The Website
From The Blog
Next stop Washago, then a couple more, and on to Vancouver. 21 cars. Led by F40PH-2D‘s 6401 and 6433. Glacier Park at the end of the train. HEP-1 Coach 8110
Continue readingVIA Rail Train Number 1 The Canadian leaving Union Station in Toronto
I found a rock. Picture taken with a telephone.
The Sun, false colour in Hα. Taken before the clouds rolled in… Tough getting detail in the shitty conditions.
Couldn’t find any Tardigrades, so defaulted to the prepared slides. Behold the stages of Mitosis. 250x 400x And 1000x oil immersion And at the opposite end of the scale the
Smoky afternoon, but a little clearer now. Waxing gibbous Moon, 58.9% illuminated.
Can’t smell it yet, but the sky is extremely murky. A 48.9% illuminated Moon at 49° altitude shouldn’t be this colour. Note the complete lack of contrast. After sunset. Actual
The Sun today in white light, and false colour hydrogen-alpha. We keep getting hit by severe geomagnetic storms in the daytime, so that’s fun. Sunspot region 4100 resembles Orion’s belt
The waxing crescent Moon tonight with Mars. 30.1% illuminated. Potential for northern lights this weekend, but who knows. Supposed to be clear tonight, but clouds are rolling in.
Conditions are perfect today; there is no wind, and the skies are clear. Too bad there isn’t too much happening up there today. False colour hydrogen-alpha images of the Sun