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Two E44's roll a northbound on the Northeast Corridor through Menlo Park NJ on a dreary winter day 03-09-1978. Thomas Alva Edison bought 34 acres of property here in 1875 and by 1876 his laboratory became the world's first such research and development facility of its kind.He invented the phonograph and first successful light bulb there and he came to be known as "The Wizard of Menlo Park". E44's 4407,4411. Howard Kent Jr.photo.
Are you trying to be a wizard but don't know where to start? Well come and buy your very own wand and glasses. What a perfect gift to get for any wizard in training, especially during the Holidays!
$19.95 plus shipping and handling.
The WIzard Nebula, NGC 7380, in Hubble palette narrowband.
Captured with a Takahashi FSQ-106ED and QSI683 camera at SRO in California. Aproximately 29 hours of data.
this is going to be amazing. so many people commented on how it was bringing awesome color to the neighborhood.
--ZZZAAAAPPP!!--
“What did you just do to me?” Billy grimaced as he brushed ash off his clothing.
The Wizard spoke slowly, disappointed yet again, “I looked into your life choices as I have with many others, searching for a pure good person. But you are as imperfect as every other soul I've brought here”
Billy began pacing around the stone chamber, his footsteps echoing off the walls, “You don't look so good yourself grandpa. You're like a thousand years old” he spoke without looking to the old man.
“Oh I am much older than that...” The Wizard insisted.
“Yeah? Well I'm only fifteen and I already know that there's no such thing as a 'pure good person'” Billy responded mockingly, his gaze still looking anywhere but in the direction of The Wizard.
“You are wrong, child”
“Well how long have you been looking smarty-pants?”
The Wizard sighed, “A very long time...” he spoke, exasperated.
“So let me give you a clue, because it doesn't look like you get out much.” Billy's pacing stopped, his eyes locked with The Wizard. “People are horrible. They disappoint you. They let you down. I've spent my entire life learning that.”
“There are pure people... there must be...” The old man muttered.
“Good people get swallowed up. They get taken advantage of. They disappear. Trust me, it doesn't matter how good you try to be, everyone else is going to drag you down with them.” Billy paused “...You... You're looking for something that doesn't exist...” Billy's eyes fell to the floor. “That's why you've never found it.”
“But you yourself have said, you tried to be good. Is that what I should have been looking for all of these centuries?” The Wizard's voiced raised, “Do you have the embers of good within you, is that it?” A light began to grow from behind him as his volume increased ten-fold, “Does this boy have the embers within him?!” The Wizard shouted as a bolt of lightning shot from his hands and into Billy's chest. Billy was knocked to the floor, vision of his past were shown before him in rapid sequence that he couldn't quite make out.
The flashback's vanished and The Wizard turned away. “...Yes, yes you do have the potential I suppose...” He turned back to Billy a final time and picked him off the ground by his shirt. “Woah woah woah, are you okay?” Billy said frantically
“We need to hurry! Say my name!” The Wizard demanded.
“Dude we just met, I don't even know who you are!”
“My name, say it! Say Shazam!”
Billy raised an eyebrow quizzically “Uh... Shazam...?”
His words echoed in the silence as he hung from the collar of his shirt. “Well... was that supposed to do something...?”
“No!” The Wizard shouted “Say it with a purpose, with belief, with the intention for good! With thoughts of your parents, and your family! Say the word and you will be transformed into you're greatest potential! Say SHAZAM!”
Billy scowled, and looked deep into the eyes of The Wizard. “Sha-
--CRACKOOOOMMM--
A bolt of lightning came from the sky faster than Billy could finish the word. It struck his chest and omitted a great and powerful light encasing his entire body. The stone chamber shook as his voice changed into that of a grown man's. He could feel the power surge through him as smoke gathered around his feet. It only took a moment, but Billy came to his senses with two words, “I'm... taller?”
“No child!” The Wizard said, weaker than before, “You are now the inheritor of my chair on The Council of Eternity, you are now all that stands between your world and the magical threats that would destroy it. Your are magic's champion, Billy Batson.... Now 'you' are Shazam!”
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I've been wanting to post this for a while now. I built this super simple MOC back in early November of 2015 and did a shoot with it, only to finally have the time to post it now. After two holiday's, two blockbuster movies, a season finale, two different flickr contests, and getting a new DLSR, I can finally play a bit of catch-up and just post what ever I want again. I have a bunch of big projects on the way, so this was a nice change of pace for me. :)
A majority of the dialog was borrowed from Geoff Johns' and Gary Frank's New 52: Shazam. Go read it if you haven't, because it's great!
You hear that Geoff? I'm still waiting on that Captain Marvel solo series you promised us! I'm still waiting! *shakes fist into the sky*
To see a bit more, check out my Patreon! www.patreon.com/andrewcookston?ty=h
Imaging telescope or lens:GSO 8" f/5 Newton
Imaging camera:ZWO ASI 183 MM PRO
Mount:SkyWatcher NEQ6 Pro Goto
Guiding telescope or lens:GSO 8" f/5 Newton
Guiding camera:Astrolumina Alccd5L-IIc
Focal reducer:Pal Gyulai GPU Aplanatic Koma Korrector 4-element
Software:DeepSky Stacker Deep Sky Stacker 3.3.4, FitsWork 4, Adobe PhotoShop CS5, PHD2 Guiding
Filters:Baader Ha 1.25" 7nm, Baader Planetarium O3 1.25" 8.5nm, Baader Planetarium SII 1.25" 8nm
Accessory:TSOptics TS Off Axis Guider - 9mm
Dates:June 21, 2018, June 27, 2018, Sept. 14, 2019, Sept. 15, 2019
Frames:
Baader Ha 1.25" 7nm: 40x600" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Baader Planetarium O3 1.25" 8.5nm: 23x420" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Baader Planetarium SII 1.25" 8nm: 18x420" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Integration: 11.5 hours
Darks: ~37
Flats: ~27
Flat darks: ~100
Avg. Moon age: 13.39 days
Avg. Moon phase: 89.80%
RA center: 341.794 degrees
DEC center: 58.052 degrees
Pixel scale: 0.493 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 66.112 degrees
Field radius: 0.447 degrees
Locations: Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany
Data source: Backyard
Object description (wikipedia.org):
NGC 7380 (also known as the Wizard Nebula) is an open cluster discovered by Caroline Herschel in 1787. William Herschel included his sister's discovery in his catalog, and labelled it H VIII.77. It is also known as 142 in the 1959 Sharpless catalog (Sh2-142). This reasonably large nebula is located in Cepheus. It is extremely difficult to observe visually, usually requiring very dark skies and an O-III filter.
Located 7200 light years away, the Wizard nebula, surrounds developing open star cluster NGC 7380. Visually, the interplay of stars, gas, and dust has created a shape that appears to some like a fictional medieval sorcerer. The active star forming region spans about 100 light years, making it appear larger than the angular extent of the Moon. The Wizard Nebula can be located with a small telescope toward the constellation of the King of Aethiopia (Cepheus). Although the nebula may last only a few million years, some of the stars being formed may outlive our Sun.
Hangry Wizard Cakes
▷ 4 colors
▷ Sold individually & as Fatpack
▷ Hold & Rez versions
At The World of Magic event - Feb 15th :)
Our new Wizarding Winter set is available at yes: Winter Wizarding faire :D
This set is for all the potter fans out there, each armchair has a hud where you can choose your 'house' Pillow ^^
The Wizard Nebula is simply a shape in a cosmic cloud surrounding open star cluster NGC 7380. Over the years it has earned its sorcerous nickname because of its similarity in appearance to a magician in a pointed hat. The Wizard Nebula is located 7,000 lightyears from Earth in our Milky Way galaxy and is found in the constellation Cepheus. This is an active star-forming region, and the stars in NGC 7380 unleash powerful streams of charged particles known as stellar winds that have sculpted the nebula into the wizard shape we see today.
After finishing my fan mod, I finally got round to getting my OIII and SII Data last night, so here's the final image
NGC7380 - Wizard Nebula
Image Details:
22x 600S - 7nm HA
19x 600S - 7nm OIII
19x 600S - 7nm SII
25 Darks and 25 Flat frames for each filter
Equipment Used:
Imaging Scope: Sky-Watcher Quattro 8-CF 8" F4 Newtonian
Guide Scope: Celestron Telescopes C80ED
Imaging Camera: Atik Cameras 383L+ Mono CCD Cooled to -20C
Guide Camera: Qhyccd 5L-II
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ8 Pro
Capture Software: Main Sequence Software Sequence Generator Pro
Guide Software: PHD2
Dark/Flat Subtraction and Stacking: Maxim-DL
Post Processing: PixInsight
The data has been captured over the past two weeks, the weather has not been so kind recently, I blame all those people who bought new equipment :D
Wizard Light
~ my first ever trip to Crater Lake in Oregon.
Deep, fresh snow. I had never snow-shoed in my life before. I was alone and totally uninformed and unguided. It's not allowed to stay in your car on the mountain, so after a nocturnal wander and snow-shoe scout, I drove down the mountain to a road cut-out, slept for maybe three hours, then drove back up, and snow-shoed out in the dark to wait for sunrise. Not a cloud, deeply cold and totally exhilarating.
Nikon D810, Nikkor 14-24mm @ 14mm
11 horizontal images focus stacked and stitched, and one for sunstar blending.
ISO 100
F/11, 1/125s, 1/50s, 1/80s
f/22 1/40s
Image may contain: sky, mountain, nature and outdoor
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NGC_7380 Wizard Nebula
Telescopio di acquisizione:GSO RC8" f/5.6 RC8"
Camera di acquisizione:QHYCCD QHY183M
Montatura:Sky-Watcher + Rowan Astronomy N-EQ6 mod toothed belt by rowan astronomy
Telescopio di guida:GSO RC8" f/8 RC8"
Camera di guida:Imaging Source DMK 21AU618
Riduttore di focale:astrophisics ccdt67
Software:KStars Ekos/INDI, StarPI , Pleiades Astrophoto, S.L. PixInsinght 1.8 RC7
Filtri:Baader Ha 7nm , Optlong OIII 6.5 nm , Baader Planetarium LRGB 1.25"
Date:18 Settembre 2020 , 19 Settembre 2020 , 20 Settembre 2020 , 21 Settembre 2020
Pose:
Baader Ha 7nm: 42x1200" -20C bin 1x1
Baader Planetarium LRGB 1.25": 36x300" -20C bin 2x2
Optlong OIII 6.5 nm: 31x600" -20C bin 2x2
Integrazione: 22.2 ore
Giorno lunare medio: 2.93 giorni
Fase lunare media: 10.87%
SQM medio: 21.29
Dettagli astrometrici di base
Astrometry.net job: 3879033
Centro AR: 22h 47' 22"
Centro DEC: +58° 7' 37"
Campionamento: 0,587 arcsec/pixel
Orientazione: 69,965 gradi
Raggio del campo: 0,399 gradi
Risoluzione: 4097x2680
Luogho: Piano Battaglia, Petralia Sottana, PALERMO, Italia
Origine dei dati: Itinerante
Descrizione
Astrophotografy team, Giosi Amante and Alessandro
First light of narrowband + RGB filters
The Wizard Nebula is simply a shape in a cosmic cloud surrounding open star cluster NGC 7380. Over the years it has earned its sorcerous nickname because of its similarity in appearance to a magician in a pointed hat. The Wizard Nebula is located 7,000 lightyears from Earth in our Milky Way galaxy and is found in the constellation Cepheus. This is an active star-forming region, and the stars in NGC 7380 unleash powerful streams of charged particles known as stellar winds that have sculpted the nebula into the wizard shape we see today.
The Wizard was sold under several different brands and names, none of them was sold officially here. This is an import model.
"Wizard" / Acrylics on canvas / 34 x 41 cm
The second in the "Masks" series made for a group show in Croatia in February.
*note: i'm reading harry potter and the goblet of fire again, so that's why it's not put together with the others atm.
muggles and magic, tales of beedle the bard, harry potter and the sorcerers stone, harry potter and the chamber of secrets, harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban, harry potter and the order of the phoenix, harry potter and the half-blood prince, harry potter and the deathly hallows.<3
Wizard Nebula
From August 4-6th 2019
Almost 14hrs total SHO (Hubble Palette)
55 x 300s Ha , 56 x 300s Oiii, 54 x 300s Sii
Meade 6000 series 80mm APO
ZWO ASI1600MM PRO with 8 pos filter wheel
Astrodon Ha5nm, Oii3nm, Sii5nm
EQ6R Pro mount guided with QHY 5L-II-M and mini guide scope
Captured with APT, PHD2, Polemaster
Processed in Pixinsight
Crater Lake National Park, Oregon
My visit here was decidedly disappointing. It was circled as one of my primary destinations on this Norhtwest tour, and it was beautiful, no doubt. However, the road around the lake was closed owing to snow. Being May 31st, it had not occurred to me that snow would have been a significant factor, but it was. Visitors were limited to a 1/4 mile strip of highway and every trail was closed. I had planned on spending the night there and the following day at a minimum, if not two days, but only spent 2 hours. :-(
My disappointment was compounded by the fact that I was unsatisfied with the resulting photos. This one is a Pano combining four photos, if memory serves.
For those unfamiliar with this park, it's a caldera of an ancient volcano filled with water, forming the deepest lake in North America. Wizard Island is a cinder cone.
Note the dead tree on the right--the white bark pines in the area are being destroyed by a non-native fungus, and attacks by the mountain pine beetle which climate change has empowered beyond its traditional destructiveness. They're beautiful trees--the oldest in the park.
Visit this location at Sunny's Photo Studio in Second Life
Wizard Outfit by Forest Fantasy Taxi: Forest Fantasy Mainsto
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Playful%20Paradise/194/246...
Male Outfit includes: Robe and Short
Female Outfit includes: Robe and Bodysuit
Both outfits include: Staff, Halo, Hat and colour change HUD
Hermione: "That's totally barbaric."
Ron: "That's Wizard's chess."
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My second entry for the ABS Builder Challenge.
The seed part is used 8 times in this build.
Don't forget to check out the other contestants for more builds!
Here is another entry for the summer joust 12x12. I built the entire thing on a 12x12 base and then just removed the plates just to ake sure it qualifies.
72. Wizard of life - Poland - 21/04/2016...
Sony SLT A55V + Tamron 90.0 mm...
Cat: Close-up ...
© 2015 Zbigniew Walkiewicz...
“Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter.” - Ansel Adams...
215...
He puts on his robe and wizard hat ... or maybe not. A WIP to hopefully be completed relatively soon.
The Wizard Nebula, or NGC 7380, in the Cepheus constelation.
Taken over 3 nights, this is a stack of 300s exposures at gain 100: 25xHa, 15xSii, 30xOiii. Combined into SHO and Foraxx Palletes and then blended, all in Pixinsight.
Equipment:
- SkyWatcher Esprit 100ED and Flattener
- ASI 2600 MM
- HEQ5-Pro
- Baader 7.5nm Filters
- Starsense + Polemaster
- ASI Mini Off Axis Guider
Captured using Astrophotography Tool.
The High Wizards are gathering round the Miraculous Tripod of the Seasons.
Clad in the gold leaf robes and wearing the second sight caps of the fur of unknowable beasts and encrusted with alchemical nuggets of gold, they orchestrate and regulate the miracle of ... ..............SPRING.
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The bunch of tulips was on the window sill, with direct, if rather weak, sunlight shining straight into this bloom. It looked stunning and irrisistible.
Please see it in its full MYSTERY www.flickr.com/photos/algo/112054361/sizes/o/in/photostream/ + Full Screen F11
www.flickr.com/groups/cotc/ Cream of the Crop - favourite
B I R D Pro User says:
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THE SORCERER'S PALACE
as if I am seeing
a new thing
through your
trusted eyes
never so clear
never so gold
never so purple
a descriptive vision
not tongue in cheek
but rather simple words
that draw the world to stillness
awakening a sense of disbelief
a chill wind that chases reality
to the corner
candid simple dramatic
a dream must have risen up
and mesmerized you
guiding you
through the moment
that the shutter
slid across
and captured beauty
told a story
in an instant
and called truth
as a witness
BIRD
Poem Copyright
©2006 Frederick Douglass Perry, All Rights Reserved
My third submission for the 26th Photography Scavenger Hunt theme "Wizard".
Check out all the submissions here: scavengerhunt.photography/round-26-wizard-album/
Cheers,
Wade
"Gringotts, the wizard bank! Ain't no safer place. Not one. Except perhaps Hogwarts." - Rubeus Hagrid
Whenever I make entries for building contests, I always try to make sure that my entry would be somewhat different from the others, so that even if I ended up losing, I can still have something unique to be proud of. :) For this instance, I tried to challenge the concept of microbuilds, where most people would go for small intriguing details brought to life by creative part usage, I wanted to up the scale so that no only I can end up with something massive, but I can also play with some bigger geometries.
I chose Gringotts because I feel like it's a place that kind of ties the franchise together as it only appeared in the first and last movie. It also allows me to have a little bit of everything in the build: big movements like the crooked facade, small details like the desks for the goblins, and also an animal build - the Ukrainian Ironbelly.
I tried to populate the interior with as much detail as I can, and I swear I have never done such extensive research for any other MOC before! I also went out of my comfort zone a bit and try out something I have wanted to touch upon for many years - cheese slop mosaic for the lobby floor. Another more interesting bit would be the golden ring on the chandelier, which took me a while to figure out a seamless connection.
As for the exterior, the crooked walls and columns are in fact the main reason why I chose Gringotts Bank as my subject. I am particularly happy with the front as all the columns and windows/doors are offset in a different direction with some pretty secured connections.
However, my favourite part of the entry would still be the infamous Ukrainian Ironbelly that wrecked the roof of Gringotts. I am extremely happy with the head as well as the wings, which was giving my headaches the whole time as I don't have any cloth piece or special wing piece that I think can fit the scale I was going for at first. Hope you enjoy it! :)
Full Album: www.flickr.com/photos/legocityson/albums/72157701646027344
"Gringotts, the wizard bank! Ain't no safer place. Not one. Except perhaps Hogwarts." - Rubeus Hagrid
Whenever I make entries for building contests, I always try to make sure that my entry would be somewhat different from the others, so that even if I ended up losing, I can still have something unique to be proud of. :) For this instance, I tried to challenge the concept of microbuilds, where most people would go for small intriguing details brought to life by creative part usage, I wanted to up the scale so that no only I can end up with something massive, but I can also play with some bigger geometries.
I chose Gringotts because I feel like it's a place that kind of ties the franchise together as it only appeared in the first and last movie. It also allows me to have a little bit of everything in the build: big movements like the crooked facade, small details like the desks for the goblins, and also an animal build - the Ukrainian Ironbelly.
I tried to populate the interior with as much detail as I can, and I swear I have never done such extensive research for any other MOC before! I also went out of my comfort zone a bit and try out something I have wanted to touch upon for many years - cheese slop mosaic for the lobby floor. Another more interesting bit would be the golden ring on the chandelier, which took me a while to figure out a seamless connection.
As for the exterior, the crooked walls and columns are in fact the main reason why I chose Gringotts Bank as my subject. I am particularly happy with the front as all the columns and windows/doors are offset in a different direction with some pretty secured connections.
However, my favourite part of the entry would still be the infamous Ukrainian Ironbelly that wrecked the roof of Gringotts. I am extremely happy with the head as well as the wings, which was giving my headaches the whole time as I don't have any cloth piece or special wing piece that I think can fit the scale I was going for at first. Hope you enjoy it! :)
Full Album: www.flickr.com/photos/legocityson/albums/72157701646027344
The Wizard Nebula (Sharpless 142 or SH2-142 for short) is a diffuse nebula surrounding the developing open star cluster NGC 7380. It spans about 140 × 75 light-years and lies within our Milky Way Galaxy, about 7,200 light years away in the constellation of Cepheus. It is moving toward us at 34.13 kilometers per second.
Taken with
Skywatcher Esprit 100ED
QSI 690 CCD
Astrodon Filters
Ioptron CEM 60 mount