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This is part 4 of a 9 part photo essay.
After Crooked River, I headed north to see what the manifest was up to, and then photograph it in Madras. The fact they were working Round Butte was going to guarantee that Madras was the likely end of photo opportunities.
The northbound manifest had a simple job: setout 14 cars and pickup 22 cars from Round Butte. Later, they would setout at South Jct., which was a bit weird to me, but apparently that's how this train operates because the next day a northbound manifest operated similarly. By the time I'd gotten to Round Butte, they'd been at it for 30 minutes. How long would it take to perform this work? It turns out...a REALLY LONG TIME!
I was setup at Madras, and the conditions were absolutely stunning. For more than an hour I watched this scene transform from one beautiful look to another as the sun set and the clouds morphed and moved. There, 5 miles away, was the train I needed to shoot one of my finest shots ever. One ear was glued to the scanner, the other strained for a distant horn. "Backemup 8101...10 cars...5 cars....that'll do" "Set and Centered" "Clear of the redzone" Switching chatter was all I heard. 30 minutes after sunset, the sky went dark, and I gave up. Even when there is a train around, sometimes you just get tortured on the OT.
Fully committed to trains at this point, I drove north into the Deschutes Canyon. At Maupin, I was chagrined to see a southbound train headed through the dark. Already the 4th train I'd seen in 6 hours, would there be any trains left for the next day? Tomorrow the plan was to find an amazing photo spot and hope for the best. Tonight, I grabbed a campsite near Oakbrook, and I slept fitfully, only waking when BNSF 8101 north passed by at 1230am.
the Mini-Fig Scale African Elephant is going to be use in my Gaouette Kingdom & Battle Series (D.P.M Federation) , & I'm gonna be soo happy for other fauna MOCs , I'll add Mammal call African Rhinoceros in my own Kingdom !
- Demitrius
Grand Trunk SD70M-2 8952 was second unit in a four unit eastbound freight passing Copetown on Saturday, May 6th, 2023.
Elephants Trunk Nebula (IC 1396)
It turns out its been a very busy summer for me. About three years ago I captured this object for the first time with the radian raptor 61mm and a color camera with an L-Enhance boy have things changed since then!! im a lot more zoomed in now for sure LOL. anyway for a one night F7 capture i think its not to bad. hope you enjoy!!.
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The Elephant's Trunk Nebula is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust within the much larger ionized gas region IC 1396 located in the constellation Cepheus about 2,400 light years away from Earth.The piece of the nebula shown here is the dark, dense globule IC 1396A; it is commonly called the Elephant's Trunk nebula because of its appearance at visible light wavelengths, where there is a dark patch with a bright, sinuous rim. The bright rim is the surface of the dense cloud that is being illuminated and ionized by a very bright, massive star (HD 206267) that is just to the east of IC 1396A. The entire IC 1396 region is ionized by the massive star, except for dense globules that can protect themselves from the star's harsh ultraviolet rays.
Technical Stuff:
6 hours of total integration
24x300s SII
24x300s HA
24x300s OIII
Scope: ASKAR 130 PHQ (1000mm Focal length)
Guide scope: ASKAR OAG
Mount: Ioptron CEM70
Main Camera: ZWO 294mm pro (Bin 2 120gain)
Guide Camera: ZWO 174mm mini
Focuser: ZWO EAF
Filter wheel: ZWO EFW
Filters: ANTILA 3nm SII HA and OIII
Capture Computer: MELE Quieter 3
Capture software: NINA
EDITING PIXINSIGHT
81007 890622 Wigan NW Freight North
The Speedlink network operated from 1977 to 1991 and was designed to reverse the decline in Wagonload freight in the UK It had a modicum of success but the improvements in the national road network and the quicker end to end delivery terms offered by the road transport services brought it to an end in 1991.
81007 heads north through Wigan with a trunk Speedlink service on 22nd June 1989.
I love Pine Martens; Grace, agility and voracious predatory skills all neatly packaged in a furry bundle.
these are the most valuable self seeding plants -they feed the bees all summer and the goldfinches all winter
Echium pininana is biennial or triennial,[9][10] meaning each plant lives for only two or three years respectively. It is a monocarpic species;[11] each plant flowers only once before dying.[12]
Echium pininana, commonly known as the tree echium, pine echium, giant viper's-bugloss, or tower of jewels,[4][5] is a species of flowering plant in the borage family Boraginaceae. It is endemic to the Canary Islands, where it is restricted to the island of La Palma.
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Description: This image of the Elephant’s Trunk Nebula IC 1396 was developed from 37x300s subs or 3.08 hours of total exposure time. A dual bandpass integrated image was first separated into Starless and Stars only images. The Starless image was split into its RGB components, which were individually boosted as appropriate, followed by the application of appropriate weighting factors to the individual RGB channels, further followed by LRGB Combination. The resulting image was then recombined with the Stars only image the result of which was post processed with various color masks using Curves Transformation to generate a final image.
Date / Location: 12 July 2023 / Washington D.C.
Equipment:
Scope: WO Zenith Star 81mm f/6.9 with WO 6AIII Flattener/Focal Reducer x0.8
OSC Camera: ZWO ASI 2600 MC Pro at 100 Gain and 50 Offset
Mount: iOptron GEM28-EC
Guider: ZWO Off-Axis Guider
Guide Camera: ZWO ASI 174mm mini
Focuser: ZWO EAF
Light Pollution Filter: Optolong L-eXtreme Dual Bandpass
Processing Software: Pixinsight
Processing Steps:
Preprocessing:
I preprocessed 37x300s subs (= 3.08 hours) in Pixinsight to get an integrated image using the following process steps: Image Calibration > Cosmetic Correction > Subframe Selector > Debayer > Select Reference Star and do a Star Align > Image Integration.
Linear Postprocessing:
Dynamic Crop > Dynamic Background Extractor (doing subtraction to remove light pollution gradients and division for flat field correction) > Background Neutralization > Color Calibration > Blur Xterminator > Noise Xterminator.
Nonlinear Postprocessing and additional steps:
Histogram Transformation > Star Xterminator to create Starless and Stars Only Images.
Starless Image > Noise Xterminator > Local Histogram Equalization > Multiscale Median Transform > Curves Transformation to boost O(III) and H-alpha signals > Split RGB channels > Create new green and blue channels > Boosted the channels as appropriate > LRGB Combination > Curves Transformation using various color masks.
Stars Only Image > Morphological transformation.
Pixel Math to combine the Starless Image with the Stars Only Image to get a Rejoined Image.
Rejoined Image > Dark Structure Enhancement > Topaz AI.
Pixel Math to combine the non-AI Rejoined Image with the Topaz AI Image to get a final image.
Out for a morning walk before it gets too blazing hot. What first caught my attention about this tree trunk was that I thought someone emptied a can of garbonzo beans - it wasn't, but is some kind of seed. Now that I look at the image I see a lot more of the finer details that make up the trunk.
test roll from a camera released in 1967 - 50 years old (Canada turns 150 years old July 1st this year)
There was a good mixture of traffic in the consist of the SBB Cargo morning trunk service 60065 from Lausanne Triage to Basel RB recorded in the care of Class Re 420 [4/4''] 420 306 near Ependes, Vaud.
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The Elephant Trunk Nebula in the larger ionized gas region, IC 1396, is always a fun and recognizable target this time of the year.
The Elephant's Trunk nebula is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust within the much larger ionized gas region IC 1396 located in the constellation Cepheus about 2,400 light years away from Earth.
23 x 1800s Ha
Imaged from Sierra Remote Observatories with a shared setup:
Scope: Ceravolo 300 f/9 (FL: 2700mm)
Camera: FLI PL16803
Mount: AP 1100AE
*Data Acquisition Credit: John Kasianowicz, Daniele Malleo, Rob Pfile, Rick Stevenson, Jerome Yesavage, Leonardo Orazi
*Image processing: Daniele Malleo
For an instant it's not 2020. This train is not a foreign Z768. CN is in Canada. Grand Trunk runs the show. And as quick as it started, it's over. CN E260 continues to crawl by, but no more cars say GT. The Elsdon Sub is now owned and maintained by CSX. As much as I'd have loved to see the GT in full, I get these little moments and reality goes away, although only for an instant.