Posts by Date

• 2025, March

  1. Cloud Chamber Update
  2. Cloud Chambers and Balloons

• 2025, February

  1. Other Plans

• 2025, January

  1. Instruments Evolve

• 2024, December

  1. Chips and Challenges
  2. A Tradition Resumes

• 2024, November

  1. TAT Productions:  The Filmstrip
  2. The Mission Ends, and Afternotes
  3. Launch at Last!
  4. Off Duty, Styrofoam Insulation, False Starts
  5. Instrument Troubleshooting, Feeding the Magnet
  6. Setting up Shop, Monitoring the Weather
  7. Launching CRISIS
  8. The Universe in 3D
  9. A New Host for Thor’s Life Notes

• 2024, October

  1. Bill Glass is Gone

• 2024, August

  1. The Twins Paradox – a lifelong puzzle
  2. Open Pits and Bathtubs

• 2024, July

  1. Trapped like Mars Flies in a Klein Bottle*
  2. Eyewitness to Climate Change
  3. The Binning Mosaic Mural
  4. The Vancouver Marine Building
  5. A Retirement Tribute to Fred Nourbakhsh

• 2024, May

  1. Franconia Aurora
  2. Eclipse Party 2024– cloud coverup
  3. Eclipse Party 2024- eclipse day!
  4. Eclipse Party 2024- pre-eclipse
  5. Eclipse Party 2024- it begins
  6. Eclipse Party 2024 – photo planning

• 2024, April

  1. Eclipse Party 2024- T-shirts
  2. Eclipse Party 2024- name card projections
  3. Eclipse Party 2024 – preparations
  4. Thor and Poldi’s Excellent Eclipse Party – 2024

• 2024, March

  1. Vacuum Systems-  The Wrong Stuff
  2. Glass Blowing- Getting the Right Stuff
  3. Toward a Personal Radiometer
  4. Know-How for Whom?

• 2023, October

  1. Thor and Poldi’s Eclipse Reprise- the invitation

• 2023, September

  1. Field Trip: Harvard Biology Labs
  2. One Cup of Coffee

• 2023, August

  1. Late Life Love– continued
  2. Symmetry, confluence, harmonic convergence and things like that

• 2023, July

  1. Zoom me up, Scotty

• 2023, June

  1. Death Valley Post Script
  2. Death Valley Finale
  3. The Quest for Pupfish
  4. “The Ranch at Death Valley”, Disneyfied
  5. Tecopa Springs, revisited
  6. The Date Farm
  7. Tecopa Springs

• 2023, May

  1. Charcoal Kilns and the Panamint Loop
  2. Death Valley Days, and Nights

• 2023, March

  1. The Roving Photons (warning: nerd humor)
  2. Trivia du Annuel
  3. Notes for Ninety

• 2023, February

  1. The Rock with Wings
  2. 16mm Home Movies from Mid-20th Century
  3. Late Life Love
  4. LEGOs for Life

• 2023, January

  1. Confronting Challenges

• 2022, November

  1. Texas Road Trip: Reconnaissance Resumes
  2. Texas Road Trip: Lunar Eclipse
  3. AI for 3D
  4. Building a “Dice Tower”

• 2022, October

  1. Repair or Replace?

• 2022, September

  1. Manitoba Nights
  2. An Anecdotal Tribute
  3. Texas Road Trip: Driving Adventures, Mistakes Made
  4. Texas Road Trip: Historic Fort Davis and Marfa

• 2022, August

  1. Texas Road Trip: McDonald Observatory and Lunar Eclipse Practice
  2. Texas Road Trip: Diversion to Fort Davis
  3. Texas Road Trip: The Historic Leakey Inn
  4. Texas Road Trip: Hill Country Eclipse Survey
  5. Texas Road Trip: Start at the Top
  6. Texas Road Trip: Getting There
  7. Eclipse 2024 Reconnaissance

• 2022, July

  1. Superior Circle Tour: Epilogue
  2. Superior Circle Tour: Oh. Deer!
  3. Superior Circle tour: Endor
  4. Superior Circle Tour: The Copper Butt Award
  5. Superior Circle Tour: Loads of Fun
  6. Superior Circle Tour: Grand Marais to Grand Marais
  7. Superior Circle Tour: What Makes a Touring Motorcycle?
  8. Superior Circle Tour: How I Got To This
  9. Superior Circle Tour: A Second Close Call

• 2022, June

  1. Superior Circle Tour: Black Bay to Terrence Bay
  2. Superior Circle Tour: Thunder Bay to Black Bay
  3. Superior Circle Tour: Paths Silently Crossing
  4. Superior Circle Tour: Waterfalls Internationale
  5. Superior Circle Tour: Getting To The Start
  6. Another Chapter Ends
  7. What to do with (really old) home movies?

• 2022, May

  1. A Steadfast Computer Gets Upgraded

• 2022, April

  1. Aurora!
  2. Anchorage
  3. Homer
  4. Seward
  5. Alyeska
  6. Talkeetna
  7. Denali
  8. Chena Hot Springs
  9. Alaska!

• 2022, March

  1. Relay Resurrection

• 2022, February

  1. The Relay Clock Display
  2. Wiring
  3. Early Integrated Circuits
  4. Modern Power Supplies
  5. Restoration
  6. Reverse Engineering
  7. The Relay Clock

• 2021, December

  1. “Coffee Table Nightscapes” goes to print!
  2. Epilogue for Coffee Table Nightscapes
  3. Introduction to Coffee Table Nightscapes
  4. Preface to Coffee Table Nightscapes
  5. Milky Way Sails the Playa
  6. Polaris on the Playa
  7. Holiday Card History
  8. Wupatki Startrails
  9. Wupatki Moon
  10. Moonflowers
  11. Northern Sunflower Trails
  12. Comet Neowise
  13. Arctic Moonset
  14. Arctic Moon
  15. Arctic Power
  16. Jackie’s Last Moonrise
  17. Ayres Natural Bridge Park

• 2021, November

  1. Astronomical League
  2. Minneapolis Moonrise
  3. Icelandic Aurora
  4. The Diamond Ring
  5. Prominences
  6. Corona
  7. Sunset at Mauna Kea
  8. The Belt of Venus
  9. Nile Star Trails
  10. Abisko Aurora-3
  11. Abisko Aurora-2
  12. Abisko Aurora-1
  13. Kiruna Aurora-3
  14. Ghost Train
  15. Photographing Aurora
  16. Super Blood Moon
  17. Half Eclipse
  18. Super Blood Moonrise
  19. Makoshika
  20. Lodgepole Campground

• 2021, October

  1. Fire Behind Rising Wolf
  2. Orion Over Kilauea
  3. Transit of Venus
  4. Beartooth Pass at Midnight
  5. Wild Goose Island
  6. Serengeti Startrails, North
  7. Serengeti Startrails, East
  8. Owachomo South
  9. Owachomo North
  10. West Mitten
  11. Superior Forest Skies
  12. Moonrise over St Croix Crossing

• 2021, August

  1. Discovered: Harvard Biology Labs
  2. Regulus Occultation
  3. Comet Holmes
  4. Pikes Peak
  5. Monument Valley
  6. North Window
  7. Mitten Buttes at Sunset
  8. Zion Watchman
  9. Indirect Endowment

• 2021, July

  1. Horseshoe Bend Meets its Future
  2. Horseshoe Bend
  3. Sentinel Point
  4. Flatirons and the Moon
  5. Pleides
  6. Orion Nebula HDR
  7. Monument Valley Earthshine
  8. Monument Valley Lightshow
  9. Monument Valley Moon
  10. One Day Moonument
  11. Earth Shadow behind Monument Valley
  12. Earth Shadow behind Mitten
  13. Coffee Table Nightscapes Resume

• 2021, June

  1. Salt Flat Tracks
  2. A Night on the Playa, Part 2
  3. A Night on the Playa, Part 1
  4. Penultimate Penrose

• 2021, April

  1. Penrose Hiatus
  2. Cutting Tiles
  3. Penrose Precision
  4. A Penrose Floor

• 2021, March

  1. Dad’s Dressing
  2. Yosemite Valley by Moonlight
  3. Half Dome
  4. Yosemite Meteor
  5. Bridalveil Falls
  6. Split Rock Lighthouse
  7. Orion and Friends
  8. Altamont Windfarm
  9. El Capitan’s Midnight Crown
  10. Yosemite Falls by Starlight
  11. Astrophotos (and Nightscapes) Resume
  12. Timelapse and Lens Testing

• 2021, February

  1. Stonehenge and Solitaire
  2. An Oscar for Solitaire
  3. Science or Sentiment, Generalized
  4. Science or Sentiment
  5. Image Metadata and Ancestor Discovery
  6. When Given Cold Weather…
  7. The Wall of Books
  8. A New Home for Nightscapes

• 2021, January

  1. Fifteen Minutes of Fame
  2. Nightscape Odyssey Goes to Press!

• 2020, November

  1. A day in the life of a covid quarantiner
  2. Checking the Mail

• 2020, October

  1. Epilogue (from the future, 2020)
  2. 12.4 The End of the Journey.
  3. 12.3 Windmill Whiteout
  4. 12.2 Pre-Prairie Portrait
  5. 12 The Long Way Home
  6. 11.3 Monumental Lockout
  7. 11.2 Devils Tower in an Hour
  8. 11 Devils Tower
  9. 10.4 On Beyond Greybull
  10. 10.3 Now You’re Talkin’
  11. 10.2 The Cody Law Enforcement Center
  12. 10 Traversing Wyoming

• 2020, September

  1. 9.7 An Astrophotographer in the Dark
  2. 9.6 Sharing the Night, Part 2
  3. 9.5 Point of View
  4. 9.4 Sharing the Soul of the Night
  5. 9.3 The Top of the World
  6. 9.2 The Lure of Astrofishing
  7. 9 Beartooth Reflections
  8. 8.3 Old Faithful, Even at Night
  9. 8.2 Parking Lots in the Wilderness.
  10. 8 Yellowstone
  11. 7.2 Teton Trails
  12. 7 Trail to the Tetons
  13. A Night with the Sunflowers

• 2020, August

  1. 6.3 Risky Exposures
  2. 6.2 Crater Lake Rim Drive
  3. 6 Crater Lake
  4. 5 Tillamook Friends and the Lost Perseids
  5. 4 Mount Hood
  6. Seven Years After
  7. Watching for Perseids
  8. The Silent Key
  9. Of Nikons and Nikomats

• 2020, July

  1. Swedish Candelabras – Finis
  2. The 15-minute rule, and other covid recommendations
  3. What is my risk?

• 2020, April

  1. Swedish Candelabras
  2. 3.5 Dark Sky Enforcement at Many Glacier
  3. 3.4 The Quest for C-41
  4. 3.3 A Kodak Moment at Wild Goose Island

• 2020, March

  1. 3.2 Going-To-The-Sun at Night
  2. 3 Glacier Park
  3. Orion at the Beach
  4. Windy Night
  5. Maui Moon
  6. Haleakala Clouds
  7. Horsehead and Flame Nebulae
  8. Rosette Nebula
  9. Orion Nebula
  10. North American Nebula
  11. Total Lunar Eclipse

• 2020, February

  1. Lunar Eclipse Sequence
  2. Andromeda Galaxy
  3. Climber Trails
  4. Rainier by Moonlight

• 2020, January

  1. The Best Dinner of My Life
  2. Copenhagen Solstice Celebration

• 2019, December

  1. 2.5 Exodus
  2. 2.4 Dinner and a Moonset

• 2019, November

  1. 2.3 Rainy Days, Espresso Nights
  2. 2.2 Flat Tires, Cloudy Skies
  3. Table Mountain Star Party
  4. 1.5 When Art Speaks, Listen
  5. 1.4 When Sabbaticals Collide
  6. 1.3 Crossing the Prairie
  7. 1.2 Preparations
  8. 1 Beginnings of a Journey
  9. 0 Intro to Nightscape Odyssey
  10. Planet Rise
  11. Full House

• 2019, October

  1. Jackie’s Last Moonrise
  2. Orion Rising
  3. Kinnikinnik
  4. Northern Six-Hour Exposure
  5. Beaver Trails
  6. Four-Hour Lodgepoles
  7. Banff Poles
  8. Csuri Exhibit Poster
  9. The Burn-Hole Club
  10. Behind Gamma’s Disguise
  11. Cathode Rays
  12. Retirement Inauguration
  13. Monuments at Night, Nov 6
  14. Monuments at Night, Nov 5
  15. Monuments at Night, Nov 4
  16. Monuments at Night, Nov 4, early
  17. Monuments at Night, Nov 3
  18. Monuments at Night, Nov 2
  19. Monuments at Night, Arrival

• 2019, September

  1. The Blog Roll
  2. Third Tail
  3. City Cometscape
  4. Hale-Bopp over Hyland Tower
  5. 4.3 Please show your permit
  6. 4.2 Skinnydippers
  7. The Color of the Moon
  8. Cows and other hazards of astrophotography
  9. Career’s End