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Monthly Archive for June, 2012

Walnut Hill Park Rose Garden

Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 29th, 2012

A perfect day to visit the Walnut Hill Park Rose Garden in New Britain, Connecticut.

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Snoopy 1 leaving Hartford

Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 28th, 2012

I was at Brainard Airport for a short while this morning when I saw the MetLife blimp being moved around this morning so I figured it was ready to lift off. Several minutes later the blimp positioned itself into the wind and was off like a shot! Here’s what it looked like. Since its conception [...]

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We image the ISS, and the ISS images us

Posted in Astronomy, astrophotography, Space on Jun 26th, 2012

Below is one of the pictures that I have shot of the International Space Station as it regularly passes overhead here in Connecticut. Many times as it has come over the horizon and into view,  I have always wondered if any of the astronauts were up there taking pictures of us on the ground. They sure [...]

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Chasing some June storms

Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 25th, 2012

Today was a day where I got a chance to chase a storm not once, but twice. There was a line of thunderstorms going through our state early this morning, and since I was heading out to an assignment right in it’s path I decided to do a little early morning chasing. As severe thunderstorm [...]

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Venus Transit Sidebar

Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 7th, 2012

For those of you in the newspaper/magazine/publishing business you know what a sidebar is. For those of you who don’t: In publishing, sidebar is a term for information placed adjacent to an article in a printed or Web publication, graphically separate but with contextual connection. So, here’s my “sidebar” to the Venus Tranist a few [...]

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Venus Transit Connecticut style

Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 6th, 2012

After waiting and planning for the past 8 years for the next Venus Transit since 2004, it was still ”touch and go” right up to the last minute to see anything at all. Locations for viewing this rarest of rare astronomical events continued to change almost up to the viewing date, but was finally settled on [...]

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Venus fly by

Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 1st, 2012

I went out last night (just 5 days before the Venus Transit) to try to see the thin crescent of Venus just about 9 degrees away from the sun. A thin cloud layer was visible as the sun was setting, but thicker bands made it a most enjoyable sunset to view. Then my search started [...]

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