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Day 194: getting ready

Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Our neighbor took our photo for posterity and the Dailylife Wife. Toots took this one of me. She also noted that there was a strict no fire policy in effect.  It was dry as a bone there! Everyone is lining up and starting to watch.  We found out spot about an hour and a half […]

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Day 193, or Chasing an Eclipse!

Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Toots and I left Great Falls on Sunday evening, and spent the night in one of the last rooms in Butte, MT.  We were on our way to Idaho to see the Total Solar Eclipse.  We would have stayed in Dillon, 60 miles closer to Idaho, but the only room I found there was priced […]

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Day 192

Tuesday, August 15, 2017

From my star gazing last night: Horizon to horizon in 7 photos!  It took 13 last time!  {!-{>  Actually while the stars were out there was so much smoke in the air that the exposures took twice as long. North is at the top! Click on it a couple of times to see it best […]

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Day 191

Tuesday, August 15, 2017

A little star gazing and a bit of Milky Way! That is an airplane streaking across the left side…no meteors were photographed…seen, yes… A bit of Northern Lights competing with the lights of the City?  There are suppose to be more tonight! ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 190

Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Still off on a tangent…we’ll get back to Alaska yet!  {!-{> There is a Total Solar Eclipse coming on the 21st of August, 2017.  It can be seen across the whole center of the US, including Idaho…the area of totality (complete sun blockage by the Moon) does include five or six square miles of Montana, […]

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Special Edition!

Sunday, July 2, 2017

The Camera Club went out last night to Belt to shoot burning steel wool…a  great time was had by all!  The steel wool was ignited and whirled around the head of Allan#1, the significant other of a Club member.  Special thanks to Alan#2 who had to leave early but left me his tripod when I […]

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Day 143

Sunday, May 28, 2017

The Dailylife Daughter #1 told me the Northern Lights were out tonight. I guess she was right!  All taken with my fancy new 12mm lens the Wife got me or Christmas, and an 8 to 20 second exposure, ISO probably at 400, usually at f2.0.  Double click on the photos to enlarge them.  BACK to return! […]

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Bonus!

Tuesday, May 9, 2017

It is a very nice night in Great Falls on 9 May 2017.  And here is a bonus photo of the waxing 95.94% Full Moon!  100% crop photo, 1/1000s, f/5.6, ISO200, 400mm, Canon 7D, on a monopod on my back deck. ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 113

Wednesday, April 26, 2017

While the first day and night were overcast, our second night was very clear.  Here are the stars over the Grand Canyon. It was the day before the New Moon, and there was NO light down in the big ditch.  This is through photo processing that you can sesame of it.  Looking North.  I think […]

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Day 109

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

A bit of a flashback…I was backing up my photos (YOU do, don’t you?) and ran across this old set from 14 August, 2011.  The Moon just does not come up clearer than this! It was just this orange, too!  After I took these out near Fife… …I ran into a huge lightening storm!  I […]

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