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On March 6, 2012, I took this picture of Jupiter, Venus, and Mercury
setting in the west at 6:51 pm. Exposure=10.0sec, f/3.5, ISO=400, fl=18.0mm.
And, at 6:01 pm, I took this picture of the almost full moon rising in the east:
On February 27, 2012, I took this picture of Mercury and a jet's contrail
at 5:44 pm (right at sunset).
On February 27, 2012, I took this picture of the Moon, Jupiter, and a 737
at 5:44 pm (right at sunset).
On February 27, 2012, I took this picture of the Moon, Jupiter, and Venus
at 5:45 pm (right at sunset). Mouse over image for labels.
On February 26, 2012, I took this picture of the Moon, Venus (lower right),
and Jupiter (left of Moon) at 6:10 pm (shortly after sunset).
Click here for a larger version.
On March 19, 2011, I took this picture of a Mercury and Jupiter setting in the
west just after sunset. (Move mouse over image for pointers.)
Click here for full-size version.
On March 8, 2011, I took this sequence of pictures of a the Space Shuttle
(mission STS-133, second to last) as it flew by the Moon (1/60-th second exposures, 5 seconds apart,
ISO 400).
On the night of February 23, 2011, I took these pictures lookin out my bedroom
window. (Click on image for full-sized version.)
From 10:15pm to 1:45am.
Lots of aircraft heading to/from NYC.
From 0:36am to 1:41am.
No aircraft during this hour-long interval.
As The World Turns
Here's an animation of the individual frames---3.5 hours compressed into
10 seconds.
Be patient for the download---it's 2.2 Mb.
Ursa Minor (The Little Dipper) and Casseopeia are easy to spot.
On the night of February 22, 2011, I took this picture lookin out my bedroom
window.
On June 2, 2010, I took this picture of a 22 degree solar halo in Sunspot NM.
On July 11, 2002, I had a picnic at my house. An hour or two before sunset, we
saw a rare event---a rainbow straight over head. Actually, such a thing is
correctly refered to as a
circumzenithal
arc.
Coincidentally, Richard Gott was not at the picnic but saw the same event and
took pictures of it:
On July 5, 2008, I took this picture of the Sun setting over Lake Michigan:
This picture might not seem like much. But, in fact I was able to use it to
show that the Earth is not flat. Details are here:
http://www.orfe.princeton.edu/~rvdb/tex/sunset/ms.pdf.
