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On a recent trip to Door County Wisconsin, I stopped by the legendary Anderson Dock.
When I first got there to scope it out, it was raining with a sustained wind of at least 20-30 MPH. Not real good odds of getting a picture. As I waited around for sunset, the rain finally stopped and the sun poked out for just a few minutes to get this shot. I felt fortunate to get something for my trouble.
Per the Door County Pulse website... After Norwegian brothers Aslag and Halvor Anderson recognized the need for a deepwater dock in Ephraim, they constructed one in 1858. Throughout the 1880s, steamers arriving at the dock — most notably from the Goodrich Transportation Company — brought much-needed goods and much-appreciated tourists, and this activity ultimately vitalized Ephraim. Although the dock’s warehouse — the present-day Hardy Gallery — was built to store merchandise, it became a visible reminder of the sailors and ships that had stopped there.
Emily Irwin, outreach director and curator for the Ephraim Historical Foundation, explained that sailors arriving in Ephraim painted the name of their ship and the date on the side of the building as a way to mark their visit.
It’s a bit of a mystery exactly when the graffiti tradition began, but sailors were known to write on the warehouse from around 1910 into the 1950s, perhaps to express their relief and gratitude for a safe passage through the notorious Death’s Door waters, or simply to commemorate their arrival in Ephraim.
In 1949, the Ephraim Historical Foundation purchased the dock and warehouse from the Anderson family, and in 1961, the foundation leased the building to the Hardy Gallery. Through these shifts, however, the graffiti tradition has remained intact, with the public picking up where the sailors left off.
A male great horned owl flew in for a drink at Ayer Lake at Boyce Thompson Arboretum. But only the paranoid survive so he took the time to scope things out between drinks.
Blue tit on a rose bush.
After a week of dull, grey days, the sun came out, this morning!
I managed to grab a wee half hour in the garden; lots to do, today. I filled the seed and nut feeders and the wee birdies descended. Lots of them use this this rose bush as a scoping/landing/eating site.
Lovely to see the sunshine in the garden,
In my garden,
South Carrick Hills
SW Scotland
“Drinking in the morning sun
Blinking in the morning sun…
…What made me behave that way?
Using words I never say
I can only think it must be love
Oh, anyway, it's looking like a beautiful day.”
🎼. “One Day Like This” - Elbow
(cropped)
In Explore #19, 15 October, 2021
Cereal field with Verbascum (the highest one) and Phalacroloma anuum (forming the white aspect) among the pine forests near Prtovino, Moscow region
When you go to Bryce Canyon National Park for the first time you will be blown away by the grandness and sheer scope of the landscape, but also by the natural hoodoo formations that seem to form stone cities out of the dust, not made by human hands.
A little bit more of a horizontal stretch instead of a vertical stretch but I have to say that these little greenies have a bag of tricks that will rival any bird in the world!! Saw a number of these little characters on the bayou today but none of them were very cooperative!
I'm a bit late to the party this evening but I will get there!!
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A male Pileated Woodpecker scans the area for what was making the noise before resuming his work on the cavity at Boyd Hill.
Object: Melotte 15 in IC1805 (November 2024)
Melotte 15 or NGC896, an open cluster of stars is found in the center of the Heart Nebula IC1805 that lies some 7500 light years away from Earth and is located in the Perseus Arm of our galaxy within the constellation of Cassiopeia. This structure was actually discovered before the Heart Nebula primarily because it is much brighter than the surrounding area. The central part of the nebula's intense output is powered by the radiation emanating from a small group of stars near the nebula's center. This open cluster of stars known as Melotte 15 contains a few bright stars nearly 50 times the mass of our Sun, and many more dim stars that are only a fraction of our Sun's mass.
Details:
- Acquisition Date: 11/09/2024 to 11/10/2024
- Location: Western Massachusetts, USA
- Imaging Camera: QHY600PH-M -10°C - Mode 1(High Gain) Offset:15 Gain:56
- Telescope: Celestron EdgeHD 11 Celestron 11" Edge HD @f/7
- Focal reducer: Celestron .7x Focal Reducer, for 11 HD
- Mount: Astro-Physics AP1100 w/GTO4
- Guide scope: Celestron Off Axis Guider
- Guide Camera: ASI174m mini
- Software: Adobe Photoshop CS5, Sequence Generator Pro, PixInsight 1.8 Ripley, Aries Astro Pixel Processor
Filters:
- Chroma Ha 3nm 50mm
- Chroma OIII 3nm 50mm
- Astrodon SII 3nm 50mm
Exposure Times:
- Hydrogen Alpha (Ha): 19 x 10min. (190min) bin 1x1
- Oxygen III (OIII):19 x 10min. (190min) bin 1x1
- Sulfur II (SII):17 x 10min. (170min) bin 1x1
Total Exposure:550min. (9.17hr)
Sky Quality:
-Magnitude: 19.71
-Bortle Class 5
-1.41 mcd/m^2 Brightness
-1234.6 ucd/m^2 Artificial Brightness
A multi-turn control knob on a Tektronix 465B oscilloscope. The knob, one inch (25.4mm) in diameter, operates a potentiometer (variable resistor) that requires ten full revolutions of its shaft to cover its entire resistance range, allowing finer adjustment than a standard potentiometer with a ¾- to ⅞-turn range.
The sheer size and scope of this old Victorian mansion makes it difficult to get a handle on photographically. I've been here before and it's literally overwhelming to be in the presence of this house. So many architectural details compete for the eye's attention, coupled with the sheer enormity of the place. Intuition brought me back here yesterday, on a bleak and raw day. My senses were sharpened by the cold. I focused on an old wrought iron sign bracket in the side yard, and allowed the house to recede a bit into the background. I crouched low to enhance the sense of the house looming and brooding. The overall atmosphere could not have been better.
Revelation 13:18 “Here is scope for ingenuity. Let people of shrewd intelligence calculate the number of the Wild Beast; for it indicates a certain man, and his number is 666.”
“WHO Member States conclude negotiations and make significant progress on draft pandemic agreement” – World Health Organization
“Proposal to be submitted to World Health Assembly in May for consideration”
www.who.int/news/item/16-04-2025-who-member-states-conclu...
The United Nations is working towards expanding their powers yet again. If you fail, try again: write and rewrite, package and repackage, until it’s accepted. This is another step towards world governance.
Western Veil Nebula in Hubble's SHO palette
Telescope: Explore Scientific FCD100 ED127 @ 952mm Focal Length
Focal Reducer: .65 Starizona | 618mm FL
Camera: ZWO ASI 294MM PRO Cool
Filters: Antlia 36mm 3nm, Sii, Ha, Oiii
Guide Scope: Agena 60mm
Guide Camera: Zwo ASI120MM-S
Capture Software: NIGHTTIME IMAGING 'N' ASTRONOMY
This is the totally eclipsed Moon of November 8, 2022 set in the stars of Aries, with the planet Uranus nearby, visible as the greenish star about three Moon diameters away from the Moon at the 10 o'clock position. Uranus was at oppostion the next night, November 9, at magnitude 5.6.
I shot the set of images for this scene at about 3:28 a.m. MST, about 20 minutes after the start of this long totality, so the right (lunar eastern) limb of the Moon was still fairly bright. The field of view is about 7.6° by 5°.
This is a blend of four exposures to compress the dynamic range and record the stars while maintaining the Moon more as the eye saw it. I blended a 5-second exposure at ISO 1600 for the stars, with 1-, 2-, and 5-second exposures at ISO 200 for the lunar disk, all with the Canon Ra on the SharpStar 61mm EDPH refractor with the Reducer/Flattener for f/4.6. The scope and camera were on the Star Adventurer tracker, turning at the sidereal rate for the long exposure for the stars but at the slower lunar rate for the shorter, lower ISO exposures for the Moon. Blending was with old-fashioned manual masking, not HDR routines or even luminosity masks.
It was -25° C this night, and with several inches of snow having just fallen that day, so I kept the gear complexity to a minimum. However, using a 280mm focal length scope on the tracker was pushing it. Most long exposures for the starfield were trailed. I shot several sets of "HDR" exposures to be sure I got one that worked.
Scope: GSO RC6 with WO 0.8x flattener
Camera: ASI1600MM pro
Guider Camera: ASI290MM
Guider: Orion thin Off-axis guider
Mount: Orion Sirius EQMOD driven
Software: APT, DSS, PS, StarNET
Integration:
~10HRS Ha in 6min exposures,
~10HRS Oiii in 6min exposures
First test of my new CCD camera QHY22 mono and 12nm Astronomic NB filters . This image is 5x600s each filter at F7.
Taken in Oswego IL. with Celestron C11 CGEM DX + 80mm Lunt guiding scope and QHY autoguider. Processed as RGB at DSS, PS 06 and DPP.
No need to bundle up in the freezing cold this time—we watched the whole show in comfort. Totality rolled in around 4 a.m. MST, turning the moon into that incredible rusty red colour as it passed through Earth's shadow. Clear(ish) skies, zero wind chill, and just pure awe through the scope/camera.
Here are some shots Laurie captured right from the observatory—hope they give a sense of how magical it looked (and how cozy we stayed!).
Next total one isn't until NYE 2028. Who's planning a 2028 watch party? 😄
Imaging equipment:
SharpStar 140PH Triplet 910mm focal length
Mesu 200 MKII mount,
ZWO071MC Pro
Capture details:
Gain 100
Exposure 500ms
1,244 frames with 2.0001fps
Reprocess of old data.
Equipment:
Scope: GSO 8" f/4 with 2" moonlight autofocuser, flocked
Coma corrector: TS GPU
Mount: EQ6-R
Camera: Nikon D750 mod
Guide scope: ZWO 280/60
Guide camera: ZWO ASI 120MC-S
Filter: Antlia ALP-T / Baader UV/IR Cut
Acquisition:
Location: central Poland, Bortle 5/6
Lights:
- ALP-T: 130x300s ISO 400
- Baader UV/IR Cut: 33x90s ISO 400
Darks: none
Flats: x70
Bias: x50
Total integration time: 11h 39min
BRUGGE, Market square, DIAMOND SCOPE by Vibeke Jensen...
An octagonal structure with an amazing shell of mirror glass stands across from the Belfry on the Market Square. Depending where you stand, reflecting the medieval facades,
thank you, M, (*_*)
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By contemplating the created order, and by contemplating and ordering the moral structure of one’s own life, one would be led to the pure theoria of the fountainhead of all existence, ho on, ‘the existing one’, ‘He Who is’, this being the name of God revealed to Moses at the burning bush. Historical revelation in this light becomes God’s method of spelling out truth in the terms of the world: an arrangement of clues which, rightly seen, leads to illumination. However, this is not really comparable to the enlightenment of the gnostic: there is no ‘technology’ here, no suggestion of control over the laws of the Spirit. The end is simply contemplation, the enjoying of God for his sake alone; and Philo shares the biblical repugnance for any suggestion that God can be brought into human control. God can never be contained in human concepts. Moses ascends into a cloud and darkness beyond the scope of intellect, where God offers himself directly to the vision, without the intervention of any form or idea. Here, then, the pilgrimage of the understanding is seen not (as for the gnostic) in terms of acquisition but in terms of stripping away, the stripping of multiple and diffuse kinds of apprehension to the simplicity of a single-hearted vision –in Platonic terms, the return from the Many to the primal One.
- The Wound of Knowledge Christian Spirituality from the New Testament to St John of the Cross, ROWAN WILLIAMS
This is a bi-color image (Ha and OIII) of the Witch's Broom Nebula a.k.a. Western Veil Nebula.
I wanted this to be an HSO image, but my laptop ran out of battery after only two SII frames. So I decided to make this a bicolor.
Equipment details:
- Mount: Astro-Physics Mach1 GTO
- Imaging scope: Explore Scientific 102mm Apochromatic Refractor
- Imaging camera: ZWO ASI1600MM-Cool
- Guide camera: QHY5III178M
- OAG: ZWO OAG
- Other: HoTech SCA Field Flattner
- Filter wheel: ZWO EFW
- Focuser: MoonLite MiniV2 motorized focuser
- Filters: Astrodon 5nm Ha, 3nm OIII filters
Actuisition details:
- Camera set to -17C at Unity Gain
- Lights:
-- Ha: 25 x 240s Bin: 1x1
-- OIII: 27 x 240s Bin: 1x1
- Darks: 40 x 240s Bin: 1x1
- Biases: 100x Bin: 1x1
- Flats: 25x per filter
Software:
- Acquisition: Sequence Generator Pro
- Mount Control: ASCOM, Stellarium, Stellarium Scope
- Guiding: PHD2
- Drift Alignment: PHD2 Drift Align
- Processing: PixInsight
Channel mapping:
- R: Ha
- G: 70% OIII + 30% Ha
- B: OIII
Total integration time (approx): 3.5 hours
Looking towards Miller Bridge down the River Kent in Kendal, Cumbria.
The Miller Bridge, formerly named Mill Bridge, was erected in 1818 to the design of John Rennie. It was a replacement of earlier bridges, one of which was destroyed by a flood. It joins New Road and Aynam Road.
The River Kent is a short river which originates in hills surrounding Kentmere, and flows for around 20 miles (32 km) into the north of Morecambe Bay. The Lake District National Park includes the upper reaches of the river within its boundaries.
The river passes through Kentmere, Staveley, Burneside, Kendal and Sedgwick. Near Sedgwick, the river passes through a rock gorge which produces a number of low waterfalls. This section is popular with kayakers as it offers high quality whitewater for several days after rain.
The village of Arnside lies alongside the Kent estuary. On high spring tides, a tidal bore known as the Arnside Bore forms in the estuary opposite Arnside. The wave is often about 0.5m high.
Near the source of the river is Kentmere Reservoir, which was constructed in the mid-19th century to control the flow of the river for the benefit of water mills. The river was used to power numerous mills in the past, including two at Staveley, Kentmere water mill, and also the James Cropper paper factory at Burneside. One of the weirs at Staveley produces electricity for Staveley Mill Yard via a micro hydro scheme. There is also scope for micro hydro upstream at Kentmere.
The river is a designated Special Area of Conservation, primarily as an important habitat for the endangered White-clawed Crayfish (Austropotamobius pallipes). Fish species include salmon and trout. In the twentieth century fish ladders were constructed alongside the dams of mill-ponds to allow migratory fish to swim up to Kentmere. In 2013 DEFRA funding was announced for eel passes at Stramongate weir in Kendal and Basinghyll fish counter.
Information partly gained from www.visitcumbria.com/sl/kendal-bridges/
The (relatively) small batch of North East Proms today with Earth for scale, best 30% of 2100 frames in AS2, bin2x2 - very fast moving low clouds and gusty (45mph+) squalls today, hid in the gazebo with the scope and held on for dear life until I got a break. Image rotated 90 deg CW. Skywatcher 120ED Esprit, Daystar QC, Grasshopper 3 (IMX174). Genika software worked for once too without falling over.
Also different configuration for scope, replaced the Diagonal with an 80mm extension tube (UV/IR filter attached to this), then the Quark, then the camera. Seems to work just as well and lets me have more back focus. For a sense of further scale, see here www.flickr.com/photos/76699751@N07/28517451253/in/photost...
did a shoot with my best friends justin and draytons band "collide and scope" im probably going on a winter/new years tour with them should be fun.
i put my foot in my mouth when i said i was really loving shooting at night hahaa we had to use justins suv lights on high so i could get my camera to focus
-ab1600 boomed thru octa in front little right
-ab800 back left for rim
-ab800 in side and high top of the stair well full power shooting to make the window light up all erie
-canon 5d mark 2
- 17-40mm f4 usm L
best friends needed a shoot come down from gainesville we shot form 7pm til 12am
did a few locations in side and outside for the new layout this one was one of my favorites of the shoot
strobist
-ab1600 boomed in front
-ab800's left and right behind
Managed to grab an hour this morning, I've been meening to get this shot for a while, I'm still not 100% happy with it, might have to re-visit this one when I finaly get myself a new tripod that gave up the ghost shortly after this.Then went home and knocked my sons tooth out with a ball - not the best of days for Badger or young Badger junior:(
f22, 180secs, 12mm, iso100