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The beautiful Skógáfoss with a light aurora behind. Open your eyes and check out that tiny satellite flare in the sky up there.
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at 5:40 am this morning, while enjoying my early morning hot tub ritual and the awakening light, I witnessed the string of star-link satellites that were launched yesterday An amazing sight to behold for sure. With no camera at the ready, I totally missed the shot. So instead, I decided to do some ICM work with the soft colors of this mornings sky.
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Looking Close on Friday: "Spirals" theme
A vintage toy from the 1950s, Space Satellite is a toy/game that I had as a kid. It requires the player to tilt the card in a way that rolls the ball bearing "satellite" up a molded plastic spiral to a resting place on top of the spiral. It's not easy to do, by the way. I did a bit of spiral-like light painting in keeping with the theme, and processed the image in a scratchy style in an effort to match the now scratchy condition of the clear plastic dome on the toy.
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The Eurasian Collared Dove (Streptopelia decaocto) is a highly adaptable, medium-sized bird known for its rapid global expansion. Originally native to warmer regions of Asia, it has become a common sight in urban, suburban, and agricultural areas across Europe and North America.
Key Identification Features
Appearance:
They have a plump, sandy-gray or buff-colored body with a distinctive black half-collar on the nape of the neck.
Distinctive Tail:
Unlike the pointed tail of a Mourning Dove, the Eurasian collared dove has a broad, squared-off tail with large white patches at the corners.
Eyes and Bill:
Adults possess striking dark red eyes and a thin black bill.
Vocalizations:
Their primary call is a rhythmic, three-syllable coo (koo-KOO-kook) with the middle syllable emphasized. They also emit a harsh, nasal screeching sound just before landing.
Behavior and Diet
Diet:
These birds are primarily granivores, feeding on seeds, grains, and cereal crops, though they occasionally eat berries and small insects. They are frequent visitors to backyard bird feeders, where they often forage on the ground.
Territoriality:
They can be aggressive competitors at feeding stations, often chasing away smaller birds or native species like the Mourning Dove.
Flight Display:
Males perform a ritualized mating flight, flying nearly vertically before gliding down in a spiral with fanned tails.
Breeding and Life Cycle
Rapid Reproduction:
A monogamous pair can raise up to six broods per year in warmer climates.
Nesting:
They build simple, often flimsy platform nests made of twigs in trees, on buildings, or even on man-made structures like satellite dishes.
Parental Care:
Both parents share incubation duties and feed their young "crop milk," a nutrient-rich fluid secreted from their esophagus.
Global Colonization
The species is famous in ornithology for its "leapfrog" colonization style—new populations often spring up hundreds of miles away and eventually "backfill" the space in between. After being introduced to the Bahamas in the 1970s, they reached Florida by the 1980s and have since spread across most of the continental United States and into Canada.
Satellite's gone up to the skies
Things like that drive me out of my mind
I watched it for a little while
I like to watch things on TV
Lou Reed
Object: M31 - Andromeda Galaxy (Sept 2025)
Never say never! I swore I would not do this target again, but I was at a very dark site and needed a wideband image to test out my new portable setup and M31 seemed as good as any!
A large spiral galaxy in our “local group” of galaxies named for the mythological princess Andromeda and located in the Constellation of the same name. The galaxy is estimated to be 2.5 million light years distant and is also estimated to be 220,000 light years across with a halo weighing in at 1.23 trillion solar masses containing over a trillion suns within its boundaries.
Other names: Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224
Other objects in FOV:
-M32 - compact elliptical galaxy that is believed to be the remnant core of a much larger galaxy that M31 stripped of its mass during a past collision.
-M110 – The largest of M31’s satellite galaxies that is currently interacting with it.
-NGC206 – a bright star cluster within M31 that has a radius of 400 lightyears. It contains hundreds of O & B type stars.
Details:
- Acquisition Date: 09/20/2025 to 09/21/2025
- Location: Jenkin’s Beach - Green Lake in Dedham, Maine, USA
- Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI2600MM PRO @ -10°C -Gain 100 Offset 50
- Filterwheel: ZWO EFW 7 x 36mm
- Telescope: William Optics RedCat 71 f/4.9(350mm f/l) APO Imaging Astrograph with WIFD
- Focuser ZWO EAF
- Mount: Sky-Watcher - Wave 150i Strainwave Mount
- Guide scope: ZWO OAG-L
- Guide Camera: ZWO - ASI220MM Mini
- Software: NINA, PixInsight 1.9 Lockhart, Aries Astro Pixel Processor, Adobe Photoshop CS5
Filters:
- Antlia Luminance 36mm
- Antlia Red 36mm
- Antlia Green 36mm
- Antlia Blue 36mm
Exposure Times:
- Luminance20 x 5min. (100min) bin 1x1
- Red:17 x 5min. (85min) bin 1x1
- Green:17 x 5min. (85min) bin 1x1
- Blue:20 x 5min. (100min) bin 1x1
Total Exposure/Integration:370min. (6.17hr)
Sky Quality:
SQM- 21.83 mag/arcsec2
Brightness- 0.201 mcd/m2
Artificial bright. -29.8 μcd/m2
Ratio - 0.174
Bortle class 3
It's pure luck when I get a shot of one of these iridium satellites at just that right moment when it reflects sunlight, high above our planet.
Nikon F5, Nikkor 50mm f1.4, circular polarizer, Kodak Tmax 100.
This was my favorite ride at this amusement park when I was young. Little rocketships that went round and round with a joystick for making it go up or down. Was spectacular fun! Quite the forest had grown up around this area by the time I photographed this and the shade and dappled sunlight look pretty neat.
A satellite bull elk "orbits" a dominant bull and his harem, hoping to sneak in and mate with one of the cows. This one was tasting the air which was probably saturated with female pheromones. Rocky Mountain National Park.