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Corona's structure - 2024 April 8
The structure of the sun's corona during the total solar eclipse as viewed through cirrus clouds from Owens Community College in Findlay, Ohio on 2024 April 8. A dim double star (Zeta Piscium, visual magnitudes of 5.21 and 6.44) can be seen to the left of the eclipsed sun. A dimmer star (visual magnitudes of 8.69) can be seen below the eclipsed sun. Click on image for a magnified view. (Nikon Z 7 II, 130mm f/6 Astro-Physics StarFire EDFS refractor operated at f/6.8 with field flattener, 1/30 seconds, iso 64)
Sun Salvation
A large umbrella used to shade us from the mid-day sun in Rayong, Thailand.
Peeking
Peeking over the edge of the umbrella to see if the the mid-day sun was still there.
The Shadow of the Sun-2
MFF 2024. Red Carpet: The Shadow of The Sun at Silverspot on April 7, 2024.
Oklahoma Skies
Week of April 15-19
Oklahoma Skies
Week of April 15-19
Oklahoma Skies
Week of April 15-19
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1927 1st Loyals Signallers - Left Heliograph (Crop)
This is the left heliograph from: The Signallers of the 1st Batt Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire)[1] Secunderabad, Central India[2], 1927 - an image from the Battalion Souvenir Book[3].
I personally scanned this at 1600 dpi from one of two original copies in my collection.
This is a low resolution preview image - you can view/download it at resolutions up to 3814 x 3814 pixels from:
www.flickr.com/photos/signalmirror/53664275802/sizes/l/
This 5" Mance Mark V is set up "simplex" (single mirror), used when the sun was in front of the signaller.
The heliograph tripod has the webbing & leather "sling and sleeve" typical of the time period.
Unusual features:
The leather heliograph carrying case is lying on the dirt below the tripod, rather than being slung over the tripod by the shoulder strap, as instructed in the heliograph manual.
I believe this image is in the public domain in the United States (and most other places) as an image first published before 1929. Any rights I may have inadvertently acquired by photographing it and postprocessing it, I donate to the public domain under a CC0 license.
However, copyright and other intellectual property rights are complex and vary worldwide and with time - rights determination is your responsibility.
[1] Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyal_Regiment_(North_Lancashire)#Between_the_wars
[2] Secunderabad
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secunderabad
[3] A Pictorial Souvenir of the First Battalion The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) Secunderabad, India, 1927 Lieut-Colonel R.W. Greenhill, O.B.E., Commanding Published by the Historical Art Publishing Company.
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ZS-SYP BAe RJ85 of South African Airlink
JNB 11th November 2013. Typical African afternoon storm clouds surround the airport but the eye leaves the sun untouched.
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Sun catching the chin feathers here.
Lost Maples State Natural Area, Texas Hill Country
IAIS 712
Photographing this unit a few nights prior, the 712 basks in the afternoon sun. Clive, Iowa. 4/8/24
Sunset by candlelight
If I could only fill my glass with your beauty.
I would glow like the evening sun.
Lost
Class 755 755418
755418 passes the Polar Bear enclosure at Jimmy's Farm & Wildlife Park just South of Ipswich, with the 3F19 1506 Ipswich to Colchester C.S.D. Empty Coaching Stock working - 16/04/2024.
Try as I might, I just could get a train with the sun out at this spot, until I finally got lucky with virtually my last attempt.
Ideally, I would have liked to photograph a freight train at this spot, but I only had one chance on this occasion and it lashed it down just as that train went past!
Never mind. Lorraine wants to return to the visitor attraction later in the year. Therefore, I will try again if we do.
Sun Boy (2001 Superboy's Legion Elseworlds costume)
This design was used in Alan Davis and Mark Farmer's "Superboy's Legion" Elseworlds story.
Read up more on Dirk at his Wikipedia page, his Comic Vine entry and his Hero History page.
The sun hitting me just rate
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A truly MASSIVE coronal mass ejection (CME), with material falling back on about a third of the Sun, spanning 6 hours starting at 2011/06/07 0600 GMT. Image is in 304Å ultraviolet light, the wavelength of doubly ionized helium. The flare that started this massive eruption was a relatively minor M2.0-class starting at about 20 minutes into the clip. Data was taken at once per minute by the NASA SDO spacecraft, but some samples were missing (up to 3 in sequence at one point) resulting in a few jumpy spots in the video. Playback is at cinema rate of 24 fps resulting in 1440:1 time compression.
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