TIME-LAPSE WEATHER JUNE 21

12 hours of weather, as seen from the all-sky camera on my roof...

ACTIVE AURORA (Thursday, June 6)

The Northern Lights were active last night (June6)....

Sadie

We finally are getting some sunshine this week. Good time to dig into some yard work and exercise. I spent most of the day working on the front yard, pruning shrubbery, weeding and tilling.
This morning, Sadie went exploring in the backyard, while I just soaked up some sun.

We both miss our buddy, Boone, but we are doing well. Sadie has become my little "shadow"....following me around the house, going with me in the car and supervising my yard work.

Lazy Day With My Camera.....

"...sign? what sign?! I didn't see any sign!"

The Arlington Municpal Airport is 2 miles north of me.....

A stunt plane practices for the Arlington Fly-In this summer....

Northern Lights

Last night (May 31) as I was driving home (around 11 p.m.), I noticed the telltale "haze" of the northern lights, low in the sky. When I got home, I rushed to set up my camera (as the forecast was calling for clouds overnight). I "auto-snapped" a few hundred 10-second exposures and captured a beautiful display of the aurora. This event was the result of a stream of solar wind from the Sun, caused by a coronal hole in the Sun's upper atmosphere.
Below, is an image of  the coronal hole on May 29, taken by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft...

The view from my backyard Friday night:..

A short time-lapse video taken by the all-sky camera, mounted on my roof:...

Time-lapse video, created from 174 individual images (Canon Rebel DSLR)....