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The object came near the zenith, 88.8 degrees in altitude while imaging there. Atacama was an ideal site for imaging this colorful area. Moisture was minimal in the desert, and transparency was near maximum. Elevation was enough, and wind was mild.
Equipment: Takahashi FSQ-106ED, F3 Reducer 0.6x, and Canon EOS 5D mk3-sp4 by Seo-san on Takahashi EM-200 Temma 2 jr. autoguided with Fujinon 1:2.8/75mm C-Mount Lens, Pentax x2 Extender, Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider, and PHD Guiding 2
Exposure: 3 times x 25 minutes, 3 x 15 min, 4 x 4 min, 4 x 1 min, and 1 x 10 seconds at ISO 1,600 and 320mm in focal length, f/3.0 in focal ratio
site: 2,674m above sea level at lat. 24 37 43 South and long. 70 13 45 West near Cerro Armazones in Atacama Desert Chile
From wiki:
NGC 7822 is a young star forming complex in the constellation of Cepheus. The complex encompasses the emission region designated Sharpless 171, and the young cluster of stars named Berkeley 59
Image details:
SHO (Hubble Palette)
231, 5-min, 100-gain, SII subs
115, 5-min, 100-gain, Ha subs
165, 5-min, 100-gain, OIII subs
42.75 hours of data total.
Data calibrated with:
Darks, Flats and Bias frames
Data collected on clear nights Dec 2024, Jan, Feb 2025.
ASI2600mm Pro Camera
Esprit 100ED with reducer
446mm focal length, F4.4
Sensor cooled to -10C
Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro mount
Dithered every 3 frames, 2X
drizzled in PIX
All data captured in my backyard in Yukon, Oklahoma
Bortle-7 sky.
Processed with Pixinsight and Photoshop.
Hey guys : )
This will be my last photo for a while... I'll be on & off for the next few weeks (possibly even into the end of next month).
I do have plans to log into Flickr & do some catching up though... specifically for this:
1. Catch up with all my friends here!
2. Having a look through my new contacts!
3. Visiting those who have left such wonderful comments recently : )
(( I truly can't wait to visit everyone again in the coming days & weeks... so excited to see what everyone's been up to recently! ))
*** My main reason for joining Flickr was simply so I could finally make comments & give respect to all the wonderful photographers (who's works I so often viewed & enjoyed here) ***
Once I began uploading pics myself... I found that my time (admiring the works of others) was drastically reduced... and it affected my enjoyment time here, as well as finding new inspiration.
So I'm definitely taking some time off from uploading for a while (after this one!)
I'll also be away a bit and offline sometime... which will give me the opportunity to go through some of my recent photo shoots & gather some special moments to share with you guys in the future : )
This should turn out to be a positive thing all around : )
Now, regarding the title of this latest pic & how the capture came about:
I shot this one on the island of Crete (Greece) very early one morning.
I had found a rock pier which extended quite far out into the ocean... but the part of it which connected to the beach was submerged, so I had to wade through a bit of water to make it up on the rocks.
Usually not a big deal but a bit more exciting when it's so early in the morning and you're the only one out there on the ocean ; )
Anyhow, I walked out to the end of it, sat down and watched a very hazy sunrise appear that morning.
It was beautiful!
Those dark & light tones of orange & gold hazing around the sun were amazing to witness : )
One thing I tried to do was zoom-in and avoid that buoy (which you can now see) in the shot... but after messing with it for a while I put the camera down and tried to 'take in the scene' from a fresh angle.
What I realized was that I was very alone out there on the edge of this rock pier... and I let my mind wonder a bit about the ripples forming around that buoy ; )
It made me think of that powerful intro scene in the film JAWS!, when the person makes a last attempt to hold on to the buoy before fate takes its course.
It also reminded me of another scene from the same film where the giant shark pulls barrels under the water with ease... (I began to hear that low rumbling theme from the movie!)
A vivid imagination fit real well with that early morning experience!
After watching that buoy for a while, bobbing in that early hazy sunrise... while I was out there all alone, wondering what all was swimming beneath those waters...
I decided to keep it in the shot, as it had made such an exciting impact!
When I returned to shore again, I crossed through that submerged area of the pier a bit quicker than before ; )
(I actually did see one other person that early morning, and that was the 'Golden Fisherman' which I captured & uploaded here earlier)
[ www.flickr.com/photos/crush777roxx/28635691506/ ]
Again, hope you guys understand why I won't be uploading for a while.
I believe I'll actually have more time to catch up and interact with everyone this way : )
Also hope you enjoy the new photo (& possibly even the backstory of my experience that morning!)
And of course, thank you so much for your support my friends!
It is always my wish that you find something interesting or enjoyable in my shares with you : )
Have a wonderful day ahead everyone and see you all again soon!!!
: )
CRUSH
I've mentioned in a previous post that the majority of the Katiannidae I'm seeing in the garden at the moment, have reduced levels of pigmentation. Less pigmentation that I recollect in previous years anyway. I've always seen a few, but more this year. Three of these are from today; one from a couple of days back.
Does it mean anything; who knows. Well Frans might! I think I can see the sub-anal appendage in two of these (see added notes). That would make them female.
Scanning a few of my Dad's old negs, I ran across this sad sight. A pair of New York Central J3A Hudsons in a scrap yard somewhere in the Chicago area. What a shame one of these classics wasn't saved!
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Up on the first walk after French lockdown was reduced, I went on a foggy and wet day to Calerne plateau.
Esprit 150ED apo triplet with Herschel wedge/solar continuum filter and QHY5III 178 (reduced frame size using ROI). 856 frame SER stacked in Autostakkert 3 and processed in Astrosurface and PS CS2,adding false colour.
Taken 07/11/20
Yesterday when I crested the highest dune I couldn't see the ocean for the thick fog. Once I reached the waterline I saw that the tide had exposed a sandbar not far from the shore. Immediately I remembered that last year I had seen pelicans grounded on the sandbar under the same conditions.
No sooner had I walked I few yards than the same scene appeared in front of me through the fog. Unlike seagulls, pelicans do not like humans approaching them too closely.
Ocean Park, Washington.
Ground Beetle, Carabus granulatus.
Body length; 16-23mm.
Habitat; Typically a species of wetland margins, found in wet fields, river margins, lake shores and permanently damp and shaded woodland. Across much of its range it also occurs in upland and mountain regions, among peat and blanket bogs etc.
Widespread in much of Britain, including all the islands except Orkney and Shetland, but never really common. It occurs throughout Europe, north to mid-Scandinavian latitudes and east to the Pacific and Japan. Following introductions from 1890, it is now also widespread across the United States and Canadian border regions.
A narrow and elongate species, the upper part of this beetle is shiny, usually entirely dark metallic bronze, but greenish or bluish specimens do occur. Legs are long and robust, middle and hind legs slender, fore-legs are broader. All tibiae have two strong apical spurs, fore-tibiae without an internal antennal-cleaning notch. The legs are usualy dark, although pale-legged forms occur on the continent. The two wing cases, (elytra ), are subparallel with "chain link" longitudinal grooves. The head is long and narrow with robust projecting mandibles, prominent and convex eyes and long palps and antennae.
Active from March/April through to Autumn, this is one of the few species of ground beetle that hasn't completely lost its ability to fly. In the UK the species has reduced wings and is flightless, but in central Europe fully winged specimens have been observed to fly. However, in general this nocturnal beetle remains on the ground where they prey on insects and worms but predominantley snails. During the day they hide under tree trunks or stones. They overwinter under bark, among litter or under logs etc, although they may also become active during mild Winter spells.
Mating begins in April and egg laying a little later. The females lay about forty eggs, individual eggs laid in burrows a few cm deep which are then filled with soil. The eggs will hatch within a week or two and the nocturnal and predatory larvae develop through the Summer. Passing through three instars the larvae will be fully grown within 40 to 60 days. Pupation occurs in the ground from late Summer and the new-generation of adults appear in the Autumn. Overwintered adults may reproduce in the following Spring but some, perhaps a majority, do not and will overwinter a second time before doing so.
It is thought they may be adapted to feed primarily on dextral snails, those that coil to the right and which comprise more than 80% of European specimens. As most of the beetles have the left mandible overlaying the right this may be an adaptation to hunting dextral snails, sinistral snails, those that coil to the left, being largely immune to attack.
Unlike some other snail eating beetles, Carabus granulatus doesn't attack snails with digestive enzymes but simply reaches into the shell with its mandibles, butchers it extensively and pulls it from the shell.
Subject: Milky Way Widefield
Image Size: 11096 x 2979 -- reduced to 12.5% original size
Image FOV: 220 degrees by 30 degrees (approx)
Image Scale: 90 arc-second/pixel (approx)
Date: 2012/06/15 to 2012/11/18 -- 13 imaging sessions
Exposure: 154 panels, each 5 x 5min or 6 x 5 min (25min or 30 min each) Total exposure = 77 hours 50 minutes, ISO1600, f/2.8
Filter: Astronomik CLS
Camera: Hutech-modified Canon T1i/500D
Lens: Contax/Yashica 85mm f/2.8
Mount: Astro-Physics AP900
Guiding: ST-402 autoguider through TV-102iis guidescope, Maxim DL autoguiding software
Processing: Raw conversion and calibration for each panel with ImagesPlus; Aligning and combining with Registar. Preliminary processing of each panel with photoshop-- levels adjustment to make each panel about the same brightness, cropping to 4752x3168 to remove ragged edges from alignment, and 50% reduction to 2376 x 1584. 154 panels combined into a mosaic using AutoPano Pro 2 (Mercator projection, SmartBlend), with 50% reduced output (22192x5957). Final processing with Photoshop -- more levels adjustment, etc., another 50% reduction to 11096 x 2929, conversion to 8-bit mode and JPEG. Total reduction is to 1/8 original size, so 64 original pixels make one pixel in the final image.
Remarks:
2012/06/15 -- Temp start/end 58F/53F, Relative Humidity start/end 73%/85%, SQM-L start/end 21.45/21.34 (moonrise)
2012/06/23 -- Temp start/end 58F/53F, Relative Humidity start/end 75%/78%, SQM-L start/end 21.46/21.13 (dawn)
2012/07/24 -- Temp start/---- 62F/----, Relative Humidity start/---- 50%/----, SQM-L start/---- 21.13 (moonset)
2012/08/16 -- Temp start/end 63F/56F, Relative Humidity start/end 67%/87%, SQM-L start/end 21.47/21.28
2012/08/18 -- Temp start/end 54F46/F, Relative Humidity start/end 83%/95%, SQM-L start/end 21.39/21.39
2012/08/21 -- Temp start/end 55F/51F, Relative Humidity start/end 87%/96%, SQM-L start/end 21.40/21.40
2012/09/12 -- Temp start/end 58F/49F, Relative Humidity start/end 71%/95%, SQM-L start/end 21.35/21.34
2012/09/13 -- Temp start/end 61F/53F, Relative Humidity start/end 58%/95%, SQM-L start/end 21.34/21.36
2012/09/15 -- Temp start/end 53F/46F, Relative Humidity start/end 71%/95%, SQM-L start/end 21.02??/21.18
2012/09/19 -- Temp start/end 46F/37F, Relative Humidity start/end 71%/96%, SQM-L start/end 21.37/21.39
2012/10/12 -- Temp start/end 32F/22F, Relative Humidity start/end 58%/85%, SQM-L start/end 21.02??/21.02??
2012/11/08 -- Temp start/end 27F/24F, Relative Humidity start/end 71%/65%, SQM-L start/end 21.21/20.94 (moonrise)
2012/11/17 -- Temp start/end 31F/27F, Relative Humidity start/end 71%81/%, SQM-L start/end 21.27/21.44
On Sunday 5/3/2023, an overpowered 1120s (empty Aurizon grain transfer) is seen at Wingfield (Adelaide) with alf23-CLP16-cm3308 in charge.
thanks to the folks at Motorland, in Arundel, Maine, for letting me photograph their lovely old cars.
sony nex-7, minolta md 50mm f1.4, roxsen lens turbo focal length reducer. the dreaded "purple spot" is in evidence here. I did not try to fix that in post... that is beyond my meager skills to do, and I did not find its presence that offensive. I have heard that the new model doesn't do this, or doesn't do it to the same degree.
Thank you for visiting!
Godzilla printed in FDM 3D, layer height 0.2mm, the file has been reduced by 50% compared to the original.
File link: www.myminifactory.com/it/object/3d-print-godzilla-1995-he...
Sounds Rivulet, Murdunna > Tasmania
6 February 2016
4 shot panorama stitched in Lightroom CC
Nikon D7200, ISO 100, f22, 1/8, 50mm, Hoya Circular PL
The Calder and Hebble Navigation, a canal in Halifax, Calderdale, West Yorkshire.
By the beginning of the 18th century, the Aire and Calder Navigation had made the River Calder navigable as far upstream as Wakefield. The aim of the Calder and Hebble Navigation was to extend navigation west (upstream) from Wakefield to Sowerby Bridge near Halifax.
Construction started in 1759, with Smeaton acting as engineer. By 1764, the navigation was open as far as Brighouse, some 16 miles (26 km) from Wakefield. Having borrowed £56,000, factions arose within the Commissioners, with some wanting to stop at Brooksmouth, where the Rivers Hebble and Calder meet, and others wanting to raise more money and complete the scheme. The second option gained most support, and a new committee was set up, who asked James Brindley to take over from Smeaton in 1765.
The Commissioners felt unable to borrow more money, and so a second Act of Parliament was obtained on 21 April 1769, which formally created the Company of Proprietors of the Calder and Hebble Navigation. This consisted of all the 81 people who had loaned money to the original scheme, and these loans were converted into £100 shares. Additional shares could be issued, and the Company could borrow up to £20,000, with the future tolls used as security.
The Navigation prospered, with dividends rising steadily from 5 per cent in 1771 to 13 per cent in 1792. Under the terms of the Act of Parliament, tolls were reduced when the dividend exceeded 10 per cent, and the first such reduction occurred in 1791.
The Manchester and Leeds Railway company, which had approached the Calder and Hebble in 1836, but had been rebuffed, opened their line between 1839 and 1841. It followed the line of the canal and that of the Rochdale Canal. A year later, with canal shares having lost 66 per cent of their value, the canal company approached the railway, who agreed to lease the canal for £40,000 per year for 14 years, commencing on 25 March 1843.
The Aire and Calder Navigation objected to the lease, and in 1847, the Attorney General and the Solicitor General ruled that it was illegal and must cease. Soon afterwards, the Aire and Calder offered to lease the canal itself, and the agreement started in September. After the Aire and Calder's lease expired in 1885, the Navigation Company again took charge, rebuilt many of the bridges, and established the Calder Carrying Company. Shareholders continued to receive dividends until the canal was nationalized in 1948, and the canal was used by commercial traffic until 1981.
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A less fortunate Olympian seen a couple of hours after my previous upload is R837OVN, an Alexander R type bodied example new to Cleveland Transit in 1998 which was later absorbed into the Stagecoach fleet as their 16837.
Last in service with Golden Eagle Coaches of Salsburgh, it's seen here reduced in height and about to head off to the fragger after having had its mechanical units removed.
The Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal, originally Cincinnati Union Terminal, is a mixed-use complex in the Queensgate neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Once a major passenger train station, it went into sharp decline during the postwar decline of railroad travel. Most of the building was converted to other uses, and now houses museums, theaters, and a library, as well as special travelling exhibitions. Since 1991, it has been used as a train station once again.
Built in 1933, it is a monumental example of Art Deco architecture, for which it was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1977.
Cincinnati was a major center of railroad traffic in the late 19th and early 20th century, especially as an interchange point between railroads serving the Northeastern and Midwestern states with railroads serving the South. However, intercity passenger traffic was split among no fewer than five stations in Downtown Cincinnati, requiring the many travelers who changed between railroads to navigate local transit themselves. The Louisville and Nashville Railroad, which operated through sleepers with other railroads, was forced to split its operations between two stations. Proposals to construct a union station began as early as the 1890s, and a committee of railroad executives formed in 1912 to begin formal studies on the subject, but a final agreement between all seven railroads that served Cincinnati and the city itself would not come until 1928, after intense lobbying and negotiations, led by Philip Carey Company president George Crabbs. The seven railroads: the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad; the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad; the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway; the Louisville and Nashville Railroad; the Norfolk and Western Railway; the Pennsylvania Railroad; and the Southern Railway selected a site for their new station in the West End, near the Mill Creek.
The principal architects of the massive building were Alfred T. Fellheimer and Steward Wagner, with architects Paul Philippe Cret and Roland Wank brought in as design consultants; Cret is often credited as the building's architect, as he was responsible for the building's signature Art Deco style. The Rotunda features the largest semi-dome in the western hemisphere, measuring 180 feet (55 m) wide and 106 feet (32 m) high.
The Union Terminal Company was created to build the terminal, railroad lines in and out, and other related transportation improvements. Construction in 1928 with the regrading of the east flood plain of the Mill Creek to a point nearly level with the surrounding city, a massive effort that required 5.5 million cubic yards of landfill. Other improvements included the construction of grade separated viaducts over the Mill Creek and the railroad approaches to Union Terminal. The new viaducts the Union Terminal Company created to cross the Mill Creek valley ranged from the well built, like the Western Hills Viaduct, to the more hastily constructed and shabby, like the Waldvogel Viaduct. Construction on the terminal building itself began in 1931, with Cincinnati mayor Russell Wilson laying the mortar for the cornerstone. Construction was finished ahead of schedule, although the terminal welcomed its first trains even earlier on March 19, 1933 when it was forced into emergency operation due to flooding of the Ohio River. The official opening of the station was on March 31, 1933. The total cost of the project was $41.5 million.
During its heyday as a passenger rail facility, Cincinnati Union Terminal had a capacity of 216 trains per day, 108 in and 108 out. Three concentric lanes of traffic were included in the design of the building, underneath the main rotunda of the building: one for taxis, one for buses, and one (although never used) for streetcars. However, the time period in which the terminal was built was one of decline for train travel. By 1939, local newspapers were already describing the station as a white elephant. While it had a brief revival in the 1940s, because of World War II, it declined in use through the 1950s into the 1960s.
After the creation of Amtrak in 1971, train service at Cincinnati Union Terminal was reduced to just two trains a day, the George Washington and the James Whitcomb Riley. Amtrak abandoned Cincinnati Union Terminal the next year, opening a smaller station elsewhere in the city on October 29, 1972.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati_Museum_Center_at_Union_T...
Bandon, Oregon
Open lot for sale on the bluff edge above Bandon Beach affords open view of Face Rock.
(homeless woman, sf, 11/12/06)
homeless rebecca from detroit. rebecca doesn't fit. as though she's not where she's supposed to be. i see her as i pass. she is almost ghostly. she sways and bends like the only tree on a hill; unprotected. she seems resigned to a losing battle.
she is panhandling as i pass. or she is praying or mourning. but she is not seen. i turn the corner and watch her for a moment. she grimaces her mouth as though swallowing some new resignation and moves away from the season's passing throng; in my direction, but floating by. i seem to snap a trance when i say hello.
she's been homeless since 1998. she sleeps sometimes in shelters. but says there's not enough beds for women. the men have many more. she went to the shelter this afternoon to put her name in for a bed this evening. there's a lottery, and she didn't get one.
says she has no family and no children. she's the only one. but she has one girlfriend who got a place from the city finally after years. says she's trying to stay there with her friend tonight, if she can make up the guest fee. she's about a third of the way. it's been cold and she clearly doesn't want to be on the street tonight.
she was an accountant not so long back. she had a good job. she worked for kgo. but in '98, they were downsizing her group and she was let go. she thought she'd get another job easy. but she never did. they all wanted someone younger. and now she's 54, and says it's too late for her.
("news" about shows etc.)
Made from 16 light frames by Starry Landscape Stacker 1.6.2. Algorithm: Min
and four images of the Perseids.
Sony A7Cii with 35mm f1.4 GM
Shot at f1.8; 1/800; ISO of 80
LR Edit: shadows +10, reduced highlights and brought up whites, increased vibrance, reduced clarity