, as well... while still keeping my personal page pretty much the same.

The Statue of Liberty rests on the horizon as a ferry prepares to dock at Battery Park, Manhattan Island, New York City, U.S.A.

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Bodensee Peer

At the top of the ridge, we could peer over the edge and see the clouds and fog blowing through the trees.

Large on Black

Rose im Volksgarten in Wien. Züchtung aus dem Jahr 1968.

On a nice Thursday afternoon, a beltline job heads west through their line seen here heading over the old wooden bridge. No beltline unit unfortunately, 5260 was running around before this train and 5261 hasn’t been seen in a while. But I’m perfectly content with 5113 being the star of this picture.

NR62 and 8025 pass through Yanderra with 5NY3 Steel Train to Whyalla. The 80 class will be detached at Broken Hill for shunting duties.

2020-07-09 Pacific National NR62-8025 Yanderra 5NY3

What looks like a teleporter from science fiction being draped over NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, is actually a "clean tent." The clean tent protects Webb from dust and dirt when engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland transport the next generation space telescope out of the relatively dust-free cleanroom and into the shirtsleeve environment of the vibration and acoustics testing areas. In two years, a rocket will be the transporter that carries the Webb into space so it can orbit one million miles from Earth and peer back over 13.5 billion years to see the first stars and galaxies forming out of the darkness of the early universe.

For more information about the Webb telescope, visit: www.jwst.nasa.gov or www.nasa.gov/webb.

Photo Credit: NASA/Goddard/Chris Gunn

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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.

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