My Wordless Sunday in 2010 - #17

Her last flight to Space

The Atlantis Shuttle launch

The mission had no problems with the weather. The launch was initiated yesterday around Kennedy Space Center at 2:28 PM. The countdown contained no serious technical issues.

Atlantis 

will blast into the stratosphere to deliver big spare parts and a load of supplies to the International Space Station

Can you see that little white dot? That's the Shuttle Atlantis only some minutes after the launch!

Atlantis is scheduled to arrive at the International Space Station in approximately two days after launch.

Some impressions captured of all that smog and exhaust - a dramatic picture, 

but, is this environmental friendly????

A close up of all that smog...

It was hard to get a parking spot anywhere closer, there were people, people - everywhere! 

But I liked the industrial background to this event in high technology.

American Space Science and the American Flag - how more patriotic can I be?

And this as a (legal!) immigrant....*smile*....

Hi my friends,

So much to the launch of the Space Shuttle yesterday. It was her last flight up there. There will be more launches this year but with another ship and for other purposes. I have enjoyed this maybe 10 minutes of  excitement and of capturing these impressive moments. 

The search for a parking was more than an hour. But in the end it was worth it!

Thank you for all your wonderful comments to my post yesterday.

Stay tuned, come back tomorrow to my Sunday Wordless Special.

ENJOY!

Susanne

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It looks like rain...

It looks like rain...

Hi my friends,

Thanks for all your comments to my posting two days ago, very much appreciated.

Today is the Launch of the Space Shuttle this early afternoon. If I get some acceptable shots I'll show it to you - if not, you have to bear with my flower snaps or something else...LOL...

Have a nice day!

Susanne

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There is nothing...

 

There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.

~Basho~

Hi my friends,

ZEN proverbs and flowers are the ideal match - Enjoy!

Thanks again for all the comments.

Susanne

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Let your mind wander...

Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views-then the world will be governed....

~ZEN proverb from Chuang-Tzu~

Hi my friends,

Today another ZEN quote and a photo out of my "Zen Photography Collection". 

Thank you for all the comments from yesterday to my orange moon - it looks almost like an (Florida) Orange and not like the moon, right? :) I got one comment from one of my most loyal visitors Joan. Thanks again Joan, good observed and you made me smile for sure with this comment.

I wish you all a wonderful day! Let your mind wander...

Susanne

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The true time of a full moon...

Florida Full Moon

Today we learn a little bit about the "Full Moon"

A full moon is often thought of as an event of a full night's duration. This is somewhat misleading, as the Moon seen from Earth is continuously becoming larger or smaller (though much too slowly to notice with the naked eye). Its absolute maximum size occurs at the moment expansion has stopped, and when graphed, its tangent slope is zero. For any given location, about half of these absolute maximum full moons will be potentially visible, as the other half occur during the day, when the full moon is below the horizon. Many almanacs list full moons not just by date, but by their exact time as well, usually in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)). Typical monthly calendars that include phases of the moon may be off by one day if intended for use in a different time zone.
The date and approximate time of a specific full moon (assuming a circular orbit) can be calculated from the following equation:

where d is the number of days since 1 January 2000 00:00:00 in the Terrestrial Time scale used in astronomical ephemerides; for Universal Time (UT) add the following approximate correction to d:

days

where N is the number of full moons since the first full moon of 2000. The true time of a full moon may differ from this approximation by up to about 14.5 hours as a result of the non-circularity of the moon's orbit.
The age and apparent size of the full moon vary in a cycle of just under 14 synodic months, which has been referred to as a full moon cycle.

Hi my friends,

I've never thought that math can be that complicated! 

I hope you got it.... I don't....*smile*.... The world of Photography is still closer to me than all those mathematical codes and formulas in Astronomy :)

Thanks for all your kind compliments yesterday. I hope all your mothers out there had a fantastic day and you got all spoiled like crazy. I'm still waiting for the phone calls from my kids.... but that's another story!

I've captured this full moon recently and gave him some color too... That's the artist freedom to do what you like with your work, right? Just be creative!

Have a wonderful day!

Susanne

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Are YOU a Mother?

Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.  

~T. DeWitt Talmage~