“But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

With roots on a rotating planet, an old tree is centered in this sequence of 137 exposures each 20 seconds long, recorded one night from northern Sicily. Digital camera and fisheye lens were fixed to a tripod to capture the dramatic timelapse, so the stars trailed through the region’s dark sky. Of course that makes […]

Partly Cloudy today! With a high of 22C and a low of 22C. 66 Humidity. 14 C currently. 11 Km/h Wind from North.

Webb’s Fine Guidance Sensor Provides a Serendipitous Preview via NASA https://ift.tt/omrkuVQ

“Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.” – Robert Smithson

“Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.” – Honore de Balzac

A study in contrasts, this colorful skyscape features stars, dust, and glowing gas in the vicinity of NGC 6914. The interstellar complex of nebulae lies some 6,000 light-years away, toward the high-flying northern constellation Cygnus and the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy. Obscuring interstellar dust clouds appear in silhouette while reddish hydrogen emission nebulae, […]

PM Showers today! With a high of 22C and a low of 22C. 69 Humidity. 13 C currently. 6 Km/h Wind from Southwest.

NASA citizen science project, Jovian Vortex Hunter, seeks your help spotting vortices – spiral wind patterns – and other on Jupiter. via NASA https://ift.tt/Voidv8S

“The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.” – Jerzy Kosinski