Apologies up front here to my Canadian friends - I'm sure you see this all the time, and as I babble over a single night of reds and greens, I can only hope this is one of those things that doesn't ever get old. But when you live south of the Mason-Dixon line, seeing an…Read more Northern Lights!
Aurora
We Don’t Know STEVE
In this age of persistent surveillance and awareness (I'm not talking about people, but of weather, seismic events, astronomy and the like), an age where we are examining both subatomic particles and planets orbiting distant stars, it's easy to forget there's a heck of a lot we don't know. In many cases, we know what…Read more We Don’t Know STEVE
Sunspot, Baby!
For months, it was "Eclipse! Eclipse!" Then, that abruptly ended. Well, the sun is apparently jealous of the sudden lack of attention, as this week it reached out and smacked the Earth with a large coronal mass ejection (CME) as if to say, "Hey! Still here!" So let's pay attention - fortunately, all those eclipse-viewing…Read more Sunspot, Baby!
Sounding Rocket Launch (Astronomy: Week of 6/11/17)
Viewing man-made vapor tracers in the ionosphere.
Flying Squirrel Outdoors 