Big sun spot turning to face us!

This is the biggest group of sunspots in a while and I was excited to get a picture.

It could send some solar flairs in our direction causing some more big aruras and interfering with electronics and wireless communications in the next few days.

Sunset Foiling

 

Owl finds out what we do to Turkeys today!

Then gives me a look that chills me to this very day!

Fun Spreckels Boats

Some fun RC boats at Spreckels Lake this weekend.

Bonus African Queen with mini Katharine Hepburn!

I guess there is also a mini Bogart but Katharine is the best! They were pretty great together in the African Queen.

I love the smoke on the Intrepid and hope to see the African Queen in action one weekend. Fingers crossed it has smoke too.

 

Okay Great Egret Shot

I enjoyed the pose and lighting of this great egret standing in a mostly shady spot.
 

Quick and dirty Jupiter shot through the kitchen window

 I looked out the kitchen window and saw Jupiter shining super bright. Put my camera and 500mm lens on a tripod and ran exactly 2 short captures. A 1min capture exposed for Jupiter and a 30sec capture exposed for the moons.

I think I spent 5 minutes total setting up and capturing the images. Then maybe another 60min to process and stack the movies into the still.

Pretty amazing how easy it can be to capture an okay image of Jupiter and it's moons.

At some point soon I need put a little more effort into it and go outside with my good telescope and get a higher res image.

Staying Cozy in a Foot Print

There are a lot of Snowy plover's at Ocean Beach now.

They always look so cute and cuddly when they are curled up in the foot print holes along the beach.