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Moon Photo & New Camera
I finally bought a new camera yesterday. I picked it up on a clear, beautiful March afternoon, and my first impulse was to drive up into the hills to Vista del Norte and start taking scenic photos of...
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Fire Dragon
I caught this view of the clouds lit up by the setting sun out of the corner of my eye on the way home tonight, and decided that I had to turn around and find someplace with a relatively unobstructed...
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Moon and Jupiter Conjunction
Moon and Jupiter Conjunction: Two Views, originally uploaded by Kelson. I walked out to get the laundry tonight, looked up and saw the moon and Jupiter practically next to each other. I took a quick...
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St Patrick’s Day Moon and Jupiter
Yesterday I looked at the moon and Jupiter and thought, there’s going to be another conjunction tomorrow, isn’t there? Then I forgot, but fortunately I had to make a grocery run and looked up. For...
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Sun Halo Behind a Plant Frame
I spotted this great halo yesterday while we were out shopping for plants for a vegetable garden. The bright, colorful upper arc just jumped out, and while I searched for something I could use to block...
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Look up in the sky!
You may never seen a halo around the sun or a sundog next to it, but they’re actually quite common. You just have to look up. (Just don’t stare at the sun!) I usually keep an eye out for sun halos...
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Rainbow Cloud
I noticed the halo around the sun as soon as I walked out the door for lunch on Thursday. The rainbow cloud? That appeared as I walked past a building. I saw it as soon as the southern sky came into...
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Moon and Jupiter Conjunction
Moon and Jupiter Conjunction: Two Views, originally uploaded by Kelson. I walked out to get the laundry tonight, looked up and saw the moon and Jupiter practically next to each other. I took a quick...
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St Patrick’s Day Moon and Jupiter
Yesterday I looked at the moon and Jupiter and thought, there’s going to be another conjunction tomorrow, isn’t there? Then I forgot, but fortunately I had to make a grocery run and looked up. For...
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Sun Halo Behind a Plant Frame
I spotted this great halo yesterday while we were out shopping for plants for a vegetable garden. The bright, colorful upper arc just jumped out, and while I searched for something I could use to block...
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Look up in the sky!
You may never seen a halo around the sun or a sundog next to it, but they’re actually quite common. You just have to look up. (Just don’t stare at the sun!) I usually keep an eye out for sun halos...
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Rainbow Cloud
I noticed the halo around the sun as soon as I walked out the door for lunch on Thursday. The rainbow cloud? That appeared as I walked past a building. I saw it as soon as the southern sky came into...
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Tangent in the Sky
When I first started paying attention to solar ice halos, I read about tangent arcs. But this is the first time I’m sure I’ve seen one. The tangent arcs appear above and below the sun, branching out...
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Dreariest Circumhorizon Arc Ever
I could barely see any colors in the cloud at all without my polarized sunglasses, and when I took a photo through them, I still had to bump up the saturation. I’ve seen several of these over the...
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Bisected Halo
A clear 22-degree halo around the sun, bright enough that I didn’t have to adjust the image afterward. This is straight from my phone. Even cooler: you can actually see the contrail’s shadow on the...
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Latte Art in the Sky
A hole-punch cloud, also known as a fall-streak hole, seen from Redondo Beach, looking toward LAX airport. These form when an airplane passes through a thin cloud layer, disrupting the cloud. The post...
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