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Continuing the planetary theme with Toy-ronto Life and Little Planets series...
On a wonderful autumnal day we had a stroll around Queen's Park on our Toronto planet. The grand Ontario Legislative Building aka Queen's Park (built in 1893 in the Romanesque style) looked lovely surrounded by autumn golds. And that made me want to toy with the scene a bit and cast some globular & texture magic! :-)
Happy Miniature Sunday!
It's FebRovery again, my favourite themed building month.
So let's begin with a modification of set 10497 (or as I like to call it, the "UCS Galaxy Explorer") into a rover.
As far as names go, "Planetary Explorer" was the obvious and only choice. The rear cargo compartment contains a small skimmer-type vehicle to mirror the rover carried by the original
Equipment Details ;
OTA : Celestron C11 Edge HD
Mount : ES Losmandy G11
Imaging Camera : Zwo290mm
Filters : Astrodon RGB Gen II
Accessories : Powermate 2.5x , ZwO ADC
The Medusa Nebula is a planetary nebula in the constellation of Gemini. It is also known as Abell 21 and Sharpless 2-274. It was originally discovered in 1955 by University of California, Los Angeles astronomer George O. Abell, who classified it as an old planetary nebula.
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NGC 5189 is a planetary nebula located in the constellation Musca, about 1,780 light-years away from Earth. It is notable for its complex and striking structure, which resembles a barred spiral galaxy due to its distinct S-shaped pattern.
Some Key Features of NGC 5189:
Structure: Unlike typical planetary nebulae, which often appear as simple circular or elliptical shapes, NGC 5189 has a complex and irregular morphology. The nebula's most distinctive feature is its S-shaped appearance, formed by bright, twisted filaments of gas that stretch across its extent.
Formation: The nebula's unusual shape is likely a result of interactions between the fast winds from a dying star, the central stellar remnant (likely a white dwarf), and the previously ejected material. The intense radiation from the central star ionizes the expelled gases, causing them to glow and form intricate structures.
Central Star: The central star of NGC 5189 is a hot and dense remnant of a star that has exhausted its nuclear fuel and shed its outer layers. This stellar remnant emits intense ultraviolet radiation that ionizes the surrounding gas, contributing to the nebula's luminosity and vibrant colours.
Colors and Composition: The nebula's colours, ranging from blues and greens to reds, are due to different elements within the gas clouds being ionized. Oxygen often appears blue-green, hydrogen appears red, and nitrogen can create reddish hues, giving the nebula its distinct appearance.
Observations: NGC 5189 has been extensively studied using both ground-based telescopes and space observatories like the Hubble Space Telescope. The high-resolution images reveal its intricate, filamentary structures, providing insights into the late stages of stellar evolution and the dynamics of planetary nebulae.
Significance: NGC 5189 is an excellent example of how the end stages of stellar evolution can produce remarkably diverse and beautiful structures in space. It serves as a case study for understanding the physical processes that shape planetary nebulae and the fate of stars similar in mass to our Sun.
NGC 5189's unique shape and vivid colours make it one of the more visually striking planetary nebulae observed in our galaxy.
NGC 5189 has an angular size of 2.33 X 2.33 arc mins, presenting a little challenge with a 10-inch telescope. As an experiment, I tried drizzling the data and upscaling by 2 to see what the result would be. I captured Ha, luminance, red, green, and blue filtered light to create a coloured Ha-LRGB image.
I love the teal colours present in many Planetary Nebula. To my eye, the teal-coloured inner symmetric knots are stunning, the highlight of the image. The contrasting red S encasing the inner filaments is so cool. It looks like something from a sci-fi movie: an ancient structure containing a glowing cosmic beacon against a backdrop of stars.
Instruments:
Telescope: 10" Ritchey-Chrétien RCOS
Camera: SBIG STXL-11000 Mono
Mount: Astro-Physics AP-900
Focal Length: 2310.00 mm
Pixel size: 9.00 um
Resolution: 0.82 arcsec/pix
Exposures:
Lum 60 X 600
Red 24 X 380
Green 15 X 380 Binned 2
Blue 32 X 380 Binned 2
Ha 1200 X 56 Binned 2
Total Time: 36.15 Hours
Thanks for looking
...almost 50 planets have now been found inside this parallel planetary system, characterized by imperfect spherical celestial bodies.
Another Dimension - Font’s Point overlooking the Badlands of California's Anza Borrego desert. Spent sunset watching this spectacular view with friend and fellow photographer David Gregg. We then stayed on well into the night with several miles of dirt road back to civilization… but not before a good cigar while waiting for long exposure shutters to finish.
The comet was added in post just for dramatic effect.
Fairly significant atmospheric turbulance last night so couldnt pull much detail out of Mars images.
Mars is starting to get smaller again - just 19 arcseconds here.
Celestron C9.25 inch SCT scope with Baader VIP x2 Barlow.
ZWO EFW Filter wheel. Luminosity Filter.
ZWO ADC - +/- 1
ZWO ASI 224 MC colour camera.
Acquired with FireCapture.
The detail map is taken from the BAA Mars Mapper 2020/2021 here: secure18.prositehosting.co.uk/secure_ssl/BAA/mars.html#
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Filter=L
Profile=Mars
Diameter=18.99"
Magnitude=-1.95
CM=274.2° (during mid of capture)
FocalLength=4800mm
Resolution=0.16"
Filename=2020-11-06-2057_6-L-Mars.ser
Date=061120
Start(UT)=205716.762
Duration=43.093s
Frames captured=5000
File type=SER
ROI=352x344
FPS (avg.)=116
Shutter=8.613ms
Gain=228 (38%)
HighSpeed=on
Gamma=83
Histogram=23%
Limit=5000 Frames
Sensor temperature=14.8°C
Focuser position=25370
Lik Observatory:
Lick Observatory was the world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory.
The observatory, in a Classical Revival style structure, was constructed between 1876 and 1887, from a bequest from James Lick. In 1887 Lick's body was buried under the future site of the telescope, with a brass tablet bearing the inscription, "Here lies the body of James Lick".
Before construction could begin, a road to the site had to be built. All of the construction materials had to be brought to the site by horse and mule-drawn wagons, which could not negotiate a steep grade. To keep the grade below 6.5%, the road had to take a very winding and sinuous path, which the modern-day road (SR 130) still follows. Tradition maintains that this road has exactly 365 turns.
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I made a shot similar to this back around Christmas 2016. I wanted to try out a new lens - I sort of like this one much better than the previous! The warped bokeh really leads the eyes towards the light.🚀🌌
A planetary nebula found in the constellation of Camelopardalis (The Giraffe). Also known as the Oyster Nebula.
A little under 5,000 light years distant from Earth, it's another one of William Herschel's discoveries in 1787.
Boring techie bit:
Skywatcher quattro 8" S & f4 aplanatic coma corrector
HEQ5 pro mount guided with an Altair 50mm & GPcam setup
Canon 450D astro modded with Astronomik CLS CCD EOS APS-C clip filter. Neewer Intervalometer used to control the exposures.
The Dumbbell Nebula, M27, is a planetary nebula that lies some 1400 light years away in the constellation Vulpecula. It was the first planetary nebula discovered. Planetary nebulae consist of expanding ionized gas ejected from red giant stars. What's left is a very hot star, a white dwarf, and the UV radiation from the star ionizes the gas, providing the light we see.
Details:
Scope: TMB130SS
Camera: QSI690-wsg8
Guide Camera: Starlight Xpress Ultrastar
Mount: Mach1 GTO
Ha: 18x15min
OIII: 18x15min
Software: SGP, PHD2, APCC, Pixinsight
9 hrs total exposure
A downward view of ESA’s rock-strewn recreation of the Red Planet, designed to put prototype planetary rovers through their paces.
Officially part of the Planetary Robotics Laboratory at the Agency’s ESTEC technical centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, the nickname of this test site is the ‘Mars Yard’.
An 9 x 9 m square filled with sand and different types of gravel and rocks, it is used to assess rover locomotion and navigation as well as the traction of wheels and other mechanisms – then check how these elements work together in practice, with tests observed using precision cameras and sensors.
The Planetary Robotics Lab is part of a suite of more than 35 ESA laboratories focused on all aspects of space engineering, available to wider European Member States companies as well as ESA projects.
Credit: ESA-Remedia
Proposal IDs: 7501, 8773
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NASA/ESA/Hubble/Kevin M. Gill
I know, this kinda falls short of the usual stuff I post and it may be of interest to nobody but I love the chaos in these images and how my imagination is triggered by it. For me this looks like a catastrophic event around the orbit of a planet, the barely lit center of the circle. The circles themselves could be planetary rings with the brighter one being ignited by the doomsday event.
On the other hand, this photo's imagined story stands in stark contrast of it's real scale. This being only a small cut-off wheel of 22mm in diameter, running at 20.000 rpm, making contact with a steel part.
1x magnification - no flash - tripod - additional lens protection - vacuum
The Skull Nebula is located in the constellation Cetus. It is a planetary nebula discovered by William Herschel in 1785. From our vantage point, it has an angular resolution of 3.7 arcmin. The estimated diameter is about 2.3 light years, and is at a distance of 1,600 light years from our planet. The listed magnitude of the nebula is around 11th magnitude, so is has a fairly low surface brightness. Quite often, visual observers can find the foreground stars overpowering. The central star is fairly bright at 11.8 magnitude. The eastern limb of the nebula is brighter suggesting that it is interacting with the interstellar medium. I love how some objects in the cosmos have bow waves reflecting the dynamics of the interstellar medium.
I tried to capture the translucent shell of this planetary nebula. It reminds me of a crystal sphere containing something wonderful at its centre. The teal and red colours within add a nice depth to the image. The galaxy in the top left is NGC 255, a barred spiral galaxy, a distance of 59.16 million light years away, give or take 5 million for an estimate.
The image was captured between Sept-November 2017. I used 6 filters to create the image. Red, Green, Blue, Luminance, Ha, and OIII.
Object Co-ordinates:
Image centre: RA: 00 47 00.659 Dec: -11 50 16.19
Field of view: 53' 40.0" x 35' 46.7"
Resolution: 0.803 arcsec/px
Instruments:
10 Inch RCOS fl 9.1
Astro Physics AP-900 Mount
SBIG STL 11000m
FLI Filter Wheel
Astrodon Lum, Red, Green, Blue Filters
Baader Planetarium H-alpha 7nm Narrowband-Filter
Baader Planetarium O-III 8.5 Narrowband-Filter
Exposure Details:
62 X 900 Bin 1X1 Lum
25 X 450 Bin 2X2 Red
22 X 450 Bin 2X2 Green
20 X 450 Bin 2X2 Blue
5 X 900 Bin 1X1 Ha
10 X 900 Bin 1x1 OIII
Location
Australia, Central Victoria
Imaged from Aug-Oct 201
Tight Crop: www.flickr.com/photos/97807083@N00/38296831051/in/photost...
all credits (and a little story too) @ current outfit!
currentoutfit.wordpress.com/2015/01/27/intergalactic-plan...
The brilliant starry sky, the red sand and the ice structures piercing the foreground of this image combine to give the impression of a desert far from the reach of human footprints. A landscape that could easily be mistaken for the polar regions of our distant neighbour Mars.
The jagged tooth-like formations are not on the Red Planet however, but on the sloping hills of the Atacama Desert.
The formations are called penitentes — structures made of snow and ice that form mostly at high altitudes. The low pressure, moisture and temperature at these altitudes help to create this interesting and rare behaviour in the freezing of ice. The strange structures also have a tendency to orient themselves towards the Sun, which is why they are all perfectly aligned like a carefully tended garden of ice.
As if this beautiful quirk of nature wasn’t enough, above the structures lies an even more magnificent sight.
The large blue star just above the hill is Sirius — the brightest star in the sky. Following the horizon to the left from Sirius, the ancient red supergiant Betelgeuse can be seen, located in the constellation of Orion. The second brightest object after Sirius is Canopus and it is seen here as a brilliant blue point at the right hand side of the frame.
This strange and alien-looking image was taken by ESO Photo Ambassador Babak A. Tafreshi.
More information: www.eso.org/public/images/potw1522a/
Credit:
ESO/B. Tafreshi (twanight.org)
SH2-216 Giant Planetary Nebula in Perseo.
Febbraio 2020 - Febbraio 2022
Località : San Romualdo - Ravenna
Tecnosky AG70 F/5
ASA DDM60PRO con Autoslew e Sequence.
AVALON M1 - QHY174MM su Celestron OAG.
CCD QSI 583wsi raffreddato -20
Astrodon Narrowband 3nm
HA-OIII: HA 42x15min (R), OIII 17x15min (B), verde sintetico.
Acquisizione: MaximDL5 - Calibrata con Dark, Bias e Flat.
Elaborazione: Astroart8, Starnet2, Paint Shop Pro 2023 e plugin vari.
www.cfm2004.altervista.org/astrofotografia/nebulose/sh2-2...
Wildlife Photographer of the Year is an important platform from which to tell impactful stories about the planetary emergency. Through photography we have the power to move hearts and minds to create a community of advocates for nature. Our current initiatives, including our new WPY Horizons Series, celebrate contemporary photographers of nationalities currently underrepresented in the Competition, as well as girls, women and nonbinary photographers. We want to strengthen this legacy by nurturing the next generation of young photographers, inspiring and empowering them to tell their own stories about wildlife and conservation in their local areas.
This year we launched our new project Young Minds for a Compassionate World, a new collaboration between us and the Victoria Memorial Hall in India funded by the British Council as part of India/UK Together, A Season of Culture. Together, we delivered a weeklong workshop in Kolkata for 38 young people from 18 local schools and universities. The locally rooted photography, storytelling and conservation masterclasses provided opportunities for budding photographers to learn technical tips and industry knowledge from world-leading mentors, naturalists and WPY alumni, including Nayan Khanolkar, Ashwika Kapur, Shekar Dattatri, Dhritiman Mukherjee and Ripan Biswas.
The participants then put their skills to the test by producing exciting, new photographs that tell important stories about local nature. Their photographs will be displayed at an exhibition at the Victoria Memorial Hall from 16 November 2022. The project will then conclude with a series of online events, available on our YouTube channel, that explore the conversations taking place globally on the role of nature photography in finding solutions to the planetary emergency.
A large-scale defense cannon for the Star Vikings collaboration at BrickCon 2014.
There is internal gearing to lock the cannon's elevation-of-fire, controlled by rotating the rear lower-left cone heat sink unit. The landscape technique was inspired by Blake Foster's M:Tron Magnet Factory.
I also made a Star Vikings dropship. See the total collaboration in the Star Vikings group.
Abell 72 planetary nebula in Delphinus
Settembre 2019
Località : San Romualdo - Ravenna
Meade LX200 12" con Starizona riduttore/correttore di coma F/7.1
CCD QSI 540wsi raffreddato -20 - Autoguida con ETX105 e ASI120M
RGB Baader CCD e Bader Narrowband 8.5nm
OIII-RGB: OIII 50x6min, R 50x3min, G 51x3min, B 50x3min
Acquisizione: MaximDL5 - Calibrata con Dark, Bias e Flat.
Elaborazione: MaximDL5, Astroart6, StarTools4, AstraImage5, Paint Shop Pro2020, plugin Topaz e StarSpikePro3.
www.cfm2004.altervista.org/astrofotografia/nebulose/abell...
Skywatcher 190MN telescope, Ioptron CEM70 NUC mount, Altair Tri-Band filter, ASI2600MC Pro at -20C. 34 x 2 minute exposures (1 hour 8 minutes) at Gain 100, Offset 50, 50 dark frames, 50 flat fields and 50 dark flat frames.
Processed in Pixinsight, Topaz denoise, and Photoshop.
Collected between 20:16 and 21:37 on the 5th of November 2022.
BluShock Planetary Exploration is the new, official name given to BluShock Coalition's world designing and RP exploration operation, responsible for creating new, exotic and detailed worlds, for the BluShock franchise RP group.
Complex and incredibly detailed worlds at your fingertips.
Exclusive to BluShock.
Several new planet projects are currently in development, and we can't wait to share more in the coming months.
What started as a fun project with Vanargand, and Planet Idun, exploded into an ambitious project that gave us all this incredible idea. SL doesn't have enough exotic worlds and planets to explore, so we're changing this from here onwards.
Our next main world is Ingemar. An underwater planet, with crashed ships and wreckages above sea level, and deep underwater caves, with ancient aliens, as tall as skyscrapers, who once ruled the races of the galaxy.
Finally decided to finish up a version of my own for this beautiful planetary nebula. I did a LOT of cleaning up of the banding issues once again using the G'MIC noise debanding filter. I also decided to do something a little different with that central pool of soft but bright, hazy light. I used one of the filters to mostly remove it, revealing the central details more clearly. This leaves the overall image pretty heavy on the red and orange side of things, but I think it looks pretty cool like this.
This was, of course, part of the early release data after JWST was first launched. You can see the official version and learn a lot more about this planetary nebula over yonder: webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2022/033/01G70BGT...
Once upon a time, Hubble looked upon this nebula, as well... and I did a version of that, too. flic.kr/p/gJ3NzH
Central subtraction: JWST/NIRCam F405N-F444W
Red-Orange: JWST/NIRCam F444W-470N, F212N
Yellow: JWST/NIRCam F356W
Teal: JWST/NIRCam F187N
Blue: JWST/NIRCam F090W
North is 111.51° clockwise from up.
It's FebRovery again, my favourite themed building month.
So let's begin with a modification of set 10497 (or as I like to call it, the "UCS Galaxy Explorer") into a rover.
As far as names go, "Planetary Explorer" was the obvious and only choice. The rear cargo compartment contains a small skimmer-type vehicle to mirror the rover carried by the original