Clear as mud: the difference between day and night

 So we had to go out for the fire drill:

 

 

And this morning, around 6AM this was our reward:

 

 There were many streamers and curtains. This is a red one seen toward the North-east at the edge of our "world", where the building meets the sky, if you know what I mean. If you come from away.

WOB

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Treat the following photos as comments by our friend and house guest, Peter J., :

                       The Big Dipper is on its handle above the tree in the centre.

Peter used his hand-held "handy" and got better results than I have so far managed.

wobbily old bird

Chirality

 The left-handed amino acids  in me, are also in my left hand as well as my right.

And there are similar chiral amino acids in these 2 Trumpeter swans:

I see a survival advantage - they are each looking past their partner for danger, putting the other one first.

WOB

I wondered about a cloud that floated in the West

 Just a little colour and an aside from the usual:

Photos taken on Sunday September 1.

WOB

Concise was 373 words

 So my bro wrote his piece for love and money, and I am caught out, so to speak.

I forgot to "shoot the Sun " to know where I am. And I was almost "victimized" by a Turkey Vulture for paddling too slowly, like I wasn't "with it".

So I went out this morning to see if satellites see what I see:

And mine - with a different orientation, 3 "feet" on the ground:

Imagine rotating this image from "6 PM" clockwise to "8PM" and then the sunspot groupings will match.

WOB

8% and non alcholic!

 In April one was disappointed at 99% and tonight under warm skies, if not exactly clear - almost, and better than most nights here in Ontario where good things might grow if the Green Belt were protected and highways and byways weren't ploughed  through to developers' real estate, there was max of 8%:

I thought the umbra was quite dark, and even the penumbra I imagined was noticeable.

No time to reduce, or even look at last night/Monday's aurora sequence. Must try to see the Sun tomorrow before the active regions rotate from sight.

WOB

Aurora alert

 In the middle of a football game, also a baseball game, I looked to see if astro.ph had new submissions for me. No, but there was an aurora alert - from Edmonton . already at 10PM!

Sceptical, because the Moon was up and bright, I went onto the balcony and had a look.

You can see we are "covered".

Here are just a very few of the images my Nikon recorded:

I'll reduce the rest someday but won't promise now, well past midnight to post then or

announce they have been posted. And I have completed the 164 new submissions from

https://arxiv.org/list/astro-ph/new

And to all a good night,

WOB

Invasion of Mariposa thwarted.

 It was on my watch, bridging 207 to 209 this AM when I noticed the fleet:

They were just 1000m off shore -

I wondered if it might be just a mirrage - like that distorted white object in the far distance, upper left:

The pirates appeared armed and capable of boarding local fishing vessels:

It looked bad for a time:

I'll spare you the blood , the plank bit, and the sharks but eventually good triumphed and the foe vanquished :

So the Medonte "Oro" is safe for another day.

WOB