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This is perhaps my favorite astro photo to date. There is some much happening here, with really interesting details throughout most of the frame. Not to overpower this very bright object, I used 30 second frames, ultimately stacking 200 of them! I took darks just to be safe, but the raw light frames were reltatively free of noise.
This is a view of the core of the Orion Nebula, or M42. It's a massive star-forming region some 1,344 light years away. Within it, lies newer stars around which the Hubble Space Telescope has spotted the formation of new planets. these are all being formed as gas and dust within the nebula collapses.
There are three different kinds of shocks in the Orion Nebula. Many are featured in Herbig–Haro objects:
- Bow shocks are stationary and are formed when two particle streams collide with each other. They are present near the hottest stars in the nebula where the stellar wind speed is estimated to be thousands of kilometers per second and in the outer parts of the nebula where the speeds are tens of kilometers per second. Bow shocks can also form at the front end of stellar jets when the jet hits interstellar particles.
- Jet-driven shocks are formed from jets of material sprouting off newborn T Tauri stars. These narrow streams are traveling at hundreds of kilometers per second, and become shocks when they encounter relatively stationary gases.
- Warped shocks appear bow-like to an observer. They are produced when a jet-driven shock encounters gas moving in a cross-current.
The interaction of the stellar wind with the surrounding cloud also forms "waves" which are believed to be due to the hydrodynamical Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. (!)
Image Details:
- Imaging Scope: Celestron C8 SCT
- Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI183MC Color with ZWO IR cut filter
- Guider: Celestron Starsense Autoguider
- Mount: Celestron CGEM
- Acquisition Software: Sharpcap
- Guiding Software: Celestron
- Light Frames: 200*30 seconds @ 0 Gain, Temp -20C
- Dark Frames: 200*30 seconds
- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
- Processed in PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom, and Topaz Denoise A
Perhaps the most suprising thing i've seen during my last trip in North Korea in may 2010, is this: some sturgeons in a huge restaurant in central Pyongyang. My guides told me that Kim Jong il had decided to offer caviar to the people! After a pizzeria, a fast food, north koreans can now discover the taste of caviar.
It sounds like a joke, but i saw with my own eyes this restaurant!
Kim Jong Il avait decidé l'an dernier l'ouverture d'une pizzeria pour faire decouvrir les cuisines du monde aux nord coreens. Depuis il y a aussi un fast food, et recemment, un restaurant de Pyongyang propose du caviar. A l'entrée un aquarium geant present des esturgeons. Ca pourrait passer pour une blague de mauvais gout, et pourtant je l'ai vu de mes yeux vu!
© Eric Lafforgue
This Image, and the next nine color images in this series were taken during a recent trip to the infamous French Quarter of New Orleans. Pictured here is the now World Famous Doreen Ketchens, a local lady who self taught her Clarinet and singing skills, honed her performances On The Streets, and, despite her acclaim, still returns to the Streets to perform for her admiring hometown fans and tourists from all over the world.
From Doreen's outstanding performances on the streets, to those struggling to earn a few dollars for a nightly dinner, the French Quarter Streets are always filled with characters who will entertain, enthrall, entice, or perhaps, even enrage. New Orleans, often referred to as NOLA, is truly a unique American City filled with a diversity of sights, sounds and fascinating people.
Questa è l'acqua, David Foster Wallace
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"Dieci stelline al discorso ai laureati del Kenyon College...
...che secondo me tutti dovrebbero leggere, almeno una volta nella vita. E non esagero se dico che si dovrebbe magari tenerlo a portata di mano, e rileggerlo, ogni tanto, per ricordarsi di tentare (almeno tentare) di avere quello "sguardo profondo" sulla realtà che permette di non dare tutto per scontato, di mettersi nei panni degli altri per vedere le cose sotto una prospettiva differente e di far fare un passo indietro al proprio egocentrismo." Recensione al libro che sottoscrivo. Mi sono piaciuti i racconti, ma è il discorso ai laureati che merita l'acquisto del libro. Buona lettura!
"Ten stars for the speech to the graduates of Kenyon College...
...which in my opinion everyone should read, at least once in their life. And I am not exaggerating if I say that you should perhaps keep it at hand, and reread it every now and then, to remember to try (at least try) to have that "deep look" on reality that allows you not to take everything for granted, to put yourself in shoes of others to see things from a different perspective and to take a step back from one's own egocentrism." Review of the book that I subscribe to. I liked the stories, but it is the speech to the graduates that deserves the purchase of the book. Good reading!
A valiant attempt! I liked this pose even though it wasn’t the one I hoped to get. After this she decided to rush in to the bag & straight out again - so fast that my photo only showed blurred fur. Bella needs to practise her technique for playing with bags & I need to practise taking action shots! Happy Caturday.
Perhaps the last non-Red Arrow artic route, if contract terms are to be followed? The 453 only recently passed from Selkent to London General, retaining Citaros (albeit new models with a slightly revised frontal treatment) like MAL 115 (BP57 UYG) approaching Piccadilly Circus.
Perhaps one of my better photos of this medieval church, located just a short walk from where I live.
Perhaps this old chestnut has been seen one too many times in the previous posting on my old account.
Minolta XD7 with Rokkor-X 55mm f/1.7 on Portra 400@400
April 14, 2013
Perhaps this eagle is around three years old, spotted at Coralville Lake, Iowa. There were over 20 eagles there in early morning. Before sunset, the number dropped to around 10.
Perhaps, this was one of my most enjoyable puzzles to fit together.
Macro Mondays
Puzzle
November 9, 2020 (UTC)
American Covered Bridges - 1000 Piece Puzzle (USA) by White Mountain Puzzles
Perhaps the 15th October 1992 was a mainly cloudy day, and the typical happens when you are wrong side for the sun !
58024 departs Bolsover with empty HEA's.
Bolsover colliery is the back drop, with lines into the Coalite plant going off to the right.
Northamptonshire, where we live, is perhaps one of the least known counties in England despite the fact that the M1 and the A14 pass through it. It is a rural county with rich farmland and the remains of two large medieval forests. There are only half a dozen large towns, of which the largest is Northampton itself, several miles to the south of here.
Formerly known as a shoe and leather producer, and for its iron and steel industry based mainly at Corby, Northamptonshire is now mainly a light industrial and storage and distribution centre with vast warehouses either lining or close to the main through routes. It has also been required to build vast new housing developments to help reduce the housing problem in the south-east of England.
Perhaps the problem with some who strongly believe in an afterlife, is that they think their mission in THIS one is to control and dictate the lives of others and trying to pass (moral-based only) laws to dictate what other individuals can or can't do, what's right and wrong, who's saintly and who an abomination.
You know what I say to them? Time is ticking, and there's no 100% guarantee that when you die you'll wake up in ANY paradise. So if you waste the only life you have too concerned about who loves or marry whom, what women do with their bodies, and so on, you may find out when the time comes to the bitter end that you didn't live at all... The door is open. Will you go through it?
Subway station,
New York City
November 2012
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Thirteenth in the series ‘Wild Bonsai’, this tree is forty-eight inches (1.2m) in height and perhaps 1000 years old.
'Wild Bonsai' is a numbered collection of photos of naturally occurring bristlecones (p. longaeva) generally less than five feet in height (158cm) and - as nearly as I can estimate - between fifty and five-hundred years old - some much older. Most will have sprouted and survived in tiny cracks and crevases or miniature basins of sand and gravel. Shaped by the elements, flourishing tenaciously in the most minimalist of conditions, their lives are measured not in the millennia of more robust bristlecones, but in centuries...often mere decades.
'Duality', the cover photo for this album, is to me a matriarch of sorts and will remain unnumbered as a small token of a deeply intuitive and unapologetic respect that remains as transcendent and mysterious to me as it may seem odd to others. The essay that accompanies 'Duality' could, in many ways, apply as well to any other tree I may post in this series.
A perspective: Housed in the Tokyo Imperial Palace, the fifth oldest living cultivated bonsai in the world is something over 500 years old and is a designated National Treasure of Japan.
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Perhaps the young wildlife of Africa think this with some joy, but I bet it is usually with great fear. Trust me this young zebra was surrounded by its mother and many others as they searched for water and and a place to graze in Nairobi National Park.
I love how their main is brown in some places and their tails are so pretty too. It is often somewhat of a feat to isolate them in a picture because of how close they stay to the adults.
Perhaps the most famous geyser in the world, Old Faithful at Yellowstone National Park erupts more or less faithfully every 45 to 125 minutes. The average height of the geyser is 145 feet during eruption. It even has its own webcam, but seeing it in person is well worth the trip to the park!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Faithful
Others from this trip are in the Album www.flickr.com/photos/thadz/albums/72157660032324601
Perhaps I am a purist but it always baffles me when I see the delicate beauty of natural species and compare them to the often awful monstrosities cultivated by those who seem to think they can outdo nature.
Begonia sutherlandii at Buffelskloof Nature Reserve, Mpumalanga.
Taken on a dark, rainy morning, this 100 metre long natural chasm in the Staffordshire Peak District is known as Lud's Church. Formed eons ago by a landslip, it is believed to have been used for pagan worship as only on midsummer's day does sunlight penetrate it's very lowest depths. More certainty is given to the story that the Lollards worshipped here secretly during the early 15th century, when they were being persecuted for their religious beliefs by the Catholic Church. Indeed, Lud's Church may have got it's name from Walter de Lud-Auk who was captured here by Royalist soldiers during one of the meetings.
Perhaps this is not only a new but lasting thing,people occasionally in my photos. Usually I have had no desire for that,I didn't mind it from the photos at our local fall fair though. We'll see
Western pygmy blue (Brephidium exilis)
A wingspan of 12-20 mm makes this the smallest butterfly in North America and one of the very smallest in the world. Shown here on one of its hostplants (atriplex semibaccata) at the Don Edwards NWR at Alviso California.
I have a sharper image of a butterfly of this species at www.flickr.com/photos/25673579@N04/28730652937/in/datepos... but yesterday I could not find one in ideal light, and the only one I found more than 8" [20 cm] off the ground flew off when I approached.
* Unattributed quotation found at www.pinterest.com/pin/451134087649939090/
These days, everybody needs something to hold on to...
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Coimbra, Portugal
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Location: Coimbra (Portugal) - 2008, June the 1st
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Perhaps one of the most iconic photos from the Devils Marbles - the stark white trunk of the Eucalyptus contrasts with the deep red of the rock
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJIltu0Cue8&list=PLRv06bGnz60... - Chocolat
Scream all you wish. Hold your breath until you turn blue. Clench your fists and stomp your feet. Lay on your back and kick your legs. Cover your head with a pillow and yell "enough already with the snow!"
Mother Nature will decide when Spring hath Sprung. And, how it will look. Not you. Not me. Not us collectively pleading. You cannot bargain with or demand of Nature. She has no calendar. No need for one. And, yours is meaningless.
Did you not know that, dear Humans?
"The insufferable arrogance of human beings is to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit." - Cyrano de Bergerac
A few days ago it was 61 degrees at 7am with delicious southerly breezes. Today it is 32 and snowing; a beautiful, light, graceful and fluffy snow that lays gently upon all that it falls. Don't see the beauty in that? In a postcard, painterly snow. Your loss.
“Spring is when you feel like whistling, even with a shoe full of slush.” - Doug Larson
For most of us, today's snow will be gone by tomorrow, and the Daffodils and Forsythia will recover, stand up straight and flirt with us again with their luscious bumblebee and lemon yellow colors. Or not. Did you miss it? Did you blink? Did you pass by nature's subtle spring awakening these past few days without notice?
Did you have better things to do?
"When Spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest." - Ernest Hemingway
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I visited the goats after tending to the chickens at Wright-Locke Farm today. Will was enjoying a snack before bedtime.
There are a few things going on this image which may not be immediately apparent to the viewer, but having been so intimately involved in the process of creating this photograph, I have some insight on to share. If you are a regular follower of my feed, you'll likely know I do a lot of long exposure work. As in, super long. Typically I work with at least a 9 stop ND filter but often combine it with a second or go to a standalone 15 stop ND. Over the years, and thousands of photos, I have learned that film responds in some unusual ways when such strong ND filters get combined. Color film is not terribly IR sensitive, so the fact that my filters don't have IR-blocking coatings on them seems less like the issue. My working theory is that these filters pass more UV light than visible light and color film does have sensitivity that dips into the UV end of the spectrum. So in a sense I am getting some degree of UV over-exposure. The non-technical way of describing this is that my super long exposure color photography can get some funky colors to it. At first I worked to correct this back to "normal", with "normal" of course merely being the subjective benchmark I applied based on how my eyes and brain saw the world. Over time though I became less interested in normal. Part of that is because I don't need the photos to show me normal. I can see that with my own eyes. Rather, I enjoy seeing the alternative perspectives. What does the world look like if one can see a bit farther into UV, for example. The second thing going on is I am using a new color film put out by Silberra. I have not shot much of this film, so its behaviors and qualities is still unexplored ground for me. And I do like my unexplored ground. And lastly, I am always a bit fascinated at our own brain's ability to adapt to changing color temperatures and filter them back to what we call normal. This image was made late into sunset, and while the clouds were getting painted with some nice light, the beach itself had descended into a deep blue dusk. I couldn't see this blue of course because of the aforementioned workings of my brain. In fact, the beach looked more like it does in this photo, with a neutral sandy color, but reference photos made on my phone with the white balance set to daylight showed me the blue.
That is the backdrop for this photo. Once scanned I started doing some light processing to it, mostly cleaning up dust marks or the occasional film scratch. I balanced the exposure across the scene a bit but largely didn't touch the color too much other than some global corrections. And this image is the result. The colors that came out are a bit surreal. It is a subtle surrealism for sure, no crazy juxtapositions going on here, but one I enjoy.
Hasselblad 500C
Silberra Color 50
Perhaps one of those rather controversial tombs to be placed in a church in England is the tomb of Sir Lawrence and Lady Tanfield.
It is claimed that Lady Tanfield entered the church at night and had her husband entombed without gaining permission or approval from church authorities.
Her tomb is beside her husband.
Lord and Lady Tanfield were 17th century aristocrats who were greatly despised and hated by the residents of Burford.
According to local legend their ghosts were said to have ridden a fiery coach over the rooftops of the town before they were finally laid to rest beneath the Burford Bridge.
The parish and benefice of Burford is within the Diocese of Oxford.
St John the Baptist Church.
Burford, Oxfordshire.
England.