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I don't have a bucket list of places to visit. I go wherever, loving all the places. Taking pics all the way.
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5 YEARS!! A half a decade ago, this pretty girl walked through a door at a shelter and into our lives. I fell in love instantly. Happy gotcha day! You definitely make life better and such a joy. #dogs by @terrazoom

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19 days ago

Most of our rainbows here come after afternoon monsoon storms, so a sunrise bow is a treat. Rain was falling to the west between Santa Fe and the Jemez Mountains, the sun was just up in the east and for a few minutes, the rainbow was shining in morning clouds.
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Morning rainbows come out mostly red and orange because early sunlight crosses so much atmosphere that most of its blue has scattered away before it hits the rain. And since every rainbow is centered on the point directly opposite the sun, this one belonged only to where I was standing.
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#santafe #newmexico #rainbow #morningrainbow #landofenchantment #skyphotography #atmosphericoptics #weatherphotography #nmtrue #clouds by @terrazoom

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20 days ago

This is one full day, Fall Equinox in the northern hemisphere, on Planetock, sped up; sunrise to sunset to sunrise again, compressed into a few seconds.
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Watch the Sun arc up, peak, and drop into the west while the Moon and planets blaze their own paths across the sky.
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Face south and the dial lines up with the real sky. Left is east, right is west. Planetock points the way to the object.
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planetock.com/app by @terrazoom

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25 days ago

Happy Equinox. I've made some visual improvements to Planetock (https://vist.ly/5jdus). It's much more visually appealing and with some added features. The idea with the app is it shows the direction of the Sun, Moon or planets if you face south. Sometimes we don't need to know the exact location of a planet in the sky when just a general direction will do. What I think is neat to watch day to day is the position of sunrise and sunset (marked by the yellow and orange ticks along the outside) Today and tomorrow, those will be aligned almost east/west. Take a look. Have fun using it. by @terrazoom

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The weather sure doesn't disappoint in northern New Mexico; well maybe the lack of rain before September. Thursday night delivered a beautiful lightning storm. Such beauty lighting intricate rain shafts in the dark. And then last night, this sunset. In Colorado, there is a road near where I used to live called Nadm Dr (after Never A Dull Moment). That applies. #lightning #thunderstorm #newmexico #weather #sunset #awe by @terrazoom

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More from Sunday night's stunning sunset over northern New Mexico. There was a shadow of light that was just offscreen from this image. I was more drawn to the wispy rain shaft over the dry land; a band of glowing water all across the sky. It's this chance for sky magic that you don't want to turn your back on. #skymagic #sunset #nmskies #weather #nature by @terrazoom

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2 months ago

You turn your back on a sunset at your own risk. Last night's sunset in northern New Mexico faded like a dud only erupt into this beauty about 2 minutes later. #nmskies #sunset #redskies #nature #goosebumps by @terrazoom

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2 months ago

The Rosette Nebula, or NGC 2237, is a glowing cloud of gas and dust forming an active stellar nursery about 5,000 light years away. Hot young stars formed in the central cavity pushing material to the outside triggering even more star formation. This nebula, in the constellation Monoceros, the Unicorn, spans about 130 light-years. It took me a few months to process this image. The image stack covers about 3 hours of integration through the Orion EQ102T with a Zwo 533MCPro camera in Bortle 4 skies. #darkskies #nmdarkskies #astrophoto #stars #deepspace by @terrazoom

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4 months ago

During my time at the @NSF National Solar Observatory, I built a basic visualization of sunspot activity from 1900–2020. Sunspots are only a rough but useful look for solar activity. The simple charts we're used to seeing show that the Sun has a rhythm (every 11 years). This new visualization shows a much more dynamic Sun; a Sun that almost breathes over time.
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I've since rebuilt this visualization from scratch, pumping up the data by extending the data from 1818 to 2026 and layered additional space weather indices.
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Each ring in the chart is one year. January sits at 12 o'clock. Bars bloom outward as activity rises, color-coded from deep rust at solar minimum to bright gold at maximum. Click any day and a panel opens showing sunspot count, F10.7 radio flux, the Ap geomagnetic index translated to NOAA's G-scale, any X-class flares that occurred — and, for dates after 2006, an actual photograph of the Sun pulled live from the GONG observatory network.
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A second view stacks every year of a single 11-year solar cycle as overlapping translucent shapes — watch Cycle 19 (1954–1963, the strongest on record) bloom outward into a blazing flower, then compare it to Cycle 24 (2008–2019), one of the weakest, which barely opens at all.
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Data comes from WDC-SILSO (Royal Observatory of Belgium), NOAA SWPC, GFZ Potsdam, and the NSF National Solar Observatory's GONG network. Built entirely in vanilla JavaScript and D3.js; no frameworks, no backend.
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Explore it yourself: https://vist.ly/585u6
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#SolarPhysics #DataVisualization #D3js #SpaceWeather @NSO by @terrazoom

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4 months ago

Just a whisper of the Moon appeared after sunset last night. A tiny sliver, 0.8 days old; 1 percent phase set over the Jemez Mountains of northern New Mexico. #crescentMoon #moonmagic #nmdarkskies by @terrazoom

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4 months ago

Over the past few weeks, it's been hard not to notice Venus' brilliant white presence in the evening sky after sunset. And it's even more impactful watching Jupiter's golden glow slide lower each night preparing us for a meeting. That delivered the past couple of nights when the two planets sat next to each other just a thumb-width apart. What's wild to consider is that those two points of light are their own worlds zipping around the Sun. Jupiter is 600 million miles away, while Venus is just 111 million miles away. And for a couple of evenings, they almost touched. Also in this frame is Mercury, the only point of light in the lower right hand a bit above the horizon. by @terrazoom

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4 months ago

How often do you write off a sunset only to have it pop in extraordinary ways? That was last night's sunset over northern New Mexico. One second it was ho hum. The next it was like a fire on the horizon complete with glowing tendrils of clouds and rays that shot into the sky. Add a slight touch of blue and it became one to behold. We just sat and listened to it. #sunset #nm #newmexicoskies #weather by @terrazoom

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