Ojai Clear Sky Clock (its an astonomer's tool)

Monday, April 26, 2010

Interesting places

Today I was at work with my camera. Look at
these great places few people ever see. The shapes, the contrast and the lines.





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Sunday, April 25, 2010

Cozmo the Cat

Cozmo is now 15 years old, I think he's used about 8 of his nine lives. He sleeps all day and hunts all night--every night. Its amazing that just a couple years ago he broke his rear leg--he could hardly walk. Over time he healed, started his daily/nightly routine and is back in the business of catching little vermin. We wish he would leave them outside though. How about this pic on the left--yes that is a bird standing next to him--he usually eats them.



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Jada & Chaka--our little buddies

Jada just had a bath--good girl;














so did Chaka--good boy
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Lalunasky.com

If you haven't seen my astrophotogrpahy website, you should. Here is my most recent example of what I enjoy doing. This is M 3 or NGC 5272, a ball of half a million stars older than the Sun lies over 30,000 light-years away in our Milky Way Galaxy.April 13 & 16, 2010. This image, like all those on Lalunasky.com are very difficult to capture. You can see all my equipment and how I do it on the site.

Pretty cool huh?
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Canon Power Shot S90


Just last week I picked up a new camera that I really like. Following the recommendation of Ken Rockwell, I bought the Canon PowerShot S90. This is a great camera with10mp and all the bells and whistles of a much larger DSLR. Here's a few shots to enjoy. I bought my daughter a very nice Nikon DSLR last year. I have used from time to time until now. It too is a great camera, but it's large and bulky unlike the S90. This little camera can do nearly everything a larger DSLR can do and I can carry it in my pocket--sweet.
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Highway 33, The Sespi trailhead

Took a little ride up 33 today with Dee. The weather was fantastic. We stopped just above the Sespe trailhead and captured this nice image of the mounatins.

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