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What started off as a 3 panel mosaic covering The Great Nebula in Orion, The Horsehead, Barnards Loop and M78 soon became a much larger project including over 20 deep space objects and the majority of the Orion Molecular Cloud. The final mosaic image covers 13.5 x 6.8 degrees of our night's sky.
The detail captured in this image is best seen by looking at the 1.99 arcsecond per pixel full resolution 1.8 gigabyte mosaic which can be viewed in full resolution here: tinyurl.com/2mzfvybs
Or View on Astrobin: www.astrobin.com/1f5i46/
Dominating the night sky from December through March, the ancient constellation Orion is one of the most famous and most photographed star groups in the heavens. The ancient Greeks associated these stars with a mighty hunter adorned with a belt and sword, holding a westward facing shield in his left hand and an upraised club in his right. These stars were even included in the fictional world of J.R.R. Tolkien where they were called Menelva-gor, the “Swordsman of the Sky”
Captured over 14 nights from Grand Mesa Observatory. Total integration time of 33 hours.
Here are the details:
Captured and processed by Nicolas Rolland, Tom Masterson and Terry Hancock
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado www.grandmesaobservatory.com
Camera: QHY367 Pro C Full Frame One Shot Color CMOS
Optics: Takahashi E-180 Astrograph
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6
Pre-Processed in Pixinsight, PTGui
Post Processed in Photoshop, Pixinsight, Registar
As the early morning sun rises over Rome, St. Peter's Basilica is bathed in a golden glow, its majestic facade illuminated in the soft light.
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Captured near Staffin on The Isle of Skye, Scotland. I just loved the frame of four slightly uneven poles descending into the mist here and couldn't resist the shot. I think that was a Sparrowhawk on the second pylon, it certainly had some fun chasing a murder of hooded crows after I took this.
While away motorhome touring on Skye I played around with new subjects and photography techniques and loved every minute of it.
I spent hours out in the cold dark night sky capturing The Milky Way too but sadly forgot to use mirror lock-up for those shots so while the long exposures captured a beautiful Milky Way they are not quite sharp enough for publishing anywhere. It was amazing to see hundreds of stars again as where I live the light pollution means that only a handful of the very brightest are visible.
Still, I hope you like this shot and I may post a few more of my experimental captures too - it really was fun to just 'play' with my camera in new surroundings. Enjoy!
Part of my on-going project 'Duffus Castle' through the seasons.
Duffus Castle was a motte-and-bailey castle in use from c.1140 to 1705. At the time of its establishment, it was one of the most secure fortifications in Scotland.
At the beginning of the 12th century Moray was ruled by Angus, grandson of Lulach Macgillecomgan, who had succeeded Macbeth as King of Scots in 1057. Angus rebelled in 1130 and King David I began to populate the province with nobles. Among them was Freskin, of Flemish background, who built the great earthwork and timber motte-and-bailey castle in c. 1140.
Freskin’s direct line ended in 1270 and the castle passed into the ownership of Sir Reginald le Chen. With his death in 1345, Duffus passed to his daughter Mariot who was married to Nicholas, son of the 4th Earl of Sutherland. The Sutherlands were also descended from Freskyn and remained in their possession until 1705 when the castle was abandoned.
Da var nordlyssesongen 2015-2016 i gang. Rundt midnatt var jeg ute og sjekket, før jeg gikk i seng, og oppdaget av noen var på gang. Fikk ikke tid til å dra ut og tok bildene fra hustaket mitt. Et flott og klart nordlys som varte en god stund.
The Aurora season 2015-2016 has started. Beautiful and strong Aurora last night. Visible and very clear for a long time over my home community Sjoevegan. This is a promising start on the Aurora season.
A fantastic sunset in Isla Mujeres, in Mexico. The cloud seem to form a door in the sky captured with my Irix 11mm
Spring southwestern skies captured somewhere in the Moab area of Utah. Thanks for viewing and have a great week. :-)
THIS IS THE OVERLAPPING OF FOUR ORIGINAL PHOTOS OF MINE
THE LIGHTHOUSE IS PLACED IN THE ARCHPELAGO OF MADDALENA (SARDINIA, ITALY)
I SOW THE SUNSET COMING BACK IN THE CONTINENT FROM THE FERRY BOAT
THE WAVES, THE ROCKS AND THE WIND SENSATION ARE FROM SARDINIA....
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I needed to take a break from the Tamarack Fire images. Here's one from our last workshop in Bodie... hope you can join us next year, after the wildfire smoke is gone! (We've cancelled our workshops for August and September due to the extreme drought and intensified fire season.)
Full disclosure: single shutter release activation, adjusted in Lightroom, no Photoshop, nothing was faked (like mirroring the sky into the puddle, or copying the sky or foreground from another time or sky captured in a different shot taken at a different focal length).
Sad that this disclosure seems necessary these days, given the high incidence of graphics arts creations being passed off as photographic images!
Duffus Castle, near Elgin, Moray, Scotland, was a motte-and-bailey castle and was in use from c.1140 to 1705. During its occupation it underwent many alterations. The most fundamental was the destruction of the original wooden structure and its replacement with one of stone. At the time of its establishment, it was one of the most secure fortifications in Scotland. At the death of the 2nd Lord Duffus in 1705, the castle had become totally unsuitable as a dwelling and so was abandoned.
A colourful post-sunset sky captured over Derwentwater, in the English Lakes, from the sheltered shorelines of Brandlehow Bay. Thanks for viewing.
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.
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Típica foto de las Islas Lofoten. Pero esta es muy especial para mí. Ha pasado justo un año desde que la tomé. Sabiendo que un virus empezaba a atemorizar el mundo. Pero no pensábamos que sería para tanto. Tal vez habríamos valorado más esos momentos, aunque disfruté de cada rincón en el que estuvimos. Espero poder volver algún día no muy tardío.
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We have a superb view from our house. Every morning is different. Waikare Inlet, Bay of Islands, New Zealand.
What started off as a 3 panel mosaic covering The Great Nebula in Orion, The Horsehead, Barnards Loop and M78 soon became a much larger project including over 20 deep space objects and the majority of the Orion Molecular Cloud. The final mosaic image covers 13.5 x 6.8 degrees of our night's sky.
The detail captured in this image is best seen by looking at the 1.99 arcsecond per pixel full resolution 1.8 gigabyte mosaic which can be viewed in full resolution here: tinyurl.com/2mzfvybs
Dominating the night sky from December through March, the ancient constellation Orion is one of the most famous and most photographed star groups in the heavens. The ancient Greeks associated these stars with a mighty hunter adorned with a belt and sword, holding a westward facing shield in his left hand and an upraised club in his right. These stars were even included in the fictional world of J.R.R. Tolkien where they were called Menelva-gor, the “Swordsman of the Sky”.
Captured over 14 nights from Grand Mesa Observatory. Total integration time of 33 hours. Here are the details:
Captured and processed by Nicolas Rolland, Tom Masterson and Terry Hancock
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado www.grandmesaobservatory.com
Camera: QHY367 Pro C Full Frame One Shot Color CMOS
Optics: Takahashi E-180 Astrograph
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6
Pre-Processed in Pixinsight, PTGui
Post Processed in Photoshop, Pixinsight, Registar
Orion Mosaic
Dates of capture
2022-01-26
2022-01-27
2022-01-28
2022-01-22
2022-01-23
2022-01-29
2022-01-30
Integration
A1 61 x 2 min
A2 65 x 2 min
A3 67 x 2 min
A4 71 x 2 min
A5 60 x 2 min
A6 62 x 2 min
A7 56 x 2 min
A8 60 x 2 min
A9 70 x 2 min
A10 84 x 2 min
A11 73 x 2 min
A12 84 x 2 min
Total 1626 minutes 27.1 hours
M42
Dates of capture
2021-10-29
2021-10-17
2021-11-06
Integration
LUM 45x120
RED 50x120
GREEN 47x120
BLUE 51x120
LUM 28x1
RED 28x1
GREEN 26x1
BLUE 21x1
Total 195 minutes 3.25 hours
IC434
Dates of capture
2020-12-24
2021-01-06
2021-01007
2021-01-09
Integration
LUM 43x120
RED 45x120
GREEN 40x120
BLUE 38x120
Total 166 minutes 2.76 hours
Total 33.1 hours
Vor der mächtigen Wand des Schlernmassivs ruht eine idyllische Almhütte auf der Seiser Alm. Der Blick auf die Santner-Spitzen, das satte Grün der Wiesen und der klare Sommerhimmel lassen die Ruhe und Schönheit dieser Landschaft fast greifbar werden. Ein Ort, der wie geschaffen ist für Natur, Stille und Bergzauber.
In front of the towering Schlern massif and the iconic Santner peaks, a peaceful alpine hut stands on the Seiser Alm. The vibrant greens, the neatly stacked firewood, and the deep blue sky capture the serenity and beauty of this stunning Dolomite landscape – a place made for peace and mountain magic.
I merged 2 photos for this one :
- one for the foreground, captured at 70mm during the blue hour
- a second for the sky; captured at 16mm later in the night, highter on the road.
Snow-covered ice formations by lake Ontario under a dramatic winter sky, capturing a serene and cold winter scene from nature in all its beauty and contrast.
I am always astonished by how much detail I can capture under good conditions from the flight deck of an airliner in cruise.
This image shows the splendor of the southern hemisphere sky captured from the flight deck of a Boeing 777-300ER at 35'000 feet over Brazil, during one of my flights to São Paulo in August.
The upper part of the image is dominated by the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). This irregular barred spiral galaxy was long considered to be gravitationally bound to our Milky Way. Measurements with the Hubble Space Telescope, announced in 2006 (Nitya Kallivayalil et al.), however suggest the LMC may be moving too fast to be orbiting the Milky Way. Even more recent studies (Marius Cautun et al. 2019) on the other hand, found a much larger dark matter mass than expected. They predict this will eventually reverse the moving direction of the LMC and result in a merger with our Milky Way in 1.5 billion years.
In this image, the LMC is flanked on the left side by Canopus, the second brightest star in the sky and on the right side by the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), an irregular dwarf galaxy, whose gravitational bond to our Milky Way is unclear as well.
On lower left of the sky, you can see the Milky Way in the constellation Carina, with the prominent pink Eta Carinae Nebula, several beautiful open star clusters and some dark nebulae. These dark nebulae extend to the Chamaeleon Molecular Cloud Complex in the lower center of the image.
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EXIF
Canon EOS-R, astro-modified
Sigma 28mm f/1.4 ART @ f/2
Mount: Boeing 777-300ER
Sky:
Stack of 12x 5s @ ISO12800
Foreground:
Single exposure from the sky sequence
Spynie Kirk was moved in 1736, stone by stone, from the site beside Spynie Cemetery where it had been built in the late 12th century to be rebuilt, in a different form, at its present site in New Spynie to the north of the Quarrelwood. One point of interest is that the lintel over the east door was installed upside down, and remains so to this day.
It is a typical old-style country kirk with box pews and a Communion pew – two pews facing inward to a narrow table between. There are two lofts to east and west and the central pulpit on the south wall.
The Large Heath is restricted to wet boggy habitats in northern Britain, Ireland, and a few isolated sites in Wales and central England.
The adults always sit with their wings closed and can fly even in quite dull weather provided the air temperature is higher than 14B:C. The size of the underwing spots varies across its range; a heavily spotted form (davus) is found in lowland England, a virtually spotless race (scotica) in northern Scotland, and a range of intermediate races elsewhere (referred to as polydama).
The butterfly has declined seriously in England and Wales but is still widespread in parts of Ireland and Scotland. This wee chap was found at Duffus Castle in Moray.
Rock Church Sunset Thank you so much for your comments and fav! The location close to Marion NC. The sun was going down and the light and sky captured me. Blessings Folks!
Cloud iridescence or irisation is a colorful optical phenomenon that occurs in a cloud and appears in the general proximity of the Sun or Moon. The colors resemble those seen in soap bubbles and oil on a water surface.
Stand in awe of the majestic Oval Forum colonnade, where ancient stone columns rise elegantly towards a vibrant sky, capturing the essence of Jerash's rich history.
Amazing hoodoos on the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument. Combination of long exposure (with LENR) on the foreground and stacked frames of the sky. Captured during the March 2019 Milky Way workshop with Action Photo Tours. Venus shines brightly to the left of the Toadstool. The Zeiss 25 f/1.4 is amazing for Milky Way - pin sharp stars and no vignetting to speak of stopped down to 2.8.
This amazing place is just a 20 minute easy hike from the main road between Kanab and Page. The U.S. Southwest is beautiful by day, and at night many parts of it have very dark skies so star-gazing is something special.
Before all the gazing eyes
Clouds of white dance in the skies
Captured in the distant light
They shine with beauty, naturally bright
Above the trees, silhouetted down below
Through the clouds, the rays do glow
Sending light into the looking eyes
Who gaze at the clouds dancing in the skies
It was some kind of mixed up vertigo. He could hardly walk. His entire team had been arrested by the police. He was moments away from being captured. All this happened to Blue because he loved the color of money.
A serene view of lush green trees under a partly cloudy sky, capturing the beauty of nature's tranquility.
Part of my on-going project 'Duffus Castle' through the seasons.
Duffus Castle was a motte-and-bailey castle in use from c.1140 to 1705. At the time of its establishment, it was one of the most secure fortifications in Scotland.
At the beginning of the 12th century Moray was ruled by Angus, grandson of Lulach Macgillecomgan, who had succeeded Macbeth as King of Scots in 1057. Angus rebelled in 1130 and King David I began to populate the province with nobles. Among them was Freskin, of Flemish background, who built the great earthwork and timber motte-and-bailey castle in c. 1140.
Freskin’s direct line ended in 1270 and the castle passed into the ownership of Sir Reginald le Chen. With his death in 1345, Duffus passed to his daughter Mariot who was married to Nicholas, son of the 4th Earl of Sutherland. The Sutherlands were also descended from Freskyn and remained in their possession until 1705 when the castle was abandoned.