Stan Olson’s Blog

So I braved the cold weather to stand outside and attempt to shoot the lunar eclipse. I don’t think my camera likes the cold weather as the almost fully charged battery was showing it was almost dead. Anywho, I setup the nice cold metal tripod in the back yard and shot the moon. Even using a tripod and shutter cable trigger, the shots still came out a little blurry. I picked out a couple though to post to the site, kinda cool regardless. I didn’t watch the whole eclipse as it was just too freaking cold to stand out there all night. Here is the link to all of the pictures I took:

http://www.stansweather.net/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=70

Spaceweather.com has a really cool gallery of people from all over the world who have submitted their pictures of the eclipse:

http://www.spaceweather.com/eclipses/gallery_20feb08.htm

February began with a nice little snow storm in Illinois. We got about 7.5″ here in Champaign and totals went up to a foot around Springfield. I managed to go out and take some pictures on Saturday at Lake of the Woods in Mahomet, IL. Nothing spectacular, but it’s something to talk about anyway. :)

http://www.stansweather.net/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=69

The NWS @ Lincoln has a nice list of snow totals with a pretty map:

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/crnews/display_story.php?wfo=ilx&storyid=12634&source=0

Of course the forecast is calling for showers and thunderstorms on Monday and Tuesday, so quite a change of events.