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Observations Journal


202202

The stars are moving. Seven or eight of them criss crossed and curved at high speed across the sky right over head.



202112

When the air is very cold and still about near the ground and the ground frozen below the surface, the surface of the ground is warmer slightly than the ground below and much warmer than the air above, there is a gradient of warmth in the air floating above the ground.  At the height of the human being, the air is still noticeably warmer though the word warm is somewhat inappropriate for it is still below the temperature at which water freezes by quite a bit.  Yet, in this gradient, the air near the ground within the human height is markedly less cold than it should be, and stiller by my observation than the thick and slow air current above.  At this temperature within the human height, and slightly above, this air is susceptible for the formation of very small ice crystal like snow.  The current of air circulating is multiple and many and fairly delicate, causing the ice crystals generated to float upon them and to move in different curvatures towards changing directions.  In this way, ice crystal resembling that of the weather of snow about the person could be formed and be seen to circulate.  The experience remains mysterious: this is a speculative observation based in analysis of a phenomenon observed.  To be recorded into observation journal.  Temperature: approx -32 to -34 degrees celcius.  Weather: non-snowing.  Sky: white not greyish. Wind: none.  Additional comments: subjectively, there was a phenomenon of incandescence in the ice crystal and air circulating about my person.


202007
Comet Neowise




Summer 2009
Supernova

At the horizon to the South West, there had been nothing of note. One evening, a bright object appeared several degrees from the horizon. It was immensely bright, and appeared larger than a typical star by ten times or more. It resembled an artificial light, but across the river there, there had been no light there. For two weeks I observed this bright celestial object. It had an emanating force to it, with patterning of light rays like a star, without the finitude of the disk as like planets. Two weeks later, this star disappeared. No smaller star replaced it in its place - it disappeared. Unfortunately, I was not equipped with binoculars or telescope.



20190719
Solar Eclipse

Through the safety filter, the sun appeared as a golden disk. Over the minutes in which I beheld the celestial object, a grey shadow is passing over it so that only a wide crescent of light could be perceived. The shadow passed over the sun disk slowly, demonstrating the velocity with which the moon crosses the distance in its orbit.

- observed from SAIT campus
- safety filter was used which casted a dark desaturated red glow onto the field of the sky, allowing the sun itself to appear as a disk of light



2009 
Light phenomenon

-yellow hue light from the sun illuminating Rundle Mountain 
-the light on the upper half of the mountain is clearly delineated from the shadow in which the bottom half of the mountain remained
-the radiance of the sun, as though from everywhere, brought to experience the size and presence of the mountain 
-from park on Bow River at Banff, Alberta



200504 
Lunar Eclipse

-naked eye observation
-partial/full eclipse (?)
-approximate time: evening
-observed from near North Campus, Cornell University



200310 
Globular Star Cluster

-M31 (or M15?)
-spherical formation of many distinct points of light
-each point of light is resolved as a star, unlike common astrophotographs that collect the star light to show the cluster as a singular object
-profound sense of scale of the object of the globular cluster within unsurmountable expanse of space
-Irving Porter Church Telescope at Cornell University Fuertes Observatory



200310 
The Moon

-clear atmosphere with no obstructions in the sky
-approximate time of day: (?)
-Irving Porter Church Telescope at Cornell University Fuertes Observatory (https://www.cornellastrosociety.org/telescope)
-used camera (?) mounted on the refracting telescope to construct photographic image



200310 
Big Dipper

-from the lawn of Cornell University Fuertes Observatory
-naked eye observation, binoculars



200310 
North Star in the constellation of Lyra

-from the lawn of Cornell University Fuertes Observatory
-naked eye observation, binoculars



200308 
Perseids Meteor Shower

-observed from just outside North Campus, Cornell University
-naked eye observation
-approximately 4 sightings per minute
-clear night with low to moderate light pollution


200301
Glowing Algae

-a bay in Puerto Rico
-light in the algae is green and is activated by touch and movement



200208 
Red Colored Sky (Atmospheric Phenomena)

-amaranth purple (#AB274F)
-duration approximately 10-15 minutes
-observed from Beijing Language and Culture University campus