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Atmospheric scientist focused on lightning. Former B-1B Lancer and T-28 Storm Penetrating Aircraft pilot. Atmospheric Wildlife Photographer. Rapid City, South Dakota.
Lightning barrage near Devils Tower, WY. 7/26/26 7 m 40 s of exposure from an image stack. Sony A7 IV, 20 mm, iso 100, f/11, 10s exposures. Unfortunately the barrage stayed south of the tower.
Close multistroke lightning at Canyonlands NP. Struck a ~3 ft bush about 100 ft away. Notice dirt kicked up about same height as the bush. 7/16/26 Image sequence from Sony A9 III at 120 ips.
Aurora substorm visible from Rapid City, SD last night around 1030 pm 7/3/26. Sony A7s iii , 20 mm, f/2.8, iso3200, 3.2 sec
64.4 mph peak wind at my house in west Rapid City, SD last night. 4 trees down. Numerous pine trees down in the neighborhood with roof damage to at least 3 homes.
Global Meteor Network detected meteor image stacks from last night. All 4 of these cameras are located in western South Dakota.
Red aurora visible from Montauk, NY 755 pm ET (0055 UT, Nov 12th)
Did I mention I hate thunderfog? www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCxK...
Things got pretty intense in the South Dakota Badlands last night. 60+ mph winds rolled a camping trailer at the boondock. Here is an image of 1st responders rushing to the scene with lightning still hammering the area.
Trying to figure out what type of Transient Luminous Event this was over North Dakota on the night of 6/20. Recorded at 24 fps, each image is 42 ms exposure. Sony A7iv, 85mm, f/2, ISO 51,200. Doesn't look like typical sprite or a typical gigantic jet. Thoughts? Captured two during a 2 hour period.
Ouch. Windchill down to -35ºF out at Rapid City, SD airport. -7ºF ambient.
Didn't feel it, but my Rapid Shake in Rapid City, SD caught it.
Approching the end of another year trying to better understand and explain lightning. Grateful for the displays I was able to witness and record. Always in awe.
Wow!! What a show last night by the #Geminid meteor shower. 771 meteors detected by my south facing #GlobalMeteorCamera in Rapid City, SD.
Even with a bright moon and periodic clouds and fog, my #GlobalMeteorNetwork cameras captured a lot of #Geminid #meteors last night. We will see what tonight brings.
Something deorbited and punched through the ionosphere causing the red aurora effect around 1145 UTC this morning. Here is the view looking SW from Rapid City, SD with Nikon D850 full spectrum. Was heading SE. I have included a list of candidate rocket launches. @planet4589.bsky.social
Excellent capture of the #Starlink lattice pattern coincident with the Sun moving from 60º to 37º below the horizon at your location. Here are the Sky Safari views for that location at 0200 and 0430 MST.
Little cloud ballet while filming Orion the other night. #astrophotography
Most likely scenario given brightness increase on right side of image right b4 upward leader. Intracloud leader development from left to righ then a +CG return stroke on right. +CG return stroke triggers upward leader. Similar to animation.
Example of multiplicity in a lightning flash. I was moving my van to the right when my still camera captured this multiple stroke negative CG flash. Left channel had 2 return strokes. Right channel had 4 return strokes with 3 M-components following the 3rd return stroke. Time moves right to left.
Patiently waiting for another round...this was from May 10th at Devils Tower, WY
