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Saturday night snow

I had cleared off the butterfly bush (lower left) twice already.

Updated…..It’s Winter Weather Awareness Week in NYC! Who knew there’d be a test at the end of the week?

Winter storm warnings are up for Saturday night, October 29th! Forecast snowfall amounts are found at: http://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=NWS&issuedby=OKX&product=WSW It's going to be hard to get snow this time of year with water temps near 60 degrees, so the heavy snow could miss us entirely. But it would still be a major nor'easter, even with all rain, …

Sunspots

Here's a photo taken through my 60mm (2.4 inch wide) refractor telescope of the sun today. Click to see the sunspots and some of the slightly brighter areas around them. Camera and my eyes were protected by a solar filter from Kendrick. The Canon XS was set to a 1/200 second-long exposure, ISO 400. The …

Jupiter, blazing in the eastern sky after dark

Now, in the evening sky after 8pm and earlier every night, the planet Jupiter rises above the eastern horizon, blazing like an airplane coming in for a landing. But it doesn’t move as fast as an airplane. Jupiter is bright because it’s a giant planet and Earth is a bit closer now to Jupiter, so …