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Captured 2 Dec 2021, 22:58 hrs ET, Springfield, VA, USA. Bortle 7 skies, Stellarvue SV80/9D doublet achromat refractor at f/9.38 (eff. fl 750mm), Orion Atlas AZ/EQ-G Pro mount. Mallincam DS10C camera, bin 1, exposure 8 seconds, gain 20, live stack of 20 subframes, dark frames subtracted. Optolong LeNhance filter.
Clouds: partly cloudy
Seeing: good
Transparency: good
Moon phase: 4%
FOV: 78.4 x 58.8 arcmin before cropping.
Resolution: 1.27 arcsec/pixel.
Orientation: Up is West.
Appearance: Brilliant pale-orange star. Magnitude +0.08.
Splitting Capella: The primary pair (Capella Aa and Ab) appear very close together, separation 0.06 arsec, and were not resolved in this image. Splitting Capella A would require aperture on the order of 80 inches or more! The second pair (Capella H and L) are separated from A by 12 arcsec, well within the capability of this equipment (Dawes limit 1.45 arcsec, image scale 1.3 arcsec/px) if used with an occulting bar.
Notes on image artifacts: The eight spikes appearing to radiate from the center of the star are visually appealing, and appear in images of other very bright stars via this camera and my SCT. I do not have a reasonable explanation (in the absence of a vaned secondary mirror holder) for it. The halo around the star is slightly off-center from the star (likely collimation error or mild sensor tilt) -- try aligning star to exact center of FOV during capture.
From Wikipedia:
Capella, designated α Aurigae (Latinised to Alpha Aurigae, abbreviated Alpha Aur, α Aur), is the brightest star in the constellation of Auriga, the sixth-brightest star in the night sky, and the third-brightest in the northern celestial hemisphere after Arcturus and Vega. A prominent object in the northern winter sky, it is circumpolar to observers north of 44°N. Its name meaning "little goat" in Latin, Capella depicted the goat Amalthea that suckled Zeus in classical mythology. Capella is relatively close, at 42.9 light-years (13.2 pc) from the Sun. It is one of the brightest X-ray sources in the sky, thought to come primarily from the corona of Capella Aa.
Although it appears to be a single star to the naked eye, Capella is actually a quadruple star system organized in two binary pairs, made up of the stars Capella Aa, Capella Ab, Capella H and Capella L. The primary pair, Capella Aa and Capella Ab, are two bright-yellow giant stars, both of which are around 2.5 times as massive as the Sun. The secondary pair, Capella H and Capella L, are around 10,000 astronomical units (AU) from the first and are two faint, small and relatively cool red dwarfs. Capella Aa and Capella Ab have exhausted their core hydrogen, and cooled and expanded, moving off the main sequence. They are in a very tight circular orbit about 0.74 AU apart, and orbit each other every 104 days. Capella Aa is the cooler and more luminous of the two with spectral class K0III; it is 78.7 ± 4.2 times the Sun's luminosity and 11.98 ± 0.57 times its radius. An aging red clump star, it is fusing helium to carbon and oxygen in its core. Capella Ab is slightly smaller and hotter and of spectral class G1III; it is 72.7 ± 3.6 times as luminous as the Sun and 8.83 ± 0.33 times its radius. It is in the Hertzsprung gap, corresponding to a brief subgiant evolutionary phase as it expands and cools to become a red giant. Several other stars in the same visual field have been catalogued as companions but are physically unrelated.
α Aurigae (Latinised to Alpha Aurigae) is the star system's Bayer designation. It also has the Flamsteed designation 13 Aurigae. It is listed in several multiple star catalogues as ADS 3841, CCDM J05168+4559, and WDS J05167+4600. As a relatively nearby star system, Capella is listed in the Gliese-Jahreiss Catalogue with designations GJ 194 for the bright pair of giants and GJ 195 for the faint pair of red dwarfs.
The traditional name Capella is Latin for (small) female goat; the alternative name Capra was more commonly used in classical times. In 2016, the International Astronomical Union organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) to catalogue and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN's first bulletin of July 2016 included a table of the first two batches of names approved by the WGSN; which included Capella for this star. It is now so entered in the IAU Catalog of Star Names. The catalogue of star names lists Capella as applying to the star α Aurigae Aa.
Capella was the brightest star in the night sky from 210,000 years ago to 160,000 years ago, at about −1.8 in apparent magnitude. At −1.1, Aldebaran was brightest before this period; it and Capella were situated rather close to each other in the sky and approximated boreal pole stars at the time.
Capella is thought to be mentioned in an Akkadian inscription dating to the 20th century BC. Its goat-associated symbolism dates back to Mesopotamia as a constellation called "GAM", "Gamlum" or "MUL.GAM" in the 7th-century BC document MUL.APIN. GAM represented a scimitar or crook and may have represented the star alone or the constellation of Auriga as a whole. Later, Bedouin astronomers created constellations that were groups of animals, where each star represented one animal. The stars of Auriga comprised a herd of goats, an association also present in Greek mythology. It is sometimes called the Shepherd's Star in English literature. Capella was seen as a portent of rain in classical times.
Professor William Wallace Campbell of the Lick Observatory announced that Capella was binary in 1899, based on spectroscopic observations—he noted on photographic plates taken from August 1896 to February 1897 that a second spectrum appeared superimposed over the first, and that there was a doppler shift to violet in September and October and to red in November and February—showing that the components were moving toward and away from the Earth (and hence orbiting each other). Almost simultaneously, British astronomer Hugh Newall had observed its composite spectrum with a four prism spectroscope attached to a 25-inch (64 cm) telescope at Cambridge in July 1899, concluding that it was a binary star system.
Many observers tried to discern the component stars without success. Known as "The Interferometrist's Friend", it was first resolved interferometrically in 1919 by John Anderson and Francis Pease at Mount Wilson Observatory, who published an orbit in 1920 based on their observations. This was the first interferometric measurement of any object outside the Solar System. A high-precision orbit was published in 1994 based on observations by the Mark III Stellar Interferometer, again at Mount Wilson Observatory. Capella also became the first astronomical object to be imaged by a separate element optical interferometer when it was imaged by the Cambridge Optical Aperture Synthesis Telescope in September 1995.
In 1914, Finnish astronomer Ragnar Furuhjelm observed that the spectroscopic binary had a faint companion star, which, as its proper motion was similar to that of the spectroscopic binary, was probably physically bound to it. In February 1936, Carl L. Stearns observed that this companion appeared to be double itself; this was confirmed in September that year by Gerard Kuiper. This pair are designated Capella H and L.
Two Aerobee-Hi rocket flights on September 20, 1962, and March 15, 1963, detected and confirmed an X-ray source in Auriga at RA 05h 09m Dec +45°, identified as Capella. Stellar X-ray astronomy started on April 5, 1974, with the detection of X-rays from Capella. A rocket flight on that date briefly calibrated its attitude control system when a star sensor pointed the payload axis at Capella. During this period, X-rays in the range 0.2–1.6 keV were detected by an X-ray reflector system co-aligned with the star sensor. The X-ray luminosity (Lx) of ~1024 W (1031 erg s−1) is four orders of magnitude above the Sun's X-ray luminosity. Capella's X-rays are thought to be primarily from the corona of the most massive star. Capella is ROSAT X-ray source 1RXS J051642.2+460001. The high temperature of Capella's corona as obtained from the first coronal X-ray spectrum of Capella using HEAO 1 would require magnetic confinement, unless it is a free-flowing coronal wind.
With an average apparent magnitude of +0.08, Capella is the brightest object in the constellation Auriga, the sixth-brightest star in the night sky, the third-brightest in the northern celestial hemisphere (after Arcturus and Vega), and the fourth-brightest visible to the naked eye from the latitude 40°N. It appears to be a rich yellowish-white colour, although the yellow colour is more apparent during daylight observation with a telescope, due to the contrast against the blue sky.
Capella is closer to the north celestial pole than any other first-magnitude star. Its northern declination is such that it is actually invisible south of latitude 44°S—this includes southernmost New Zealand, Argentina and Chile as well as the Falkland Islands. Conversely it is circumpolar north of 44°N: for the whole of the United Kingdom and Canada (except for part of Southern Ontario), most of Europe, and the northernmost fringes of the contiguous United States, the star never sets. Capella and Vega are on opposite sides of the pole, at about the same distance from it, such that an imaginary line between the two stars will nearly pass through Polaris. Visible halfway between Orion's Belt and Polaris, Capella is at its highest in the night sky at midnight in early December and is regarded as a prominent star of the northern winter sky.
A few degrees to the southwest of Capella lie three stars, Epsilon Aurigae, Zeta Aurigae and Eta Aurigae, the latter two of which are known as "The Kids", or Haedi. The four form a familiar pattern, or asterism, in the sky.
Based on an annual parallax shift of 76.20 milliarcseconds (with a margin of error of 0.46 milliarcseconds) as measured by the Hipparcos satellite, this system is estimated to be 42.8 light-years (13.12 parsecs) from Earth, with a margin of error of 0.3 light-year (0.09 parsec). An alternative method to determine the distance is via the orbital parallax, which gives a distance of 42.92 light-years (13.159 parsecs) with a margin of error of only 0.1%. Capella is estimated to have been a little closer to the Solar System in the past, passing within 29 light-years distant around 237,000 years ago. At this range, it would have shone at apparent magnitude −0.82, comparable to Canopus today.
In a 1960 paper, American astronomer Olin J. Eggen concluded that Capella was a member of the Hyades moving group, a group of stars moving in the same direction as the Hyades cluster, after analysing its proper motion and parallax. Members of the group are of a similar age, and those that are around 2.5 times as massive as the Sun have moved off the main sequence after exhausting their core hydrogen reserves and are expanding and cooling into red giants.
There are several stars within a few arcminutes of Capella and some have been listed as companions in various multiple star catalogues. The Washington Double Star Catalog lists components A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, L, M, N, O, P, Q, and R, with A being the naked-eye star. Most are only line-of-sight companions, but the close pair of red dwarfs H and L are at the same distance as the bright component A and moving through space along with it. Capella A is itself a spectroscopic binary with components Aa and Ab, both giant stars. The pair of giants is separated from the pair of red dwarfs by 12'.
American astronomer Robert Burnham Jr. described a scale model of the system where Capella A was represented by spheres 13 and 7 inches across, separated by ten feet. The red dwarfs were then each 0.7 inch across and they were separated by 420 feet. At this scale, the two pairs are 21 miles apart.
Capella A consists of two yellow evolved stars that have been calculated to orbit each other every 104.02128 ± 0.00016 days, with a semimajor axis of 111.11 ± 0.10 million km (0.74272 ± 0.00069 AU), roughly the distance between Venus and the Sun. The pair is not an eclipsing binary—that is, as seen from Earth, neither star passes in front of the other. The orbit is known extremely accurately and can be used to derive an orbital parallax with far better precision than the one measured directly. The stars are not near enough to each other for the Roche lobe of either star to have been filled and any significant mass transfer to have taken place, even during the red giant stage of the primary star.
Modern convention designates the more luminous cooler star as component Aa and its spectral type has been usually measured between G2 and K0. The hotter secondary Ab has been given various spectral types of late (cooler) F or early (warmer) G. The MK spectral types of the two stars have been measured a number of times, and they are both consistently assigned a luminosity class of III indicating a giant star. The composite spectrum appears to be dominated by the primary star due to its sharper absorption lines; the lines from the secondary are broadened and blurred by its rapid rotation. The composite spectral class is given as approximately G3III, but with a specific mention of features due to a cooler component. The most recent specific published types are K0III and G1III, although older values are still widely quoted such as G5IIIe + G0III from the Bright Star Catalogue or G8III + G0III by Eggen. Where the context is clear, these two components have been referred to as A and B.
The individual apparent magnitudes of the two component stars cannot be directly measured, but their relative brightness has been measured at various wavelengths. They have very nearly equal brightness in the visible light spectrum, with the hotter secondary component generally being found to be a few tenths of a magnitude brighter. A 2016 measurement gives the magnitude difference between the two stars at a wavelength of 700 nm as 0.00 ± 0.1.
The physical properties of the two stars can be determined with high accuracy. The masses are derived directly from the orbital solution, with Aa being 2.5687 ± 0.0074 M☉ and Ab being 2.4828 ± 0.0067 M☉. Their angular radii have been directly measured; in combination with the very accurate distance, this gives 11.98 ± 0.57 R☉ and 8.83 ± 0.33 R☉ for Aa and Ab, respectively. Their surface temperatures can be calculated by comparison of observed and synthetic spectra, direct measurement of their angular diameters and brightnesses, calibration against their observed colour indices, and disentangling of high resolution spectra. Weighted averages of these four methods give 4,970 ± 50 K for Aa and 5,730 ± 60 for Ab. Their bolometric luminosities are most accurately derived from their apparent magnitudes and bolometric corrections, but are confirmed by calculation from the temperatures and radii of the stars. Aa is 78.7 ± 4.2 times as luminous as the Sun and Ab 72.7 ± 3.6 times as luminous, so the star defined as the primary component is the more luminous when all wavelengths are considered but very slightly less bright at visual wavelengths.
Estimated to be 590 to 650 million years old, the stars were probably at the hot end of spectral class A during their main-sequence lifetime, similar to Vega. They have now exhausted their core hydrogen and evolved off the main sequence, their outer layers expanding and cooling. Despite the giant luminosity class, the secondary component is very clearly within the Hertzsprung gap on the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram, still expanding and cooling towards the red giant branch, making it a subgiant in evolutionary terms. The more massive primary has already passed through this stage, when it reached a maximum radius of 36 to 38 times that of the Sun. It is now a red clump star which is fusing helium to carbon and oxygen in its core, a process that has not yet begun for the less massive star. Detailed analysis shows that it is nearing the end of this stage and starting to expand again which will lead it to the asymptotic giant branch. Isotope abundances and spin rates confirm this evolutionary difference between the two stars. Heavy element abundances are broadly comparable to those of the Sun and the overall metallicity is slightly less than the Sun's.
The rotational period of each star can be measured by observing periodic variations in the doppler shifts of their spectral lines. The absolute rotational velocities of the two stars are known from their inclinations, rotation periods, and sizes, but the projected equatorial rotational velocities measured using doppler broadening of spectral lines are a standard measure and these are generally quoted. Capella Aa has a projected rotational velocity of 4.1 ± 0.4 km per second, taking 104 ± 3 days to complete one rotation, while Capella Ab spins much more rapidly at 35.0 ± 0.5 km per second, completing a full rotation in only 8.5 ± 0.2 days. Rotational braking occurs in all stars when they expand into giants, and binary stars are also tidally braked. Capella Aa has slowed until it is rotationally locked to the orbital period, although theory predicts that it should still be rotating more quickly from a starting point of a rapidly-spinning main sequence A star.
Capella has long been suspected to be slightly variable. Its amplitude of about 0.1 magnitudes means that it may at times be brighter or fainter than Rigel, Betelgeuse and Vega, which are also variable. The system has been classified as an RS Canum Venaticorum variable, a class of binary stars with active chromospheres that cause huge starspots, but it is still only listed as a suspected variable in the General Catalogue of Variable Stars. Unusually for RS CVn systems, the hotter star, Capella Ab, has the more active atmosphere because it is located in the Hertzsprung gap—a stage where it is changing its angular momentum and deepening its convection zone.
The active atmospheres and closeness of these stars means that they are among the brightest X-ray sources in the sky. However the X-ray emission is due to stable coronal structures and not eruptive flaring activity. Coronal loops larger than the Sun and with temperatures of several million kelvin are likely to be responsible for the majority of the X-rays.
The seventh companion published for Capella, component H, is physically associated with the bright primary star. It is a red dwarf separated from the pair of G-type giants by a distance of around 10,000 AU. It has its own close companion, an even fainter red dwarf that was 1.8″ away when it was discovered in 1935. It is component L in double star catalogues. In 2015 the separation had increased to 3.5″, which was sufficient to allow tentative orbital parameters to be derived, 80 years after its discovery. The Gliese-Jahreiss Catalogue of nearby stars designates the binary system as GJ 195. The two components are then referred to individually as GJ 195 A and B.
The two stars are reported to have a 3.5-visual-magnitude difference (2.3 mag in the passband of the Gaia spacecraft) although the difference is much smaller at infrared wavelengths. This is unexpected and may indicate further unseen companions.
The mass of the stars can, in principle, be determined from the orbital motion, but uncertainties in the orbit have led to widely varying results. In 1975, an eccentric 388-year orbit gave masses of 0.65 M☉ and 0.13 M☉. A smaller near-circular orbit published in 2015 had a 300-year orbit, benefitting from mass constraints of 0.57 M☉ and 0.53 M☉, respectively, for GJ 195 A and B, based on their infrared magnitudes.
Six visual companions to Capella were discovered before Capella H and are generally known only as Capella B through G. None are thought to be physically associated with Capella, although all appear closer in the sky than the HL pair.
Component F is also known as TYC 3358-3142-1. It is listed with a spectral type of K although it is included in a catalogue of OB stars as a distant luminous star.
Component G is BD+45 1076, with a spectral type of F0, at a distance of 401 light-years (123 parsecs). It is identified as a variable member of the Guide Star Catalogue from Chandra observations although it is not known what type of variability. It is known to be an X-ray source with an active corona.
Several other stars have also been catalogued as companions to Capella. Components I, Q and R are 13th-magnitude stars at distances of 92″, 133″ and 134″. V538 Aurigae and its close companion HD 233153 are red dwarfs ten degrees away from Capella; they have very similar space motions but the small difference makes it possible that this is just a coincidence. Two faint stars have been discovered by speckle imaging in the Capella HL field, around 10″ distant from that pair. These have been catalogued as Capella O and P. It is not known whether they are physically associated with the red dwarf binary.
Capella traditionally marks the left shoulder of the constellation's eponymous charioteer, or, according to the 2nd-century astronomer Ptolemy's Almagest, the goat that the charioteer is carrying. In Bayer's 1603 work Uranometria, Capella marks the charioteer's back. The three Haedi had been identified as a separate constellation by Pliny the Elder and Manilius, and were called Capra, Caper, or Hircus, all of which relate to its status as the "goat star". Ptolemy merged the Charioteer and the Goats in the 2nd-century Almagest.
In Greek mythology, the star represented the goat Amalthea that suckled Zeus. It was this goat whose horn, after accidentally being broken off by Zeus, was transformed into the Cornucopia, or "horn of plenty", which would be filled with whatever its owner desired. Though most often associated with Amalthea, Capella has sometimes been associated with Amalthea's owner, a nymph. The myth of the nymph says that the goat's hideous appearance, resembling a Gorgon, was partially responsible for the Titans' defeat, after Zeus skinned the goat and wore it as his aegis.
In medieval accounts, it bore the uncommon name Alhajoth (also spelled Alhaior, Althaiot, Alhaiset, Alhatod, Alhojet, Alanac, Alanat, Alioc), which (especially the last) may be a corruption of its Arabic name, العيوق, al-cayyūq. cAyyūq has no clear significance in Arabic, but may be an Arabized form of the Greek αίξ aiks "goat"; cf. the modern Greek Αίγα Aiga, the feminine of goat. To the Bedouin of the Negev and Sinai, Capella al-'Ayyūq ath-Thurayyā "Capella of the Pleiades", from its role as pointing out the position of that asterism. Another name in Arabic was Al-Rākib "the driver", a translation of the Greek.
To the ancient Balts, Capella was known as Perkūno Ožka "Thunder's Goat", or Tikutis. Conversely in Slavic Macedonian folklore, Capella was Jastreb "the hawk", flying high above and ready to pounce on Mother Hen (the Pleiades) and the Rooster (Nath).
Astrologically, Capella portends civic and military honors and wealth. In the Middle Ages, it was considered a Behenian fixed star, with the stone sapphire and the plants horehound, mint, mugwort and mandrake as attributes. Cornelius Agrippa listed its kabbalistic sign Agrippa1531 Hircus.png with the name Hircus (Latin for goat).
In Hindu mythology, Capella was seen as the heart of Brahma, Brahma Hṛdaya. In traditional Chinese astronomy, Capella was part of the asterism 五車 (Wŭ chē; English: Five Chariots), which consisted of Capella together with Beta Aurigae, Theta Aurigae and Iota Aurigae, as well as Beta Tauri. Since it was the second star in this asterism, it has the Chinese name 五車二 (Wŭ chē èr; English: Second of the Five Chariots).
In Quechua it was known as Colça; the Incas held the star in high regard. The Hawaiians saw Capella as part of an asterism Ke ka o Makali'i ("The canoe bailer of Makali'i") that helped them navigate at sea. Called Hoku-lei "star wreath", it formed this asterism with Procyon, Sirius, Castor and Pollux. In Tahitian folklore, Capella was Tahi-ari'i, the wife of Fa'a-nui (Auriga) and mother of prince Ta'urua (Venus) who sails his canoe across the sky. In Inuit astronomy, Capella, along with Menkalinan (Beta Aurigae), Pollux (Beta Geminorum) and Castor (Alpha Geminorum), formed a constellation Quturjuuk, "collar-bones", the two pairs of stars denoting a bone each. Used for navigation and time-keeping at night, the constellation was recognised from Alaska to western Greenland. The Gwich'in saw Capella and Menkalinan has forming shreets'ą įį vidzee, the right ear of the large circumpolar constellation Yahdii, which covered much of the night sky, and whose orientation facilitated navigation and timekeeping.
In Australian Aboriginal mythology for the Boorong people of Victoria, Capella was Purra, the kangaroo, pursued and killed by the nearby Gemini twins, Yurree (Castor) and Wanjel (Pollux). The Wardaman people of northern Australia knew the star as Yagalal, a ceremonial fish scale, related to Guwamba the barramundi (Aldebaran).
Ceremony of Separation
Autumn/Winter 2015 - 2016
Dress of black cotton-rayon chiffon and nylon tulle faced with black lace and padded with white synthetic wadding.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute spring 2017 exhibition, Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between, on view from May 4 through September 4, examines Kawakubo’s fascination with interstitiality, or the space between boundaries. In Kawakubo’s work, this in-between space is revealed as an aesthetic sensibility, establishing an unsettling zone of oscillating visual ambiguity that challenges conventional notions of beauty, good taste, and fashionability. A thematic exhibition, rather than a traditional retrospective, this is The Costume Institute’s first monographic show on a living designer since the Yves Saint Laurent exhibition in 1983.
--- Metropolitan Museum of Art
Not sure but but I think this is the first stage separation from the SpaceX launch on 2024-06-18 from Vandenberg SFB, California.
Photos taken at our ESOC mission control centre around the time of AOS (acquisition of signal) from ExoMars/TGO following the separation of the Schiaparelli lander Credit: ESA/P. Shlyaev
My grandaughter moved to Port Perry, Ontario and we went to visit! Its a tourist area and I saw this outside an antique store and fell right in love with it! No, I didn't buy it!
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This minivan owned by the Sheriff's Department of Pearl River County passed us on its way back to Picayune, possibly hauling somebody off to jail. The Pearl River Sheriff likes to make statements about how it feels about certain amendments in the Bill of Rights, expressing the Sheriff's right to free speech while ignoring the bit about the separation of church and state. I guess it works with money, though, so who in Mississippi is going to complain about a sheriff's minivan? Richard Dawkins doesn't live here.
I once had a sheriff's prisoner transport minivan run up on my ass as I was passing a semi-truck on I-65 near Crown Point, Indiana. It's a minivan, though, and through the mirror I couldn't tell it had any relation to law enforcement. All I could see is that the guy was getting ready to pull into my tail pipe, and that tends to make me mad. My response to being tailgated is always to slow way, way down. If I'm in a situation like I was on 65 where I'm passing somebody, I slow down enough to match the speed of the guy I'm passing, blocking him for a while and letting him stew. But sheriff minivans don't like to stew, so the guy flipped on his sheriff lights, informing me of his law enforcement connection. I said a naughty word, then slowed down even more to let the semi pass so I could pull over. It turns out, the sheriff didn't want me to pull over, though. He just wanted me to get out of the way. Which would have happened faster if he hadn't ridden my ass in the first place.
Painted on an iPhone with SketchbookMobile, Camera
The photo is from the fantastic Muybridge show at SFMOMA going on now, the Magritte-like ball was actually from a pic that I took in Union Square.
Modify, paint, rinse, repeat. Just noticed that the horizon line is crooked. DOH!
Derek’s amazing rocket shot to 121,000 ft. at 2181 MPH and returned safely just 16,000 ft. from the launch pad.
The trick to such a close recovery is use a smaller chute and plan for a rough landing (she peaked at 613 MPH on the return to Earth).
In this case, the only complication was a tight coupler that got a bit wedged at an angle. Nothing the Suburban can’t handle… =)
for the utata project: picture this #3
in what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.
Henry David Thoreau
Hafradot / Dom - An evening of new works by Roni Hadash and Bashmat Nosen for Ensemble Bat Sheva.
The Batsheva Ensemble is Batsheva's young band, and serves as a platform for contemporary and experimental work. Such evenings often combine:
New original works
Innovative movement language (sometimes inspired by the Gaga method)
Exploration of personal/emotional themes (such as separation, silence, boundaries — in keeping with the names “Separations” and “Silence”)
About the creators:
Roni Hadash – a creator and choreographer who often deals with the body, identity and intimate situations.
Bishmat Nosen – a choreographer with a more experimental approach, sometimes combining movement with theatrical or conceptual elements…
#120. World Art Day
126 Pictures in 2026
It was love at first sight. Love was born with the pleasure of looking at the beauty. She found her heart attracted by the splendour and touched by the warmth. A necessity of seeing and experiencing the spell binding beauty concluded with the impossibility of separation. They say love is blind but can love be so blind to make someone leave her comfortable life in her motherland?
Youngqui Liu on top of Sigiriya
This is exactly what Youngqui Liu decided when she stepped on Sri Lankan soil for the first time. Falling in love with the tiny blessed island, she made up her mind to leave behind her occupation and start her life all over again.
Five years ago, Youngqui Liu arrived in Sri Lanka for a short vacation. Escaping the cold winds that blew across the Northern China during the winter season in mind, Liu boarded the plane from Beijing. She thought spending some time with her husband who was employed in a warm South Asian island would be the best option. Holding the return air tickets in one hand, Liu walked through the doors of the Bandaranaike International Airport into the sunny island. “I never thought that I would spend so many years of my life in Sri Lanka when I stepped into the ‘bright and fertile island’ five years ago. On January 25, 2005 I arrived in Sri Lanka. It was my first visit to the South Asian island. Holding my son’s little hand and the envelope containing two return tickets between Beijing and Colombo, I came to visit my husband Zhanjie Chen who is the chief correspondent of Xinhua News Agency, Colombo Office,” she recalled.
“At that time, Sri Lanka was just recovering from the shock of the massive tsunami which washed the shores of the island. People were in deep sorrow because of the devastation which occurred just one month before my arrival. The Colombo Office of Xinhua News Agency was extremely busy with tsunami reporting,” Liu reminisced the devastating moment, the nation was going through when she arrived.
While the people in the Southern coastal area were in torment due to tsunami, people in North were displaced and were in anguish because of the conflict. At such a time, when the society was seized by anxiety, uncertainity and misery, anyone would think of fleeing to a safer place. Liu’s thoughts were not the same, instead she decided to settle down in Sri Lanka.
“But it did not matter for us. We fell in love with Sri Lanka immediately, especially my seven-year-old son. He was born in Beijing which is a forest of concrete. Suddenly, he was free to run barefoot on the sandy beaches and watch the squirrels, monitors, butterflies and many other lovely creatures. So we decided to settle here with his father,” she explained.
“For me, it was a new beginning. I had to abandon my job in Beijing as an editor, and learn everything in the new environment – driving, English and then photography. In March 2008, I joined Xinhua as a correspondent,” Liu said.
Since then her keen eyes has followed every face around her. Equipped with her camera she has walked through the streets all over the country capturing the thoughts on faces, fleeting moments of the nature and the flashes of rich cultural events.
Since then, the charms of Sri Lanka have kept Liu rooted in the island. “I was deeply indulged in the rich culture and history, the fascinating gifts of nature and the friendly people of the country,” she said. Distilling precious moments in life and eternally preserving them on a photograph is more than a profession of Liu. It was her passion. She wanted the world to share the happiness she experienced in Sri Lanka.
“I began to write a lot of stories about Sri Lanka which were either published in Chinese magazines and newspapers, or posted on my blog. One of my friends once said to me that she is discovering Sri Lanka through my articles,” Liu said. An affectionate smile, a dancer full of energy, tranquility of a temple, the silent prayer of a worshiper or an animal in the wilderness were recorded on her camera and in her heart. “I shot pictures at different occasions as much as possible. Every moment that urged me capture a picture whether it is an expression on some person’s face, an image in a certain occasion, or a cloud flying across the sky or a monkey staring at me, always touched my heart deeply. These are not just photographs for me but are the most meaningful memories in my life,” she said.
The time has now dawn for this enthusiastic photographer to say goodbye to this wonderful country and its people. “Five years is too short for me to understand Sri Lanka. My husband and I will leave the country for Greece to start the next period of work. We have to say goodbye to Sri Lanka in November,’ Liu said.
Liu’s parting is indeed a sad moment but will open up another leaf of a wonderful experience in her life. She will hold her maiden photographic exhibition unfolding the memories she bagged during her five year stay in Sri Lanka.
The exhibition titled ‘Sri Lanka My Love’ will display the sense of mystery and the beauty of life, nature, and special moments that were captured on Liu’s camera.
The sixty photographs that will be exhibited will bring back memories buried in our lives. Liu’s exhibition will also include her experiences of another devastation that was battering Sri Lanka. It was the last phase of the three decade long conflict which stole away many precious lives of Sri Lankans.
Even though uncertainty clouded every nook and corner of the country, Liu did not entertain any thoughts of leaving the island. The cruelty of war, the suffering of the innocent and the destruction were recorded both on her camera and her heart.
“The experience of the last phase of the war that pained Sri Lanka for nearly 30 years is unforgettable. I was shocked. I cried when innocent civilians were killed in such a nice country. I always kept asking ‘why’. I remember how I threw up after returning from the scene where a LTTE suicide bomber blew him up, targeting the Secretary of Defence,” she explained.
Inviting all patriotic Lankans to view her exhibition and enjoy the moments of pleasure Liu said even though I say goodbye, my love for this country will be forever.”
‘Sri Lanka My Love’ the photographic exhibition will take place today (October 2) at the Galle Face Hotel, Colombo. The exhibition will remain open for the public until October 4. Minister of Economic Development Basil Rajapaksa will be the Chief Guest at this event while the Chinese Ambassador to Sri Lanka Yang Xiuping will grace the occasion as the Guest of Honour.
This is exactly what Youngqui Liu decided when she stepped on Sri Lankan soil for the first time. Falling in love with the tiny blessed island, she made up her mind to leave behind her occupation and start her life all over again.
Five years ago, Youngqui Liu arrived in Sri Lanka for a short vacation. Escaping the cold winds that blew across the Northern China during the winter season in mind, Liu boarded the plane from Beijing. She thought spending some time with her husband who was employed in a warm South Asian island would be the best option. Holding the return air tickets in one hand, Liu walked through the doors of the Bandaranaike International Airport into the sunny island.
“I never thought that I would spend so many years of my life in Sri Lanka when I stepped into the ‘bright and fertile island’ five years ago. On January 25, 2005 I arrived in Sri Lanka. It was my first visit to the South Asian island. Holding my son’s little hand and the envelope containing two return tickets between Beijing and Colombo, I came to visit my husband Zhanjie Chen who is the chief correspondent of Xinhua News Agency, Colombo Office,” she recalled.
“At that time, Sri Lanka was just recovering from the shock of the massive tsunami which washed the shores of the island. People were in deep sorrow because of the devastation which occurred just one month before my arrival. The Colombo Office of Xinhua News Agency was extremely busy with tsunami reporting,” Liu reminisced the devastating moment, the nation was going through when she arrived.
While the people in the Southern coastal area were in torment due to tsunami, people in North were displaced and were in anguish because of the conflict. At such a time, when the society was seized by anxiety, uncertainity and misery, anyone would think of fleeing to a safer place. Liu’s thoughts were not the same, instead she decided to settle down in Sri Lanka.
An old man
Aftermath of an explosion
“But it did not matter for us. We fell in love with Sri Lanka immediately, especially my seven-year-old son. He was born in Beijing which is a forest of concrete. Suddenly, he was free to run barefoot on the sandy beaches and watch the squirrels, monitors, butterflies and many other lovely creatures. So we decided to settle here with his father,” she explained.
“For me, it was a new beginning. I had to abandon my job in Beijing as an editor, and learn everything in the new environment – driving, English and then photography. In March 2008, I joined Xinhua as a correspondent,” Liu said.
Since then her keen eyes has followed every face around her. Equipped with her camera she has walked through the streets all over the country capturing the thoughts on faces, fleeting moments of the nature and the flashes of rich cultural events.
Since then, the charms of Sri Lanka have kept Liu rooted in the island. “I was deeply indulged in the rich culture and history, the fascinating gifts of nature and the friendly people of the country,” she said. Distilling precious moments in life and eternally preserving them on a photograph is more than a profession of Liu. It was her passion. She wanted the world to share the happiness she experienced in Sri Lanka.
“I began to write a lot of stories about Sri Lanka which were either published in Chinese magazines and newspapers, or posted on my blog. One of my friends once said to me that she is discovering Sri Lanka through my articles,” Liu said. An affectionate smile, a dancer full of energy, tranquility of a temple, the silent prayer of a worshiper or an animal in the wilderness were recorded on her camera and in her heart. “I shot pictures at different occasions as much as possible. Every moment that urged me capture a picture whether it is an expression on some person’s face, an image in a certain occasion, or a cloud flying across the sky or a monkey staring at me, always touched my heart deeply. These are not just photographs for me but are the most meaningful memories in my life,” she said.
The time has now dawn for this enthusiastic photographer to say goodbye to this wonderful country and its people. “Five years is too short for me to understand Sri Lanka. My husband and I will leave the country for Greece to start the next period of work. We have to say goodbye to Sri Lanka in November,’ Liu said.
Liu’s parting is indeed a sad moment but will open up another leaf of a wonderful experience in her life. She will hold her maiden photographic exhibition unfolding the memories she bagged during her five year stay in Sri Lanka.
The exhibition titled ‘Sri Lanka My Love’ will display the sense of mystery and the beauty of life, nature, and special moments that were captured on Liu’s camera.
Website coordinator’s Note: Sri Lanka is also blessed by the presence of a worldr=renowned cameraperson in Juliette Coombe, the english lass who a married a local tuk-tuk driver and took up residence in the fort of Galle. See Around the Fort in 80 Lives and check Harper Collins for her photographic books.
The sixty photographs that will be exhibited will bring back memories buried in our lives. Liu’s exhibition will also include her experiences of another devastation that was battering Sri Lanka. It was the last phase of the three decade long conflict which stole away many precious lives of Sri Lankans.
Even though uncertainty clouded every nook and corner of the country, Liu did not entertain any thoughts of leaving the island. The cruelty of war, the suffering of the innocent and the destruction were recorded both on her camera and her heart.
“The experience of the last phase of the war that pained Sri Lanka for nearly 30 years is unforgettable. I was shocked. I cried when innocent civilians were killed in such a nice country. I always kept asking ‘why’. I remember how I threw up after returning from the scene where a LTTE suicide bomber blew him up, targeting the Secretary of Defence,” she explained.
Inviting all patriotic Lankans to view her exhibition and enjoy the moments of pleasure Liu said even though I say goodbye, my love for this country will be forever.”
‘Sri Lanka My Love’ the photographic exhibition will take place today (October 2) at the Galle Face Hotel, Colombo. The exhibition will remain open for the public until October 4. Minister of Economic Development Basil Rajapaksa will be the Chief Guest at this event while the Chinese Ambassador to Sri Lanka Yang Xiuping will grace the occasion as the Guest of Honour.
Photos taken at our ESOC mission control centre around the time of AOS (acquisition of signal) from ExoMars/TGO following the separation of the Schiaparelli lander Credit: ESA/P. Shlyaev
Carolyne Burns, co-PI with Leonard Pease, demonstrates the laboratory-scale prototype of the Mesofluidic Device using an iron phosphate slurry.
Developed with LDRD funding, this 3-D printed metal pipe contains an 80,000-post bump array that aims to separate the type of particles found in Hanford tank waste. This lab-scale device can filter particles as small as 10 microns.
The Mesofluidic Device is in the process of being patented through the PNNL Technology Deployment & Outreach Office.
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....she's already gone before he even got to know her~
by Martin Øbakke/ the Filigree / Celena Cavala
No tengo intención de hacer este tipo de retoques en mis imágenes. Puedo borrar algunas imperfecciones de forma muy puntual, pero prefiero dejar siempre la piel lo más intacta posible, al natural. Esto es simplemente un ejercicio para practicar y ver hasta dónde puedo llegar. Esta es la primera vez que llevo a cabo la separación de frecuencias (frequency separation) y el dodge & burn.
NELLES (Nellis), ROBERT, businessman, office holder, jp, politician, and militia officer; b. 6 Oct. 1761 in Tryon County, N.Y., eldest son of Hendrick William Nelles (Nellis); m. first 1788 Elizabeth Moore (d. 1813), and they had five sons and three daughters; m. secondly 1814 Maria Jane Waddell, the widow of Samuel Bingle, and they had two sons and four daughters; d. 27 July 1842 in Grimsby, Upper Canada.
According to family tradition, Robert Nelles was descended from a Huguenot family that was driven from France to the Palatinate (Federal Republic of Germany) following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. In 1709 they were uprooted once again by a French invasion and found temporary asylum in England. From there they were bundled off, along with 4,000 Palatinate refugees, to populate the colony of New York. War followed them. William Nelles (Nellis), Robert’s grandfather, was pressed into taking part in an attack on New France within a year of his arrival in 1710. In 1759–60 Hendrick William Nelles, Robert’s father, served in Sir William Johnson*’s Indian Department, with which he saw action during the Seven Years’ War.
Friendship with the Indians had helped rebuild the family fortunes in New York, as it would later in Upper Canada. Abandoned by their British sponsors and denied title to their lands, the Palatinate immigrants had moved inland in the 1720s to settle among the Indians of the Mohawk valley. During the 1750s and 1760s Hendrick Nelles’s cousin George Klock was surrounded in controversy because of his method of obtaining land from the Mohawks at Canajoharie (near Little Falls, N.Y.). Klock apparently got the Indians drunk, bartered their clothes off their backs, and then tricked them into signing deeds to vast tracts of land for a pittance. Although it seems that Nelles was not involved in such deals, he certainly did acquire a great deal of land. When old associations called him back to the Indian Department in 1777 (or revolutionary tensions drove him back), he left behind property that he later valued at £3,760, not counting stock and equipment.
After 1777 the Indian Department strategy was simply to destroy the settlements in the interior of New York that supplied the Continental Army. Captain Nelles (he anglicized his name to Henry at this time) accompanied Indians on many savage raids back into his own Mohawk valley, sacking homesteads, burning crops, and killing and scalping settlers. Through his intervention the Old Palatine Church, which his family had helped build, and the Nelles homestead were spared destruction. On one of these murderous missions in 1780 Nelles “recovered” his teenage son Robert, who joined him at Fort Niagara (near Youngstown, N.Y.) as a lieutenant in the Indian Department. Robert proved as energetic and resourceful at frontier terrorism as his father, leading raids in 1781 and 1782 with a cool fury. He returned in modest triumph from the 1782 campaign with “a parcel of negroes & wenches” in tow, for which he found a ready market in Niagara. At the end of the war, both Robert and his father were released from the Indian Department, but were retained on half pay.
Understandably, neither father nor son returned after the war to the district that they had razed. Instead, they followed their Indian clients to the Grand River valley, where they settled and did a little fur trading. In February 1787 Joseph Brant [Thayendanegea*] arranged for some 4,254 acres on the Grand River to be deeded to Henry Nelles and his sons Robert and Warner “to be possessed by them and their posterity.” By the time of Henry Nelles’s death in 1791, five of his sons were settled in Upper Canada. The Nelleses received other land grants for military service, loyalism, and compensation for lost property, and by 1800 they collectively owned 7,300 acres, most of it in the Niagara District, making them the sixth largest landholders on the peninsula.
Robert decided to develop more than 600 acres on Forty Mile Creek. There, on the site of present-day Grimsby, he built mills and a store, and commenced a grand stone mansion, The Manor, which still survives. In the 1790s he supplied hardware, household goods, textiles, and provisions to the small settlement. After 1800 he forwarded whiskey, grain, and flour from his mill to W. and J. Crooks at Niagara (Niagara-on-the-Lake) [see James Crooks*]. Joseph Brant sought his help both in supplying the Six Nations settlements and in the education of his own sons. Robert was also briefly pressed into service again as an Indian agent in 1797, delivering trade goods to the Mississauga Ojibwas under the terms of their recently concluded treaty. Thus Robert Nelles launched his own family from the elevated position accorded by landed wealth, a commercial income, and his continuing half pay.
Being a local notable in a deferential society, Nelles held various offices, such as town warden and justice of the peace, and was inevitably drawn into provincial politics. In the 1800 general election he headed the poll in the two-member riding of York West, 1st Lincoln, and Haldimand and he served in the House of Assembly until 1808, usually voting with the government majority. He seems to have devoted himself to local appropriations and regularizing the title to family land on the Grand River. While he was away at York (Toronto), his brothers, and later his eldest son, Henry, looked after the store and mills, and his wife, Elizabeth, tended a growing family that eventually numbered eight children.
War threatened life and property again in 1812 and Nelles, his brothers, and his son responded to the call to arms. Robert reported for duty as a captain in the 4th Lincoln Militia in 1812 but did not see much action during the next two years. The inhabitants of the Niagara District, many with loyalties cruelly divided by the war, seemed to prefer being spectators. The local militia remained inactive, undermanned and demoralized, especially after the American occupation in 1813. This state of affairs led to a general shake-up of command in the Lincoln militia in 1814 during which Nelles was promoted lieutenant-colonel of the 4th regiment. He quickly brought it up to strength with threats of fines and courts martial. Robert and his family fought in several battles, most notably at Lundy’s Lane, where his son was captured and his brother wounded.
After the war he remarried and briefly returned to public life. In February 1814 he had been elected to the assembly for 1st Lincoln and Haldimand to replace the expelled Joseph Willcocks*. He held the seat until 1820; while he attended parliament, his son Henry managed the family mills. This separation has bequeathed to us a rare collection of touching love-letters between husband and wife. Robert Nelles (over the years the spelling gradually regularized to Nelles) was enormously proud of his military record and continued to take a great deal of interest in militia affairs. In 1822 he was rewarded with a promotion to colonel of his regiment. He scandalized and angered his neighbours with the unblushing favouritism of his appointments. For 20 or more years most of the officers in his regiment were members of the Nelles family. This situation aroused jealousy and resentment not only in the county but also within the Nelles family. In 1822 Robert promoted his son-in-law, but his brother William claimed seniority and marred the annual militia parade by beating his rival with a stick.
Robert Nelles’s sons were all well educated by the standards of the day. They received an elementary education in a school their father had established at the Forty (Grimsby), and some of them were sent to York to continue their training in the care of the Ridouts and John Strachan*. Although raised a Lutheran in the German-speaking Palatinate community in New York, Robert helped build and became a pillar of the Anglican church in Grimsby. His son Abram* became a noted Church of England missionary to the Six Nations Indians. This appointment served to mark the great change that had taken place over the generations in the relative fortunes of the Nelles family and their Indian neighbours. Abram, a professional man from a well-off family, ministered to the poor and confined population of a reservation, descendants of the warriors his father and grandfather had fought alongside in three wars, whose friendship had so generously endowed the family with land. (Dictionary of Canadian Biography)