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  • Star Trails for Christmas Eve

    Star Trails for Christmas Eve

    For this Christmas Eve, I thought it would be interesting to post star trails taken from Loma Linda. Surprisingly, there were many more visible stars over lighted San Bernardino. Flight paths from air traffic in and out of nearby airports add some interest.

    This picture was captured last night from the south slopes, with settings at f/10 and ISO 400. Exposed over the equivalent of 255 minutes, the star trails arc about 1/6 of circle. One purposely underexposed shot was taken after sunset but before dark, then superimposed, so as to retain some foreground detail.

    Wishing everyone a starry merry Christmas Eve!

  • Solar Eclipse

    Solar Eclipse

    A solar eclipse happened late this afternoon. The maximum was at 18:38 local time. The path of totality passed through northern California, where viewers would see an annular eclipse. Here in Loma Linda, we only observed partial occlusion.

  • Winter Storm

    Winter Storm

    In all the years that we’ve lived in this area, we have never had such torrential rains as this. Mountain View became like a roaring river, and I almost slid into it because of the slick mud along Allen Way. Mud flowed into many homes, most of which were on Huron and Lawton, and the worst off were the ones situated just downhill from the north-south arteries that channeled the mudflows.