It's the weekend! 🫶
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One of the Briggait's Winged Sea Horses or Hippocampi, dating from 1873, with the Merchants Steeple, dating from 1665, as seem from Clyde Street in central Glasgow.
Bargibants Seahorse is truly tiny, not even reaching an inch... lives exclusively on fan corals found in coastal areas from southern Japan to New Caledonia. >>> https://meow.social/@WahFo/111740895293912570@WahFo
Nerd alert: Far be it from me to encourage "polar vortex" talk, but when experts talk about a warming winter Arctic driving cold air outbreaks into the mid-latitudes, this is exactly that kind of mid-atmosphere pattern envisioned: warm airmass high pressure at high latitudes with the core of the cold airmass pushed south. Graphic courtesy Tropical Tidbits. #Arctic@Climatologist49@ZLabe@ingalls
The Seahorse Nebula, also known as Barnard 150, is a swirly dust cloud in a dense starfield. This is my deepest image to date with 31.5 hours of integration time. It's coming along, but this is one of those objects that could use as much integration time as you can throw at it. Next time around, I'll try a long run with the Optolong L-Quad light pollution filter.
One of four Winged Sea Horses on the parapet of Clyde Street Facade of the Briggait in Glasgow. The building was designed by Clarke and Bell and was constructed in 1875. However, the sculptor of these fantastic beasts is unknown.
#DYK that the IUCN SSC Seahorse, Pipefish & Seadragon Specialist Group (SPS SG) is dedicated to the conservation of seahorses, pipefishes, pipehorses and seadragons— as well as related species such as trumpetfishes, cornetfishes, and shrimpfishes?
Project Seahorse is the host for this specialist group, and our director, Prof. Amanda Vincent, is it's Chair.
#Seahorse or #dragon? :dragon_happy:
One day long time ago I see kind of sea map here, blue on black. And before I zoom it on small phone screen I thought it was blue dragon silhouette. It looked like this, I tried to preserve it original shape.
Continuing my recent dark nebula kick, here's Seahorse Nebula, also known as Barnard 150. This area is filled with faint dust, so a LOT of exposure time is required. This is 18 hours so far, but it could probably use double that. I'll be back on it once the moon goes away.
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I'm currently working on a pair of sea creature-shaped dark nebulas. The first is Seahorse nebula and the second is Dark Shark nebula. These dust clouds are illuminated by the dense star fields around them. Both targets are up for many hours per night - I've got 2 nights on Dark Shark and 5 nights on Seahorse for a total of 11h each. I'll be looking to at least double that to sharpen the details of the dust.