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Northern Lights Tonight!

Friday, September 12, 2014

The Northern Lights are predicted to be good tonight and tomorrow night If anyone is planning on shooting the Northern Lights tonight you should go outside NOW (in the daylight) with your camera and widest angle lens. Pick something as far away as you can (the Highwood Mountains would be good from here!) and focus […]

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Day 231: 15 minutes ago…

Saturday, September 6, 2014

I took this photo in our front yard about 15 minutes ago.  I cropped it to 1440×960.  The image is full sized.  I didn’t do anything else to it.  I love this lens. (1/1500s f/5.6 ISO320 300mm (70-300mm L)Canon 7D) ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 220: A brief interlude, part 2

Thursday, August 28, 2014

After that great Milky Way session, what happens but the Northern Lights came out tonight. (A three photo panorama!) (Click to enlarge; BACK to return!) Another three photo panorama. The Dailylife Daughter #1 and I went out to Bootlegger Trail to view them.  We had a good time.  There were a few other cars doing […]

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Day 219: A brief interlude….

Monday, August 25, 2014

I went out star gazing tonight… 30 Second Exposures…high ISO’s…the first two have meteor trails.  The third one has an airplane trail. (30s f/4.0 ISO6400 17mm Canon 7D) (30s f/4.0 ISO5000 23mm Canon 7D) A photo from the Dailylife Wife’s camera…she has the fisheye lens.  I just get to borrow it! (30s f/0.0 ISO6400 9.00 […]

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Day 211: A Brief Break…

Sunday, August 17, 2014

A brief break from our cruise.  I went out last night (16 Aug 14) to watch the Moonrise of the third quarter Moon.  My usual spot near Fife was full of farm trucks (Hmmmf.  Harvest.  Go figure. {!-{P ) so I went a little father down the road and set up on the edge of […]

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45 Years ago Today!

Thursday, July 24, 2014

Man returned from his greatest adventure.  The actual walking on the Moon part was only rivaled by the fact they actually got home alive…   A great link for the landing on the Moon, and eventual return to Lunar orbit: http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/2009-07-22.htm  It is reverse chronology so scroll do and work your way up.   And the […]

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45 Years Ago Today…

Sunday, July 20, 2014

…Man reached the Pinnacle of Civilization: He landed a Man (or two!!!) on the Moon.   This is a good link to a summary: http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/2009-07-22.htm#20   You might have to scroll up or down a little to find the 20 of July section.   Current commentary:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntb4eSAktnE&feature=youtu.be  (You can skip the Ad…)   One small step […]

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Lunar Orbit Insertion

Saturday, July 19, 2014

45 years ago today Apollo XI made it into Lunar orbit. More at: http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/2009-07-19.htm .   ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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45th Anniversary!

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Tomorrow, the 16th of July, 2014, is the 45th anniversary of the launch of Apollo XI (11). Earth as taken from Apollo XI, half way to the Moon.   A link to a good post about the launch and the Saturn V that took them to the Moon:   About the Saturn V   He […]

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Day 196

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

One last morning-after-the-super-moon photo.  You can seen how smokey it was. (1/1500s f/8.0 ISO320 100mm -1 stop Canon 7D) ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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