8/21/17: Solar Eclipse from Rattlesnake Canyon, Wyoming
Got to experience my first total solar eclipse today, and I now know why people travel around the world to see them. Although it ended up being clear throughout central…
5/28/17: Aurora Borealis over Loveland Pass, CO
The Kp Index started roaring last night around 8 PM (6 predicted to 8 in the next four hours), so we rolled up to Loveland Pass (11,990' MSL) to see…
3/9/17: Fire on South Table Mountain, Golden, CO
Time-lapse video of two hours of last night's fire on South Table Mountain, from 9:14 to 11:13 PM: And a few images of the fire's progression: …
2/16/17: NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory data in 4k
NASA recently released 7 years of SDO data compiled into an impressive timelapse video (take a look if you're into such astro-geekery). Back in the Fall of 2011 when my…
12/22/16: Space.com post of ‘SuperMoon’ image
Fortunately this time it didn't take 4 months to learn that Space.com again picked up an image of mine, in this case, the recent TerraLapse composite of the Nov 2016…
11/27/16: Catching Time over Golden
I sat on a cactus to get this shot. No, really. And I mean, really, really sat on a cactus, that kind with the dozens and dozens of nearly-microscopic needles that…
11/28/16: Green Mtn. Fire
And oddly, tonight, the fire on Green Mtn. provided an image similar to yesterday's, albeit with winds from the opposite direction, and a bit different 'temperature': And the time-lapse video:
11/25/16: Abajo Fidel
Image: Abajo Fidel During my two weeks in Cuba, it was the only single, solitary instance of negative sentiment displayed in public toward Fidel Castro, who died last night at…
11/20/16: Dusk over north Golden
Not much color tonight, but a nice view of north Golden just the same.