Clair de Lune

Happy New Year, my friends.

Gotta love a sunny day in November!

Kuiper Belt?

I don’t know if the solar system inspired this vintage buckle but the design is wonderful. An amazing example of Native American silversmithing from the Navajo Arts and Crafts Guild, c. 1940s.

Solar!

My portfolio is up. This collection of prints is from a wonderful show of sun connected work at the Photo-Eye Gallery in Santa Fe. I’m excited to be a part of it. More information on the show and the artists can be explored from their homepage.

Alien

I caught this monster stalking the edge of the sun last week. BIG and frighteningly beautiful, it haunted the limb for three days before disappearing. 

A Different Light

Amateur telescopes come in a couple of flavors. On the right, the view in white light, showing the surface or photosphere. White light filters show sunspots, brighter plage regions at the edge of the sun and in good seeing, the subtle granulation of the sun’s surface.

On the left is the view seen at the wavelength of hydrogen alpha light. Only in this narrow slice deep in the red end of the visible spectrum (656.3nm) can we see edge prominences, arching filaments, hot active regions and the beautiful convolutions of the solar chromosphere - the atmosphere of our sun. 

Add the parts up

… and you get the sun total. 

Fire

A solar brushstroke… very expressive!

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Labor Day Bonfire

There were so many fires along the edge of the sun yesterday… I had a hard time deciding which to put out first.