Category Archives: Skies

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Moon Halo

December 2, 2009 – 10:48 pm

On December 1 ,2009, the moon was not its usual self. The moon came with an extra bonus and one that was very beautiful call a Moon Halo. Now I have seen these halos before but on this night it was very defined and even had color on the outer portion of the halo. A [...]

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Stars And Strikes

July 3, 2009 – 9:36 am

There is nothing more I would rather do then sit and watch storms go up over the Chesapeake Bay and a nice blanket of stars as the backdrop. As I talked about on my last post storm season has been slow but Wednesday night provided storms that reported having waterspouts and micro burst that sent [...]

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Conclusion To Wallops Island Rocket Launch

May 19, 2009 – 11:26 pm

After three scrubs of the Minotaur 1 rocket with the TacSat-3 satellite at Wallops Island the fourth time was the ticket. The rocket took off around 7:55pm EST with a loud roar and a quick pace into orbit. I will fill in more details of the launch and video but right now its late and [...]

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Wallops Island Rocket Launch Invite

May 4, 2009 – 9:56 pm

A little off the norm from what I usually write about but I wanted to share this with people that keep an eye on the blog. I got an invite to watch NASA’S launch of a Minotaur 1 rocket from only 8000 feet away (media credentials baby, got to love them). This is very exciting [...]

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