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Better known as the Pacman Nebula.
This emission nebula can be found 6,500 light years away in the constellation of Cassiopeia.
Do you think it looks like pacman chomping his way across the Galaxy?
All data gathered at the Astronomy Centre 12th of August 2024.
Boring techie bit:
Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 50mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -20c gain 101, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO filter drawer, ZWO asiair plus.
60s exposures.
Best 75% of 100 light frames.
Darks, Flats & Bias.
Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in PixInsight & Affinity Photo.
“I’ve got all the friends I need... online,” Futaba Sakura explains. With the Coronavirus situation, Futaba’s shut-in lifestyle may become more prevalent.
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Created for this week’s Toy Sunday theme, INTIMACY.
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"Marshall's Beach" - www.createwithlightphotography.com
This is a 30 second exposure of Marshall's Beach in San Francisco, looking towards the very famous Golden Gate Bridge.
I was in San Francisco for a conference in early May and had the opportunity to spend another wonderful evening with my good friends, Nathan Wirth , Steve-Maxx landeros , Ivan Makarov , Joe Azure and my new friends Jim Patterson and Kendra Karr . Thank you again to you all for being such wonderful hosts and company, I can't begin to tell you all how much I appreciated it. I'm really hoping to get back to San Fran towards the end of August this year, so fingers crossed. OMG, how I miss that place!!!
This was the first time I was able to get down to Marshall's Beach without monster waves trying to sweep me away. :-) There wasn't a cloud in the sky, but that didn't stop me from getting creative with my graduated filters to work the tonal angles.
The techie Stuff:
ISO: 200
Aperture: f/7.1
Exposure: 30 seconds
Focal Length: 16mm
Filters: Hitech Pro 10 stop ND filter, Lee 3 stop soft grad ND filter.
All thoughts and comments welcome.
Please visit my website to view more of my images: www.createwithlightphotography.com
I know I've not long since imaged this but, I'd setup in hope of the clouds clearing over my local observatory.
Just as I was about to pack everything away, we got a gap in the clouds. M27 was ideally placed right in the gap, so I managed to get 30 exposures of 2 minutes each and some calibration frames with them.
Boring techie bit:
Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 50mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -10c gain 110, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO asiair plus.
Darks, Flats & Bias.
Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in StarTools and Affinity Photo
A winter evening....and two companions stopped on the Ponte alle Grazie to enjoy the shimmering water and soft glow of lights along the banks of the Arno. This is the bridge just upstream from the Ponte Vecchio, that one passes by to go to the Piazzale Michelangelo. On the hill one can see San Miniato al Monte. Sometimes I wish it were night all the time! I love how nature envelops us in the darkness, and we return to a different way of seeing and feeling.
TECHIE NOTES: Photo taken in color. Adjusted to monochrome in photoshop, and warming filter added.
For those who like to know about architecture and history, here is information about this bridge in Florence:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponte_alle_Grazie
Here is a photo of the original Ponte alle Grazie, before it was destroyed during WW II. At the time it was the oldest bridge in Florence:
www.shopping24.ilsole24ore.com/ProductRelated/alinari/fot...
....and here is a wonderful etching of the original Ponte alle Grazie:
grandtour.bncf.firenze.sbn.it:9080/nazionale/galleria-imm...
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And about the romanesque church on the hill:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_di_San_Miniato_al_Monte
The Basilica di San Miniato al Monte (Basilica of St Minias on the Mountain) stands atop one of the highest points in Florence, and has been described as the finest Romanesque structure in Tuscany and one of the most beautiful churches in Italy.
~one of the fountains at San Juan Capistrano.
I really enjoyed my visit here and would just love to go back. *big sigh* :)
Now, I interrupt this regular HBW photo with this special message:
Dear Flickr techie people,
Why can't I insert an image in my comments under the new version??? I have to switch back to the old version in order to add photos in my comment box. Isn't this going to be a problem once the final switch is made? Can we fix this problem? I assure you, Flickr members like myself appreciate the bigger, newer version of our photos (although you did make it easier to steal) but making it difficult for us to enjoy once simple features is very frustrating. Let's get it together and fix it, yes? Thank you! :-D
Now, where's the comment/complaint box?
If anyone has a solution...or is it just me?
This is a landscape version from my visit to Holywell Bay near Newquay earlier in the summer. This was taken only a few minutes apart from the portrait shot but the difference in the sky is quite dramatic.
It might not look like it here but this beach and these rocks were featured in the opening sequence from 'Die Another Day' the James Bond film.
In this version I deliberately kept the contrast and shadows low to give a more gentle, mellow feel.
Thanks for looking.
Ade
Techie bit: EOS 50d, 24-70, bracketed & blended
A glimpse of behind the scenes of a photoshoot arranged by Windsor Photographic Society at Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Great Park.
The model was "Eve" (originally from New Zealand) and the car was an Austin Healey 3000 Mk III .
It was quite windy at the top of Windsor Great Park in the grounds of Cumberland Lodge which caused issues on the first two locations especially trying to record audio.
Sincere thanks to Denis and Barbara who organised and ran the whole event and we were lucky the weather stayed dry as it was all outdoors in the beautiful grounds.
Techie info :-
Stills shot on Nikon D750 with Sigma 85mm f/1.4, and iPhone 11 Pro Max.
Video shot on iPhone 11 Pro Max using FiLMiC Pro & Apple app all hand held with stabilisation added in FCP X.
Edit work created in Final Cut Pro X on iMac.
Located 6,400 light years away in the constellation of Orion, the Monkey Head is an emission nebula and home to the open star cluster NGC 2175.
The nebula acts as a womb for new stars to be born. Those new stars then radiate such immense energy that blasts in to the surrounding gas and dust that makes up the nebula. This has the effect of not only clearing away the surrounding nebula from the newly born star but, causes the gas and dust in other areas to be pushed together. When enough of this material is pushed together it allows gravity to take hold and pull more and more of it in. When enough of it is pulled together there's a good chance another star will be born.
Boring techie bit:
Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 50mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -20c gain 100, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO asiair plus.
180s exposures.
Best 70% of 30 light frames.
Darks, Flats & Bias.
Stacked with DeepSkyStacker, and processed in Affinity Photo.
summer 2007 we had a loaner 5D that a certain little figgin' memory card hated and chewed up an entire photo session. saved the card and sent it to the manufacturer in hopes of getting back the corrupt shots.
they poked and prodded and did better than i could
find but well, sadly only a few shots survived.
i'm pleased to share with you at least a frame or two.
more info in the comments
;)
pickerel lake ontario
northwest of algonquin
canada
techie stuff:
2.5 min, 16mm @ f/2.8 ISO 400
Canon 16-35mm f/2.8 II
A reflection nebula in the constellation of Orion, often called The Running Man Nebula.
NGC1977 is actually made up of three nebulae, those being NGC1973, NGC1975 and NGC1977.
It was first discovered by William Herschel in 1786 and is roughly about 1,460 light years from us.
Boring techie bit:
Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 50mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO asiair plus.
180s exposures, Gain110 at -20c
Best 75% of 80 light frames.
Darks, Flats & Bias.
Stacked with DeepSkyStacker, and processed in StarTools.
Nothing Screams "I'm an American" Like a Fourth of July Strobist style ShalerJump
YES, we were nearly shut-down 1/2 way through the action be a security officer whose supervisor thought we should be doing our thing. We were on the top floor of Fiesta Mall Parking Garage in Mesa AZ. The mall encourages people to watch the fireworks there, and it was a full house The guard said something about "All this equipment"
The guard started to say that photography is not allowed, but they let it happen for the Fourth, (duh) I basically said that we're no different than the other people with their cameras. I pointed to a few people w/ tripods and D-SLR's I politely said that although the strobes might be bright, so were the fireworks. We're just taking some pictures of our friends and trying to be patriotic.
Yes we were where the cars could drive, yet the garage was packed full and nobody should be driving, although some people did come late. The guy understood, got on his radio and let us continue. (yeeee ha!) So, if people give you static. POLITELY reason with them and ask what makes a Strobist any different than anyone else with a camera. Why should crappy photographers get away with photography when the world just needs better photos?! :-)
Anyway, what did you do on the Fourth, Just fireworks or did you do it strobist style?
Techie/ Strobist Info...
-Two -sunpak 622 strobes, one camera right (with a small brolly box)
-2nd 622 seen camera left, behind in the photo (lens flare and all)
-3rd strobe, sb-800 on ground behind the Jumper, w/ Small snoot of blackwrap.
- fired by Pocket Wizards.
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Shot one of my favorite models - Monica Brankovich at the beach of a local lake, while we were strolling after a fashion shooting. Nice and provocative poses are her second nature.
For the techie junkies - shot with Canon 5D Mark IV + Canon EF 35mm f/1.4 LII USM + Profoto B1 and Profoto Deep Umbrella Silver XL.
In case of questions - please, drop me a line in the comments. Follow me for more fashion and beauty shots.
This is NGC2841 The Tiger's Eye galaxy.
First discovered by William Herschel 9th of March 1788.
It's an unbarred spiral galaxy which can be found in the constellation of Ursa Major (the Great Bear).
It's 46 million light years away and approximately 150,000 light years across, so, quite big.
Imaged taken 5th of January 2022 from my back garden.
Boring techie bit.
Skywatcher quattro 8" S & f4 aplanatic coma corrector
HEQ5 pro mount guided with an Altair 50mm & GPcam setup
Canon 450D astro modded with Astronomik CLS CCD EOS APS-C clip filter. Neewer Intervalometer used to control the exposures.
Yesterday I buid this little guy. As all his species he love technology. They always wear high tech suits so nobody knows their real appearance. Somebody think they are bots but some scanners have proven there is a life form inside their suits.
Ayer construí a este tipo. Como toda su especie le encanta la tecnología. Siempre llevan trajes de alta tecnología por lo que nadie conoce cual es su apariencia real. Aunque algunos piensan que son robots, algunos scaners han probado que existe una forma de vida dentro de sus trajes.
Actually, raspberries have been very, very good to me. So this is not revenge.
As the hoods say in the movies, its nothing personal, just business.
Took a bunch of shots until I caught that sneaky little pellet just diving into the tasty berry.
Just curious, every once and a while I get a crappy picture that has some tech interest. I don't want to show everyone that stuff, but some people are interested.
Should I try to figure out how to post the techie things in another secure (sometimes) disclosed location?
Things like setups, equipment, after shot mayhem.
Let me know in the comments.
What happens when your vertical alignment is out on your Leica M8? You can either send it to Solms, get an experienced RF techie to do it or you DIY. I opted for the latter for the sake of time and the fact that some RF techies didn't want to touch it. So, I bought a the Zhou vertical tool (http://cgi.ebay.com/Vertical-Line-Focus-Adj-Tool-F-Leica-M4-2-M4p-M6-M7-MP-/170399164715?pt=Film_Cameras&hash=item27ac94e92b#ht_2091wt_940) and fixed it myself. According to the description of the tool, it doesn't cater for the M8/M9, but it does actually work with the M8 (and I assume the M9).
Although I look a bit spack-handed with DIY in the YouTube videos, but I've fixed the Epson R-D1S alignments myself so I thought the M8 couldn't be much harder. The only tough part was getting the Leica badge off, which was a bit of a toughie. What you have to do is to repeatedly push it clockwise then anti-clockwise until the glue underneath it gives way. I would advise using a plastic object (something that won't scratch) to push under the left side of the "L" and then under the right side of the tail of the "L". Finally, it will slide off, revealing bits inside. It's a bit dark inside, but shine a bright light and you can make out where the hole is. This is a special tool that fits into the slot. Some would recommend using acetone (nail polish remover) to loosen the glue up a bit so you can make the amendments.
P.S. If you are not confident in doing it, then I would strongly recommend taking it to someone who knows what they are doing. One really needs to be quite delicate with it as it's easy f*ck it up. I did it because I am chi sin.
"0800 hours, and the siege on the Techno Union CP is slow. It's a bright winter morning on the surface, and we haven't heard much commotion. We are to proceed further within the heart of the facility. Extract the Force Crystal powering the station and move topside for evac. Direct orders from the Chancellor."
The entire thing was a wreck underground. The roofing had split which had dirt, rubble, and ice spill into the dimly lit corridors of the Techie outpost. We had encountered fairly thick resistance moving towards the target, but the uniformity of Charlie squad plowed through the CIS lines. We had successfully reached and completed the objective; fairly easily sacking the target and awaiting further orders. That was when things moved to the unexpected.
Command had warned our troops of the mutated Crystalline Nelvaanian Dua-Wurms ripping through the lower levels of the facility. I had encountered these things on Cularin four months before, but I was yet unprepared. The room shook, tearing durasteel off the walls like sheets of paper.
"Form a circle! Evac is en route! ETA Twelve hours!"
The shaking continually grew ever stronger and more violent. The men were refined, but it they were afraid - I was afraid. Moments passed, and everything went silent. Cold. The facility had went as dead and unwelcoming as it had ever been; but the absence of sound was unbearable. Looking to my left, I find Blondie crouching with his DC-15s poised, his hands loosely shaking in fear. They tore through the room in seconds. Czar was caught off guard and thrown into the air off the catwalk, falling several kilos to the ground below. He landed out of sight with a merciless splatter and the sound of breaking bones and flesh filled the room. Both Blondie and Goat looked in my direction, seeking orders.
"I'm sure he'll be ok."
We ran.
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Mission 9.2 in the 457th Corps.
Chinese astronomers in 1054 recorded a new 'star'. This new star was visible during the daytime for almost a month.
What they were actually witnessing was a supernova, the death of a star.
This particular star was about 6,500 light years away. They didn't know it at the time but, they were witnessing something that actually happened around 5,450 BC.
It's believed that the Crab Nebula is the remnants of that supernova.
M1 is six light years across!
It was first discovered in 1731 by John Bevis. M1 is what inspired Charles Messier to later start his now famous Messier catalogue. After he thought he'd found Halley's comet and realised it wasn't, he decided to make a list of things that weren't comets, and so therefore, not worth observing. Now, every astronomer and astrophotographer are fascinated by them.
BORING techie bit:
Captured using a Skywatcher Quattro 8" with f4 coma corrector on a HEQ5 mount.
Guided using an Altair 50mm guidescope and GPcam combo.
Canon 450D astro modified and with Astronomik CLS CCD APS-C clip in filter.
Location: Newhey, Rochdale, UK.
13 exposures of 3 minutes each. Stacked together with calibration frames using DSS and all processing done with StarTools.
Robot sculptures combining polymer clay, wire woven into coil springs, varnish and (sometimes) a little heart handmade by HerArtSheLoves. www.theawesomerobots.com
"….if the coyote catches you..." Well you know the rest of it and so does he , so he is sneaking up on the coyote instead. :-)
(wish I was techie enough to put the coyote in here split screen)
The MRCA Tornado
Blimey! I remember when these were first being introduced to the RAF and now some are getting retired to Air Museums.
Techie stuff: 6 frames HDR taken handheld using the in camera bracketing and processed in Photomatix Pro
Seen at Yorkshire Air Museum.
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Cluke
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This photo was taken with a less ideal lighting condition and with a relative slow shutter speed as I was shooting with Portra 160 pushed 1-stop. I even had to open up the aperture on my Letiz Summitar lens to get enough light for the shot handheld. In the end, it was still a bit blurry due to motion and shallow depth of field. I was tempted to use Topaz AI in order to reduce the bluriness due to motion. The result looks a bit funky. I am facing with this paradox that by applying AI to compensate the shortcomings of film would actually defeat the purpose of shooting film in the first place. I have seen street photos from famed photographers that are blurry. However, my inner voice was telling me that I am not one of them. I am just a techie with a camera.
By the way, we should be alarmed by the rapid pace of AI development recently. There are certain companies that do not seriously implement ethical guard rails to prevent wrongdoings and unethical practices. This is both exciting and scary at the same time. Once we reach singularity, AGI, or whatever you call it, we would be at a point of no return.
Film: Kodak Portra 160 + 1EV
Camera: Leica IIIF
Lens: Leitz Summitar 50mm F2 LTM
The challenge for Saturday 1st October is ‘technology, new or old,’ and I wanted to steer clear of the techie kit we’re all surrounded with these days. So I’m taking the opportunity to salute another practical achievement of science, that of vaccination. Edward Jenner is considered the founder of vaccinology in the West in 1796, after he inoculated a 13 year-old-boy with vaccinia virus (cowpox), and demonstrated immunity to smallpox, and from then on scientists have developed and refined the technology to the point where many previously fatal outbreaks of disease are capable of being controlled.
My idea was prompted by my going last Saturday for my annual flu jab, and since our surgery was also offering the pneumonia vaccine in the same session I had that too, and then just yesterday I had my seasonal Covid booster. We learned from the leaflets they gave out that the Covid vaccine we were being given was a tweaked variant of the earlier vaccine so it was now capable of giving protection against two strains of Covid, another advance in immunology to keep pace with the mutations these viruses keep developing.
It’s salutary to think of where we’d be without the work of those dedicated researchers, so a picture of my growing collection of Covid vaccination tickets is my tribute to all of those involved in the vaccination programmes, from those in the laboratory through to everyone involved in the delivery!
== As always, your comments (and faves, should you be so inclined) are greatly appreciated! ==
My drought-tolerant front-yard landscape is WILD with California poppy plants. I've been waiting for the blooms to start filling in, but for two days now the weather changed from cool and rainy to hot dry winds. Completely thrashed them. On inspection today though, there are plenty of new blooms still wrapped up (you can see two here) and cooler with light rain is in the forecast this coming week. The blooms are really neat - the flower is encased (my non-techie term) and then it looks like a hat and then it falls off. Hopefully, I can show that in the next few days.
While it may not seem like much here, this area in Joshua Tree National Park is one of the park's fan-palm oases (though you can't see the palms here). Geologic faults criss-cross the park. When groundwater hits a fault plane, it rises to the surface and creates conditions for an oasis. Although you can't see the magnificent fan palms in this image, you can see several cottonwoods off in the distance.
Looking for my likely last Milky Way images of the season, I drove all over the park, to my several favorite spots, trying to settle on my late-night location. I chose Cottonwood Spring because it's darker and not as busy as the more northern areas of the park, and because I'd never been here at night. It was a good choice.
Techie stuff: 3-minute foreground at ISO 2000; 25-second sky at ISO 6400.
Assignment 52 -- Copycat
A terrifically exciting, thought-provoking assignment! And the first challenge, of course, is to isolate & define what is characteristic of a given photographer's style. Even more daunting for me, the realization made particularly acute that I very much lack the technique, skills & knowledge to do more than make the merest stab at imitating photographers I admire. Nonetheless, there is much to be learned in the effort, so here is my attempt at going in a different direction in imitating Llewellyn, who caught the attention of so many of us:
.robertllewellyn.com/#/PORTFOLIOS/SEEING TREES
Never mind the futility of getting his kind of pin point focus -- it was a huge struggle for me to get whiteness without shadow! Even after setting up lights & fooling with them endlessly, & I am not at all a techie sort of person! But I'm glad I tried!
This is an open star cluster in the constellation of Auriga. Sometimes called the Salt & Pepper cluster.
It was first discovered in the early 1650's by Giovanni Battista Hodierna. Later to be independently discovered by Charles Messier in 1764.
The cluster lies 4,511 light years away from us and is estimated to be between 350 and 550 million years old. Quite a few red giants can be seen within the 500+ stars that make up the cluster.
The best time to observe M37 or NGC 2099 as its listed in the New General Catalogue is the months of December, January and february.
Boring techie bit.
Skywatcher quattro 8" S & f4 aplanatic coma corrector
EQ6 R pro mount guided with an Altair 50mm & Altair GPcam
Canon 450D astro modded with Astronomik CLS CCD EOS APS-C clip filter. Neewer Intervalometer used to control the exposures.
70 - 80 second exposures with the best 75% stacked in DeepSkyStacker with calibration frames.
All other processing done with StarTools
Ironlak Roarke
Ironlak Flirt
Ironlak Potion
Ironlak Delicious
Ironlak Techie White
Ironlak Crush
Ironlak Cameleon
Ironlak Reals Sublime
Ironlak Sofles Violence
Ironlak Phantom
Ironlak Eggplant
Ironlak Nitro
Oh I know it's an awful, corny title but when else am I going to get to use it?
The exit stairwell at the Vatican Museum. I should really be posting the classic image looking down the stairwell but, err, well, I fluffed it. But, on the other hand, EVERYBODY does that shot! So here's the more unique view looking up. And no that is not The Most Beautiful Girl In The World. No idea who she is but her standing there came in real handy for a bit of scale. :D
Anyway it's well past my bedtime and I'm clearly rambling so thank you for visiting and I hope that you enjoy the work.
See you all tomorrow
Cluke
Oh sorry, techie stuff, this was a whole bunch of overlapping images stitched together in Microsoft ICE
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