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Yellowstone and stuff

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

We had a fun trip through Yellowstone last week. It was well below freezing at night, but we still camped out - though I'm not quite sure why. We drove from Cache Valley to Montpelier to Star Valley, through Jackson, and then to Old Faithful. Old Faithful sure gets less ...

Southeastern Sky

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

I photographed two very cool, yet very different things in my southeastern sky this week. The first is a double rainbow from a very mean, fast approaching storm. The brightest rainbow is caused by the sunlight from the setting sun reflecting off rain drops. The second, double arc is caused ...

Milky Way

Friday, August 10th, 2007

It's been a crazy summer and I have had few chances to get the telescope out. The night before last was a nice night and the Perseid meteor shower was just picking up, so I took the time to go out and observe for a while and take the picture ...