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The Galaxy, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882 Torrent of light and river of the air, Along whose bed the glimmering stars are seen Like gold and silver sands in some ravine Where mountain streams have left their channels bare ! The Spaniard sees in thee the pathway, where His patron saint descended in the sheen Of his celestial armor on serene And quiet nights, when all the heavens were fair. Not this I see, nor yet the ancient fable Of Phaeton's wild course, that scorched the skies Where'er the hoofs of his hot coursers trod ; But the white drift of worlds o'er chasms of sable, The star dust, that is whirled aloft and flies From the invisible chariot-wheels of God.

Αστρονομικά εικονίδια, Stiven. 2008

Μουσική, Γεωμετρία, Αριθμητική, Αστρονομία (λεπτομέρεια), Luca Cambiaso (1527 - 1585) Ελαιογραφία σε ξύλο, Galerie Canesso, Παρίσι

Στον ουρανό δεν υπάρχει επάνω και κάτω.

Richardsville Elementary 4th grade, Τελικό αποτέλεσμα

Atlas and the Hesperides, John Singer Sargent, 1922-24

SN 1572; Tycho’s Supernova Remnant, Alizey Khan, 2011 Ακρυλικό σε καμβά

NGC 7635; Bubble Nebula, Alizey Khan, 2011 Ακρυλικό σε καμβά

Black Widow Pulsar, Alizey Khan, 2011 Ακρυλικό σε καμβά

Crab Nebula, Alizey Khan, 2012 Ακρυλικό σε καμβά

Στις περισσότερες εστιακές οι zoom έχουν στενότερο πεδίο από τους αντίστοιχους σταθερούς φακούς. Λόγου χάρη, όλοι οι Hyperions έχουν φαινομενικό πεδίο 68 μοιρών και ο zoom κυμαίνεται από 44 στα 24mm έως 68 (ίσως και λίγο παραπάνω) στα 8mm. Πρακτικά στις εστιακές 12-8 θυμίζει τους άλλους Hyperions ενώ οι μεγαλύτερες εστιακές (χαμηλές μεγεθύνσεις) χρησιμεύουν για πρακτικότητα κυρίως. Και αυτός, μαζί με τους Leica (που φθάνουν τις 80 μοίρες) έχουν τα μεγαλύτερα πεδία, οι κοινοί zoom δουλεύουν μεταξύ 40 και 60 και οι 21-7 ακόμη παρακάτω. Τώρα, δεν γνωρίζω αν έχεις άποψη για το τι σημαίνει φαινομενικό πεδίο. Για να καταλάβεις, τα στενά πεδία θυμίζουν την θέα μέσα από κλειδαρότρυπα ή καλαμάκι (υπερβάλω για λόγους παραδείγματος) ενώ τα μεγάλα πεδία την θέα μέσα από ένα παράθυρο (ή φινιστρίνι για την ακρίβεια). Πάντως πολλοί ξεκίνησαν με zoom (moi aussi), πολλοί συνεχίζουν με αυτό και πολλοί έχουν ένα στην τσάντα τους για διάφορες δουλειές, παρόλο που διαθέτουν αρκετούς ακριβούς φακούς.

Και οι Celestron/ Orion Shorty Plus είναι καλοί, όπως και οι Antares/ GTO Proxima (2")

Είχα και εγώ τον SW 21-7 και έχει στενότατο πεδίο. Ο TS πρέπει να είναι ο ίδιος. Σκέψου τους zoom σαν μία κλίμακα. Στη βάση βρίσκονται οι 21-7, ασχέτως μάρκας Παραπάνω οι περισσότεροι 24-8, σαν τον Celestron (και τους Televue, William Optics, Vixen κλπ) Ακόμη πιο πάνω ο Baader Hyperion Zoom 24-8 και ο William Optics/ Orion 22.5- 7.5 Ακόμη παραπάνω διάφοροι εξωτικοί, όπως Leica, Swarofski κλπ. Στις δύο ενδιάμεσες κατηγορίες προτείνω να κατευθυνθείς, αν είναι δυνατό στην τρίτη. Δες εδώ: http://www.astrovox.gr/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7308

Winter Stars, Larry Levis, 1946-1996 My father once broke a man's hand Over the exhaust pipe of a John Deere tractor. The man, Ruben Vasquez, wanted to kill his own father With a sharpened fruit knife, & he held The curved tip of it, lightly, between his first Two fingers, so it could slash Horizontally, & with surprising grace, Across a throat. It was like a glinting beak in a hand, And, for a moment, the light held still On those vines. When it was over, My father simply went in & ate lunch, & then, as always, Lay alone in the dark, listening to music. He never mentioned it. I never understood how anyone could risk his life, Then listen to Vivaldi. Sometimes, I go out into this yard at night, And stare through the wet branches of an oak In winter, & realize I am looking at the stars Again. A thin haze of them, shining And persisting. It used to make me feel lighter, looking up at them. In California, that light was closer. In a California no one will ever see again, My father is beginning to die. Something Inside him is slowly taking back Every word it ever gave him. Now, if we try to talk, I watch my father Search for a lost syllable as if it might Solve everything, & though he can't remember, now, The word for it, he is ashamed... If you think of the mind as a place continually Visited, a whole city placed behind The eyes, & shining, I can imagine, now, its end -- As when the lights go off, one by one, In a hotel at night, until at last All the travelers will be asleep, or until Even the thin glow from the lobby is a kind Of sleep; & while the woman behind the desk Is applying more lacquer to her nails, You can almost believe that the elevator, As it ascends, must open upon starlight. I stand out on the street, & do not go in. That was our agreement, at my birth. And for years I believed That what went unsaid between us became empty, And pure, like starlight, & that it persisted. I got it all wrong. I wound up believing in words the way a scientist Believes in carbon, after death. Tonight, I'm talking to you, father, although It is quiet here in the Midwest, where a small wind, The size of a wrist, wakes the cold again -- Which may be all that's left of you & me. When I left home at seventeen, I left for good. That pale haze of stars goes on & on, Like laughter that has found a final, silent shape On a black sky. It means everything It cannot say. Look, it's empty out there, & cold. Cold enough to reconcile Even a father, even a son.

Hublot Antikythera Calibre 2033-CH01 Limited Edition, Mathias Buttet, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq8YxXruRkw&feature=fvwrel Movement functions Hours, minutes Seconds via the tourbillon cage Flying tourbillon without ball bearing Manual winding View of dial Egyptian Calendar Calendar for the Panhellenic games Zodiac Aperture showing moon Lunar phases Aperture showing sun View of bridges Metonic cycle Saros cycle Callippic cycle Exeligmos cycle Main characteristics Dimensions Width 30.40 mm of shaped movement Length 38.00 mm Thickness 14.14 mm (overall dimensions) Time-setting stem (3 o'clock) Manual winding 2-position Time setting Number of jewels 69 Number of components 495 Hairspring Flat for extremely accurate setting Frequency 21,600 Vib/h (3 Hz) Power reserve Approximately 120 hours (5 days) Oscillator (made in-house) Balance with adjustment inertia-blocks Moment of inertia: 16mg/cm2 Lift angle: 53° Shock absorbers Shock absorption for main plate and balance bridge Main plate and bridges Brass, bevelled with drawn rims, and circular-grained recesses Coating: black ruthenium Dial showing cycles and calendar Circular-graining, 5N gold coating Gear train Circular-grained & bevelled wheels, coating: rhodium, rolled pinions Fasteners Polished and bevelled heads, rounded and polished ends Steel parts Satin-finished, bevelled, with drawn rims

Nebula Rising Pendant, Tammy Kohl

Sunshine Ring, Tammy Kohl

Star Cluster Pendant, Tammy Kohl

Radar Astronomy, Joseph Cornell, 1952- 1956 Μεικτά μέσα The Muriel Bultman Francis Collection

Starlight, Émile Vernon (1872-1919)

By Starlight, Amy Crook, 2011 Υδατογραφία και άλας σε χαρτί

Star Light Stock, *Sed-rah-Stock, 2009

Starlight, Philip Levine, 1991 My father stands in the warm evening on the porch of my first house. I am four years old and growing tired. I see his head among the stars, the glow of his cigarette, redder than the summer moon riding low over the old neighborhood. We are alone, and he asks me if I am happy. "Are you happy?" I cannot answer. I do not really understand the word, and the voice, my father's voice, is not his voice, but somehow thick and choked, a voice I have not heard before, but heard often since. He bends and passes a thumb beneath each of my eyes. The cigarette is gone, but I can smell the tiredness than hangs on his breath. He has found nothing, and he smiles and holds my head with both his hands. Then he lifts me to his shoulder, and now I too am among the stars, as tall as he. Are you happy? I say. He nods in answer, Yes ! oh yes ! oh yes ! And in that new voice he says nothing, holding my head tight against his head, his eyes clsoed up against the starlight, as though those tiny blinking eyes of light might find a tall, gaunt child holding his child against the promises of autumn, until the boy slept never to waken in that world again.

Πως μου διέφυγε; Όταν δεν μπορείς να κάνεις τίποτε για τις λάμπες, μπορείς να κάνεις κάτι για τα μάτια σου. Το φοβερό αστρογιλέκο ή ένα μαύρο ύφασμα "φωτογράφου" θα σε αποκόψει από τον σκληρά φωτισμένο σκοτεινό κόσμο και θα σε βοηθήσει να βυθιστείς στο φωτεινό σύμπαν του κοσμικού σκότους.

Γι' αυτούς τους λόγους οι αναστρέψιμες λύσεις είναι ενδεδειγμένες, αν και τα περιστατικά που αναφέρεις σχετίζονται με άλλους παράγοντες (κατάχρηση αλκοόλ, οικονομική εξαθλίωση, κοινωνιοπαθητικότητα και άλλα) και όχι με ένδεια φωτονίων. Το μπαράκι που καθόμουν πριν από λίγο, όπως και πολλά στο Αλεποχώρι, φώτιζε την θάλασσα απλώς και μόνο για να κάνει εφέ, όχι για να αποτρέψει τον βιασμό καμμιάς γόπας υποθέτω. Τελικά η καλύτερη λύση είναι να κάψεις βενζίνη και να πας μακρύτερα. Όσο για το σπίτι η χρήση πετασμάτων όπως του kookoo. Αλλά το παιδί μέσα μας επιτρέπεται να ονειρεύεται πως μπορεί να λύνει τα προβλήματα έτσι απλά, με μια σφεντόνα, όχι;