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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.
I was checking out the Cimarron River area in prep for aspen color season. It's especially pretty, from the pics I've seen.
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.
Thank you for viewing my latest image of the Jellyfish nebular. IC 443 is a galactic supernova remnant in the constellation Gemini.
Photographed here in the Sierra Espada from my home obs.
RGB, HA & a touch of OIII. Under a moonless sky with an SQM reading of 20.77.
Scope: Vixen VSD
Filters: Chroma RGBL HA OIII Chroma Technology Corp
CCD: Trius SX-46 Starlight Xpress Ltd
Mount. Paramount MX
Hair: Little Bones / Scope
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Jacket: Blueberry / Asia
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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”
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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.
Spiral arms seem to swirl around the core of Messier 96 in this colorful island universe. Of course M96 is a spiral galaxy, and counting the faint arms extending beyond the brighter central region it spans 100 thousand light-years or so. That's about the size of our own Milky Way. M96 is known to be 38 million light-years distant, a dominant member of the Leo I galaxy group. In looking at the galaxy, it seems to me it might be becoming a polar ring galaxy; the core is nearly face-on to us, but the outer ring seems to sit at an obilque angle to the core.
Background galaxies and smaller Leo I group members can be found by examining the picture. The most intriguing one is itself a spiral galaxy seen nearly edge on behind the outer spiral arm near the 4 o'clock position from center. Its bright central bulge cut by its own dark dust clouds, the edge-on background spiral appears to be about 1/5 the size of M96. If that background galaxy is similar in actual size to M96, then it would be about 5 times farther away. Text from APOD
Taken from Ambrosia Mill AZ, February 2025
Equipment Paramount MYT, ZWO 2600MM, Vixen VC200L @ 1800mm focal length. Scope courtesy of Larry Parker
This image is an LRGB composition. Stars are RGB only.
RGB 2 hours each channel
L 10 hours
I'll be driving to Glacier this weekend to spend some time eye level with the mountain gods. Most of the logistics are pinned down, but I am left with one nagging question: which panoramic pinhole to take? I know for a fact that my bag will have one, and only one, pano pinhole in it. Glacier is too appropriate a place for such cameras to leave them all at home. Likewise, it seems way too redundant to take more than one. My choices are between three: the 6x12 Holga WPC, the 6x12 curved plane Reality So Subtle (with filter thread) or the 6x17 curved plane Reality So Subtle with two pinholes. Between those I think the 6x17 is at the bottom of the list. It has already been to Glacier, after all it made this image. The 6x12 Reality So Subtle is my newest pinhole addition and the one I have used the least. But looking back through my Holga WPC images lately I am reminded at just how capable a camera the WPC is. Plus it is so compact and light... and I do plan to get some miles in so every ounce counts.
Thankfully I have just under 36 hours to make up my mind. Not a bad decision to have to wrestle with.
Reality So Subtle 6x17
Kodak Ektar 100
Milkyway - Scopion
Camera: Nikon D810A
Lens: Sigma 50mm f/1.4
Data: ISO1600, f/3.2, 120sec x 60
May 5 2016,1:00-3:15 JST
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Another quick shot from Newlands Valley, Cumbria. A brief opportunity during our ever changing Cumbrian weather.
The final pic of this series finds Phil still winding his way down Scope End near the end of an excellent walk. October 1994.
Testing the view of prominences with my Orion SSAG Planetary 3Mp CMOS camera at Astrocamp in Cwmdu this year where I had the chance to sample a Daystar Quark on my Altair Lightwave 72 ED-R scope, courtesy of Nic at The Widescreen Centre on the afternoon of 11 May. Generally speaking I would not image the sun after 11am in the morning due to atmospheric turbulence, this was taken around 3pm. I have not messed with this, it is exactly the view/colours you see when moving the scope to view the limb instead of the surface as in the previous image.
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
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-ab1600 boomed in front
-ab800's left and right behind
On this week's episode of find the train: the STMA Plummer Turn returns over Benewah Lake on its eastbound journey back to St. Maries.
Was tickled to see the Brown Thrasher today while doing some birdwatching.
These guys don't show up too often out in the open, but they do like to check out the ground underneath the feeders from time to time. Today was one of those days.
They remind be a bit of Roadrunners because they usually seem to run from place to place instead of the slow gait most birds do when foraging under the feeders.
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
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 5.1.3, PS
Integration:
4HRS Ha in 6min exposures,
~2HRS ea L, R, G, B
Ha is combined with the R channel
Newlands valley in Autumn 2012. Lake District National park.
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