Posts Tagged ‘photography’
Those eyes!
December 6th, 2010
Closeups of comet Hartley 2
November 4th, 2010
EPOXI (the current mission for the already successful spacecraft Deep Impact) flew past comet Hartley 2 (103P/Hartley) at 4pm SA time today, and shortly afterwards began returning image data.
Deep Impact zoomed past the comet at over 43,000 km/h – and was around 700 km from the comet at closest approach.
Hartley 2 is a fascinating comet, approximately 2km long and 400m wide at the most narrow section, and streaming out jets of gas (it also jetted out huge amounts of cyanide gas in September).
- http://epoxi.umd.edu/
- http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/epoxi/
- Comet Hartley 2 Fires Out Poison Gas as NASA Probe Nears (space.com)
- Collage of the 5 images during the closest part of the flyby (closest approach of 700km).
More data will be released over the next few days and weeks by the teams involved.
This is indeed a great time to be alive and witness to space exploration.
Queen Mary II arrives in Durban Harbour
March 23rd, 2010
The RMS Queen Mary 2 is to date the largest ocean liner ever built (but no longer the world’s largest passenger ship, a record she held until 2006).She arrived in Durban harbour this morning around 07h30 SAT to much fanfare and local excitement, these photographs are from colleagues who watched the arrival from the harbour area (she was also easily visible from the Derivco building).
RMS Queen Mary II’s current status (added bonus – a webcam on the bridge, even if it’s low quality)
Twitter coverage from @MarcForrest and @tequiladiva
Also see Marc Forrest’s Flickr set.
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Tags: durban, harbour, Local, photography, southafrica, wow | 
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Kulula – flying 101. Brilliant.
January 22nd, 2010
Kulula‘s paint work for their new Boeing 737-86N (January 2010).
Another image – a great closeup of the detail on the left tail section.
Not your average boring airline.
All images matching a search for Kulula on jetphotos.net.
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Lightning Splash
July 10th, 2009
“On May 26th, photographers Francis Schaefers and Daniel Burger were chasing a thunderstorm along a beach in Vlissingen, the Netherlands, when “the storm turned around and came a little too close for comfort,” says Schaefers. “We were able to photograph lightning hitting the water just 40 meters away.””
Pics taken with a Canon 400D.
http://www.astroengine.com/?p=5631
and
http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=01&month=06&year=2009
