xylophilist

xylophilist, 18 days ago to Dragonlance

Ya beauty! Three clear overhead flash+BOOOOM thundercracks and counting.
And the rain is most definitely on.

Not to mention, I was just back from walking 🐕‍🦺when it all started. Fortunate timing.

Gotta love a decent thunderstom. ⛈️⛈️⛈️

#thunderstorm #lightning #map #scotland #perthshire #delight #BiggerBadderBOOM

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xylophilist, 29 days ago to Scotland

Aurora 20240510/11 - How it started

No sooner had dusk turned to something like night than the auroral arc went overhead, brilliant rays of purple, green and blue.

#aurora #auroraBorialis #perthshire #scotland #photography #NightPhotography #astrophotography

Lovely pink rays of aurora
Aurora corona with blue, purple, green and red rays and curtains

xylophilist, 1 month ago to Perth

Friarton Bridge by Night

A well-known scene: long-exposure light trails, red from the brake lights and white from oncoming headlights, of traffic travelling over Friarton Bridge, taken from the bridge over the M90 at Rhynd on the outskirts of Perth.

Available as prints, cards, masks and more via the website: https://shiny.photo/photo/Friarton-Bridge-by-Night-b5335b3f9237b98ed0a94dd783410cc0

#Perth #FriartonBridge #NightPhotography #longexposure #lighttrails #scotland #photography

xylophilist, 1 month ago to Scotland

Craignavar Deserted Township, Glen Almond

Comprising the stone ruins of at least 22 rectangular buildings and a corn-drying kiln with associated stone-walled enclosures and fields, Craignavar was deserted in around 1820. It's unknown whether it was part of the forced Highland Clearances or just a voluntary departure due to economic reasons.

Prints, cards etc via the website: https://shiny.photo/photo/Craignavar-Deserted-Township--Glen-Almond-fe9cbc8eec03195d00819070de1f9cd6

#perthshire #scotland #ruin #landscape #photogrammetry #WebODM #blender3d #drone #photography

xylophilist, 2 months ago to linux

Well that was a messy attempt to dist-upgrade Ubuntu from focal to noble. Many packages held back thanks to breakages in snapd and suchlike gratuitous unnecessary shite, so it refused to install consistent versions of just about anything starting with ImageMagick and working up. Networking/systemd/dhcpcd fargled due to lxc/apparmor too.

So after an evenings's hassle, my work VM is now running debian/testing and my build environment for work works too.

#linux #ubuntu #geek #fail #debian

xylophilist, 2 months ago to photography

Foggy Exuberance

New Year's Eve 2023-24 had some impressively thick mist in parts, so I strolled down through local woods and found one of my favourite contorted characterful trees.

Photo available as prints, cards, masks and more via the website: https://shiny.photo/photo/Foggy-Exuberance-87a3b169e29a635776a14ae9ed4c8de5

#photography #scotland #perthshire #tree #naturephotography #blackandwhite

xylophilist, 3 months ago to Scotland

Tullibardine Chapel

Some people would take a photo. I shot 156 * 48MP = 7.3Gpx of data, computed a 3d model in WebODM and rendered it with moody lighting in Blender, as one does.

(Final toning & vignette in LuminarAI, just for completeness.)

#perthshire #scotland #drone #art #photography #WebODM #mapping #geo

xylophilist, 3 months ago to photography

Highland Boundary Fault. Anti-crepuscular rays in the distance. Entire sky flamed orange pink and red from west to east horizon.
How do I embrace this whole universe?

It's all so beautiful
Like a landscape painting in the sky
...
Ooh, it's bliss

• Queen, A Winter's Tale

#landscape #photography #sunset #geology #stonehaven #Scotland #nature

xylophilist, 3 months ago to RadioControl

End of an Era

The Mavic 2 Pro arrived on 9 Jul 2019.

4.5 year and a fair few miles together later and the gimbal cable is acting up and image transmission failing at increasingly inconvenient moments.

So this is the last photo I'll be making with it. Farewell little droneybird 😢

#drone #dronephotography #perthshire #tree #photography #scotland #landscapephotography #naturephotography #hdr

xylophilist, 3 months ago to RadioControl

Sunset over the Highland Boundary Fault

Garron Point by Stonehaven golf course, last night. Doesn't get more dramatic a location than this.

#drone #hdr #landscape #geology #Scotland #photography #highlands #HBF #HighlandBoundaryFault

xylophilist, 3 months ago to Scotland

Light come, light go

Two variations on the cliché location at Rattray Head lighthouse - one with gorgeous golden low sunlight, another with no light but a classic composition featuring washed-up fishing net litter. Heck. Let's call it what it is: environmental pollution.

#aberdeenshire #scotland #photography #rattrayhead #lighthouse #light #landscapephotography #environment #polltion

Crappy light on foreground washed-up netting litter, approaching Rattray Head lighthouse

xylophilist, 4 months ago to Astronomy

Paint the Sky with Stars

A bit of random browsing around the night sky stumbled across Sharpless Sh2-140 in Cepheus. 10.5hr data shot with an 80ED and IDAS NBZ filter, processed and Ha & OIII channels extracted in APP, tweaked and combined in PixInsight and Affinity.

Prints available: https://shiny.photo/photo/Paint-the-Sky-with-Stars--Sh2-140--Cepheus-50bcbf16f19c15df619f9edcec67db3c

#astronomy #astrophotography #scotland #naturephotography #NightPhotography #nightsky #pixinsight #nebula

xylophilist, 4 months ago to Scotland

Mornin' 🌅🏰📷😀

#dunnottarcastle #Scotland #sunrise #castle #iphoneography #photography

xylophilist, 4 months ago to RadioControl

Big scenery, cracking symmetrical reflection and bonus little misty fog patches in Glencoe and Ballachulish

#drone #photography #scotland #glencoe #highlands #landscapephotography #naturephotography

xylophilist, 4 months ago to astrophotography

M44, the Beehive Cluster

One of the nearest open clusters to Earth, containing approximately 1,000 stars, M44 is visible as a small nebulous object under dark skies. It has been known since ancient times and was studied by Galileo.

#astrophotography #photography #beehive #cluster #M44 #stars #nightsky

xylophilist, 5 months ago to astrophotography

The Perseus molecular cloud is a giant molecular cloud located approximately 1000 light-years away in the constellation of Perseus. It comprises gas and dust weighing over 10,000 solar masses in an area of sky 6 by 2 degrees.

The gas-cloud is nearly invisible except for two clusters, IC 348 and NGC 1333, where low-mass stars are formed.

Available as prints, cards, masks and more via the website: https://shiny.photo/photo/Perseus-Molecular-Cloud-7dd67bcb735962934a17c698bfa81c8b

#astrophotography #photography #space #nightsky #nebula #darknebula

xylophilist, 5 months ago to astrophotography

Just bought RC Astro's BlurXTerminator plugin for PixInsight.

This is a comparatively cheapo SkyWatcher 80ED with lousy "flattener" maladjusted, near the far-left middle edge of the frame, before and after running BlurXTerminator.
I had to check twice I was still comparing the same section of the frame, it's that radical an improvement.

It sure lives up to the hype and then some 😀

#astrophotography #photo #stars #nightsky #geek #win

xylophilist, 5 months ago to RadioControl

And now for something different - exploring the Borders.
I found the exact spot the River Clyde starts as a confluence of a couple of other smaller rivers from the south at the appropriately named Watermeetings.

#drone #photography #scotland #scottishborders #RiverClyde #hdr

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xylophilist, 5 months ago to RadioControl

Boxing Day sunset, Uath Lochans, near Aviemore in the Cairngorms

#winter #sunset #drone #photography #scotland #landscape #light

xylophilist, 5 months ago to Scotland

Brief but good aurora display this evening. Caught a few rays (2218hr).

#perthshire #aurora #auroraborealis #scotland #photography #NightPhotography #nightsky

xylophilist, 6 months ago to Scotland

2012-12-01 This evening's Aurora

Taken at Windyedge - the other tree in Perthshire ;) - at 2235hr as the aurora was beginning to fade again.

#aurora #auroraborealis #perthshire #scotland #naturephotography #landscapephotography #photography #astrophotography

xylophilist, 6 months ago to edinburgh

Aurora, Edinburgh

Sometimes you just gotta sit on a bench beside the Observatory, eating fish & chips from a favoured chippy (Stefano's on Morningside Road) in a chilly -1ºC under light of a full moon whilst watching the remains of an aurora display as Orion rises.

#aurora #auroraborealis #edinburgh #scotland #NightPhotography #nightsky #photography #vertorama

xylophilist, 7 months ago to Scotland

This is one massive aurora display on the go. Too much cloud in the wrong places to be seeing any red but it was right overhead and down into the southern side of the sky... Just wow.

#aurora #auroraborealis #perthshire #scotland #nightsky #photography

xylophilist, 7 months ago to random

Very good to meet @withaveeay IRL in #Assynt today. I can confirm that he's not a bot, and hope he confirms I'm not a bot. Unless we're both bots, in which case, we would both say that, wouldn't we....?

#🤖 😁

A wonderful day of light, landscape, photos, nattering, philosophy and much sociability. Zonked now but chill :)

Beautiful warm sunlight and crepuscular rays behind Suilven
Beautiful oblique light on Manse Loch
Former corn mill, Port na Bradhan, Assynt

xylophilist, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to astrophotography

M33, the Triangulum Galaxy

A spiral galaxy located approximately 2.73 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Triangulum, M33 aka the Triangulum Galaxy has a diameter of 18.74 kiloparsecs (61,100 light-years).

It forms the third galaxy in the Local Group - including the Milky Way and Andromeda of which the M33 is a satellite.

Prints available via the website: https://shiny.photo/photo/M33--the-Triangulum-Galaxy-8f211d545bc1a7f4caaadab8a31687c6

#astrophotography #astronomy #galaxy #space #DSO #stars #photography