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dlgoff · May 4, 2021

morrobay said:

A Thai seaside town without tourists.

This is really sad.

Jarvis323 · May 6, 2021

A branch broke off my ~~Azaleas~~ Saint John's Wart? now it's blooming in a vas.

Green leafy shrub with narrow oval leaves and small yellow flower buds at branch tips, growing over dry brown leaf litter on bare soil.

Leafy branch with narrow green leaves and a single bright yellow five-petaled flower with prominent stamens, standing in a glass vase on a shelf in front of a whiteboard.

Yellow five-petalled flower with many long yellow stamens, beside green oval leaves and two yellow-green flower buds on a stem.

epenguin · May 6, 2021

Ah you have now corrected yourself - you had me worried. I thought this

Dense flowering azalea shrubs with many pink blooms; some flowers have white edges, and green leaves are visible among them.

on our terrace, was an Azalea.

Well perhaps I should correct that too. Actually I thought the one behind was an Azalea. I thought the one in front was a Fuchsia. So I asked my wife and she told me yours was not an Azalea and the one in the picture is. Actually that both are. B...but, I asked, I thought,... I thought you'd told me that one in front was a Fuchsia!? No, she explained, it's the colour that is Fuchsia!

This could almost go in the Today I Learned thread. But it's here. There I will put something I'm going to learn about Bougainvilleas that not a lot of people know in a few days.

Point Conception · May 6, 2021

Narrow concrete path between a red wooden building on the left and a white-walled house on the right, with colourful coleus plants along the left and the sea visible at the end under a blue sky.

Keith_McClary · May 14, 2021

DennisN said:

Jupiter ... lamp

I want infrared, but it does not seem to be available yet.

False-colour infrared image of Jupiter in orange and yellow tones, with bright bands of turbulent cloud, dark belts, and the dark oval of the Great Red Spot visible in the lower centre.

Jupiter in infrared by the Gemini Observatory, showing warmer areas as brighter and cooler darker. Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, M.H. Wong (UC Berkeley) et al. Acknowledgments: M. Zamani via BadAstronomy

DennisN · May 15, 2021

A rainbow photographed a couple of days ago.
Some say there is gold buried underground at the end of rainbows.
In this case there is a house and some construction cranes instead.
Maybe the gold is stored in the house, and will be put underground later.

Partial rainbow arcing down over a city skyline under dark storm clouds, its base landing behind a lit white building and several construction cranes.

dlgoff · May 16, 2021

I made this little frog pond:

Photo of a backyard pond dug into grass, its excavated sides lined with black pond liner partly filled with dark water, with wooded trees behind.

jtbell · May 17, 2021

jtbell said:

Part of the Greenville [South Carolina] Symphony Orchestra prepares for a concert last Sunday. This was our second excursion for a concert since the pandemic began last year; the first one was the previous Sunday.

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jtbell said:

Their usual venue is a large concert hall. This concert was at a church instead [...]

And here's their usual venue, warming up for yesterday's concert. Still a reduced-size ensemble, and a widely-spaced audience.

View from the audience of a concert hall with a small orchestra of string and wind players seated on a stage with wooden acoustic panels, and rows of empty seats and balcony boxes in the foreground.

DennisN · May 19, 2021

Another rainbow photographed today.

A rainbow arcing through a hazy golden sky between two dark silhouetted trees, with a building partly visible at the bottom.

DennisN · May 20, 2021

I seem to currently be followed by rainbows...

This morning I saw a giant, very bright rainbow (partly double), and I am pretty sure I spotted a so-called supernumary rainbow inside the primary bow.

I quickly fetched the camera and took several photos which I will stitch together into a large wide angle photo.
I'll post some photos later in this thread.

DennisN · May 21, 2021

DennisN said:

I'll post some photos later in this thread.

Here is the double rainbow this morning (enhanced wide angle photo):

Wide-angle photo of a single bright rainbow arcing over city rooftops against a blue evening sky, with a church tower and cranes on the horizon.

Here is an enhanced photo with labels which shows at least one supernumary rainbow inside the main bow:
(I think I can see a hint of even a second supernumary bow inside the first one)

Photo of a rainbow over a rooftop with a church tower, labelled main rainbow, secondary rainbow and supernumerary rainbows inside the main bow.

Edit: Here's another version of the first photo with more enhanced colors:

Wide-angle photo of a double rainbow arcing over city rooftops at dusk, with a church spire and construction cranes visible below.

rsk · May 21, 2021

Great photos, thanks.

We saw a rainbow a couple of evenings ago and it seemed to have a trace of red just inside the main rainbow. It didn't look like a secondary rainbow so I'm glad to see it named here as supernumary, I feel ignorant that I hadn't heard of that before but will read about it now.

DennisN · May 21, 2021

rsk said:

It didn't look like a secondary rainbow so I'm glad to see it named here as supernumary, I feel ignorant that I hadn't heard of that before but will read about it now.

I did not know what it was called (or had forgotten about it) until I looked it up.

DrClaude · May 21, 2021

DennisN said:

I did not know what it was called (or had forgotten about it) until I looked it up.

And don't forget Alexander's dark band!

Keith_McClary · May 21, 2021

DrClaude said:

And don't forget Alexander's dark band!

Album cover reading "Alexander's Dark Band presents: Music to Stand By the Fireplace to", showing five people in a living room around a fireplace, with one man holding a sheet of music.

https://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2008-06-13/634951/

rsk · May 21, 2021

DrClaude said:

And don't forget Alexander's dark band!

So the bit in between really is darker?! I imagined that to be an optical illusion and down to the contrast with the bright rainbow part.

DennisN · Jun 1, 2021

Sunset yesterday:

Sunset over a flat, wet beach at low tide, the sun low on the horizon under orange and gold clouds, with the sun reflected in shallow water and a bird flying at upper left.

Just after sunset:

Panoramic photo of a sunset over calm water, with orange and yellow light glowing behind streaked clouds and reflected on wet sand; piers appear in silhouette on the left and right.

Wide view of a sunset over a calm sea at low tide, with orange and purple clouds reflected in the wet sand and shallow water.

(the difference in colors between the photos is because I used different lenses: Canon FD 50mm in photo 1 and 3, and Sony 16-50mm in photo 2. The Canon lens produces warmer colors than the Sony lens.)

Point Conception · Jun 1, 2021

On the Southern point of Pattaya bay. No prizes for guessing what Russian "organization" has this place.

Multi-storey modern building with glass balcony railings and a wide blue-tarpaulin-covered staircase leading down from a stone-walled terrace to a sandy beach with rocks.

Weathered rusty sign hanging from a chain across a blue-tiled pool, with a circle containing a pool symbol and the Russian text Не входить!

Sandy beach strewn with rocks and debris beside a crumbling concrete seawall and a broken concrete slab, with a wooden-shuttered building and palm trees on the left and high-rise hotels across the bay.

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Point Conception · Jun 7, 2021

Jomtien beach. Not that much to do in the water here for a native Californian , but the long view is always nice. Russians and Scandinavians are content with it however. Water about 30 C

Photo of a sandy beach seen past palm fronds, with turquoise sea, small waves breaking on shore, and a distant island on the horizon under a pale sky.

Point Conception · Jun 8, 2021

And the sunset and sunrise

Sunset over a beach seen from a balcony, with palm trees bending in the wind, a 7-Eleven sign, a can of beer on a table and a person holding a glass.

Coastal view of a calm, greenish-brown sea with a sandy shoreline in the foreground, a distant dark hill range under a hazy grey sky, and green tropical foliage at the right edge.

rsk · Jun 9, 2021

A single red poppy growing from a white pipe set into a grey concrete block wall, with its stem and small green leaves rising above the pipe opening.

DennisN · Jun 9, 2021

rsk said:

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Did you take it yourself?

epenguin · Jun 9, 2021

rsk said:

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That calls for a carefully chosen title – nothing too obvious though.

rsk · Jun 9, 2021

DennisN said:

Did you take it yourself?

Yes!

rsk · Jun 9, 2021

The red poppy was taken in Córdoba (ES) in April.

2400 km and 6 or 7 weeks later, here is a Welsh poppy (so I'm told, don't know why it's called that) performing the same feat. Northumberland, UK

A tall yellow poppy flower growing out of a gap in a brick wall, with green leaves and trailing ivy-like plants around it.

DennisN · Jun 9, 2021

rsk said:

Yes!

Very cool! It's very eye-catching. And it also makes you think (well, at least me).
Which makes it a very good photo, in my opinion.

dlgoff · Jun 10, 2021

DennisN said:

I started with buying a small Moon lamp, and I liked it so much I started looking for planet lamps too.
I gave away my small Moon lamp to my mother, and bought a bigger one for myself. I really like the Moon and Mars lamp in particular, because they are quite realistic looking (more than what is shown in the photos below).

Here are my lamps (I can change them to quite many different colors with remote controls):

The Moon
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Mars
(I think it looks a bit weird for some reason on this photo. It looks better in reality.)
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Jupiter
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Various Moon and planet lamps are available on Amazon e.g. here.

I've made a display of mine, thanks to you:

Home office corner with wood-paneled walls, a desktop computer monitor and tower, and hanging round globe-shaped lamps of different colours. A toy space shuttle and a toy helicopter hang from the ceiling, with framed photos and clocks on the wall.

Cluttered home office corner with wood-panelled walls, a desktop computer monitor, a tower PC, a desk phone, a printer, and hanging spherical lamps, a toy helicopter and a model airplane from the ceiling, and red lanterns on a shelf.

I've rearranged the planets and moon. Here's my current arrangement (notice the new airplane in the upper left corner of the pic):

Cluttered home office with wood-paneled walls, a red curtain and a desk holding a monitor, keyboard, phone and printer. Hanging from the ceiling are white and green globe lights, a model space shuttle, a model helicopter and a model airplane, and wall clocks and framed photos are mounted on the paneling.

rsk · Jun 10, 2021

dlgoff said:

I've made a display of mine, thanks to you:

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Oh wow!

I have a "moon in my room" wall light and have given them as presents to pretty much every newborn I've known for the last 5 or 6 years (that isn't as many newborns as it might sound).

Keith_McClary · Jun 11, 2021

Afghanistan peace negotiations.

Photo of a large U-shaped conference table with white draping, where men in traditional robes and turbans sit facing a room with an ornate patterned carpet and gold-trimmed wall panels.

(Not my photo.)

Point Conception · Jun 13, 2021

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