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1979 Cheoy Lee 41 Yacht, vintage cruiser.
Cheoy Lee, of Hong Kong, have built over 4500 yachts from the 1950's through the 1980's
Cape Hawke Harbour, Tuncurry, New South Wales
♫ Karl Jenkins - Stabat Mater: Virgo Virginum
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♫ M.A. Charpentier - Magnificat (per tre voci) H.73
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NGC 5426 and NGC 5427 are an interacting pair of spiral galaxies in Virgo and are 130 Million light years away. Each galaxy is about 2.5 arc min in apparent size.
**Only traditional deconvolution in Astroart image processing software was used, not AI based.
Orion Optics UK AG12 F3.8
Starlightxpress TRIUS PRO-694 Midi Combi PRO Blue Edition incl.CFW & OAG unit
LRGB = 360min, 60min, 60min, 60min Combined total exposure 9hrs
Astronomik Deep-Sky LRGB and 6nm Ha filters
-20C chip temp, flats used but no dark frames.
Focal length 1120mm
Image scale 0.84"/pix
FLI Atlas Focuser
Guide Camera: Starlightxpress Lodestar PRO
Comments
Data collected 18 & 19 May 2023, new moon, good seeing (FWHM for Lum 1.5"-2.0")
Taken from Eagleview Observatory:
pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/eagleview_observatory
Equipment setup:
pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/image/173097781/original
Some links to equipment used to take this image:
Sidereal Trading
StarlightXpress CCD Cameras and imaging equipment
Finger Lakes Instrumentation CCD cameras:
Gerd Neumann and Astronomik filters:
MSB Software & Astroart Camera control and Image processing software
This beautiful lenticular galaxy in southern Virgo, is one of largest and most massive galaxies in the Virgo Super cluster of galaxies. We view it almost perfectly edge on, so while it appears only about one arc min in thickness, in this very deep image, NGC 5084 spans almost 17 arc min of the sky, which, at an estimated distance of 80 Million light years, means it is nearly 400,000 light years in diameter, which in anyone's book, is one seeeriously gigantic galaxy!
Orion Optics AG12 F3.8
Starlightxpress SXVR-H694, SX USB CFW, SX OAG unit + Atlas Focuser
LRGB = 790 70 70 75min (bin 1X1)= 16.75 hrs
New Deep-Sky LRGB Astronomik filters
-20C chip temp, flats used but no dark frames.
Focal length 1120mm
Image scale 0.84"/pix
Guide Camera: Starlightxpress Lodestar
Comments
Data collected 27 April, 15 and 17 May 2020, no moon, generally good seeing
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Caloptéryx vierge.
Beautiful demoiselle.
Calopteryx virgo.
Mâle.
Photo prise cet été dans l'Hérault (France).
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Thank you very much for the interesting comments on the last picture ! My friend was happy to read them and I think he wants to take pictures even more now. Thank you for your great help.
Cette belle demoiselle importunée par une fourmi qui est venue lui chatouiller les pattes.
La fourmi sera chassée de cette plante par la demoiselle.
Dans la constellation de la Vierge (Virgo) à 1 400 a.l. de la Terre, la nébuleuse planétaire ESO 577-24 représente la phase finale de son étoile centrale, une géante rouge ayant éjecté ses couches externes. Comme son noyau ne peut plus supporter la fusion nucléaire, celle-ci se contracte dans un volume comparable à celui de la Terre. Extrêmement chaud, il émet donc des ultraviolets ionisant les matériaux qui l’entourent et les font briller. Dans cette agonie, les matériaux éjectés s'éloignent de l'étoile centrale, qui se refroidira progressivement et entraînera une diminution de leur ionisation, leur luminosité disparaissant
lentement jusqu'à ce qu'elle disparaisse (cf. site ESO).
Pour situer l'astre dans sa constellation :
It's Virgo season! My son has a birthday on September 13, and then mine is on September 15. I saw this astrological wall decoration at a Mexican restaurant in the Pilsen area of Chicago last summer.
Les Caloptéryx mesurent environ 60 à 70 mm, ce qui en fait nos plus grandes demoiselles en France. De la famille des Calopterygidae, ces libellules ont la particularité d'avoir des couleurs brillantes métalliques.
Cette mignonne petite femelle, pourtant si craintive à mon approche m'a littéralement prise d'assaut ! Elle bondissait sur mon objectif, revenait sur sa fleur, rebondissait, retournait là en face, puis revenait à la charge... Jusqu'à ce que je m'en aille... Elle a gagné ;-) !
25/06/2023, at anchor, Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Spitsbergen, Norway.
The former Sjöfartsverkets (Swedish Maritime Administration) buoy/lighthouse tender 'Fyrbyggaren', which was converted in 2021 to a passenger 'expedition' vessel for use in the Arctic region.
Owned and operated by Virgo Rederiaktiebolaget of Partille, Sweden.
Built in 1976, and commissioned on 14/12/1976 by Sigbjørn Iversen Mekaniske Verksted AS, Flekkefjord , Norway (40)
655 g.t. & zero dwt.
Length x breadth x depth =
41,81m x 10,19m x 3,98m., as
'Fyrbyggaren' to 2021, and
'Virgo' since.
**16/06/2022, vessel ran aground in Fuglefjorden, north-western Spitzbergen, Svalbard, Norwegian archipelago between Norway and North Pole, Arctic, at around 10:00 UTC on June 14th.
There were 13 passengers and seven crew on board.
The ship’s hull was reported as breached in the area of its fuel tank and an oil leak was reported.
As of 15:00 UTC June 14th the vessel appeared to have been refloated and to be manoeuvring at very slow speed near the grounding site, with a tug and auxiliary vessel nearby.
Subsequently repaired and returned to service.**
Photo with the kind permission of Ovanes Agaryan.
The beautiful demoiselle (Calopteryx virgo) is a large species of damselfly - but at a maximum length of 50 mm (2"), it's still not a particularily large animal.
Getting this close to it reveals some nice details though.
This one, as given away by the cobalt-blue colour, is a male and for a much wider shot, showing him checking out a female a couple of leaves over, have a look here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/48936887088/
Part 1 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53687481288/
Calopteryx virgo, le caloptéryx vierge est une espèce d'insectes odonates du sous-ordre des zygoptères ou demoiselles. Le mâle bleu-vert métallique irisé et les yeux bleu-vert. La femelle a des ailes iridescentes brunes et assez foncées, ornées d'une petite tache blanche près de l'extrémité.
Les mâles sont territoriaux et paradent pour séduire la « demoiselle ». Lors de la copulation, le mâle saisit la femelle par la tête avec l’extrémité de son abdomen. Celle-ci courbe alors son corps afin d'atteindre les organes génitaux secondaires du mâle. La roue d'accouplement dure quelques minutes.
Leur vol est assez lent, si bien que leur battements d'ailes indolent peut les faire se confondre avec des papillons.
M87 is not only one of the brightest and largest galaxies in the Virgo group, it also has a plainly visible jet coming out from a super massive black hole at the centre of the galaxy, visible as a small blueish streak on the right of the galaxy in this image. At the bottom right hand corner is another galaxy, NGC 4478. Two of the three yeallow stars just below M87 are in fact fainter background galaxies and there are a few others hidden in the image, which has been processed to pick out the jet in M87.
This is a stack of 15x480 seconds with a colour deep sky camera through my f/10 356mm SCT.
Peter