Solar Images of 09.15.24

Despite a forecast 15% probability of rain today, the afternoon was perfectly clear. Below are my solar images. Each image is a stack of 1000 […]

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This Week in COVID

Here is Dr. Klotman’s Week 234 video update. The highlights are: Dr. Klotman devotes a substantial portion of this week’s update to MPox. There are […]

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Solar Images of 09.12.24

Today’s new solar photography tweaks include: Lowering the camera gain to unity theoretically reduces the amount of camera amplifier noise. Increasing the exposure duration compensates […]

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Solar Images of 09.11.24

Today was partly cloudy – a result of Hurricane Francine’s course along the Texas coast as it heads to Louisiana and beyond. Still, there were […]

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Eating Dogs

I howled last night as I listened to Trump repeat the apocryphal, sensationalist, and xenophobic claims that (legal) Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio were eating […]

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Solar Images of 09.10.24

It was mostly cloudy today. I still thought that I could record enough video to make passable solar images. I managed a five-minute video most […]

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Debate Dinner

Well, debate dinner porn, actually. Dinner, before the event was a baked potato, a grilled medium-rare, boneless ribeye, and a salad of greens and figs. […]

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Don’t Tell Me

It was sometime in 2011, I think. I was reading an item about micro-expressions, and I became intrigued by the concept. Years later, during the […]

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Solar Images of 09.09.24

I tried something a little different today. Instead of the 120-180second AVI recordings that I usually make, I went to 240seconds. That’s about 1100-1300 frames […]

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Solar Images of 09.08.24

The sky was clear, and the wind was blowing with gusts of 15mph. Videography of the solar disk was easy. Below are two tunings of […]

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