Twin bolts of lightning emanate from a cloud northeast of Cedar Rapids, Iowa around 8:50 PM, Sunday, October 23, 2011, as an autumn thunderstorm rages, seen from Bowman Woods Park. The storm, though appearing very close in this image, actually skirted east of the city and left nary a drop of rain at this location. The photo was captured shooting a 12-second exposure at f/3.5, 800 ISO and an 18mm focal length.
The planet Jupiter, shining at a bright -2.91 magnitude (main image) is shown in the ESE sky around 10:18 PM, Thursday, October 20, 2011 from Bowman Woods Park in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The inset image at right shows an enlarged view of the planet (200mm focal length), including a bright streak at its lower left caused by the reflection of two of its moons Callisto and Europa. The main image was a 20-second exposure shot at f/5.6, 3200 ISO and a 55mm focal length.
With a smattering of altocumulus clouds in the western sky, low shadow angles are created on the grounds of Bowman Woods Park in Cedar Rapids, Iowa by the setting sun around 5:00 PM, Friday, October 28, 2011. Temperatures were in the mid-50s.
Cirrocumulus undulatus clouds
Lightning lashes from the underside of a rolling bank of clouds as torrential rain falls behind it around 8:50 PM, Sunday, October 23, 2011. The spring-like thunderstorm was created from spring-like conditions, which included temperatures in the lower 60s. This view looks northeast from Bowman Woods Park in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Two storm systems passed to the west and east of Cedar Rapids, missing the city, with the eastern system being much more extensive in size. This was an 8-second exposure at f/3.5, 800 ISO and an 18mm focal length.
Having received reports of Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) activity as far south as the state of Arkansas I grabbed my camera and set out in hopes of catching the spectacle for myself just after 9:30 PM on Monday, October 24, 2011. This view of the northeast sky was taken around 9:43 PM about a half-mile north of County Home Road on the C Avenue Extension north of Marion, Iowa. Cloud streaks along the horizon show up reddish, possibly illuminated by the Aurora? Also splashed across the sky here was the constellation Auriga (left), dominated by its bright 0.06-magnitude star Capella; the Pleiades cluster at right center and the -2.92-magnitude planet Jupiter at upper right. Below the Pleiades is the constellation Taurus. This image was a 20-second exposure at f/5, 1600 ISO and an 18mm focal length.
Cloud-to-cloud lightning forks from the underside of passing cloud cover looking northeast from Bowman Woods Park in Cedar Rapids, Iowa around 8:47 PM, Sunday, October 23, 2011. Warm conditions (63 degrees F at this hour) helped ignite a line of thunderstorms whose SW edge is seen here about 10 miles distant, with the rest of the line stretching northeast to nearly Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The storm missed Cedar Rapids, passing east of the city as it moved in an ESE direction. Another smaller cell located southwest of Cedar Rapids also missed the area. This image was captured with a 10-second exposure at f/3.5, 800 ISO and an 18mm focal length.
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