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Eve had not had pictures taken with her husband and kids in quite a while and wanted to give prints as Christmas presents to her family.  I met them at Bay Area Park about an hour before sunset one Saturday in late October to take their portraits.  We first had the kids run around the [...]

The last stop on our teacher workshop field trip before heading back to Phoenix was Sunset Crater National Monument, a cindercone volcano in northern Arizona.  When we were leaving the park, we caught a gorgeous view of the sun peaking through the monsoon clouds and shining on the San Francisco Peaks.  As we drove out [...]

While on the teacher workshop field trip in northern Arizona, one of our stops was a cindercone volcano called SP Crater.  When we arrived at the cone, the sky was blue with a few puffy clouds.  We spent less than an hour climbing around collecting cinders and lava bombs before gathering at the bottom to [...]

One of the stops on the teacher workshop field trip in Arizona was Meteor Crater (or Barringer Crater).  Meteor Crater was formed when a meteorite about 150 feet across made mostly of iron and nickel metal slammed into the northern Arizona desert, creating a hole about a mile wide.  At 50,000 years old, it is [...]

While trying to create another variation of the below panorama, I either added or neglected to put in a photo that seriously confused the autostitching program I was using, AutoPano.  AutoPano generally does a great job at creating panoramas, stretching and tilting the photos, and correcting any lens distortion and color variations to make a [...]

During the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter teacher workshop I helped teach at Arizona State University in August, we took a field trip to visit some craters in northern Arizona – two volcanoes and an impact crater.  Meteor Crater, or Barringer Crater, is located about 35 miles east of Flagstaff.  Because of the arid environment and its [...]

International Observe the Moon Night (InOMN) 2011 is on Saturday, October 8! The goal of InOMN is to engage lunar science and education communities, amateur astronomers, space enthusiasts, and the general public in annual lunar observation campaigns that share the excitement of lunar science and exploration. Join an event near you, or create your own! [...]

I traveled to the Phoenix area to help facilitate a teacher workshop about the Moon last month. I stayed with a couple of awesome friends of mine from grad school (hi Beck and Thijs!) for a few days before the workshop. They have a fabulous pool that we spent the hot summer nights relaxing in, [...]

One of the things I really wanted to show Sam when I took her to Austin for the 4th of July was the bats.  Austin has the largest urban population of Mexican free-tailed bats in the world; the boat tour guide said there were 800,000 bats this year!  They live under the Congress Avenue bridge [...]

When my friend Sam and I were in Austin, she wanted to go on a bat boat tour on the lake. We got there early to make sure to get a good seat and had some time to kill, so we wandered around on the hike and bike trail. It’s a nice trail right by [...]