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Guter alter Mond – alte Narben – neue Einschläge – neue Hoffnung – Kepler bei Sonnenaufgang
Gestern, am 23.2.2018 eine Minute vor Mitternacht, habe ich den Mond mit meiner Filmkamera fotografiert. Das Licht war trotz der zweimaligen Reflexion des Sonnenlichts so hell, dass ich bei kurzer Belichtung die Blendenöffnung sehr klein machen musste.
Der Mond trägt wesentlich dazu bei, dass wir auf der Erde gut leben können. Er stabilisiert die Lage der Erdachse, steuert die Gezeiten, treibt den Golfstrom an und hat insgesamt einen moderierenden Einfluss auf unser Wetter und Klima.
2012 waren wir in Alpirsbach im Schwarzwald. In der Nähe ist eine Forschungsstation der Uni Karlsruhe. In einem Stollen eines alten Bergwerks, demonstrierten Forscher der Uni uns , wie man mit besonders empfindlicher Messtechnik (Langstrecken-Dilatometer) die Verformungen der „starren“ Erdkruste im Takt des Mondes messen kann.
Der Mond kann auch in größeren Zeitabständen die Sonne tagsüber total verfinstern; mein Bruder Wolfram hat uns das 1999 auf den Fildern oberhalb von Stuttgart gezeigt. Ein sehr eindrucksvolles Erlebnis!
In klaren Nächten zeigt uns der Mond sein immer gleiches, vernarbtes Gesicht mit der charakteristischen Anordnung von Maren, egal von welcher Stelle der Erde wir ihn ansehen. Er ist uns stets zugewandt.
In der gegenwärtigen Mondphase sind besonders viele Details sichtbar, insbesondere nahe der Schattengrenze, d. h. an der gekrümmten Kante des Halbmondes.
Alte Narben sind die großflächigen, dunkleren, meist runden Flecken, die mit bloßem Auge erkennbaren Mare.
Man deutet sie als Tiefebenen, die nach größeren Einschlägen von flüssigem Magma aus dem Mondinneren überschwemmt wurden. Sie tragen phantasievolle lateinische Namen wie mare serenitatis, mare fructilitatis, mare tranquilitatis oder mare crisium.
Spuren neuerer Einschläge sind die vielen Krater unterschiedlicher Größe, oft mit einer zusätzlichen Erhebung im Zentrum. Jeder einzelne Krater zeugt von einer Umweltkatastrophe gigantischen Ausmaßes. Wie gut, dass die Menschheit noch nicht existierte. Riesige Staub- und Geröllwolken haben auch das Klima auf der Erde für jeweils lange Zeiträume dramatisch verändert.
Im Gegensatz zur Erde hat der Mond weder eine schützende Lufthülle noch ein nennenswertes Magnetfeld als Panzer gegen Strahlen. Deshalb konnte auf ihm kein Leben entstehen.
Mit den Namen dieser Mondkrater ehrt man Entdecker und Persönlichkeiten der Himmelskunde, z. B. Kopernikus und Kepler. Mit letzterem hat sich mein Bruder Wolfram Knapp vor zwei Jahren intensiv beschäftigt und zur Herausgabe eines Buches beigetragen (Johannes Kepler: De motu terrae. Kepler-Gesellschaft, Uni Tübingen 2016).
Für den Mond als stillen Beobachter des Geschehens auf der Erde mögen die „irdischen Einschläge“ von untergeordneter Bedeutung sein, existiert doch die Menschheit erst einen Wimpernschlag lang im Vergleich zur Mondgeschichte, auch wenn für uns Betroffene die Zeiträume oft lang erscheinen!
Die Schattengrenze ist etwas bauchig, sodass noch ein weiterer, sehr markanter Krater sichtbar ist. Im Licht der aufgehenden Sonne zeigt er stolz seine perfekte Geometrie: Das muss Kepler sein!
Good old moon - old scars - new impact - new hope - Kepler at sunrise
Yesterday, on 23.2.2018, one minute before midnight, I photographed the moon with my film camera. Despite the two reflections of the sunlight, the light was so bright that I had to make the aperture very small with a short exposure.
The moon contributes significantly to the fact that we can live well on earth. It stabilises the position of the earth's axis, controls the tides, drives the Gulf Stream and has a moderating influence on our weather and climate.
2012 we were in Alpirsbach in the Black Forest. Nearby is a research station of the University of Karlsruhe. In a tunnel of an old mine, researchers from the university showed us how to measure the deformations of the "rigid" earth's crust in time with particularly sensitive measuring technology (long distance dilatometer) in the moon's rhythm.
The moon can darken the sun totally during the day, even at longer intervals; my brother Wolfram showed us this in 1999 on the Fildern above Stuttgart. A very impressive experience!
On clear nights the moon shows us its always the same scarred face with the characteristic arrangement of Maren, no matter from which part of the earth we look at it. He is always at our side.
In the current phase of the moon many details are visible, especially near the shadow border, i. e. at the curved edge of the crescent moon.
Old scars are the large, darker, mostly round spots, the mare visible to the naked eye. They are interpreted as lowlands that were flooded by liquid magma from the inside of the moon after major impacts. They bear imaginative Latin names such as mare serenitatis, mare fructilitatis, mare tranquilitatis or mare crisium.
Traces of recent impacts are the many craters of different sizes, often with an additional elevation in the centre. Every single crater testifies to an environmental catastrophe on a gigantic scale. How fortunate that mankind did not yet exist. Huge clouds of dust and debris have also dramatically changed the climate on Earth for long periods of time.
In contrast to the Earth, the moon has neither a protective air envelope nor a significant magnetic field as a shield against radiation. That's why there was no life on it.
With the names of these moon craters one honours explorers and personalities of celestial science, e. g. Copernicus and Kepler. My brother Wolfram K scarcely dealt with the latter two years ago and contributed to the publication of a book (Johannes Kepler: De motu terrae. Kepler-Gesellschaft, University of Tübingen 2016).
For the moon as a silent observer of what is happening on earth, the "earthly impacts" may be of minor importance, but humanity only exists for a blink of an eye compared to the history of the moon, even if the periods often seem to be long for us affected!
The shadow border is somewhat bulbous, so that another very prominent crater is visible. In the light of the rising sun, he proudly shows his perfect geometry:"That must be Kepler!
Today's story and sketch "by me" we are in the Mohave desert
at the Playa Beautimus Retirement Resort, filming Rescue Randy the most interesting leading man in the Galaxy and (worlds only living tissue crash test dummy) Randy is staring in his own TV series (The Stunt Man). Today is the filming of the Dilly Dally episode, Dilly Dally is a beautiful tall blond shuffleboard coach at the Playa Beautimus Resort. The scene opens with Dilly sending Randy a text that she is being held hostage by two four foot tall Grey Martians in her RV, the scene will be Randy jumping out of the "CC" Camera Camper you see in the back of this sketch, it will be filming in 3D as Randy free falls 127 miles per hour, like a human torpedo toward the RV. The camera will zoom in when Randy pulls the cord on his Ram Air Stunt Man Parachute, which fails to open, and Randy is filmed in 3d Slow motion as he is falling toward the RV. The Yucca tree you see will break Randy's fall. Randy will be a bit shaken with Yucca leaves sticking out of his crash test dummy living skin, and oozing a lot of test dummy blood. Randy will shake himself off and break down the RV door. The inside cameras will film Randy as he is Kung Fu fighting the two Martians, after the twelve minute fight, he subdues and ties up the two for JB in the chopper to arrest.
The closing scene you see Dilly carrying Randy into the sunset over her shoulder, up the dusty road headed to the Play Beautimus Trauma Center.
Until the next exciting episode of "The Stunt Man"
taa ta the Rod Blog.
As a week well spent in the greater Twin Cities area drew to a close, I got a text that my flight home was being delayed by 5 or so hours. So after gathering ourselves and extending the rental by a couple hours, we were just getting our bearings back when this guy lit up the radio..."KCS 3903 East" with 63 Herzog empties out of CP's Humboldt Yard for loading at Ortonville on the TC&W. We made a beeline for Hopkins with time to spare and anxiously awaited one of my trademarked cloudf**ks, but as luck would have it a big hole broke open in the clouds as they rounded the corner. Here's the pair of endangered Southern Belle SD70MACs bringing 63 Herzog empties west down the TC&W in some sweet evening light. Sure it may suck typing this out in the airport as I wait on my flight, but this was a nice little consolation prize that we wouldn't have seen otherwise.
TC&W Ballast Extra
Hopkins, MN
KCS 3903
KCS 3905
My beloved doing what all parents do when on holiday alone.. text the kids to keep up with their lives.
Cyborg Robot Portrait
Created with DDG Text 2 AI engine. PP work in Adobe PS Elements 2024 RAW filters, Auto Sharpen and adjusted the saturation.
Prompt: a portrait of a Neo Noir erorobot, artdeco dieselpunk, circuit board greeble, intricate illustration, endless perspective, detailed knurling, chrome hydraulics, thoughtful cyborg, delicate details, peeling paint, Josan Gonzalez style, high quality, ultrareality, 8k, vibrating brush stroke, moving lines, fine art painting., sf, intricate artwork masterpiece, ominous, matte painting movie poster, golden ratio, trending on cgsociety, intricate, epic, trending on artstation, by artgerm, h. r. giger and beksinski, highly detailed, vibrant, production cinematic character render, ultra high quality model
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A little visual letting off of steam around the frustrations of having people periodically attempt to have me change my pronunciation and accent. Approx 400mm by 400.
In the New Year I want to challenge myself in the three areas of photography that intrigue me the most, Mono, People, and Night. This recently taken photo seems like a good start. Have a Happy Year and a prosperous 2024!!!
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I'm procrastinating right now. I have 3 big exams/papers this week, but I'm really sick of working on homework right now.
Today for work I had to edit 80 pictures. I don't know if you think that's a lot, but it's very boring to go through 180 photos, pick all the good ones, crop/straighten, and fix the lighting. I did that for 2 hours straight. Talk about extreme migraine.
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Where sea meets land, sand, beach...
Can be often wavelets, sometimes rollers?
Always interesting and beautiful, in my book, I love the border of the sea.
Many do...
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