Showing posts with label Comets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Comets. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 30, 2014

(Another) Comet Lovejoy

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Comet Lovejoy (C/2014 Q2) passes behind the fire lookout on Huckleberry Mountain Okay, it doesn't get much easier than this one. For...
Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Rock On, Geminid Meteors

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Four Geminid meteors slice through the sky above weak northern lights, viewed over Lake McDonald, in Glacier Park early Monday morning. T...
Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Fiery Dust From a Famous Snowball

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Orionid meteor and northern lights this morning over the Livingston Mountain Range, in Glacier National Park Orionid meteor flying th...
Monday, February 3, 2014

Vega, A Rising Star Over Montana

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The bright and occasional north star, Vega, sits low on the horizon and shimmers across a foggy Lake McDonald between the dim winter Milk...
Saturday, December 21, 2013

Celebrating Love, Joy, and Halley's Hope

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(Extra-long edition covers multiple holidays...)  Comet Lovejoy rises over Glacier Park's Mt. Brown on Dec. 7th, 2013 Long ago, b...
Thursday, December 5, 2013

Comet Lovejoy on a Steamy December Night

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Left to right: Chief Mountain, Comet Lovejoy, meteor smoke trail Somehow I overlooked the forecast for record cold when I lined out the ...
Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Old vs. Ancient - The Blasdel Barn and Comet ISON

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Comet ISON (upper left) rises before dawn falls upon the 1909 Blasdel Barn, near Kalispell (click to enlarge) The old Blasdel Barn was r...