Long live Comet ISON, Comet ISON is dead. I watched NASA’s live webcast of their various imagers pointed at the sun for Comet ISON’s perihelion, including the real-time data from the SDO, or Solar Dynamics […]
Commonly known around the Front Range area as a ‘mountain wave’, ACSL clouds are created when relatively fast-moving air that is relatively moist hits a topographic feature, typically mountains. The air is deflected upward, and […]
I spent this morning compiling 10 minutes worth of image captures of Comet ISON on 11/16/13 into a time-lapse video that reveals some interesting things in the tail of the comet. 135 images spanning from […]
This morning’s forecast was again for several levels of high clouds, but at 4:33 AM my brain went off and I had to get up and look outside. One narrow roller of cirrocumulus was making […]
So in the last 24 hours, Comet ISON (C/2012 S1) has brightened considerably, becoming nearly naked-eye visible at a magnitude <6.0 (meaning in a dark-sky environment, one could see the coma unaided). I awoke at […]
Every star we see in the night sky is lies within our own Milky Way Galaxy. Only a very few other local group galaxies are visible with the naked eye on a very dark night, […]
This morning’s dawn gave rise to a crescent moon that floated in and out of cloud banks, giving me an opportunity to continue to refine a process I’ve envisioned that enables the passage of time […]
One quick TerraLapse image (using image stacking techniques to depict an interval of time):
Today I spent some time compositing the images from Tuesday night’s time-lapse into one single image. A total of 159 30-second images (from 10:02 to 11:29 PM) were used in the image below, and effectively […]
At 2008 hrs. last night I received CalSky.com’s aurora email alert, which seems to aways come at 3 in the morning. Until now, that is. Since the weather was pretty much severe clear, I thought […]
As I was setting up my camera gear to try and capture the aurora last night on top of 11,990′ Loveland Pass, I heard voices off in the distance. Voices? I thought I was alone […]
I don’t post many sunset pics, but since the rain broke I have been enjoying the late-summer portion of the 20 or so days a year when–from our vantage point– the sun rises between North […]
Golden:
Mt. Evans:
Dillon:
Deadhorse Point S.P., UT:
