“Rediscovering Pluto”

Forsythia flower indoors. Taken with GorillaPod on the kitchen table.

The title? From http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/pluto-discovered: Using calculations from Percival Powell and W.H. Pickering as a guide, Clyde W. Tombaugh discovered Pluto in February, 1930 by use of a new astronomic technique of photographic plates combined with a blink microscope (or “blink comparator”). See http://www.discoveryofpluto.com/blink.html

Well I don't have a blink comparator, but I did toggle back-and-forth between this image and the succeeding image to discover exactly which "spots" in my images are on e-v-e-r-y blinkin' image (pun intentional). In other words, there are spots somewhere inside the lens or camera. Sigh. I bought some Dust-Off in the hope that the spots are from dust, but my fear is that with all my visits to the campus greenhouse — i.e., moving in-and-out of wildly-different temperature and humidity conditions — the spots are water spots from condensation. Sigh again. Glad I repaired my P&S…

Genus page at PhytoImages, http://phytoimages.siu.edu/cgi-bin/dol/dol_terminal.pl?taxon_name=Forsythia&rank=genus

1 year ago (“Turkey vulture”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2015-03-22
2 years ago (“Crocuses, in failing light”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2014-03-22
3 years ago (“Nascency”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2013-03-22
4 years ago (“Don’t tread on me!”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2012-03-22
5 years ago (“Ahhh — the colors of springtime!”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2011-03-22

[ IMG_9442S12x8Cstm :: f/25 :: 2½" :: ISO-800 :: 60mm :: tripod ]

[Jane Anderson]

So beautiful and close! I thought you might enjoy this art piece from Las Cruces, NM: http://365project.org/cejaanderson/365/2014-10-30