Category Archives: Space

Hurricane Irene Virginia Beach, Virginia

We were lucky in the Hampton Roads area, hurricane Irene could have been far worse then it was. After my chase with the storm hurricane Isabel was much more destructive to our area and a large swath of the East Coast. Most of the time I like to be at land fall during a hurricane...

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Moon Halo

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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A Different Twist On The Wedding Platform

There are not to many people I look up to and when I say that I mean height wise. For those who have met me I am pretty tall, stacking up about 6’6″. I stayed with my sister over the weekend in Ohio and her boyfriend Mark is close to 7′. So Saturday Mark asked...

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Stars And Strikes

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

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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