On Jan. 30, the Cassini spacecraft executed a flyby maneuver of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, passing within 19,340 miles (31,130 km) of its surface. This color composite image of the cloud-covered moon was created by combining raw data acquired with Cassini's Imaging Science System (ISS) in red, green, blue and clear color channels. The result
Posted by Lights in the Dark
Time-lapse photographer Christian Mülhauser braved sub-zero temperatures and frozen camera equipment to capture this stunning aurora footage from Norway during the last week of January 2012. Powerful solar storms in January made for some impressive auroral displays… thanks to Christian for capturing them on camera! (...)Read the rest of Hauntingly Beautiful Aurora Video (143 words)
Posted by Universe Today
... Aside: It's been a while since I posted because I somehow messed up my blog code over Christmas and I needed time to work out what was going wrong. I seem to have fixed it so I'm back. I wanted to do a quick post about something I was reminded about on Twitter earlier. Moon Games is a series of photographs by Laurent Laveder which use perspective to play with the Moon when it is near the horizon. Each photograph appears to show a foreground person interacting with the Moon as if it were next t
Posted by Astronomy Blog
Yesterday's solar flare sent out a huge cloud of charged solar particles our way, and this afternoon it impacted our magnetosphere… sparking a brilliant display of aurorae in northern skies such as those above the Aurora Sky Station in Abisko, Sweden. The video above is a time-lapse made from still photos taken by the Sky
Posted by Lights in the Dark
From the top of the atmosphere, that is! This gorgeous photo, taken from the Space Station on November 24, 2011, looks over our planet's limb just after orbital sunset. We get a good look at cloud structures, the thin shell of our atmosphere (it's always surprising how thin it really is), airglow, stars, and what
Posted by Lights in the Dark
I've had a quick play with Snapseed for Mac. Below is a neutral photo of a greenhouse at Kew exported from Aperture, and one after a couple of minutes of editing. Snapseed works with a modified form of Nik's UPoint interface. You can make global changes, but on some features you can make masked adjustments.
Posted by AlunSalt: Ancient Science and the Science of Ancient Things
... comment on this link HDR: Love it or or Leave it? posted by +Matt Shalvatis. This has been on my ‘to-blog-about' list for years. On the one side there's the artistic effect, which you can debate. I get the impression HDR is a personal taste, so telling people it's the right or wrong way
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