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I was stuck in the booth for all of Preview Night, so my photos of costumed folks were limited to whoever walked by.
The 'Mercy' station from Grace service 'Planetary Mess'. We intended to do it all with pumpkins but found that they were all removed from the shops the day after Halloween! (As if no-one did anything else with a pumpkin other than carve it.) So we had to use watermelons instead, which is slightly weird symbolically. The prayer became about water in a warming world. Someone did get a pair of pumpkins as well.
Scope was out of focus for this shot. I think I can do much better with current gear.
I'd like to get one of those super-detailed pics of the ring with long exposures. Might take a barlow in front of the camera to get to that level of detail though.
I like this lovely planetary nebula. It locates near the north celestial pole, and autoguiding did not work precisely.
Here is a frame taken without filter December 2013:
www.flickr.com/photos/hiroc/11990084845
equipment: AstroPhysics 130GTX "Granturismo," Field Flattener at f/6.7 focal length 873mm, 22.1mm Spacer, EOS Adapter, Kipon EOS-EOS R adapter, Optolong L-ultimate Dual 3nm Filter, and Canon EOS R-SP4II, modified by Seo-san on SkyWatcher CQ350 Pro Equatorial Mount without autoguiding
exposure: 15 times x 600 seconds, 6 x 240 sec, and 7 x 60 seconds at ISO 6,400 and f/6.8
site: 1,449m above sea level at lat. 35 24 30 North and long. 138 38 23 East near Mt.Fuji in Asagiri Shizuoka 静岡県朝霧高原. SQML was up to 20.93 after moonset at the night, though moon was in the sky during the session. Atmospheric turbulence was poor, and guiding error RMS was around 1,5". Wind was mild. Ambient temperature was around -1 degree Celsius or 30 degrees Fahrenheit.
Hubble Space Telescope has peered deep into Uranus' atmosphere to see
clear and hazy layers created by a mixture of gases. Using infrared
filters, Hubble captured detailed features of three layers of Uranus'
atmosphere.
Hubble's images are different from the ones taken by the Voyager 2
spacecraft, which flew by Uranus 10 years ago. Those images - not
taken in infrared light - showed a greenish-blue disk with very little
detail.
The infrared image allows astronomers to probe the structure of
Uranus' atmosphere, which consists of mostly hydrogen with traces of
methane. The red around the planet's edge represents a very thin haze
at a high altitude. The haze is so thin that it can only be seen by
looking at the edges of the disk, and is similar to looking at the
edge of a soap bubble. The yellow near the bottom of Uranus is another
hazy layer. The deepest layer, the blue near the top of Uranus, shows
a clearer atmosphere.
Image processing has been used to brighten the rings around Uranus so
that astronomers can study their structure. In reality, the rings are
as dark as black lava or charcoal.
This false color picture was assembled from several exposures taken
July 3, 1995 by the Wide Field Planetary Camera-2.
credit: Erich Karkoschka (University of Arizona Lunar & Planetary Lab) and NASA
A new session of Pangaea geology field training moved to Lofoten, Norway, to scout for new traverses for the Pangaea analogue complement.
The team, consisting of planetary geologists and training experts, is preparing space farers for lunar exploration.
Lofoten shares many geological features with lunar highlands, such as the Apollo 16 landing site, making it a perfect site to train astronauts on lunar geology.
Pangaea instructors Matteo Massironi , Riccardo Pozzobon, and Fransceco Sauro, as well as petrology professor and local expert Kåre Kullerud are guiding ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer through interesting geological sites in the Nusfjord, an area containing primitive crust rock formations, including anorthosites, which are known to be typical lunar highland rocks.
The Pangaea course is designed to provide European astronauts with introductory and practical knowledge of Earth and planetary geology to prepare them to become effective partners of planetary scientists and engineers in designing the next exploration missions.
The course also aims to give astronauts a solid knowledge in the geology of the Solar System from leading European scientists.
Credits: ESA–S. Sechi
Same session as Mars image.
Camera=ZWO ASI224MC
Filter=L
Profile=Jupiter
Diameter=41.70"
Magnitude=-2.50
CMI=254.6° CMII=354.3° CMIII=305.6° (during mid of capture)
FocalLength=2300mm
Resolution=0.34"
Filename=2022-12-13-1823_6-L.ser
Duration=60.010s
ROI=512x484
ROI(Offset)=584x280
Shutter=1.361ms
Gain=346 (57%)
AutoExposure=off
AutoGain=off
Brightness=1
HardwareBin=off
HighSpeed=off
USBTraffic=100
WBlue=85
WRed=55
Histogramm(min)=0
Histogramm(max)=199
Histogramm=78%
Noise(avg.deviation)=n/a
eADU=0.059
Limit=1 Minutes
Sensor temperature=10.0°C
Focuser position=0
A prototype rover is commanded to drive in Cueva de Los Verdes lava tube in Spain’s Canary Island of Lanzarote, also known as the island of a thousand volcanoes.
This rover is taking part in a test campaign that brings together geology, high-tech survey equipment and space exploration. For five days to 24 November 2017, Pangaea-X is mobilising 50 people, four space agencies and 18 organisations in five different locations.
DFKI's Asguard rover simulates a lunar spacewalk on rough surfaces. The robot navigates by continuously building a 3D model of the environment. Humans can drive it manually, but this robotic explorer runs mostly in auto mode.
European engineers hope to improve their autonomy and precision by tackling volcanoes, caves and underground highways formed by lava.
This type of settings are potential candidates to host human habitats in future missions to the Moon and Mars.
Copyright: ESA–R. Shone
PEPP = Planetary Entry Parachute Program
"Construction of flight test unit from which parachutes will be deployed in a series of experiments to check out new techniques for landing unmanned capsules on Mars. A metal skin is being placed over the disc-shaped frame with a central tube which will house the packaged parachute. The unit will be carried to an altitude of about 140,000 miles by a huge balloon. It will then be released and when free from the balloon the unit will be propelled to a downward velocity of about 10,000 miles per hour by eight small rocket engines. This velocity will closely simulate the speed of a capsule entering the Martian atmosphere. When the unit has been propelled downward to 130,000 feet the parachute carrying a small instrument package will be deployed. The disc-shaped carrier will fall freely to the ground, and the parachute and laboratory instrument package will be recovered for inspection and laboratory analysis. The tests are scheduled to begin mid-1966 at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. In some tests Nike sounding rockets will be used to launch the smaller flight units."
- original NASA caption
One of the builds I made for my MOC Olympics R2 entry that can be found Here. Just the one I thought looked cool on its own.
Ciao
A mosaic of four images taken through the clear filter (610
nanometers) of the solid state imaging (CCD) system aboard NASA's
Galileo spacecraft on November 8, 1996, at a resolution of
approximately 46 kilometers (km) per picture element (pixel) along the
rings; however, because the spacecraft was only about 0.5 degrees
above the ring plane, the image is highly foreshortened in the
vertical direction. The images were obtained when Galileo was in
Jupiter's shadow peering back toward the Sun; the ring was
approximately 2,300,000 kilometers (km) away. The arc on the far right
of the image is produced by sunlight scattered by small particles
comprising Jupiter's upper atmospheric haze. The ring also efficiently
scatters light, indicating that much of its brightness is due to
particles that are microns or less in diameter. Such small particles
are believed to have human-scale lifetimes, i.e., very brief compared
to the solar system's age.
Jupiter's ring system is composed of three parts -- a flat main ring,
a lenticular halo interior to the main ring, and the gossamer ring, which
lies exterior to the main ring. The near and far arms of Jupiter's main
ring extend horizontally across the mosaic, joining together at the
ring's ansa, on the far left side of the figure. The near arm of the
ring appears to be abruptly truncated close to the planet, at the point
where it passes into Jupiter's shadow.
A faint mist of particles can be seen above and below the main rings;
this vertically extended, toroidal "halo" is unusual in planetary
rings, and is probably caused by electromagnetic forces which can push
small grains out of the ring plane. Halo material is present across
this entire image, implying that it reaches more than 27,000 km above
the ring plane. Because of shadowing, the halo is not visible close to
Jupiter in the lower right part of the mosaic. In order to accentuate
faint features in the image, different brightnesses are shown through
color, with the brightest being white or yellow and the faintest
purple.
credit: NASA/JPL
This psychedelic view of Saturn and its rings is a composite made from
images taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera using spectral
filters sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light centered at 728, 752
and 890 nanometers.
Cassini acquired the view on Dec. 13, 2006 at a distance of approximately
822,000 kilometers (511,000 miles) from Saturn. Image scale is 46
kilometers (28 miles) per pixel.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European
Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages
the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The
Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and
assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space
Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit
saturn.jpl.nasa.gov. The Cassini imaging team
homepage is at ciclops.org.
credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Image by Anton Louw
Took this image on Friday evening 5 August from Mabula. My first attempt to capture this object (M27) The results are kinda OK. But I would like to image it again with a 6.3 reducer and perhaps double the time. Was done through my 6” SCT on AVX. Guided through a ORION 50mm finder and QHY5IIL-C with PHD2
EOS 100d 15 x 120 sec ISO 800
15 x darks
15 x dark flats
15 x whites
Stacked in DSS and slight levels and curves in Photoshop.
A new session of Pangaea geology field training moved to Lofoten, Norway, to scout for new traverses for the Pangaea analogue complement.
The team, consisting of planetary geologists and training experts, is preparing space farers for lunar exploration.
Lofoten shares many geological features with lunar highlands, such as the Apollo 16 landing site, making it a perfect site to train astronauts on lunar geology.
Pangaea instructors Matteo Massironi , Riccardo Pozzobon, and Fransceco Sauro, as well as petrology professor and local expert Kåre Kullerud are guiding ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer through interesting geological sites in the Nusfjord, an area containing primitive crust rock formations, including anorthosites, which are known to be typical lunar highland rocks.
The Pangaea course is designed to provide European astronauts with introductory and practical knowledge of Earth and planetary geology to prepare them to become effective partners of planetary scientists and engineers in designing the next exploration missions.
The course also aims to give astronauts a solid knowledge in the geology of the Solar System from leading European scientists.
Credits: ESA–S. Sechi
Saturn's softly glowing rings shine in scattered sunlight.
The B ring presents a remarkable difference in brightness between the near
and far arms (bottom and top of the image, respectively). The strong
variation in brightness could be due to the presence of wake-like features
in the B ring.
See PIA08389 for a labeled Cassini map of the rings.
This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 5
degrees above the ringplane. Images taken using red, green and blue
spectral filters were combined to create this natural color view. The
images were acquired at a distance of approximately 574,000 kilometers
(357,000 miles) from Saturn. At the center of the image, the
Sun-ring-spacecraft, or phase, angle is 114 degrees, and the image scale
is 34 kilometers (21 miles) per pixel in the radial, or outward from
Saturn, direction.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European
Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages
the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The
Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and
assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space
Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit
The Cassini imaging team homepage is at ciclops.org.
credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Planetary Nebula
Exposure Details
Lens Celestron Nexstar 6SE
Focal Length 1500mm
Focal Ratio f/10
Mount Alt Az fitted with wedge
Camera Nikon D5300 (unmodified)
Exposure ISO1600, 44x30sec, 6x45sec
(total exposure 26.5min)
Calibration 40 darks, 40 flats, 40 bias
Date 4th June 2021
Location Southampton, UK
Sky Bortle 5
Annotated ImageExaggerated Color Contrast
With giant Saturn hanging in the blackness and sheltering Cassini from the
sun's blinding glare, the spacecraft viewed the rings as never before,
revealing previously unknown faint rings and even glimpsing its home
world.
This marvelous panoramic view was created by combining a total of 165
images taken by the Cassini wide-angle camera over nearly three hours on
Sept. 15, 2006. The full mosaic consists of three rows of nine wide-angle
camera footprints; only a portion of the full mosaic is shown here. Color
in the view was created by digitally compositing ultraviolet, infrared and
clear filter images and was then adjusted to resemble natural color.
The mosaic images were acquired as the spacecraft drifted in the darkness
of Saturn's shadow for about 12 hours, allowing a multitude of unique
observations of the microscopic particles that compose Saturn's faint
rings.
Ring structures containing these tiny particles brighten substantially at
high phase angles: i.e., viewing angles where the sun is almost directly
behind the objects being imaged.
During this period of observation Cassini detected two new faint rings:
one coincident with the shared orbit of the moons Janus and Epimetheus,
and another coincident with Pallene's orbit. (See PIA08322 and
PIA08328 for more on the two new rings.)
The narrowly confined G ring is easily seen here, outside the bright main
rings. Encircling the entire system is the much more extended E ring. The
icy plumes of Enceladus, whose eruptions supply the E ring particles,
betray the moon's position in the E ring's left-side edge.
Interior to the G ring and above the brighter main rings is the pale dot
of Earth. Cassini views its point of origin from over a billion kilometers
(and close to a billion miles) away in the icy depths of the outer solar
system. See PIA08324 for a similar view of Earth taken during this observation.
Small grains are pushed about by sunlight and electromagnetic forces.
Hence, their distribution tells much about the local space environment.
A second version of the mosaic view is presented here in which the
color contrast is greatly exaggerated. In such views, imaging scientists
have noticed color variations across the diffuse rings that imply active
processes sort the particles in the ring according to their sizes.
Looking at the E ring in this color-exaggerated view, the distribution of
color across and along the ring appears to be different between the right
side and the left. Scientists are not sure yet how to explain these
differences, though the difference in phase angle between right and left
may be part of the explanation. The phase angle is about 179 degrees on
Saturn.
The main rings are overexposed in a few places.
This view looks toward the unlit side of the rings from about 15 degrees
above the ringplane.
Cassini was approximately 2.2 million kilometers (1.3 million miles) from
Saturn when the images in this mosaic were taken. Image scale on Saturn is
about 260 kilometers (162 miles) per pixel.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European
Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages
the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The
Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and
assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space
Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit
saturn.jpl.nasa.gov. The Cassini imaging team
homepage is at ciclops.org.
credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
When searching for suitable planets to settle on, the Planetary Research Vessel is an essential tool for any budding civilisation. Packed with tech to sense everything from mineral content to atmospheric conditions to local lifeforms, this ship is your best friend when you`re looking for somewhere to build a new outpost. And the long-range combined radio and laser communication array means all that information can be beamed back to home base on the other side of the system.
There`s plenty of space for tools to do ground work, too, including scanners, welding guns for repairs and, of course, a fishing rod when it`s time to kick back and relax.
The Planetary Research Vessel: don`t go colonising without one!
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Hello again Flickr! It is a sad occasion that`s inspired this build; for those who don`t know, Jens Nygaard Knudsen, the man who designed the iconic minifigure released in 1978 (along with a large chunk of Classic Space, among other things), passed away earlier this week. So this build is a tribute to him and his imagination.
Sadly I don`t have much in the way of transparent yellow parts, so I thought I`d build in the style of later Classic Space sets which shared their colour scheme with Futuron.
And yes, that is a hotdog I used for the Classic Space logo.
Thank you, Jens, for the inspiration and the countless hours of joy I`ve gained from your little yellow people and their spaceships. There`s another star in the sky for them to aim for.
#NygaardMemorialFleet
09 Sept 2023
Meade 8in SCT @ f/6
veTEC571C camera + L-PROfilter
EQ6-R unguided - 70x90sec
Tielt, Belgium
A color portrait of Saturn's sunlight-scattering rings hosts a group of
several moons.
Enceladus (505 kilometers, or 314 miles across) is visible at top. At
bottom, in increasing distance from the rings are Pandora (84 kilometers,
or 52 miles across), Janus (181 kilometers, or 113 miles across) and Mimas
(397 kilometers, or 247 miles across).
This view looks toward the unilluminated side of the rings from about 10
degrees above the ringplane. Saturn's shadow can be seen on the rings at
upper left.
Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to
create this composite color view.
The images were taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on
Dec. 22, 2007. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 1.8
million kilometers (1.1 million miles) from Saturn. Image scale is about
110 kilometers (68 miles) per pixel.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European
Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages
the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The
Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and
assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space
Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit
The Cassini imaging team homepage is at ciclops.org .
NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
My optical train for planetary imaging :
Camera > filter wheel > Powermate directly fitted to the filter wheel to respect the back focus
Only one day this week without clouds. Pretty satisfied with this shot but disappointed I didn't make it out about 15 minutes earlier as Mars is already disappearing in the morning twilight.
Saturn's brightly sunlit moon Rhea commands the foreground in this image
from Cassini. The planet's splendid rings are discernible in the
background. Rhea is 1,528 kilometers (949 miles) across.
The spacecraft was just above the ringplane when it acquired this image,
and thus captured the darkened appearance of the dense B ring when viewed
with sunlight filtered through the rings. From this perspective, bright
areas in the rings are regions of low density, containing very small
particles that effectively scatter light toward Cassini.
North on Rhea is up and rotated about 25 degrees to the left. This view
shows principally the anti-Saturn hemisphere on Rhea. The right side of
Rhea is overexposed.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft
narrow-angle camera on Feb. 18, 2005, at a distance of approximately
540,000 kilometers (340,000 miles) from Rhea and at a Sun-Rhea-spacecraft,
or phase, angle of 110 degrees. The image scale is 3 kilometers (2 miles)
per pixel.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European
Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages
the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The
Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and
assembled at JPL. The imaging team is based at the Space Science
Institute, Boulder, Colo.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit saturn.jpl.nasa.gov.
For additional images visit the Cassini imaging team homepage ciclops.org.
credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
A new session of Pangaea geology field training moved to Lofoten, Norway, to scout for new traverses for the Pangaea analogue complement.
The team, consisting of planetary geologists and training experts, is preparing space farers for lunar exploration.
Lofoten shares many geological features with lunar highlands, such as the Apollo 16 landing site, making it a perfect site to train astronauts on lunar geology.
Pangaea instructors Matteo Massironi , Riccardo Pozzobon, and Fransceco Sauro, as well as petrology professor and local expert Kåre Kullerud are guiding ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer through interesting geological sites in the Nusfjord, an area containing primitive crust rock formations, including anorthosites, which are known to be typical lunar highland rocks.
The Pangaea course is designed to provide European astronauts with introductory and practical knowledge of Earth and planetary geology to prepare them to become effective partners of planetary scientists and engineers in designing the next exploration missions.
The course also aims to give astronauts a solid knowledge in the geology of the Solar System from leading European scientists.
Credits: ESA–S. Sechi
A new session of Pangaea geology field training moved to Lofoten, Norway, to scout for new traverses for the Pangaea analogue complement.
The team, consisting of planetary geologists and training experts, is preparing space farers for lunar exploration.
Lofoten shares many geological features with lunar highlands, such as the Apollo 16 landing site, making it a perfect site to train astronauts on lunar geology.
Pangaea instructors Matteo Massironi , Riccardo Pozzobon, and Fransceco Sauro, as well as petrology professor and local expert Kåre Kullerud are guiding ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer through interesting geological sites in the Nusfjord, an area containing primitive crust rock formations, including anorthosites, which are known to be typical lunar highland rocks.
The Pangaea course is designed to provide European astronauts with introductory and practical knowledge of Earth and planetary geology to prepare them to become effective partners of planetary scientists and engineers in designing the next exploration missions.
The course also aims to give astronauts a solid knowledge in the geology of the Solar System from leading European scientists.
Credits: ESA–S. Sechi