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stephbgWelcome back to the pretty rock of the day. I hope to post here regularly once again. Today's pretty rock is an unpolished slap of marcasite fragments suspended in agate, from Nipomo in California.
Let's start with an exploding planet:
Because the slab is unpolished I'd planned to wet it to take photos, but it turns out it's also hydrophobic. I might capture a video of the retreating water one day, but it's not really the look I'm after. Experiments with oil were also disappointing, so I solved the problem by photographing it underwater.
I tend to see space images everywhere I look, so to me this looks like a nebula:
Not *very* underwater, and somewhat against the microscope's spec, but it seems to have worked. (The clever and/or electrical bits of the microscope are protected by a plastic collar, and this was submerged just a few mm deep.)
I'll allow that this one might look like a flaming projectile caught in the act of shattering something:
To be honest this last one looks to me like a giant space worm throwing up after a long night:
In space it *is* always night after all. That's a lot of pints and kebabs right there.
I hope you like :-)
Let's start with an exploding planet:
Because the slab is unpolished I'd planned to wet it to take photos, but it turns out it's also hydrophobic. I might capture a video of the retreating water one day, but it's not really the look I'm after. Experiments with oil were also disappointing, so I solved the problem by photographing it underwater.
I tend to see space images everywhere I look, so to me this looks like a nebula:
Not *very* underwater, and somewhat against the microscope's spec, but it seems to have worked. (The clever and/or electrical bits of the microscope are protected by a plastic collar, and this was submerged just a few mm deep.)
I'll allow that this one might look like a flaming projectile caught in the act of shattering something:
To be honest this last one looks to me like a giant space worm throwing up after a long night:
In space it *is* always night after all. That's a lot of pints and kebabs right there.
I hope you like :-)
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Date: 2012-01-30 02:53 pm (UTC)Aargh. Make that 4 hours. ...now 5 hours. I'm going to have to abort.