04/09/24

 On Monday, 4/8, there was an eclipse of the sun over North America.  We were not in totality but I still went out to capture it as we got to around 85 to 87 percent.  I would have really liked a chance at total but from the news it sounded that to travel would be fairly crazy with all the people trying to do the same thing.  Even at 85% it was cool to see and experience as it got cooler and darker out.  This is my composite of what I was able to capture.  It started a bit earlier than I thought so I missed the very beginning.  I shot this sequence with my camera on my telescope. 

03/23/24

 I bought myself a telescope late last year after much deliberation on what type to buy.  Ironically, since I bought it, on days when I had the time, it was usually cloudy or really cold.  In preparation for the upcoming solar eclipse, I bought a sheet of sun filter foil and made a filter for the scope and was testing it out this past Sunday.  I also used my camera on the scope successfully for the first time as well and took this image of the sun.  I liked how you could see some sun spots, one up near the very top and then a group of 3 down in the lower part.

6/1/19

I was out on Konza Prairie tonight for a wildflower refresher walk.  It was a lovely evening.  I captured this Butterfly Milkweed in the late evening sun.  The sun has a red cast lately due to some Canadian wildfires apparently.  It is posting for the 1st day of June.  Welcome to June!  😄

10/20/18

This was a cool sight I was treated to while driving east last weekend in the morning.  It looked like an arch or round rainbow.  The colors weren't quite as vivid as a normal rainbow but it was very neat to see and capture.

8/22/17

So yesterday it was cloudy here the whole time till about the last 15 ins of the total eclipse.  We didn't even get any decent rain out of it being cloudy to make it worth it.  I got this image of the moon passing over as it was almost done.  If you look large you can see few sunspots on the sun.  I was very disappointed to not have  been able to see more of the eclipse.  At least I got one good shot of it.  Plus I learned how to photograph the sun.  Not a total loss I guess.  I shot this with a 500mm lens with a 2X converter on it, so not cropped.