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Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: AF FISHEYE Nikkor 16mm 1:2.8 | f/22 | ISO 200
HDR: 9 RAW with Exposure bracketed @ +1 @ -1.0 IL
Handheld
It has no sidecut or rocker but it's probably the most fun way to get around a snow covered planet.
It's been a hectic start to the ski season and a busy holiday period in Verbier. Things are a little calmer now, so I've a bit more time to devote to Lego activities. I'm also storing up builds for my favourite month: Febrovery!.
February 17, 2012: Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope may have found evidence for a cluster of young, blue stars encircling HLX-1, one of the first intermediate-mass black holes ever discovered. Astronomers believe the black hole may once have been at the core of a now-disintegrated dwarf galaxy. The discovery of the black hole and the possible star cluster has important implications for understanding the evolution of supermassive black holes and galaxies
To read more go to: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/shredded-relic....
Credit: NASA, ESA, and S. Farrell (Sydney Institute for Astronomy, University of Sydney)
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It was a day like any other. People went to work. They went to school...but no one suspected the horror about to descend on them. When the first flower fell softly into a school yard, no one was afraid.
Little did they know it was only the first of millions of O.F.O.S.T.F.B.! (Orchids from outer space thirsting for BLOOD!)
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it is the International Space Station as it flies in front of the Moon as seen from ESA’s space science centre near Madrid, Spain, on 14 January.
A full Moon, looking up at the right time and good weather are necessary to take a picture like this. Consisting of 13 superimposed images, it clearly shows the Station’s main elements.
Thirteen frames were captured starting at 01:01:14 GMT, with the Station taking just half a second to cross the Moon.
The outpost is the largest structure in orbit, spanning the size of a football pitch, but at 400 km altitude it still appears tiny through a telescope.
Michel Breitfellner, Manuel Castillo, Abel de Burgos and Miguel Perez Ayucar work at ESA’s European Space Astronomy Centre and are members of its astronomy club. They braved freezing temperatures to set up two telescopes with reflex cameras to record this sequence (click for video clip).
As the Station could be seen only when in front of the Moon, the group had to press the shutter and hope for the best. Their calculations were perfect and the result speaks for itself.
Image credit: ESA, Michel Breitfellner, Manuel Castillo, Abel de Burgos, Miguel Perez Ayucar, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
It's competition time...
Cook up a Space Chefs creation during February and win prizes!
Check out the categories and rules in the Space Chefs group: www.flickr.com/groups/2938632@N23/
Clouds are in the forecast for exoplanet WASP-96 b!
The James Webb Space Telescope spotted the unambiguous signature of water, indications of haze & evidence for clouds (once thought not to exist there). This is the most detailed exoplanet spectrum to date! More: nasa.gov/webbfirstimages/
A spectrum is created when light is split into a rainbow of colors. When Webb observes the light of a star, filtered through the atmosphere of its planet, its spectrographs split up the light into an infrared rainbow. By analyzing that light, scientists can look for the characteristic signatures of specific elements or molecules in the spectrum.
Located in the southern-sky constellation Phoenix, WASP-96 b is 1,150 light-years away. It’s a large, hot planet with a “puffy” atmosphere, orbiting very close to its Sun-like star. In fact, its temperature is greater than 1000 degrees F (537 degrees C) — significantly hotter than any planet in our own solar system!
Please note that the illustration in the background of the image is based on what we know of WASP-96b. Webb hasn't directly imaged the planet or its atmosphere. (Fun fact: space is big and planets are small — though Webb CAN image exoplanets directly, the images would just show a dot of light. Consider that though Pluto is in our own solar system, it is still so far that we didn’t know what it really looked like until New Horizons visited it.)
Image Description:
Graphic titled “Hot Gas Giant Exoplanet WASP-96 b Atmosphere Composition, NIRISS Single-Object Slitless Spectroscopy.” The graphic shows the transmission spectrum of the hot gas giant exoplanet WASP-96 b captured using Webb's NIRISS Single-Object Slitless Spectroscopy with an illustration of the planet and its star in the background. The data points are plotted on a graph of amount of light blocked in parts per million versus wavelength of light in microns. A curvy blue line represents a best-fit model. Four prominent peaks visible in the data and model are labeled “water, H2O.”
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI
Space-Age cockpit in a 1960 Plymouth Custom Suburban station wagon at the abandoned junkyard at Hodge, CA. Night, full moon, 1-2 minute exposure, green and red-gelled flashlight.
Reprocessed and replaced, August 2023.
We are one week away from the release of the first science-quality images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, but how does the observatory find, and lock onto its targets? Webb's Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS) – developed by the Canadian Space Agency was designed with this particular question in mind. Recently it captured a view of stars and galaxies that provides a tantalizing glimpse at what the telescope's science instruments will reveal in the coming weeks, months, and years.
FGS has always been capable of capturing imagery, but its primary purpose is to enable accurate science measurements and imaging with precision pointing. When it does capture imagery, it is typically not kept: given the limited communications bandwidth between L2 and Earth, Webb only sends data from up to two science instruments at a time. But during the week-long stability test in May, it occurred to the team that they could keep the imagery that was being captured because there was available data transfer bandwidth.
The engineering test image – produced during a thermal stability test in mid-May – has some rough-around-the-edges qualities to it. It was not optimized to be a science observation, rather the data were taken to test how well the telescope could stay locked onto a target, but it does hint at the power of the telescope. It carries a few hallmarks of the views Webb has produced during its postlaunch preparations. Bright stars stand out with their six, long, sharply defined diffraction spikes – an effect due to Webb's six-sided mirror segments. Beyond the stars – galaxies fill nearly the entire background.
The result – using 72 exposures over 32 hours – is among the deepest images of the universe ever taken, according to Webb scientists. When FGS' aperture is open, it is not using color filters like the other science instruments – meaning it is impossible to study the age of the galaxies in this image with the rigor needed for scientific analysis. But: Even when capturing unplanned imagery during a test, FGS is capable of producing stunning views of the cosmos.
“With the Webb telescope achieving better than expected image quality, early in commissioning we intentionally defocused the guiders by a small amount to help ensure they met their performance requirements. When this image was taken, I was thrilled to clearly see all the detailed structure in these faint galaxies. Given what we now know is possible with deep broad-band guider images, perhaps such images, taken in parallel with other observations where feasible, could prove scientifically useful in the future,” said Neil Rowlands, program scientist for Webb’s Fine Guidance Sensor, at Honeywell Aerospace
Read more at blogs.nasa.gov/webb
This image: This Fine Guidance Sensor image was acquired in parallel with NIRCam imaging of the star HD147980 over a period of 8 days at the beginning of May. This image represents a total of 32 hours of exposure time at several overlapping pointings of the Guider 2 channel. The observations were not optimized for detection of faint objects, but nevertheless the image captures extremely faint objects and is, for now, the deepest image of the infrared sky. The unfiltered wavelength response of the guider, from 0.6 to 5 micrometers, helps provide this extreme sensitivity. The image is mono-chromatic and is displayed in false color with white-yellow-orange-red representing the progression from brightest to dimmest. The bright star (at 9.3 magnitude) on the right hand edge is 2MASS 16235798+2826079. There are only a handful of stars in this image – distinguished by their diffraction spikes. The rest of the objects are thousands of faint galaxies, some in the nearby universe, but many, many more in the high redshift universe.
Credit: NASA, CSA, and FGS team
VICTORY LINER
Fleet no: 8160
Bus Manufacturer: Hyundai Motor Co. (Korea)
Bus Model: Universe Space Comfort
Shot Taken: EDSA, Cubao, Quezon City
The Space Needle is an observation tower in Seattle, Washington, a landmark of the Pacific Northwest, and an icon of Seattle. It was built in the Seattle Center for the 1962 World's Fair, which drew over 2.3 million visitors, when nearly 20,000 people a day used its elevators.
This shows the size of the field we used for having fun a while back when we did some balloon pictures.
I took a few showing the negative space, and they show me now, how I need to do more with this idea in future!
The title does remind me of the joke....
"What do you do if you see a Space-man?
.....you park man!"
(groan! ;)
Made with D800, 16-35mmvr lens - and of course Bella! :)
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The things I learn in the ODC! This concept is fascinating, and deep for me! This hotel is definitely a time of transitions. And many of the people here are celebrating their high school reunions, so they are reflecting back in that pivotal transition of high school graduation. Last night’s hotel had college alumni returning for homecoming, and also people gathering for a funeral. Major event changes. I did this off kilter, which fits my take in the theme.
ODC: liminal space
Image art created for Down Under Challenge 965.
With thanks to Cindy Mc for the source image Safety Cone
plus my abstract centre
Space Shuttle Atlantis' STS-104 mission launched from Kennedy Space Center on July 12, 2001 to install the Quest Joint Airlock to the ISS. The Shuttle docked with the ISS on July 13 and performed maintenance to the station in addition to installing the airlock. The crew returned home on July 24, 2001.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: STS104-S-018
Date: July 12, 2001
Kennedy Space Center. The underside of Space Shuttle Atlantis, showing the tiles that formed part of its thermal protection.