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Posts describing Projects
- A New Host for Thor’s Life Notes
- Franconia Aurora
- Thor and Poldi’s Excellent Eclipse Party – 2024
- Vacuum Systems- The Wrong Stuff
- Glass Blowing- Getting the Right Stuff
- Toward a Personal Radiometer
- Zoom me up, Scotty
- 16mm Home Movies from Mid-20th Century
- LEGOs for Life
- AI for 3D
- Building a “Dice Tower”
- Texas Road Trip: Getting There
- Eclipse 2024 Reconnaissance
- Reverse Engineering
- “Coffee Table Nightscapes” goes to print!
- Moonrise over St Croix Crossing
- A Penrose Floor
- When Given Cold Weather…
- Swedish Candelabras – Finis
- Swedish Candelabras
Posts about various Topics
- The Twins Paradox – a lifelong puzzle
- 16mm Home Movies from Mid-20th Century
- LEGOs for Life
- Indirect Endowment
- Stonehenge and Solitaire
- An Oscar for Solitaire
- Science or Sentiment, Generalized
- Science or Sentiment
- Image Metadata and Ancestor Discovery
- The Wall of Books
- The 15-minute rule, and other covid recommendations
- What is my risk?
General Photography
- Eyewitness to Climate Change
- Eclipse Party 2024– cloud coverup
- Eclipse Party 2024- eclipse day!
- Notes for Ninety
- The Rock with Wings
- AI for 3D
- What to do with (really old) home movies?
- Moonrise over St Croix Crossing
- North Window
- Mitten Buttes at Sunset
- Timelapse and Lens Testing
- When Given Cold Weather…
- Of Nikons and Nikomats
Astrophotography and Night Sky Photography
- Franconia Aurora
- Thor and Poldi’s Excellent Eclipse Party – 2024
- The Rock with Wings
- Manitoba Nights
- Texas Road Trip: Getting There
- Eclipse 2024 Reconnaissance
- Superior Forest Skies
- Moonrise over St Croix Crossing
- Horseshoe Bend Meets its Future
- A Night on the Playa, Part 2
- A Night on the Playa, Part 1
- Timelapse and Lens Testing
- A Night with the Sunflowers
- Watching for Perseids
- Monuments at Night, Arrival
- Cows and other hazards of astrophotography
Featured in “Nightscape Odyssey”
- A New Home for Nightscapes
- Nightscape Odyssey Goes to Press!
- Epilogue (from the future, 2020)
- 12.4 The End of the Journey.
- 12.3 Windmill Whiteout
- 12.2 Pre-Prairie Portrait
- 12 The Long Way Home
- 11.3 Monumental Lockout
- 11.2 Devils Tower in an Hour
- 11 Devils Tower
- 10.4 On Beyond Greybull
- 10.3 Now You’re Talkin’
- 10.2 The Cody Law Enforcement Center
- 10 Traversing Wyoming
- 9.7 An Astrophotographer in the Dark
- 9.6 Sharing the Night, Part 2
- 9.5 Point of View
- 9.4 Sharing the Soul of the Night
- 9.3 The Top of the World
- 9.2 The Lure of Astrofishing
- 9 Beartooth Reflections
- 8.3 Old Faithful, Even at Night
- 8.2 Parking Lots in the Wilderness.
- 8 Yellowstone
- 7.2 Teton Trails
- 7 Trail to the Tetons
- 6.3 Risky Exposures
- 6.2 Crater Lake Rim Drive
- 6 Crater Lake
- 5 Tillamook Friends and the Lost Perseids
- 4 Mount Hood
- 3.5 Dark Sky Enforcement at Many Glacier
- 3.4 The Quest for C-41
- 3.3 A Kodak Moment at Wild Goose Island
- 3.2 Going-To-The-Sun at Night
- 3 Glacier Park
- 2.5 Exodus
- 2.4 Dinner and a Moonset
- 2.3 Rainy Days, Espresso Nights
- 2.2 Flat Tires, Cloudy Skies
- Table Mountain Star Party
- 1.5 When Art Speaks, Listen
- 1.4 When Sabbaticals Collide
- 1.3 Crossing the Prairie
- 1.2 Preparations
- 1 Beginnings of a Journey
- 0 Intro to Nightscape Odyssey
- 4.3 Please show your permit
- 4.2 Skinnydippers
Featured in “Coffee Table Nightscapes”
- “Coffee Table Nightscapes” goes to print!
- Epilogue for Coffee Table Nightscapes
- Introduction to Coffee Table Nightscapes
- Preface to Coffee Table Nightscapes
- Milky Way Sails the Playa
- Polaris on the Playa
- Wupatki Startrails
- Wupatki Moon
- Moonflowers
- Northern Sunflower Trails
- Comet Neowise
- Arctic Moonset
- Arctic Moon
- Arctic Power
- Jackie’s Last Moonrise
- Ayres Natural Bridge Park
- Astronomical League
- Minneapolis Moonrise
- Icelandic Aurora
- The Diamond Ring
- Prominences
- Corona
- Sunset at Mauna Kea
- The Belt of Venus
- Nile Star Trails
- Photographing Aurora
- Super Blood Moon
- Half Eclipse
- Super Blood Moonrise
- Makoshika
- Lodgepole Campground
- Fire Behind Rising Wolf
- Orion Over Kilauea
- Transit of Venus
- Beartooth Pass at Midnight
- Wild Goose Island
- Serengeti Startrails, North
- Serengeti Startrails, East
- Owachomo South
- Owachomo North
- West Mitten
- Regulus Occultation
- Comet Holmes
- Pikes Peak
- Monument Valley
- North Window
- Mitten Buttes at Sunset
- Zion Watchman
- Horseshoe Bend
- Sentinel Point
- Flatirons and the Moon
- Pleides
- Orion Nebula HDR
- Monument Valley Earthshine
- Monument Valley Lightshow
- Monument Valley Moon
- One Day Moonument
- Earth Shadow behind Monument Valley
- Earth Shadow behind Mitten
- Coffee Table Nightscapes Resume
- Yosemite Valley by Moonlight
- Half Dome
- Yosemite Meteor
- Bridalveil Falls
- Split Rock Lighthouse
- Orion and Friends
- Altamont Windfarm
- El Capitan’s Midnight Crown
- Yosemite Falls by Starlight
- Astrophotos (and Nightscapes) Resume
- A New Home for Nightscapes
- Nightscape Odyssey Goes to Press!
- Orion at the Beach
- Windy Night
- Maui Moon
- Haleakala Clouds
- Horsehead and Flame Nebulae
- Rosette Nebula
- Orion Nebula
- North American Nebula
- Total Lunar Eclipse
- Lunar Eclipse Sequence
- Andromeda Galaxy
- Climber Trails
- Rainier by Moonlight
- Planet Rise
- Orion Rising
- Kinnikinnik
- Northern Six-Hour Exposure
- Beaver Trails
- Four-Hour Lodgepoles
- Banff Poles
- Third Tail
- City Cometscape
- Hale-Bopp over Hyland Tower
Posts categorized as “Travel”
- Bill Glass is Gone
- Open Pits and Bathtubs
- Eyewitness to Climate Change
- The Binning Mosaic Mural
- The Vancouver Marine Building
- Thor and Poldi’s Excellent Eclipse Party – 2024
- Thor and Poldi’s Eclipse Reprise- the invitation
- Death Valley Days, and Nights
- The Rock with Wings
- Manitoba Nights
- Texas Road Trip: Getting There
- Eclipse 2024 Reconnaissance
- Superior Circle Tour: Getting To The Start
- Another Chapter Ends
- Alaska!
- Arctic Moonset
- Arctic Moon
- Arctic Power
- Sunset at Mauna Kea
- The Belt of Venus
- Nile Star Trails
- Photographing Aurora
- Serengeti Startrails, North
- Serengeti Startrails, East
- Superior Forest Skies
- Horseshoe Bend Meets its Future
- Salt Flat Tracks
- A Night on the Playa, Part 2
- A Night on the Playa, Part 1
- Stonehenge and Solitaire
- Fifteen Minutes of Fame
- Nightscape Odyssey Goes to Press!
- Watching for Perseids
- Swedish Candelabras – Finis
- Swedish Candelabras
- The Best Dinner of My Life
- Copenhagen Solstice Celebration
Stories and Essays
- Open Pits and Bathtubs
- Eyewitness to Climate Change
- The Binning Mosaic Mural
- Franconia Aurora
- Field Trip: Harvard Biology Labs
- The Roving Photons (warning: nerd humor)
- What to do with (really old) home movies?
- Holiday Card History
- Discovered: Harvard Biology Labs
- Horseshoe Bend Meets its Future
- Salt Flat Tracks
- A Night on the Playa, Part 2
- A Night on the Playa, Part 1
- Stonehenge and Solitaire
- Image Metadata and Ancestor Discovery
- The Wall of Books
- Checking the Mail
- Full House
- Csuri Exhibit Poster
- Third Tail
- City Cometscape
- Hale-Bopp over Hyland Tower
- 4.3 Please show your permit
- 4.2 Skinnydippers
- The Color of the Moon
- Cows and other hazards of astrophotography
Tributes to people and things that mattered to me
- Bill Glass is Gone
- A Retirement Tribute to Fred Nourbakhsh
- Know-How for Whom?
- One Cup of Coffee
- Late Life Love– continued
- Notes for Ninety
- 16mm Home Movies from Mid-20th Century
- Late Life Love
- Confronting Challenges
- An Anecdotal Tribute
- Indirect Endowment
- Salt Flat Tracks
- Dad’s Dressing
- The Wall of Books
- The Silent Key
- Full House
- Jackie’s Last Moonrise
Posts describing Technology Artifacts
- Open Pits and Bathtubs
- Trapped like Mars Flies in a Klein Bottle*
- The Vancouver Marine Building
- A Retirement Tribute to Fred Nourbakhsh
- Franconia Aurora
- Vacuum Systems- The Wrong Stuff
- Glass Blowing- Getting the Right Stuff
- Toward a Personal Radiometer
- Know-How for Whom?
- Zoom me up, Scotty
- The Roving Photons (warning: nerd humor)
- Trivia du Annuel
- Notes for Ninety
- 16mm Home Movies from Mid-20th Century
- LEGOs for Life
- AI for 3D
- Repair or Replace?
- What to do with (really old) home movies?
- A Steadfast Computer Gets Upgraded
- Relay Resurrection
- The Relay Clock Display
- Wiring
- Early Integrated Circuits
- The Relay Clock
- Modern Power Supplies
- Restoration
- Reverse Engineering
- Discovered: Harvard Biology Labs
- Stonehenge and Solitaire
- An Oscar for Solitaire
- Science or Sentiment, Generalized
- Science or Sentiment
- Image Metadata and Ancestor Discovery
- Checking the Mail
- The Silent Key
- Of Nikons and Nikomats
- Csuri Exhibit Poster
- The Burn-Hole Club
- Behind Gamma’s Disguise
- Cathode Rays
- The Color of the Moon
- Career’s End
Posts sorted by category
Astrophotography
- Thor and Poldi’s Excellent Eclipse Party – 2024
- Texas Road Trip: Getting There
- Eclipse 2024 Reconnaissance
- “Coffee Table Nightscapes” goes to print!
- Comet Neowise
- The Diamond Ring
- Prominences
- Corona
- Super Blood Moon
- Half Eclipse
- Transit of Venus
- Regulus Occultation
- Comet Holmes
- Pleides
- Orion Nebula HDR
- Orion and Friends
- Astrophotos (and Nightscapes) Resume
- Timelapse and Lens Testing
- A New Home for Nightscapes
- Nightscape Odyssey Goes to Press!
- Horsehead and Flame Nebulae
- Rosette Nebula
- Orion Nebula
- North American Nebula
- Total Lunar Eclipse
- Lunar Eclipse Sequence
- Andromeda Galaxy
- Planet Rise
- Orion Rising
- Kinnikinnik
- Northern Six-Hour Exposure
- Beaver Trails
- Four-Hour Lodgepoles
- Banff Poles
- Monuments at Night, Arrival
- Third Tail
- City Cometscape
- Hale-Bopp over Hyland Tower
- 4.3 Please show your permit
- 4.2 Skinnydippers
- Cows and other hazards of astrophotography
La Terza Eta
- A New Host for Thor’s Life Notes
- Eyewitness to Climate Change
- Field Trip: Harvard Biology Labs
- One Cup of Coffee
- Late Life Love– continued
- Symmetry, confluence, harmonic convergence and things like that
- Trivia du Annuel
- 16mm Home Movies from Mid-20th Century
- Late Life Love
- LEGOs for Life
- Repair or Replace?
- Superior Circle Tour: Getting To The Start
- Another Chapter Ends
- Holiday Card History
- Indirect Endowment
- Dad’s Dressing
- Stonehenge and Solitaire
- An Oscar for Solitaire
- Science or Sentiment, Generalized
- Science or Sentiment
- The Wall of Books
- Fifteen Minutes of Fame
- A day in the life of a covid quarantiner
- Seven Years After
- The Silent Key
- Swedish Candelabras – Finis
- The 15-minute rule, and other covid recommendations
- What is my risk?
- Swedish Candelabras
- Retirement Inauguration
- Career’s End
Night Sky Photography
- Franconia Aurora
- The Rock with Wings
- Manitoba Nights
- “Coffee Table Nightscapes” goes to print!
- Milky Way Sails the Playa
- Polaris on the Playa
- Wupatki Startrails
- Wupatki Moon
- Moonflowers
- Northern Sunflower Trails
- Comet Neowise
- Jackie’s Last Moonrise
- Ayres Natural Bridge Park
- Astronomical League
- Minneapolis Moonrise
- Icelandic Aurora
- The Belt of Venus
- Nile Star Trails
- Photographing Aurora
- Super Blood Moonrise
- Makoshika
- Lodgepole Campground
- Fire Behind Rising Wolf
- Orion Over Kilauea
- Beartooth Pass at Midnight
- Wild Goose Island
- Serengeti Startrails, North
- Serengeti Startrails, East
- Owachomo South
- Owachomo North
- West Mitten
- Superior Forest Skies
- Moonrise over St Croix Crossing
- Pikes Peak
- Monument Valley
- Zion Watchman
- Horseshoe Bend Meets its Future
- Horseshoe Bend
- Sentinel Point
- Flatirons and the Moon
- Monument Valley Earthshine
- Monument Valley Lightshow
- Monument Valley Moon
- One Day Moonument
- Earth Shadow behind Monument Valley
- Earth Shadow behind Mitten
- Coffee Table Nightscapes Resume
- A Night on the Playa, Part 2
- A Night on the Playa, Part 1
- Yosemite Valley by Moonlight
- Half Dome
- Yosemite Meteor
- Bridalveil Falls
- Split Rock Lighthouse
- Altamont Windfarm
- El Capitan’s Midnight Crown
- Yosemite Falls by Starlight
- Timelapse and Lens Testing
- A New Home for Nightscapes
- Nightscape Odyssey Goes to Press!
- A Night with the Sunflowers
- Watching for Perseids
- 3.5 Dark Sky Enforcement at Many Glacier
- 3.3 A Kodak Moment at Wild Goose Island
- 3.2 Going-To-The-Sun at Night
- Orion at the Beach
- Windy Night
- Climber Trails
- Rainier by Moonlight
Photo Stories
- Open Pits and Bathtubs
- Eyewitness to Climate Change
- The Binning Mosaic Mural
- Franconia Aurora
- Field Trip: Harvard Biology Labs
- The Roving Photons (warning: nerd humor)
- What to do with (really old) home movies?
- Holiday Card History
- Discovered: Harvard Biology Labs
- Horseshoe Bend Meets its Future
- Salt Flat Tracks
- A Night on the Playa, Part 2
- A Night on the Playa, Part 1
- Stonehenge and Solitaire
- Image Metadata and Ancestor Discovery
- The Wall of Books
- Checking the Mail
- Full House
- Csuri Exhibit Poster
- Third Tail
- City Cometscape
- Hale-Bopp over Hyland Tower
- 4.3 Please show your permit
- 4.2 Skinnydippers
- The Color of the Moon
- Cows and other hazards of astrophotography
Photography
- Eyewitness to Climate Change
- Notes for Ninety
- The Rock with Wings
- AI for 3D
- What to do with (really old) home movies?
- Moonrise over St Croix Crossing
- North Window
- Mitten Buttes at Sunset
- Timelapse and Lens Testing
- When Given Cold Weather…
- Of Nikons and Nikomats
Projects-topics
- A New Host for Thor’s Life Notes
- The Twins Paradox – a lifelong puzzle
- Franconia Aurora
- Thor and Poldi’s Excellent Eclipse Party – 2024
- Vacuum Systems- The Wrong Stuff
- Glass Blowing- Getting the Right Stuff
- Toward a Personal Radiometer
- Zoom me up, Scotty
- 16mm Home Movies from Mid-20th Century
- LEGOs for Life
- AI for 3D
- Building a “Dice Tower”
- Texas Road Trip: Getting There
- Eclipse 2024 Reconnaissance
- Reverse Engineering
- “Coffee Table Nightscapes” goes to print!
- Moonrise over St Croix Crossing
- Indirect Endowment
- A Penrose Floor
- Stonehenge and Solitaire
- An Oscar for Solitaire
- Science or Sentiment, Generalized
- Science or Sentiment
- Image Metadata and Ancestor Discovery
- When Given Cold Weather…
- The Wall of Books
- Swedish Candelabras – Finis
- The 15-minute rule, and other covid recommendations
- What is my risk?
- Swedish Candelabras
Technology Artifacts
- Open Pits and Bathtubs
- Trapped like Mars Flies in a Klein Bottle*
- The Vancouver Marine Building
- A Retirement Tribute to Fred Nourbakhsh
- Franconia Aurora
- Vacuum Systems- The Wrong Stuff
- Glass Blowing- Getting the Right Stuff
- Toward a Personal Radiometer
- Know-How for Whom?
- Zoom me up, Scotty
- The Roving Photons (warning: nerd humor)
- Trivia du Annuel
- Notes for Ninety
- 16mm Home Movies from Mid-20th Century
- LEGOs for Life
- AI for 3D
- Repair or Replace?
- What to do with (really old) home movies?
- A Steadfast Computer Gets Upgraded
- Reverse Engineering
- Discovered: Harvard Biology Labs
- Stonehenge and Solitaire
- An Oscar for Solitaire
- Science or Sentiment, Generalized
- Science or Sentiment
- Image Metadata and Ancestor Discovery
- Checking the Mail
- The Silent Key
- Of Nikons and Nikomats
- Csuri Exhibit Poster
- The Burn-Hole Club
- Behind Gamma’s Disguise
- Cathode Rays
- The Color of the Moon
- Career’s End
Travel
- Bill Glass is Gone
- Open Pits and Bathtubs
- Eyewitness to Climate Change
- The Binning Mosaic Mural
- The Vancouver Marine Building
- Thor and Poldi’s Excellent Eclipse Party – 2024
- Thor and Poldi’s Eclipse Reprise- the invitation
- Death Valley Days, and Nights
- The Rock with Wings
- Manitoba Nights
- Texas Road Trip: Getting There
- Eclipse 2024 Reconnaissance
- Superior Circle Tour: Getting To The Start
- Another Chapter Ends
- Alaska!
- Arctic Moonset
- Arctic Moon
- Arctic Power
- Sunset at Mauna Kea
- The Belt of Venus
- Nile Star Trails
- Photographing Aurora
- Serengeti Startrails, North
- Serengeti Startrails, East
- Superior Forest Skies
- Horseshoe Bend Meets its Future
- Salt Flat Tracks
- A Night on the Playa, Part 2
- A Night on the Playa, Part 1
- Stonehenge and Solitaire
- Fifteen Minutes of Fame
- Nightscape Odyssey Goes to Press!
- Watching for Perseids
- Swedish Candelabras – Finis
- Swedish Candelabras
- The Best Dinner of My Life
- Copenhagen Solstice Celebration
Tributes
- Bill Glass is Gone
- A Retirement Tribute to Fred Nourbakhsh
- Know-How for Whom?
- One Cup of Coffee
- Late Life Love– continued
- Notes for Ninety
- 16mm Home Movies from Mid-20th Century
- Late Life Love
- Confronting Challenges
- An Anecdotal Tribute
- Indirect Endowment
- Salt Flat Tracks
- Dad’s Dressing
- The Wall of Books
- The Silent Key
- Full House
- Jackie’s Last Moonrise