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Multiple but brief arcs - 9 December 2011
Submitted by:
Beth Katz at Sat Dec 10 03:32:01 2011 UTC
Top to bottom: circumzenithal arc, 46 degree halo, upper tangent arc,
faint 22 degree halo. There was also a brilliant sun dog on the right
and part of the 46 degree halo on the left. The 46 degree halo
definitely was not touching the circumzenithal arc above it, so that
rules out the supralateral arc. These clouds were very fleeting, and I
didn't have time to run into the house and grab my better camera. So
these are from my iPhone 3GS. From Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
around 3:20pm on 9 December 2011. Sun about 11.5 degree altitude.
Copyright (c) 2011 Beth Katz, katz@cs.millersville.edu.
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Corona on 31 August 2011
Submitted by:
Beth Katz at Fri Sep 2 19:30:01 2011 UTC
I really saw the colors shown here. They were brilliant yet fleeting. It
was hard to find something to block the sun. From Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania around 2:30pm on 31 August 2011. Copyright (c) 2011 Beth
Katz, katz@cs.millersville.edu.
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Rainbow Wheel Spokes over Conifer, Colorado
Submitted by:
Beth Katz at Fri Sep 2 04:11:01 2011 UTC
My picture of a partial rainbow wheel made the Earth Sciences Picture of
the Day on 7 August 2011. I thought it would be good to include it here
in my gallery. I was visiting my Mom near Conifer, Colorado. I had never
caught anti-crepuscular rays in a photo but finally got them in a
rainbow. Photo taken about 7:45pm 10 July 2011. EPOD link:
http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2011/08/rainbow-wheel-segment-over-conifer-color
ado.html Copyright (c) 2011 Beth Katz, katz@cs.millersville.edu.
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Goodbye, Endeavour - 2011 May 30
Submitted by:
Beth Katz at Mon May 30 12:24:01 2011 UTC
Shuttle Endeavour separated from the International Space Station about 5
hours before this photo taken 30 May 2011 at about 4:50am from
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Endeavour will retire at the end of this
mission. 8 second exposure, ISO 400. Copyright (c) 2011 Beth Katz,
katz@cs.millersville.edu.
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Easter Sunday Rainbow 2011
Submitted by:
Beth Katz at Mon Apr 25 02:59:01 2011 UTC
The thunderstorms just clipped us at dinnertime on Easter Sunday, April
24, 2011. Light rain plus bright sunshine from a low enough sun equals
this rainbow over my house in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. I quickly
stitched together two images; you can see the seam and slightly
different exposure levels. Dogwood trees just starting to bloom.
Copyright (c) 2011 Beth Katz, katz@cs.millersville.edu.
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Twisted ribbon contrail
Submitted by:
Beth Katz at Thu Feb 24 02:15:01 2011 UTC
It had been very windy, and this contrail was twisted like a ribbon.
Note the contrail shadows. Photo taken about 8:23 am EST on 20 February,
2011 from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Copyright (c) 2011 Beth Katz,
katz@cs.millersville.edu.
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Sun Pillar and Wind Turbines - 3 January 2011
Submitted by:
Beth Katz at Wed Jan 5 01:44:01 2011 UTC
I was driving, but my son caught this sun pillar scene at sunset in
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania on 3 January 2011. My iPhone didn't
capture the top of the pillar. The sun is on the horizon, and there
really were bulges in pillar. Note two wind turbines on Turkey Hill at
far left. Copyright (c) 2011 Mark Hutchens, katz@cs.millersville.edu.
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Mercury and Venus - 3 January 2011
Submitted by:
Beth Katz at Mon Jan 3 13:23:01 2011 UTC
Mercury is faintly at lower left while Venus shines high in the morning
sky. Mercury will be visible this week, but look an hour before sunrise.
I believe that's a contrail of a jet heading west below Venus. I checked
for satellites, and a meteor seems unlikely. Jets are making short
contrails this morning. Photo taken at 6:38 am EST on 3 January, 2011
from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. 2 second exposure. ISO 200. Nikon
Coolpix 4500. Copyright (c) 2011 Beth Katz, katz@cs.millersville.edu.
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January Rainbow 2011
Submitted by:
Beth Katz at Sun Jan 2 15:47:01 2011 UTC
I seem to catch January rainbows. Even though it's winter, we get a few
breaks in the cold. (Click photo to see my gallery and the rainbow from
January 2010.) We saw both ends of this one briefly about 10am 2 January
2011 from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. May you have many such
pleasant surprises in 2011 with photogenic skies in the daytime, clear
skies at night, and enough solar activity to give us aurora after a very
long drought. Copyright (c) 2011 Beth Katz,katz@cs.millersville.edu.
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ISS Wave - 2010 Dec 29
Submitted by:
Beth Katz at Wed Dec 29 23:32:01 2010 UTC
ISS Wave (http://www.isswave.org/) is a project to get people worldwide
outside to wave at the International Space Station this week - Dec,
24-31, 2010. That site has a realtime map based on structured tweets
containing #ISSwave. My family waved in twilight on 2010 Dec 29 at about
5:07pm from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. 2 second exposure, ISO 200.
Copyright (c) 2010 Beth Katz,katz@cs.millersville.edu.
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Lunar eclipse on winter solstice - 21 Dec 2010
Submitted by:
Beth Katz at Tue Dec 21 21:19:02 2010 UTC
Dodged the clouds, wind, cold, and early morning hours to catch the
lunar eclipse on the winter solstice. I need a better camera (and
binoculars or telescope) to get more detailed and crisp pictures.
Copyright (c) 2010 Beth Katz, katz@cs.millersville.edu.
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Sun Pillar at Sunrise - 2010 Dec 15
Submitted by:
Beth Katz at Thu Dec 16 15:10:01 2010 UTC
It was 20F, but I grabbed the camera and went out barefoot without a
jacket to catch this photo of a sun pillar at sunrise in Lancaster
County, Pennsylvania. Copyright (c) 2010 Beth Katz,
katz@cs.millersville.edu.
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Venus Corona - 7 Dec 2010
Submitted by:
Beth Katz at Thu Dec 16 13:50:01 2010 UTC
My first Venus corona although I didn't see any colors visually. I
should have used ISO 400, a longer exposure, and zoomed in more. I
wasn't really awake yet. Photo taken about 6:10 am EST on 7 December,
2010 from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. 4 second exposure. ISO 200.
Nikon Coolpix 4500. Copyright (c) 2010 Beth Katz,
katz@cs.millersville.edu.
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Circumhorizon Arc - 26 May 2010
Submitted by:
Beth Katz at Mon May 31 16:06:01 2010 UTC
I had never seen a circumhorizon arc, but conditions were right even
though the photos and appearance wasn't fantastic. I'm pretty sure it
was a circumhorizon. At one point I could see it further along the
horizon in other cirrus clouds, and noted it was flat. (Reference:
http://www.atoptics.co.uk/halo/cha2.htm) Photo taken about noon EDT on
26 May, 2010 from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Copyright (c) 2010
Beth Katz, katz@cs.millersville.edu.
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Moon Halo and Mars
Submitted by:
Beth Katz at Sun Feb 28 04:01:01 2010 UTC
My daughter saw this full moon halo through the skylight while brushing
her teeth and thought I'd like to see it. That's Mars at upper right.
Photo taken about 10:30pm EST on 27 February, 2010 from Lancaster
County, Pennsylvania. The tree is a dawn redwood. 4 second exposure. ISO
200. Nikon Coolpix 4500. Copyright (c) 2010 Beth Katz,
katz@cs.millersville.edu.
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Pre-Groundhog Day Sunset
Submitted by:
Beth Katz at Wed Feb 3 22:34:01 2010 UTC
Driving home past the fields of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, we
observed this gorgeous sunset. My daughter took several pictures with my
iPhone, so she gets the copyright. I'm sure there are groundhogs in
those field. The local one supposedly didn't see his shadow on February
2nd, but we had over three inches of snow on February 2-3. Photo taken
5:30pm EST on 1 February, 2010. Copyright (c) 2010 Helen Hutchens,
katz@cs.millersville.edu.
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January Rainbow - 25 January 2010
Submitted by:
Beth Katz at Tue Feb 2 04:25:01 2010 UTC
We've had wacky weather. It was 62F yesterday. The rain was moving off
when I glanced out the window. There was this bit of bright rainbow. In
January. It disappeared within a few minutes. The warm weather is
fading, too. Lancaster County, Pennsylvania about 2:45pm EST on 25
January, 2010. Copyright (c) 2010 Beth Katz, katz@cs.millersville.edu.
By the way, yes, the forum seems to be broken. I'm not sure what's being
done about it. I've reported it as best I can.
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Orion and ISS - 22 January 2010
Submitted by:
Beth Katz at Sat Jan 23 00:06:01 2010 UTC
I grabbed the camera and family to catch a bright (-3.4) flyover of the
International Space Station. I should have noted that it would appear to
go past Orion. Drat; there are clouds. But I caught it anyway with
trees. It was about 6pm EST on Friday, 22 January 2010. This is an
8-second exposure. There are several extra "stars" because my camera has
many bad pixels. Check out Heavens-Above (http://www.heavens-above.com/)
for your opportunity to catch such moments. Copyright (c) 2010 Beth
Katz, katz@cs.millersville.edu.
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Halo complex combined - 18 December 2009
Submitted by:
Beth Katz at Fri Dec 25 22:56:01 2009 UTC
We had a snowstorm coming in and had a spectacular natural halo complex.
This picture is combined from several shots and shows a circumzenithal
arc, supralateral arc (very faintly), upper tangent arc, and colorful
22-degree halo with sundogs on both sides. There was also a bright blue
glow of a 120-degree parhelion off to the right. I have movies capturing
it all. I'm not very good at combining images in GIMP, but this is the
best I'll do for now. From Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Copyright
(c) 2009 Beth Katz, katz@cs.millersville.edu.
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Halo complex - 18 December 2009
Submitted by:
Beth Katz at Sat Dec 19 01:36:01 2009 UTC
We have a snowstorm coming in and had a spectacular natural halo complex
this afternoon. This picture was taken with my iPhone and shows a
circumzenithal arc, supralateral arc (very faintly), upper tangent arc,
and colorful 22-degree halo. The halo went around the sun to the
horizon. There were also sun dogs and a bright blue glow at about 60
degrees around the parhelic circle. I have movies to capture it all and
better pictures on my camera. But this was probably the peak of the CZA
colors. From Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Copyright (c) 2009 Beth
Katz, katz@cs.millersville.edu.
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Halloween Rainbow
Submitted by:
Beth Katz at Mon Dec 7 12:21:01 2009 UTC
A rainbow with colorful fall foliage on October 31, 2009 in Lancaster
County, Pennsylvania. Copyright 2009 Beth Katz,
katz@cs.millersville.edu.
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Sundog and parhelic circle - 17 January 2009
Submitted by:
Beth Katz at Sun Jan 18 13:56:01 2009 UTC
It was cold (< 10F), but I saw this sundog and the parhelic circle
about noon 17 January 2009 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The
colors were rainbow rather than the usual sunrise/sunset sundogs. A
short time later, there was one on the other side, but my camera was
in the car at that point. When I got to the camera again, both were
gone. You can also see a bit of the 22-degree halo. Copyright (c) 2009
Beth Katz, katz@cs.millersville.edu.
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Sunset companions - 31 December 2008
Submitted by:
Beth Katz at Thu Jan 1 20:29:01 2009 UTC
Venus and the Moon at upper left are joined by Mercury and Jupiter at
lower middle (below clouds low between the trees). About 5:45pm, 31
December 2008 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Copyright (c) 2008
Beth Katz, katz@cs.millersville.edu.
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Planets and Moon - 1 December 2008
Submitted by:
Beth Katz at Mon Dec 1 23:46:01 2008 UTC
The Moon, Venus, and Jupiter about 17:30 EST from Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania. Copyright 2008 Beth Katz, katz@cs.millersville.edu.
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Mystery arc - 11 November 2008
Submitted by:
Beth Katz at Mon Nov 17 03:42:01 2008 UTC
This is a composite of two images with different exposure levels but
together they are what I was seeing in the sky. On the left is what I
believe is part of a superlateral arc. It had bright colors and was
concave. Maybe it was part of the 46-degree halo, but those are rare.
I tried various adjustments to enhance the left side, but wasn't
successful. 11 November 2008 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
Copyright 2008 Beth Katz, katz@cs.millersville.edu.
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Upper Tangent Arc - 11 November 2008
Submitted by:
Beth Katz at Mon Nov 17 03:21:01 2008 UTC
An upper tangent arc with a bit of a sun pillar on November 11, 2008
in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Copyright 2008 Beth Katz, katz@cs.millersville.edu
.
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Glitter path on the grass
Submitted by:
Beth Katz at Sun Sep 14 01:57:01 2008 UTC
It was a damp morning, and I wasn't expecting bright sunlight to peek
through the clouds. I was delighted to see a glitter path on the
grass. Many of these blades of grass have sun reflections on their
tips. 11 September 2008 about 7:12 am EDT in Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania. Copyright 2008 Beth Katz, katz@cs.millersville.edu.
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Ecliptic Meeting - 2008 June 8 with spacecraft
Submitted by:
Beth Katz at Mon Jun 9 02:34:01 2008 UTC
Mars, the Moon, Regulus, and Saturn are joined by the International
Space Station with connected space shuttle STS-124. From Lancaster
County, Pennsylvania about 9:32pm EDT, Sunday, June 8, 2008. Compare
to photo from last night - June 7. Copyright 2008 by Beth Katz, katz@cs.millersville.edu
.
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Ecliptic Meeting - 2008 June 7
Submitted by:
Beth Katz at Sun Jun 8 11:56:01 2008 UTC
On Saturday night, the Moon passed Mars on the way toward Regulus and
Saturn tomorrow night. Maybe people with better cameras will get
better pictures. Copyright 2008 by Beth Katz, katz@cs.millersville.edu.
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Tall sun dog with halo
Submitted by:
Beth Katz at Fri Feb 22 01:46:01 2008 UTC
This tall bright sun dog and halo combination faded quickly while I ran
into the house to grab the camera. It was impressive and brighter than
what this photo shows. About 5:30pm EST 21 February 2008 in Lancaster
County, Pennsylvania. Copyright 2008 by Beth Katz, katz@cs.millersville.edu.
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