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A cosmic vision painted inside Qoricancha, the most important temple of the Inka Empire, located in Cusco, Peru. This artwork represents "Willka Mayu" (Sacred River), the Inka name for the Milky Way. The Inka believed that the celestial river mirrored the Vilcanota River on Earth, forming a vital part of their agricultural calendar, spiritual life, and cosmic worldview. This stunning piece captures both the mystery and vibrancy of their astronomical knowledge.
Wild poppies look out over the site of the old sea-bathing pool - now a star map in which embedded lights mark out the constellations of the night sky. South Cliff, Scarborough, N. Yorkshire
Made with Blender 3.0
Low poly low quality render because of Flickr's file size restrictions.
Music:
The music - Lonely Mountain - was released to the public domain by its composer Rafael Krux via freepd.com so that no credits are required but I find the music so beautiful that I want to thank him anyway.
Star map:
Rather than making one procedurally which takes more computer power, I used a NASA starmap for the night sky, with equirectangular projection.
Screenshot courtesy of the wonderful Stellarium astronomy app showing my night sky at the time. Lots of photoshopping to render it like this.
The Silver Coin or Sculptor Galaxy ( NGC 253 ) in the Sculptor constellation.
Star Chart -
Epoch: 2017.9.23
Grid: RA: 10 sec, Dec: 2 arcSec
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On the 23rd of September 1783, sitting before her telescope, in the field behind the house she shared with her brother William in Datchet, near Slough in the south of England, Miss Caroline Herschel "swept" the sky searching for new comets and never before seen star clusters and nebulae. On this occasion, way down in the sky, not far above the Southern horizon, in an area of the southern sky that Nicolas de Lacaille had called the “Apparatus Sculptoris” or “the sculptor’s studio", Miss Herschel saw and noted down a very bright and large nebula where one had never before been recorded.
This event was later recognised by her brother, Sir William Herschel, as the discovery, by Caroline Herschel, of the nebula he listed in his catalogue as H V.1.
In later years, her 'beloved nephew', Sir John Herschel, William's son, would record this 'nebula' as entry # 138 in his General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars ( eventually becoming the 253th entry in the New General Catalogue, NGC 253 ).
Whilst relatively close to us compared to the billions of far more distant galaxies in the Universe, the great size of the “Sculptor Galaxy” and the huge distances involved are still hard to comprehend. To put this into some perspective, the light that is just now reaching one edge of the great disc left the opposite edge when the Earth was in the grip of last great Ice Age 70,000 years ago and the light we now see has been travelling towards us for over 11 million years.
( More information can be found in my blog about the Sculptor Galaxy : stargazerslounge.com/blogs/blog/1519-the-sculptor-galaxy-... )
Mike O'Day
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Identification:
Sculptor Galaxy
Silver Coin Galaxy
Silver Dollar Galaxy
NGC 253
CH10 ( Caroline Herschel # 10 )
H V.1 ( William Herschel Class V, # 1 )
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Capture Details:
Telescope: Orion Optics CT12 Newtonian ( mirror 300mm, fl 1200mm, f4 ).
Corrector: ASA 2" Coma Corrector Quattro 1.175x.
Effective Focal Length / Aperture : 1410mm f4.7
Mount: Skywatcher EQ8
Guiding: TSOAG9 Off-Axis-Guider, Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2, PHD2
Camera:
Nikon D5300 (unmodified) (sensor 23.5 x 15.6mm, 6016x4016 3.9um pixels)
Location:
Blue Mountains, Australia
Moderate light pollution ( pale green zone on darksitefinder.com map )
Capture ( 16, 17,19,20,22 Sept. 2017 )
8 sets of sub-images with exposure duration for each set doubling ( 2s to 240s ) all at ISO800.
273 x 240s + 10 each @ 2s to 120s
total around 18hrs
Processing ( Pixinsight - 24 Sept. 2017 )
Calibration: master bias, master flat and no darks
Integration in 8 sets
HDR combination
PhotometricColorCalibration
Links:
500px.com/MikeODay
photo.net/photos/MikeODay
www.flickr.com/photos/mike-oday
Pixinsight & Photoshop
23rd Sept 2017
( or 234 years to day since Caroline Herschel discovered the Sculptor Galaxy )
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Resolution ........ 0.586 arcsec/px
Rotation .......... -180.00 deg
Field of view ..... 58' 34.4" x 38' 51.6"
Image center ...... RA: 00 47 31.930 Dec: -25 17 05.13
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Links to my image galleries:
www.flickr.com/photos/Mike-ODay
My profile, astronomy related blogs and other content can be found on the StargazersLounge.com forum.
I was able to get out and shoot with Chloe Bella. Please look her up on Model Mayhem: CBella_model
For this image I used a single Godox/Flashpoint AD300 Pro on camera left with a single diffused 33"/85cm octabox.
we have piped unto you
we have mourned unto you
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faces against ---------------Orion
his vast celestial
heaven a fire
if they would only weep
--------------------------------- that joy
if they would only weep
--------------------------------- that joy
their faces circling beneath the moon.
My first attempt of capturing the Milky Way - quite some light pollution, unfortunately from a nearby music festival (bottom left) and a small city way behind the trees (bottom center/right)
((California)) • City of Angels
"Oh my God - it's full of stars"
(Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Oddysey)
Tittel / Title: Hæmisphærium Stellatum Boreale Antiqvum
Beskrivelse / Description: Stjernekart over den nordlige halvkule i Andreas Cellarius stjerneatlas Atlas Coelestis, utgitt av Valk og Schenk under tittelen Harmonia macrocosmica : sev Atlas universalis et novus, totius universi creati cosmographiam generalem, et novam exhibens
Dato / Date: 1708
Sted / Place: Amstedam
Kartograf / Cartographer: Andreas Cellarius
Digital kopi av original / Digital copy of original: no-nb_krt_00934
Eier / Owner Institution: Nasjonalbiblioteket / National Library of Norway
Lenke / Link: www.nb.no
Bildesignatur / Image Number: fKart 114 s. 100-101
Tittel / Title: Scenographia Systematis Mundani Ptolemaici
Beskrivelse / Description: Illustrasjon av det geosentriske verdensbilde i Andreas Cellarius stjerneatlas Atlas Coelestis, utgitt av Valk og Schenk under tittelen Harmonia macrocosmica : sev Atlas universalis et novus, totius universi creati cosmographiam generalem, et novam exhibens
Dato / Date: 1708
Sted / Place: Amsterdam
Kartograf / Cartographer: Andreas Cellarius
Digital kopi av original / Digital copy of original: no-nb_krt_00933
Eier / Owner Institution: Nasjonalbiblioteket / National Library of Norway
Lenke / Link: www.nb.no
Bildesignatur / Image Number: fKart 114 s. 12-13
New interior walls with paint, new desk, cleaned and stained floor and some artwork and starmaps on the walls.
Free download under CC Attribution (CC BY 4.0). Please credit the artist and rawpixel.com.
Vintage Map Illustrations.
Higher resolutions with no attribution required can be downloaded: https://www.rawpixel.com/board/1220494/vintage-maps-free-cc0-public-domain-images
Tittel / Title: Hæmisphærium Stellatvm Boreale cvm Subiecto Hæmisphærio Terrestri
Beskrivelse / Description: Stjernekart i Andreas Cellarius stjerneatlas Atlas Coelestis, utgitt av Valk og Schenk under tittelen Harmonia macrocosmica : sev Atlas universalis et novus, totius universi creati cosmographiam generalem, et novam exhibens
Dato / Date: 1708
Sted / Place: Amstedam
Kartograf / Cartographer: Andreas Cellarius
Digital kopi av original / Digital copy of original: no-nb_krt_00935
Eier / Owner Institution: Nasjonalbiblioteket / National Library of Norway
Lenke / Link: www.nb.no
Bildesignatur / Image Number: fKart 114 s. 108-109
Library of Congress star chart by Sidney Hall of the constellations Lacerta, Cygnus, Lyra, Vulpecula and Anser.
Cloudberries
cardboard
1,000 pieces, used and with one missing piece
68 x 48.5 cm
2022 piece count: 53,548
puzzle: 61
TED: "Yew'd fink the last person wot owned this pussle wood 'ave bin a bit more carful - there's a blimmin' peece missin'! I ALWAYS looks on the floor when I bin packin' up me pussles - yew never no's when yew mite drop a sneaky peece! But of corse that's too easy fer sum pusslers, innit?
*disgruntled*
Library of Congress star map by Sidney Hall of the constellations Noctua, Corvus, Crater, Sextans Uraniæ, Hydra, Felis, Lupus, Centaurus, Antlia Pneumatica, Argo Navis, and Pyxis Nautica. This star chart is heavily populated... That's the southern sky for you.
Panorama of two images from the National Diet Library of Japan showing a historical star map created over 100 years ago.
last weekend I went to Fangshan with a group of experienced amatuer astronomers. The first night we projected the starmap on the screen and talked about some constellations we could see above us. It is really a great experience, there was nearly no light pollution at all.
乱用柔焦导致地上蓝色红色溢出，删了才OK。。被基头pei评了 T ^ T
New interior walls with paint, new desk, cleaned and stained floor and some artwork and starmaps on the walls.
Library of Congress image by Sidney Hall of the constellations Sagittarius, Corona Australis, Microscopium, and Telescopium.
Library of Congress star map by Sidney Hall of the constellations Monoceros, Canis Minor, and Atelier Typographique.
gouache on Aquarelle Arches cotton rag paper,6 x 6 inches
blogged here:
www.rettg.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/surveying-southern-down...
Library of Congress star chart by Sidney Hall of the constellations Canis Major, Lepus, Columba Noachi, and Cela Sculptoris.
Done in Ai, Finalized in Photoshop.
Xar’thuun is a commander of the Syndral Ascendants, a race of ancient reptilian beings evolved beyond flesh, fused with cosmic-grade cybernetics and quantum intelligence. His obsidian-black exo-armor is woven with molten circuitry, pulsing with orange plasma—the blood of a collapsed star fueling his being. His glowing eyes are not mere optics but embedded starmaps of battles long won across dying galaxies.
Forged in the event horizon of Kraeth-Null, the oldest known black hole, Xar’thuun was reborn after leading a failed defense against the entropy tide. Now, he stands alone on the ash-choked surface of Zyrak-V, a world crumbling under gravitational collapse, watching a sister planet die in slow orbit behind him—its fragments spiraling into oblivion.
He is the Vanguard of Finality—not here to conquer, but to ensure nothing escapes. To the survivors, he is a god of extinction. To the stars, a necessary silence.
The “Cosmos in Miniature: The Remarkable Star Map of Simeon De Witt” exhibition showcased the astronomical accomplishments of De Witt, a surveyor to George Washington and the Continental Army. The exhibition focused on De Witt’s “astrolabe” of 1780, a small, circular map of the stars that were visible from his New Jersey post. It is one of the oldest surviving Anglo American star maps, and it was based on much larger British celestial maps printed earlier in the 18th century. De Witt’s astrolabe was a forerunner of the handheld star finders that would become common in the 19th century and are still sold today.
My "Murmuration"tree for the "Ten Trees" exhibition as part of this years Jumpers and Jazz in July festival in Warwick. Ten artists have each taken one of the festival's well-known silhouette trees and turned it into their own unique artwork. At the Warwick Town Hall for the next ten days.