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Starry Time Podcast<p>WE ARE BACK FOR SEASON 3: INTO THE WILD!</p><p>Join us this week for a Cosmic Background :_stars: double feature :_stars: on the <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>astronomy</span></a> of the <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/constellations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>constellations</span></a> Ursa Major &amp; Ursa Minor</p><p>Little Bear 🧸 : <a href="https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/ursa-minor-cosmic-background/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/</span><span class="invisible">e/ursa-minor-cosmic-background/</span></a></p><p>Big Bear🐻 : <a href="https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/ursa-major-cosmic-background/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/</span><span class="invisible">e/ursa-major-cosmic-background/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AstroDon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AstroDon</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Astronomy</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/UrsaMajor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UrsaMajor</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/UrsaMinor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UrsaMinor</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/BigDipper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigDipper</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/LittleDipper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LittleDipper</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/StarLore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StarLore</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Stars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Stars</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Constellation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Constellation</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/podcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>podcast</span></a></p>
TomKrajci 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️<p>Evening constellation shot looking north, bracketed by trees.</p><p>Two asterisms are visible: the Big Dipper and the Little Dipper...which are part of the constellations Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterism_(astronomy)" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterism</span><span class="invisible">_(astronomy)</span></a></p><p>I only wanted to capture a small number of stars so that the asterism patterns would not be lost in the clutter. Shooting in twilight makes fainter stars less detectable.</p><p>To make the stars more visible, especially on smaller screens (cell phones), I did the following image processing:</p><p>- blur (Gaussian)<br>- dilate filter<br>- blur<br>- dilate<br>- blur</p><p>The first blur operation was to smooth out the high spatial frequency noise.</p><p>Dilate filter expands the size of stars, but also makes them more square instead of round...so...</p><p>...you need another blur operation after every dilate operation.</p><p>Enjoy!</p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Constellation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Constellation</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Asterism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Asterism</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Photography</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ImageProcessing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ImageProcessing</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/BigDipper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigDipper</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/LittleDipper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LittleDipper</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/UrsaMajor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UrsaMajor</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/UrsaMinor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UrsaMinor</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Astronomy</span></a></p>
Zephyr 🍂<p>Another wand from last night's shift at the woodburner! This one has renditions of the Big and Little Dipper (not bad if I do say so myself). The runes are meant to say "True North," which is what the Dippers can help to find.</p><p>Polaris, the current North Star, can be found in the Little Dipper's handle.</p><p><a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/wandmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wandmaking</span></a> <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/BigDipper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigDipper</span></a> <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/LittleDipper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LittleDipper</span></a> <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/astrology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>astrology</span></a> <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>astronomy</span></a> <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/constellations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>constellations</span></a> <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/woodburning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>woodburning</span></a> <a href="https://pagan.plus/tags/pyrography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pyrography</span></a></p>
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