Happy New Year to all! It's been quite a year, and a lot of great pictures have been taken and posted on CtCameraEye for all to see! On this last day of 2010 I managed to survive the balmy 43 degrees temperatures and go to Hartford's First Night celebration. Thousands of people were already participating in activites in and around Bushnell Park. Right at 6:00pm one of two … [Read more...]

I have seen ID tags on swans, ducks, even pigons. I have never saw one on a seagull before. This was was in New Haven right in the middle of the blizzard we were having for the past 24 hours. Anyone else see a tag or tags on a gull before? I found the gull at Lat. 41.29369 - Long. -72.91772. After doing some research with Google, I found a place to send this … [Read more...]

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Today is the first day of winter. Today is the day the solstice gods did not shine on the northeast to view the lunar eclipse. After carefully watching the weather for the past 24 hours, it came down to just 2 hours before the eclipse was to start to make my decision to go out or not. It did not look good after looking at the weather maps around midnight for the next several … [Read more...]

It's 20 degrees outside with a perfectly clear sky with a nice setting moon in the west. A perfect night to do some cold climate astrophotography. I checked in with a couple of websites and found out that there was going to be an Iridium Flare at 5:49pm near the moon. The challenge was on. I went out to my dark sky location in Marlborough, did a few test shots and waited. … [Read more...]

The US Air Force secret unmanned space shuttle X-37B landed Friday concluding it's 220 day experimental test mission. The X-37B Orbital test vehile was built by Boeing Co's advanced research lab, Phamtom works. It is 29 feet long with a wing span of 15 feet. Here it is well into it's flight from approximately 250 miles away. I was in Florida in April when It was … [Read more...]