Although this week's weather has buried everything in snow again for a few days, we got a taste of Spring last weekend, with Crocus chrysanthus in bloom:
More photos added 14 April:
Although this week's weather has buried everything in snow again for a few days, we got a taste of Spring last weekend, with Crocus chrysanthus in bloom:
More photos added 14 April:
Time-lapse sequence with a frame every 6 minutes, taken over a period of 36 hours.
From this:
To this:
Here is a time-lapse sequence including two overhead passes by the International Space Station [ISS]. Both passes begin in the lower-left corner of the frame and end in the upper right.
The first pass occurs between 0:46 and 0:47, and the second pass between 1:05 and 1:07. The station appears as a streak of light in these 4-second exposures.
The ISS, whose first component, the Zarya module, was launched in 1998, now has approximately a dozen pressurized sections connected and orbiting about 250 miles [402 km] above the surface of the earth [drawing from NASA]:
Lenticular clouds appear when strong winds form standing waves over hills or mountains and moisture in the air passing over the high point condenses as the air cools.
This cloud appears to spin in place over the foothills and is illuminated by the rising sun out of the shot to the left.
22 Jan 2012, 5:07 AM MST: A shooting star over Lyons, CO, appears in a single frame of a time-lapse photo sequence.
A close-up is shown below.
There are at least half a dozen shooting stars in the clip below, a time-lapse sequence shot between 3:15 and 7:30 AM. The one above, the brightest, occurs 44 seconds into the clip. Smaller ones occur at 00:19 near the center of the frame and at 00:23 in the lower middle part of the frame [these may be hard to see at the resolution displayed here]. In addition, various aircraft and satellites can be observed especially between 00:58 and about 01:12.