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Mystic Mountain - Huge stunning fotoflōt pro display - $195 (Palatine)
condition:
new
make / manufacturer:
fotoflōt
model name / number:
FFP_2020_16M
size / dimensions:
20in wide x 20in tall
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Glazing surface: 1/16in matte/non-glare
Float distance from wall: 3/4in
Wall mount hardware: Z-bar cleat
Price includes all wall mount hardware.
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UPS Ground shipment available to domestic addresses for a small extra charge.
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Hubble Captures View of Mystic Mountain
This craggy fantasy mountaintop enshrouded by wispy clouds looks like a bizarre landscape from Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, which is even more dramatic than fiction, captures the chaotic activity atop a pillar of gas and dust, three light-years tall, which is being eaten away by the brilliant light from nearby bright stars.
The pillar is also being assaulted from within, as infant stars buried inside it fire off jets of gas that can be seen streaming from towering peaks. This turbulent cosmic pinnacle lies within a tempestuous stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula, located 7500 light-years away in the southern constellation of Carina.
Scorching radiation and fast winds (streams of charged particles) from super-hot newborn stars in the nebula are shaping and compressing the pillar, causing new stars to form within it. Streamers of hot ionised gas can be seen flowing off the ridges of the structure, and wispy veils of gas and dust, illuminated by starlight, float around its towering peaks.
The denser parts of the pillar are resisting being eroded by radiation. Nestled inside this dense mountain are fledgling stars.
Long streamers of gas can be seen shooting in opposite directions from the pedestal at the top of the image. Another pair of jets is visible at another peak near the centre of the image. These jets, (known as HH 901 and HH 902, respectively), are signposts for new star birth and are launched by swirling gas and dust discs around the young stars, which allow material to slowly accrete onto the stellar surfaces.
The image celebrates the 20th anniversary of Hubble's launch and deployment into an orbit around the Earth. Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 observed the pillar on 1-2 February 2010. The colours in this composite image correspond to the glow of oxygen (blue), hydrogen and nitrogen (green), and sulphur (red).
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We are a very high quality custom printing service and create stunning viewing experiences from our customers’ digital photography and art by printing them on our magnetic float-mounted fotoflōt classic or large format fotoflōt pro panels.
As such we generally do not sell panels with images that we select, but we have a few pieces with curated stunning Space and Earth satellite images.
The fotoflōt pro construction technique has been used in Europe for decades and becomes more popular in photo galleries, museums, and commercial and private decor in the US. It is often referred to as "C-print mounted to plexiglass" and the most expensive large-format photographs have been constructed this way, such as 99 Cent II Diptychon, Chicago Board of Trade, or Shanghai by German photographer Andreas Gursky.
fotoflōt pro panels start as traditional silver-halide photo prints that are permanently "sandwiched" between a layer of clear acrylic glazing in the front and a sheet of stabilizer in the back. Panels need no frame or mat so that the image goes all the way to the (invisible) edge.
This fotoflōt pro panel comes with a "float mount box" attached to the back for a dramatic wall mounted floating display and has been constructed as follows:
* An extremely high resolution image has been printed on the glossy version of Fuji Crystal Archive Professional C Type photo paper. The silver-halide continuous tone photo print was made on a 50in wide Durst Lambda printer.
* Fuji Crystal Archive Professional C type paper is one of the most resilient and fade-resistant photo papers available. It has been tested by Wilhelm Imaging Research, the industry’s “gold standard” for testing of photo paper durability. Their tests show that it can be exposed to normal interior lighting and indirect sunlight for decades without perceptible fading from either light or air pollution. The panels shouldn't be displayed where they will receive direct sunlight for extended periods of time, as no display method can prevent fading under those conditions.
* The print was permanently "sandwiched" between a layer of clear acrylic glazing and a sheet of white 3mm Dibond as a stabilizer in the back.
* We have selected the compound aluminum Dibond backing for its superior dimensional stability across a wide temperature range.