Pre time lapse shots

I have been playing with the time lapses again... but I have a smudge on my lens, GRRR!!!! I will address that and try again, in the meanwhile, enjoy the rather pretty pre-lapse shots. Blues and purples in this Aurora :D

Forgot to say, WELCOME TO DAVIS. Little late I know.

Night time exposure. Full moon casts shadows and with right exposure it looks like daytime with stars :) YOIY!
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Aurora time lapse

Justin, the chef, and I had a pretty casual day in the kitchen this Thursday. I was slushy, aka dish pig, but it was such a nice day outside that we took time to take the odd photo or two at quiet periods. Later that evening we set up our cameras for some time lapse station photography. These two being my first, they are a little amateurish, but they do the trick.

Cheers

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Blizzards, I'm over 'em!!!

OK, probably the last of the Bliz beards... I kinda shaved. These last two pics might be the best I have for a while yet (still have a goatee)... Blizzards have dropped in novelty. Having them go for more than a day at a time means daily tasks get harder and harder to do over the duration. I am sick of having to dig out the hydroponics facility just to check the water for example. Anyway... pics of what is probably my last Blizz beard.

Oh, and hydro has caught up with last months tomato yields already... getting there!

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Blizzards, two of them!

Well we have  had a run of blizzards recently, two almost back to back. On the first one I got another good blizz beard but had no camera and wanted to get the ice off my face once inside because it was cold. I tried again on the next blizzard but the results weren't nerely as good. I will try again next time :)

Invisible beam

The German Lidar, an upper atmospheric instrument used over Winter by Bernie (real name Berndt) was thought to be invisible to human eyes. This turns out to be not the case! Australian Lidar operator, Laser Dave, discovered this.

On a walk past the German laser to Australia's he picked up a slight movement out of the corner of his eye. The movenment was in fact his own but the way the stationary beam appeared to move with respect to the backdrop of stars was what caught his eye.

Operating just on the threshold of human vision, cameras detect the beam much more easily. So check out the pics. There have been various descriptions of what the German Lidar looks like to the eye, but I would say this: It is barely perceivable at first, though I had just stepped out from Hydroponics and my eyes needed a long time to adjust to the dark. It looks like a very faint spotlight, the beam doesn't appear sharp and defined like lasers in the visible range but rather diffused and much like a torch beam lit up by smoke or haze, but more faint.