‘Sup.
Sep 052019
Aug 162019
Once again craptacular cell phone photos showing (inadequately) the otherwise remarkable sunset colors.
And why not, here’s Buttons. He’s a top-tier adorable critter. Fight me.
Aug 132019
Some evening cameraphone photos.
“Belt of Venus” over the mountains to the south-east, moon above.
Might be a little hard to see, but with the naked eye these lines of clouds were fairly remarkable.
Again the camera doesn’t do it justice, but the contrast between the blue and the pink was kinda startling.
Aug 122019
Our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole Has Emitted a Mysteriously Bright Flare
Seems Sagittarius A* either swallowed or tore apart something that put up a bit of a fight… or at least a death rattle.
Here's a timelapse of images over 2.5 hr from May from @keckobservatory of the supermassive black hole Sgr A*. The black hole is always variable, but this was the brightest we've seen in the infrared so far. It was probably even brighter before we started observing that night! pic.twitter.com/MwXioZ7twV
— Tuan Do (@quantumpenguin) August 11, 2019
Aug 052019
A bit of weather blew through tonight, complete with light show.
More photos follow…
Jul 232019
A few days ago, a wakeup call came in not long after sunrise at low altitude, high speed and many horsepower. Yup, it was time to wake up. Photos below…
Jul 212019
The best seat in the house is the topmost perch in the living room cat tree. I’m honestly surprised that they don’t fight over it; instead; whoever gets there first gets it, and the rest simply accept it. Here we see Buttons surveying his domain.
Jul 162019
And here are a number of photos of the many aircraft that paid my little neck of the woods a visit in order to fight the massive wildfire.
Jul 152019
As previously illustrated, late Sunday night an electrically interesting cloud floated by leaving a few wildfires in its wake. I stayed up excessively late photographing it and processing photos; by 4:30 AM or so I’d had about enough and went to bed. Before that I checked the progress of the fires and it seemed like the firefighters seemed like they might have had a handle on it. It looked like nothing of much more interest was going to happen.
I wonder how that prediction panned out…
Jul 152019
So last night about 11PM a single solitary cloud blew past, about ten miles north of here. What harm could one cloud do? What risk could it possibly pose? Behold: