Re: [Utah-astronomy] Patrch Spring fire aerial shot
Thanks! ------------------------------ On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 3:10 PM MDT jcarman6@q.com wrote:
Papa Joe was chiding me - lol. It's a good point made about the electronic viewfinder. I thought the sun dimmed enough because of the smoke to risk it, otherwise wouldn't have even considered it. But I will remember the warning papa! _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy
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The wind has been shifting and the smoke is advancing east again. The sun is starting to be obscured from my home in mid valley (SL). I'm expecting another very deep red sunset, and maybe another red moon. Hopefully I can stay awake another couple of hours. My last day off was the 4th and I'm just beat.
Here's a frame grabbed from some video I shot this afternoon from my backyard. Hand-held and blown up quite a bit, so excuse the lack of crispness. Several sunspot groups are visible in the original video, and I was lucky enough to get a flock of birds fly through the frame. http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii24/JethroTull1958/ATM/Astro/FireSunset0...
Neat, Chuck! I didn't finish reading your note before I clicked on it, and I thought that was the most elaborate series of sunspots ever! -- Joe ________________________________ From: Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2013 8:19 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Patrch Spring fire aerial shot Here's a frame grabbed from some video I shot this afternoon from my backyard. Hand-held and blown up quite a bit, so excuse the lack of crispness. Several sunspot groups are visible in the original video, and I was lucky enough to get a flock of birds fly through the frame. http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii24/JethroTull1958/ATM/Astro/FireSunset0... _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options".
If they were sunspots, Joe, it would be remarkable! Sunspots don't form at high solar latitudes. On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 8:46 PM, Joe Bauman <josephmbauman@yahoo.com> wrote:
Neat, Chuck! I didn't finish reading your note before I clicked on it, and I thought that was the most elaborate series of sunspots ever! --
Impressive shot chuck. Maybe you should submit it to EPOD. We all may have more chances to get smoke covered shots that we'd like. Listening to the aircraft chatter at Tooele airport I noticed the air tankers appeared to have been taken off the Patch Spring fire and retargeted to other fires. I got confirmation of that today speaking with the reporter I took up yesterday. Apparently with nothing valuable out that way they're just letting the fire burn. Could be a while until it's out. patrick On 15 Aug 2013, at 20:19, Chuck Hards wrote:
Here's a frame grabbed from some video I shot this afternoon from my backyard. Hand-held and blown up quite a bit, so excuse the lack of crispness. Several sunspot groups are visible in the original video, and I was lucky enough to get a flock of birds fly through the frame.
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii24/JethroTull1958/ATM/Astro/FireSunset0...
Thanks Patrick, but it's not EPOD quality. It's just a single frame grabbed from a video sequence so the resolution is low and it's been over-enlarged to the point of blurriness. I just liked it because of the birds. The movement of the birds between frames and the movement of the smoke itself precludes stacking, unfortunately. Which is a shame because several large sunspots were easily visible. The largest group bordered on filtered naked-eye resolution. The only reason I even got it uploaded from the camera and posted yesterday was because when I got home from work I was so beat that I crashed on the couch and napped for an hour. That restored my energy a bit and gave me the wherewithall to pull out the camera (mounted on an 80mm f/5 refractor) and shoot the setting sun. I've got some dedicated stills that I'll be going through hopefully this weekend. They should be much sharper, and include some foreground objects to give the shot a better feel of the smokey sun experience. I hand-held for everything because I didn't have the time or energy to set up a mount. More ash on the driveway this morning. I left a cloudy wake in the street as I drove off to work. On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 9:31 PM, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com>wrote:
Impressive shot chuck. Maybe you should submit it to EPOD.
I saw some news footage on TV of that huge DC-10 air tanker bombing the Rockport fire. I wish I had time to drive up and see that bird in action. Imagine a jumbo jet flying low, slow, and heavy over a raging brush/forest fire in rugged mountainous terrain, and dropping as much fire retardent as any 20 smaller aircraft could carry. My hat is off to that pilot and crew, they certainly have their hands full and earn their pay in spades. On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 9:31 PM, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com>wrote:
Listening to the aircraft chatter at Tooele airport I noticed the air tankers appeared to have been taken off the Patch Spring fire and retargeted to other fires. I got confirmation of that today speaking with the reporter I took up yesterday.
Apparently with nothing valuable out that way they're just letting the fire burn. Could be a while until it's out.
I watched that plane from my house. It was incredible...somewhat eerie...to see it fly so low. Nancy On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 5:49 AM, Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> wrote:
I saw some news footage on TV of that huge DC-10 air tanker bombing the Rockport fire. I wish I had time to drive up and see that bird in action. Imagine a jumbo jet flying low, slow, and heavy over a raging brush/forest fire in rugged mountainous terrain, and dropping as much fire retardent as any 20 smaller aircraft could carry.
My hat is off to that pilot and crew, they certainly have their hands full and earn their pay in spades.
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 9:31 PM, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com
wrote:
Listening to the aircraft chatter at Tooele airport I noticed the air tankers appeared to have been taken off the Patch Spring fire and retargeted to other fires. I got confirmation of that today speaking with the reporter I took up yesterday.
Apparently with nothing valuable out that way they're just letting the fire burn. Could be a while until it's out.
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