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Well, it's about an hour short of sunset, but this is just a quick iPhone shot out my window at my sunset view.
In the grand scheme of things, life is good. Share yours!
https://i.imgur.com/Zcp1IEn.jpg
ToomuchStuff
6-1-22, 9:23am
What, you want me to rain on your parade? (been storming yesterday and today)
Wow! Breath-taking! I'm so envious of your little corner of the world, bae. And you are right - life is good!
Stunning - thanks for sharing.
Not sunset, but another pretty WA pic nonetheless.4518 Up the Lewis River near the Cowlitz/Skamania line yesterday.
What, you want me to rain on your parade? (been storming yesterday and today)
Well, the wicked clouds have shut me out two nights in a row from being able to look for the meteor swarm, bother. Still, could be worse.
This is our view from the park a half block away. The mountains never look the same. Right now, topped with snow as this pic is from summer.
4519
Well, Share yours!
Well, my back yard wasn't meant for sunsets, but I still enjoy the view (the sun is back there somewhere).
https://scontent.fluk1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.15752-9/285665629_696691175107659_8888586755261836662_n.jp g?stp=dst-jpg_s2048x2048&_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=ae9488&_nc_ohc=wRO-KbyE9BsAX9yKhJ0&_nc_ht=scontent.fluk1-1.fna&oh=03_AVIqvJf5NpEpo90Rtp23aqIeKDubXppU0nu8g7v_Riar yA&oe=62BCD49F
happystuff
6-2-22, 10:00am
Wow! All these pictures are so nice! Make me feel like I'm definitely living in the wrong area - LOL.
Well, my back yard wasn't meant for sunsets, but I still enjoy the view (the sun is back there somewhere).
https://scontent.fluk1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.15752-9/285665629_696691175107659_8888586755261836662_n.jp g?stp=dst-jpg_s2048x2048&_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=ae9488&_nc_ohc=wRO-KbyE9BsAX9yKhJ0&_nc_ht=scontent.fluk1-1.fna&oh=03_AVIqvJf5NpEpo90Rtp23aqIeKDubXppU0nu8g7v_Riar yA&oe=62BCD49F
That looks a lot like my view to the west--wall to wall green!
I miss having a wooded lot. But I do have the lake. I'm cheating here--this is a picture from the same time last year--I wanted to take a sunset picture last night but it was too cloudy. But 9 times out of 10, the sunset is beautiful here. And 9 times out of 10 I'm out there with my camera.
4520
Nice, all...
I miss having a western view of the horizon from my house. The way our house is oriented, my view is either north or south. And too many neighborhood trees to see much sunset.
My old, former house (which if I had been smarter, I'd have rented out instead of selling, hence would still own) was the cheapest view property in the county as it sat directly across from railroad tracks. But a wide western horizon overlooking a wildlife refuge. (smack my head, so many regrets)
Well, my back yard wasn't meant for sunsets, but I still enjoy the view (the sun is back there somewhere).
How is your hummingbird outlook for the year so far?
How is your hummingbird outlook for the year so far?
They were slow to re-populate our area this year, saw our first one during the first week of May but now I see one or two just about every time I look out the window to our one feeder. They are mostly of the Ruby Throated variety with a few Anna's Hummingbird females thrown in. I'm watching a Ruby Throated male as I type this.
This is the view of the feeder from my favorite chair: https://scontent.fluk1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.15752-9/284570657_1215800015842048_6324029322163505120_n.j pg?stp=dst-jpg_s2048x2048&_nc_cat=103&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=ae9488&_nc_ohc=hvEO_aQxpeYAX_nDOIe&_nc_ht=scontent.fluk1-1.fna&oh=03_AVLDGXiaEDWdgk8NvWGjidxxt1vmwFsDtipbPABIGyYU hg&oe=62C04CED
I have a bit of lake view, too. It's better in the winter, natch.
Picking up my partner at the ferry dock at sunset this evening. Overcast, with the sun sneaking through now-and-then:
https://i.imgur.com/2KrvBBp.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/UB0arpS.jpg
iris lilies
6-4-22, 7:44am
These are beautiful, folks!
I don’t think I can ever give you all a pretty sunset view of our own view in Hermann because the sun sets in the west, not on the horizon behind the view. And that is fine with me because I much prefer that my house face East, the garden faces East and all the plants get East sun.
Well, not exactly sunset, but you get the idea tonight.
https://i.imgur.com/rSV1gMu.jpg
iris lilies
6-9-22, 10:24am
Gorgeous night sky!
happystuff
6-9-22, 11:11am
Beautiful!!!
ToomuchStuff
6-10-22, 1:09am
Well, not exactly sunset, but you get the idea tonight.
https://i.imgur.com/rSV1gMu.jpg
Beautiful and immediately makes me think of the song Under the Milky Way Tonight; Church.
Also, wish the night sky looked like that around here, that purple is the color of our night sky.
https://i.imgur.com/l5HIkaO.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/PHjyNT7.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/sU8u1RU.jpg
And look at the weird rainbow pattern on the water just a bit before sunset!
https://i.imgur.com/tSK62aI.jpg
frugal-one
6-23-22, 7:20am
Beautiful!
happystuff
6-23-22, 6:43pm
Absolutely beautiful!
Amazing photos, bae!! Here's my humble submission for tonight's sunset on my island
https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/ac56/cmboyd/IMG_3556.jpeg?width=285&height=175&crop=fill
iris lilies
6-24-22, 9:28am
Wow!
happystuff
6-24-22, 9:35am
I'm loving all these sunset pictures! Thanks so much for sharing.
1:45AM tonight.
https://i.imgur.com/aVY1bcj.jpg
Almost a new moon, < 1 hour of "dark" a day at this latitude on July 1 today. Now, if I can just get someone to turn off the power to the mainland city that's due south of this spot for about 10 minutes :-)
https://i.imgur.com/bjcCc2I.jpg
“A still more glorious dawn awaits / not a sunrise, but a galaxy-rise / a morning filled with 400 billion suns / the rising of the Milky Way” ~ Carl Sagan
Busiest weekend of the year at the state park next to my house.
At 1AM though, it seems remarkably uncrowded, and it is an excellent time to go canoeing!
https://i.imgur.com/oME0NEv.jpg
That is beautiful, but WAY past my bedtime!
Catherine and Bae, these are really beautiful.
Busiest weekend of the year at the state park next to my house.
At 1AM though, it seems remarkably uncrowded, and it is an excellent time to go canoeing!
https://i.imgur.com/oME0NEv.jpg
This is motivation to turn off the computer and go outside for a few minutes before going to bed. Thank you Bae.
2AM, July 11, 2022.
View from front yard:
https://i.imgur.com/FKERddn.jpg
miteigenenhaenden
7-11-22, 4:38pm
4594
I just took the photo when I came from yoga by bike. The 7.5 miles are fun if you can take your time and enjoy the nice weather
1AM July 12, 2022
https://i.imgur.com/JqHlLxb.jpg
holy cow. That is amazing. I was looking at the same moon last night, but certainly would not have been able to capture it on my iPhone this way.
Not to get all metaphysical, but there's something about all of us sharing the same moon every night that binds us together. It's almost if we are sharing one big backyard, looking up at the same sky.
ToomuchStuff
7-12-22, 12:38pm
2AM, July 11, 2022.
View from front yard:
https://i.imgur.com/FKERddn.jpg
I'd say give a copy to the neighbor, but that would be a been there, done that, had the space suit thing.:laff:
I received via UPS today a long-awaited new camera lens purpose-designed for deep-sky astrophotography.
This guarantees at least two weeks of overcast weather, typically.
So I decided to test it for shipping damage at sunset today, shooting at some islands far far away on the horizon:
https://i.imgur.com/MntlmyW.jpg
I'd say give a copy to the neighbor, but that would be a been there, done that, had the space suit thing.:laff:
Ya :-). I have a photo he gave me that he took of the Earth-rise over the moon, during his Apollo 8 mission. It will take a while to meet that standard.
Lovely shot; no apparent shipping damage.
happystuff
7-17-22, 9:07am
Beautiful, bae! Seems to have arrived in good shape!
iris lilies
7-17-22, 10:32am
holy cow. That is amazing. I was looking at the same moon last night, but certainly would not have been able to capture it on my iPhone this way.
Not to get all metaphysical, but there's something about all of us sharing the same moon every night that binds us together. It's almost if we are sharing one big backyard, looking up at the same sky.
I like that idea. Beautiful image of the Moon, bae.
iris lilies
7-17-22, 10:34am
These photos are all wonderful, people!
Somewhat clearer skies tonight, North America Nebula from my driveway, single 3.2 second exposure.
https://i.imgur.com/j9lDnJE.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/n3Wy1ri.jpg
Dog got me up in the middle of the night. Northern Lights with night mode on iPhone.
Wow. I might use that photo as an inspiration for a watercolor exercise.
Here's a rotated and cropped inset of the nebula photo there, so you can see where they got the "North America" part of the name from:
https://i.imgur.com/Fev4qMS.jpg
happystuff
7-19-22, 6:13pm
I just love the northern lights photo!!! Seeing them live is the only thing (currently) on my bucket list.
Tonight, an experiment with an old-timey Petzval lens - it has incredible distortion built-in, which makes for sort of an artsy effect without bothering with an Instagram filter :-)
https://i.imgur.com/WBVn12K.jpg
Another experiment from last night. 1840s-style astronomy :-)
https://i.imgur.com/v7D9X1M.jpg
bae, thank you for these photos. I've enjoyed them immensely.
I was setting up a small telescope last night to make some observations, and as is my practice I was assembling and testing the rig before my real target was even visible. It was 10:30PM, and not dark enough yet for any deep sky targets.
So, I pointed the thing at the Tsawwassen cargo terminal, 27.5(!!!) miles away from my deck here, across the border into British Columbia.
https://i.imgur.com/QutrAf3.jpg
Bigger telescope tonight.
20 minutes of tracked exposure.
The Dumbbell Nebula, Messier 27. 1:30AM, July 24, 2022
A nebula surrounding a white dwarf star, 1360 light years from my driveway. Discovered by Charles Messier in 1764.
https://i.imgur.com/UZGLPUl.jpg
rosarugosa
7-24-22, 6:10am
Beautiful pictures, Bae. I am surprised that the cargo terminal looks so lovely.
(2:45AM, July 24 2022, Orcas Island Code Compliance Office)
A long long time ago, someone had a very bad day!
The Little Ring Nebula. There's a bit of the star's core in the center, surrounded by, well, the rest of the star and what used to be the neighborhood before the Vogons put in the freeway bypass.
Don't skip those local Planning Commission meetings!
https://i.imgur.com/aTyjaeT.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/IvCIV6L.png
rosarugosa
7-24-22, 4:50pm
Those damned Vogons! And their horrible poetry! :laff:
2AM, July 26, 2022
Looking right above Patos Island early this morning from Mt. Constitution:
Bode's Galaxy (M81) and its nearby friend the Cigar Galaxy (M82).
They are gravitationally interacting with each other, causing the Cigar Galaxy to be forming lots and lots of new stars. Much akin to how proximity to Seattle causes more homes to be built here on Orcas Island ��
https://i.imgur.com/B1YTkLx.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/fdyHg1u.jpg
Madrona Point, Orcas Island, 11:40PM July 26, 2022
Photo taken with just an iPhone(!), while out playing with the bioluminescent dinoflagellates on the dock.
https://i.imgur.com/ol88tqi.jpg
The Fireworks Galaxy (NGC 6946)
3AM, July 28, 2022
https://i.imgur.com/ZVjiHoj.jpg
Last night, from my driveway:
Saturn
https://i.imgur.com/MCWoxQ6.png
Jupiter, Europa, Ganymede, Io, Callisto
https://i.imgur.com/qZWfgCq.jpg
Both single exposure images.
OMG.. your lens must be an upgrade from my iPhone X camera :).
BTW, a couple of weeks ago, we witnessed Musk's Starlink satellites in the sky. We initially thought it was a meteor, but the next day, we learned that the lights were over Seattle and Portland and Ontario, too! We just happened to catch them!!
OMG.. your lens must be an upgrade from my iPhone X camera :).
Jupiter and the moons was with a 500mm lens in a crop-sensor body, so basically an 800mm lens.
Saturn was an 800mm lens, with a 2x teleconverter, making it a 1600mm lens. Then I used the crop-sensor body, giving me the equivalent of a 2560mm lens.
Luckily both planets are quite bright, so short exposures with the fairly slow lenses I was trying worked, as a test.
The observing conditions were with some moisture, heat, and wispy clouds in the atmosphere, which makes things a pain. My plan once I get the gear dialed in is to take about 3000 images of each planet, then have the computer throw out the 90%+ that will be blurry due to atmospheric conditions, then have the computer stack up the "good" images.
The initial single-frame experiment shows promise.
BTW, a couple of weeks ago, we witnessed Musk's Starlink satellites in the sky. We initially thought it was a meteor, but the next day, we learned that the lights were over Seattle and Portland and Ontario, too! We just happened to catch them!![/QUOTE]
happystuff
9-8-22, 10:37am
Those are some amazing shots, bae!
ToomuchStuff
9-8-22, 10:48am
So is Bae trying to make the point we wasted money on the James Web telescope?:laff:
Tonight here. AQI is 150+ from mainland wildfires blowing this way.
https://i.imgur.com/MsYIpLV.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/D3B9UCZ.jpg
Yep. That's it. Was working on a project this afternoon out on the deck & had to go in. My eyes were bothering me.
iris lilies
9-10-22, 10:53pm
Boy it makes for pretty colors tho!
I ignored my cell messaging me, and I finally checked it "This is Sky Valley Fire--Disregard evacuation alert sent 315PM on Bolt Creek Fire. This alert was for part of index only." Good thing I wasn't in imminent danger. I only have a vague idea of where Index is, and fortunately, it's not nearby. A friend's sister-in-law and her husband have been evacuated from Clackamas County, east of Portland. It's nerve-wracking for people in the area. This seems to be a re-do of 2020's wildfires.
Somehow I managed to delete my post. I meant to correct the name of the fire down in Oregon--- the Cedar Creek fire.
Teacher Terry
9-11-22, 12:52am
Our air quality is 209. There’s a fire about 100 miles away in California.
frugal-one
9-11-22, 4:27am
Experiencing heavy rain…. told if water standing in road to turn around so as not to drown….. Crazy world we live in!
Can't believe I'm saying this, but I wish it would rain. So much.
Wow, just checked the air quality index for where I live and it is 3.
bae, you might want to consider competing in this next year:
https://mymodernmet.com/astronomy-photographer-year-2022/?fbclid=IwAR1zmn6wdohMlEpedpEsfUmGSncBsVn2JWPvC3aA TdOwLRUwQi0OrXEwt1o
bae, you might want to consider competing in this next year:
https://mymodernmet.com/astronomy-photographer-year-2022/?fbclid=IwAR1zmn6wdohMlEpedpEsfUmGSncBsVn2JWPvC3aA TdOwLRUwQi0OrXEwt1o
Wow, some inspiration there!
happystuff
9-17-22, 10:46am
bae, you might want to consider competing in this next year:
https://mymodernmet.com/astronomy-photographer-year-2022/?fbclid=IwAR1zmn6wdohMlEpedpEsfUmGSncBsVn2JWPvC3aA TdOwLRUwQi0OrXEwt1o
Wow! That winning photo is amazing! I agree - go for it, bae!!!
https://i.imgur.com/Ucsi9ej.jpg
Those colors are amazing!
https://i.imgur.com/FkBV6FA.jpg
Or, 10 seconds later with a wider angle
https://i.imgur.com/VpAVn2P.jpg
Bae, you should publish a book of these photographs. Then, please autograph my copy!
Absolutely beautiful! Living on an island also, at the opposite end of the country, we also are privy to beautiful sunsets over the water every night. Every time I think to myself, I've got to stop taking pictures of these sunsets, oops, another different kind of sunset presents itself. It never gets boring.
You capture them so well. My photos never live up to the real thing.
Portuguese John Here
6-14-23, 8:29am
Bae’s pictures are astonishing, it’s near the place you live?
Bae’s pictures are astonishing, it’s near the place you live?
Just from my deck, I am super lazy.
Wildfire smoke blowing is producing quite a show.
https://i.imgur.com/wDjshuM.jpg
frugal-one
8-19-23, 5:42pm
Wow.. that doesn't even look real.
happystuff
8-20-23, 7:17am
Wow! Sad about the cause, but the effect is beautiful.
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