9:30, 1:30, 5:30

August 29, 2022 Timothy Price48 Comments

9:30 pm last night. Jupiter is in the lower left of the photo, and Saturn is close to the right edge of the photo.

Jupiter and four moons at 9:30 pm last night.

The sky straight overhead at 9:30 pm last night. Click on the image to enlarge it.

Jupiter and three of its moons at 1:30 am this morning. I woke up and 1:30 am and remembered I had left the drip systems on, so I got up and turned off the drip system and photographed Jupiter. I forgot my iPhone, so I didn’t get any wide-angle photos of the sky at 1:30 am.

The sky looking east at 5:30 am this morning. Click on the image to enlarge it.

Jupiter with three of its moons at 5:30 am this morning. It’s interesting how the moons change positions through the night.

The sky straight overhead at 5:30 am this morning. You can see the Pleiades and Mars in the upper right side of the photo. Click on the image to enlarge it.

The clouds at sunset this evening.

Studies In Lights & Skies

August 24, 2022August 24, 2022 Timothy Price44 Comments

Spunk: “What’s this crap you are forcing on your viewers now? At least it’s more colorful than coyote crap!”

Loki: “This is how you make ‘Art’ Paparazzo. All you need is a sharp set of claws! Your Bazooka is lame when it comes to shredding!”

Sasha: “You’re making my eyes weird with those ‘Enlightened Stool Samples’ or whatever you called them.”

Pulchritudinous

August 22, 2022 Timothy Price57 Comments

Storm building up in the late afternoon.

Livin’ On A Prayer

August 20, 2022 Timothy Price40 Comments

Praying Mantis on a sunflower

It started raining in the middle of the night and rained on and off all day. We got a total of 0.22 inches of rain. The clouds started breaking up at sunset giving us some color before bedtime.

More Moon Madness

August 14, 2022August 14, 2022 Timothy Price49 Comments

A clear dawn

The Rio Grande and Sandias at sunset last night.

The Rio Grande reflecting

Odd flower out. Echinacea in Brown-Eyed Susans

The moon on the left was taken with my iPhone through a telescope* at 11:00 pm last night. The moon on the right was taken with the Bazooka at 6:00 am this morning. Click on the photos to see the details.

An attempt to get Jupiter and its moons through a telescope with the iPhone*. It came out nicely abstract.

On the left are Jupiter and its moons taken at 11:30 pm last night. On the right are Jupiter and its moons taken at 6:00 am this morning. Both photos were taken with the Bazooka.

Jupiter taken with the Bazooka at 11:30 pm last night. You can almost see the patterns in Jupiter’s clouds.

Jupiter and the moon at 6:00 am this morning.

Saturn is at its peak opposition to the sun tonight. However, a storm rolled in, and the sky is overcast, so I am going to have to strike photographing Saturn tonight.

*I held my iPhone lenses to the eyepiece on the telescope. It’s difficult to align the correct lens and get a really good photo with three lenses on the iPhone. The moon came out pretty well. Jupiter was another matter.

Sunny In the Blue

August 13, 2022 Timothy Price31 Comments

Sunset last night.

Clear dawn this morning.

Sunflowers are blooming.

Supermoon on a clear night last night.

I Tought I Taw a Putty Tat?

August 3, 2022 Timothy Price40 Comments

Pre-dawn

I Tought I Taw a Putty Tat?

Oh! I did! I did see a putty tat!

Venus and Jupiter

The Rio Grande is running high this afternoon.

You Beavers Lighting Up Our Lives

August 2, 2022 Timothy Price51 Comments

Got lighting? There was six beaver in the river at Beaver Point tonight.

Jupiter’s moons were in a formation I had not seen before. When I looked at the image on my camera’s screen at 5:00 am I thought I was moving the camera and getting a double image of the moons, but since Jupiter is round, the moons were really sitting side by side.

The moon through a thin layer of clouds.

Frog Art

August 1, 2022August 1, 2022 Timothy Price53 Comments

Dawn’s pinks and purples
Wait for Sun to show its face
Daybreak colors pale

What happened to eggs
Ditch is dry brutal drought’s woes
We will never know

From flatulent frogs
Bubbles rise ripple water
Laughing in the lake

Bullfrog watches me
From a puddle drying up
Ditch has done gone dry

It is so like men
Breaking wind water bubbles
pulled a frog’s finger

Trees form a green crown
Against the sunset’s orange grays
Another day gone

Early Beaver Shot The Bunny

July 30, 2022 Timothy Price50 Comments

Dawn

NE view of the Rio Grande on Wednesday evening. NE view of the Rio Grande this morning.

SE view of the Rio Grande on Wednesday evening. SE view of the Rio Grande this morning.

A beaver up and out at dawn.

Bunning through the fence.

Shots of the Bunny

pTerodactyl at dawn.

Spunk is a Cat Tree hugger.

We got a really violent thunderstorm this afternoon. The wind was strong, driving the rain sideways, and the visibility was low. The weather station recorded the event as producing 0.95 inches of rain. The wind-driven rain got almost everything on the deck wet.