The western flank of the powerful storm system that produced an EF5 tornado in Parkersburg, Iowa an hour and a half earlier is spread out on the southern horizon along US Highway 218 just south of the US Highway 18 interchange and northwest of Charles City, Iowa. Photo was captured around 6:30 PM, May 25, 2008. The encounter with the back end of this system was not a product of a storm chase but a return from a fishing trip in northeast Minnesota.
A thin waning crescent moon with a hint of earthshine rises in the eastern sky just ahead of the sun around 7:20 AM on Thursday, November 4, 2010. This capture was made from Progress Drive in Hiawatha, Iowa.
It may look as if a forest fire is raging out of control behind this line of trees. In reality, the scene was merely a large bank of clouds moving swiftly away from the camera toward the southeast. The three-second exposure at f/3.5 with an ISO of 500 created a pastel colorization of the clouds, a reflection of nearby parking lot lights at Bowman Woods Elementary School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. In less than a half hour, all clouds were gone. Peeking through the partial clearing at upper left are dimmer stars and the bright planet Jupiter. This image was captured around 10:35 PM on Wednesday, November 3, 2010.
The Comet Hartley 2 (103P) was not itself visible without a telescope on Wednesday night, November 3, 2010, but some of its effects were. This 23-second exposure captured the streak of a meteor (left) in the western sky--part of the comet's debris field which passed over the Earth from November 2-3. The radiant point for this two-night activity was the constellation Cygnus, seen pointing upward at lower left. Cygnus' brightest star, the 1.25 magnitude Deneb, is located just above and right of the meteor streak. The meteor was traveling right-to-left from the camera's perspective. The brownish smudges at right are small drifting clouds moving into the field of view. Clouds had nearly covered the entire sky just a little over a half an hour earlier but moved out quickly. This image was taken from Bowman Woods Park in Cedar Rapids, Iowa around 11:05 PM. Shot at f/3.5, 18mm focal length, and an ISO rating of 500.
A halo rings the rising sun as seen from Bowman Woods Park in Cedar Rapids, Iowa at 8:40 AM on Saturday, October 30, 2010. From the camera's perspective, the new aircraft contrail at left center appears to be climbing vertically, but in reality it was on its way west--directly overhead and beyond. Note how the sky, covered in cirrus clouds and crisscrossed with other contrails, has the appearance of a hanging bed sheet rippling in the wind.
Cumulus clouds exhibit vertical growth as they approach Bowman Woods Park in Cedar Rapids around 5:25 PM on Tuesday, October 12, 2010. The clouds were part of an unusual summer-like line of thunderstorms which moved in a northeasterly direction and nearly stretched diagonally across the state of Iowa. Temperatures were in the low 80s at the time of this capture. This view looks west over Bowman Woods Elementary School.
Actually, I meant "hardly a speck"-- The Comet 103P/Hartley 2 continues to elude the spectacular and remain barely visible to the observer using binoculars or a tripod-mounted camera. This 30-second exposure at f/3.5 with an ISO rating of 500 barely detects the comet's light (inside small circle at center) in the east sky just before 3:00 AM on Monday, November 1, 2010. Hartley 2 was positioned on this night just below and right of the constellation Gemini and left of Orion. The bright star below Hartley and near the bottom is Procyon in the constellation Canis Minor. The fuzzy blob just above the right corner of the yellow box at bottom left is M44--the Beehive Cluster. This photo was shot looking over Brentwood Drive NE in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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