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Toldin's Hunter's Moon (aka "Orion"), my family's nine year old Vizsla, has gone to sporting dog heaven.
Late in December, Orion offered a few hints that he might be in trouble. So after about a week of playing 'stump the veterinarian', yesterday he was diagnosed (via CT scan) with generalized small intestinal lymphoma, a rare and incurable form of cancer.
Orion's time with us was too short. We re-homed him into our lives in July 2014, after Magz, our first Vizsla, died. Orion's prior owners dual trained him for show and upland bird hunting. He was well socialized and quick to learn. His AKC "Junior Hunter" designation was earned on the first try.
Around our neighborhood, Orion always walked with the signature Vizsla prance-like spring in his feet. It was rare for a day to go by without our getting a compliment on his elegance and style.
In the field, he loved to hunt. Unfortunately, loss of local habitat makes finding suitable places to hunt birds very difficult. Instead, Michael turned to using Orion's innate passion to 'search and find' to help him discover subjects in nature to photograph.
As Michael's "butterfly buddy", Orion's job was to putter around in meadow grasses and flush butterflies. Michael watched where they would land then move into position and take the shot. Working as a team, we had great success and our game was more than a ton of fun.
At home, his special "pet" job, like Magz before him, involved fetching the morning newspaper off our driveway and returning it 'to hand'... All much to the delight of our neighborhood kids at their school bus stop. He learned this trick in two days and everyone eagerly looked forward to him jumping to perform.
Orion loved "dog people", children and other dogs. His favorite people trick was to push against their legs, then sit on their feet. For dogs, he was an expert at delivering the surprise "Vizsla Bump" during run and play.
Orion was a great breed ambassador. His light will be deeply missed.
Peace...
Orion burns brightly at the base of this burst of clouds and color. Like a plume of smoke, the Milky Way rises above the flames.
M42 The Orion Nebula
Since we're currently getting buried in snow and there's no clear skies in sight, I decided to "practice" on M42. I used 6 panels from my latest hyperstar mosaic as luminance. www.flickr.com/photos/astrochuck/16138742249/
Combined color data from last years AT65EDQ/QHY9M image
www.flickr.com/photos/astrochuck/10848930723/
and core luminance from my QHY23M/11" EdgeHD @F/7
reminds me of Raumpatrouille Orion, Space Patrol Orion in English, is the first German science fiction television series. Its seven episodes were broadcast by the ARD in 1966, with the first episode aired on Sept. 17th. It achieved audience ratings of up to 80 %. The series has since acquired cult status in Germany. Raumpatrouille translates as "Space Patrol" in English.The series' budget was comparatively low, but the set designers proved very creative in making the best of their limited means. Electric irons were used as part of the command console, for instance, and plastic beakers as ceiling lighting. In an interview it was claimed that the designers were getting part of their inspiration by using design catalogues.
Just for fun, I've managed to collect all my images, made during several years, around the area of Orion's belt/Orion's sword.
I've worked a lot to make a big collage of all my best data to be included in one single image.
The result is this huge (the original one is about 12000 pixels wide) field of view that contains many objects including M42/43, horsehead nebula, flame nebula, keyhole nebula and many more.
Several different telescopes and optics was used and the same is true for CCD cameras and even emulsion film at different scales that has been matched for to be correctly composed in one canvas.
So there it is: Orion belt/sword collage!
Have fun and thanks for watching.
I used a tracked exposure of 120 seconds at ISO 4000 for the sky, and merged with a static foreground to create this image.
Another image of winter Mikly Way and the beautiful constellation Orion, tanken from another Swiss Alpine Pass. This one was taken on Sattelegg.
The red nebulas in Orion, Barnards Loop and, to the left of it, Rosetta Nebula (C 49) are clearly visible in the lower parts of the image. Higher in the sky, you can see the open clusters Hyades and Pleiades in Taurus. The red California Nebula (NGC 1499) is visible in the upper center.
Astro-modified Canon EOS 6D
Tamron 15-30mm f/2.8 @ 15mm
Foreground:
- 4 x 180s @ ISO1600
- Stacked with PS
Sky:
- 8 x 90s @ ISO1600
- Tracked with iOptron Skytracker
- Stacked with fitswork4
Aircraft approach into Liverpool John Lennon Airport above Fiddlers Ferry Power Station Widnes/Warrington.
Well been playing around with last nights data and some old DSLR data for colour.
But for the core i used 15 mins of RGB data from last night.
Photographed on a Vancouver-area Four Thirds Photographers photowalk to celebrate Four Thirds Day with Daniel, Don, John, Jonathan, Mike, NJ, Rob, and Yukiko. Terry Fox Plaza, downtown Vancouver. April 3, 2016.
The forecast said something about partly cloudy conditions in central Oregon last night, so I figured that was close enough and headed out really late to see what I could find. Turned out to be a bit nicer than I had hoped, as the stars came out for a few hours, allowing me to visit this abandoned farm out in Wasco County for a bit. This barn is just barely hanging on, and I suspect it wont' be many seasons more before it is flat on the ground. Until then, I'm happy to photograph this remnant of Oregon history.
Clouds of Orion (Galactic Hunter) is the name of this 56 panes mosaic image I captured between October 2014 and March 2015 of the Orion constellation, featuring a large number of well-known objects, from the Horsehead nebula, to the Orion nebula, Barnard's loop, Witchhead nebula and many others. The image accumulates 242 hours of exposure time (1over 2,000 total individual exposures), meaning you're looking at the light captured by a CCD camera during 242 hours.
The field of view in the image is about 32.5 x 22.2 degrees (39.5 diagonal). To put this in perspective, the Moon's diameter is only 1/2 degree, meaning you could fit a total of 1,443 Moons in this image - at the scale it would show if it had been up in the sky - without overlapping.
It's probably the largest image of this entire area captured by an astrophotographer at this size, depth and resolution so far (exclude professional sky surveys, of course!).
Objeto: NGC1976 - Orion Nebula
Data:2017-03-29
Telescope: Sprit100
CCD: QHY9 CCD Camera.
HA-15X600""
HA-7X60""
L-17X600""
L-11X60""
R-11X300""
R-7X30""
G-9X300""
G-7X30""
B-9X300""
B-7X30""
Total frames / integration: 100 frames / 8,22 horas
RA center: 05 34 58
DEC center: -05 15 27
ALT/AZ: 24.5186 / 274.8495
SITE: LAT-23 00 52 LONG:-47 36 14
Capture: Leandro Fornazieiro www.astrobin.com/users/leandrof58/
Processing: Maicon Germiniani
A deep image of the orion nebula area. Taken with a Borg ED101 and an STL11k camera.
A total of 60.9 hours of data were collected between November 2009 and March 2011.
a larger image as well as a bw-image can be found here:
www.starpointing.com/ccd/orion.html
Equipment used: BorgED101, STL11000M, Baader HaRGB filter set
The Orion Nebula is an enormous cloud of gas and dust, one of many in our Milky Way galaxy. It lies roughly 1,300 light-years from Earth.
At some 30 to 40 light-years in diameter, this great big nebulous cocoon is giving birth to perhaps a thousand stars.
The four brightest stars in the Orion Nebula can be seen through amateur astronomers’ telescopes and are affectionately known as The Trapezium. The light of the young, hot Trapezium stars illuminate the Orion Nebula. These stars are only a million or so years old – mere babes in the lifetime of a star.
Mount: AP Mach 1
Imaging scope: AT8RC CCDT67 1050mm
Imaging camera: Trius SX-694
Lights: Lum 6 x 600 sec bin1, 10 x 120 sec bin 1
RGB 10 x 180 sec bin 2
Calibration: None
Guide scope: OAG Lodestar
Other details: Captured with SGP, guided with PHD, stacked in DSS processed in Photoshop
This is a deep image of the Sword of Orion - the three stars that make up the weapon hanging off the belt of this famous celestial hunter. The image showcases the amazing mix of physical and optical processes including atomic emission, Rayleigh scattering, reflection and absorbtion of light, that go on in this star forming region to create this kaleidescope of colours and details.
6 inch apocromatic refractor
FLI ProLine11002 CCD & CFW-2-7
LHaRGB = 5hrs 6hrs 30 30 30min Astronomik filters
AstroHandy LightRing used for flats
Field of View: approx 1.4deg X 1deg
Image scale = 1.4"/pix
Guide Camera: Starlightxpress SXVH9
Processed in Astroart4
Ho scattato questa foto tempo fa, dal Passo Giau, Dolomiti...
La neve aveva lo stesso colore delle stelle. Orione luccicava in tutto il suo splendore fra Sirio e Aldebaran.
MI piacerebbe tornare li, prossimamente, per fare altre fotografie... ma molte strade sono ancora chiuse e col pericolo di frane. Speriamo che le ferite al territorio si rimarginino presto
#giau #orione #orion #neve #snow #dolomites #dolomiti #night #stars #astronomy #heavens #veneto #lightpollution #inquinamentoluminoso #cielo #sky
This 10 panel mosaic in the Orion constellation contains most of my favorite objects in Orion -- M42, Horsehead/Flame, M78, etc.
Taken November, 2011 at BuckSnort.
FSQ 106EDX @ f/3.6
STL-11000 -30C (Ha and Luminance)
QSI 583 w/Nikon 85mm lens (RGB)
HaLRGB
30,15,9,9,9 per panel
(note: RGB was shot as 2 panel mosaic that matched the stitched field of the FSQ data)
CCDStack, PixInsight, Registar, CS5
www.starkeeper.it/OrionMosaic.htm
The constellation of Orion holds much more than three stars in a row. A deep exposure shows everything from dark nebula to star clusters, all embedded in an extended patch of gaseous wisps in the greater Orion Molecular Cloud Complex. The brightest three stars on the far left are indeed the famous three stars that make up the belt of Orion. Just below Alnitak, the lowest of the three belt stars, is the Flame Nebula, glowing with excited hydrogen gas and immersed in filaments of dark brown dust. Below the frame center and just to the right of Alnitak lies the Horsehead Nebula, a dark indentation of dense dust that has perhaps the most recognized nebular shapes on the sky. On the upper right lies M42, the Orion Nebula, an energetic caldron of tumultuous gas, visible to the unaided eye, that is giving birth to a new open cluster of stars. Immediately to the left of M42 is a prominent bluish reflection nebula sometimes called the Running Man that houses many bright blue stars. The above image, a digitally stitched composite taken over several nights, covers an area with objects that are roughly 1,500 light years away and spans about 75 light years.
Optics: Takahashi FSQ-106EDXIII F/3.6 383mm. - APO Refractor
Mount: AP Mach1 GTO
Camera: Canon 5D MkII - Baader Mod
Filters: OSC
Guiding Systems: Tecnosky 60/228 Guide Scope- SX Lodestar
Dates/Times: 20-22-23 December 2014
Location: Pragelato - Turin - Italy
Mosaic Details: 2x2 Frame
Exposure Detailse: OSC => 150 = > (30x5) ISO 1600 [num x minutes] For Each Frame
Cooling Details: Ambient -4°C
Acquisition: BackyardEOS, TheSkyX
Processing: PixInsight, PS CS5
Mean FWHM: 3.65
SQM-L: 20.98 / 21.11
Winner-Cloudy Nights DSLR forums and also the forum wide Imaging/Sketching contest for December , Astrophotogallery.org December imaging contest , Eastcoastastro.com Image of the Month December
I tried some of the standard Ha combine techniques and I winded up using a blend of several different again.
Not that it added a ton over the regular LRGB but maybe a bit of punch and color.
I again merged the data from my 180mm ED lens with data from my ED80 from around M42 and the Horse Head for better detail in those areas.
25 5min subs in RGB at ISO 800 and 24 10min subs with 6nm Ha filter at ISO 1600 stacked in DSS then adjusted in PS CS2. Canon 500D(modded) , Orion Atlas mount and the lens was the Nikon 180ED @ f/2.8 with a 7x40mm finder as a guide scope.
Orion is a prominent constellation located on the celestial equator and visible throughout the world. It is one of the most conspicuous and recognizable constellations in the night sky. It was named after Orion, a hunter in Greek mythology. Its brightest stars are Rigel (Beta Orionis) and Betelgeuse (Alpha Orionis), a blue-white and a red supergiant respectively. Many of the other brighter stars in the constellation are hot, blue supergiant stars. The three stars in the middle of the constellation form an asterism known as Orion's belt. The Orion Nebula is located south of Orion's belt.
My latest and greatest Orion Nebula image. This was taken up at Kitt Peak a couple weeks ago. Total exposure time was around 12 minutes taken with the Canon 5DMKII through a TEC 140mm f/7 APO ED Refractor Telescope. — at Kitt Peak National Observatory.
Huge thank you to Astronomer Blythe Guvenen for allowing me to come up to photograph with him.
Sharing is appreciated!
A composite of an edited Hubble/Spitzer image of the Orion Nebula with a photograph of the Acropolis in Athens. 2008 Photoshop Guru Award Finalist, Photo Montage category, Photoshop World, Las Vegas, Nevada. © José Francisco Salgado, PhD
My first attempt to do a night sky photography was really not that what i intended. Weather condition was not good. Moon was full and clouds were running around.
Additionally it was -3 C and my hands and body refused to hold more.
I did 8 shots. I think this is my best.
The Orion Nebula with a meteor going across the image.
I used an 8" Schmidt Cassegrain f/6.3 telescope and a Sony A77m2 camera. It is the first time I have caught a meteor when
taking photos of a nebula.
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Definitely one of Finland's most beautiful vantage points, though for sure also one of the most visited sites in the country: Myllykoski in the Oulanka National Park. But not on this day! Thank God. The Northern Lights. Stars. Orion's Belt. Betelgeuse. A man can get spoiled... almost forgot how frustrated I got with my Samyang 14mm Ultra Wide-Angle f/2.8 lens.
The small line of stars you can see in the middle of the photo is the Orion belt, The photo has been taken in the Maldives Islands where the light pollution is reduced at its maximum
The Aurora Borealis lights up the sky in the south on a November night in West Michigan.
Camera: Canon F1
Lens: Canon 20mm f/2.8
(I wrote the following when I got home that night)...
It was a Dark and (Solar) Stormy Night. Stormy with shafts and rays of light streaming from the heavens.
We all knew there was a chance of another auroral display tonight. We were waiting. And then around 10:30pm or so (from Grand Rapids), the wait was over. This time I went out with my brother, taking back roads and such until we finally found a great spot in northeastern Kent County. We ended up off Old Belding Rd on Lessiter Rd, which is on the way to the Grattan Raceway.
The road faced north, so we were shooting right down the middle of it. There were some clouds around to the north, but nothing too bothersome. Most of the action was to the northeast, with not much seen in the way of color except green, and an occasional red and blue. There were curtains, rays, shafts, and some really good pulsing going on.
I of course used my 35mm film camera, and my brother had his Canon Digital SLR. I was a tad pickier this time, and only shot 3 rolls by the time 1:30 rolled around, and it started to wane. Also, we were getting some clouds coming in, so we bailed.
On the way back to civilization, I noticed it was picking up again, but not very strong. We got to my brothers' place, and I jumped in my car to get home. On the way down the E. Beltline (I know those of you not from around here have no clue as to these roads, but it's my story!!!) I could actually see in my rearview mirror that it was flaring up again, so I turned east of Knapp St and headed for darker northern skies. I finally found a place a few miles down the road with a good northern horizon, and set up the camera again.
Oh… My… God. The curtains! The pulsing rays!! The pulsing shafts of light as they flickered up the magnetic lines of force to the corona. I was seeing pulsating shafts from the south!! All of them converging near Orion, forming another spectacular corona. I shot, moved the camera, and shot again. Always looking for the best display, and ever mindful to watch for composition (at least I was keeping my photographers' hat on during this), I shot frame after frame. At one point I was going to leave, as it was dying again. But as I put my camera in the car, it flared up to the point I HAD to get set up again; another roll of film in the camera. I finally stopped around 3:00, as it was dying down, and also because I knew if I didn't force myself, I'd shoot until I ran out of film. And I wanted to shoot the Moon/Venus/Jupiter this morning.
Fortunately after packing up and driving home, it was calm enough that I didn't want to shoot the aurora anymore. I'm now here sitting downstairs, not even tired. Writing this and waiting until I can go out and shoot the moon, etc. This will be the finish of the sixth roll of film tonight, and they will be at the lab by 7:00am.
In all my years of observing the aurora, I've never seen such intense pulsating effects. Also, the coronas (all 5 I counted) had more detail in them than I had ever seen.