Category: Astronomy
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Yosemite & The Epic Sierra by Tony Rowell (video)
Cubicle got you down? Then check out this awesome video sent over by Tony Rowell. This ought to perk you up.
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Brave the Cold and Check Out the First Meteor Shower of the Year Tomorrow Morning!
Do you like the cold? Are you part polar bear? Do you also like star gazing? Then check out the first meteor show of the year tomorrow morning.
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More Beautiful Night Sky Inspiration: TimeScapes
Like you needed more inspiration to just sit and stare at the stars in Yosemite?
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Making Night Skies Better
How can you make an already awesome video better? Why, release it in 1080p HD of course!
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Night Skies: Another great Yosemite Nature Notes
Yosemite isn’t only beautiful during the day with it’s majestic waterfalls, peaks and spires, awe-inspiring granite walls, but it’s beautiful at night. Have you ever looked up? There are SO MANY STARS! It’s like you can see every one.
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Yosemite Annular Eclipse 2012 Report
Because I had to work, I could not go to any really cool spots like Mono Lake, Reno, or Tuolumne Meadows for the Eclipse. And because I didn’t have a variable neutral density filter, I couldn’t take any shots of the eclipse itself! But since I work at Glacier Point in Yosemite, I did have…
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Photo of the Day: The View From Above by Tony Immoos
Even in Yosemite there’s light pollution.
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Mono Lake Timelapse (video) by SCIENTIFANTASTIC
So many stars. You’re going to want to see this.
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Biggest Full Moon of the Year Tonight
The full moon will appear it’s largest tonight, Friday 29, 2010. Photo by R. Kurtz. If you love photographing Yosemite’s majestic cliffs and waterfalls at night tonight may be a great night to do some shooting, if the clouds don’t get in the way. Tonight the moon will be closest in it’s orbit to the…
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Star Bright, Star Light, First Star I See Tonight
Photo courtesy NPS. One of the things I hear from people who’ve just experienced their first night in Yosemite is, “God I can’t believe how many stars there are here!” The stars are exactly the same as where you live, we just don’t have as much light pollution drowning out their light. In fact, Tuolumne…