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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.
"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
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.
Timmy’s biggest problem right now is getting enough cuddles. With this heat, I hardly ever see him except at 7:30 a.m. for breakfast and at 9:30 p.m. for dinner. If I’m lucky, like now, he hears me when I go out to the garden in the early evening. He comes out, still half-asleep, and climbs up his ladder. I have to go down two steps on the little staircase to the garden. Then our heads are at the same height, and we can relax and cuddle to our hearts’ content.
Happy Caturday 11.7.2026 "Solving our cat's problems"
A first run at this object with my own setup, guided exposures. Guiding graph was quite exceptional with RMS error at 0.03" then later 0.07" but I tossed away 1/2 my lights over 2 nights due to some trailing at the edges. Discovered this was due to the reducer slightly unscrewed. Some high cloud in a couple of the shots made the seeing wobbly so guiding wasn't perfect all night. Will add more data next time we have clear skies. Everything was iced up after 2 nights outside in -4 deg C temps, but dew band heaters kept going. So did I by sitting indoors and watching it all on Teamviewer! I still have a little amp glow on the right from the 700D! Updated the HC and MC on the mount too, but still not totally satisfied with the way it is performing. Everything looks pretty tight but the Alt axis is still 'rocking' slightly in its locked position.
15 x 120 sec lights @ISO 1600
15 dark
10 dark flat
10 bias
10 flats
Stacked in DSS
Processing in CS5
Equipment:
Skywatcher 120ED Esprit
0.85x reducer/field flattener
Celestron AVX
Orion 50mm SSAG guidescope
Canon 700D (unmodded)
A frontal view of this old jalopy that I posted a few days ago left it hard to discern what year and make it was due to a lack of identifying details. Some said ‘35 Plymouth and some said ‘35 Ford. I decided to post this side view in hopes of resolving that question. From the front they do look pretty similar. I’m really bad about not providing information about the objects I photograph. My primary interest is usually the artistic aspects of an image. How to present the object in it’s best possible relationship to its surroundings is my main concern. This is in the very small town of Daleyville Wisconsin, so a look at Google Earth may provide further views. It sits right beside route 78 in the center of town.
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.
Thought I'd solved one of my unidentified leftovers from the South Africa trip calling this a male common dotted border butterfly (Mylothris agathina). However an African butterfly expert on iNaturalist identified it as a twin dotted border (Mylothris rueppellii).
Photographed in Durban Botanical Gardens.
Mystery Inc. taking a break from solving mysteries so they can be normal teenagers for once and have their own Halloween fun.
Here I used stroboscopic (multi) flash mode while spinning the Rubik's cube to emphasise the process of solving it.
Deep in the Southern sky, right next to the Small Magellanic Cloud and just 18° from the South Celestial Pole, lies this magnificent globular cluster.
With millions of stars, 47-Tucanae is the second largest globular cluster in the sky after Omega Centauri.
This 51 minute image was shot from my home in surburbia with my Skywatcher ED120 telescope and ZWO ASI071 camera.
Object Details:
Designation: 47-Tucanae, NGC 104, Caldwell 106.
Constellation: Tucana.
Visual magnitude: +3.95
Apparent size: 50 arc-min
Diameter: 213 light years.
Distance: 15,000 light years.
Altitude during exposure: 48° above southern horizon.
Also in image: NGC 121, a more distant globular cluster (left, bottom).
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Finally a clear night without the moon. Near ideal conditions. Single shot using a 120 Euro lens. Not too shabby
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A9buleuse_de_la_Rosette
une deuxième version avec plus de temps de pose (3h56mn) .
This image was featured on APOD 12/20/2018: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap181220.html
Over the past couple months Comet 46P Wirtanen has been moving closer to us on it's current orbit around the Sun. Yesterday 12/16/2018 was it's closest approach to Earth, and it also happened to be close to some very beautiful deep sky objects, the Pleiades and California Nebula. This image captured at Grand Mesa Observatory highlights this beautiful scene taken in the early morning hours of 12/17/2018.
Grand Mesa Observatory, Whitewater (Purdy Mesa) Colo., U.S.A.
38.963365, -108.237225
12/17/2018 1:52-2:34am MDT
RGGB 300sec x 8
Camera: QHY367C
Gain 2850, Offset 170, Calibrated with flat, Dark & Bias
Optics: Rokinon 135mm F2 Telephoto Lens @ F4
Focusing: David Lane's Reveal Focus Filter
Mount: Piggyback on 12" RC, Paramount ME
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL5
Pre Processed in PixInsight, Deep Sky Stacker
Post Processed in Photoshop, Straton