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Since Hogwarts is my home, staying home for Christmas seems to be not so bad ...
I always liked this time of the year, the snowy silence full of expectations, the soft tinking of bells, occasionally interrupted by singing armours or suddenly swooping snowballs.
Although there is still much homework to do, I'm really looking forward to one of our pleasurable Christmas traditions and the best sport ever : Base-jumping in the restricted section!
But first we have to get our portkey to Stonehenge to celebrate the Solstice and the Christmas Star in the Great Conjunction 🌠 - oh, what a night!
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Happy Solstice & Merry Christmas!
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I did have help from Google and Youtube...........so here you have a 65mm Cube, Blood Sweat and Tears !
Solving puzzles is a hobby, addiction or compulsiveness? This is not as easy as it seems the maze pass is just barely big enough for the BB to fall through and really easy to come back out LOL. It is a close up, the puzzle is right at 3 inch across. I thought it was too big so quartered the puzzle to a 1-1/2 inch square frame to make it macro.
Problems to be solved. Entering the creative space where problems swirl and answers form.
Pose is from Animosity pose: Animosity – 129-1
The Desk is from EVAH.
Max is wearing.
[Deadwool] Hart vest chain
[Deadwool] Hart vest
730 Cowboy Boots
[Deadwool] Sean trousers -
Lelutka Eon Head with Facelight
Jake Belleza body
Location: In the mainland home Cheeky and I share.
M81 - Bode's Galaxy & M82 – The Cigar Galaxy
Messier 81 (also known as NGC 3031 or Bode's Galaxy) is a spiral galaxy about 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. M81 is about 95,000 light years across, just a little smaller than the Milky Way galaxy at 100,000 light years across.
Messier 82 (also known as NGC 3034 or the Cigar Galaxy) is also located in Ursa Major. It is about 12 million light years from earth and 37,000 light years across. Known as a “starburst galaxy” due to its exceptionally high rate of star formation it is about 5 times more luminous than the entire Milky Way with a central region that is 100 times more luminous than our own galaxy.
Acquisition Date: 03/11/2015 – 03/12/2016
Location: Western Massachusetts
Camera: SBIG STF8300M @ -15°C
Telescope: Astro-Tech AT130 (f/7 – fl 910mm) reduced to f/5.6 (fl 728mm)
Mount: Astro-Physics AP1100
Guidescope: 60mm Stellarvue guide scope
Guide Camera: Starlight Express LodeStar X2 (mono)
Filters:
Astrodon Gen2 E-Series:
-Luminance: 24 x 5min (120min) bin 1x1
-Red: 12 x 5min (60 min) bin 1x1
-Green: 12 x 5 min (60 min) bin 1x1
-Blue: 12 x 5 min (60 min) bin 1x1
Total Exposure Time: 5 hours
Limiting Magnitude: 5.1
Comments:
- Stellarvue SFFR102 field flattener/reducer (0.8)
- IDAS LPS-P2-48 Light Pollution Filter
"You did the right thing, yeah
When you went and looked my way
I know, I know what you wanna say
You wrote it all on your face
(On, on, your)
Just beam me up, beam me up, leave me, don't bring me down
You've been fighting from the gallows
The shadows just come on out
(But you know)
It's all good when it's all bad
Be hurting all day but it's all math
You're losing your brain
And falling right back
It's all good when it's all bad
Been looking all day but it's all math
Just solve the equation
Get it all back." - QUIÑ ♫
'Blow off a little steam'
World's first steam powered clock
Built in 1977. Raymond Saunders' first steam clock was built in 1977 to solve the issue of a steam vent in a popular sidewalk for the renovated Gastown district of Vancouver. Owned by the City of Vancouver, BC Canada
The steam clock's plaque reads:
THE GASTOWN STEAM CLOCK
Designed and built by
Raymond L. Saunders
Horologist
The world's first steam powered clock has been created for the enjoyment of everyone. The live steam winds the weights and blows the whistles. Every 4.5 minutes one steel weight will travel by steam power to the top of the clock. The gravity driven "falling ball" drive was 'engineered' by Douglas L. Smith. Each quarter hour the clock will sound the Westminster Chimes. The large whistle will sound once on the hour. The steam is supplied by the underground system of Central Heat Distributor's Limited. The component parts cost $42,000 and the clock weighs over two tons.
A few years ago the clock was refit and is not entirely steam powered. It also has three small electric motors to help operate two internal fans, one of which blows the steam out the top, and another that controls the valves that play the tunes on the five steam whistles mounted atop the clock case.
The large central whistle, which was taken off the CPR steam tug Naramata, counts off the full hours while the four auxiliary whistles chime the Westminster Quarters every quarter hour. The number of chimes matches the number of quarter hours that have passed.
Wikipedia and various other online sites.
*Please note : Information has not been verified accurate
Best experienced in full screen.
Colours and light slightly muted due to weather conditions.
Thanks so much for comments and visits
~Christie
(There's a problem with this one not showing on the Flickr feed - again! Thought they had solved it but apparently its back)
These tiny blue beauties really are very small, similar to, but smaller than forget-me-nots.
It's a very interesting plant the Brunnera, grown mainly for its exotic ground cover, almost succulent foliage. It has.largish, ornate leaves and wehn they begin to show again after winter it also sends out these lovely little flowers. This variety is called 'Jack Frost' .
I'll paste a photo of the foliage in the comments below so you can see......
Messier 42 never fails to impress along with its companion, the Running Man Nebula.
Details:-
Skywatcher Quattro 8CF on an HEQ5-Pro, CentralDS Astro60D at -10C with an Astronomik CLS EOS-Clip.
Guided shots of 5x5s plus 5x10s plus 5x120s plus 5x240s.
Flats and Bias frames but no Darks.
Stacked and initial processing with Images Plus, combined with PhotoMatix and Photoshop CS6, finished off with Picassa.
Thank you all for your kind comments.
There were two of these gorgeous trees in full bloom at Lake St. Clair Metropark. The leaves looked like chestnut trees but the flowers were colored like buckeye tree flowers. Both of those trees have large palmate compound leaves. What were they, I wondered.
Later, I remembered seeing trees like these many years ago in Paris. They lined many of the streets and boulevards of Paris. There were the Horse-chestnuts with whitish flowers, and these pink/red flowers of the Red Horse-chestnut trees.
This picture is of Red Horse-chestnuts, a hybrid of Red Buckeye and Horse-chestnut...mystery solved (again).
In Explore #273 6/17/2025
So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
Franz Kafka
Rooks (Corvus frugilegus) are highly intelligent, gregarious members of the crow family (Corvidae) known for their complex social structures, unique appearance, and remarkable problem-solving abilities that rival those of great apes.
While not known for tool manufacturing in the wild, captive rooks have shown astonishing cognitive abilities in studies. They have been observed bending wire into hooks to reach food, a skill previously thought unique to New Caledonian crows.
Rooks have been observed engaging in "anting," where they rub ants into their feathers to use the formic acid as a pesticide. More drastically, a rook has been documented holding a smouldering cigarette butt under its wing to fumigate parasites.
A group of rooks is known by several collective nouns, including a "parliament," a "clamour," a "storytelling," or a "building".
Rook (Corvus fruglegus) winter Germany 9164_
Wisconsin Northern L2 spots tanks and plastic hoppers next to the faded C&NW station sign in Bloomer, Wisconsin with an ex-Reserve Mining SD38-2 for power.
The spacial distortion will after 8 discreet units of time enable the coordinates of the two variables to solve the same single-solution equation.
Here I used stroboscopic (multi) flash mode while spinning the Rubik's cube to emphasise the process of solving it.
^-^STORM CUTIES^-^Solve&Coagula Jumpsuit - FatPack
Here I used stroboscopic (multi) flash mode while spinning the Rubik's cube to emphasise the process of solving it.
I finally figured out what happened with this shot. While reorganizing some photos I came across the first roll shot on my Canonet way back in January. The photos had to be saturated (at the time using Picasa2) because they came out too pale--two of the photos can be seen here and here.
Well, judging by the second roll shot on the same camera, the problem is the film. This roll was part of the same batch of Fuji Superia 200 purchased on eBay. The film is not expired. The date on the package reads 2007/11 but this film was not purchased by the seller in the US like he said (closeout at B&H) because all the characters in the back of the box are Vietnamese. Perhaps that has everything to do with the quality of the film?
I have a few more of these. Should I post them? ;-)
Trying to go longer with my sub exposures on the AT6RC. The Orion Nebula can be challenging to image due to the wide range of brightness, making it very easy to overexpose. For me, the challenge in processing preserving dynamic range without looking artificial. Short exposures (180s and 30s) have been blended into the overexposed core. Final image here is 3hr30min exposure. It's been cropped to remove edge distortions due to the oversized full-frame sensor. Forgive the oval stars - I'm going to blame periodic error for that.
Canon 6D & AstroTech AT6RC
AstroPhysics CCDT67 Focal Reducer (0.75x reduction for 1027mm focal length)
14x900s exposures at ISO1600
12/19/2019