AstronomyEnjoyer

Haha, here's a pic I took last night as it happens, shit you not.

Not necessarily the trend I want to see on the ICON, but this 00z sure is bringing the juice.

Where I am, at this rate I'd gladly take a 1/7 redux. I've only got the ICON in my corner right now - that's not... ideal. Shit, I'll even give you one of my inches to bump you up to 20" this time around (phrasing).

Gorgeous day today - not sure it made it past 45 but it felt like 50's outside today - full sun as well. First time the snowpack felt vulnerable, had water streaming off the roof at one point from melting, and I finally have one spot where yard is showing - over the septic tank (gross). A real weenie would take the tractor and use the loader to dump spare snow over the bare spot, but this weenie doesn't want to (literally, because I do this figuratively all the time) collapse into a pit of his own shit.

And the 00z ICON is off! I think Sey-Mour Snow makes a great point about model order. It does offer that first hit for us weenies. That being said, it's usually better to be first and wrong than last and still wrong.

Trudged down the backyard this afternoon to take photos of the river. Top photo is a 1/160 second exposure. It captures the turbulent state of the water flow at that instance. Some details on the bottom are completely obscured, while others come through with a decent amount of detail. Bottom photo is a 8 second exposure. The camera sensor was collecting signal for 1,280 times as long. Integrating signal for longer "smooths", that is, averages out the turbulent flow. As a result, the perceived amount of detail in the river bed has gone up, but you might notice some areas of the first photo still offer more detail. The 8 second exposure is still a noisy image, however, the noise is spread around. Now, there are ways to fix that, but ....... Jesus I'm rambling, just enjoy the damn wintry river scene. Edit: added some actual photos too.

Uh, nothing, I mean, uh, the water was cold, the water was cold!

You can blame me! December - admittedly - was a loss, but January was great! 30.6" for the month and I'm still rocking a 12" plus snowpack. 4.3" SWE last I measured. We'll see how she holds up this weekend. I do hope folks further south and or on the coast can cash in soon though, genuinely, and hopefully from this event. It's New England man, it's supposed to snow everywhere.

For fun, take a look at what the Euro spits out for the Cape Breton Highlands. North of a meter.

Storms these days man, none of them want to put in the work. Back in my day, something, something, handshake, job.

Euro trying for the Eastport special(ish).

No, leave me. I'll climb out when I want to climb out.

I would be willing to sacrifice one to the weather gods if it meant it would be buried, tripod and all.

Mine's bigger, er rather, has more resolution.

Is this bait to get met to post the ICON Kuchera? It's so close to working.

Constellation Orion, taken earlier this evening. 80mm F/4 for 8 seconds ISO 12800. Fairly untouched, just compressed for forum limits. Even still, you can see the Orion Nebula, the Running Man Nebula, The Flame Nebula, and if you really know what to look for, a bit of the Horsehead Nebula. This is far from what a final stacked image could look like. You boost that signal to noise ratio up up and up, and you can pull out incredible details. Enough of clear skies though, I want it to snow.

Oh, and such a lovely clown map it makes. So tempted to post it.

I don't post for a day only to find the thread has gone tits up... Yeah I'd take the March storm again.

00z ICON is finally ranged in, woo. Suppressed and anemic. Manages to get a coupla' Kuchera inches south of the pike.

I've tried that argument while playing darts, and it's never gotten me anywhere.

Looking forward to it driving that bad boy up the great lakes at 00z.

Pack is still at around 12.5" and now I know it has 4.3" of water content. With the warmer weather coming this weekend we'll see how well it holds up. I'll be sure to take photos of the river behind the house as it swells.

I guess I should've asked first, but taking the center section of a stratus, jamming it upside down into the snowpack and flipping it over to let it melt should give me a reasonable SWE, right? (and then taking the 10th's to mean inches?)

In an attempt to distract you all from crackhead operational models, here's a couple of photos I took from the hill today. This time I took a real camera. Unfortunately Stowe doesn't seem like it's going to be possible - topography in the way that I just can't clear from my location at only 2000 ft. Okemo and Killington, however, were baring all.