For Valentine's Day, we present this Solar Dynamics Observatory image of the Sun taken on Feb. 1, 2013, in extreme ultraviolet light, as it captured a heart-shaped dark coronal hole. Coronal holes are areas of the Sun's surface that are the source of open magnetic field lines that head way out into space. They are also the source regions of the fast solar wind, which is characterized by a relatively steady speed of approximately 800 km/s (about 1.8 million mph).
Image Credit: NASA/SDO
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As the Milky Way core returns to the night sky in the early morning hours, I had the privilege of capturing its brilliance in Joshua Tree National Park at the beginning of February.
While scouting for compositions in the afternoon, I discovered this elegant S-curve in the road, framed beautifully by a striking Joshua Tree on the right. Using the PlanIt Photo app, I confirmed that the rising Milky Way would align perfectly with the scene - an opportunity I couldn’t pass up.
To add an extra dynamic element, I timed my shot to capture a passing car, its headlights illuminating the tree and its taillights painting a vivid red trail along the road, creating a leading line towards the star-filled heavens.
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Canon EOS-R, astro-modified by EOS 4Astro
Sigma 28mm f/1.4 ART
IDAS NBZ filter
iOptron SkyTracker Pro
Sunwayfoto T2840CK tripod
Sky:
Stack of 7x 45s @ ISO800, unfiltered & 3x 105s @ ISO3200, filtered
Foreground:
Single exposure of 30s @ ISO320, f/8 during twilight
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Another image from the Northumberland Coast, and a location that has been shot many times before (for good reason)
Dunstanburgh Castle and the surrounding coast, I think most people who shoot this genre must have seen images from here at some point and probably have a goiod idea of what they usually look like so I wanted to try and create something a wee bit different with my own stamp on it.
We had shot it with the receding tide in this morning and I had managed to get into a somewhat precarious spot that was like an ice rink to get to, amazing with no falling over for once. whilst I was there I kind of had my eye on this scene as a possibility but it meant either retracing my steps back over the ice rink, and round onto another one, or, dropping off the ledge I was on and wading through the sea to pop out over here, I opted for the latter option and as the tide was going out I wasn't going to get trapped there so I could be really careful, and take my time setting up.
This is the one resulting image from that spot with a somewhat different perpective on the scene, I was trying ti be mindful not to let the Castle get lost in the overall scene.
Getting back to the relative safety of the sandy shoreline was a very slow affair and extremely painful on the feet but hopefully worth it, I'm not sure if I would have done this if I was on my own as one fall and you could be in real trouble if nobody else was around.
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A couple of redshanks (Tringa totanus) on Valentine's day, from last spring.
As I sat hidden by a boat right in our neighbourhood, I could watch them resting and searching for food for a long time. I love experiences like that.
(Rødstilker in Norwegian)
My album of birds here.
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Lockers at "Het Depot", Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Design: MVRDV (2020)
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