Photography by JulioC: 11/01/2007

Thursday, November 29, 2007

rubberized

rubberized, originally uploaded by julioc. © 2007 All rights reserved by JulioC.

Aperture: f/2.8
Exposure: 1/13 sec.

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

window-eyes' doll

window-eyes' doll, originally uploaded by julioc. © 2007 All rights reserved by JulioC.

Aperture: f/2.8
Exposure: 1/60 sec.

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

abyss in the sky

abyss in the sky, originally uploaded by julioc. © 2007 All rights reserved by JulioC.

Aperture: f/8
Exposure: 1/1300 sec.

Monday, November 26, 2007

chess-mobile

chess-mobile, originally uploaded by julioc. © 2007 All rights reserved by JulioC.

Aperture: f/4
Exposure: 1/200 sec.

Friday, November 23, 2007

Old Almond Tree

Old Almond Tree, originally uploaded by julioc. ©2006 All rights reserved by JulioC

Aperture: f/5.2
Exposure: 1/500 sec.

Thursday, November 22, 2007

Pleasant meal on a nice and shady place

Aperture: f/4
Exposure: 1/80 sec.

Prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus)
The Lagos Zoo (Algarve - Portugal) has some units of this american specie. He belongs to the squirrels family.

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Going down

One of my daily sights - aircraft landings at the Faro's international airport

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

The Bubble Space Telescope's near-infrared vision is hot on the trail of a possible planetary companion to a relatively bright young yellow dwarf located 721 light-years away in the southern constellation H-Ome. Astronomers at the Southern Observatory's Very Enormous Telescope (VET) detected the planet candidate in September 2007 with Lumix observations. The astronomers spotted a faint companion object to the yellow dwarf, called K-Itche-N T-Ool. They suspect the companion is a planet because it is blue and cooler than the yellow dwarf. Because a planet beyond our solar system has never been imaged directly, this remarkable observation required Bubble's unique abilities to perform follow-up observations to test and validate if the object is indeed a planet. Based on the VET and Bubble observations, astronomers are 99,99 percent sure that the companion is orbiting the yellow dwarf.