AstronomyEnjoyer

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.

00z Euro not a fan of our storm at all. Boots it out to sea near the Carolinas and lets it play in the Atlantic Basin.

Man, did they clear that out by hand? I would've written off the building until spring.

Went for walk this afternoon. Still icy up at higher elevations on the southern elevations of Mt. Sunapee (highest elevation in photo is like 2400 ft). Snow pack in yard is holding steady at 12.5". Uniformly dense with not much in the way of discernible layers. Meaty stuff - even when stomping I only manage to go down 3" or so. Never measured it before, but I'll grab a snow water equivalent tomorrow.

Ah, it's finally clear up there! I'll need to drive up to the top of my local hill tomorrow to see if I can get a snap of Stowe.

Oh, just the worst. And don't you worry - both setups are in the works. I plan on a little evening laser level action as well.

Oh, and uh, duh, Mount Sunapee Itself.

Enhance! Best I could do. Gonna have to lug up one of the big telescopes I guess.

While my approval rating is at an all time low, here are some of the pics I took today up at the top of the 2000 ft MSL road in Newbury, Nh. So awesome to see the Sun finally coming out. Snapped decent photos of Okemo and Killington. I think I can get Stowe, but will need perfectly clear weather - no dice today. Also need to bring my real camera, not my cell phone.

To ensure that I'm not slant-sticking. It's the perfect technique. Infallible really.

Yeah, I know, it's just for the gag, but at first I was a little confused and for a second I thought I was poking the yard stick onto a green and my heart sank. Tee box still ain't great.

I'll take your word for it and apologize if I have posted a map for a credible in range threat that ended up being inflated because my time bracket included snows not relating to the event - and - I'm pretty sure I have on accident and out of inexperience. Given the limited attachment space we are allotted I've had to delete tons of attachments which makes it difficult to audit what I've previously posted. I do recall this interaction where I posted a clown with an obvious joke in it and someone responded back about breaking out the later storm - but the later storm was modeled 300 hours away, i.e., well into clown range. I'm not terribly concerned about ensuring the fidelity of a storm that's 300 hours out (also, in this instance, there was pretty obvious geographic separation). The entire reason I posted that clown map was because the 300 hour clown storm was what turned it into a "clown map" in the first place. The initial storm was already posted as modeled so I don't see how any confusion could have taken place. If so, I apologize. See the attached of that interaction (though I snipped it out and you might need a magnifying glass to read anything, if so I'll figure out a better way to post, haha) And for what it's worth, you seem like a good guy as well.

Was out and about doing more "auditing" as it were. Ran into some issues this time that prevented me from getting a good reading in the area. Either the Ammonoosuc River very recently flooded, or the tee boxes at the Mount Washington Resort golf course are routinely cleared of snow. I thought I might be hitting an icy layer, but it turns out I might owe a golf superintendent somewhere an apology instead. At least it would explain my confusion as to why Bretton Woods only had a 4" layer of powder on the ground.

Not to my knowledge. I think it's just coincidental that we started posting (in I guess) a similar manner at the same time.

Nah, not the same person.

Right now the GFS is really the only operational model that goes out long enough to show much of anything very interesting. But I understand and I'll stop, or at least add a warning label or something if I post something similar again. Here comes my "but" bit though - "misleading for someone not checking the dates" I don't think I've ever seen a caveat carry so much weight. That thing is straining my friend.