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► █░▓ GERMANY IS BEHIND us. The super car (thank you, Stefano!) has now to perform through the three 10-km-long tunnels in a row across the Alps. Just entering Austria is always an exciting experience for me. It's exactly half of the way, the magnificent Alps are looming in the distance at long last, and half of my ancestors are actually born there, in the heyday of the K.u.K. Gone are the monotonous, unending German freeways; welcome the scenic vistas and cheap gasoline!
Approaching The Great Pyhrgas (2244 m) from the north by the highway A9. The ridge (under which the Bosruck tunnel takes you to the Enns valley on the other side) divides Upper Austria, the birth state of Anton Bruckner, from Styria, the birth state of many Slavs and next to what used to be my home country. I cropped out the turnpike and the vehicles from this image. I tried but couldn't include the super car in the frame here.
This is the first high mountain top that the highways leads us to when coming from Passau via Wels. I've been playing with a thought to make a two-day stop in Spital am Pyhrn for many years. The idea to attempt the Pyhrgas top has still not completely left me. I had studied the maps, approaches, overnight accommodation etc, yet never came to realization. It's the call of the South that always takes precedence once I am there. After all, it's just a 5-hour drive to my ancestry from there. Long ago, I made a stop at the foot of Dachstein, which was too much for me to climb in a single day. I also made a stop once at Hochschwab on another occasion and climbed Vordernberger Griesmauer (2015 m) from Leobnerhütte, such a nice place to stay overnight.
Stay tuned, is to be continued... because this vehicle got me soon to the very places I deemed pinnacles of my wish list. The places that represent the end of a paved trajectory: the point where the real (unpaved) fun begins. The sunny side of the Alps!
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“His way isn't the same as mine, nor mine as his. But we're both in search of our destinies, and I respect him for that.”
- Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
This photo was taken a few years ago and newly reprocessed, using the latest software. Capturing the angle of the head to the body was a complete fluke, but is possibly the best picture I have ever taken. It was featured on the cover of the magazine 'Dragonfly News' back in 2018.
Dragonflies use three simple, upwards pointing eyes to keep their heads level whilst hunting prey. It has been shown that dragonflies don't just chase their prey, but anticipate their trajectory and intercept them. Quite remarkable!
Juvy Green Heron spreads its wings to minimize the depth of its dive into Horsepen Bayou. In the 20-or-so strikes from this fishing platform that I observed, this was the only instance that it lost its grip and went in. But even here, it had already captured its prey and was in full control of its trajectory.
The calculation of the trajectory takes nearly one second 😊
Happy Caturday 20.4.2024 "Masterpieces"
The Art of Computer Programming,
Volume 1, Fundamental Algorithms
by Donald E. Knuth
one of the most important computer scientists
Some oldies amongst the crowd might remember this song by Little Feat. If you don't, please acquaint yourself ;-)
It reminds me of my university days, freedom, when the world was full of possibility. This song was a guitar favourite, the smell of weed heavy in the air as we sang the refrain loudly -
“And if you give me weed, whites and wine
And you show me a sign
I'll be willin', to be movin'”
[www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNqv85coyTw]
After my last post about the Magpies (who are still visiting regularly) I went downhill. However, the last two weeks I feel I have made major progress. A week at the beach and I was able to walk the sandy beaches, barefoot, with the cane, often along the water’s edge where the tide ripped the sand from under my feet and challenged all my senses. I am seeing a new specialist at a dizzy clinic and I can do exercises I haven’t been able to do in a year. I know the trajectory of recovery is all over the place but I am more hopeful and definitely Willin’ to keep moving.
Apologies for talking about my health. Because it effects my brain, thinking, and vision so much, it is hard to stop it dominating everything.
Someone asked me today how do I stay so positive. The answer is quite simple - I know the difference between being happy and living in happiness!
Misery is a very deceptive state. Usually, people don't even realize that they reside there however, you will often find miserable people are #HAPPY when they inflict negativity upon someone else.
That's the trick with being #HAPPY. It's short-lived and fleeting. It is usually based on how outside influences make you feel.
#HAPPINESS, on the other hand, is a conscious decision and an internal state. Because it is the core of your being, outside influences have no bearing on your mood, decisions, or actions. Even when miserable people attempt to disturb your #PEACE you can recognize it without being bothered.
My positivity exists because I have found #PEACE, I have found happiness, and I have found Bliss all Within #MYSELF. I am fly as fuck with or without a partner...my intelligence is on point every day and I love every part of my being.
The journey is not easy, but it is necessary. So I asked you my lovebugs, what's one decision you can make today that will change the trajectory of your happiness?
Auroras are the result of disturbances in the Earth's magnetosphere caused by the solar wind. Major disturbances result from enhancements in the speed of the solar wind from coronal holes and coronal mass ejections. These disturbances alter the trajectories of charged particles in the magnetospheric plasma. These particles, mainly electrons and protons, precipitate into the upper atmosphere (thermosphere/exosphere).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK_LN3XEcnw
I know I am going to lose my male friends with this one and I want to be the first to apologize in advance. I can't say my art wont be offensive at times, but anyone who knows me understands I am a straight shooter.
Do women ever get tired of being at the worlds biggest themepark and still unable to ride anything?. You done paid your money, spent your time, bought the hottest outfit known to man with all the latest accessories. Just trying to understand the trajectory of second life at this point. I miss the creativity days where have they gone.
Oddball (due to his lopsided antlers this year) was off in the distance and heading towards the aspens, so I started hiking in to get close enough to photograph him with the fall color in the background. Luckily, he changed his trajectory to move parallel to the trees for a while, allowing for a few clicks of the shutter before he eventually moved on. Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, USA, September 2025
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Auroras are the result of disturbances in the Earth's magnetosphere caused by the solar wind. Major disturbances result from enhancements in the speed of the solar wind from coronal holes and coronal mass ejections. These disturbances alter the trajectories of charged particles in the magnetospheric plasma. These particles, mainly electrons and protons, precipitate into the upper atmosphere (thermosphere/exosphere). Here you can clearly see Ursa Major (The Plough or Big Dipper).
Jacques Lipchitz Figure 1926-1930
Jacques Lipchitz (22 August [O.S. 10 August] 1891 – 26 May 1973) was a Lithuanian-born French-American Cubist sculptor. Lipchitz retained highly figurative and legible components in his work leading up to 1915–16, after which naturalist and descriptive elements were muted, dominated by a synthetic style of Crystal Cubism. In 1920 Lipchitz held his first solo exhibition, at Léonce Rosenberg's Galerie L'Effort Moderne in Paris where he was counted as part of the School of Paris. Fleeing the Nazis he moved to the US and settled in New York City and eventually Hastings-on-Hudson. While in the US, he created a number of his best-known works, including the outdoor sculptures The Song of the Vowels, Birth of the Muses, and Bellerophon Taming Pegasus, the last of which was completed after his death.
Richard Serra
Bisected Corner: Square
2013 - 2014
Richard Serra (November 2, 1938 – March 26, 2024) was an American artist known for his large-scale abstract sculptures made for site-specific landscape, urban, and architectural settings, and whose work has been primarily associated with Postminimalism. Described as "one of his era's greatest sculptors", Serra became notable for emphasizing the material qualities of his works and exploration of the relationship between the viewer, the work, and the site.
Serra pursued English literature at the University of California, Berkeley, before shifting to visual art. He graduated with a B.A. in English Literature from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1961, where he met influential muralists Rico Lebrun and Howard Warshaw. Supporting himself by working in steel mills, Serra's early exposure to industrial materials influenced his artistic trajectory. He continued his education at Yale University, earning a B.A. in Art History and an M.F.A. in 1964. While in Paris on a Yale fellowship in 1964, he befriended composer Philip Glass and explored Constantin Brâncuși's studio, both of which had a strong influence on his work. His time in Europe also catalyzed his subsequent shift from painting to sculpture.
From the mid-1960s onward, particularly after his move to New York City in 1966, Serra worked to radicalize and extend the definition of sculpture beginning with his early experiments with rubber, neon, and lead, to his large-scale steel works. His early works in New York, such as To Lift from 1967 and Thirty-Five Feet of Lead Rolled Up from 1968, reflected his fascination with industrial materials and the physical properties of his chosen mediums. His large-scale works, both in urban and natural landscapes, have reshaped public interactions with art and, at times, were also a source of controversy, such as that caused by his Tilted Arc in Manhattan in 1981. Serra was married to artist Nancy Graves between 1965 and 1970, and Clara Weyergraf between 1981 and his death in 2024.
La bibliothèque Oscar Niemeyer est une bibliothèque située au 2, place Niemeyer au Havre. Elle occupe une partie de l’ensemble architectural « Espace Oscar Niemeyer » construit par l’architecte du même nom entre 1978 et 1982 et rénové à partir de 2011 par l’agence d'architecture Dominique Deshoulières et Hubert Jeanneau auxquels est associée Françoise Sogno pour la bibliothèque. Inaugurée le 2 novembre 2015, elle a reçu le prix Livres Hebdo de l’Espace intérieur en 2016.
La bibliothèque Oscar Niemeyer est implantée au cœur du centre-ville reconstruit du Havre, œuvre de l’architecte Auguste Perret inscrite au patrimoine mondial de l’UNESCO depuis 2005. Caractérisée par ses volumes et ses trajectoires courbes, elle est constituée du bâtiment dit « Petit Volcan » ainsi que des anciens locaux annexes, reliés au grand Volcan par une galerie vitrée couverte.
Une partie de la bibliothèque se situe sous la chaussée, l’entrée se faisant par la Place Oscar Niemeyer, dite « place basse » car creusée 4 mètres au-dessous du niveau de la ville. Vus du ciel, les contours de cette place évoquent la forme d’une colombe.
Le Petit Volcan est caractérisé par une enveloppe béton banché en coque parabolohyperboloïdique peinte en blanc. Ses murs sont percés au niveau du deuxième étage par une trentaine d’ouvertures vitrées verticales en forme d’hexagones irréguliers. Les travaux de réaménagement de 2015 ont remplacé le plafond d’origine par une verrière.
The Oscar Niemeyer Library is a library located at 2, place Niemeyer in Le Havre. It occupies part of the "Espace Oscar Niemeyer" architectural complex built by the architect of the same name between 1978 and 1982 and renovated from 2011 by the architectural firm Dominique Deshoulières and Hubert Jeanneau, with which Françoise Sogno is associated for the library. Inaugurated on November 2, 2015, it received the Livres Hebdo de l’Espace Intérieur prize in 2016.
The Oscar Niemeyer library is located in the heart of the reconstructed city center of Le Havre, the work of the architect Auguste Perret, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2005. Characterized by its volumes and curved trajectories, it consists of the building called " Petit Volcan” as well as former adjoining premises, connected to the Grand Volcan by a covered glass gallery.
Part of the library is located under the roadway, the entrance being through Place Oscar Niemeyer, known as the "lower place" because it is dug 4 meters below the level of the city. Seen from the sky, the contours of this square evoke the shape of a dove.
The Petit Volcan is characterized by a shuttered concrete envelope in a parabolic hyperboloid shell painted white. Its walls are pierced at the level of the second floor by about thirty vertical glazed openings in the shape of irregular hexagons. Redevelopment work in 2015 replaced the original ceiling with a glass roof.
This is the first time that a Black-chinned Hummingbird has ever been reported in New York City! This female/immature male seems to be way off its normal trajectory, as these birds are normally seen West of the Rockies, and in the Southwest, but they are also seen in Texas and thought to winter along the Gulf Coast and Mexico. This is still quite far from here, and it is getting chilly. I hope it makes it to warmer weather soon. At the Cottage Garden, Randall’s Island, New York City.
When the night falls I follow Juno's trajectory and stretch to reach the stars and the Moons.
With a total of 67 known Jovian Moons,I spot only Callisto,Io, Europa,and Ganymede ... Io with its volcanoes has so much in common with Santorini ...
Dedicated to NASA - Juno Spacecraft mission &
To Vangelis
Juno is a NASA space probe currently orbiting the planet Jupiter,the largest planet in the solar system.
It was launched on August 5, 2011 and entered Jupiter orbit on
July 4, 2016,after a five-year journey from Earth.She will orbit Jupiter for 20 months - 37 orbits -
and will de-orbit February 2018.
Transcendentalism & Romance in that liminal Space between what we know and what we cannot imagine ...
Which Universe are we In ?
Cosmology that fills your mind with wonder ...
Beautiful the Jovian Moons in Santorini ...
* One eye Sees the other Feels ... **
★ ★ ★ So many thanks for your visits & your red ★s
NASA's video You Tube :
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpsQimYhNkA&feature=youtu.be
Published on 4 Jul 2016
NASA's Juno spacecraft captured a unique time-lapse movie of the Galilean satellites in motion about Jupiter. The movie begins on June 12th with Juno 10 million miles from Jupiter, and ends on June 29th, 3 million miles distant. The innermost moon is volcanic Io; next in line is the ice-crusted ocean world Europa.
Music by Vangelis (Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou ... )
This image is a visual interpretation of movement at the speed of light.
The radial projection effect evokes movement through space at relativistic speeds, where photons appear to converge towards a central point, illustrating the concept of trajectory and propagation of light. Light travels at approximately 300,000 km per second in a vacuum.
This is the maximum possible speed in the Universe. Everything we observe in the sky stars, nebulae, galaxies always reaches us with a time delay.
In astrophotography, capturing light is also capturing a story:
the story of radiation that has traveled, sometimes for years, even thousands of years, before reaching our sensors.
#spacetime #universe
…but better not?
It’s easy, remarkably easy, to make fun of a Trabant.
Objectively, it’s terrible in pretty much every quantifiable way. They were slow, consumed plenty and used to lose trajectory on road curves easily. At the end of WWII, the world started to run and the socialist progress was nowhere to be seen. There was a country that needed wheels and quite fast!, there was a country in need of an idea, of illumination, of a car to take the new German socialists toward the Rising sun. Such arrived the Trabant.
The Trabant was poorly made, loud and It took nearly 30 seconds to reach 100km/h and it couldn’t go faster than 112km/h anyway. The surprise came in October 1997, after the reunification of Germany, when Mercedes-Benz's new high-tech A-class infamously tipped over in a Swedish "elchtest" (“moose-avoidance test” a 60 km/h swerve manoeuvre slalom) and a widely mocked car, the Trabant, ran through the same ordeal and passed with flying colors.
Unsophisticated, unaesthetic, uncomfortable and with modest performances, the Trabi is a s y m b o l of the failure of the communist government and its mismanaged economy, interesting in its own right.
Only few cars managed to so capture their era.
Depeche Mode – A Pain That I’m Used To
... I really thought I was going to like her (this is my late mother in law's doll), but no ... so after gathering dust for a few years, I'm hoping the re-housing trajectory will go well for her tomorrow ... (I also hope Josie will not get jealous, perhaps they can be friends !) my hope is Anne-Miek will take her in, and get her an appropiate name and perhaps up to date clothing :) ... check her stream on www.flickr.com/photos/bibber...
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THE SMALL HAMLET OF WINGDALE, within the town of Dover, New York, is home to the ruins of the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center.
Despite its proximity to New York State Route 22, the stunningly beautiful property has been shrouded in mystery for decades. In 1924, The Harlem Valley State Hospital opened its doors to the public. Later to be renamed the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center, the hospital was chartered “for the care and treatment of the insane” and included infrastructure that had previously constituted the Wingdale Prison.
Over the course of 70 years of operation, the facility treated thousands of patients who had been deemed mentally ill. Sprawling across almost 900 acres and encompassing more than 80 buildings, the hospital had its own golf course, bowling alley, baseball field, bakery, and a massive dairy farm that supported an in-house ice cream parlor. At its peak, the facility housed 5,000 patients and 5,000 employees.
Over the years, the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center adopted numerous experimental methods of treatment of the mentally ill. In the 1930s, the facility joined several other institutions on the vanguard of a new insulin shock therapy for the treatment of patients with schizophrenia and other compulsive disorders. Later, when the method of electro-shock therapy was created, the hospital was again a pioneer in implementing the method as a treatment for its patients in 1941. When neuropsychiatrist Walter Freeman developed a new method for treating a wide range of psychological conditions that became known as a lobotomy, the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center was the preeminent institution for frontal lobotomy in the state of New York.
As with most mental health institutions in New York and across the country, the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center saw a gradual decline in enrollment upon the introduction of psychotropic drugs such as thorazine. When the hospital closed its doors in 1994, it had been on a trajectory of decline for a number of years. For the better part of 20 years, the once-busy campus slowly deteriorated. Visited only by night-watchmen and would-be vandals, the buildings sat unused and the grounds slowly grew unkempt. Ghost stories and whispers grew alongside the weeds of the property.
Bac Ha (Vietnam) - Lorsque l'on photographie en un tel lieu, l’œil rivé au viseur, il est très compliqué de surveiller ce qui se passe sur les côtés et derrière soi. Et sur un marché dédié aux buffles, on n’est jamais à l’abri d’une ruade ou d’un coup de corne. Surtout quand on est au milieu du troupeau. Dans le feu de l’action, on oublie vite le danger potentiel. C’est bien pour la photo, un peu moins pour son intégrité physique. Sur ce marché, j’ai assisté à des mouvements de panique impliquant plusieurs buffles. Je confirme, mieux vaut ne pas se trouver à proximité ou sur leur trajectoire.
Keep your eyes open
Bac Ha (Vietnam) - When you photograph in such a place, with your eye glued to the viewfinder, it is very complicated to monitor what is happening to the sides and behind you. And in a market dedicated to buffaloes, you are never safe from a kick or a blow from the horn. Especially when you're in the middle of the herd. In the heat of the moment, you quickly forget the potential danger. It’s good for the photo, a little less for its physical integrity. At this market, I witnessed several buffaloes panicking. I confirm, it's better not to be near or on their trajectory.
As dusk settled, a flock of more than 30 geese suddenly plunged toward the water to land. I expected their usual smooth and graceful approach, but instead, they tumbled through the sky in a wild and chaotic rush. It was unlike anything I’d ever seen — an erratic, disorganized landing that left me curious. So, I asked Perplexity AI to explain what was happening. Here’s what I learned:
This dramatic descent is part of a behavior called "whiffling," which geese use as they prepare to land. As they come in, the birds stop flapping their wings and begin to rotate their bodies sideways, all while keeping their eyes fixed on their chosen spot on the water. This sudden change in orientation helps them slow down and control their landing trajectory.
What appears to be chaotic is actually a finely tuned process: each goose adjusts its speed, position, and rotation to avoid collisions and find its place within the flock. The flurry of movement and seemingly erratic tumbling is the result of dozens of birds coordinating instinctively in real time. Factors like wind, lighting at dusk, and nearby wildlife further influence their flight paths.
So, while their whistling descent might look disorganized, it’s a remarkable example of natural precision, agility, and teamwork happening right before landing.
To view photos of this year's overlanding journey in chronological order, click www.flickr.com/photos/stevefrazier/albums/72177720328383895
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"But it's twilight on the city of New Orleans,
talk about a pocket full of friends.
Halfway home and we'll be there by morning.
With no tomorrow waiting 'round the bend......"
Lyrics by John Denver, God rest his soul......."
Please view LARGE !
It's painfully clear that we are on a *new* trajectory. But to what end ? And at what cost ?
I had a lot of fun near the end of the day over the weekend with a small mixed flock of Kinglets, realizing (yet again) that they seem to defy photography. I chose this image to post because of the curious amount of red at the back of the gold crest - it seems very odd to me. Great birds to watch, and they sure know how to defy a photographer’s expectations. The most disconcerting move is the sudden drop - they follow a certain trajectory through the branches, seeming to lead to a clearing, and then boom: they drop down low, often in the open, but not where they were expected to be. I observed physical distancing rules when out birding, and encourage others to do so too so we can continue to enjoy the few open spaces left.
(Update: Mystery solved, the satellite was CSO 1, a French military imaging satellite. Thanks ehrwien for pointing me toward Stellarium!)
Colorful and bright Perseid meteor traveled "up" from the bottom left of the frame, and much later a mystery satellite crossed right in the middle of Andromeda.
I don't know what this satellite was, maybe it's one of SpaceX's starlink sats? It went across the entire frame from left to right starting at around 2:54 AM Pacific DST on Aug/15 2020, but the leftmost part was cut because it was between two frames.
Interesting that the color of the meteor changed during the flight, greenish at first and later turning into orange. This is real, it's there in a single frame before any post-processing.
Shot from my heavily light-polluted back yard. Total exposure 1150 sec, each either 30 or 40 sec at ISO3200. I first made a stack of 1150 sec using sequator, loaded it in photoshop, then loaded two individual frames containing meteor and satellite, respectively, as separate layers, used visibility mask to only blend the trajectory into the stack.
BTW no tracking mount was used, this was all done on a weeny travel tripod, fine tracking was all done by the camera (Astrotracer to move the sensor), and a rough "tracking" was done manually each 10 minutes or so by moving the ballhead.
One of my attempts at the "Macro Mondays" theme "Leaf".
Shot with a Schneider Kreuznach "Apo-Componon 60 mm F 4 Makro Iris" (enlarging) lens on a Canon EOS R5.
Quando perdi una ruota, la vita corregge la sua traiettoria..
per la sua sopravvivenza...non per la tua.
When you lose a wheel, life corrects its trajectory...
for its survival... not for yours.
Abandoned mental hospital
One of my attempts at the "Looking Close... on Friday" theme "Bubbles"
Shot with an Agfa "Colostar N 42 mm F 4.5" (enlarging) lens on a Canon EOS R5.
Late trains get later. I got lucky that this held true this day. If it had run on its traditional trajectory, this would have gotten into Ottumwa around midday and left in fairly junk light. Knowing that it took a bit of time to get out of Nahant and later Muscatine, I opted to work through lunch and was able to sneak out of work a few minutes early and catch it in some nice late-afternoon sun. Today, we're going to pretend that it has oscillating ditch lights...
I have been infatuated with totem poles since childhood and have seen many firsthand (but not enough of them). My understanding is they are primarily used to illustrate the history and lineage of indigenous families who live/lived along the northwest coast of North America. On a visit to Vancouver this summer, I walked by a glass and steel tower that was curved, which caused distortion of the reflections made by other nearby towers. The laterally squeezed reflections strongly reminded me of totem poles, especially the one that looks like it is topped with a stylized raven.
In many respects, those downtown towers represent the current state of Canada’s Eurocentric history and lineage. Given that I had recently visited the significant memorial, located outside the Vancouver Art Gallery, dedicated to the memory of the 215 children buried in unmarked graves at the Indian residential school in Kamloops, the image I saw took on a more meaningful tone. The two segments of our Canadian society have followed two very divergent trajectories. I get the sense that there is a modicum of positive progress in the relationship between indigenous peoples and the rest of us. This is a good thing. There is a very long way to go.
My awareness of the injustices heaped upon Canada’s indigenous peoples began many decades ago, but the past few years have been a constant, and much needed education on the extent of that abuse, and its debilitating impact on so many individuals. The education continues.
I decided to augment the image I took with a real totem pole. The one you see in the middle of the image is from Stanley Park, Vancouver. In the background there is a detail of this same pole. I also added a raven, an important animal and symbol for Canada’s earliest west coast inhabitants (I really like the story of how trickster Raven stole the light of the world).
For those interested in learning more about the cultural significance of totem poles, there are numerous resources available on-line and in libraries/stores. Same goes for information about residential schools and other topics relevant to Canada’s first peoples. If I might, I highly suggest you check out the novels written by Eden Robinson. She’s quite a humorous person, based on what I’ve learned about her from interviews, and I have to admire anyone who can make me laugh out loud while at the same time making me want to cry about the situation her characters are placed in. She also helped educate me a little bit.
Description. The ATLAS interstellar comet has garnered extensive news coverage over the past few months, some speculating that it may even be an alien spacecraft. It is known to be extra-solar system in origin due its hyperbolic trajectory that precludes an orbit about the sun. More serious coverage describes it as a cometary object that is not much different than the comets that originate within our solar system.
This image was captured just as ATLAS made its closest approach to earth. It is 168 million away from us and it is traveling at 40 miles per second.
Equipment
ZWO ASI6200MM-P/EFW 2" x 7 (LRGB)
TeleVue NP101is/NPR-2073 (4" f/4.3)
Losmandy G11
Software
Captured in NINA
Processed in PixInsight
Integration
L: 30 x 30s
R: 10 x 30s
G: 10 x 30s
B: 10 x 30s
Total 30m
I always get a laugh that our garbage is so well protected by a chain link fence with barbed wire at the top. We wouldn’t want anyone to remove any trash and lessen the load that the county trucks have to haul. I was at the dump on Memorial Day and every dumpster was full. The dump man came out of his teeny, tiny shed and pointed to an overflowing dumpster over my head. I told him I couldn’t fling my trash bags up that high. I think I mentioned something about not knowing this county had requirements of being able to play basketball to live here. The dump man told me to pull my car over and he would show me how to get it in. He heaved a big bag over his head and flung it right into the dumpster. I flung my bag and it hit the side of the dumpster. We had to scramble to get out of the way of its trajectory on the way down. I guess he could see I was a hopeless cause because he kindly tossed the rest of the bags up and in. What was my point ... oh, yeah, I asked why everything was so full. He was complaining that the county insists on keeping the dumps open 24/7, but the trucks that pick up the big dumpsters don’t work on Sunday’s or holidays. This causes quite a backlog of trash. Thus, my point that having a fence to keep people from removing trash seems silly. HFF
Picture in comment 6.
C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) is a comet from the Oort cloud discovered by the Purple Mountain Observatory in China on 9 January 2023 and independently found by ATLAS South Africa on 22 February 2023. The comet passed perihelion at a distance of 0.39 AU (58 million km; 36 million mi) on 27 September 2024, when it became visible to the naked eye. Tsuchinshan-Atlas peaked it's brightest magnitude shortly after passing the sun at October 9, with a magnitude of -4.9 as per observation from Comet Observation Database (COBS) and was briefly visible to the naked eye during the day.
The comet has a retrograde orbit, lying at an inclination of 139°. Τhe comet had its perihelion on 27 September 2024, at a distance of 0.391 AU. Τhe closest approach to Earth will be on 12 October 2024, at a distance of 0.47 AU. The comet does not approach close to the giant planets of the Solar System The orbit is weakly bound to the Sun before entering the planetary region of the Solar System. Due to planetary perturbations, the outbound orbit will have a smaller eccentricity than the inbound orbit. So the orbital period and aphelion distance become much shorter. The weakly hyperbolic trajectory may or may not result in the comet being ejected from the Solar System. It is expected to be 200 AU from the Sun in the year 2239.