Sunday, July 22, 2012

Solar Prominence Animation

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This weekend, I created this animation from a series of frames captured 2 min apart from 22h00 to 23h30 UTC July 21, 2012.  Most of the very...
Friday, July 13, 2012

View of AR-1520 Sunspot

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Between clouds, I had a peek at the sun this evening and got a nice shot of AR-1520 in a quiet state.  Far cry from the X1.4 class flare it ...
Sunday, July 8, 2012

Ecoxotic Panorama Pro LED

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This weekend, I replaced the lighting fixture on my 185g reef tank.  Previously,  I was using a Hamilton Cebu Sun fixture with three 250W 1...
Saturday, July 7, 2012

X1.1 Solar Flare in AR1515

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Serendipity strikes again!  Yesterday evening, after getting home from work, I decided to check out the solar conditions and to look at ...
Monday, June 25, 2012

Venus Transit - Expedition to Haleakala

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Our adventure to Haleakala began at the end of the Summer of 2011.  My wife Danielle's family was planning a celebration of her paren...
Monday, June 18, 2012

Green Sea Turtles in Maui

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While snorkeling in Maui we saw many wonderful green sea turtles or "Honu".  This one surfaced right next to me as I was taking pi...

Pod of Spinner Dolphins

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Near the end our our Maui trip, we were snorkeling in Honolua Bay .  As we traversed across the bay from the north side to the south side, a...
Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Nene Geese in Maui

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One of Danielle's birding goals has been to see a Nene  (Hawaiian Goose). It is the state bird of Hawaii and is found only on Maui, Kaua...

Chukar on Haleakala

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On a follow up trip to Red Hill on Haleakala to do some nighttime astronomy, we ran into these neat grouse-like birds in the parking lot. Th...
Monday, June 4, 2012

Goodbye Baldr

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Today, we had to put our Black Labrador, Baldr (TL's Baby Balderdash) to sleep.   The heart-wrenching part was that we had to do this...