Comet Leonard, brightest comet of 2021, is at the lower left of these two panels captured on December 29 in dark Atacama desert skies. Heading for its perihelion on January 3 Comet Leonard’s visible tail has grown. Stacked exposures with a wide angle lens (also displayed in a reversed B/W scheme for contrast), trace the […]
Light Rain today! With a high of 13C and a low of 13C. 90 Humidity. 13 C currently. 18 Km/h Wind from Southwest.
“Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.” – Michel de Montaigne
“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.” – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
What and where are these large ovals? They are rotating storm clouds on Jupiter imaged last month by NASA’s Juno spacecraft. In general, higher clouds are lighter in color, and the lightest clouds visible are the relatively small clouds that dot the lower oval. At 50 kilometers across, however, even these light clouds are not […]
Rain today! With a high of 9C and a low of 9C. 88 Humidity. 8 C currently. 19 Km/h Wind from Southwest.
“We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.” – William Hazlitt
“Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.” – Robert Motherwell
What’s happened to the Sun? Sometimes it looks like the Sun is being viewed through a giant lens. In the featured video, however, there are actually millions of tiny lenses: ice crystals. Water may freeze in the atmosphere into small, flat, six-sided, ice crystals. As these crystals flutter to the ground, much time is spent […]
Rain today! With a high of 11C and a low of 11C. 78 Humidity. 10 C currently. 23 Km/h Wind from South.