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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.
The Horsehead and Flame Nebula, a stack of 11 shots processed in Photoshop. 1 of the frames was 10 minutes at ISO800, the rest were 20 minutes per frame, ISO400. Uncooled Nikon D810A on a Celestron CGEM2 mount, APT controlling the camera, ZWO guide camera with 60mm Sbvony scope for guiding with PHD2. The main scope is a Nikkor 600mm f/4 VR lens, shot wide open here. I had to keep adjusting the focus about every 40 minutes as the temp dropped, which is a pain! When I tried to do the meridian flip I messed it up and the scope lost its aligment, which for some reason I couldn't re-establish. I lost so much time I gave up for the night! Something I have to work on!
I was checking out the Cimarron River area in prep for aspen color season. It's especially pretty, from the pics I've seen.
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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 male Pileated Woodpecker scans the area for what was making the noise before resuming his work on the cavity at Boyd Hill.
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 irs shaft to cover its entire resistance range, allowing finer adjustment than a standard potentiometer with a ¾- to ⅞-turn range.
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
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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
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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Image Details:
Scope: AT6RC @ 955mm with Astro-Physics CCDT67 reducer
Camera: QSI 6120
Mount: Takahashi EM-200
Guiding: QHY 5LII-M & Mini Guidescope (PHD2)
Image Capture: Sequence Generator Pro
Processing: PixInsight
Location: Brooks Memorial State Park, WA
Lum: 25x4min + 2x5min = 110 min
R, G, B: Each 12x2min = 24 min
Total integration time = 182 min
The final pic of this series finds Phil still winding his way down Scope End near the end of an excellent walk. October 1994.