Clear skies before the storm

Mar15
by kevin on March 15, 2012 at 08:27 and modified on March 15, 2012. at 08:32
Posted In: astronomy, weather

Thunderstorms

This morning a series of thunderstorms started rolling through the area, starting around 03:30 or so. We had many close by lightning strikes and at least two power outages. One was accompanied by a loud noise somewhere in the house and that knocked out the network to the observatory. Another kinda of browned out over a few seconds, went out and then slowly came back up again. Cool.

But this is about last night, before the storm when we still had clear skies.

Hyades, Pleiades, Jupiter, Venus 64sec CanonA540

Jupiter,Venus 15sec Canon A495

Sirius, Orion 64sec CanonA540