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abusen: I can imagine tiger hunting😉
An image of the Hercules, Atlas & Endymion region in the moon's North-East quadrant. This image was captured during the evening of 05.11.17 from a soggy backgarden. Much detail is visible including fine rilles within crater Atlas.
An annotated version labelling major craters is attached for reference. Thanks for looking and clear skies!
Captured using a Celestron C8 SCT and a ZWO 290MM camera with longpass filter.
The castle is situated on the Laich of Moray, a fertile plain that was once the swampy foreshore of Spynie Loch. This was originally a more defensive position than it appears today, long after the loch was drained.
The motte is a huge man-made mound, with steep sides and a wide ditch separating it from the bailey. The whole site is enclosed by a water-filled ditch, which is more a mark of its boundary than it is a serious defensive measure.
Duffus Castle was built by a Flemish man named Freskin, who came to Scotland in the first half of the 1100s. After an uprising by the ‘men of Moray’ against David I in 1130, the king sent Freskin north as a representative of royal authority.
He was given the estate of Duffus, and here he built an earthwork-and-timber castle. Freskin’s son William adopted the title of ‘de Moravia’ – of Moray. By 1200, the family had become the most influential noble family in northern Scotland, giving rise to the earls of Sutherland and Clan Murray.
In about 1270, the castle passed to Sir Reginald Cheyne the Elder, Lord of Inverugie. He probably built the square stone keep on top of the motte, and the curtain wall encircling the bailey. In 1305, the invading King Edward I of England gave him a grant of 200 oaks from the royal forests of Darnaway and Longmorn, which were probably used for the castle’s floors and roofs.
By 1350, the castle had passed to a younger son of the Earl of Sutherland through marriage. It may have been then that the keep was abandoned, possibly because it was beginning to slip down the mound, and a new residence established at the north of the bailey.
Viscount Dundee, leader of the first Jacobite Rising, dined in the castle as a guest of James, Lord Duffus in 1689, prior to his victory against King William II’s government forces at Killiecrankie. Soon after, Lord Duffus moved to the nearby Duffus House. The castle quickly fell into decay.
Between clouds that promise rain, is a river of blue. From this sky-river comes a light that feels akin to pride, to confidence, that it will shine in any season, in any weather, the rays uniting as great beams. I imagine for a moment that they are strong enough to support the heavens above, these beams, so that we may walk with raised eyes, smiling at this beauty, thankful for the given day.
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Out last night capturing the Milky Way while doing some deep sky captures in parallel - looked overhead and saw a stunning meteor streak and fortunately captured it in my 60s exposure as it crossed paths with the Large Magellanic Cloud. 4 March / 10:05pm - Bay of Islands - New Zealand. Canon 800D / Rokinon 14mm @ f/2.8, iso1600.
Sunset Light Begins. © Copyright 2020 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
First dusk color comes to the sky above Death Valley and the snow-capped Panamint Mountains.
Like most photographers, I'm typically attracted to the most intensely colorful phases of sunset light. I confess! Those colors are hard to resist, and frankly I don't know of any good reason to not photograph them. (The “problem” perhaps occurs when one thinks that is the only light that is good enough to photograph.) As a matter of fact, not too long ago I shared another photograph from this spot, made at close to the same time on this evening, that does focus on a wildly colorful sky, captured at its peak of intensity.
This photograph is perhaps more subtle, photographed when the light was lovely but not so intensively colorful. Anyone who has observed such a sunset recognizes that it in a constant state of development and change. Late afternoon light almost imperceptibly fades into early evening light, and eventually the sky's colors begin to intensify. At the most transient moment many elements are in play — the east becomes more blue, the sky in the far west seems "warmer" and more intense by contrast, and the whole thing parades across the sky from horizon to horizon. Here the fact that the gaudy colors are suppressed seems to allow us to see more clearly the beauty of the gentler blue light.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, "California's Fall Color: A Photographer's Guide to Autumn in the Sierra" is available from Heyday Books and Amazon.
Please view Large on Black. Rock Formation with Sky. Shell Beach, San Luis Obispo County, California. Long Exposure in Black and White. Captured with Canon EOS 5DIII, Canon EF16-36mm f4L IS USM, Refer to “About this Image” Below. Tripod. Post Processing with CS5, NikSoftware ColorEfexPro 3.0 (Tonal Contrast), Viveza 2.0, ColorEfexPro 4.0 (Vignette, Image Borders, Soft Focus) and PhotoMatix 4.2.6
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Merit Award in Black and White Magazine 2013 Portfolio Contest. 2 page spread, page 88/89 June 2013 Portfolio Special Edition #98.
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ABOUT THIS IMAGE
Lalush’s Beast
I saw an image of this rock a Flickr contact had beautifully made and vowed to find and photograph it. I emailed him asking for the location with no response. I even used Google Earth trying to locate this rock. It was more difficult because the photographer had used a 15mm lens down low and very close making the rock look huge. After a 4 month search I finally saw the rock for the first time. It was right in front of my nose at a location I frequent many times. It took 3 times of going back before the conditions were somewhat close to capturing an image. The tide was too low, kids were climbing all over it, there weren’t any clouds or the sand was trampled. Finally I was able to click a few frames, but the sky was blown out. It was a very contrasty scene. So I salvaged another image of a beautiful long exposed sky I had taken months earlier a mile north of this location and merged the two.
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Captured with Canon EOS 5DIII, Canon EF16-35mm f2.8L IS USM at 22mm, f 20 @ 216 sec. (3min- 36 sec) ISO 50. Tripod. Long Exposure.10 stop B+W ND filter plus 3 stop B+W ND filter.
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Captured with Canon EOS 5DIII, Canon EF16-35mm f2.8L IS USM at 26mm, f 20 @ 241 sec. (4min- 1 sec) ISO 50. Tripod. Long Exposure.10 stop B+W ND filter plus 3 stop B+W ND filter.
✰ This photo was featured on The Epic Global Showcase here: bit.ly/1WkL0tZ
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The vast galaxy cluster SDSS J1226+2152 in the constellation Coma Berenices is distorting the images of distant background galaxies into streaks and smears of light in this image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. This is a spectacular example of gravitational lensing, a phenomenon which occurs when a massive celestial object such as a galaxy cluster deforms spacetime and causes the path of light from more distant galaxies to be deflected, almost as if a monumental lens was redirecting it. This image is from a set of early science observations with Webb.
One of the most notable lensed galaxies in this rich field is named SGAS J12265.3+215220. In this image, it's the innermost lensed galaxy, just above and to the right of the central galaxy. This lies far beyond the foreground cluster in distance, giving us a view into the galaxy roughly two billion years after the big bang. Astronomers are now using this eagerly-awaited hoard of bright, gravitationally-lensed galaxies from Webb to explore star formation in distant galaxies.
Just like their optical namesakes, gravitational lenses can magnify as well as distort distant galaxies. This allows astronomers to observe the finer details of galaxies that would usually be too distant to clearly resolve. In the case of SGAS J122651.3+215220, the combination of gravitational lensing and Webb’s unprecedented observational capabilities will allow astronomers to measure where, and how fast, stars are forming and also to gain an insight into the environments which support star formation in lensed galaxies.
Amid this spectacular display of gravitational lensing, a menagerie of spiral and elliptical galaxies in all shapes and sizes surround the galaxy cluster. Webb’s sensitive infrared instruments have proven prodigious in picking out distant galaxies from the darkness of space. None of the tiny pinpricks in the patch of sky captured here is a star: each one is a galaxy. The variety of colours of the small, dim galaxies gives us hints at what we are seeing: many of the paler white galaxies will date back to the period of intense star formation known as cosmic noon, some two to three billion years after the big bang, while the few small orange and red systems are probably from even earlier in the Universe's history.
[Image Description: A cluster of galaxies. Most of the visible galaxies are oval-shaped and smooth. A few have spiral arms in various orientations. The largest galaxy is directly in the centre, and close by it are several images of background galaxies, stretched and warped into long arcs by gravitational lensing. The background is black and contains many very small galaxies, but no stars.]
Credits: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. Rigby and the JWST TEMPLATES team
A Black moon is when a month doesn't have a full moon during the entire month, this month of Feb in 2018 in one such month, it's pretty rare.