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Showing posts with label news. Show all posts
Saturday, March 12, 2016

Death Valley "Super Bloom" 2016: Best Wildflower Sites

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Lower Warm Spring Canyon Road from miles 1 to 3 had declined slightly... to this! Still better than a "normal" year. Last wee...
Thursday, October 22, 2015

Planets, Orionids and Zodiacal Light

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Meteor with Venus, Jupiter and Mars rising in zodiacal light during the Orionids, October 22, 2015 Who saw or photographed some Orionid ...
Monday, August 10, 2015

The 2015 Perseid Meteor Shower is Underway

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Perseid Meteor and Milky Way Over the Sierra Nevada, by Jeff Sullivan on 500px Comet Swift-Tuttle only passes the earth and circles ...
Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Chasing the Aurora Borealis in the Eastern Sierra, June 23, 2015

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I read online yesterday that a particularly intense solar magnetic storm might enable the aurora borealis to be visible across much of t...

Washington Fire South of Markleeville Grows

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Smoke from the Washington Fire obscures the sun, as seen from Topaz Lake Sunday afternoon  It's always interesting living in the E...
Monday, January 26, 2015

Massive Asteroid BL86 Approaches Earth

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Mountain-sized asteroid BL86 came hurtling towards its near-miss with earth today, and I caught it on my camera as it approached late Sunday...
Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Four Nights With Comet Lovejoy

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Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy on the evening of Monday, January 19, 2015. Last night I enjoyed the best viewing conditions for capturing Comet...
Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Geminid Meteor Shower 2014 in HD

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Time-lapse video footage from the Geminid meteor shower on the nights of December 13 and 14, 2014. Shot at Topaz Lake in the Eastern Sier...
Monday, August 18, 2014

Perseid Meteor Shower 2014 Continues as Moon Rises Later

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Perseid meteor over mining ruins, Eastern Sierra I set up my camera Friday night to take a sequence of shots so I could make a composite...

Venus - Jupiter Conjunction at Dawn Today

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Venus and Jupiter put on a show in the sky this morning as sunrise approached.  As seen from earth these two bright planets appeared to p...
Thursday, July 10, 2014

Delta II Rocket Image Sequence from OCO-2 Launch

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Four minutes during NASA's OCO-2 satellite launch from Vandenberg AFB, California NASA sent the OCO2 satellite up on a Delta II ro...
Friday, July 04, 2014

NASA Launch This Week: Orbiting Carbon Observatory

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NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory Launch from Jeff Sullivan on Vimeo . What happens when a time-lapse astrophotographer goes to a NASA ...
Sunday, May 18, 2014

Amazon Wins Patent for Photography Against a White Background!

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If we didn't already have enough evidence that the U.S. Patent system is very broken, we do now... US Patent Office Grants 'Photo...
Monday, August 26, 2013

Rim Fire Closes Areas of Yosemite National Park

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At 10:41 am this morning Yosemite National Park distributed a map of closed areas within the park, generally north of CA-120 and east of Gle...