“My love of fine art increased – the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.” – J. Paul Getty

“The good man is the friend of all living things.” – Mahatma Gandhi

An analemma is that figure-8 curve you get when you mark the position of the Sun at the same time each day for one year. To make this one, a 4×5 pinhole camera was set up looking north in southern New Zealand skies. The shutter was briefly opened each clear day in the afternoon at […]

Partly Cloudy today! With a high of 16C and a low of 16C. 83 Humidity. 10 C currently. 8 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

Expedition 69 Flight Engineer Jasmin Moghbeli captured this image of New Zealand, dotted by white clouds, on Sept. 12, 2023, as the International Space Station orbited 230 miles above the island nation. via NASA https://ift.tt/cgsWxTn

“The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.” – Jerzy Kosinski

“No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.” – Samuel Johnson

During the day, over 12,000 large mirrors reflect sunlight at the 100-megawatt, molten-salt, solar thermal power plant at the western edge of the Gobi desert near Dunhuang, Gansu Province, China. Individual mirror panels turn to track the sun like sunflowers. They conspire to act as a single super mirror reflecting the sunlight toward a fixed […]

PM Light Rain today! With a high of 19C and a low of 19C. 85 Humidity. 13 C currently. 11 Km/h Wind from South.

The Artemis II crew and teams with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program successfully completed on Sept. 20, the first in a series of integrated ground system tests at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation for the upcoming mission around the Moon. via NASA https://ift.tt/VCboxvH