LST 325 is a ship that’s seen a bit of history. It was part of the D-Day landings in France, in June of 1944. Over the years the ship has served in the Greek Navy, but was acquired and brought to the US to serve as a museum, to remember those who served in WWiI,…
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What’s In The Sky Tonight?
While out looking for the Space Station to pass over, I figured I’d pass some time shooting a star trail shot. I let it run for about 45 minutes. I should know better than to point the lens to the North…its a main flight path for many airplanes. If you end up with just a…
International Space Station – ISS
Every now and then the orbit of the International Space Station passes over Iowa. It can easily be spotted with the naked eye. The ISS is traveling at over 17,000 mph and orbits the earth every 90 minutes. The astronauts on the space station get to see sunrises and sunsets 16 times per “day” or…
Cloudy But Nice – Aurora
September 15th, 2025. There wasn’t much advanced chatter about this one…I think a tracking satellite has been down that measures solar weather…but usually you hear a lot of people (and news outlets) promoting that the northern lights might be firing up on a particular date. In this particular case I would have probably missed it,…
Baseball Season
Summertime is the season for baseball around here. Fall is for football. Truth be told, I’m more into the former. I watched more Royals baseball this year than ever before…and while they didn’t have the greatest record, they provided some good entertainment. We also like to go to some minor league games and we are…
Mississippi River Cruises
This year, Muscatine has been a regular stop for the river cruise boats…I think they will make 11 visits overall, ending sometime in October. Lately they’ve been coming in late Monday evening and then folks will visit the Pearl Button Museum, Discovery Park, Pine Creek Mill, and a few other places, on Tuesday morning. It’s…
You Go First – Hummingbirds
The fall migration for some bird species begins pretty early. It feels that way to me anyway. We are in mid-September…the days are still warm and the getting is good for bugs and flowers. But this is about the time when the dominant male hummers start to leave on their southward journey. I wish I…
Faded Glory
The big Northern Lights display never quite got going down in our neck of the woods. Around 1:30 a pink-purple hue started to build up on the horizon. It didn’t amount to much but was still something to play with…better than eating another bag of cheese crisps I figure. I liked the fog coming in…
The Day The Night Lit Up
May 10th, 2024…for anyone into the night sky stuff, this date will be long remembered. There were numerous reports that the Aurora could be pretty good on this night…but before it even got dark…you could see color between the clouds. The pink and purple was clearly visible to the naked eye. Once it got dark,…