George_P

Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA

Woodford County, Kentucky, USA

Out of Service...


Young's High Bridge, a single track cantilever bridge. Built in 1889, it was last used in 1983.
It spans the Kentucky River, one end in Anderson County, the other end in Woodford County, Kentucky, USA.

Ohio River, Kentucky - Indiana, USA

Ohio River, Indiana - Kentucky, USA

Oldham County, Kentucky, USA

Golden Time -3- 50th Anniversary


Yup, 2023 - 1973 = 50.
3/3

Golden Time -2- 50th Anniversary

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Golden Time -1- 50th Anniversary


Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA
1/3

3275 -3- A Long Train Running ...


3/4.

Summer Swan...
Starting in late summer, say late August or early September, the Cygnus Constellation is directly overhead ("Just Look Up") for folks in the Northern Hemisphere. As is usually the case with constellations, there are differing cultural views and fanciful tales about things going on in the skies.


https://www.space.com/cygnus-constellation.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygnus_(constellation)
https://www.constellation-guide.com/constellation-list/cygnus-constellation/
edit: This is the equivalent of 19 minutes of exposure.

The Milky Way as viewed looking south in Peru.

Messier and Messier and Messier...
Smoke from wildfires has cleared some more. Locally, it is getting late in the season for seeing these nebulas, they are dropping closer and closer to the horizon this time of year, but they should be visible for a while yet, especially in the more southern latitudes.



This is the equivalent of just under 25 minutes of exposure.
The Lagoon Nebula, Messier Object M8: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/messier-8-the-lagoon-nebula
The Trifid Nebula, Messier Object M20: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/messier-20-the-trifid-nebula
Webb's Cross Star Cluster, Messier Object M21: https://www.messier-objects.com/messier-21/
 
 
 

Guiding Lights...


This is the equivalent of a 40 second exposure.
Knowing where you are while traveling in the Northern Hemisphere these days is fairly easy if you have the comforts modern technology offers. GPS based maps rendered in nice colors on tablets and phones or standalone devices give you your location almost instantaneously.
It used to be though, one used a compass based map (or some other vague directions) and at night, the North Star. But if you were traveling in southern directions, lining the North Star with your route could be troublesome. Not to worry, there is a star called Fomalhaut ("The Lonely Star") that does the job almost as well as Polaris (the North Star) does.
1) Neptune: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/neptune/overview/
2) Saturn: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/saturn/overview/
3) Fomalhaut: https://earthsky.org/brightest-stars/solitary-fomalhaut-guards-the-southern-sky/

Milky Way in July...

Smoke from various wildfires has cleared out a bit. Earth's trek around the Sun (an ellipse) has tilted a bit from earlier, making the Milky Way seem like it rises vertically, a disc in the night sky. This is equivalent to 2 and 1/2 minutes exposure time.

Full Moon Fever! It is that time again... June's full moon is strawberry flavored.

https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/moon/strawberry.html
July's full moon is perigee-syzygy, a supermoon.

Scorpius with some Milk(y Way) on the side...

This image is also the equivalent of just over 15 minutes exposure. A lot of passing clouds got into this one, but they opened up for the constellation. More Antares info:
https://skyandtelescope.org/observing/meet-antares-the-star-that-is-not-mars/
https://www.space.com/21905-antares.html
 

Milky Way in May...

This is equivalent to a just-a-touch-over 15 minutes exposure.
Milky Way season is underway, and locally, the Milky Way is starting to rotate from landscape mode to portrait mode (it should be fully rotated to vertical in about a month, give or take a few days). On the right side, in this image, the Scorpius Constellation is rising. Antares is the big yellow-red star in Scorpius.
https://earthsky.org/constellations/scorpius-heres-your-constellation/
https://www.constellation-guide.com/constellation-list/scorpius-constellation/
I hope to be able to post a version that is more centered on the constellation.

Just playing around with star trails.  XT5, 12mm Samyang, stacked about an hour of 40 second exposures.  A campfire illuminated the canopy.

Grasshopper (Caelifera)

Praying Mantis (Mantodea)

Steam Engine Driver

Railway Museum Dieringhausen, Germany

Tinnitus?

Hey John,  you can assign it to fn2, I just did.  First you have to set a custom button setting.  Go to the IQ menu, scroll to Edit/Save Custom Setting, select the number you want, C1, C2, whatever, then pick MF, focus assist Off.  Then go back to the Custom Button menu, hold down Disp/Back until it comes up.  You can now assign your custom setting to button Fn2.  It works perfectly as a MF Focus Peak on/off button and reacts immediately.  Thanks for bringing this up, it is nice to have and I didn't think about it before.