Masil-Astro-Imaging is the home for astro-photos taken by Sheldon Faworski & Sean Walker.
Sean works in Massachusetts and I live in Illinois, hence the name "MASIL". We collaborate
on many of the images that are posted on this site.

SDSS images of selected RC3 galaxies

If you have astronomical imaging of the sky with celestial coordinates you do not know—or do not trust—then Astrometry.net is for you. Input an image and we'll give you back astrometric calibration meta-data, plus lists of known objects falling inside the field of view.

A free and open Icon collection. Over 10,000 Unique Icons. Free for anyone to use on you computer, website or any other project. The library is not a theme. Its a centralized source for icons to cover all your needs. The goal is to cover all common apps, operating systems, mimetypes, devices, and country flags.

The Virtual Astronomy Multimedia ProjecThe Virtual Astronomy Multimedia Project (VAMP) will enable access to, and vastly multiply the use of, astronomy image resources. VAMP will enable innovative future exploitation of all kinds of outreach media by systematically linking resource archives worldwide.t (VAMP) will enable access to, and vastly multiply the use of, astronomy image resources. VAMP will enable innovative future exploitation of all kinds of outreach media by systematically linking resource archives worldwide.

Montage is a toolkit for assembling Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) images into custom mosaics.

Tantalizing, seductive, sly. A young woman full of thought with a strong will, searching eyes, complex emotions.. Reaching out, trying to touch the future, fingers grasping fantasies, dreams. A release from reality. When the air is crisp and a special light covers the city like a filter of colors and shadows. Her silhouette in the dark like a ghost but still, pulse beating – body shivering, so real yet so untouchable. This is Lolita in Nabakovs novel “Lolita”. The light of his fire, the fire of his loins. This is also the concept of this blog. Lolita is a visual inspiration-bank, full of fantasies, dreams – a filter of colors and shadows, a silhouette in the dark. Hopefully making your pulse beat, body shiver.. The hand-picked images put together are also the basis of the story about a young Lolita, living in Stockholm, Sweden – inviting you to take a walk with her, in silence..

Nice icons and wallpapers for the discerning individual, collected and curated.

Flickriver - view images as a 'river of photos' and more...

If you did it from a "light polluted" city, you may have seen a greyish sky and a handful of stars.

If you did it from a suburban or country-side area, you probably saw many more stars and perhaps even a fair trace of our Milky Way.

The sky however is packed with structures and objects that go well beyond what our eyes can see.
Care to join me to discover all the colors the deep sky can offer?

I've been doing astrophotography since December 2007 so my work is still somehow in its infancy. Click on a section to see some of my pictures, or follow the links on the top-left to learn a bit more about me.

forgotten, overlooked, ancient sights in New York City

forgotten, overlooked, ancient sights in New York City

NASA Images, a service of Internet Archive, offers public access to NASA's images, videos and audio collections. NASA Images is constantly growing with the addition of current media from NASA as well as newly digitized media from the archives of the NASA

LastGraph uses data from Last.fm to generate custom wavegraphs of your music listening history.