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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.

Now, you can chat with Barbie®!

Using WiFi and speech recognition technology, Hello Barbie™ doll can interact uniquely with each child by holding conversations, playing games, sharing stories and even telling jokes!

It's a whole new way to interact with Barbie®.

She's ready to discuss anything in an outfit that blends trendy and techie for a cool look.

Use is simple after set up -- push the doll's belt buckle to start a conversation, and release to hear her respond.

More than 8,000 lines of recorded content means countless hours of fun!

Just like a real friend, Hello Barbie™ doll listens and remembers the user's likes and dislikes, giving everyone their own unique experience.

To get started, download the Hello Barbie™ companion app to your own smart device from your device's app store (not included).

Parents must also set up a ToyTalk account and connect the doll to use the conversational features.

Hello Barbie™ doll can remember up to three different WiFi locations and does not require a smart device after WiFi configuration.

copyright Susan Ogden

forced socialization is exhausting!

I had a mixed bag kind of day! It started out looking dank and like rain, so i rolled over and went back to sleep for another 40 minutes. When i got up, the sky was breaking up to my Carolina Blue, so i got myself together and had my tea and checked my mail ...and FB ...and found a message from a friend in Florida that asked if she could use two of my shots to paint in watercolors! She will put my link to my site and give me credit for the original shots. I had the forethought to ask her for a recommendation of a decent web site that i, the untechie might be able to manage on my own. She made a suggestion, and so i called her to discuss and was convinced....so i spent time looking into it and TRYING to set it up.....going back to that whole UNTECHIE problem i have (i am sure it is related to math!) . By then it began to rain,,,,i never even noticed it had clouded over, i was so intent on figuring this out...so i never got out to the store because they do not believe in gutters on houses here and the way my roof slopes, the rain pours off down my stairs, leaving me looking like i just got out of my shower fully clothed. The store could wait!

Then promptly at 1:57pm, the installers arrived for my countertops...which i am thrilled about because now i am not using wood slats to hold my electric kettle for my tea! I love them....my countertops (altho i love my electric kettle and tea too!) i was fascinated with the whole installation thing...they attached something that looked like a defibrillator to my counter top and let it do it’s thing (getting the seam tight?!?). One of the installers was from the town next to me when i was growing up!! small world. i tried to work while they were here but i couldn’t because one of them kept asking me questions ....most of which i was unsure of the answer to...so i was glad when my son in law showed up!

When that was said and done, i felt like i had socialized for a month...which is probably why when i went back to trying to figure out the techie stuff i felt overwhelmingly exhausted...so i ate.....tried again and have decided that tomorrow is another day...and i am going to read my new book. It is quiet time at the ok corral!

Hope tomorrow is a day of less “social” stress....just throwin’ it out there!

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Techie Notes: I added a touch of blur to this scene in PS, to bring out the soft feeling of the rain.

The kiosks selling umbrellas sprout up on days like this so one never need worry about being caught without an umbrella. It was a busy shopping day for locals in this neighborhood near the Guglie Bridge. What a pleasure to be able to enjoy the city on foot, with not a single car ever showing up, since they don't exist in Venice. There is a special peacefulness here, away from the big tourist area os San Marco Piazza, and a sense of village and community life undisturbed by traffic remains. I love the soft sounds of Venice: just people talking or the water lapping against the sides of the canals and rios. An occasional boat engine, but they are quiet because they are only allowed to move slowly so as not to create a big wake that further erodes the sides of the buildings. Not a single car! A magical place for sure!

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.

“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.

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.

One of the most beautiful Victorian homes in the historic village of Mendocino, the MacCallum House was built in 1882 as a wedding gift for Daisy Kelley and her husband Alex MacCallum.

TECHIE NOTES:

This is a single exposure, using a tripod, and the following settings: 6/10th of a second @ f/3.5 and 200 ISO.

Getting this shot took some planning. I wanted to show the house all lit up just before nightfall, yet still have some daylight in the sky. I arrived ahead of time to be able to do some test shots and be ready for the moment. Because it was slightly windy, the clouds were moving quite quickly and there was enough movement in the bushes and decorations that they would get motion blur, so I couldn't do a very long exposure. I tried several shots, and eventually settled on f/3.5, at 6/10th of a second, and ISO 200. I guess I could have increased the ISO but my experience with the Canon EOS 20 D, suggested it best to keep the ISO as low as possible to minimize grain in the final shot. This final and most successful of the evening's exposures was taken at 5:48 P.M. in mid December (several years ago).

Northern California's Mendocino Coast was home to many Native American tribes until Spanish conquistadores, and Mexican settlers -- and later Anglo settlers from the East Coast -- arrived and systematically took over tribal lands after, sad to say, decimating the native populations. There is an excellent museum at the Cabrillo Lighthouse just north of Mendocino village which pays tribute to the culture of the first true Americans - the Pomo - to have lived along this coast.

As for more recent history, here is more information about the Kelley family, one of the first Anglo settler families to establish themselves in this area in the mid-1800's, see: www.kelleyhousemuseum.org/

Information Technology Is Serious Business. This is my buddy Jason from work. He is a master computer genius of epic proportions. He can fix anything, literally. He is head of support for the IT Department. He has been asking me for a while to do a cool techie shot of him and what better way than to slap him in a suit (to make him look important of course) and put him in the middle of the server racks.

Please hit the letter L and view large!

Camera Info:

Canon 7D, Canon 7D, Sigma DC 17-70mm 1:2.8-4 Macro HSM @17mm, f/9.0, 1/200s, ISO 100

Strobist Info: See Setup Shot here.

-Canon 430EXII Camera right and behind subject, 1/4 power @70mm Zoom fired bare, 7 feet high and 6 feet away from subject.

-Canon 430EXII Camera left and behind subject, 1/4 power @70mm Zoom fired bare, 6 feet high and 6 feet away from subject.

-Canon 430EXII directly above and behind camera, 1/2 Power @24mm Zoom inside 40 inch softbox, 8 feet high and 5 feet from subject.

-White reflector being held underneath subject about 3 feet below his chin. My buddy Jonathon was holding the reflector.

-Flashes triggered with Interfit Strobies.

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

Apple just despatched out invites for a press conference on Wednesday, September 7. The company will most most likely unveil the subsequent Apple iphone. The invite does not say a lot. Apple commonly likes to give hints — but this time, it just states “See you on the seventh.” The party will...

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A flavour of the excitement of a track day at Goodwood Motor Circuit.

The film is from a trip with two friends attending a Track Day at the Goodwood Motor Circuit on the 12th May 2023.

It was a beautiful sunny day down on the south coast.

Martin Brundle's son was taking part in an AC Cobra and a beautiful sounding exhaust from that V8 engine, a throaty roar for sure.!!

Techie stuff :- Filmed on iPhone 13 Pro Max using Filmic Pro App (The legacy version) in 4k and using a Reeflex Anamorphic 1.33 lens to give a cinematic widescreen image video footage.

Stills taken with Nikon D750.

Film edit work done in Final Cut Pro X and down sampled to 1080P for Flickr folks.

Copyright free music from Bensound.com - two tracks, Bensound Smile and Bensound Elevate.

"….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)

#ABFAV_Artificial_light

This image was taken in Belgium, and the pyrotechnics by courtesy of a Spanish group, music and fireworks amongst the people, never seen anything like it!

Keep safe, and have a great day, Magda, (*_*)

Just adding this note for those interested in the techie stuff; this was taken on my Nikon F4, on 400asa film

I am such an impulsive/intuitive photographer and after all the years, I do things by 'feel', like driving a car, you know what I mean, but I'll try. I'd say f 4.5, 1/30 of second. Of course on a tripod and with cable release. I was way behind the crowd on a small hill, with a long lens probably between 200/250.

The result also depends on the film and sensitivity.

Photographic film is a sheet of plastic (cellulose acetate) coated with an emulsion containing light-sensitive silver halide salts (bonded by gelatine) with variable crystal sizes that determine the sensitivity and resolution of the film.

Colour film uses at least 3 layers, I now use film with 4.

Dyes added to the silver salts make the crystals sensitive to different colours. During development, the silver salts are converted to metallic silver, as with black and white film. The by-products of this reaction form coloured dyes. The silver is converted back to silver salts in the bleach step of development. It is removed from the film in the fix step.

Hope that helps and enjoy, Magda, (*_*)

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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.

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Tried to describe the mixture of old architecture and a techie device.

As sundown approaches, I've noticed this male comes down from his surveillance perch high in a tree where he can keep an eye on several Fuchsia patches to a perch in a bush about 5 feet from the "best" patch. I think as the light fades, he must get closer to see and chase away others coming in during dusk for one last feeding on nectar. They need the energy to make it through the torpor they fall into during the night.

Techie: Good grief, you can get a fairly OK shot at ISO 51200!

MLK Shoreline RP, Oakland, CA

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:

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....and here is a wonderful etching of the original Ponte alle Grazie:

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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.

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Pete the dojo master of code nijary executes a perfect cake plow as VCDan, and Trevor clean up and Techie readies himself for his cake plow.

~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?

Have you ever seen a doll this close?

What do you guys think, would you like to take a Macro shot like this one? Do you like Macro photography? Isn't my Raven perfect? (she better be since I was a good half hour searching for the perfect "one" in the store xD).

You can view it in it's original size btw, I've uploaded it in full quality so you can see Raven like she's under a microscope hehe

Techie stuff: For those wondering how I did this I used a very cheap extension tube on my 50mm lens.

Also known as the Pinwheel galaxy.

At about 170,000 light years across, it's roughly 70% bigger than our own Milky Way Galaxy.

Lying some 25 million light years away, the Pinwheel galaxy is estimated to contain at least one trillion stars. Look for it in the constellation of Ursa Major ( the great bear ).

Pierre Méchain, Charles Messier's assistant, is credited with discovering M101 in 1781.

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 with Astronomik CLS CCD APS-C clip in filter.

18 exposures of 5 minutes at ISO 400 combined with calibration frames. Stacked with DSS and all processing done with StarTools.

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.

a little sampler with some wise words for the techie in your life

Construction Drone and Heavy Machinery techie.

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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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

Also known as the Beehive cluster. M44 lies at 577 light years from Earth in the constellation of Cancer and spans about 15 light years across. In total there is estimated to be over 1,000 stars associated with this cluster. At around 600 million years old this cluster is quite young, when compared to our Sun's 4.5 billion years.

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, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO asiair plus.

Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in StarTools.

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.

Thank you for visiting my stream and I hope that you enjoy the work.

My 200 most interesting images

Regards

Cluke

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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.

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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! ==

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.

Much better Big On Black

Technically I don't think this shot is good as the one that I posted yesterday - I'm not thrilled with the stem here fading into black like that without an edge. But, it was the coolest one to shoot...... it was the last shot that I took in this studio session due to the fact that I just knew that I had timed it perfectly when I saw the flash trigger at the exact same time that I heard a really cool "WHOOSH" sound. It was so satisfying.

Note to self..... more lighter fluid = bigger flame = cooler WHOOSH sound = make sure DIY cardboard snoot is further away. ;)

Techie, shootie, strobisty stuff can be found in yesterdays shot.

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.

Also known as IC 434 and Barnard 33.

The horsehead nebula is approximately 1,375 light years away in the constellation of Orion. A very difficult target to find in a telescope, it's possible with a large aperture using specialist filters. A camera that can pick up Ha it's much easier :-)

IC 434 lies on Orions belt close to the flame nebula with the very bright star Alnitak (just visible lower left) separating them.

Image captured at The Astronomy Centre, Todmorden, UK on 10th of November 2023.

www.astronomycentre.org.uk/

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 100, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO asiair plus.

120 second exposures.

Darks, Flats & Bias.

Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in PixInsight & Affinity Photo.

Realme x3 superzoom

The Fossil Footprint Nebula.

Discovered in 1790 by William Herschel NGC 1491 can be found in the constellation of Perseus at a distance of approximately 11,000 light years from us.

Known as a HII region. This type of nebulae is caused by ultraviolet radiation from the hot young stars being born within ionizing the surrounding nebula, which cause it to glow in visible light allowing us to see it.

Boring techie bit:

Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair 60mm guide scope, ZWO asi585mm guide camera, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -20c gain 101, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO asiair plus.

85 light frames combined with calibration frames in DeepSkyStacker and then further processed using PixInsight, Graxpert & Affinity Photo.