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NGC 4618 was discovered on 9 April 1787 by the German-British astronomer, Wilhelm Herschel, who also discovered Uranus in 1781. Only a year before discovering NGC 4618, Herschel theorised that the “foggy” objects astronomers were seeing in the night sky were likely to be large star clusters located much further away then the individual stars he could easily discern.
Since Herschel proposed his theory, astronomers have come to understand that what he was seeing was a galaxy. NGC 4618, classified as a barred spiral galaxy, has the special distinction amongst other spiral galaxies of only having one arm rotating around the centre of the galaxy.
Located about 21 million light-years from our galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici, NGC 4618 has a diameter of about one third that of the Milky Way. Together with its neighbour, NGC 4625, it forms an interacting galaxy pair, which means that the two galaxies are close enough to influence each other gravitationally. These interactions may result in the two (or more) galaxies merging together to form a new formation, such as a ring galaxy.
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, I. Karachentsev; CC BY 4.0
... Maybe then we could go for a ride
Drive down to the countryside
Get away from the gray
And frenzied hurly-burly of the city life
Early yet to say what lies ahead
It's the first day of the rest of our lives
Can we just stop and talk awhile
Get to know each other
Who are we to know?
Love could be waiting at the end
'round that bend and so
Let's stop and talk awhile
♪♫♪♫♪ ... and listen some
soothing, relaxing music♪♫♪♫♪
New for Driftwood!
Stepping stones set with plain stone and mossy version included. Includes single stones and groups (2, 3, straight, curved, uneven) to set up pathways over water or land.
Most pieces are 1 land impact with a few of the groups 2 land impact. Single stones are 0.5 land impact, so can be linked to lower.
22/11/2021, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary islands, Spain.
The Spanish owned car carrier 'L'Audace' is 'singled up' and ready to sail.
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Her twin main engines are noisily running and both propellers can be seen, spinning rapidly under the water. The reason the ship is not going anywhere is because both propellers are of the variable pitch type and the pitch setting is on zero.
"Singled up" means the mooring lines have all been let go and recovered on board the ship except for two lines for'ard, and two lines aft.
The aft lines can be seen in this image, one stern line and one spring line'
On the quayside, with his back towards the camera, un amarrador (a mooring man) awaits the order to 'Let Go', or in nautical parlance 'Leggo!
On the stern of the ship, un marinero (a seaman) awaits the same command to release the mooring lines.
On my afternoon walk on the Fraser River today, a shaft of light ducked under the cloud to the west and lit up the west flank of Vedder Mountain and continued behind. I developed this from a single under exposed (exposed for the highlights) image. I have several bracketed series, so I might try blending them in Photoshop.
M31, M32, and M110 in a single exposure.
Pentax KP, with the Astrotracer function enabled.
SMC Pentax 67 200mm f/4 lens with the P6x7 to K Adapter
Post-processing with Adobe CS5, noise reduction in Topaz, final adjustments in Luminar Neo.
IMGP6386 V2-DeNoiseAI-severe-noise V4
The white water lily flowers are few in number this year. This single blossom floated near the dark shore and stood out like the first evening star in a deep blue sky
Can be viewed large to actually see the flower better.
That was picked some 10 yrs ago with a single needle. I wanted to do it straight away, but I couldn't find any other needle, so you can imagine it took me a long time :)
A single daisy shot against the window ... with only her reflection for company!
Happy Window Wednesdays,and Bokeh Wednesday too! ;o)
I'm not sure if there's enough of the window visible for this to be eligible for the Windows Wednesday group! But it was one of the first shots I took with my new Sony A77m2 and 100mm tele-macro lens last November ... a combination of lens and camera that I really love!
My windows set here: Elisa Windows set
My Gerbera, Daisy set: Gerbera & Daisies
My Bokeh set: Elisa's bokeh set
I like the old dyke that lines the road and the trees either side. The roads out here are generally very good but there is not a lot of traffic apart from the locals. There was still a little snow on the tops.
One single snowflake frozen in the air. I was zoomed in all the way to 105 mm, wide-open at f/4, and just happened to get lucky.
I intended to just get the repeating pattern of the logs with snow on them and this little guy creeped into focus.
It was a great way to spend some time on a beautiful day.
A SINGLE ROSE IN ANY COLOR-indicates simplicity and gratitude
2 ROSES- mutual feelings
3 ROSES- I love you
7 ROSES- I'm infatuated with you
9 ROSES- We'll be together forever
10 ROSES- You are perfect
11 ROSES- You are My Treasured One
12 ROSES- Be mine!
13 ROSES- Friends forever
15 ROSES- I'm truly sorry
20 ROSES- I'm truly sincere towards you
21 ROSES- I'm dedicated to you
24 ROSES- Forever yours
25 ROSES- Congratulations
36 ROSES- Remembering our romantic times
40 ROSES- My genuine love for you
50 ROSES- Unconditional love
99 ROSES- I will love you all the days of my life
101 ROSES- I'm completely devoted to you
108 ROSES- Will you marry me?
999 ROSES- I love you till the end of time
Metroline DEL1977 (YX12AYK) working WJ947 on the Northern Line rail replacement service, approaches York Way at King's Cross to load up on a trip to Archway and Finchley Central.
It is very unusual to have single deck buses on a double deck rail service. Due to a few late problems, two single deck buses were drafted in to cover. This shouldn't normally happen but this is better than having no bus! Willesden Junction DE1616 was used in the morning.